Gentle, Gentle

Infobox Television episode
Title= Gentle, Gentle
Series=
Season = 1
Episode = 19
Guests=
Airdate = April 12, 2001
Production =
Writer = Ann Donahue
Director = Danny Cannon
Season list = CSI season 1 episode list
Episode list =
Prev = $35K O.B.O.
Next = Sounds of Silence"Gentle, Gentle" is the nineteenth episode from the of the popular American television crime drama, "", which is set in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Plot summary

Gil Grissom and the team investigate the apparent kidnapping of a baby, but the evidence tells otherwise and soon it becomes a murder investigation. Unusually, Grissom becomes emotionally affected as the truth is uncovered.

Episode recap

Gwen Anderson wakes up in the early hours of the morning. She goes to her baby son's room to find he's missing and the window is wide open. Grissom arrives at the scene and the mother and her husband Steve are waiting for him with the ransom note. Grissom is interested in the open soda bottle on the kitchen counter. The father informs him he opened it when he called 911. Grissom requests an unopened soda bottle, a piece of Zack's (the baby) clothing and blood samples from the entire family. Grissom tells Sara to examine the ransom note and to take the Anderson's computer printer with her to the lab. He also gives Nick the opened and unopened soda bottles and tells him to open the bottle at 72ºF. Sara finds out the note doesn't match the Anderson's printer, so Grissom tells her to get a warrant for all the printers at the Mr. Anderson's office. The scent dogs start barking and Grissom and Warrick run to meet them. They find Zack's body carefully placed under a statue at the golf course. The autopsy reveals that Zack died due to asphyxiation. Grissom thinks it’s possible maybe his abductor accidentally smothered him, but Dr. Robbins believes the crime was too violent to have been accidental. Grissom and Catherine talk to the Anderson’s explaining why they can’t release the body and that the way Zack’s body was treated isn’t consistent with a stranger having abducted him. Grissom and Catherine find a pair of nylons with green stains, an empty bag that once contained a baby blanket and a roll of rubbish bags, at the Anderson’s house.Nick tells Grissom at the lab that the soda bottle was opened at 11:30pm (which isn’t consistent with the time when 911 was called). A set of prints on the ransom note is matched to Needra Fenway, Steve Anderson’s secretary; her printer also matches the ransom note.

Fenway says she was having an affair with Steve, but that she ended it. Grissom says her hair was found in the crib and Catherine tells her that getting rid of Zachary would’ve been an easy way to end Steve and Gwen’s marriage. Dr. Kane (psychologist) informs Grissom that mother sometimes kill their children in order to avenge their husbands’ affairs.

Zack’s time of death is placed at around 9pm and Dr. Robbins discovers the fiber that was in his throat is Metaradim, a fire retardant. Grissom finds an oven mitt at the Andersons’ house that matches the fiber. Catherine and Warrick replay the 911 call. They hear a distressed Gwen and then Catherine suggests checking if Tyler (the older son) has a cell phone.At a meeting between Grissom and Catherine and the Andersons’ lawyers the CSIs are granted three questions for each family member. Grissom informs them the evidence has already told them what happened. After the CSIs tell the story Gwen confesses to the crime and says her husband and older son were only lying to protect her. She tells them she accidentally smothered Zack with a pot holder, when he wouldn’t stop crying. When Warrick hears Gwen and Steve have been arrested he is very surprised, because on a recording from Tyler’s cell phone you can hear him shout “What did you do Robbie?” (Robbie is the middle son). Tyler tells Gil and Brass what happened. He was on the phone with his girlfriend, and when he turned around he saw Zack dead and his younger brother Robbie standing over him with a pot holder in his hand. He called 911, but then got disconnected. When his parents returned home they found him performing CPR. Steve tells Grissom they didn’t tell the truth, because they didn’t want Robbie to have to live with the fact that he’d killed his baby brother.

See also

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External links

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