- A badly shredded body is found in the back of an 18-wheeler, and the shredded remains of a credit card at the scene suggest that the CEO of a shady identity theft company is involved.
- The remains of a corpse found in a specialized firm's professional giant shredding unit is identified from the fragments of a credit card he was made to eat as part of sadistic torture. It turns out the ID was stolen from Larry Lamotte, CEO of a company Greg signed up with for identity theft prevention. His security chief Julius Kaplan runs the shredder company and is later murdered, both men have a criminal past and aliases.—KGF Vissers
- A garbage trunk driver summons the CSI investigators to see what is the liquid leaking out of it. Nick and Langston test and find that is human blood. When the truck dumps the shredded material, the CSI team find human flesh and parts of a credit card. Then they go to a shredding company that was responsible for the material, but they do not find any lead. The DNA does not provide any other lead, but they are able to read a magnetic strip on the card with the name of the victim, Larry Lamotte, and Greg recognizes him from television. They go to his company I.D. Preserve, and the chief of security Julius Kaplan introduces them to Larry, who is alive. When Julius is murdered with a gun shot in his head, the CSI investigates Larry Lamotte and other suspects.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- "CSI" - "Bump and Grind" - Nov. 4, 2010
We see the hands of some very sadistic individual cooking up some clam, human ear, and shredded credit card soup and force-feeding it to the naked, bound man from whom said ear came.
It's night in Vegas and Brass, Ray, and Nick investigate a "suspicious ooze" coming from the back of a truck headed for a landfill. The ooze is blood.The truck is opened and its payload of shredded trash includes shredded human body parts including an eyeball. They also find pieces of the shredded credit card.
Catherine and Nick and Greg visit an industrial shredding place that gets stuff from all over. The guy running the place they don't shred bodies. He says they have cameras. The gang wants to shut down the machine and examine it as well as the videos and do interviews.
Greg looks over the tapes from the graveyard shift. No one fell in, but that doesn't mean much. Nick investigates the machine and finds bloody bits, envisioning a scenario where a locked bin with the body inside was dumped in the machine.
Sara, Hodges, and Greg go diving in the load from the truck. Sara amasses quite a pile of yuck. Which she brings back to Robbins, who reports to Catherine that he's sent stuff to off for DNA and that it was only one person who was shredded. The tissue under the scope tells him he was dead before he was shredded. The COD is a gunshot wound to the head. (Robbins has also heard about Catherine and Vartan and is happy for her.)
Ray gets a letter from someone in prison. It's a kidney bean from Nate. Funny. He tosses it across the room. Sara comes in and reports on the credit card pieces found. She asks if he's okay, he says he's fine. She hands him back the bean.
Greg reports to Nick there are no DNA matches. Hodges, however, ran trace on the credit card pieces and determined that they came from Manhattan clam chowder in the victim's stomach. Greg surmises he was force fed them. Thanks to the magnetic stripe on the back they discover he was Larry Lamotte. Greg knows him from his online ads for "ID Preserve"-- to cover identity theft-- Greg just signed up.
Checks at his home and by phone turn up nothing so Brass and Ray go to his office where they are at first stonewalled by an assistant and the head of security who say he's on vacation at an undisclosed location and unreachable. Brass and Ray agree, saying they think he might be dead. This brings out Larry Lamotte himself. Except he is not the man from the online ads -- airing right there in the office-- calling himself Larry Lamotte. There is confusion.
Lamotte says it's marketing 101 to get someone prettier to be your face. The guy onscreen is Wesley from the mailroom. They explain about how his credit cards were found in the victim's stomach. Lamotte is confused. He tells them every 79 seconds someone's identity is stolen. Brass says if someone stole Lamotte's identity that can't be good for business. He pontficates about his 120 million dollar business and corporate clients and his security guy Caplan pipes in about why would they bother to go after some penny ante credit card thief. They ask if he has enemies. He says he's just like the police, catching criminals, so of course, thousands. He offers his "offenders" list and tries to sign up Brass and Ray.
Nick reports to Catherine that it turns out that a lot of the offenders were clients mad at ID Preserve when their identities were actually stolen. IDP called it a security breach but one former client named Lee didn't care for that and drove a truck into the building and waved a gun around looking for Lamotte. After a six month stint in prison he got a job supplying workers to the shredding place.
Before Nick goes to call Brass to have a chat with him, Catherine asks why he stopped going to see the departmental shrink. Nick said he did his mandated two visits and he's fine and can't sit around talking about his feelings. Instead he's working out, eating right, and getting sleep: healthy body, healthy mind. She looks concerned.
