'Miami' Investigates A Crime Of The Flesh

See Also: 'Legal' Episode Guide

Miami is home to some of the country's trendiest nightclubs, and Flesh is surely among them. The young, rich, and beautiful flock to the club for drinks and more. But one person won't leave the club alive: a young girl who is the victim of a stabbing in one of the club's posh bathrooms in the fifth episode of CSI: Miami's third season, "Legal".

CSI Files sources revealed that Yelina Salas calls Horatio to the scene. Alexx examines the girl's body and determines that she was stabbed to death, but the weapon that killed her wasn't a knife. The wound is jagged. The girl's larynx was crushed when her attacker punched her in the neck, preventing her from screaming.

Horatio notices an implant in the girl's shoulder and Alexx removes it, revealing it to be a microchip. The owner of Flesh, Leo Shaw, tells Horatio that the microchip contained the girl's credit card number. Apparently the girls who didn't want to bother carrying around their credit cards would have these microchips implanted so that the bars could directly charge the cover charge to their credit cards. Shaw tells Horatio he doesn't recognize the dead girl.

Calleigh and Ryan Wolfe, CSI's newest recruit, examine some of the club goers who may have partied with the victim. These kids are Miami's new jet set--and many of them are underage. Sugarcane empire heir Jack Warner Bradford reluctantly submits to a scan and swab, as does his sometime girlfriend, Venus Robinson.

At the CSI lab, Tyler Jensen scans the microchip and obtains the dead girl's name: Lindsay Price. But the address attached to the credit card presents Horatio with a puzzle: it's a government building, specifically the one where the Department of Alcoholic Beverage and Tobacco is housed.

Diana Eckhart from the ABT clears things up when she tells Horatio that Lindsay was working undercover for ABT. When Horatio notes that the girl was only eighteen, Diana tells him that in order to bush clubs for serving minors, they have to use underaged volunteers. Diana admits that Lindsay should have been supervised by agents, but notes that the ABT is understaffed right now. Horatio is unimpressed, and thinks he may have found a motive for murder when he sees that Flesh is one of the clubs Lindsay was specifically targetting.

Horatio and Delko pay another visit to Leo Shaw, who claims at the time of the murder he was with a beautiful young woman named Nina, who stands next to him nervously and corroborates his story. Leo says he didn't know Lindsay was with the ABT, or even that Flesh was targetted, but he gets nervous when Horatio wants to look around in the back. When he does, he spots a suspicious SUV out back, that races away when Horatio approaches...

Please note that these plot details have not yet 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 information comes from an early draft of the script and aspects of the episode may change before it goes to air.

"Legal" will likely air in October or November 2004.

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