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(sirenswailing )
Unit 584-Adam.
Please be advised
we're in pursuit of a BMW
going southbound
on Interstate 15
at a high rate of speed.
( tires screeching )
( tires screeching )
Driver,
roll down your window.
Let me see your hands.
GlRL #1: Don't shoot.
Don't shoot.
Don't shoot.
Don't shoot.
OFFlCER: Dispatch, Unit 584
is a Code Four.
We've got a couple
of girls joyriding.
Rookie, clear the vehicle.
( garbled radio transmission )
More like a four.
"lchabod was horror struck
on perceiving
that he was headless.
"
Sleepy Hollow.
GRlSSOM: Vitreous humor
is glazed over.
What does that mean?
That means that six
to eight hours ago,
somebody lost their head.
Then somebody
lost their head.
"Who are you?
"Who, who, who, who?
"Who are you?
"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!"
Sayonara.
Well, well, what a switch.
You actually beat us here.
It's evaluation day.
Hmm.
Where's Warrick?
He was working spill-over
on another case.
Oh, that's right.
He told me.
I forgot.
Well, maybe we should
be evaluating you.
You're a riot, Alice.
You and I are going
to work the head case.
Goody.
Nick, another homicide.
"4-19" 40 miles outside of Baker.
Okay.
Good I'm on it.
GRlSSOM:
Sara, you go with him.
Yes.
Road trip.
I'm going to go switch boots.
Cath, I'll catch up with you.
I'll meet you at the autopsy.
Head-topsy.
Sit down.
Look, Grissom.
I know this is a bad time
to *** to the boss
but, uh, I've been a CSl Level 3
for nine months now.
I was a CSl before Warrick.
Warrick works d.
b.
's solo.
Why can't I?
Repeat after me.
Silk, silk, silk.
"Silk, silk, silk?"
What do cows drink?
Milk.
Cows drink water.
They give milk.
A simple riddle.
Common sense disguised
in a puzzle of words,
but an excellent barometer
for evaluating
someone's readiness.
Look, I'm not one of your
suspects you can trick, okay?
If I'm not ready, be a man--
tell me I'm not ready.
You're not ready.
You know why I took this job?
Honestly?
I wanted to pack heat,
walk under the yellow tape,
be the man
but mostly, because I want you
to think I'm a good CSl.
And that's the reason
I have to hold you back.
Anybody who's great at anything,
Nick,
does it for their own approval,
not someone else's.
( hard rock playing )
"I'll speak for you
When you're gone"
( turns down volume )
Uh, voice sound familiar?
Kind of sounds
like the daytime coroner.
Gary Telgenhoff?
Yep.
A songwriter in his off-time.
What do you think?
It sucks.
Hmm.
Hey, I just filed for divorce.
I'm feeling a little confident.
I guess.
I like it.
So, where's the head?
Well, police lD'd him at the
scene when they ran his plates
compared the DMV
head shot to the head.
Grissom, Catherine,
meet Victor DaSilva.
What did this?
Hard to tell
without making a mold.
Fatal blow?
Looks like it.
Man, look at those chopping
wounds on the jawbone.
They almost look like
practice swings.
It could've been dark.
Bad aim, maybe?
Definitely a crime of passion.
You think a female could do this?
I could've.
Scared of you.
If you want to know
what "exact" tools were used,
we're going to need to boil the head.
Really?
You want me to prepare it?
Sure.
What, uh,
additive do you put
in your boil?
Laundry detergent.
Works great.
It's like peeling off
a rubber Halloween mask.
Excellent.
Well, I'm out of here.
I'm going to be with Brass;
see if I can get anything
on those Victoria Secret girls.
Where's your Crock-Pot, Doc?
Mr.
Moore.
My grandson won't take my calls.
He'll only talk to you.
I think James called me tonight
because he thought
I could help him.
That was a nice thing you did
giving him your pager number
when he went away,
but he should be calling me.