Brass interrogates Lee, who seems really freaked out and has no idea what Brass is talking about. He says he's got six alibis, thanks to IDP he's got a bunch of guys saying they're him and a whole mountain of debt.
Greg, in the lab, is telling Hodges how freaked out he is about the IDP shenanigans with the security breach. He's also checking out the bullet fragments. There turned out to be two bullet fragments from two different guns but they could still be from the same guy.
Sara discovers that most of the stuff in the truck came from IDP itself. They subcontract out to handle transport of its bins to the shredder. Lamotte's head of security, Caplan is the subcontractor. Sara and Ray examine the bins. They find blood in one and it's a match to shredder guy.
Greg traced the credit card to a phone name and address, old school fraud perpetrated on Lamotte. They found that he visited Vegas and made a bunch of small time purchases. They think he might be shredder guy.
Nick and Sara and a team of cops go to Caplan's place. They bust into a secret room, the one where shredder guy was held and force fed the chowder. They find lots of canned clams and a gun. Sara finds Caplan shot out by the pool.
Sara finds the bullet casing by the pool. They realize the killer put the gun right up to his head. They notice a beer bottle in the pool, the splash of which created a weird void in the blood spatter. They surmise it must've been someone he knew and trusted with no sign of forced entry.
Ray interviews Larry Lamotte about Caplan's death. It's a courtesy interview so there's no lawyer present but he has his harried assistant take notes. Lamotte says he was a good man but it turns out Caplan was a criminal, a mob collector known as Julius "Child" for cooking up food for his victims. They show him photos of shredder guy. Lamotte is surprised and shocked and saddened but in a really insincere way.
Video camera footage from Caplan's neighbor shows a car leaving his house near the time of the murder.
The gun that killed Caplan isn't the one that killed shredder guy. They find out the gun that did kill him has a weird history having been used in a shooting in Reno six years earlier. The victim walked out without ever being identified. They pull out the cold case file and hope new technology will help with ID-ing what's up with the gun. And it turns out shredder guy is the John Doe from the shooting six year earlier. And then Julius Caplan kills shredder guy. And then someone else shot Caplan with the same gun.
Sara enters with some interesting news: shredder guy may have had a serious grudge when it came to his visit to Vegas posing as Larry Lamotte since he's actually named Larry Lamotte. Which makes Ray, Catherine, and Sara wonder who the man running IDP actually is.
So once again they bring in the man they know as Larry Lamotte for questioning. Brass and Ray say they got his print off the six year old bullet casing. They run it down: they know he was the man who robbed and shot the real Larry Lamotte, who was his old partner in crime. He obviously thought he was dead and that his name was still good, unlike his own, Arlo Cardin, which had a long rap sheet attached to it.(Which also explains why he used an "actor" for his online ads.) The real Larry called him and threatened him and demanded a payoff and he had him killed. And then he killed Caplan with the gun (the same gun he used six years earlier). At least that's what they theorize as he listens. Lamotte admits the real Larry extorted him for five million dollars but he didn't shoot anyone. He told Julius to give him the money and then Julius killed him unbeknownst to him since he was clearly a psycho. He says anyone who came into his house could've had access to his gun and the statute of limitation on the original crime is up. So he admits to the original shooting and leaving for dead and identity theft but not to the recent murder.
Nick and Catherine discover that faux Lamotte did take out five million dollars a few days earlier so they wonder if he's telling the truth. They then think he killed Caplan to get his money back. But there's no sign of the money.
Archie reports that the video from the neighbor's house showed a partial plate of the car leaving the scene. It turns out it was Lee, the disgruntled ID theft victim from earlier. They get word that the car's been spotted heading south. When they stop it the driver is faux Lamotte's harried assistant who has the five million dollars in the briefcase. They realize she killed Caplan using faux Lamotte's gun and then stole Lee's identity to rent the getaway car she planned to dump at the border which would set the cops on Lee in search of the money. Pretty sweet plan actually. Except that she got caught. But since she knows information is currency she give up the goods on faux Lamotte in a plea deal.
Back at the station Nick invites Catherine out for beers and a chat about their feelings. She passes. Catherine then overhears Greg arguing with someone on the phone about how he's never been to Kurdistan and $1200 in charges. Ruh-roh.
Ray is looking at his scars and Sara enters and says he'll hardly notice them soon. She says of course some scars heal faster than others. He confesses to her about Nate's note and the kidney bean. She tells him to not let Nate in his head. Ray says it's too late. She tells him she finally realized that everything that happens to them good and bad doesn't have to define who they are. She wishes him a good night.
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