CSI: Vegas (2021) s02e01 Episode Script

1
I love my job.
I love it.
But you do it long enough,
you know, you go under that
yellow tape enough times,
you find a bunch of bad answers
to the big questions.
What do people die for?
Drugs, sex, revenge, a dollar.
You know?
And after a while, I ask myself
what is worth dying for?
You know?
Would I die for the truth?
Would I die to find justice
for someone I didn't even know?
Would I put my life on the line
to make this world a safer place?
How about for love?
I know this:
I'd put my life on the line
for my people.
The people who do this job,
I love them.
They are a light
in the darkness.
They answer the call.
Well, hon, I got to go.
They put their own lives on hold.
Sorry, Serena, it's work.
And they risk it all.
They face down the demons,
wrestle those big questions.
Come back the next day
and do it all over again.
But then, you know that. Hmm?
'Cause you're one of the best
to ever do it.
One of the best?
I'm not just buttering you up.
I'm asking you, Catherine.
Why do you want to come back to CSI?
I still remember the toast
you gave at my retirement,
asking me to submit to a DNA test.
You had a point, Max.
The job is in my blood.
Guess it always will be.
Hey, Gil mentioned that
you were shorthanded.
Didn't help that he stole his wife away
and that one of my best is out
in L.A. training with the FBI.
- Put me in, Coach.
- How much playing time do you want?
I mean, 'cause I got
to figure the casino business
- keeps you pretty busy, right?
- It used to.
I stepped away from
the day-to-day ops last year.
More recently
I got kicked off the board.
Of the Eclipse?
- Mm-hmm.
- Don't you own a piece of that?
- Yeah.
- I'm sorry.
What happened?
Well, what can I tell you?
I've never gotten along
very well with criminals.
I'm just not cut out for retirement.
Not yet.
You know, I kind of feel like there's
something you're not telling me.
You're very sharp, Max.
I think we're going
to enjoy working together.
The more things change, huh?
Ms. Willows.
Josh Folsom. We've met before.
It-it was my first day,
it might've been
It might've been your last.
You can call me Catherine.
- What's her name?
- Lynn Zobrist.
Housekeeper found her.
And liver temp says she's
been dead about 36 hours.
Ms. Zobrist does not look
like she was an amateur.
No. Killer
was professional grade, too.
No prints on the murder weapon.
Detective Chavez.
That is not your good news face.
Neighborhood canvass was a bust.
There's no cameras here, either.
Folks next door didn't even
know she had her
a little dungeon in her garage.
Looks like one of her clients
was a very bad boy.
World's oldest occupational hazard.
What's with the music?
Can't turn it off. Killer
covered the speakers
and the switch, left
this playing on a loop
in the room where it went down.
Is the dungeon back this way?
Used to be.
Before he dragged her
and all the furniture out.
Did he leave anything in there
for us beside the soundtrack?
Oh, yeah. He redecorated.
He covered the place with
Well, you'll see.
Ooh, whoa ♪
Ooh, whoa ♪
Ooh, whoa ♪
Ooh, whoa ♪
Once I had a love ♪
And it was a gas ♪
Soon turned out ♪
Had a heart of glass. ♪
This guy and his mirrors.
A jagged hunk of glass.
Wouldn't be my first choice if
I was going to stab somebody.
If he was smart, he wore thick gloves.
Have to doubt this blood
from the edge was his.
It's probably from her defensive wounds.
She was tough.
Looks like she held him off for a while.
He must not have had
the element of surprise.
And this.
This had to come later.
Guess he didn't want her
to see him anymore.
She saw plenty.
So these are just to help us see
if the killer left any fingerprints
when he cleaned all those
mirrors he put up, okay, Gina?
Gina.
Sorry.
This is
hard. Lynn was like
- She was like
- Como familia.
Como familia? No.
No, no, I just clean for her.
But I could see.
She was like, always
so sad, it seemed like.
About what?
She had a hard life, I think.
I worried for her.
No family, no friends.
I think her men were the only
people who ever came over.
Did she have anybody to help her
with security, background checks?
No Se.
We-we didn't talk.
Just one time, last year.
when I made her come to Thanksgiving
with me and my family.
I don't know if she liked it, but
It's okay.
After that dinner, she sponsored me.