I'm his grandfather.
I deserve to know
what happened.
James is all right but, uh,
there was a big brawl
at the detention center.
James was at the wrong place,
at the wrong time.
What's my grandson looking at?
If he talks, he'll be dead
inside a month.
Now, if he keeps quiet, the D.
A.
will put the squeeze on him
and he'll probably
end up in the big house.
You could lose your
boy forever then.
Why didn't James call me
tell me?
He probably knew what
your advice would be.
To do the honorable thing.
There's no honor in jail.
Not without a price.
Look, a crime occurred.
CSl's got
full jurisdiction.
I got myself assigned
to the case--
see if I can take James
out of the middle.
Can we offer you girls
something to drink?
Please don't say that word.
You want to tell us
why two college freshmen
were driving a stolen BMW
with a head in the trunk?
We already told you.
We had no idea
that was in the trunk.
Gross.
Now there's a start-- "gross.
"
Gross negligence--
flying down I-15 in a stolen car.
Gross anatomy--
a human bowling ball
in the trunk.
Gross details--
let's hear it.
We lost our friends
at Bar 9- 1-1.
We had no ride home.
We were bored.
So, we started doing shots
of tequila with some guy
who looked like
Iike Cat Stevens.
( girls squealing )
Whoo!
Next thing we know,
we're in his van
playing strip poker.
I can't believe
we're doing this.
It was a blast at first.
Then, um
then he said
the creepiest thing.
So, I met this girl
on the Internet
who offered me
a round-trip ticket
to fly out
and help her end her life.
She wanted me to shove
a tennis ball down her throat.
Lori! Lori, over here! Lori!
Let me guess.
You left your clothes in the van.
We were so out of there.
This guy was weird.
Like way weird.
I was thinking that he was going
to pull a Silence of the Lambs
on me and tell me to "put
the lotion in the basket.
"
You know what I think?
I don't think you two
are murderers.
I think you're
just felony stupid
but for now,
you're being booked
on evading arrest,
grand theft auto
DWl.
You go with this officer here.
MAN ( over P.
A.
system ):
Stabbing in Barracks A.
Lock down in effect.
Guards to their post, please.
I love my Grandpa--
don't get me wrong--
but he's got no idea
how it works in here
and I'm not sure
you do, either.
Why don't you tell me?
First off, this place only sees
two colors: black and white.
You stay with your own.
Despite what those
Chucks think upstairs,
this entire place is
infiltrated with Rolling 60s.
Overflow from L.
A.
Lot of education
in a short time, huh?
Yeah.
I mean, I'm just trying
to survive, man.
I'm 60 days and
a wake-up unless I get got.
James, why don't you take
a deep breath
and tell me what happened here?
First you got to
tell me something.
You got to tell me
what side you're on.
Who's side I'm on?
Who reached out to you, man?
Who put me in here?
James, I'm trying to help you.
All right.
Breaks down like this--
Kingpin from Gerson Park
and Kingpin
from L.
A.
County/Slauson
both under one roof.
It was time for one of them
to stake their claim.
Vegas fool got shanked.
I was sitting right there.
Since I'm the newest face
and only witness,
Iot of fingers pointed
towards me.
So, it's your life versus time.
Basically, yeah
and everybody knows about it.
They're just waiting to see
what I'm going to do.
I sing they send
me a song back.
I shut up
I'm your age when I get out.
Who found the body?
MAN: Department of Agriculture.
They were searching
forwild horses in their chopper
when theyfound it.
None of the boys
would even go near it.
I had to tape
the perimeter myself.
Where is "it"?
Just follow my prints.
Oh, man.
There's no head.
Do you think it's DaSilva?
If it's the rest of him,
he's been skinned.
Uh Hands and feet
have been amputated.
Yeah.
Most likely to avoid lD.
Hey, Sara?
Yeah?
No approaching surface prints.
No tire tracks.
