(wind whistling)
MAN: I don't know how you saw anything
in this weather, but thanks a lot.
(coughing)
Thanks.
Guy was on his way to a landscaping job
in Palm Springs.
Saw a body stickin g out of the sand.
p. Well, out this far, it's probably a body dum
Looks like they starve d her to death first.
Well, Jesus fasted in the desert.
Yeah, but he had a choice.
es, No clothes, no sho
no hair.
BRASS: Maybe her dome was shaved
'cause she spent time in the pen.
No right hand, either.
Could have been
disarticulated by a wild animal.
The only wild animal was the one who left her out here.
Hey, Grissom.
Conditions are less than ideal.
Is it okay if we just do a scoop-and-run?
Yeah, David.
Shoe prints, tire treads-- all they are is...
Dust in the wind.
Looks like she was branded.
Emaciated, bald and numbered.
What does that remind you of?
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?? Who, who, who, who? ??
?? I really wanna know ??
?? Who... are you? ??
?? Oh-oh-oh ?? ?? Who... ??
?? Come on, tell me who are you, you, you ??
?? Oh, you! ??
PHILLIPS: Branding.
A brand is a kind of contract.
STOKES: Tell that to a bul l
when he gets stuck on his rear with a hot ir on.
In that case, it signifies ownership.
To a Maori tribesman, or a Marine,
it signifies belonging.
Did you get a liver temp?
Couldn't get an accurate reading.
You want me to pull vitreous from the eye?
Yeah.
One eye is much more desiccated than the other.
Could be an infection.
Take samples from both.
The eye is sequestered space.
Changes that happen in the blood after death
happen more slowly in the vitreous.
Could give us more accurate levels.
Um... Dr. Robbins...
Well, the optic nerve's been severed.
That kind of defeats the purpose
of an eye transplant, doesn't it?
Well, an eye transplant' s just the cornea;
it's not the whole eye.
David, check the other ey e.
This one's still connected.
Clip it.
Nick, send both eyes
to DNA . Yeah.
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Pull up a chair.
It's been a long, strange trip
for this poor girl .
I found puncture wounds around her glandular areas,
from large-gauge needles commonly used
to draw out fluids.
Maybe she was undergoing
some kind of medical treatment.
What's in this?
sure. ROBBINS: I'm not
I found it in her teeth.
Could be from her last meal.
Also, anot her surprise:
She had a D & C.
Abortion?
Well, maybe polyps, hyperplasia.
Infection? And how.
Starvation shrinks a lot of things,
but not your organs.
They're all abscessed.
r. Yeah, which explains why I couldn't find the live
There's not much left.
What, some kind of flesh-eating disease?
Necrotizing faciitis.
I've never seen anything like this.
Typically, streptococcus enters through an open wound
and starts eating through the skin,
then uses the bloodstream as a conduit
to reach the internal organs.
But in her case, the bacteria started
; in her bloodstream
hence her skin is fine.
Maybe the puncture wounds were used to put something in
rather than take something out.
So Henry found oxycodone and chlorpromazine
in both the right and left eye.
Now, one kills pain
and the other puts a lid on panic.
Chlorpromazine-- they give that to mental patients.
Yeah, but this get s so much weirder,
because that dried-up eyeball--
it actually belongs to somebody else.
What?
See, the vitreous fluid from her eyeball showed
that she'd only been dea d for a day;
but the DNA from the other eyeball--
well, it was male, and it seems to have been separated
from its owner for about a week.
So I ran it through CODIS,
and the eyeball belonged
to a Jack Landers,
who is a convicted sex offender.
Would sticking your eyebal l in a woman's eye socket
se? constitute a sex offen
Well, rape is legally defined
as putting an unwanted foreign object into a genital opening,
so sexual... no...
But offensive... yea h. Yeah.
Look, guy got out of jail six weeks ago.
A weenie wagger with two eyes.
As a parolee, he has to check in with me once a month.
Missed our las t appointment,
but before I could file the paperwork,
he showed up here, across from his halfway house,
. thinking he' s Captain Crunch
g, They thought he was piped up on somethin
but his ur ine was clean
and his high hasn't faded.
Hey, Jack.
Captain Jack to you.
Ahoy, mateys.
PAROLE OFFICER: Captain Jack, these people want
. to ask you some questions
Orphaned at the age of five.
Stowed away on... theGood Ship Lollipop.
The sea...
is an evil mistress.
Spit me out and fed me to the beast.
A puppet I am.
