User Reviews

Good episode with plenty of twists and turns throughout the course of evidence finding for two separate crimes, one more of an accident during a crime, explanation forthcoming. This one is worth watching for the many avenues the police have to travel before arriving at the conclusions, and guilty party.

The opening crime had Detective Bernstein and Horatio initial look at the barely-clothed man hanging from a tree with visible wounds, a first for both of them; a dead dog is found nearby. Detective Bernstein identifies the body belonging to a Professor Adam Metzger, Anthropology Department, at the university. Student Ned Sante is interrogated by Horatio. Ned was the product of the professor's mock lynching; Ned was humiliated, but did not kill anyone. The dead dog owner is student Ginny Taylor. Ginny says the professor once asked for her to kiss his shoes; she says she did. Her dog was tortured. She had no idea who killed the professor; she did not. Calleigh informs Horatio the content of the rope was bamboo, native to Columbia, coinciding with the Columbian guest lecturer the professor invited. Horatio, Calleigh interrogate the Columbian, after which x-rays reveal the tendons in the man's hands have been severed; Calleigh says he could hardly pick up a pencil. Horatio concludes the Columbian is not our killer.

Calleigh processes the professor's wounds, neither medieval nor conventional weapons were used. Speed has assembled the professor's shredded paper indicating his notes refer to an assistant who possibly either typed the notes or shredded them, however, no prints on the professor's keyboard, no prints on any other office supplies. Horatio says the assistant wiped down blood, not prints. Office accessories including a letter opener in dagger form, showing traces of blood evidence. An image of the professor's face is left on the copy machine's glass, his glued-eyes-open from the found super-glue and cotton sweater threads left on the copy machine. Horatio asks who wears cotton sweaters that they possibly met already. A taser was likely used judging from the wounds. A warrant search for sweater-wearing student Teresa's taser was handed over to Speed.

Horatio's interrogation of Teresa reveals her being tortured over the last year, concealing the scars with wearing cotton sweaters in the eighty-degree weather. Finally, she had enough abuse, tasering him, inflicting wounds with the office equipment accessories, later super-gluing his eyes open, blinding him by placing his head on the open copy machine and setting it to one-hundred copies. Teresa had been an experiment of the professors all along, his assistant mentioned in his shredded notes, she finally realized it and coupled with the insulting things he said about her work, is what put her over the top to kill him, which she admitted.

The other crime was two guys scheming to commit insurance fraud by filing a claim after the one guy's car was pushed in the canal. The guy doing the pushing accidently killed himself in the process of committing the crime. You have to watch to see how this came to be.

This was Megan's last appearance in the series, looking back, the character was reduced to less air time in the past couple episodes. Maybe they had plans of closing out the role, because the actress would move back to her former NYPD Blue character in 2003. The role was never replaced in CSI: Miami, once the character resigned, she never re-appeared.

All together this is one to watch, to see the story unfold to its conclusion. Thumbs up for certain.