Only O'Riley's boot prints.
These are ours.
Look at the area
around the corpse.
Look at the big dent in
the ground, like a meteor hit.
INMATE: That guy's from
the crime lab.
You gonna spray some chemical
stuff over the barracks, man?
Hey, what you got
in the tackle box, man?
You going fishing?
Hey, brother, what's up?
Let me talk to you
real quick.
Welcome to juvie.
It's all yours.
I'm not sure we
should be doing this.
What are we doing?
Walking through the garage.
Snooping for trace on Grissom
and Catherine's stolen BMW?
All right.
It's simple.
We got the body,
they got the head.
The BMW's fair game.
Come on, Sara,
where's your "Noriega"?
What has gotten into you?
Grissom.
Uh Sara
want to take a look at this?
It's like nothing
I've seen before--
honestly, Gil--
in all my years.
The head or the torso?
Torso.
Look at the width
of the ribcage--
it's enormous-- and
the shoulders are significantly
Iarger in proportion and size
compared to
the average endomorph.
The bone structure
is disproportionate.
Correct.
I measured the tibia and
fibula around the ankle area,
then the radius and the ulna at the
wrists-- the bones are 10-15% larger
than the standard *** sapiens.
Left fracture of the ischial
prominence of the pelvis.
Fracture of the *** synphisus.
Fracture of
the lumbar spine vertebrae
Anything not broken?
No, the trauma's similar to some
of the leapers I get in here:
out of state, out of cash
and out the window.
Suicide by hotel.
This was not a hotel.
What you see here
is the flattening and expansion
of the body
that could only be caused
by the impact
of a very steep fall.
If I know anything, I know
two unequivocal truths:
DaSilva's head does
not belong to this body.
And the reason I know that
is because the torso
is not human.
What is it?
I don't know.
You're going to need
an anthropologist.
Mm-hmm.
Uh-huh.
( sighs )
Squirrels love 'em
they get tossed
at Dodger Stadium
and they make
a hell of a butter.
You're nuts.
You know that.
Exacta mundo.
Peanuts!
Right scope's the shell
Ieft scope's
the skin of the nut.
Think "peanuts Espanol.
"
Peanuts on the gas pedal.
You're kidding.
Mm-mm.
That's one of those funny clues.
Could mean nothing,
could mean everything.
Hmm.
Whoa.
- Who are you, pal?
- I'm Trent Calloway.
Who are you?
I'm Jim Brass.
Homicide.
This is Gil Grissom.
Crime Lab.
Does a Victor DaSilva live here?
Yeah, but he's out.
And you're in.
I'm painting the house.
In the middle of the night?
Back up, Slick.
We got some questions.
GRlSSOM: So when was the last
time you sawVictor DaSilva?
A day or two ago.
This whole painting thing
had him stressed out.
"Picking up airheads
just got easier.
"
Yeah, he worked
freelance, mostly.
He won a "Bandy" award
for that one.
He worked for an ad agency.
What else did he do
for a living?
That's it, as far as I know.
What about you?
I mean, besides painting walls.
I'm a bouncer
at the French Palace.
I throw guys like you out.
( chuckles )
Yeah.
You know,
you don't seem too shook up
about DaSilva's death.
We weren't that close.
We had some mutual friends,
he needed someone
to help him with this place
and, uh, I never
turn down a job.
Well, I hope you
get paid in advance.
Found a picture of Victor DaSilva
and, uh somebody.
What does that mean?
Cut out.
So bizarre, human behavior.
What you can't
cut out of your mind,
you can always cut out
of your photo album.
Why are we in the closet?
I got a call from Greg Sanders,
at our lab.
He found peanut shells
on the foot pedals
of Victor DaSilva's car.
Hmm.
And voila.
Mr.
Calloway, would you mind
coming in here, please?
Mr.
