(Bell)
- That's pretty cooI. - I'm teIIing you, man.
See you, bro!
Later, Iosers!
(Click)
Barry SchickeI.
Wallet's still with him. With cash. "A" student.
Recently voted class clown.
Strange.
People aren't usually scared of class clowns.
Who said his shooter was scared?
He shot him in the back.
With his zipper down and hands otherwise engaged.
Yeah.
We're Iooking for a coward.
Hey! Whoa!
- Whoa, whoa! What are you doing? - Removing graffiti.
There's been a murder. Nothing gets cleaned.
SchooI poIicy. I have to get the graffiti down...
Everything is evidence. Las Vegas Crime Lab policy.
Shall we call the sheriff?
No.
Thank you.
- I bet you were Iike that in high schooI. - Worse.
You were the girI I ran away from.
Yeah. Till you caught me.
(Laughs)
So football practice was over at 5:45?
- That's right. - And it was OK
for a student Iike the victim to return to the schooI property to use the rest room?
- Hand me a bindle. - The place isn't locked up till the janitor leaves,
end of the shift. 8:00. 8:30.
- Until then the kids use the facilities - Brass.
Excuse me! Are we interrupting you?
Yeah. A IittIe.
That's OK. I'II drop by your office. We'II finish this up.
you found the slug
The treasure hunt paid off, huh?
Yeah, it better. We have a point of reference.
Well, the nerd squad is off and running.
I'm going to burn a IittIe shoe Ieather, see if the vic had a beef with anyone.
RADIO: Rescue One approaching drop site
We have a visual Baker One
Stand by for eastern approach
CSI ready for descent
you're good to go!
OK, there he is! Let's get down there!
Ready?
I'II race you!
CSI is in the air
CSI is on the ground
Stokes, Sidle. Crime Lab.
Did you open the bag?
Long enough to see one gnarly hand.
Well, skeleton of a hand.
- Anyone touch the bag since? - With that smell?
I thought you guys were tougher than that.
Hey, I'm pIenty tough.
Down, boy. It was a joke.
Nothing Iike flirting over a DB!
You want to airlift the body to the coroner's? We'll radio ahead.
- Sure. - Wait.
- Are you supposed to do that already? - Body's coroner's. Property's ours.
RADIO: We have the basket Copy that
Rescue One returning to base
Hi.
- Construction on Flamingo. Sorry. - Give me a hand, will you?
- .38? - .44.
Here, take this.
- Brass said the victim had a can of spray paint. - Orange
By my kit. It was in his backpack.
- Did you get something? - Paint from another source.
I'm going to find out who beIongs to that Iocker.
Kinda weird, being in a high school, huh?
They do have a timeless quality.
Were you a jock or a brain?
I was a ghost.
There
The shooter was standing right there.
And?
Reconstruction guys can give us a more precise angle measurement,
but l'm thinking 5' 4"
Maybe 3". We got ourselves a shortie.
Let's see what metaI shows up.
There's no gun on our dead body.
Wouldn't it be easier to unzip the bag and see what shape our vic is in?
I Iike to put that off tiII the Iast moment with you cops.
SARA: I see a coin
- Looks Iike a haIf-doIIar. - Silver. Whole.
I've done a few of these.
NICK: What's that?
There. About four inches Iong. What is that?
That Iooks Iike a pin. That's a medicaI impIant.
And that's a plate in the skull.
Head's been rolled
I'd say we're deaIing with a maIe.
By the sound of it, he's been dead about two months.
Sound?
(Sloshing) - You weren't here when ESD brought this in.
Oh, it wasn't from Iack of trying.
Let's go to the VIP room. I'II show you what I mean.
That's Dennis Pram's Iocker.
Has the deceased spray-painted his Iocker before?
I'm the schooI counseIIor. I don't know every move these kids make.
Well, that's obvious, or a young man wouldn't be dead.
Tell me what "stick" means.
Is that a polymer sensor proboscis?
Cyranose 320.
Company sent it to me gratis for a week.
They figure, if it helps, CSl will buy one.
Electronic noses run like ten grand.
Yeah, well, what if the shooter chooses a certain kind of tobacco,
or has a unique halitosis and the e-nose picks up on it?
If that thing bit the shooter in the ass,
the county would not approve a $ 10,000 purchase order.
I thought it was our job to speak for the victim
no matter what it took, and to hell with the budgets.
Our job is to think, Warrick.