STOKES: Hey, Sara, got your message.
, No AFIS hits on my Jane Doe
. so I put a bulletin out to surrounding agencies and the media
. Maybe somebody will recognize her from the photo
? Where you at right now
On the train to Crazyville.
Did you get a pe ek under the patch?
No, no, no, no.
I, uh, left that
. for the doctor
Jack, look this way. (Jack mumbling)
atch? Okay, Jack, I need y ou to sit still for me. Where's my p
Come on, look this way. Draw me sword...
make you walk the plank.
Jack, were you in an accident
or a recent fight?
Captain Jack... don't do much recallin'.
Did he have an ocular tumor or recent surgery?
I have no idea.
He's a suspect in a murder investigation.
Do you think he's crazy, or...?
d. I think he's been lobotomize
ss Jack, I want you to undre
and put this on for me.
m, I want to do a CT scan to confir
40s, but in the '30s and '
lobotomies were often done via the eye socket.
Right, right, but lobotomies-- they're not
a common practice today?
DOCTOR: Hardly.
Nick...
take a look at his arm.
He's not a suspect; he's a victim.
Jane Doe is number 19.
I know it's tough,
but we're go ing to need you
to identif y the body.
Fine.
ce Someone from the coroner's offi
. will get in touch with you
For reasons I think we both understand,
I would appreciate some level of anonymity.
Sure, I'll do my best.
Thank you, Captain Brass.
in. Thanks for coming
.. BRASS: The, um.
. the Jane Doe is Zoe Kessler
s Her mother saw her picture on the new
. and identified her as her estranged daughter
k, I did a DMV chec
and I have the victim' s last known address.
Good. I'll come with you.
w. There's some thing you should kno
The mother's a friend of yours.
Who's that?
er. Lady Heath
Apartment 106.
Landlord was getting ready to evict her.
"Freud, Goethe...
Rilke..." in German.
Briefe an einen jungen Dichter.
Nothing sounds good in German.
How did she get from Harvard to here?
Practice, practice, practice.
How do you know she was at Harvard?
Lady Heather told me.
She was very proud of her.
Well, it looks as though
she hasn't checked her mai l in ten weeks.
The postmark dates back to November 12th.
BRASS: She died yesterday.
? Where's she been all this time
This looks like an appointment.
"Betz, 11-12, 7:00 P.M."
(answering machine voice): First message:
WOMAN 1: Hi, this is Audrey at the Betz Clinic.
We're calling to see how you're feelin g.
Give us a call.
Second message:
Hi, this is Audrey from the Betz Clinic.
We didn't hear from you.
We have some follow-up questions about your tests.
Please call us.
Third message:
WOMAN 2: This is Citibank.
We're trying to reach Zoe Kessler.
Betz Clinic?
Yeah. I'll check it out.
...at 1-800-555-0199 at extension...
Heterochromia.
It appears Zoe had one blue eye and one brown eye.
The pirate had one blue eye.
What happened to her?
We're tryi ng to find out.
May I touch her?
ad. Go ahe
This required skill...
and the infliction of pain.
Did you shave her head?
No, she was found like this.
h? Can you tell if she's ever given birt
There was some scarring on her pelvic bones,
but given the condition of the body,
e. it's hard to say for sur
She always wore her grandmother's ring
on her right hand.
Did you find it?
Hi.
I'm so sorry about your loss.
But you need to ask me some questions.
I'd like to know some thin gs about your daughter.
er? When was the l ast time you saw h
She dropped out of school about a year ago.
I didn't even know she was in town.
So you weren't in contac t with her?
No.
Can you tell me why?
What difference does it make now?
Did she have any medical conditions?
Not that I know of.
Because in November,
dy she participated in a medical stu
. at the Betz Clinic
ng. Right after th at, she went missi
Where was she found?
t. In the deser
Just out in the middle of nowhere?
Off Highway 55, near Sparks.
I have to go.
Betz Pharmaceutical. Can you hold, please?
Thank you. Betz Pharmaceutical. Can I help you?
. He's on the line right now
May I take a message? And your phone number?
or Here are the files on Zo e Kessler that you asked f
ist in the warrant , along with a l
of everyone who was here on November 12th.
Including the employees?
Yeah. The nighttime staff' s pretty minimal.
I was supervising that night.
What brought Zoe in?
ia. Chronic insomn
She came in for an overnight sleep study
but left early.
Was there a problem?
No. Some people just get freaked out spending the night
in a strange place.
me. Happens all the ti
We'll need to see those testing rooms.