Calloway
is there a remote possibility
that Victor DaSilva ever worked
at a concession stand
of some sort
Iike at a ballpark or
the Secret Garden
of Siegfried and Roy
in the elephants' habitat?
I don't think
it's Victor's style.
This is ridiculous.
Well, not according
to his size 11s.
Telling you
the kids in here
got nothing but time.
You'd be surprised
what they can come up with.
WARRlCK:
Nothing surprises me anymore.
Yeah? Wait awhile.
This is the main thoroughfare
for all the toilets.
All the goods
come through here.
You know, it's funny,
I wanted to be a surgeon.
( sighs )
Step back for Molly.
Step back for Warrick.
Whew!
( groans )
Whew!
( sighs )
Man
Impressive.
ROBBlNS: Dr.
Miller
this is outside my purview
as a coroner.
The specimen's pelvic girdle
and spine
are curved and upright
suggesting the species
may be quadrupedal.
The left and right femur
and humerus are derivative
of the Tarsius.
( sighs )
I think I knowwhat this is.
Your preliminary evaluation
is correct, Dr.
Robbins.
It's not human, it's a primate.
More specifically, a gorilla.
NARRATOR ( on computer ):
Bushmeat Hunters thrive
on the murdering of gorillas
for profit.
In the United States their
meat is considered a delicacy.
It is said if the animal
is ingested,
its great powers will be
passed on to the consumer.
What are you doing?
Working the case.
What case?
The skinned gorilla-- torso
Remember?
I don't think that is a case.
Well, it was
at the start of shift.
A crime has been committed.
I hate to be the one
to state the obvious, but, uh
this isn't a human being
we're dealing with--
it's an animal.
And
And every time
a dog gets run over,
you can't go to the vet
to examine it.
( chortles )
I can't believe you.
You, with your pet tarantula,
your maggot farms, that
Komodo dragon on back order
You should be more sympathetic
to the senseless ***
of an innocent gorilla.
You're right.
I apologize.
I was just checking to see
where your head was at.
For now, you're working alone.
Catherine needed Nick.
Bummer.
We got another dead body call.
Wait.
Is he missing a head?
Maybe.
Meantime, you're on standby
in case Nick needs backup.
Your evaluation form.
"Overall performance:
Outstanding.
"
"Ability to prioritize:
Improvement needed.
"
You up for a riddle?
Sure.
Why not?
Okay, repeat after me:
Silk, silk, silk.
Silk, silk, silk.
What do cows drink?
Water.
Why?
Never mind.
Who thought that a toothbrush
could take a kid's life?
Well, the son of a *** was
crafty, I'll give him that.
Melted the end of the toothbrush
to insert the razor blade.
Then why the rubber band?
Concealment.
Oh, that's deep.
Yeah.
Now all I got to do
is put this shank
in someone's hand.
Hey
here's something new.
The cousin of footprints.
Sock prints Iook.
That's not from a shoe.
Look at the fabric impressions.
The guy ran out of here
in his socks.
Mm-hmm.
Perp thought he could
cover his tracks
by taking off his shoes.
He thought wrong.
Manager spotted the blood
during a night sweep.
Want to knowwho the
shed was registered to?
Victor DaSilva.
Our head.
Oh
So this is the rest of his body?
It ain't gorilla.
( sighs )
Well, this amount of blood
suggests that the victim
was killed here.
Why don't I do the one-to-ones
and you start looking
for the weapon?
Yeah, whatever punctures,
whatever chops.
Bob Villa.
Paul Bunyan.
WlLLOWS: By the way, what
about my evaluation?
Keep up the good work,
Catherine.
Are those molds dry yet?
They're tacky.
Hmm, positive to positive.
That'll never hold up in court,
though.
We're going to need
to make negative molds.
Tabling the ax.
Hammer time.
Um
Pretty close.
All right, I fed the measurements
from the claw end of the hammer.
Something doesn't seem
right about this.
Why would you use the claw end
of the hammer to kill him
and not the hammer end?
