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( soft crackling )

( crackling continues )

( screaming )

By the way, I thought Eric had the call-out.

He got caught in traffic.

Just him?

Look at this place.

They should fire their decorator.

It's South Beach.

It could have been the way they wanted it.

Mm, I smell decomp.

Yeah, neighbor thought it was from the pipes

till a couple hundred maggots fell on his head.

First Officer pronounced 0800.

We got ten dollars, credit cards.

ID says her name's

Peg Donovan, but the condo owner says this unit's vacant.

Peg Donovan from Miami Shores.

That's over ten miles from here.

Alexx, what do we have?

WOODS: Massive head trauma.

Pronounced ecchymosis.

Probably blunt force.

The flies didn't waste any time, did they?

Hmm, based on the life cycle of these blowflies,

she's been here over 72 hours.

72 hours.

So she's been here since Monday.

Her corneas aren't clouded.

Beautiful green eyes.

Okay, Alexx, wait a second.

Shouldn't those be clouded?

Liver temp will give us a closer TOD.

Hang on a second.

This woman has perspiration on her.

Check her.

Oh, my God.

Alexx, she's still alive.

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* No, no!

Peg, my name is Lieutenant Horatio Caine.

You're all right now. You're safe.

Lieutenant, she's unconscious.

That doesn't matter. Peg, I want you to take care.

Horatio. Yeah?

Alexx gave me Peg's bag, and I found these on the inside.

Okay, so we've got some O.C. spray, a whistle and a switchblade.

Self-defense and self-preservation.

We all know what that means.

It means she's a rape victim.

Two times a victim.

If she doesn't have bad luck, she's got no luck at all.

You know what? Nobody could be this unlucky.

What are you saying, this isn't random?

Somebody wants us to think it is.

And nobody knows she survived, right?

I want to play this as a murder.

All right, I'll let people know. Okay.

So, I missed all the excitement, huh?

A thousand bodies under my belt, and I don't notice a live one.

The first officer didn't either.

I mean, who can blame him?

The place smells like decomp.

Covered in maggots.

I'm an MD.

I'm trained to know the difference.

All right, Doc,

how do you explain the smell?

It's from the blood pool, not from tissue decaying.

Girl's wound was clean as a whistle.

Technical term is "maggot debridement."

Flies are always first witness to a crime.

Smell blood from a mile away.

So, the flies lay eggs in her exposed wound?

Which hatched into maggots.

Maggots ate the necrotic tissue,

killing any bacteria, preventing an infection.

So, the maggots kept her alive.

I'll get this

to our entomologist, get us a timeline.

This wood should help.

It was delivered four days ago.

And the spatter indicates that it was delivered

prior to the attack.

Hey, thanks for the head start.

Lieutenant Caine? Yeah?

You, uh, wanted her clothes for your investigation?

Yes, thank you, Doctor.

Doctor, were there any physical findings?

Her skull is fractured.

She's got subdural hematoma and cerebral edema,

but, uh, no, no evidence of rape.

What are her chances realistically?

Well, the swelling in her brain goes down, she might be okay.

I told her she'd pull through.

The AMA

doesn't advertise it, Lieutenant,

but, uh, sometimes a patient just hearing it can make it so.

All right, thank you.

This Kleenex is good for DNA.

There's got to be ten different shoe patterns here.

I say photo them all and sort them out later.

I think this one gave me a bonus.

Well, I don't need a scope

to see that there's a chunk of scalp here.

Hundred pounds per square inch to do that.

Hey, look at that.

Looks like the weapon hit the ceiling.

So a 2 x 4-- construction site.

It's a weapon of opportunity.

So, our prior rape victim

goes to a deserted construction site,

is beaten and left for dead.

There's no evidence that she was taken here against her will.

I think she had to have come with someone she trusted.

Buenas dias.

Hello.

Do you have a whereabouts on Detective Hagen?

He's running down the condo owner.

Called ahead.

Said you wanted to run Peg Donovan through the database.

Yeah, that's right. We believe she was a rape victim.

You mean, in the past?

Mm-hmm.

Well, then she should be in here.

Nothing locally.

Try statewide and adjacent states, please.

Georgia.

January 1.

I remember this case.

Miami coed at a bowl game, Southern Georgia.

Raped January 1 by one Mason Shaw.

Mason Shaw was convicted October 3,

remanded to South Georgia Correctional Facility.

15 years is a long time.

When is Mason eligible for parole?

Well, he had

his first hearing October 2000.

Parole denied.

Parole denied.

Okay, when's his next hearing?

October 2003-- this month.

This month.

Did we just find our motive?

What are you thinking?

Here's what I'm thinking.

Somehow, Peg... Peg is involved in these hearings.

Hey, Calleigh. Hey.