Okay.
As you can see, we try
to make the facility as normal as possible.
Put a TV in there, it wouldn't be half bad.
But that would defeat the purpose.
We can't have anything in there that would reveal
the actual time.
How do you monit or your patients?
Our monitoring process is twofold.
Electrodes measure E KG and REM sleep,
and we have a vid cam in the room
to help insure t he patients actuall y stay in bed.
You worried about hanky-panky?
ng. Sleepwalki
After the meds are distributed,
n. we ask that the patients assume a sleep-ready positio
ia Many people assu me they have insomn
. simply because the y don't get in bed
What is your screening process?
ve. It's intensi
There's a wr itten application,
a personal intervi ew, physical exam.
We only take people in the normal range.
ant You'd be surprised how many people just w
a pharmaceutical lullaby these days.
No, I wouldn't.
SANDERS: This clinic is like Hotel California:
e, You can check in any time you lik
e. but you mi ght never leav
Zoe Kessler an d Captain Jack
were part of the s ame sleep study.
How many other people in the sleep study?
A dozen.
t. I have cal led all of the m on the lis
They're intact , and none of them are numbered.
Zoe's car was found at an impound lot downtown.
It was towed from Betz's parking lot on November 15th.
le Wolfowitz said Z oe left in the midd
of the night on the 13th.
With Captain Jack?
know, I don't
ds, but according to their recor
. he also left early
"Left early" seems to be a euphemism.
I got the results for the sinew in the girl's teeth,
and in this case, the hand that feeds...
was her own.
? She chewed o ff her own hand
Yeah. Now, I don't know abou t you, but I would rather die
of starvation than to eat my own hand.
Animals in traps do it all the time.
You think she was trapped?
Like a rat.
A hand in the desert is worth two in the bush.
on. Right now, the han d's all we have to go
Okay, Grissom.
Come on. What are we doing here?
What are the odds that this hand is
not being eaten right now by a coyote?
Hey, look, the condition she was in,
r. she couldn't have gotten very fa
Maybe if we find the hand,
we find the torture chamber.
Torture chamber?
All right, everybody gather around.
Let me have your attention.
We're going to proceed forward covering the immediate area
bordering the road to the south,
the rocks to the west and the dry creek bed to the east.
?? ??
(flies buzzing)
Oh, you smell decomp?
do. I
(flies buzzing)
You think the hand is in that pile?
e. Mayb
le. Let's get a samp
Whoo!
(sniffs)
Whew!
The smell's coming from these plants.
"Amorphophallus Titanum,
Corpse Flower."
t Now who's going to have a plan
that smells like decomposing flesh?
l. Somebody who's trying to cover up the real dea
PD! LV
You smell a warrant?
We can look but not touch.
I'm in if you're in.
. All right, here's the real catch-22
ve, If we open it up, find something probati
t. we can't use i
But we can't find somethin g probative...
...unless we got the warrant to open it.
Yeah.
That's funny, you don't strike me
as the delayed gratification type.
. I'm not. Grissom is
Right.
There are some freaky-looking plants in here.
Yeah, it's all about genetic modification.
Well, if this is where they genetically modify the plants,
there's got to be a hous e around here somewhere.
"Jacob Wolfowitz."
Isn't that the same guy from the Betz Clinic?
ah. Ye
(clanging)
Mr. Wolfowitz?
w. Mr. Wolfowitz, come out of there no
b. We're from the Crime La
We need to speak with you.
We can hear you, sir.
Just open the door.
He's not home.
ed? Are you and Mr. Wolfowitz acquaint
No.
se? Why were y ou at his hou
Breaking and entering.
ag? Is that why we found this etching in your handb
it? You were stealing
Yes.
Why?
Multiple reasons.
e? Which ar
You told me Zoe was having tests done at Betz.
I found out who oversaw the tests-- Mr. Wolfowitz.
He lives close to where you found Zoe.
If I'm caught stealing,
he may want the police to investigate.
BRASS: We know the woman who broke into your house,
and you don't want to press charges?
She's clearly disturbed.
She just lost her daughter,
le and I was one of the last peop
ve. to see Zoe Kessler ali
I'm sure she w as just looking for a connection.
You don't want us to look around,
see if anything else was stolen?
ly, I live pretty simp
g, and I don't have anything worth takin
but I appreciate your concern.
However, if he refus es to press charges...
I'd have to ask myself what kind of person would do that.
Someone with something to hide.