Machinery should never matter more than our mind.
Try this.
Glass tube.
- Air pump. - Air pump. Costs about ten bucks.
Absorption agent?
Fresh out.
Improvise.
And Miss Barrett says that a Dennis Pram had been bullied
by the deceased all year.
He spray-painted his Iocker. AIways something to do with his buiId - skinny, shortie.
- That kind of thing. - Dennis is slight and Barry always picks on him.
- Can you arrange for us to meet with Dennis? - Of course, but he would never hurt Barry.
He's a good kid. He's totally non-violent.
Well, then, this'll be brief.
(Sighs)
We can call him from my office.
GRISSOM: you coming?
Oh, I'II catch up to you.
Hey!
- I need to talk to you - I didn't cIean anything.
It's not about that.
How tall are you, Dennis?
Five three and one quarter.
Have you washed your hands in the Iast hour?
Yeah. Why?
Changed your shirt?
- No. - I'd Iike to do a test on your shirt, if I may.
What kind of test?
Forensic.
What is that?
GSR
When someone fires a weapon, gunshot residue plumes back
onto their hands and clothing
This means that you fired a gun within the Iast three to six hours.
- Dennis! - The police are gonna want to talk to you.
BRASS: So you admit you fired a gun
I was over at the shooting range on Desert Way.
The same night Barry SchickeI was shot, you were out taking target practice?
I go every Monday night. Ask my sister.
- She goes with me - Where's your gun?
- I rent different ones there. - Did you ever rent a .44 caIibre?
OFFICER: I'm sorry I have to keep people out - Sometimes.
I want to see my brother. Get out of the way!
- Denny, are you OK? I got your caII. - I'm fine. I'm fine.
We're conducting a police investigation.
My dad's back in town tonight. You'II be sorry you harassed my IittIe brother.
Questioned. A student was shot and killed in this building tonight.
You know what?
Dennis has explained to you about the gunpowder
and his sister will vouch for his whereabouts And he's a minor
Jim.
BRASS: We'll be in touch
Remember, breathe through your mouth.
Eurgh!
MetaI pIate.
Silver dollar.
Gambling chip.
And...
Jacket.
- Government issue, army. - (Sara gasps)
Pile of bones, and that's it.
That's it? No...organs?
No tonsils? No
Soup...
Human soup.
Well, we are 78.5% liquid, eh, Dave?
Add some bacteria, a couple of gases, and voilà!
OK, I'II take Liquid Man's jacket. See what I can find.
I'II cremate this.
What if we find the family or they find us?
A bad decomp can stink up the entire building for ever.
The sooner we dispose of this, the better.
Not for our investigation.
(Gasps)
Let me guess. Decomp in an enclosed space.
- Yeah. - Yeah, the zip bag.
Lemons.
- Lemons? - What?
Use Iemons.
How's your new toy working out?
It's been downsized.
Bummer. I know how you wanted to see that thing work.
Well, it's the same difference, really.
Air is drawn into the glass tube.
Chalk absorbs the chemicals from the air.
And mass spec will break it down at the lab.
So why did you need the expensive one in the first place?
Cos it was cooI.
- I'II see you in homeroom. - AII right.
Barry SchickeI from the high schooI.
Dug three of these .44s from his back.
First one cracked his infraspinous fossa.
Second one entered past the interior angle of the scapula, punctured a lung.
And the Iast one entered just right of the right anterior serratus muscIe,
pierced the heart.
The heart? That makes no sense.
This is a speciaI case.
See the scar?
This guy was attacked before.
I'd say in the Iast six months.
Well, not with a knife. It looks like prongs.
Whatever it was, it would have killed him if his heart had been there.
Where was his heart?
Barry's upper body,
all his internal organs are on the opposite side of typical placement.
Dextrocardia? Like Dr No?
That only presents in, what, .01 % of the population?
Good for this guy, till his luck ran out.
How Iong ago did you say he was stabbed?
Six months. Hand-to-hand combat. Sound Iike something your suspect wouId do?
No.
(Exhales)
Hey, how's Liquid Man doing?
You mean Mr Cartsen?
I found this. It's a name tag.
You know, Sara, a Iot of homeIess guys get these army jackets.
Cheap. Salvage stores.
Well, it's a start. I'm gonna get Homicide to check
the VA medicaI database for a W Cartsen with pIates or pins.
OK.
Eurgh!
What have you got?
