CSI: Miami

Welcome to Amy's divorce party.

Love is patient. Love is kind. It does not envy.

It does not boast, it is not proud.

Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices in the truth.

Unless, of course, you're talking about Roger Lansing.

We are gathered here today in the presence of friends and family to celebrate my best friend, Amy,

and the beginning of her new life.

A life without him.

- You ready? - Hell, yes.

Please be seated.

Amy...

do you promise to honor yourself and your independence...

to live life to the fullest without sorrow or hardship...

to live life... to love life... without him?

I do.

Then, it is with the utmost joy and...

these signed divorce papers that I symbolically,

spiritually and gally remove you from the bonds of this marriage.

Ladies and... single gentlemen...

I present to you the newly-divorced Amy Lansing.

Thank you.

All right. You ready?

I caught it! I caught it!

Oh, my God! Roger?

It's Roger!

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God.

No one's cut him down yet?

Wouldn't have made a difference.

The first and second cervical vertebrae are transected, as is the spinal chord.

Death was instantaneous.

The rope's tied with a double-knotted half hitch, positioned under the left ear.

Which means it would have been tied by somebody who's right-handed.

He wears his watch on the right hand. He's a lefty-- he didn't tie the noose.

***How did someone get him up there in the first place?

I don't know. We're going to have to get up there ourselves and take a look.

You guys make this much of a fuss over every suicide, or just the public ones?

Who are you?

Uh, Glenn Wagner. Amy's best friend. I threw the party.

Well, Mr. Wagner, may I ask you a few questions?

Walk with me, if you don't mind.

You are here just in time to explain to me how it's possible

that a trapdoor could be in the top of that gazebo.

I don't know.

Um, the construction crew was, uh, building it yesterday.

They were using it to get on the roof, so maybe that was it.

And idea how Roger Lanng got up there?

No... I was here all day setting up.

Didn't see anything.

Don't know how he did it, but I know why.

He just wanted to hurt Amy, ruin her big day.

Tara!

Oh, my gosh!

Oh, babe, come this way. We need an EMT! Here.

Have a seat. Are you okay?

Yeah, I think I'm okay-- it just hurts like hell.

Let me see.

There goes my DB.

And our crime scene.

Miami 7x17 "Divorce Party"

You must think I'm pretty...

callous, celebrating my divorce like this.

Unless you were celebrating your husband's death.

******This party was for me.

You know, just leave it to Roger to try to take that away from me.

Mrs. Lansing, your husband was murdered.

Well, that doesn't make any sense.

Maybe not now, but it will.

How's Tara?

Oh, she, uh...she aggravated an old shoulder injury,

but she's just happy she's not getting stitches.

What did you get?

I found about 20 feet of fishing line attached to the release mechanism on the trapdoor,

so it was definitely rigged for our victim.

Do you think that it was also rigged to come down?

I doubt it.

I think it just probably wasn't designed to hold the weight of a hanging body.

Whoever it was that pulled the release mechanism would have had to have been close...

as in 20 feet close.

Well, I think we can recreate the crime scene using photos taken by the witnesses.

I confiscated almost all the cameras.

- Great. - I'll get it to the lab.

Mom, come on! You have to be up for this.

Kyle, I'm fine. Just drive.

- Look, at least drink the coffee I bought you. - I don't need it.

Look, you're never going to make it through an interview like this.

Just get me there. Drive faster.

Gosh darn it.

I told him to be more careful.

He was supposed to wake me up this morning for my job interview, and he overslept.

Julia, it is not his responsibility to get you there.

Oh, so now I get a lecture from you on parenting?

- Hang on a second. - I'm doing my best.

No. What I am saying is, what happened this morning endangered more than one life.

What do you want from me?

I want you to be more careful with him.

I'm a good mother. I'll take care of him.

I'm gog to help you, okay?

Dad, what are we doing here?

Your driving could have gotten somebody killed this morning, Kyle.

I know.

I'm not sure you do.

Actions have consequences, son.

