- A young man with amnesia is found walking the street in a daze, covered with blood from a triple homicide. But did he commit the crime or witness it?
- A man, wanders through Miami covered in blood but claiming total amnesia, except that he had killed someone. The blood is from insider trading-accused Mitch Crawford, his wife and their daughter, who were seen leaving by car early that day by courier Walter Leeson, who 'borrowed' their luxury pool. The amnesiac's only memories allow Eric to guess the triple knife murder site. His bloody wallet identifies Doug Benson, whose hammer on site wasn't the murder weapon. Using victim shots as a memory stimulus links with Doug's youth trauma. Horatio finds and links two other suspects.—KGF Vissers
- Blaring electric guitars. Fancy cars. Unnaturally pastel hues. It must be "CSI: Miami."
A man covered in blood walks down the middle of the highway. Dozens of angry drivers call 911 to report the obstacle. Suddenly, Hummers and a chopper (?) are dispatched to the scene. It's sunny outside, so could the lead investigator be wearing shades? Sure enough, Horatio Caine arrives on the scene. "What's your name son?" he growls. The man covered in blood -- not his own, by the way -- says he doesn't know. In fact, he doesn't know much. He remembers killing somebody but not whom.
YEEE-OWWW! Cue opening credits!
Back from a too-long commercial break, Frank and Ryan are on the scene. Neither can figure out where the potential victim might be. "The blood had to come from somewhere right?" Ryan asks. One would think, Ryan. One would think. Later, Valera runs high-tech tests on the blood. "Try a man and two women," she says. Three people!? Worse yet: Tests show it's a father, mother and daughter. The mystery man's family, perhaps? Valera says no. The tests indicate there is no relation to the blood-soaked man. Ryan immediately calls "H."
And "H" immediately brings in blood boy for questioning. "I'm sorry I just cant remember," he says. "Lieutenant, do you think I killed somebody?" Growls Caine: "I hope not." Ryan enters. One of the victims is Mitch Crawford, a man who once did time for insider training. Bring out the Hummers!
We speed to Crawford's home address. Police storm the joint and find two barely dressed young people cavorting in the pool. The man explains that he was just using the pool to impress his girl. He's only a messenger who was bringing Crawford some important documents. But wait! There's more! The messenger arrived early that morning to discover Crawford hustling his wife and daughter into their SUV. The family then sped off as if they were running from something.
Ryan notices a clue on the wall: a gigantic picture of the Crawford family ... which pictures a son. Seconds later, Frank calls with news. The son was in military training all day. He can't be the killer ... right? Back at the lab, Eric explains that Crawford was a financial advisor who lost all his clients' money. Could he have been running from them? Natalia, meanwhile, has Travers run tests on the soil from bloody boy's shoes.
Eric, telling the amnesiac that he has "been there," patiently runs through photographs of the area. The man eventually drops some nuggets of info: He remembers a school. Sure enough, there is an elementary school nearby. In fact, only one road runs past that school. CUT TO bloody footprints on that very road! Caine and Eric follow them to a residence and find the family slaughtered. All dead. They also find a wallet with the mystery man's ID. His name is Doug Benson. "The question is did he witness these murders or commit them?" Eric asks. It IS an excellent question.
A few excruciatingly protracted words from our sponsors later, Price theorizes that Crawford was killed after his wife and daughter died. "He wanted him to see his family die," Caine growls. Eric finds a hammer lying nearby -- but it isn't the murder weapon. The tool is, however, conveniently labeled "Benson." Dougie was the handyman. But does that make him the killer?
Eric says no, reminding his costars once again that he has "been there." Tight knit group, those amnesiacs. Calleigh suggests putting little plastic nodes all over Benson's face and testing his brainwaves for memories. Upon seeing an image of Crawford's dead body, Benson's brainwaves begin beeping off the chart. He remembers the murders! Only not exactly. He remembers pulling the knife out of Crawford's body but still claims not have killed anyone. Eric, who has been there before, is starting to have his doubts.
Caine throws more gas on the suspicion fire. Turns out Benson, as a child, saw his father die. Although an ex wife confessed to the killing, little Dougie was found standing over the body holding a knife. Growls Caine: "So the question becomes: Which murder is he remembering?" Yet another excellent question.
Ryan heads to the morgue to examine the bodies. One montage later, he identifies a single strand of hair as belonging to Kurt Sabin. Caine immediately heads out to question Sabin, a dapper young nightclub owner. Not surprisingly, Sabin claims to know nothing about the murder -- although he does admit to employing Crawford as a financial advisor. "I went to see him a few days ago after the market went south," Sabin admits. In a FLASHBACK, we see the pair scuffling. "I lost a good chunk of cash ... and maybe my cool," the club owner says. Caine isn't convinced.
Four minutes later, we return from a commercial break to discover that Travers has discovered that the boot marks at the crime scene match a man who is between 6 foot and 6 foot 1 inches tall -- about three inches taller than Benson. Hmmm. Ryan asks if the foot print could be from a military boot. "I believe so," Travers says.
Seconds later, Logan Crawford is in the hot seat. He admits that he left military training and came to the house earlier that morning. And guess what? He saw a man stabbing his father! But why didn't the cadet call the police? "I snuck out of school to see them," Logan explains. Logan then identifies Benson as the killer. He also says Benson was wearing a red hat.
Calleigh, Frank and Eric return to the street corner where Benson was originally found obstructing traffic. They're all looking for the red hat. One montage of searching later, Eric discovers the hat underneath a loose manhole cover. A new montage starts -- this one back at the lab. The results: black particles on the hat turn out to be gunshot residue. Caine's theory: Benson, wearing the red hat, had a shotgun pressed against his head. "I'm thinking he was forced to do it," Caine growls.
But who did the forcing? Not surprisingly, Logan Crawford is back on the hot seat. The young man admits that his father called to say the family was going to flee their creditors. Logan says his old man promised to leave money under the fire pit ... but it was missing. Someone took the cash. That "someone" probably being the killer. Natalia and Ryan investigate the fire pit and, within seconds, find a fingerprint. Three guesses as to whom it belongs -- and the first two don't count.
That's right! Good ol' Kurt Sabin. Caine goes to confront the smooth-talking club owner. Not only was the man's fingerprint found at the murder scene, but a shotgun has also been stashed in Sabin's office. Uh oh. "OK, I took the money," he sneers. "Still doesn't prove I killed anyone."
But a match between the shotgun held against Benson's hat and the weapon found inside Sabin's office pretty much does. "That rat didn't just squander it, he stole from me," Sabin sneers. "So I had to collect." Sabin admits to shooting the wife and daughter. Growls Caine: "So he took what was precious to you and you returned the favor." Benson then entered the house and tried to help the family, but Sabin manipulated him. He forced Benson to stab Crawford. Case closed.
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