Compulsion (CSI)

Infobox Television episode | Title = Compulsion
Series =
Season = 5
Episode = 17
Guests =
Airdate = March 10, 2005
Writer = Josh Berman and Richard Catalani
Director = Duane Clark
Production =
Prev = Big Middle
Next = Spark of Life

Compulsion is the seventeenth episode in the of the popular American crime drama "", set in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Plot Summary

Grissom and his team investigate a case where a stewardess has been violently raped and stabbed to death in her hotel room, in which Ecklie discovers parallels to a five year old cold case. Modern background removal lead them to identify a fingerprint which leads them to a serial offender. Despite the judge turning down their request for a warrant, the team manage to acquire his DNA which doesn't match the semen left at the scene. Analysis of this semen points to the fact the suspect had a vasectomy reversed. Whilst visiting the hotel manger to discuss the bleach found at the scene, Grissom notices that the hotel managers children's ages differ significantly. Asking him about his vasectomy leads the manager to clam up and refuse a DNA sample. In the interview room, Grissom tells the suspect and his lawyer about premeditated psychopaths. As the lawyer is pointing out they have no evidence, Sara wheels in a suitcase. The suspect automatically accuses them of breaking into his car. His lawyer says that if they did break into his car to retrieve the suitcase, the entire case must be thrown out. Sara opens the case...and reveals it is a suitcase identical the victim's, with nothing but a tape recorder inside. The manager's words, however, have already given the CSIs cause to search his car, sealing their case.

Catherine's team assists Detective Cavaliere in the investigation of a young boy savagly beaten to death by a pipe in his own bed, but Nick and Cavaliere get into a bitter disagreement over their methods of finding the culprit. Cavaliere gets a confession after coming down hard on the brother of victim, too hard Nick believes. Nick decides to investigate the evidence, turning up a neighborhood bum who has been causing a nuisance. He is found wearing the fathers blood spattered jumper. Unable to pick between the bum, the father or the son, the team smack a bloody mannequin. The pattern of the spatter lead them to identify the brother as the killer. After meeting the father, the brother admits it was because the victim told everyone about him wetting the bed.

Grissom is very pleased by the work Greg, Sara & Hodges put in to the case. Hodges admits to sniffing the bleach, asking Grissom if he thinks it's odd. As the bleach was unique in its composition, a fact smelling it made appearant, Grissom replies that it's the first thing he's done to impress him.

See also

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External links

*imdb title|id=0534669|title=Compulsion
*Tv.com episode|id=404893|title=Compulsion
*csiguide episode|id=222|title=Compulsion
* [http://www.csifiles.com/episodes/csi/season5/compulsion.shtml "Compulsion"] at CSI Files