CSI Miami Episode 703 “And How Does That Make You Kill?”

For a more detailed episode review, please read here.

This episode deals with the mur­der of Delko’s therapist’s daugh­ter, and even­tu­ally the ther­a­pist her­self. Somewhat dis­ap­point­ing, this episode was weak on a few fronts.

The first being Horatio’s open­ing line, “So did I.” I don’t care how you spin that one, it just wasn’t funny or punny.

The sec­ond being the most sig­nif­i­cant thing to come out of the episode was Calleigh find­ing out Delko would like to set­tle down and marry her.

There are a vari­ety of dif­fer­ent foren­sic avenues explored in try­ing to iden­tify the killer:

Blood sam­ple found on the therapist’s “couch”.

Finger prints dis­cov­ered on the inside of the therapist’s con­fi­den­tial client files.

Brain mat­ter dis­cov­ered on scissors.

The blood sam­ple found in the office wasn’t in CoDIS (Combined DNA Index System). This came as a real shocker. Usually Miami is guilty of the instant CoDIS hit that leads to the suspect’s first inter­ro­ga­tion with Horatio. They saved face though, the DNA pro­file was found in the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children data­base. The search took all of 3 seconds.

The ther­a­pist accused Delko of some of the CSIs tak­ing her con­fi­den­tial client files. Delko inves­ti­gates the issue, and locates fin­ger­prints on the inside of the file cab­i­net. He explains to the ther­a­pist that it wasn’t a CSI, because they wear gloves and wouldn’t leave prints. The prints, how­ever, end up belong­ing to the therapist’s son who stole the files and sold them to a rich client of the ther­a­pist who was afraid con­fi­den­tial infor­ma­tion would be leaked about his sessions.

Eventually we find out the therapist’s actual killer was the ex-wife of one of her clients. The man was get­ting ther­apy that was actu­ally work­ing, and the ex-wife was afraid the courts might grant him par­tial cus­tody. So the ex-wife showed up to kill the ther­a­pist to pre­vent her hus­band from get­ting any addi­tional help in ther­apy. She just made the mis­take of killing the therapist’s daugh­ter from behind on accident.

When the daugh­ter was killed, she was stabbed from behind by a pair of scis­sors. When the scis­sors were exam­ined by Delko, a piece of tis­sue (visu­ally iden­ti­fied by Delko as brain tis­sue) was found on the scis­sors. The DNA of course matched the vic­tim, and the killer was found.

The ther­a­pist was killed later that same day, when an extremely needy client was upset when the ther­a­pist couldn’t see him that day due to the death of her daugh­ter. The client showed up at her house and shot her.

Delko and Calleigh ille­gally read through client files in order to try and find which client might have killed the ther­a­pist. Eventually they came across the likely can­di­date, inter­viewed him, and he con­fessed quite indignantly.

That might be a record, even for CSI Miami. A mur­der spawned by the mur­der of some­one else later that same day. Both mur­ders were solved using two DNA CoDIS hits, and an AFIS (Automated Fingerprint Identification System) before quit­ting time!

More sur­pris­ingly, the boy who was involved in a cus­tody bat­tle (approx­i­mately 11 — 12 years old), is happy at the end of the day, with his mom being charged with murder.