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506: Curse of the Coffin
 | Click EasyEdit to add to this page. Original air date: October 23, 2006 Watch this episode on Innertube. Talk about this episode. Read the full recap at CBS.com. |
The Quotable Caine:
"But we don't scare that easily...do we Alexx?!"
Episode Recap:
After a 'cursed' coffin is found beside a dead female, her husband orders the team to get rid of it. A series of mysterious things happen, like a body waking up in the morgue, Ryan's hands going suddenly numb, and Natalia ending up in an explosion. Everyone believes it's the coffin causing all the trouble.
A young woman runs to a car and frantically tries to start it, only to have it go into lockdown mode, trapping her inside. When an officer arrives, she tells him her friend is dead and fears her killer may still be inside. Alissa Valone lies dead in her living room, her body still warm. Beside her is a small coffin. Alexx determines that she was beaten to death with a golf club. Ryan speaks with Officer Michael Lloyd, the patrolman who discovered the young woman, Alyssa's best friend Danielle Madison, in the car. Lloyd is from the auto theft detail, and he tells Ryan the car was a decoy, rigged to lock up if anyone tried to steal it. Danielle claims her own car was in the shop and that she fled Alyssa's house after trying to revive her. Delko and Ryan investigate the house, and Delko is spooked when he and Ryan discover a shrine of sorts in a closet; Alyssa was a practitioner of Santeria, a blend of Catholicism and Voodoo. Delko refuses to handle the severed goat head in the closet. Calleigh and Tripp trace the golf club to Alyssa's estranged husband, Trevor, who tells them it's been weeks since he's spoken to his wife. He claims she was holding his golf clubs hostage, and that the one used to kill her was worth ten thousand dollars. He insists had he been in the house, he never would have left the club behind. Ryan heads down to the morgue to talk to Alexx, and is thrown when he sees a body move--and then sit up. He calls Alexx, but when he brings her to the body, it's no longer moving, and Ryan is thrown when the man doesn't look like the body he saw. Valera gets a match for epithelials under Alissa's nails, and Ryan is shocked to recognize the man, Ed Smith, as the body from the morgue. When he pulls Ed's file and brings it to Alexx, he's shocked to discover his hands are completely numb. Alexx discovers tetradoxin, or blowfish poison, powder on his hands, and Ed's folder and the gurney he was on. Ed, who stole four million dollars in gold and was scheduled to go on trial for the theft, apparently used the poison to fake his own death. Calleigh visits the Botanica, where Alissa purchased her Santeria supplies. The store owner recognizes Alissa, and recalls her boyfriend Jeremy made purchases as well. The CSIs question the man, and Jeremy tells them the goat was a prosperity sacrifice. When questioned about Alissa's death and the coffin found near her, Jeremy becomes agitated and begs them to burn it. Alexx discovers Trevor, a doctor, signed Ed's death certificate, and Alissa's husband is again brought in for questioning. Trevor admits he felt bad for Ed, a childhood friend who seemed to be getting a bad break, and helped him fake his death. He also explains Ed's skin under Alissa's fingernails: Ed went to reason with her about the divorce and she scratched him while trying to throw him out. The CSIs pay a visit to Alissa's ad agency, and are surprised when her computer bursts into flames. Dan Cooper is able to recover data from it, including a threatening e-mail from Danielle Madison. Danielle admits to being angry when Alissa passed her over for a promotion, but sticks to her story about finding Alissa dead. The CSIs turn back to the car Danielle was caught in and look at the video footage from it and find prints on it that are matched to a man named Javier Revez. Revez claims he was looking for change in the car, but Horatio doesn't buy it. Alan Solner, the man Ed Smith stole the gold from, confronts Delko about Ed's escape, angry that his gold has never been recovered. Delko learns Alissa and Trevor were feuding over twin burial plots they bought during their marriage. Suspecting