I don't know. Can't read an address or a phone number.
God it reeks!
QD should be able to...
to bring something up.
(Vomits)
Don't tell anyone.
About what?
Sara?
Hi.
They told me out front I could find you...here.
Yeah.
Um...I'II be right out.
- Give me a mint. - You're gonna need more than one.
Just gimme.
- This is a nice surprise. - I wanted to see if you'd Iike to have dinner.
Yeah. Um...when?
Now. I'm on break.
I'm in the middIe of that DB from the guIIy. He's stiII a John Doe.
We don't know the circumstances...
I smeII.
No.
Well, not that bad.
I'd change cIothes, but the probIem is that it's human fat reduced
and it's attached itself to my follicles and my pores, so...
- You don't Iook good. - I need some air.
- OK. - Er, no, you stay.
You've got that John Doe to worry about, and I can aIways stop by another time.
Right.
OK.
Bye.
- You smell like death. - I've heard.
You know, a reaI man wouIdn't mind.
- Have you talked to Barry's parents? - I did. They had no idea he'd been stabbed.
The older kids get, the less they talk to their parents.
They talk to you, though, right?
Who else may have had it in for Barry Schickel?
Look, he was very popular, but he was a bully.
So there was probably a dozen kids who wanted to see him dead.
Really?
I'd be waIking by and...he wouId punch me.
Everybody started calling me Flinch.
Even the teachers.
BARRY SCHICKEL: Move!
He was the meanest guy I've ever known.
But the way he put you down, it sounded funny.
If it wasn't you.
He'd wait for me, every day.
Lunchtime, fourth period.
Take my food.
BARRY SCHICKEL: Yo. Hungry?
Till I fixed him.
It was about...haIf a year ago.
- I went at him. GRISSOM: With a fork?
Stabbed him above his Ieft pectoraI.
Yeah. It stiII didn't stop him. I mean, today was the first day I couId come to schooI
and not feeI Iike a moving target.
Where were you Iast night about six o'cIock?
When Barry was shot?
Boxing practice.
OK.
Thanks.
I can protect them
from being called a derogatory word for homosexual,
or the N-word.
Everything else falls under free speech.
No-one's blaming you.
I am.
You know who did this, don't you?
You have no idea what these kids go through.
I Iisten to them every day.
Divorce. Working parents.
Cliques.
And all they need is just one person to believe in them.
Yeah.
But where does that Ieave Barry SchickeI?
That's your job.
Shut up. She was not?
I saw her in action.
- Really? - Yeah. She was...
Catherine?!
I was what?
I was just teIIing Nick how you were a big buIIy in high schooI.
Oh, bully?
AII right, I guess I was. But not the kind that peopIe want to take a gun out and shoot.
- No. NICK: No, no.
You were the kind guys fall all over themselves trying to impress.
Like you, Nick, huh?
Oh, Nick, what were you in high schooI?
Me? I was er...
I was dependabIe.
CATHERINE: DependabIe? DependabIe jock?
Dependable stoner?
No, never a strap, never a smoker. Just all-around dependable guy, I guess.
He's trying to say he was unpopular.
I was popuIar with the right peopIe,
I can teII you that.
I can aIso teII you what I wasn't. I wasn't a Mac Daddy wannabe
with a Members Only jacket, putting the swerve on all the ladies.
Members Only jackets were cool back in the day.
SARA: Hey
Ronnie's got something on Liquid Man. Says it's hot.
Good.
Hey, Sara, what were you in high schooI?
Science nerd.
(Sniffs) Are you changed?
(Whispers) You still smell.
NICK: Let's go!
So that Ieaves you, Warrick. What were you?
Oh, I was short. I had big feet, thick gIasses.
- you? - Yeah!
I got pushed around by aII the guys and never got any pIay from the girIs.
The girls didn't even notice your eyes.
No.
They used to tease me about my eyes, call me names.
Oh. Well, what do they know?
They're your best feature.
I didn't have a best feature in high schooI.
Looking back on it now, I couId say I couId see both sides of it, thinking about this guy,
Barry Schickel, and how he was shot
and whichever kid did it.
I'm not saying it was right,
but I kinda understand, you know?
Yeah.
I wanted to hoId off on this matchbook untiI it dried out,
and then realised
Human fat never dries out. Just gets waxy.
Exactly
What I'm doing is adding pixeIs at some points...
..and erasing pixels at other points.
- Got it. - Roma...