Here name is Stephanie Vasquez. She was killed in a car accident this morning.

- I get it, Dad. I really do. - Do you?

Well, this is your chance to prove it. Dr. Price.

Hello. You must be my new intern.

Dad, what is she talking about?

You work here now, son. And she's your boss. See you at lunch.

Thank you, Doctor.

Mr. Wagner, we recovered your DNA.

This is so much more intimidating than I thought it would be.

Not you.

It was on the fishing line you pulled to trigger that trap door.

Which was rigged to hang Roger Lansing.

You ready?

I caught it! I caught it!

I rigged the door, but it was to hang Roger in effigy, not reality.

Good likeness, too.

I had no idea it would be the real... dummy.

You were gonna hang a replica of the victim?

It was supposed to be the piece de resistance for the party.

A surprise for Amy.

Why didn't you mention this before?

Because, as you so astutely pointed out, I rigged the thing.

Unfortunately, we haven't found any lost effigies running around town,

so you're looking pretty good for this.

Obviously, the killer took it.

Look, I didn't like Roger for the way he treated Amy, but I didn't kill him.

You know, I think you're in love with Amy.

This whole gay thing's not working for me.

Believe me, honey, I'm not that good an actor.

No, but you may be that good a killer.

Just so you know...

when you get sick, remember, it happens to everyonetheir first time.

I'll be fine.

That's exactly what I said.

What are you gonna do with that?

This goes up to Trace and DNA for testing.

So, what, this guy hanged himself?

The rule around here is that we never take anything at face value.

For instance, you see that body over there?

- Stephanie Vasquez? The car crash? - Yeah.

Her test results indite she overdosed on Oxycodone,

lost consciousness, and died at the wheel.

We never would have known that had we assumed she died because of the crash.

So, what? I mean, is there something weird like that about this guy?

Well, we're going to find out. Give me a hand?

He's dead. He won't mind if you just grab it and turn his head.

Other side.

Good job.

If there are any volatiles in the blood, the heat will cause them to be vaporized into gas form

and... rise...

into the headspace of the vial.

The G.C.will break up the compounds of the sample,

and the flame ionization detector ionizes the molecules, creating a current for analysis.

Confirmation.

Roger Lansing's hanging was definitely not his idea.

He was chloroformed.

There's nothing on his shoes that indicates he was dragged to the scene.

- So he went there willingly. - Yeah.

And he was drugged and prepared for his execution.

Which leaves only one thing.

Who was his executioner?

Hey, man.

I was able to stitch together a virtual view based on all the photos from before and after the hanging.

God, Dave, what has taken you so long? What's the matter?

Is the learning curve too steep for you?

I don't want to give you a complex. I learned the whole thing in, like, one day.

- Nice. Picking on the new guy. - That's right.

Do you know how long it takes to render a 3-D image like this?

Oh, God, do I. Thank God you're here.

We can move around the environment, like so.

Sorry for the synthy view, but the image details are gonna change somewhat

- depending on the photos we pull up to fill in the blanks. - Okay.

Can you show us the ceiling of the canopy?

You just pointed out our one limitation, my man.

If it wasn't photographed, it doesn't exist here.

Besides, I thought Glenn Wagner already admitted to this.

Well, he didn't know that Roger Lansing was up there, but, uh...

- somebody did. - So we're looking for someone suspicious?

Yeah.

What about somebody that looks out of place?

You see this kid over here in the corner in the background? Near the canopy?

I can't really make out his face. Can you get any closer?

No, but it looks like he's moving away from the canopy, so maybe I can trace his steps.

Can we push through the crowd?

If the information's there.

He's not out of place. That's Heath Lansing.

That's the Lansings' son.

He was at his mom's divorce party?

Now, that could mess a kid up.

I don't know.

I wasn't even at that stupid party. I was working.

Where do you work?

Around the neighborhood. I clean pools.

I was at the Slausons' house, but they weren't home.

So that probably would make it pretty easy for you to sak around other people's backyards

and get back to your own.

I wanted to see it for myself.