Wait a minute.
Maybe it wasn't about
hitting him in the head.
Maybe it was about
fitting him in the locker.
So, the footlocker
had no head room.
Exactly.
So, uh, tricky Nick,
what did you get
on your evaluation?
It's private.
Yeah, but how many "outstandings"
did Grissom give you?
Enough.
What did he tell you to look for?
Grissom didn't tell me anything.
I put this together myself.
Give me some light here,
will you, partner?
Yeah.
All right, it's like this:
sock prints were found
at the crime scene, size 11.
Shoes Grissom took from
the closet here, size 11.
DaSilva's shoe size: Ten.
So whose size 11 's were they?
Grissom missed something.
( sighs )
SlDLE: "Spur's Corral.
"
I know that place.
They give you peanuts
for starters
instead of bread
or chips and salsa.
I'm calling Grissom.
Look, you obviously
don't need my help.
I-I got go put
something to rest.
See you later?
All right, thanks.
GRlSSOM:
The body from the storage shed--
it's Victor DaSilva, all right.
We ran his prints.
It's nice that he
still had his hands.
I was wrong about
the cause of death.
The hammer didn't do it?
No.
He was shot point blank
in the heart.
.
380.
Imagine the human heart
as an apple.
Instant liquefaction.
We found everything else
in that shed;
I don't know why
we didn't find a gun.
Well, maybe he was shot
somewhere else?
That would explain the plastic.
What plastic?
You never told me
about any plastic.
I didn't?
Oh.
The victim was wrapped
in a plastic sheet.
Victor DaSilva's entire house
was covered in plastic.
He was having it painted.
Really?
Who's the painter?
Nobody famous.
Yet.
You had access
to Victor DaSilva's house?
- Yeah, I was painting it.
- You own a gun?
I don't mean a paint gun.
No.
WlLLOWS: Let's get to it.
What's your shoe size?
Why?
I have a shoe fetish.
I love feet.
It's 13.
Take off your shoes and socks.
We need to verify.
Okay
step on the paper.
Two sizes too big.
You can go.
I'd tell you not to step
on the evidence, but, uh
Yeah, but what's the point?
Pretty good gimmick
they got here, though.
You eat peanuts,
toss the shells on the floor--
nobody gives a rat's ***.
No, Victor DaSilva
never worked here.
We found one of your
uniforms in his closet.
Any idea how it got there?
Guys-- look, boss, I'm sorry.
I thought I was on
to something here.
I had a conflict in shoe sizes.
So, I thought I'd play a hunch.
Sara was right there.
We checked out the shoes
( Nick continues talking
in background )
so that's why I
buzzed you guys down.
You got to follow your hunches,
right?
Yeah, sure.
Tim? You still got that picture
that you took from DaSilva's house?
Yeah.
Yeah, here it is.
What? You're looking
at the sombrero?
The earrings.
Victor DaSilva was here
with someone
he cut out of his life.
Probably his girlfriend.
Excuse me.
You recognize this ear?
You got to be kidding me.
Wait a minute.
Yeah, I do.
I do recognize those earrings.
GRlSSOM: Fred Applewhite?
You all here for lunch?
No.
Take out.
I heard you were
disassembling the gorilla.
For purposes of disease control.
Per the CDC,
I have to take samples
and dispose of this animal
immediately.
Well, I've been trying to find
out who did this to her
and, um, I have some questions.
You ask, I'll answer.
Why amputate the gorilla's head?
It's a trophy.
American fetishers
would pay up to $10,000
for the head
of a Low Land Gorilla.
The hands and feet?
Novelty items.
Sold as ashtrays.
Here Nick and I were thinking
it was to avoid lD.
Why skin it?
Purses, shoes, boots
it's sad.
Genetically, we're 92.
7%
identical with gorillas.
It's hard to tell where the human
ends and the animal begins.
Well said.
I checked out
a couple of websites
Bushmeat.
net, Gorilla.
org.
