The pairing is Horatio with Tim Speedle and Calleigh with Eric Delko.
There are two well written stories mixed in this episode revealing a number of forensic skills, clues, findings, all leading to the capture of the guilty parties.
A recommended episode watch of the teams gathering facts leading to a resolve of the innocent.
Each case is introduced and accompanied by a detective, Christian Brunner with Horatio and Speed, Adell Sevilla with Calleigh and Delko. Each detective is present in suspect interrogations. Brunner thinks the case is solved with the arrest on the initial suspect, but Horatio begs to differ.
Det. Brunner introduces the situation: Susan McCreary found naked under the bed; dead. Susan was identified through fingerprints having an arrest record for prostitution. Brunner is dismissed when the CSI team takes control with coroner Alexx. Early findings reveal evidence left by the killer, i.e. blood, a bathtub soap ring, cardamom soap aroma on the victim and mold on the bedspread.
A fingerprint found on the victim's belt leads to an arrest of Cole Judson with a prior record of assault by stabbing. Horatio educates Speed on how a fingerprint could be falsified, making evidence bogus to the untrained, like Detective Brunner. A fingerprint was lifted from a putty container, an epoxy impression of the print made, the print transferred to where is was meant to be found after first making an oil-based print from stick deodorant then placing the blood over the oil-impression. Speed asks what did the state's attorney say when you called and told them they had the wrong guy? The study done by the visiting criminologist was true, exacting and proof one can frame somebody with their own finger print, however, the attorney is not going to confuse the jury over one study, i.e. that of the guest criminologist, when everybody understands fingerprints. This comment means Cole Judson is guilty, facing murder-one charges.
There is also mold found and traced to its source while the killer brings home evidence to completely implicate him, a bar of opened used hotel soap. Significantly dropping the temperature in the victim's room post mortem gave the coroner a false indicator of time of death. Speed states the power company confirms the spike in usage from nine to midnight. Speed and Horatio now know time of death was altered because killer turned the A/C lower to cool the room after the killing. Speed remarks the new time of death clears Cole Judson. The mold inadvertently left by the killer is common to indoor water spaces, i.e. Cole Judson's bathroom. To catch the killer, the mold must be identified as coming from a single host colony such as the killer's bathroom. Samples have to be taken from that bathroom and compared to that of the mold taken from the bungalow bed spread. Isolating the DNA from the mold samples, comparing same to prove the killer was in both places is better than leaving a man waiting on death-row.
Horatio is staring at the blow-up pic of the faked fingerprint. Speed enters, Horatio asks Speed how many things will we overlook in a career? Speed answers you? Less than anyone I know of, me? Fewer, because of it, meaning the example he just witnessed.
The criminal record information of Cole is known to the Bastille's because of the credit check performed as landlord. Interviewing Mrs. Bastille with Det. Brunner, Horatio asks to use her bathroom, where he scrapes the bath grout for mold, noticing the cardamom soap on the tub. Mrs. Bastille believes Lee brought the soap home on Wednesday. Cole helped Lee with plumbing repairs, when Cole's print was obtained from the plumber's putty impression; Lee made an epoxy copy of the print, transferring to the belt. Horatio continues telling Lee he might have been successful without the bloody print, but he went too far by bringing home the soap. Lee describes his life as mundane until he experienced Susan's life slip through his hands, satisfying his curiosity.
Closing scene has Horatio giving Cole Judson a ride home, meeting Wendy and the kids in the front yard of their home, and less one landlord.
Det. Sevilla introduces the situation of a possible car-jacking of a German couple; information she got from Greta, the spouse standing nearby. Calleigh and Delko are both on the case of the crime, when questions occur because the initial evidence does not provide complete answers. The husband lies dead of a gunshot wound in a nearby garage; Calleigh gets the car, Delko takes the blood trail to the garage. Adell says ballistics traced the bullet to a gun used in a prior crime, where the convicted adult is still in jail, a sentenced youth was freed and home with his grandma. The gun was never recovered.
Security cams show a driving glove was worn by the shooter, otherwise he was unidentifiable. When grandma's home is searched, the glove worn by the killer is found by Delko. Forensics tests of the found glove show chemicals pointing to lipstick on the glove. The police witness grandma kissing Malcom, as they arrest him.
The video cam shows the killer never entered the car, running away, the victim in pursuit. Calleigh finds smudged lipstick on the rear-view mirror. The lipstick from the glove and on the mirror match; concluding the killer was in the car before the crime. A pre-crime meeting suggests a hit was placed on the victim. It is grandma's lipstick found on both items, given to her by Brian, Malcom's older brother. Adell tells Brian the state department provided his employment information from a work visa. Brian was working in Germany, when he gifted grandma German manufactured lipstick. It is grandma's kiss linking the suspect Malcom to the crime.
Brian accepted payment from Greta for the hit perpetrated by Malcom. Interrogation of Brian revealed he was handed Greta's itinerary, cash and a plane ticket to come murder her husband. Calleigh says it was then when Brian could have said no. Brian said he was broke, he had exhausted all other avenues of income. Delko says so you came home to cash out on your little brother's back. Brian told Malcom to get a different gun. Calleigh fires back, that was looking out for him. Greta admits her guilt, fearing the death penalty for the hit.
