- A well-known Las Vegas philanthropist is brutally slashed in her bed, and the team soon discovers that it is dealing with a killer who knows the secrets of some of the city's most prominent citizens.
- The whole team concentrates on the mysterious attacks of an intruder on rich homes of prominent Las Vegas citizens, known as philanthropists or heroes. They work out the criminal must be sort of a contortionist with a latex fetish. He stalked each victim long term, even taking up secret residence in their homes, and left clues indicating he objected to their honorable status, knowing some incriminating series. Despite the likeliness of another attack, Margot Wilton insists to return home without police protection after her hospital release.—KGF Vissers
- When the famous philanthropist Margot Wilton is brutally attacked by a stranger, the CSI investigators suspect that she is hiding information from the attacker. They proceed their investigation until the woman Carrie Jones is slashed and murdered in a car wash in the same modus operandi, but her little daughter Alise survives and calls him "Sqweegel". Soon the CSI and the LVPD learn that the criminal punishes Important people that have lied and have secrets.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- "CSI" - "Sqweegel" - Oct. 14, 2010
A killer busts into the fancy mansion of one major Las Vegas philanthopist Margot Wilton (played by Ann-Margret) and slashes her with a scalpel. He doesn't kill her though. The next mornings the CSIs arrive to investigate. On the way out with Margot on a gurney, Nick congratulates a paramedic on a recent heroic thing he did that got him on the local news, saving kids from a burning building.
Inside Margot's house the walls are dotted with pictures of her as a young woman and accepting various awards. Ray and Catherine notice some of the pictures have been slashed as well, with the faces of children in wheelchairs cut out. To do so the killer had to take the photos out of the frame and put them back in. He also overturned the plaque with her "key to the city."
Nick finds the point of entry where the would be killer cut a whole in the glass.
In Margot's bedroom Ray and Catherine look at the massive blood splatter. They find an odd footprint/handprint blood trail.
Greg finds more blood and other trace on a windowsill. Someone has been through the window multiple times and maybe the cut glass is to throw them off.
Ray and Nick go over the evidence and Ray thinks it was personal and maybe he intentionally didn't kill her.
At the hospital Margot describes the perp as a slippery, glove-wearing, African-American with dead black eyes, and braces on his teeth. She only heard her own screams. He asks about her son in the wheelchair, he died very young. She says her philanthropy was for Robbie. While he chats he undoes her stitches since they're evidence. He's sweet and funny with her.
Back at the house Catherine can't find one usable print. Greg suggests looking in the attic. He climbs up and finds your standard clutter and a lot more awards and plaques. He finds one covering a hole cut in the ceiling and a nearby lipstick cam that fits into it. He opens a nearby dresser drawer full of moldy food. They realize the guy has been living up there and reading her mail.
Nick and Catherine move her bed aside and find that it looks like they were "sleeping" together since there's an imprint in the carpet under her bed. Creepy.
Back at the lab the gang breaks it down without almost anything to go on. They can determine he's small, agile, fit, younger, and maniacally patient.
They decide to "reanalyze" the evidence. They find something, possibly sweat, on the carpet and Hodges analyzes it. He comes back to Nick with evidence: it was sweat mixed with latex fetish spray to help slide off and on a tightfitting suit.
Nick and Catherine visit a fetish shop. The friendly owner only carries one brand of the spray and it's a slow mover but he sold some a few months back to a guy for whom he made full "head to toe" suits for. He's got pics of him but only in the suit. He's got one brown and one blue eye and his name is Ian Moone.
Ray runs his name and gets nothing until he realizes it's an anagram for "I am no one."
A mother and daughter going through the car wash chat on the phone and listen to music respectively. Suddenly a figure clad in latex emerges from the back of the car with a scalpel and attacks the mother. Teh daughter screams. The figure scribbles an "A" in the blood on the windshield. Greg and Catherine wonder how this could've happened in a locked car. They open the hatch and find bloody smears and a tiny space where the man could've fit into. They wonder where he went and realize he must still be on the premises. They search the car wash and it suddenly goes on.
Capt. Brass interviews the little girl Elise who is justifiably scared. He tries talking to her doll. Elise says no one else was in the car. She admits she was watching the car wash and didn't see the man who hurt her mom. She says one word that can help find who hurt mom "Sqweegel."
David washes the body as Brass interviews Elise's father, the dead woman Carrie Wilton's husband. He says she was recently appointed to the family values committee in Vegas and perhaps video game players were mad at her for trying to outlaw violent video games. He said she got threats and someone broke into their home and cut her up real bad. So this was the second attack which Robbins and David also realize and tell Ray. He makes the connection to the Margot Wilton attack.
They go and look under Carrie Wilton's bed and find another imprint of a man underneath. Greg finds the same evidence, lipstick cam hole, jimmied window, no DNA evidence. Nick finds a DVD with the "A" symbol on it. The video shows Carrie having an affair and talking about how much she hates her husband.
In interrogation they ask the husband if he hired a PI. He says why would he, her whole life was about truth, honesty, and morality. He says the man who attacked her kept saying "I know, confess." They realize the "A" was a scarlet letter. They realize Margot Wilton's life is still in danger since he attacked her but didn't kill her just like he did with Carrie. They offer Margot a hotel stay and protection. She declines. The mayor shows up and says to leave her alone.
Brass takes the mayor away and Ray points out that the attacker told Carrie "I know, confess" and that he said it to Margot too. He wants to know if it has to do with her son or the key to the city. Margot gives him nothing.
Brass shows up at Margot's house and the mayor turns him away. He says if Brass goes over his head he'll kill him.
Inside her house Margot runs to the attic and unlocks the dresser drawers and finds fresh orange peels. She turns around and the latex clad, scalpel wielding figure asks "looking for you letters?"
He attacks her and she falls down the attic stairs.
Nick gets a call on an abandoned car, it belongs to that hero paramedic Nick said hello to earlier. It has blood in it. He busts open the window and finds more blood.
The latex clad killer hangs upside down from the attic. Margot screams and runs. The killer walks on all fours like a crab. Margot falls down the stairs.
Outside Brass is calling for the okay to go in when Nick shows up with news about the paramedic's car, he realizes just like Margot and Carrie he was honored by the city, it can't be a coincidence.
Margot crawls away from the killer. She wants to know what he wants. He says she knows, he read her letters, listened to her phone calls, and she says her baby was sick and cried every night. We realize that he knows, or at least thinks that she drowned her son. She admits that she murdered her son but she believed in her heart it was the right thing to do. She pulls a gun out of a drawer and shoots him. The police bust in and he's gone. The killer put blanks in her gun. Margot is desperately trying to collect letters from the floor as the police pull her away. Greg picks one up.
Ray pulls up Margot's bed and finds a dead body dressed in head to toe latex. It's not the killer it's the paramedic, who's been dead for a couple of hours. That's why he bought two suits from the fetish guy, so he could put one on someone else. The killer is gone.
Back at the lab Greg steams open the letters and in them Margot explains that Robby begged her to kill him, so she dumped him from the wheelchair into the pool. The letters are to Robbie's real father.
Margot is arrested.
Turns out the paramedic was setting fires to make himself look like a hero and the killer knew it.
We cut to a man zipping up the latex suit. He looks in the mirror and says "I am no one."
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