To get naturalized.
See, Lynn did care.
There was more to her than
Did you ever talk to any of her clients?
No.
But I know what they paid for her to do.
You think one of them
Couldn't take what she was dishing out?
Maybe.
I hope you find them.
And give them a real punishment.
Hey, Beau, he leave any prints?
None that we can reach.
Can't get in there. I mean,
my wife's got me trying keto,
but I don't think I'm ready
to moonwalk across
a mirrored floor like this.
Catherine Willows.
I don't believe we've met.
Uh, I'm Beau Finado.
You can call me Beau.
Or Finado.
Or Beau Finado.
Because that's your name?
Mm-hmm.
What happened to the music?
Oh, I found the power box.
Cut the power in here. I just
I didn't want to fry myself.
He sure made it sparkle.
212 mirrors.
Took out the frames, cut 'em to size.
Had to take some time. It's risky.
What's it all supposed to mean?
You try to make perfect sense
out of something insane,
you might go crazy, too.
Let's hope he didn't
clean up underneath.
Yeah, we'll know soon.
I figured out how
to get rid of the mirrors
without breaking them,
without ripping the evidence up.
Just You got to overheat the glue
that he used to set them in.
Hold up, aren't you worried about
- Cooking the blood?
- Yeah.
Fear not. I set the temperature to 593
degrees Fahrenheit. Blood
proteins they can hold
up to 600 degrees, right?
But most industrial adhesives
experience molecular breakdown
just north of 590 degrees.
You get this great little window
you can operate in.
Beau's a clever one. He ran R and D
for a few of different
Fortune 500 chemical companies.
What, are you allergic to money?
- What happened?
- The pandemic happened.
After the lockdown, I just
I didn't want to go back
to some lab making
sticky stuff stickier or
smooth things
- Less sticky?
- Yeah. I think
I made this less sticky.
Now, this is beautiful.
You get all these up,
we might be looking
at an intact crime scene.
Two entire racks of DNA samples
from one scene?
From part of one scene, Chris.
They're not even halfway done out there.
Think this new guy might
be a tad overzealous?
Beau's extremely overzealous.
But Max wants every square inch charted.
Killer was nice enough to
spare the bleach, he just
- covered his mess.
- Well,
no better place
to find a big mess of DNA
than a sex dungeon.
I'd assume.
You find the spot where she was killed?
Not yet. Beau's gonna
follow the blood trail to the source.
I heard a rumor
that Catherine Willows is back.
She might be coming on as a consultant.
- Yeah.
- Whoa.
That's wild.
Were you surprised when Michael
Jordan stopped playing baseball
- and came back to the Bulls?
- No.
But then again, I was two years old.
I wonder
if she talked to, uh, Sara and Grissom.
Got the scoop on the new folks.
They're on a boat above
the Arctic Circle so, yeah,
she probably dialed 'em up
on a sat phone, asked
all about you, Chris.
This new girlfriend of yours
does she think you're funny?
Hey, Penny. I can always come back
if this is a private moment.
Oh, no. I just fell down a rabbit hole
looking at Lynn's follows on Instagram.
I was looking through her phone.
I did find some interesting suspects.
You find out who she was
entertaining the day she died?
No, that I don't know.
Lynn wasn't much of a bookkeeper.
But the day before she died she did talk
to a wuss, a yapper, a dink and a pud.
Not a lot of terms of endearment
in Lynn's contacts.
The milk of human kindness was
not what these guys were after.
You know, about BDSM
- Hmm?
- I'm a little embarrassed to admit,
but it's never appealed to me.
I love your generation.
So this is what embarrasses you?
Sometimes people, like,
spend a lot of energy
holding it all together,
So they need someone else
to take control.
No, I mean, I get it in theory.
I don't know, maybe when
I'm a boss, I'll be into it.
- Okay.
- Not that all bosses are into it.
- I mean
- Okay, we're gonna leave it right there.
But I guarantee you most of these guys
are heartsick right now.
I mean, the work she did
some people needed it that way.
- One of them ruined it for the rest of them.
- Call them all.
We're gonna need DNA
and elimination prints on all of them.
Whoever refuses goes
to the top of my list.
I want this guy.
- Having fun?
