"Fannysmackin"" | |
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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation episode | |
Episode no. | Season 7 Episode 4 |
Directed by | Richard J. Lewis |
Written by | Dustin Lee Abraham |
Original air date | October 12, 2006 |
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"Fannysmackin' " is the fourth episode in the seventh season of the American crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, set in Las Vegas, Nevada.
A Hispanic man gets off work from his job at a casino hotel. After calling his wife, he is ambushed in the parking garage and beaten to death. Gil Grissom and Catherine Willows are called to the scene and identify the dead man as Vasco Ruiz. Grissom finds pictures of the victim's two children.
A young woman walks the streets, clutching a tall souvenir daiquiri glass and clearly inebriated. She, too, is ambushed and beaten, but she survives the attack. The second crime scene is discovered and Warrick and Nick take the case. Warrick discovers that Grissom's scene is five blocks from his and Nick's, and begins to think that the two are related.
In the autopsy for Ruiz, the cause of death is determined to be multiple blunt force trauma. Catherine finds a toenail in Ruiz' mouth. Sara takes pictures of the female victim—Jessica Hershbaum—and shows her characteristic sympathy towards the young woman. Sara finds a bruise on Jessica that appears to be a backwards "F", and Jessica says that the thugs who beat her up said that she was "number two for the night". A flashback is shown of the gang attacking the victim and the leader wearing a pig mask.
While Catherine has found shoe treads on Ruiz' shirt, Greg walks in wearing a suit and announces that he just came from court, in his first beginning-to-end investigation (crime scene to court room). He helps Catherine by isolating footprints on Ruiz' pants, while saying that he had a date with the prosecuting attorney. They find five different shoe treads. Greg speculates that the two attacks could be hate crimes since Ruiz is Hispanic and Jessica is Jewish.