CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

- Happy Birthday, Nicky - Happy Birthday, Nick

Your favorite

Oh, wow, thanks

Here you are

Didn't know if you were a stripe or solid man

I told him to let it ride on paisley

You can wear it to your next arson scene

Fair enough, thanks

Hey, you know, Pancake Hutch has a free breakfast on your birthday

My treat

Uh, not tonight Maybe another time

They know you're lying when you try it any other night

Guilty You've done it, too

Okay Got it

Uh, got a 419, East Fremont

A place called Park Pines Motel

I'll take it

But Uh, what about your cake?

Save me a piece Thanks

So the victim is a 16-year-old girl who lives on the premises

She's the daughter of Mark and Nicole Jones, who run the motel

You remember them?

So

All I can tell you is that our daughter was there

I knew her

Yeah, well, I'm going to... I'm going to go knock on some doors

So what happened?

365 Days Ago

- What's your name? - Haley

- What's yours? - Nick

Nick

So what happened?

Well, Haley, that's what I have to figure out

How far into decomp is he?

He isn't

Look, it's a fresh wound to the back of the head

The body's still warm

It's the immaculate decomposition

The manager heard a gunshot Called it in

Vic's ID says Harry Steadwell

One round fired from Dirty Harry's revolver

Well, he wasn't shot

Is he the registered guest?

I found a room key in his pocket, but no luggage or belongings in the room

But he brought his own garage door opener?

- Is this his? - Yeah

All right, I'll go talk to the manager

I don't mind stepping out

Looks like the dresser gave him the hair cut

You know, if he fell back from sitting in the chair

He wouldn't have had enough momentum to whack his head this hard

Unless he was...

Standing on it

That could be a bullet hole

Hey, Dave? You might want to

Oh, God

No, No, that didn't happen

- Sorry, brother - Oh, my God!

Hey, friend? Got five bucks for a cup of coffee?

Five bucks?

Venti half-caf latte, couple biscotti

You know, it's a fair price

Oh, sorry, bud

You'll be back Cops are always here

Every night, manager'd be banging on that door Cops are here! Cops are here!

Last manager took off a week ago without notice

The new guy started today so the office is a mess

Here he is

Here you go

What do you got for me?

Harry Steadwell

Checked into room seven last Thursday; paid for one night

There's no record of him checking out

All right, I need to get into the crawl space above room seven

Does every room have an access panel?

Beats me I just got here

Look, uh, you're welcome to check

Thank you

- Thanks - Sure

- Let me know what I can do - Okay

I just spent two hours testifying about decapitation by blown tire

Then I realized something

Happy Birthday, pal

You figure it out yet?

No No, not yet, Haley

You can tell me I'm not scared of that stuff

I can see that

Haley, leave the man alone!

If it were up to her, I'd be locked in my room all day

But I told her, forensics is just science, you know?

It's what you go to school for and

But you don't look like my Chem teacher

Thanks I think

You, uh, do know the crime scene's in the next room?

I always look for the yellow tape

There's something dead up there, Greg

And it's big, heavy and smells awful

One of us has got to go up there and get it

You know what? It's your birthday

I'm keeping that gift card

What?

I think I found your Big Drip

Looks like he, uh, crawled in the same way I did

Always die downstairs

"Dale Durney "

Same address as the motel

I think we just found that missing manager

That is a lot of green

And a little grey

It's got to be insulation

Found the same stuff in the crawl space

In a No-Tell like Park Pines, ceiling's a favorite spot to stash your goodies

Hey, the, uh, prints on the remote were all Dale Durney, the dead manager

FYI, the batteries are dead

And the prints on the money's rubber band

Are Dale Durney and Harry Steadwell

Well, we know Dale pocketed it

Harry probably stashed it

Why would he leave it there for a week?

It wasn't by choice

Harry got arrested

The same day he checked into the motel for violating an ex's restraining order

Got released from this morning

So he goes back to the motel

Yeah, to retrieve his money

And then what? He shoots the man who swiped his cash?

Even though the dude's been dead for?

About a week

Judging by the presence of first and second instar maggots

Decomp appears to have been accelerated by extreme heat

and the lack of airflow in the crawl space

Recovered a bullet from the right iliopsoas muscle

No evidence of hemorrhage in the abdominal cavity

No bleeding in the muscle or intestinal walls

So wound occurred after he was dead

What about COD?

Well, it turns out his fortune can be read from his palms

Silvery wounds I excised samples of flesh for histology

Under magnification the samples showed

Streaming of nuclei consistent with electrical burns

CODis cardiac arrest Electrocution

He was in the crawl space, so maybe he came in contact with exposed wiring

I found the receiver to that remote conol

Can you tell what it's for?

Yeah, it's wired to the access panel above you

I killed the circuit

There's a layer of metal sandwiched in the middle here

It's like my eighth grade science fair project

A homemade electromagnet

Wire wraps around an iron rod

Current runs through it, creating a magnetic field Genius

Guy who lives here said that the manager, Dale

Was beating on room seven's door every night, saying the cops were coming

Don't remember many call outs

Me, either

I think it was a setup

A week ago, Harry Steadwell checks into room seven with $10K, dirty money

Cops in the lot! Cops!

What Harry doesn't know is that

Manager Dale's got a plan to profit off guys like Harry

He turns on his electromagnetic lock

Harry can't get his money Gives up and leaves

So, Dale goes to see what goodies had Harry all fired up

But he can't get the panel open

The batteries in his remote are dead

So he hustles up and over to reap his harvest

Notices the panel's a little off

Thinks it's a casualty of Harry's pounding

The real casualty is the frayed wire inside the panel

And the crawl space is hot

Dale's got sweaty palms, and sweat is a great electrolyte

A week later, Harry gets sprung from the clink, comes back to get his money

But why did he shoot the dead guy?

I don't think he knew Dale was up there, man

The panel was still magnetized

Maybe he was ung his gun to bang it open

It got magnetized, and shot by accident

Mr Jones

Got a few numbers of the crime scene cleanup people

Decomp can be a little bit harder to get out of the carpet than you think

Thanks

Boy, she makes friends fast

Nah, Bree and her have been friends for a while

She didn't have to switch schools when we moved

- Well, that's good Take care now - Yeah

- Hey, thanks for those numbers - Yeah, you got it, man

Hey, buddy- you still want that cup of coffee?

Hell, yeah

There you go Happy Birthday

It's not my birthday Thanks, man

240 Days Ago

I don't Know what they did to me

They?

That whole family- they're weird Like obsessed

Aren't you friends with Haley?

Was I... I guess

But then she and her mom started giving me the creeps

Mrs Jones would just stare at me

And when Haley showed up in home room in home room with her hair

Exactly like me a few weeks ago that was it, I was done