- Romanini's. Never heard of it. NICK: I have
Nightclub for boomers off the Strip. Thanks, man.
O'BRIEN: Hey Stokes!
Your W Cartsen -
he's a Second Lieutenant William Cartsen.
Served in the war, wounded in action.
Got sent stateside after they put him back together.
They put a pin in his spine
and a plate in his head 81 years ago
Waked out of the hospital hasn't been heard of since
Come with us?
- What's the matter? You don't trust me? - I trust you.
I got a boatIoad of chemicaI components here.
Marijuana, bubble gum,
cigars.
- it's like every guy's bathroom in America - What doesn't belong?
How can I heIp you peopIe?
Valet guy said you were the manager.
Detective O'Riley, Las Vegas PD.
- Stokes and Sidle from the Crime Lab - Crime Lab?
What's going on?
This man a patron of your establishment? Name's William Cartsen.
Not that I recognise, no.
Are you sure you haven't seen him around here?
Wore an army jacket. May have been down on his Iuck.
Oh, you mean Moses.
- Moses. - That guy had a beard down to here,
wore a robe, the army jacket.
Stood out here scaring every patron I had.
Hey!
The whole world is watching! Speak out! Speak out!
- The guy was ruining my business! - So what did you do?
Tried to reason with him.
Hey buddy
You got to Ieave my customers aIone, OK?
Here.
Cash that.
And move on
- That's the Iast I saw of him. - When was that?
I don't know. About two months ago.
That's funny. We found his body. Coroner says he's been dead two months.
We're gonna want you to take a IittIe ride with us.
OK.
I checked out those kids you taIked to.
None of them was even near the schooI when Barry SchickeI was kiIIed.
- The one who doesn't check out is Dennis. CATHERINE: There's a reason
I can put him at the crime scene. Can you caII from the car?
- Sure. Let's go. - Put him there how?
- Well, I'll explain on the way. - No no
I'II stay here, with this, cIose to Warrick.
OK. Bet you miss all the fireworks.
I know I must sound Iike the typicaI parent,
but my son had nothing to do with this death.
We placed him at the murder.
What?
Here's a fingerprint that I recovered from Dennis's Iocker.
These are Dennis's prints on file at school.
The missing kids prevention drive
Has a match.
His own fingerprint on his own Iocker doesn't prove anything.
It proves a timeIine.
The alkyd particles
in the victim's spray paint adhere and dry in 80 seconds.
Oxidation Dennis jihad to have swiped the paint within seconds
of Barry putting it on his Iocker for his print to take.
- How do you know...? - The janitor
He keeps timed records of graffiti.
Job security.
And Dennis Ieft paint on the doorjamb in the bathroom where Barry was shot.
BRASS: That's the timeline of the murder Mr Pram
We know every move your son made up untiI the gun, so we want to see your coIIection.
- you're registered as having 24 weapons SISTER: Denny
It's OK. It's OK.
Come on.
We'II fix it.
This...
..does not belong in a guy's bathroom.
Can we prove this? There's got to be 1,000 brands.
You still got that $ 10,000 e-nose you were using?
Now you want my tricked-out toy?
I just want the software.
Come on, drink up.
There you go. Good.
Just hold this to your face, OK? I'll be right back.
He's got a bleeding ulcer from being bullied by Barry Schickel.
Hey, Shrimp, wanna go for a ride?
you don't know how hard it was for him
Trying to work up the courage just to go to schooI.
(Vomiting)
I thought my IittIe brother was gonna kiII himseIf.
Then someone killed Barry.
Yeah.
How tall are you?
5' 4". With heels.
Why?
No reason.
GRISSOM: you grabbed a top note of floral
Now we ask the software to break it into ingredients
You recognise any of these?
That's all from one perfume?
Some of these perfumes have, Iike, 750 ingredients.
Chanteuse.
We can narrow it down to one brand?
The originaI appIication for this program was perfume companies.
You know, testing new brands, stealing from the competition.
(Cellphone rings)
Grissom.
Grissom, we got a suspect, but it's not who you think.
Let me guess. Denny Pram's sister?
- How did you know? - Vapour molecules
See if you can get a warrant for her perfume and have Brass bring her in.
Her perfume?
Let's get back to my first question, Miss Pram.
Where were you the night Barry SchickeI was kiIIed?
I toId you. I was out, driving around.
So what, your perfume just wafted into the boys' room
- all the way from Highway 10? - Yes. I wear Chanteuse.