- What?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, I'm just trying to figure
out who went where and
Any of her guests that
left a trace of themselves
near her blood trail
is worth an extra look.
Yeah, looks like you're gonna be busy.
Yeah, lot of overlapping evidence.
We found skin oils,
blood, some semen from
various clients.
And Beau's still prying
all the mirrors down,
so I figured I'd start
with the furniture
that got dragged out into the hall.
I can tell where some of it went
from the indentations in the carpet.
It's just so much to keep track of.
Lots of iterations, explanations.
Hey, have you ever
thought about molecular mapmaking?
I mean, I've heard of it.
It's pretty new.
I I know a couple people who are
getting up to speed, but do you
No, I'm not trained in MMM, I
read journals, try to stay current.
I also mentor these young women,
students at West Las Vegas University.
They all are interested in careers
in forensic science.
Is that what brought you back?
Just, uh, sharpening the skills?
Uh
I've-I've got to go.
Um, but if I were you,
I'd phone a friend
about MMM. Rolling
around on a bed is fun,
but it can only get you so far.
Running and running ♪
The mountains, the raindrops ♪
I follow, I follow
the way alone together ♪
The oceans are talking,
the thunder, the calling ♪
The sweat keeps on pouring on down ♪
And I wanna be honest, I want ya ♪
Even though I know
you're bad for me ♪
Grace.
Grace!
Max. Everything all right?
I've had better days.
How many years since
you've worked a double, huh?
What's wrong?
We got most of the mirrors down.
Just as we were getting
someplace thank you
we find a little surprise.
He cleaned it up.
Nope. Signs of another attack.
There was a second victim?
No, it's all Lynn's.
I mean, but there's no way
she lost this much blood.
- What-what are you saying?
- I'm saying
that we have no idea
what the hell happened.
It's like she was murdered twice.
Careful, man. That's bad luck.
Don't worry about it.
We got plenty of that already.
Allie.
Hey, give it to me.
Chris!
It's it's you.
Yeah, thanks. You look good, too.
Sure you, uh, packed
enough for a whole weekend?
Hey, um, I thought
I was being picked up by
Folsom's at the scene, come on.
You can check in later.
Come on.
Hey.
Al, hey.
- You're here.
- Well,
- you said you needed me.
- Yeah.
Got a real mess here.
One Vic. Double the blood.
It's all from Lynn Zobrist.
And we-we can't tell what's what.
Hmm.
Hey, appreciate you coming out
and lending your new MMM
skills for a few days.
It's-it's not just a few days.
I'm not going back.
I thought your training went
- through the end of the year.
- Well, that's when
I can test for level three.
I'm just gonna finish up online.
L.A. is, um
it's too far away.
Oh, wow.
Is this Allie?
Sure is.
- Hi, I'm Serena Chavez.
- Hey.
This one's told me a lot about you.
Ni-Nice to meet you.
Um I'm sure I'll hear a lot
- about you, too.
- Chavez got, uh, detailed
to work with us because
of some captain she pissed off.
She, uh, hates Greek yogurt
and she gave Folsom
a kazoo for his birthday.
It's a big mystery.
It's not a mystery.
I just think kazoos are fun.
Oh, I didn't mean to interrupt
your mini map thing.
Uh, molecular cartography.
Allie picked up
some new tricks
training with the FBI.
She'll help us determine where everyone
who entered this room
stood, bled or secreted.
Well,
uh
have fun.
Yeah.
Let's have some fun.
Hey.
Look who went and got all fancy.
It's good to have you back.
What do you got?
Now, what I like about this program is
it uses lasers to make
a 3D map of the crime scene
and separates all DNA evidence
into distinct layers.
Each suspect gets their own color.
Commonalities among skin oils,
DNA sequences,
bacterial signatures.
You can keep them all straight.
So you can see who went where.
That's that's really cool.
In theory, but it still looks
like a train station,
'cause Lynn was a popular girl, right?
Plenty of Mr. Green on this part
of the path where her body was dragged.
Mr. Purple and Mr. Blue make
appearances along the way, too.
Yeah, but nobody can really
compete with all this pink.
Well, that's Lynn herself.
Makes sense she's been everywhere.
You kind of have to take her
away to see what's what.
Actually
we need to make sense of hers first.
Because not all of Lynn's blood
that we see here
came from the attack that killed her.
