S07E05. Why So Serious?
Day in the city, day on a quiet neighborhood until the peace is cut-off by police cars arriving at a 911 call and, when they get inside the house, they find a man dead on the kitchen floor and, upstairs, they found a woman, naked with a smile carved on her face…
The scene changes to Det. Bruce Chase and Det. Karla King arriving at the scene to check up with the police about the case and they mention the naked woman as a possible witness of what happened…
Inside Dra. Danko analyze the dead man and determine that he was killed from the back with a gun and, extracting the bullet out of the man's back, she gives it to King for analysis…
Bruce looks at the woman scars and, intrigued, only adds, not on a funny mood, "It looks like someone wanted to make her to smile more often…"…
(Opening Credits)
The woman is transferred to the CSI: BA Team building for questioning while placing the "initial" evidences in place to start building a solid case quickly… the police notice that the door was intact… no forced entry…
Bruce talks to Dr. Steven Hamilton about the victim, Chelsea Myers, and Dra. Danvers shows up with the medical tests on Chelsea… she was raped…
Meanwhile Det. King runs the ballistic test to discover the murder and it turns out to be a .44 Magnum Colt Anaconda so she runs the database on the WDTS (Weapons Database Tracking System) and she smiles upon finding something interesting
Dra. Danvers talks with Bruce while Dr. Hamilton tries to talk to Chelsea, who's really traumatized, and Dra. Danvers tells Bruce about Chelsea's smile carved on the face… she has a cut on each side of the face, starting from the corners of the lips and going up on the cheek probably made by some sort of stabbing weapon… probably a butterfly knife…
Also Dr. Gibbons shows his toxicology reports on Chelsea's blood: she was drugged with something so the rapist could do "whatever-he-wanted" with her… such as rape her without to many complications
Bruce is called by Det. King and Morgan and both show him that, three months ago, a Colt Anaconda .44 Magnum bullet was recovered by the local police on a house… also the woman that was living there, Julia Gaines, was found in the same condition as Chelsea Myers only that she didn't say anything to the police because she was scared that whatever-happened-to-her could happen again if she talked
Bruce asks King to get Riggs and visit Mrs. Gaines and try to talk to her while he and Morgan will try to "break" Chelsea to get details on what happened… Dra. Danko shows up saying that the dead man on Myers home was Ryan Rourke…
Dr. Hamilton gets out of the room revealing that Chelsea is very traumatized due to the "rape experience" but she revealed something she could "possibly" remember… her attackers wasn't just ONE man… but SIX!!!!
King and Riggs arrive to Julia Gaines resident and she invite them inside and King tells her that the plastic surgeon did a great job fixing her "smiley face" from her face and Julia says that, three months after the attack… she still sees herself on a mirror every morning remembering it because the plastic surgeon made the EXTERNAL scar left on her dessapeared… but the INTERNAL one its still inside of her… every day…
Riggs asks her about what she can remember about the attack but Julia says that she's not going to talk about the attack even when King reveals to her about Chelsea Myers and Julia smiles saying that THEY'RE MORE THAN THEY CAN IMAGINE and show to the detectives that she, and other women, made a group were women attacked by the same rapist gathered and try to, together, to move on… the number of women in the group are 13… so they have 13 women attacked by the same rapist!!!
Bruce talks to Dra. Danko who's making more tests on the things found on Chelsea Myers home and Dra. Danko mentions that, when she was 15 YOs, living in Russia, her parents heard some sort of urban legend known as "The Smiley Gang": a group of six men that offered their victims to be killed or raped and, if the victim choose rape, after raping her they carved a smile on their faces to "mark" them up… her parents, after hearing the story, were afraid and the fear spread all over the Netherlands and Belgium by e-mails but it was, apparently, proved to be just a hoax…
Suddenly Dra. Danko grabs a beer can found on the kitchen scene and, running a test, she finds DNA… Bruce assumes that it may be from Ryan Rourke but its not… so they have a suspect!!
