CSI: Vegas

Previously on CSI: Vegas...

All of these cases,

all of these people are related.

Lamont Moore. Dario Donnelly.

Lynn Zobrist. The sick mind behind all of these murders

is Dr. Diane Auerbach.

I was so certain that she was responsible.

Max, you need to see this.

I need you to get two rooms at the Aurora.

One for me, one for you. Use fake names.

Players are assigned a target.

Once they eliminate one, they inherit

that player's target as their next assignment.

That was the plan, take out the last man standing yourself?

But you made that pretty impossible.

I gave my best player a real challenge.

You're all in the game now. May the best man win.

You know we have a fully stocked minifridge

in our hotel room, right?

I am not paying ten dollars

for bottled water.

Not even after the apocalypse.

Your mom's a civil servant, not a high roller.

How long are we planning on staying?

I thought you caught the guy who wanted you dead.

One of them, but it kind of seems like there's another one.

And we just got to be careful, okay?

It won't be forever.

Hi.

Dad.

You got here fast.

Well, there's a deranged killer

hunting your mama.

It seemed urgent.

I'm worried about you.

I've only been in town an hour

and I've already tracked you down.

Daniel, it was really kind of you

to come all this way, but we're gonna be fine.

I promise... Maxine.

We're still a family.

I'm not going anywhere.

Not until you're really safe.

I am so sorry.

I can't do this. I can't.

That went well.

Poor Molly.

What have we got?

Adhesive residue on her wrists and ankles.

Killer had her bound up.

There's no blood, no trauma, no ligature marks.

I have no guess on cause.

Witness in that tent saw

a man wheel this cart under the 15,

then walked off whistling.

Remembers a fancy suit, not a face.

It's all right. We know exactly who did this.

He told us himself.

He signed his work?

He's not just signing his work.

He's giving us the finger.

The only print found at Molly Tate's dump site

was the digitus medius.

He's flipping us the bird.

Lovely. In silver ink.

Here's our man, Ronald Winter.

Quite the mugshot.

His wanted poster's gonna look like an Armani ad.

Put it on the local news, make him famous.

I can't find any other trace of his life online.

Uh, this was for a first-time offense.

Cyberstalking.

So now he's crawling out from behind

his keyboard to put on a show?

Going public like this feels like Molly's his opening act.

Who's the audience? Why dump her like that?

This guy was drafted into that twisted wheel of death game.

But that's over. Why keep going?

He's a bit different from the others

tangled up in Ted Hester's Silver Ink Murders.

Ron had a troubled youth, too,

but look.

Look at that IQ.

160? If he's that smart,

you got to imagine he's got an endgame.

Maybe he's already told us what it is.

The postcards, the scribbles on the walls in the white room.

What? We had the same instinct

when Ted told us about Ron.

So much so that Catherine called a forensic linguist

at Quantico. They're working on it, but...

We don't have enough material for the cryptanalysts.

If we had a large enough sample,

they could find patterns, figure out how Ron's

symbols could group into words,

sentences, but... we need more.

You're gonna need more evidence of every kind.

Anything that tells us where Ron is.

Well, Sonya's ready

to walk us through Molly's autopsy.

Let's start there.

Jack, please, where are we on the coffee?

I need caffeine.

Like, any form. Intravenous would be acceptable.

Hey, sis. How about you look down?

You all right?

You look kind of exhausted. Yeah.

I'm fine. I just...

I was up all night with this autopsy while

lover boy over there was out gallivanting around.

Did you go on a date?

How'd it go?

Well, he was wearing the same clothes as yesterday, so...

She was talking about the autopsy. Ah.

You are right. Um, not as well as I hoped.

But I still can't tell you what killed Molly. Mm.

All signs point to Molly being poisoned orally.

See those small tears in her laryngopharynx?

That makes me think that she was forced

to swallow something, something that

did this. Whoa!

Yeah. Pretty sure the liver's not supposed

to look like a slice of Swiss cheese.

Hepatic vacuolization. Ricin poisoning?

That's what I thought, but no.

I spent hours testing the contents

of her stomach. Not a drop.

And then I got really confused when I opened up

her large intestine and found extensive bleeding.

Okay, now that sounds like hydrogen cyanide.

It does, but again, no.

And before you ask, I also tested

for arsenic and strychnine.

Even though it couldn't possibly be either of those, because...

Hey.

You okay?

Yeah.

Um... Sorry, uh...

Couldn't be either of those, because those poisons

don't cause hepatic vacuolization

and bloody GI, so...

...so I am completely...

Come on, sit down, take a seat, come on.

Yeah. Let's get some water and sit down.

Whoa!

Sonya!

My heart... My heart is racing.

Sonya? Sonya, are you okay? Get away from me!

Get out! Just get out! No! I... No...

Seal off the morgue!

Molly's a Trojan horse.

What are you talking about?

That's why he dumped her.

He's using her body to poison all of us.

Control, C16. This is CSI Allie Rajan.

I need medical assistance at my location immediately!

Tell me how to help you.

I don't know.

I think whatever killed Molly, it's killing me.

Listen. Listen. Just stay with me.

We need to restrain her!

Having a hard time. She's convulsing.

Prepping the pentobarbital.

Give her another 25 mils.

Do they know what it is?

No, but they just started testing.

And they're straight on symptomology.

Her heart is racing. She can't stand.

She's got severe abdominal pain. Have they checked for sepsis?

Jack, they know everything that we do.

They're doing all they can, hon.

How'd this happen?

Sonya said that she was poisoned

by the same poison that killed Molly Tate.

Was it airborne?

We don't think so.

She was with the body for hours.

She said it was a Trojan horse.

Rigged to release poison.

I just don't know how.

Are.. are you all in danger?

No, none of us ever touched Molly's body.

Maybe this is why the guy snuck into our morgue, to.. to scout it.

Guys, I don't know how long Sonya has if we don't figure out

what did this. We will.

All right? We will.

Whether we have to track down Ron

and pry it out of him or identify

the poison on our own, we will, okay?

Where do you want us?

Joshua, I want you at Molly Tate's house.

Beau and Penny are at the White Room.

Allie, I need you to suit up.

Somebody's got to look at the body... I.. I can help.