In story 1, a swimmer finds a box on a beach with a DB inside. It hasn't been in the water for long. Mac: "It's not a box, it's a coffin." Cold water leads to minimum bloating, he was probably in the water for 48 hours, surmises Hawkes (Hill Harper). Mac (Gary Sinise) must straighten out the body back at autopsy. Stella (Melina Kanakaredes) finds salt water residue on the box. The lid has some fibre with roots, but the hair isn't human.
Story 2, blood from the apartment went through the ceiling. Paige Worthy (Sarah Lafleur) wasn't seen for a week. Danny (Carmine Giovinazzo) "That doesn't mean anything, I've lived in my apartment 3 years and none of my neighbours recognize me." Maybe they have a reason for keeping to themselves, ha. Flack (Eddie Cahill) "You better hope you don't go missing." There aren't any signs of a struggle and Danny believes the DB was carried out in a shower curtain. Danny: "You've gotta get out of here without leaving a trail of evidence and that trail starts right here."
Hawkes finds skin under the nails, bruises on the male DB. He finds it difficult to ID a COD. There are no broken bones inside his body and he determines COD is asphyxiation, but he wasn't strangled. He was alive when inside the box and was grabbed by large hands, thus the bruises on his arms.
Danny finds multiple prints on the door knob and an unknown powdery substance on the floor. Gravitational blood drops leading to the rubbish chute and blood on the handle. The DB found in the shower curtain doesn't match Paige's photo. Hawkes says she was married also there are defensive wounds on her hands and the COD was exsanguination. She was stabbed by a small blade, severing her femoral artery and she bled to death. Danny thinks she could have been a battered wife.
Mac doesn't believe the man was double jointed but had very loose tendons and ligaments, he could be an escape artist. Aiden (Vanessa Ferlito) matches the hair Stella found to an elephant. Neiman (Mark Ivanir) saw him last night and Lukas was a contortionist. His box was part of the act. Neiman punches Bernardo Espargosa (Jim Pirri) who is a trapeze artist. His daughter, Anasuya (Katie Conacus) is the star of the circus. She has scratches on her hand. Mac says Lukas was off limits and so was she, thus invoking Romeo and Juliet. The theme of the circus act. Act 2 scene 2: "parting is such sweet sorrow." She hurt her arm on the trapeze, it was a bad release and her father caught her. Stella finds twine used on the box in the elephant enclosure and sand but they don't find Lukas's costume, which is in the bin.
Lita Carty was the woman at the apartment. Paige stayed in a hotel. Her husband, Jason (Vidtor Browne) didn't hit her cos she was pretty and educated. He was at the apartment but she didn't open the door. Mac has to give Danny another pep talk, of sorts and tells him to breathe. Danny: "I feel like it's right in front of me, Mac, I just can't see it." Mac wants him to talk it out. The husband's DNA doesn't match. The substance on the floor was loomi, a Middle Eastern spice made with boiled limes. Mac concludes Jason wasn't there but someone else was. Mac: "...evidence is right there Messer, you're not." Danny was a bit messed up.
There was a powdery substance on the arms and chest on the costume. Also wool fibre. Jake the elephant handler has his coat and fingerprints checked. The coat is made from cotton and not wool. The box has clown make-up on it. A cane was used to cause the bruises. Lukas spilled the bubbles and his act failed. He was taken to clown court and punished in the stocks. His costume had traces of corn syrup and washing up liquid. The white powder is identified as chalk, used by trapeze artists. Bernardo grabbed Lukas as he attacked Anasuya. His first name, Bernardo means 'strong as a bear' in Portuguese. Hawkes says Lukas had Ehlers Danlose Syndrome, "a genetic defect in manufacturing of collagen" for which there is no cure. His skin was elastic-like and so could be easily bruised. Mac asks why he didn't fight to get out of the box. Life imitating art backstage. Lukas wanted to leave this life but why is Juliet still alive?
Danny posits Lita bought food and Flack comments anything can be delivered in NY. She ordered loomi and who made the delivery? Danny ran tests and the blood on the knife was from the delivery boy. He spilt loomi on the floor and was flirting. Flack states she misread the signs and she wasn't into him. Danny said he did it and Jason was trying to get in. It was too late to save her when he left, so he threw her out instead.
There's also female DNA on Lukas's costume. Mac: "Not blood, not sweat, I think I know what they are." Anasuya wears a woolen jumper. They are her tears, as the droplets had traces of mascara. Stella says Lukas committed suicide and she found him. She hated it here and she got away and she was going to kill herself too by jumping from the trapeze, but she changed her mind. As they always do in a suicide pact, one person relents when it's too late for the other. "A pair of star crossed lovers take their lives..."
As always the clue is always in the title, especially as far as the first story was concerned. Pointless loss of life in both stories, Also the time her husband was at the door, was time wasted when she could have been saved. Why didn't Anasuya tell Lukas she didn't want to die and save him too. Evidence of powdery substances in both stories.
In CSI episode Chaos Theory, a DB was disposed of down the rubbish chute, and there was a bloodstain on the dumpster chute. Season 2 CSI:Miami episode, Complications, a DB was found hanging just when her husband was outside the door whilst she was being killed. Season 2 CSI episode The Finger, a shower curtain was used to wrap the DB.
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