Det. King and Riggs return to archives and they find out the names of the 13 women Julia Gaines told them about (all "members" of the post-rape group she built) and all had plastic surgeries done on their faces… to remove their "smiley faces" so it seems that Chelsea Myers wasn't just a victim… but the number 15 of a group of Gang Rapists…
Bruce and Morgan arrive at a local garage were they ask for a guy called Braddock and the man shows up asking them why they are asking for him and Bruce asks him, after showing him his badge, if he knows a woman called Chelsea Myers and Braddock says that he does… he works in her house as a gardener (He shows them his tools so they can believe him and some checks were Chelsea paid him for the job)
Morgan asks him if he saw something odd recently but Braddock says he knows nothing and he says, when Bruce mention his DNA on a beer can, that "That night Chelsea asked him to take out the trash before paying him and, after he took it out, he got inside and she offered him a beer can because he was thirsty because he worked all day under the burning sun"
Bruce asks him about Ryan Rourke and Braddock mentions that he knew him it was Chelsea's boyfriend and, before they can continue talking, Ray, one of the workers, interrupts asking Braddock if everything is alright (Question that Bruce answers saying that everything is alright)
Upon leaving Morgan notice that one of the workers has a butterfly knife on his right ankle almost entirely hidden inside his left boot but he leaves without saying anything…
The whole team gathers to check on the case: King and Morgan share the information about the other 13 women attacked by the same rapist and every attack occurred within a month so they have a rapist, or rapists, that attack once every month and the victims are all single that live in their homes alone… except for Chelsea Myers… and the theory comes along: That night it was supposed that Chelsea was going to be alone but Ryan showed up and he had to die…
Bruce and Morgan look at each other and Bruce asks to check on Braddock, and Ryan (the other worker), records and to do the same with the other four workers they saw on that garage…
One of the garage workers, Namond Bryce, appears on the Police Records having records involving three robberies all to local pharmacies… so they cuff him-up and bring him for questioning
King and Morgan get inside the interrogation room but Namond says that the robberies are "thing of the past" and that he's clean now and Mr. Braddock took him so he can have $$$ out of the garage and leave a normal life
King mentions that the "stuffs" Namond always stole were chemicals that, combined, could create chloroform or something as strong as chloroform and Namond says that, combined right, it can create a powerful drug and he claims that, back "in his days", he was a drug addict but no more so no more robberies
Bruce is theorizing with Riggs that maybe Namond is THE ONE that injects the victims with the chloroform drug so he, and the gang, can rape the victim without much struggle and Riggs, reading the rest of the files of the workers, find out that Clarence Serroy, another worker, has a second job… on a local pharmacy and Bruce notice something so he gets inside the interrogation room to look more closely at a tattoo Namond has on his right arm… a smiley face…
Riggs and Morgan arrive at the local pharmacy were Serroy works and the owner reveals that, a month ago, a delivery of chemicals was supposed to bring 50 boxes of it… but, when he count them, there were only 49…
King discovers that another worker of that garage, RYAN Ricks, was working in Julia Gaines home as the gardener… so Ryan in Gaines house and Braddock in Chelsea's… both had the respective keys of the home that's why there was no forced entry…
Riggs and the local police get to the garage and arrest Braddock and his five-man crew for questioning and they all have the same smiley face tattoo on their right arms… but none is talking…
Morgan takes one of the workers, Thomas Till, butterfly knife from the police after they searched the guy and take it to Dra. Danko so she can run tests on the knife while King and Bruce talk and they decide to squeeze the one with police problems: Namond…
Namond is not cooperating but Bruce and King pressure him with his records that he could return back to prison and, when the Till's butterfly knife turns out to have DNA trails on its blade, Dra. Danko matches the blood sample… it's from Chelsea Myers…
Till is accused for raping Chelsea Myers and then using his knife to carve the smiley face on her face while the police searches Braddock's garage and find a safe box… they break the lock and find a Colt Anaconda .44 Magnum!!!!
They have Till with the knife, Namond with the chemicals and Braddock for the murder weapon and Ryan Ricks for working in Julia Gaines house (the key) but they have nothing on the other two workers: Mack and C-Guy…
Namond confesses the chemicals and involves the whole crew also Till and, when they come up for Braddock (pointed as the "leader") he has the weapon against him so he confesses that the whole garage gang is involved in the rapes but that its not a big deal… they'll be sent to prison yeah but they are going to be together as what they are… A GANG…
Bruce smiles saying that Mack and C-Guy, as there's no actual evidence against them, they'll get out sooner than him, Till, Ryan and Namond but also Bruce tells Braddock that he will send each of them to six different prisons so they can live, in prison, the same experience their victim suffered… because prisoners love rapists… they treat them the same way they treat their victim receiving the same TREATMENT…
Braddock looks at Bruce saying that hes a good guy and that he cant do that but Bruce smiles and answers "oh yeah I can… and this (his badge) allows me to do so…" and leaves…
The whole crew is cuffed and accused for raping Chelsea Myers, Julia Gaines and 13 other victims…
With the case closed everyone return home and Bruce is thinking in his office when King arrives asking him if everything is fine which Bruce answers that everything is fine and both leave…
THE END
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RECURRING CHARACTERS:
-Dr. Steven Hamilton (Joe Morton)
-Dr. Matthew Gibbons (Juan Gil Navarro)
NEXT EPISODE: Blind Sight
The CSI: BA Team becomes involved in the case of Russell Bell… a man connected with drug organizations and money laundering all the way up to the political ladder…
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