Precisely.
GRISSOM: Why, uh, steal this?
It's one of the earliest illustrations
of the Romulus and Remus myth.
e. It's printed from a plat
Must be worth thousands.
So?
Well, it looks like a page from a book.
I find that people who don't respect books
have a general disregard for keeping things whole.
So you think he stole it?
I think a pencil pusher in a pharmaceutical lab
couldn't afford it.
BRASS: How long have you worked at Betz?
18... 18 years.
18 years. Oh.
But that's a long way from your home
to your office, isn't it?
I like the solitude and, uh, space for my plants.
Did I do something wrong, Captain?
Even if all this is true,
we still don't know if he killed your daughter.
Too many coincidences.
You have to stay away from him.
You forfeited the right to give me advice some time ago.
But thank you.
Ah, I believe this is authentic.
Iron-gall ink from the 16th century
tends to turn a brownish color.
Especially when it' s been sitting around
for a few centuries.
See how the ink bites into the parchment of the page.
Is that an acidic compound?
Gall inks are often made with wine or vinegar.
Recipes were specific to the manuscript illuminator.
So it is from a manuscript?
The edge appears fairly pristine.
How could he remove it from the book so cleanly?
My guess? Classic spit and string.
You use saliva.
It's absorbed into the fabric of the paper
and softens its fibers.
Even if this tests positive for DNA,
I'm gonna need the book to match it.
Here's Zoe Kessler at the start of her session.
And here she is at hour number four.
(beep)
ut. SANDERS: Well, she does n't look freaked o
by. Looks like she's sleeping like a ba
Except...
Check it out.
. SANDERS: Okay, so she gets up..
gets out.
Look at the bottom right hand corner.
(tape rewinding)
(VCR clicks)
See that shadow?
Somebody opened the door.
(VCR clicks)
Well, she didn't just pop out of bed,
she was woken up by someone.
How much you want to bet
y? that's Wolfowitz in the doorwa
(beep)
Here's Jack Landers.
A trip to the bathroom, maybe?
Except he never returned.
Wolfowitz works at the clinic.
He has access to both victims.
One victim is found less than mile from his house,
which smells like human decomp.
How do we get to him?
Rambar checked
s. rare book collection
This guy likes to steal in his own backyard.
UNLV library is missing plate 62.
It's enough for us to get a warrant.
(indistinct police radio transmission)
He's never missed work.
So, I left him a couple of messages at home.
And when I left for the day,
I just saw h im like that.
. I didn't know what to do
t. I guess I didn't need a warran
No signs of trauma or blood.
The seat's wet.
He's wet.
igor, Looks like he's in r
which means he's been dead for at least six hours.
You mean this guy's been down here
in the parking lot dead all that time
and no one noticed?
eird. That's w
?? ??
(bone saw buzzing)
(bone saw clatters on table)
(grunts)
(rib cage cracks)
(scalpel dings)
(sighs)
en? GRISSOM: Still froz
I'm not gonna be able to determine COD
until he's completely defrosted,
and that could take a while.
How long does it take to freeze an entire body?
To the core?
Two solid days.
His heart's completely frozen.
Before the Y, I found bruises
and puncture wounds all over his body.
Over the glands, too?
Yep. Same as Zoe.
So is this.
Test subject #1.
. Gil, I saw him
ozen. Yesterday. He wasn't fr
ch, I mean, maybe he knew too mu
and someone at Betz sensed that we were getting too close and...
So what? They dunked him in liquid nitrogen?
Cryogenically froze him?
Well, I know what I saw.
You've got to find some explanation.
I'm on it.
(elevator bell dings)
What are you doing here?
I think I might be able to help you.
I'm listening.
oe. You would have liked Z
. She was a lot like you
Thoughtful, pragmatic, patient.
She was studying psychology.
I appreciate that it would have been difficult
to have someone like me as a mother.
But if I stressed anything,
it was empowerment and independence.
ear So when she called me from Boston last y
y, to tell me that she was pregnant with her therapist's bab
I got angry.
Not with her, with him.
He violated an oath.
Not only was he married, she was a patient.
A junior in college with her whole life in front of her.
And you didn't want him to screw it up.
t. I called the AMA , filed a complain
se. They revoked his licen
Zoe stopped speaking to me.
Did she have her baby?
m. Your coroner couldn't confir
I assumed you might need a DNA sample from Mr. Wolfowitz.
How did you get this?
. The rage was stron ger than the repulsion
People have used sex for much less worthy causes.
