So, dead guy in first class?
Las Vegas Air, I always heard it was a good time.
“Unfriendly Skies” · Season 1, Episode 9
In this episode: Gil Grissom (9), Nick Stokes (4), Sara Sidle (4), Jim Brass (4), Warrick Brown (4), Catherine Willows (3)
I want this whole plane taped off ... nose to tail and wing to wing.
Oh, it's going to take a lot of tape.
I've got a dead body, a crime scene with wings. Something very wrong happened in this plane.
I take it that's not blood.
No but there's protein in it.
Oh, the Mile High Club. That means that 2 passengers may have had no idea what was going on inside that cabin.
You know high altitude enhances the whole sexual experience, increases the euphoria.
Well, it's good...I don't know if it's that good.[Grissom shoots her a look] Cite your source.
Hand me a swab please.
[Smirks]] You're avoiding the question, "enhances sexual experience, increases euphoria" cite your source.
A magazine.
What magazine?
"Applied Psycho-dynamics in Forensic Science"
Never heard of it.
I'll get you a subscription. Now cite your source.
Oh, now you want to go down that route?
Yeah.
Nah, never mind.
You started it. [Raises his eyebrows as if to say "Well?"]
Delta airlines, flight 1109, Boston- Miami, March 93, Ken Fuller, hazel eyes, organic chem lab TABMOC, overrated in...every aspect...Could we get back to work please?
Yeah, I think due to your first hand knowledge and experience in airplane bathrooms, you should do the swab.
Fine.
Well, in this case we're going to recreate the flight from ... 1630 hours on. [points to Brass] You are in 4B.
Lou.
Lou -- the angry businessman. How about that?
[Sarcastic] Ha ha.
I want to be Shannon.
Good.
The stewardess.
Excuse me, it's "Flight Attendant".
Catherine, the doctor, 3E.
Single mom. What an imagination you have.
[points to Nick and Warrick] Max and Marlene, 2E and F. You two are married. Who wants to wear the pants?
CSI-3 seniority, "sweetie".
Yeah, whatever. You're henpecked anyway.
[To Grissom] Let me guess; you're the computer geek.
In the interest of clarity, yes. Nate in 2C.
Please tell me you have something.
FCFemale coroner
I know what set this guy off.
That's more than what I got.
FCFemale coroner
The guy had a ruptured spleen and I pegged that as probable cause of death. So, I crack his skull open and what do I find? A cantalope in a soup can.
[Raises an eyebrow] Tight fit.
FCFemale coroner
And not from one or two blows to the head. He was also running a high fever, so I checked his spinal fluid. A normal human protein level is between 15 to 35 milligrams. Candelwell's was 60. Did anyone mention this guy had a headache?
The flight attendant gave him two asprin. Why?
FCFemale coroner
He was suffering from undiagnosed encephalitis.
Swelling of the brain.
FCFemale coroner
It can register like a heart attack. Slurred speech, loss of vision. You throw in the altitude and the air pressure changes in the cabin, and our poor guy was probably out of his mind.
Is that what killed him, encephalitis?
FCFemale coroner
It wasn't the one thing. Ruptured spleen, intercranial bleeding, and the guy's heart just...stopped beating.
A, B, C, D or all of the above. Standoff with the police -- guy gets shot in the chest, runs back into his burning house inhaling smoke as he goes. The roof collapses, the air conditioning unit falls on his head, he dies. What killed him?
[to Warrick] Excuse me, buttercup.
Guys...If you jump a guy at the exit, he dies at the exit.
If just one person had stopped and taken the time to look at the guy to listen to him, to figure out what was wrong with him it might not have happened. It took five people to kill him. It would have only taken one person to save his life.
[Grissom and Warrick go to interview the final passenger]
Mr. Cash?
CCash
[Smirks] I was wondering when you guys would get around to asking me some questions.
So, what did you see?
CCash
Not much.
[Barely holding his frustration] Mr. Cash, we're all very tired, here. And we don't have much time before our crime scene flies away.
CCash
I was in my seat.
You were in 1A.
Sitting ringside; how could you not see what was going on?
[Cash promptly pulls out a collapsible cane used by blind people, extending it]
[Sheepishly smiles] "The blind leading the blind."
CCash
I'm not totally blind, I'm legally blind. My central visual acuity is 20/200.
[A flashback is shown of the crime on the plane, from Cash's perspective, then cuts back to the present]
Can you describe the voices?
CCash
First voice, behind me, 4B. Businessman, I could tell by the way he ordered drinks.
How so?
CCash
"JW Black, triple not double."
That's Lou.
CCash
Second voice, 2F, kind of far away.
Max. Third voice?
CCash
Third voice...ah, row behind me, two seats over. Mr. Dot-com. Guy must've typed sixty words a minute.
Nate. That's very good.
[The CSI team and Brass are recreating the crime based on the different witness testimonies]
Now Lou said that he was the peacemaker.
Peacemaker, my ass. [Shows three empty mini-bottles of whiskey] He's got three empties in the pouch, the seat reeks of whiskey; the guy probably spilled Lou's drink.
Very good.
I was boss at CSI once, for a reason. So, Lou gets up and takes a swing at the guy. Well, after knocking three back at 30,000 feet, you know, he probably misses, so what does he get for his troubles?
A CD swipe across the chops.
So, then he falls back–oh, maybe that's when he fell back and spilled his own drink.
Now, by this time, Candelewell's got to be out of his seat, right?
You know, if I'm Max, I want no part of this. Plus, I don't have an aisle seat.
Yeah, but you're lucky: your wife's going to make sure you get into the playing field.
Yeah, go ahead, honey. Save my life.
So Max gets up, goes across Marlene,[to Warrick] Excuse me, buttercup...
I don't care what you say. I could never take a life.
It was between him or me, I could. What about you, Nick?
I don't know.
[walks in with Grissom] Wow, looks deathly serious in here.
[smiling sweetly] Oh, we were just talking about murder and whether or not we would commit it. I couldn't, Warrick could, and Nick's on the ropes. We're taking an exit poll.
Catherine, you're a mother. You and Lindsey are on that plane. How far do you go?
All the way.
(surprised) You didn't even hesitate.
That's right. If it involves the protection of my child I fight to the death.
See? We have four people here, all with different opinions. Think of how the passengers must have felt.
What do you think, Grissom?
(beat) I can't answer that question.
That's a cop-out. It's a simple question. What would you have done if you had been one of those passengers?
It's not about that. You all have different opinions but you've taken the same point of view. You've put yourself in the shoes of the passengers, but nobody's put themselves in the shoes of the victim. That's the point.
I'm sorry. What are you saying?
Nobody stopped to ask Candlewell if he was all right. They just assumed, because he was kicking the back of Nate's seat, that he was a jerk. Because he was pushing his call button, that he was bothering the Flight Attendant. Because he was trying to get into the lavatory, he was making a scene. Because he was going back and forth up and down the aisles, he was posing a threat.
He was a threat.
No. He turned into a threat. It didn't have to be that way. People make assumptions. That's the problem. You just did. And I think these passengers made the wrong assumption and now this guy's dead.
Well, if that's your stance how could it have been prevented?
If just one person had stopped and taken the time to look at the guy to listen to him, to figure out what was wrong with him, it might not have happened. It took five people to kill him. It would have only taken one person to save his life.
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