Trevor and Ed stole the gold together and hid it in one of the plots, but when they venture to the cemetery, they discover Ed's body, an axe buried in his chest. They also discover a sound recorder on one of the nearby graves. Delko brings Valera the axe and she matches epithelials on it to Jeremy Fordham, Alissa's boyfriend. The CSIs arrest him and theorize that Alissa told Jeremy about the gold, and that they figured out it was buried in the grave. Dan Cooper analyzes the recorder from the grave and discovers another voice on it, indicating Jeremy had an accomplice. The CSIs return to the gravesite and find blood in a mausoleum not far from the plots that belonged to Trevor and Alissa. Tripp discovers that while Javier Revez doesn't have a record, his brother Carlos does, and Carlos was about to be put in jail for trying to steal the same car Javier was caught in. Horatio suspects Javier might be involved in meth manufacturing like his brother was, but examination of his hands reveals traces of an explosive, not meth. Horatio discovers a bomb in the car intended for the officers that arrested Carlos, and drives it to the safety of a nearby beach where the bomb detonates. Natalia is subjected to a much smaller explosion when the glass table in her lab, irritated first by Delko dropping the axe on it and then by the centrifuge's motion, shatters, causing the vials containing blood samples to burst and contaminate the lab--and Natalia. When the blood sample from the mausoleum comes back as female DNA, the CSIs turn their focus back to Danielle. They realize she conspired with Jeremy to kill Alissa and steal the gold. They trace her car only to find it abandoned in front of Alan Solner's house. Solner has his gold back, and he gave a promised million dollar reward to the woman who returned it. That woman, Danielle, is far from Miami, lounging on a beach--the small coffin from Alissa's house under her chair.
Body count: 3
Victim(s): Alissa Valone, Ed Smith
Suspect(s): Danielle Madison, Trevor Valone, Jeremy Fordham
Whodunit:
Path of evidence:
Personnel issues: Ryan is superstitious about the coffin. His hands go numb. Nathalia get caught in an explosion in the lab. Calleigh claims that she believes in karma.
From the field:
- Small wooden Coffin, blood on a mauseleum, Zombie powder= Blowfish Poison from Ed Smith's body gurney, Santeria Altar.
From the morgue:
From the lab:
Guest stars:
- Heather Stephens ~ Danielle Madison
- Ryan Hurst ~ Detective Michael Lloyd
- Kristoffer Polaha ~ Jeremy Fordham
- Dondre Whitfield ~ Alan Solner
- Boti Bliss ~ Maxine Valera
- Brendan Fehr ~ Dan Cooper
- Matt Battaglia ~ Dr. Trevor Valone
- Jorge Pallo ~ Javier Ravez
- Yvonne Delarosa ~ Clarisa
- Lauralee Bell ~ Alissa Valone
- Richie Rayfield ~ CSI Tech (uncredited)
- Daniel Travis ~ Ed Smith (uncredited)
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| Ryanlover#1 | Scenes | 0 | Dec 1 2007, 3:45 PM EST by Ryanlover#1 | |
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I love this episode!! This episode rules!!!!!
In this episode I have two favorite scene when Ryan comes in the autopsy and first he sees the dead body twitching,then he walks to see and twitches again so when he's in front the body sits up and Ryan comes out of autopsy running. And then when Horatio is driving the mercedes car when he leaves it in the beach and then explodes and he says: Burn,baby,burn. I love the way he said it and that scene in background!!
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| talissmann | Only 1 problem | 0 | Nov 6 2007, 4:05 PM EST by talissmann | |
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When Horatio leaves CSI to get the bomb out of the building, there is only 4 minutes left on the timer. As near as I can tell, the lab is in western Miami-Dade County. There is absolutely NO WAY that he could have made it to the coast (either one) in that short span of time. Even with an escort detail.
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| tanya-dell | **Burn Baby Burn** | 0 | Sep 6 2007, 1:31 PM EDT by tanya-dell | |
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wow........... I love this episode! It comes on Friday night on A&E...
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