I mean, there's too much of it.
She was stabbed in the jugular.
Yeah, but she had
four quarts left in her.
All this surface area
in this weird shape.
Yeah, some of it was already there.
It makes our job a lot harder.
So you think she fell in the middle
- of a giant blood stain?
- Yeah.
Look at the variability.
The difference in the blood stain color.
I mean, that has to be
because they were spilled
at different times.
Makes for a lot of uncharted
territory on your map.
Until we know
where the attack ended,
where he started dragging her,
hard to say who was closest
to the action.
I realize that her visitors
expected some rough stuff,
but wouldn't you be
a bit weirded out by a carpet
that looks like a slaughterhouse?
Oh, wait, look at these.
I've been trying to figure out
- where the furniture used to be.
- Mm-hmm.
And this old stain
was covered with this, uh,
torture table thing.
Until the first attack.
- So she fell somewhere in there.
- Her hair
was soaked in blood, meaning
she was dragged by her feet.
If we knew where she lay
We could isolate his whole path.
You two keep working
on your pretty pictures.
And I'm gonna find out
when this ugly stuff
happened in Lynn's past.
When I showed your buddy Grissom
this baby, he almost smiled.
Raman spectroscopy's come a long way.
Yeah. This thing didn't even exist
- when some of this blood was spilled.
- When was that?
The intensity of the scattered
light coming off these samples
says it was about five years ago.
Looks like about, uh,
a third of the blood that was stained
on Lynn's floor is that old.
LVPD had nothing on her back then.
Never been called to her address.
Could have been an accident.
Self-inflicted wound.
Or another violent guest.
She might've been afraid
to blow the whistle on her business.
Maybe her clients could tell us.
Penny's lining up interviews
with all the fellas
who left DNA near the blood stains.
But there's one woman in
particular we're gonna talk to.
- A female client?
- Not a client.
A female psychiatrist.
She was in Lynn's phone.
So, you work with a lot of kids
in your practice?
She had me in her phone as Yapper?
Guess we did do
a lot of talking, sh
Lynn was my patient
off and on since she was
gosh, ten?
Since doctor-patient no longer applies,
I'm hoping you can tell me
what you guys talked about
the day she died.
Any
threats, fears,
problems with men.
Nah, she just wanted to restart therapy.
We didn't get into why.
But Lynn had
experienced a lot of abuse as a child,
and she struggled
with violent ideation.
You know she went past ideas, right?
She was whipping dudes
with a belt on the reg.
I did worry that BDSM
was the wrong career.
Temptations.
But she did say that
it was like a-a release valve.
One reason I'm here.
We want to know about something
that happened five years ago.
Lynn was hurt on the job.
She lost a lot of blood.
- You know what happened there?
- Oh, no.
You're confused.
Those-those scars are old.
That's from ECT.
Electroconvulsive therapy.
Like electroshock?
I didn't think that was done anymore.
It's not. ECT is more mild.
But Lynn had a
previous physician
named Dr. Sarkisian.
You-you can really burn someone
with those electrodes,
you know, if you're not careful.
So, she was getting abused at home
and then she got zapped by her doctor.
No surprise she had
an attachment disorder.
And major trust issues.
Which is why I couldn't persuade her
to go to the cops five years ago.
- So you know who hurt her?
- Yeah, Miguel Sanchez.
But he's not the guy you're looking for.
I think I'll be the judge of that.
Well, he died.
Cancer.
The only time I ever saw Lynn smile
was when she showed me his obit.
Can I ask you one question?
The killer
what did he do to her?
Certain details we can't share.
Yeah, yeah.
I am curious, though.
Did, uh, did mirrors have
any special meaning to Lynn?
The scene was covered in them.
I don't recall there being
any special iconography
having to do with mirrors
in our work together.
Really?
'Cause you look like
- something's bothering you.
- It is.
A killer
who decorated the scene
of the crime that way.
I bet he kills again.
Ah
You know, Lynn would
laugh at both of you.
I mean, I wasn't even
allowed to touch her.
It was against the rules.
You know that murder is, too, so
Somebody broke some rules.
I never would.
Mistress was
I loved her.
I need to see your hands. Arms, too.
I'm a very clean boy.
But I do have a confession to make.
Go ahead.
