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Episode 4.12 Butterflied
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"I couldn't do it."
(Grissom in interview with Dr Lurie)
(Grissom in interview with Dr Lurie)
| See Also:- | 4.12 Butterflied Extra | Butterflied GSR Screencaps |
Original air date: 15th January 2004
Episode # 81
Writers for this episode: David Rambo
Director: Richard J. Lewis
Synopsis:
A nurse is found dead in her house by her friend, who's also a nurse. The victim died in her spacious bathroom, posed with her head facing the door. According to the friend, she was to have dinner with her new boyfriend, Dr. Michael Clark, who works at the same hospital. Processing the crime scene reveals very little evidence because the killer has thoroughly cleaned the place and used bleached to denature any DNA. Dr. Clark, initially a prime suspect, is later found, albeit in pieces, in garbage bins behind the house. The precision of various cuts suggests that a medical personnel is the killer. Meanwhile, this case prompts Grissom to contemplate his workaholic life and whether it is worth the life he may be missing out on. The case ends with not enough evidence to take to the DA to secure a conviction of the prime suspect.
Grissom or Sara related quotes:
Victim details of primary crime:
Victim: Debbie Marlin (Nurse At Desert Palms)
Location: Her home
Suspect(s): Dr Vincent Lurie (Surgeon at Desert Palms)
Victims details of secondary connected to primary crime:
Victim: Dr Michael Clarke (Boyfriend/Lover of above)
Location: Behind Marlin residence in trash cans
Suspect(s): Dr Vincent Lurie (Surgeon at Desert Palms)
Grissom: He kills Debbie in the shower. Then he washes up in both sinks and in the tub? Why?
Catherine: The answer is in the drains.
Greg: Heard about the shower. Nurse, huh?
Sara: Multiple hairs, multiple donors.
Greg: Looks like she had a few "friends" over. A little nurses gone wild. (Sara looks at Greg; he shrugs at her. She looks at another hair, and holds it up) Blanched.
Sara: Killer poured bleach down all the drains.
Greg: Talk about sucking all the life out of DNA.
Doc Robbins: Dismembering an adult male with this much presision and without cutting through the bone. 12 hours minimum.
Catherine: Half of a day. That's patience.
Doc Robbins: The, uh, patella was cleanly removed. And with one slice, the femur was separated from the tibia and the fibula. There's a perverse elegance to this butchery.
Catherine: Well, I'm not so sure I see it that way. A killer with knowledge of anatomy who's tool is a scapel. I think that the butcher was a doctor.
Greg (while Grissom is looking under a microscope): That's the hair from the spare bedroom.
Grissom: There's an oily film on the surface of the hair.
Greg: Propylene glycol. Active ingredient in Rogaine, for male pattern baldness. Personally, I don't use the stuff, but my grandfather Papa Olaf - he was Bruce Willis at age sixteen. Lucky for me, baldness comes from the mother's side, so I'm safe...
Grissom (interrupting): Greg, please, I'm very tired.
Greg: Well, maybe the guy we're looking for is going bald... or trying not to. According to Papa Olaf, a lot of guys who use Rogaine also use Propecia, kind of like a cocktail. I ran the hair through MassSpec. I got four peaks - ethyl alcohol, propylene glycol, minoxidil, and finasteride.
Grissom: Finasteride, the chemical name for Propecia.
Greg: But wait, there's more, and it's a family secret. Sexual. Happens in less than two percent of users. (whispering) Papa Olaf was one of those people that needed hydraulics.
(Grissom's still at the crime scene on his knees looking for evidence)
Catherine: Don't tell me you never went home.
Grissom: Okay. (pause) I just got started in here. I haven't even gotten to the other rooms yet.
Catherine: You know you lose your edge after 16 hours. But you're in your 3rd shift. I mean I'm all for overtime but this is just plain greedy.
Grissom: My knees can't take this anymore.
Catherine: Have you eaten anything?
Grissom: What did you bring?
Catherine: I'll see what's in the fridge. (moves to the kitchen)
Grissom: We have to replace that, you know
Catherine: Feel better? Well now that we fed you, we should probably talk about a shower. (Grissom gives her a look) I mean at your place. You need to go home.
Grissom: As soon as we find some evidence. I promise.
Catherine: With fresh eyes you won't miss it.
Grissom: Just talk it through with me, will ya? What do we know?