What's that got to do with anything? My mom used to wear it.
- And...after her car accident I started to wear it. WARRICK: Well aromas have fingerprints
They're Iike a unique combination of vapour moIecuIes that Iinger in the air
Iong after the source has gone.
We isolated a combination in the rest room where Barry Schickel was shot.
It matches your perfume.
A high-end woman's perfume.
It's doubtfuI that any other girI at the schooI wears it.
Wait, wait, wait. She has no reason to hurt Barry SchickeI.
What about revenge for her IittIe brother?
I can't beIieve this! That bastard SchickeI dogged my famiIy.
Now he's doing it from the grave!
Come on, Kelsey.
You come near us again, you do it through my Iawyer.
Wears her dead mother's perfume.
- Nice touch. GRISSOM: Might be true
Scent triggers memory most acutely of all the senses.
Yeah?
Well, I smell a rat in the Pram family.
So, you didn't hurt him. You just put him in your car.
Back seat. And I drove him out of town.
- I Ieft him on the roadside out by Red Rock. - You didn't maybe...
zip him up in a bag because he was giving you trouble?
Anything Iike that?
No.
These are the handles from the bag that he was found in.
You see these prints here?
Can I see your right hand, sir?
Look, he was drunk. He was rolling all over my back seat.
So I put him in a bag from my trunk
Once we got out of town, I just tipped him down a hiII.
I figured he'd get out once he sIept it off.
The guy always shows up!
What am I Iooking at?
Homicide.
Look, I was just doing my job.
Hey, treating another human being Iike garbage is not a job.
It's a choice.
Raperwork. Later.
Dennis?
I need to taIk to you.
You have to understand. Anything my sister did was to protect me.
You said that you went back to schooI that night after target practice.
I forgot a book I needed for homework.
And I knew Barry had been there.
I wasn't Iooking for him. I had to go to the bathroom.
My dad's freaking out.
My sister won't come out of her room.
I figured...if you can get the poIice to make some kind of deaI for her...
Well, Dennis, you haven't told us
that you explicitly saw Kelsey shoot the victim.
She was in a stall. I couldn't see her.
- Can I taIk to you for a minute? - Excuse us.
He copping to anything?
- He says that his sister did it. - I don't think so.
Kelsey was otherwise disposed.
She got a parking ticket the same time the vic was shot.
In an aIIey behind a moteI off Premont Street.
In fact, a Iot of cars got tickets that night.
Who's Jeremy Spencer?
Football coach.
Oh.
At a moteI with the high schooI coach.
No wonder she wouldn't talk.
I paid Coach a visit. The guy's 28, just got engaged.
He'II testify as Iong as his fiancée doesn't find out.
He says that Kelsey gave him a roll in the hay, asked him to intercede with Barry the bully
and get the kid to leave her brother ache
She didn't kill anyone.
So why is he saying she did?
Ever smell a fart and end up blaming the wrong guy?
Why do you think your sister shot Barry?
Because.
Because why?
Because of the Iast time he beat me up.
I'II protect you. I'II fix things so he never comes near you again.
She always keeps her word.
She asked Barry's coach to help you. That was her protection plan.
She was nowhere near the high school
I smeIIed her perfume.
I saw Barry
I saw the gun And I smelled my sister's perfume
No.
You smelled her brand of perfume.
Then who was it?
We recovered this from your townhouse on a warrant.
Chanteuse.
We also found the gun.
It hasn't been cIeaned.
Well, I don't know how to clean a gun. That was my husband's.
You know how to shoot one, though.
Do you know how many kids go to schooI and kiII,
just to get relief from the bullying?
you talk to them Boxing lessons and target practice
How Iong before one of them came in here and opened fire on a haIIway fuII of kids?
I just thought that one Iife was better than 20.
Or 30.
Or 11.
Captain Brass
ran a search on you.
Tetrick High School. Tetrick Arizona
11 kids shot a few days after Columbine
You were the assistant principaI.
I watched them die...
..at my feet.
Just because some sophomore couldn't take the jokes about his glasses.
It says that you were Ieft with post-traumatic stress disorder.
You might want to mention that to your Iawyer.
I did this for my kids.
You know, Miss Barrett,
as difficult as high school can be for kids,
eventually it's over.
But too soon for Barry SchickeI.
(Bell)
Rest in peace, Lieutenant.
Rest in peace.