First “Post Mortem’’ Plot Details Revealed

According to CSI Files sources, “Post Mortem” will open with an elderly woman, Penny Garden, at home listening to old 45s on her record player as she drinks cherry liqueur and smokes a cigarette while clipping coupons.

From Garden’s backyard, looking in through a thick glass window in her sun porch, a 5’8’-ish figure is seen inside the house with Garden. The silhouettes merge and meld, as if dancing, but their movements are too erratic for the music. Suddenly, the glass explodes outward from the impact of a human body.

Catherine examines Garden’s home and finds a drawer neatly packed with a host of prescription medications: Activan, Compazine, Zofran, Dulcolax, Senokot, Protonix and Prilosec.

Brass interviews Garden’s next door neighbor, Jason Tua, a Samoan man in his 20s. Tua says he was just hanging with his boys, indicating toward two large homeboys sitting in lawn chairs drinking beers, when all of a sudden he thought he heard someone breaking into Garden’s home, but it turned out it was Garden breaking out. He didn’t hear any voices, yelling or screams.

Further investigation reveals Tua to be the first suspect in Garden’s murder. Tua is a drug dealer who may have had his sights set on Garden’s prescription for hard to get painkiller fentanyl. Garden was prescribed 40 pills a month, but didn’t have any in her house.

Meanwhile, Greg’s actions in “Fannysmackin’,” which is scheduled to air three weeks earlier, come back to haunt him. In “Fannysmackin’,” Greg saves the life of Stanley Tanner, who he witnesses on the receiving end of a violent gang beating. In the process of saving Tanner, Greg accidentally runs over a young black man, Demitrius James. After James dies as a result, Greg finds himself facing a Coroner’s Inquest – a check-and-balance on the powers of the Sheriff’s office. A jury will rule on whether James’ death was “justifiable,” “excusable,” or “criminal.”

Please note that the above plot details have not been confirmed by CBS, Alliance Atlantis or Bruckheimer Films, and until such time you should treat this information as you would any other rumour. The above information comes from early script drafts and the details of the episodes are liable to change before the episodes are shown.

“Post Mortem” is expected to air on the 9th of November, 2006.

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