This is so hot.
This room you two
the whole dynamic.
All right, let's just
keep our hands on the table.
Yes, ma'am.
Where did you get that?
Building a tree house with my son.
Sure it wasn't from
the edge of a mirror?
I was at home with my family
when you say this happened.
You keep checking yourself
out in our mirror.
You do know there's a camera behind it,
recording everything that goes on here.
Feels weird knowing that.
Maybe good weird.
This isn't a fantasy, Mr. Vizquel.
Sorry. It's just
You're probing me,
asking to see my body.
To see if Ms. Zobrist injured you
when she was fighting for her life.
Someone left their DNA
near Ms. Zobrist's blood trail.
And the sample we got from you
is to determine if it's yours.
Would that be surprising?
I'm-I'm really not
trying to be difficult.
As I said, Z she hosted
me there, several times.
You kept coming back for more.
Did it get to be too much?
No.
No, Lynn made me feel like I was normal.
I'm not sure there's
any such thing as normal
or that I'm it, but
it's what I need to believe.
We all need that.
Right?
Nobody's here to judge, Mr. Herskovitz.
Our job is to get justice
for that woman.
It doesn't matter to me
what she did with her friends.
What matters to me is what he did.
We're gonna find him.
If you do, I'll be grateful.
Clean arms, no one resisted sampling.
Assuming all their alibis check out.
We're gonna need some more suspects.
Yep.
Okay, if it was up to me,
I would put the old rack right there.
Nobody puts baby in the corner.
He's got to be out on display.
How about
- here?
- Okay, since
neither of us can figure out
where the furniture went
in Lynn's sex dungeon,
I don't think either of us would
ever make it as a dominatrix.
Then again, you're full of surprises.
What?
Detective Chavez.
How long has that been? When did you
Uh, about two months.
T Josh, we've talked
a dozen times since then.
Yeah, I should've mentioned it, just
Me and Serena, it's
it was-it was casual and then
What, it's more now, is it?
- Hey.
- Hey.
Do you have any more kinky
gentlemen we can talk to?
We just went oh-fer with
our domme's last three bookings.
- Ms. Willows. I'm Allie Rajan.
- Yes.
- Hello.
- Some women with the Bureau in L.A.
have some very nice things
to say about you.
Oh, well, they have to.
I hired them all.
You must be the friend
he was gonna call.
- I see you got a molecular map here.
- Most of one.
Once Max parsed which blood
was new and which was pre-existent,
made it clear where Ms. Zobrist
fell and bled this time.
Gives us the full blood trail,
but we're still staring
at a dozen guys square dancing
around this dungeon.
The last thing to do is
place all the furniture.
Kind of like kind of like Tetris,
if you want to try your hand.
Mm, not much into interior design.
Blood evidence is where I'm at.
It always tells a story.
This one's got a strange twist.
The blood trail.
A crescent shape is
that really so strange?
Ever drag a body? It's not fun.
I mean, there's no reason
he would haul her all the way over here
if he was always headed out the door.
Unless he was steering around something.
What was sitting there?
Did anything in that pile of furniture
fit these indentations?
Not exactly, but some of her
apparatus I-I thought
maybe she moved it around.
You know, different dents
made different days.
I don't think that's it.
I mean, this man took
special care dressing his scene.
There's a lot that he wanted us to see.
But whatever was sitting there,
I bet it's missing because it would have
shown us exactly who he is.
It's hard to know what belongs
in a dominatrix's backyard.
This is my first time.
Hey, Folsom.
Yeah?
That's not all firewood.
No, it's furniture, or it was.
I don't know, some kind of antique.
Sawhorse, a pommel, maybe?
It's chopped up and burned to hell.
Fits. Filigree on the feet
has that dungeon vibe.
Wonder what this thing
ever did to our killer.
Lord knows, but he sure
was worried we'd find it.
If she nicked him and
he bumped against it,
maybe there'd be trace, DNA.
We've measured everything in that house.
There's nothing in there that
left those marks on the carpet.
Have you considered
the possibility that maybe
Dude. They found it.
Yeah, well, whatever it was
- it's of no use now.
- Oh, I don't know.
I bet Beau can make something with that.
Does Beau have a time machine?
Kind of.