Calleigh and Delko nabbed Malcom, Brian and Greta for the murder.
Each case is introduced and accompanied by a detective, Christian Brunner with Horatio and Speed, Adell Sevilla with Calleigh and Delko. Each detective is present in suspect interrogations. Brunner thinks the case is solved with the arrest on the initial suspect, but Horatio begs to differ.
Det. Brunner introduces the situation: Susan McCreary found naked under the bed; dead. Susan was identified through fingerprints having an arrest record for prostitution. Brunner is dismissed when the CSI team takes control with coroner Alexx. Early findings reveal evidence left by the killer, i.e. blood, a bathtub soap ring, cardamom soap aroma on the victim and mold on the bedspread.
A fingerprint found on the victim's belt leads to an arrest of Cole Judson with a prior record of assault by stabbing. Horatio educates Speed on how a fingerprint could be falsified, making evidence bogus to the untrained, like Detective Brunner. A fingerprint was lifted from a putty container, an epoxy impression of the print made, the print transferred to where is was meant to be found after first making an oil-based print from stick deodorant then placing the blood over the oil-impression. Speed asks what did the state's attorney say when you called and told them they had the wrong guy? The study done by the visiting criminologist was true, exacting and proof one can frame somebody with their own finger print, however, the attorney is not going to confuse the jury over one study, i.e. that of the guest criminologist, when everybody understands fingerprints. This comment means Cole Judson is guilty, facing murder-one charges.
There is also mold found and traced to its source while the killer brings home evidence to completely implicate him, a bar of opened used hotel soap. Significantly dropping the temperature in the victim's room post mortem gave the coroner a false indicator of time of death. Speed states the power company confirms the spike in usage from nine to midnight. Speed and Horatio now know time of death was altered because killer turned the A/C lower to cool the room after the killing. Speed remarks the new time of death clears Cole Judson. The mold inadvertently left by the killer is common to indoor water spaces, i.e. Cole Judson's bathroom. To catch the killer, the mold must be identified as coming from a single host colony such as the killer's bathroom. Samples have to be taken from that bathroom and compared to that of the mold taken from the bungalow bed spread. Isolating the DNA from the mold samples, comparing same to prove the killer was in both places is better than leaving a man waiting on death-row.
Horatio is staring at the blow-up pic of the faked fingerprint. Speed enters, Horatio asks Speed how many things will we overlook in a career? Speed answers you? Less than anyone I know of, me? Fewer, because of it, meaning the example he just witnessed.
The criminal record information of Cole is known to the Bastille's because of the credit check performed as landlord. Interviewing Mrs. Bastille with Det. Brunner, Horatio asks to use her bathroom, where he scrapes the bath grout for mold, noticing the cardamom soap on the tub. Mrs. Bastille believes Lee brought the soap home on Wednesday. Cole helped Lee with plumbing repairs, when Cole's print was obtained from the plumber's putty impression; Lee made an epoxy copy of the print, transferring to the belt. Horatio continues telling Lee he might have been successful without the bloody print, but he went too far by bringing home the soap. Lee describes his life as mundane until he experienced Susan's life slip through his hands, satisfying his curiosity.
Closing scene has Horatio giving Cole Judson a ride home, meeting Wendy and the kids in the front yard of their home, and less one landlord.
Det. Sevilla introduces the situation of a possible car-jacking of a German couple; information she got from Greta, the spouse standing nearby. Calleigh and Delko are both on the case of the crime, when questions occur because the initial evidence does not provide complete answers. The husband lies dead of a gunshot wound in a nearby garage; Calleigh gets the car, Delko takes the blood trail to the garage. Adell says ballistics traced the bullet to a gun used in a prior crime, where the convicted adult is still in jail, a sentenced youth was freed and home with his grandma. The gun was never recovered.
Security cams show a driving glove was worn by the shooter, otherwise he was unidentifiable. When grandma's home is searched, the glove worn by the killer is found by Delko. Forensics tests of the found glove show chemicals pointing to lipstick on the glove. The police witness grandma kissing Malcom, as they arrest him.
The video cam shows the killer never entered the car, running away, the victim in pursuit. Calleigh finds smudged lipstick on the rear-view mirror. The lipstick from the glove and on the mirror match; concluding the killer was in the car before the crime. A pre-crime meeting suggests a hit was placed on the victim. It is grandma's lipstick found on both items, given to her by Brian, Malcom's older brother. Adell tells Brian the state department provided his employment information from a work visa. Brian was working in Germany, when he gifted grandma German manufactured lipstick. It is grandma's kiss linking the suspect Malcom to the crime.
Brian accepted payment from Greta for the hit perpetrated by Malcom. Interrogation of Brian revealed he was handed Greta's itinerary, cash and a plane ticket to come murder her husband. Calleigh says it was then when Brian could have said no. Brian said he was broke, he had exhausted all other avenues of income. Delko says so you came home to cash out on your little brother's back. Brian told Malcom to get a different gun. Calleigh fires back, that was looking out for him. Greta admits her guilt, fearing the death penalty for the hit.
Calleigh and Delko nabbed Malcom, Brian and Greta for the murder.