When did you...
Last night.
om, You may not approve, Griss
but you can't arrest me for sleeping with him.
g. He was consentin
s. I am playing by your rule
, But if I had it my way
d. this man would die the same way my daughter die
He's already dead.
What?
s. He's been dead for two day
That's not possible.
?? ??
The dirt from outside the barn
tested positiv e for human DNA.
And I mean a lot of it , over a dozen profiles.
And one of them matched Zoe Kessler.
Her hand.
ic, And although chain of cust ody is a bit problemat
ag 'cause a plastic lunch b
isn't really a department issue bindle,
the DNA from the condom, it matches both the saliva
, from the book pa ge and the dead guy
Jacob Wolfowitz.
Thanks.
I have a question.
How do you have sex with the guy who killed your daughter?
Revenge is an act of passion.
(computer beeping)
So, none of the fingerprints
from the car belong to Jacob Wolfowitz.
They're all a match to a Leon Sneller.
GRISSOM: Who?
WILLOWS: That's Leon Sneller.
Looks like Wolfowitz, only younger.
Which explains how I saw and how Lady Heather...
did a dead guy.
Identical twins.
I thought that she killed him, too.
I would've.
I mean, I wouldn't have slept with him first, but...
. Same DNA, different prints
z So all the DNA that we attributed to Wolfowit
s. could be Sneller'
. Which makes you wonder who's on the autopsy table
Sneller joined the Army in 1985.
He was stationed at a field hospital near Berlin
until about a year ago.
(knocking)
At which point, I think that he came to Vegas...
...put his brother on ice...
started impersonating him.
z. Good morning , Mr. Wolfowit
Good morning.
I mean, I know this theory's a little out there,
but given the evidence...
it's the only conclusion that makes any sense.
Occam's razor, principle of parsimony.
If you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras.
Given twins...
go with twins.
Everything is code four.
OFFICER; Central, this is two Baker 16.
Incident number four-three-four- eight-six is code four.
GRISSOM: Well, this isn't a torture chamber,
it's a time capsule.
Wolfowitz inherited this place from his parents.
Took over the deed about ten years ago.
Love what he's done with the place.
I found a blue pill in the car.
Tox came back, didn't matc h any known pharmaceutical.
BRASS: Sampling the company candy.
(creaks)
Shabbat shalom.
Jewish?
(creaking)
Well.
?? ??
GRISSOM: It appears he was meticulously documenting experiments.
This one looks like it deals with craniometry.
I think he was measuring skulls
e. to determine intelligenc
I think this is a gynecological device
from a hundred years ago.
GRISSOM: "Arbeit macht frei."
Work will set you free.
. These words hung over the gates at Auschwitz
WILLOWS: Zoe Kessler
would've made the perfect uberwoman
except for her one brown eye.
, So I guess, uh
, what nature couldn't fix
our Dr. Mengele could, is that it?
Hey, check out the face of the clock.
GRISSOM: No numbers.
(man groaning)
(groaning continues)
(creaks)
Sir?
dic. I'll call a parame
This one's dead.
Massive blood loss was the cause of death.
. Hey, Catherine
So Brass has put the lockdown on the airport,
n. bus depot and train statio
. But so far, no Sneller
Well, the other twin didn't make it.
Well, speaking of twins,
we got a call fr om Social Services.
me. Sneller was their birth na
ted But they were adop
by a Jewish coup le named Wolfowitz.
That explains the Judaica.
I guess Jacob went nurture and Leon went nature.
, Maybe he went Nazi
trying to kill the Jew ish half of himself.
SNELLER: "Those who want to live, let them fight,
"and those who do not want to fight
"in this world of eternal struggle
do not deserve to live."
"The only difference between my research
"and that of the government is funding.
"See: Tuskegee. See: U.S. Naval Hospital.
See: pesticide testing done by U.S. government."
?? ??
(gasps)
(sizzling)
OFFICER (over radio): Copy that, we're gonna reroute .
Uh, let 'em know we'll be th ere in about five minutes.
Have you guys secured the entire perimeter?
The house and the barn?
Yes, sir. All clear.
?? ??
(groaning continues)
(groans loudly)
(moaning)
(whipping continues)
Heather!
Stop it!
No.
Let me finish.
You cannot do this!
No! Let go!
Let...!
No! Please...
(cries)
Stop.
Heather.
(cries): Please...
I'm saying stop.
(gasping)
(sobbing)
) (sobbing continues