Probably not the first time
a thin layer of latex
has come in handy with
this pommel horse, huh?
Is that what you think this is?
Well, pretty sure, yeah.
You know, for the
Grace?
Hey.
We lose you?
I'm back.
That looks like blood, doesn't it?
We can try PCR,
hope for DNA. But I'm gonna doubt it.
Fire probably got too hot.
What is that?
Well, it appears to be
dark goo.
I'm good, but I'm not
a mass spectrometer, all right?
- That's all right, Beau.
- Yep.
We got one of those.
Ooh, you got a little
cornucopia of fun stuff.
Polycyclic aromatic
hydrocarbons, phenols,
heterocyclic oxygen, sulfur
and nitrogen compounds.
- That sounds like tar.
- Basically.
Do you think it was just in the fire pit
when he burned the wood?
No, I doubt it.
I mean, my degree isn't in
forensics material analysis,
so I don't know all applications,
but I know that
we loved coal tar when
I worked at Big Pharma.
It's in some creams, right?
- Mm, eczema, psoriasis salves, mostly.
- But it
wouldn't have been Lynn's,
'cause she had great skin.
Maybe the killer really did
brush up against that pommel.
Wait a minute.
One of the suspects
he was scratching.
I thought he was agitated.
Is that enough to get a warrant?
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,
buddy, buddy, buddy.
Back, back, back. Back, back, back.
Come on, give me something.
Mr. Herskovitz?
Alan.
Herskovitz.
Where's your tenant, Mr. Li?
Kitchen's clear.
Wow. Oof.
Tempted to go back to the car
for a respirator.
Yeah, you never know
when you're gonna need
a year's supply of dog food.
Well
guy's got one weird pen pal.
Careful there.
What do we got here?
Missing piece look familiar?
We know who this is, but who's that?
I think we had this guy all wrong.
He's not some crazy john
who got mad at his dominatrix.
Look at these surveillance photos.
He's hunting people.
We've got to find this guy now.
And it was divine ♪
Soon found out I was losing my mind ♪
It seemed like the real thing,
but I was so blind ♪
Mucho mistrust, love's gone behind. ♪
predator in the insect world.
An attack takes only
a fraction of a second.
The what?
- I-I didn't do nothing!
- Mr. Moore, we just want to talk.
What
Good evening, sir,
I'm Detective Chavez with LVPD.
Wait, wh-what what'd I do?
Nothing. We just wanted
to make sure you were all right.
Mr. Moore, is there anyone else
in this home with you right now?
What?
Does anyone else live here?
Stay here. Stay with him.
All responding officers,
be advised. Suspect's fleeing
on foot. Officer in pursuit.
Stop! Stop!
Shots fired.
I need backup in the alley.
Suspect is armed.
Mr. Moore, I promise you we're trying
No, no, you can't promise
me anything. You guys
have been looking
at this dude for a murder,
and you let him go?
Now he's taking pictures of me.
He's breaking in my house?
We have a warrant now. There's an APB.
Everyone's looking for him.
I don't even know this dude.
What Hershlitz?
Alan Herskovitz.
You're sure? How about Lynn Zobrist?
She's a domme. A dominatrix.
Maybe you knew her
as Z, or-or Mistress?
Yo, what are you even talking about?
Sir, can I ask?
You have these little marks
by your temple.
Uh
yeah, yeah, so what?
Well, this man, his victim
she had them, too.
I was told they were from ECT.
It's like psychological therapy.
Nah, for me it was like
some kind of torture.
- When was this?
- When I was a kid. Sarkisian.
Yeah, that dude, you should've
been busting down his door.
- What happened?
- The hell is it to you?
Lamont, look, we're-we're
trying to help you out.
Trying to figure what's going on.
I
I, uh
spent some time in a facility.
After some stuff went down
in foster care.
Dr. Sarkisian would
take me into this room.
Hook me up.
Just talk and talk.
And I was supposed to look
in these mirrors.
And "see the disease,
don't be the disease". But I just
There were mirrors there?
Man, there were mirrors everywhere
in that room.
Sorry, I-I just need a minute.
Hey!
Detective.
Are you sure that he dropped this?
Yeah, 100%. I-I thought
it was from a victim.
Like, a message.
Well, I hope not, but there
might be a message in it.
- Check that out.
