A woman is found in the lift (elevator) shaft with an axe through her head after the lift crashes to a halt and blood drips onto the occupant inside. Tripp (Rex Linn) asks the man, Jeffrey ( Matthew John Armstrong) when he last saw her alive. Ryan (Jonathan Togo) can't do anything about the DB until ME Tom (Christian Clemenson) arrives. He wonders how she could have been axed and no one saw it. "It takes hard work to kill somebody." Horatio (David Caruso) adds, "Harder than people think." Ryan is anxious for the DB to be moved and determines her ankle caught in the pulley, causing the lift to freefall and dropped from the nineteenth floor. Calleigh (Emily Procter) notices the axe is missing, which Horatio already said. Jesse (Eddie Cibrian) notices the spatter pattern is obscured so he can't determine which print was last put on the button. Calleigh mentions the dye gel pack on the fire alarm, which is spread by water, so they can see who pulled the fire alarm. Jesse says they'll need a court order to test the employee's hands.
Walter (Omar Miller) is hoping the killer is still here. Valerie (Kaylee Delfer) pulled the fire alarm as she had to pick up her boyfriend from the airport and wanted longer than the allotted lunchbreak and Renee (Bridget ann White) sees everything. Walter: "I think I smell a lie." No one liked her and Renee was getting people fired, that's a huge misconception there. Ryan finds some ceramic piece with a picture of a boy and leaves ME Tom stranded without a ladder. Kent (Bryan Callen) pretends the boy is his, which Walter finds out is a lie, he's a catalogue model. There's another lie he smelled from before. Renee figured it out and told him to own up. Kent was tired with the parents getting all the privileges of leaving early, best holiday time etc. Walter, getting all the funny lines, "We don't have to believe you, dad."
Horatio hears a noise in the ceiling above them and Teddy (Adam Wylie) crashes through the ceiling. I Iove Jesse's purple tie! Teddy lives up there and Horatio thinks he was spying on Renee. Jesse bags everything from the space in the ceiling and they find bloody towels there too, which matches the Vic. ME Tom questions whether Renee was smoker and then gets a brainwave, removing her nail polish he notices Mees lines on her nails, an indication she was being poisoned slowly overtime. She was being given arsenic to make her sick. Calleigh says Teddy was stealing Renee's food leftovers. Horatio points out to him that he's being affected by the poison, shown by the white lines on his nails. Valerie says Calleigh has poisonous fruit and she won't be able to be use it against her. Calleigh comments that poisonous friut is exactly what she's looking for and so has probable cause to search Valerie. Valerie wanted revenge on Renee and so was using a teensy-weensy amount of poison. Adds Calleigh, that's a "teensy-weensy felony."
A note is found, which was sent to Renee telling her she'll pay for ruining someone's life. Horatio refers to it as a death threat. The date on the envelope was two years ago, bfore Renee worked here. They check out her house and Ryan says he'd like a house like that, after Calleigh asks how a single woman could afford it. Jesse says maybe she has a rich family. Calleigh wonders what Renee was doing two years ago. She had a business degree from the Wharton School and asks why she was working on the front desk as a receptionsit. Renee was the former VP of an investment firm and she was making payments to a local cemetary. Calleigh says the more they learn about Renee, the less she makes sense.
Travers (Christopher Redman) tells Jesse that all motor oil has the same chemical structure and make-up. Jesse noticed the narrow tyre treads outside Renee's house and so wants him to run the sample he found anyway and then asks if he's got a girlfriend yet. What did that have to do with motor oil? Anyhoo, the sample comes up with excessive amounts of phosphorus which hasn't been allowed in oil for years. So it's from a classic car, which leads them to Mark (Daniel Roebuck).
Horatio tells him he's got lemon peel in his tyres, proving he was at Renee's. That was yesterday and he got a call from HR, meaning he was about to be fired. He mowed down her lemon tree with his car. She didn't know he was being fired and didn't report him bring in in his dog to work. She told them it was for his epilepsy. So Tripp says he "axed her in return." She didn't want anyone in their department to suffer, she knew they were laying people off, but Renee was protecting them. So no one knew what she was really doing for them, cos no one bothered to get to know her and just saw her as the office ogre.
Ryan discovers she had the same flowers delivered every month to the cemetary. Luis (Daniel Zacapa) believes she and Paige were close. She brought her purple hyacinths, cos Renee thought she was going to hell and was asking for forgiveness. Dave (Wes Ramsey) looks up the police report on Paige's death. She committed suicide and left a note, which matches the writing on the note sent to Renee. Paige was fired from where Renee used to work and Calleigh determines that's why Renee chose to become a receptionist. Paige was Jeffrey's fiancee, the man in the lift. Walter notices that Jeffrey is leaving and so they'll need to find evidence against him quickly.
Jesse comments it's strange he killed her and the lift was working fine until he got into it. Ryan thinks Renee could have been trying to avenge her own death. Jesse says they're letting Renee down. They examine Jeffrey's clothes from the hospital and the spatter on his shirt. Ryan refers to as the "fried egg effect." Which would be consistent with blood clotting. Jesse points to the drop of fresh blood which should be gravitational, but Ryan notices it's eliptical, consistent with horizontal spatter. Horatio tells Jeffrey the blood evidence confirms he killed Renee. He admits he took a job there to get close to Renee and he waited a year to throw her down the lift shaft. Serves him right using the lift after a fire alarm to be caught with her blood on him.
Tripp gets into the lift and the others join him, but he decides to take the stairs instead; followed by Walter, Ryan and then Jesse leaves it too. This was a final end funny scene, notice there weren't any women in there, fear, it's a guy thing! Biut why did they leave the lift, it's not like MDPD has dead bodies floating around the place, might have some skeletons, but no DBs. Who'd want to work in that office, CSI always comes up with extremes in characters and their motivations to act in the way they do. we may have met some obnoxious and irritating people at work but they're completely looking out for themselves here, when they don't have a reason to be competetive, other than focussing on keeping their job.
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