I think she was killed
probably in Cameroon or Congo
transported
to the Port of Los Angeles.
Dismembered, packaged
Ioaded onto a small plane.
En route, they dumped
what they couldn't sell
but, uh, I just have
to find the plane.
Needle in a haystack.
Chances are, whoever did
this are halfway
around the world by now.
There must be something
I can do.
Actually, there is.
For everyone that parts,
one stands above ground.
Okay, Mr.
Applewhite
take a walk.
Okay, great.
Now, Mr.
Applewhite
this time, I want you
to do something different.
This time
run.
GRlSSOM: Footprints are almost
as reliable as fingerprints
and every step tells a story.
The first few steps,
you were walking.
See the complete heel, arch
and five little piggies?
The next few steps, however
the heel disappears.
All of the pressure was put
on ball of the foot
and toes.
Why?
'Cause you were running
and my guess is that on the day
you had a head in your hand.
STOKES: You see,
everyone's foot makes
a unique well impression.
Check it out.
The, uh,
width
the ball of the foot
instep arch
and, uh
size 11 for dessert.
GRlSSOM: Mr.
Applewhite
your footprints place
you at the crime scene.
Victor and I were partners.
We shared everything
including in our house
and in the storage shed.
We know that.
When did you move out?
Three months ago.
He found somebody else
kicked me out.
And you took all your
possessions with you?
Not everything.
So, you were
hoping for a reconciliation.
Yeah.
I thought once Victor got
this new guy out of his system,
he'd come around.
But he didn't, did he?
That's why you went to
his house last night.
Who said I went there?
The plastic--
you know
the plastic that you lay down
when you paint a house
the kind of plastic
that you, uh
wrap a dead body in
the plastic that we found
your fingerprints on.
Let me tell you what
I think happened.
Take what you want.
I don't care.
I've moved on.
What do you think you're
going to do, just paint me
out of your life?
- Just take what you want and get out.
I'll tell you what I want.
Damn it!
God!
So, what did you forget?
You wouldn't believe it,
but I forgot to lock the shed.
BRASS: And when you came
back out your car was gone.
Yeah.
I don't know who took it.
We do.
Lori! Lori!
You know, that reminds me--
I got to remember
to take Greg Sanders to lunch.
He did a nice job
sniffing out those peanuts.
Yeah, he did.
We were waiting for you.
Meet Ronnie Connors.
Where's his attorney?
What are you talking to
him about my business?
Ask me.
Where's your lawyer?
Ask him.
How's your plaque?
My what?
Your teeth.
I mean, how many toothbrushes
does a guy need?
Apparently, for you
it's as many as it takes
to make the perfect shank.
Let me tell you
something, breeze.
I'm LA County/Slauson
payback Crip, cuz.
I got a lot of
offspring up in here--
black as night.
They answer to me
because I'm the macaroni.
I mean, seriously
you have any idea who
you're talking to?
Yeah.
So, why don't I have to testify?
The evidence will testify for you.
Ronnie Connors
bought a toothbrush
and some rubber bands
at the commissary.
He didn't know it
but that's the last shank
he'll ever make.
How'd you know it was RC's?
Before he made the shank,
he shaved with the same razor.
His DNA was
all over the blade.
Oh, God.
I owe you, man.
It's not me
you have to thank.
I love you, Grandpa.
You're all I got, James.
You're everything
to me, you hear?
I thought you said we
were grabbing a beer.
We are, after this.
Aw, Grissom, you know,
this is your thing.
-Ah- ah-ah.
Every nine years and 34 days,
I feel like sharing.
You'll like it.
It cleanses you.
Cleanses me?
Whatever happened
to my evaluation?
You're sitting in it.
"speak for you
when you're gone
"I'll speak for you when
your lips are cold and blue
Dead men do tell tales,
I'll speak for you"
Ahhh! Ah, ah, ah!