- Oh
- Yep.
- What do we got?
Something's rotten there.
You didn't go home either.
Mm-mmm. My aunt always worked late.
Is this where the geneticist
tells me that it's all in the blood?
No. This is where the geneticist
tells you her aunt
was a prostitute.
Auntie Shel.
I love that woman.
- Is that why this case is
- No, no, no, no, no.
Lynn Zobrist was different.
It's hard to be different.
To need different things than
the world wants to give you.
Hard to stay safe
- when you're different.
- Hmm.
Well, I don't know
if the world wanted us
to have this, but Lamont Moore did.
I guess both him
and Zobrist spent time
at MK Ultra Junior High.
What do you think
Herskovitz had against them?
There we go. Clostridium perfringens.
- What, he's walking around with an infected wound?
- Yep.
Courtesy of Lynn Zobrist.
See, we knew she tried to fight him off.
We knew he bumped into that pommel.
We just didn't know what kind of pain
he's in when we met him.
Wet gangrene can cause sepsis.
I mean, it can be fatal.
And it stinks like hell.
That man needs a doctor.
Come on. We're gonna call
every hospital in Clark County.
St. Christine's Hospital.
How can I direct your call?
We're searching
for a white male, possible
Desert Palm Hospital.
Did anybody come in with
symptoms of abdominal pain?
Got him. Herskovitz
is at Desert Palm Hospital.
Damn it.
I need a two-block perimeter
around the hospital.
Get back.
Get back.
Come on, Alan, put it down.
- She's not in this.
- You have no idea what this is.
I put it right in your face
and you still don't see it.
Alan, whatever you had planned,
it's done.
So, you had electroconvulsive
therapy, didn't you?
That's where you met 'em.
Lynn. Lamont.
But she's not one of them.
- Oh, my God!
- Shh! Shh, shh.
Alan.
We don't want to hurt you.
We know what happened to you.
No you don't. You have no idea.
Let her go and tell us.
Can you look at yourself in the mirror?
Everyone thinks they know you
when you're a kid.
Well, what is a child?
Only a problem.
Only a problem waiting
to be hammered into shape.
But what do you do
with all the round pegs?
Lamont told us about Dr. Sarkisian.
And his room.
And those mirrors.
I hated that room then,
but I love what I found there.
See, you have to be willing to look.
You have to want to see it.
You're holding on to an innocent woman.
And that is not your purpose.
It's over, Alan.
On the ground.
On the ground!
It's not over.
Yes, it is. You're cooked.
Maybe I am.
Not the voice.
The voice will never stop.
What voice?
It spoke to me. It chose me.
You think I wanted this?
I had no choice.
Lynn Zobrist, Lamont Moore.
I knew those names.
More round pegs.
The ones who couldn't be fixed.
You think that's an accident?
If there's a voice,
there's no such thing as an accident.
It is all by design.
There's nothing you can do.
It's all by design. There's
nothing you can do.
You know, they say
that you ought to learn
something new every day.
And I always do in this job.
Sometimes it's good stuff.
I come away hopeful.
Sometimes, though,
you stare into the void,
and all you learn
is the toll it takes on a body,
on a soul.
I mean, we're keeping
the most dangerous,
depraved people off the streets.
But then, you know that.
See, something's not right.
- Something brought you back.
- Well, I told you,
I got kicked off the
board of the Eclipse.
That's why you're not there.
I asked why you're here.
Grace Huang.
She's
When I met Grace,
it was like looking in a mirror.
Seeing my younger self.
Grace was a dancer like I was.
She started taking classes at WLVU,
which is how we met.
You get to know these young women,
and you can't help
but get involved and
Yeah, Grace, she's just so passionate
about becoming a CSI.
But she's new to Vegas.
No money, so I got her a job
at the Eclipse.
Cocktail waitressing. Decent hours.
And her grades took off.
Max,
you would love this girl.
Grace has been missing for three weeks.
- I am so sorry.
- There's no investigation.
That is why I'm here.
What do you mean?
Max, I asked a lot of people
where Grace was.
Nobody knew.
Nobody nobody at the Eclipse
even seemed to care.
With no warning, the board calls a vote,
and I get kicked off.
Why?
I don't know. That's the truth.
I really have no idea
what they're covering up.