Catherine: Alright. Bathroom is where things got started. Candles, oils, steamed shower. Cleaned up, oiled up, sexed up. (Grissom dips his finger in the peanut butter and sticks it in his mouth)
Grissom: Let's go back to the bedroom.
Catherine Ah, the prodigal CSI returns. You get any sleep?
Grissom: Not yet.
Catherine: Brass had to let Dr. Tripton go. The ol' sex alibi. Too bad he didn't leave a toe print on a scapel blade.
Grissom: You got a take on him yet?
Catherine: Balloon head, but credible... like most adulterers
Doc Robbins: Most doctors say it's impossible to prove handedness based on the wounds inflicted on a victim.
Grissom: Forget hard science. What's your hypothesis?
Doc Robbins: Based on micro-incisions and hesitation marks, the victim was lying face up when he was killed. Take a look at the right knee. The cut on the cartilage of the right distal femur has slight angulations from the, uh ... left distal to the right proximal, which suggests the killer was left-handed. This angulation is consistent with cuts made to the acetabulum and to the wrist, but bear in mind, it's not going to be admissible in court.
Grissom: I don't care about court. My mind's on a left-handed, propecia using surgeon, who's probably on staff at Desert Palm
Sara: Hey, you seen Grissom?
Catherine: He's still at the crime scene.
Sara: I eliminated both victims from the print you pulled off the bed.
Catherine: Well, we know she was fishing off the company pier. (Sara nods) You, uh, seen Debbie?
Sara: Yeah.
Catherine: And?
Sara (avoiding): Yeah, I compared her toe prints.
Catherine: If I didn't know any better, I'd think that was you on the table.
Sara: I didn't really look at her face. (pause) If you see Grissom, could you tell him?
GSR moments:
The Grissom, Brass, Lawyer Dr Lurie interview, with Sara listening and watching from the observation room. Grissom declares that he knows he could risk all his life's work for the affections of a young woman who has offered him a new life (Sara, although her name is not specifically mentioned by Grissom), but he admits that he can't do it.
GSR quotes:
Grissom: It's sad isn't it Doc? Guys like us. A couple of middle aged men who have allowed their work to consume their lives. The only time we ever touch other people is when we're wearing our latex gloves. We wake up one day and realize that for fifty years we haven't really lived at all. Then all of a sudden we get a second chance. Somebody young and beautiful shows up, somebody, we could care about. She offers us a new life with her, but we have a big decision to make, right? Because we have to risk everything we've worked for in order to have her. I couldn't do it. But you did. You risked it all. And she showed you a wonderful life, didn't she? But then she took it away and gave it somebody else, and you were lost. So you took her life. You killed them both and now you have nothing.
Dr. Lurie: I'm still here.
Grissom: Are you? (Dr. Lurie leaves, camera pulls back to show Sara on the other side of the glass, watching the entire thing
Funny moments:
(Examining the victims bed)
Catherine: I don't mean to embarrass you but... (pulls sheet off of the footboard) some guys need leverage.
Grissom: They do?
Eww! moments:
When they find the body parts of the second victim in the trash bins, then assemble them out on a tarpaulin, especially the face!
Interesting facts:
William Petersen personally scripted most of his "talk" with the suspect Dr. Lurie. However, when he says We wake up one day & realize that for 50 years we haven’t really lived at all. His character Gil Grissom at present time would only be 48 years old (17 August 1956). William Petersen himself was 51 (21 February 1953) at the time. Dr. Lurie was also in his late 40's.
Erin Carter Hayes - the actress playing Debbie - was chosen for her role in this episode because she previously auditioned for a role on CSI and Richard Lewis remembered how much she resembled Jorja Fox.
George Eads does not appear in this episode. The cover-up reason was that Nick was at the 'American Academy of Forensic Science' convention.
When Grissom and Catherine are examining the bed, they find the red restraints and Grissom says 'Got Silk?".This was a line that William Petersen came up with, and is an obvious allusion to the famous ad campaign 'Got Milk?", encouraging people to buy cows' milk.
The title: Butterflied
Butterflied has an obvious connotation to the butterfly-motifed jewellery and tattoo found with the female victim. However, it also alludes to 'butterflying' whereby chefs remove flesh from bones to make meat cook better, in particular chicken - something that the male victim undergoes in quite a graphic way.
Screencap credit to CaptainSpaz & csinut
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Perhaps as a new suspect in another murder case, a hospital murder case? or there coming to light some new evidence to secure a conviction for the Debbie Marlin case perhaps?
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