Hey, listen, thanks for taking that DB call

out at that condo.

I really appreciate it. Sure.

You know how traffic's a bitch

getting over to Biscayne.

Yeah. People say.

Everything go okay?

Uh, let's see.

We may have a timeline off some wood,

got some shoe prints,

possible DNA off of Kleenex...

Oh, and

the dead girl wasn't dead.

What?

No, she was hanging on by a thread.

You're kidding.

Where is she?

Over at Grace Memorial.

By the grace of God, I might add.

( tuneless whistling )

All righty.

Appreciate the help.

Anything else you need, Lieutenant,

you just let me know.

Thank you, Sergeant.

Notice how he tilts his head to the left?

That guy's stone deaf

in his right ear.

Too vain to wear his hearing aid.

That guy behind the glass--

he's into his bookie for a grand.

The one next to him--

his wife's banging his brother.

Family scandal.

Who else do you want to know about?

I would like

to know about you, Mr. Shaw.

Now, Mr. Conroy

of the parole board tells me

you have a very, very big hearing tomorrow.

Got a good feeling about it.

Very good.

It's important to be confident.

How do you feel about Peg Donovan?

Peg Donovan-- I understand

that she was at your hearing three years ago,

and her testimony, her testimony kept you behind bars.

Yeah.

I hear she's not going to make it this time.

That is quite true.

Someone...

Someone beat her to death in Miami.

Tough break.

Yes, it was.

Were you involved, Mr. Shaw?

( chuckling )

It's not possible, man.

Look at me.

I'm behind bars.

Why would that stop a smart guy like you?

Prove it.

Working on it.

Listen, I'm going to run down our rapist's cell mates,

phone records and visitors.

See what he's got in his back pocket.

DUQUESNE: Okay, I've got some shoe prints

that might be able to help us.

I'll show you when you get back.

I'm not coming back any time soon.

You're not?

Tomorrow is Shaw's parole hearing.

If it goes his way, they're going

to crack those gates immediately.

Yeah, and you want to be there.

With enough evidence to put him right back in.

Okay. Working as fast as we can.

Take care.

Drying out Peg's clothes?

Well, I can't process the evidence unless I do.

Weren't you supposed to be in court on that quadruple?

A continuance.

I looked up the file on Peg Donovan's rape case

from nine years ago.

And this Shaw-- he didn't just rape her.

He broke both of her arms,

and she crawled out to the motel hall

where the maid found her,

her eye hanging out of its socket.

A tough girl.

Yeah.

You know I flaked out on the crime scene, right?

Yeah, but, you know, you called, and Calleigh covered,

so it worked out.

Yeah, but if Calleigh hadn't covered,

and it's up to me, I mean, she might have died.

Then I guess it's a good thing it wasn't up to you.

I mean, what do you want me to say?

Every day is like a surprise party with you.

Here.

So is Calleigh mad at you?

I don't know.

I can't tell.

Well, then, she's probably mad at you.

Hi.

Got a bad guy in there?

Maybe.

Do you ever knock?

You don't like guys who knock.

I've got three unidentified heel prints

with a distinct chevron pattern.

I'm just waiting to see what the database comes up with.

Would you stop staring at me?

( beeping )

Grip Tread 2000.

That should help.

Well, not really.

It's actually as common as a cold.

So this heel gives us nothing?

Only class characteristics,

but the dirt I've recovered may give us more.

Do you have something of your own, Detective?

Oh, yeah.

It seems, our victim was a prisoner in her own home.

Worked there, lived there.

Never ventured out.

Except to this place.

Three blocks from the crime scene.

That's great.

Okay, I'll drop this off by Trace on our way out

and have Speedle run it.

Ms. Arthur?

We spoke on the phone about Peg Donovan.

IDs, please.

Was Peg Donovan a regular?

Never misses. Missed.

HAGEN: We think

she was killed after the meeting Monday night.

Do you document who attends?

No. It's too confrontational for some of our members.

Anyone new join the group recently?

One woman. Didn't get her name.

She did participate in the, uh, fast defense

training class that I teach.

The one with the ammo guy suit.

The ammo guy suit?

Technical name, like the Michelin man.

This new woman-- she volunteered to

play my "victim."

I started the demonstration, she freaked.

Said it was too soon.

Too soon?

Since her attack.

Peg tried to calm her down.

In fact,

they left together.

Well, that makes this lady

the closest thing to a bad guy we got.

Would you mind getting

the ammo guy suit?

We might be able to get DNA off of it.

It's in the back.

( chains jangling )

You still here, Caine?

Hey, no talking in line

on the chain gang.

Hey, you want a picture, Caine?

One more day, and I wake up,

and I'm out of here.

You sure about that?

Hey, move it!

Visitors log you wanted.

Great.

It only went back six months.

Thank you.

Hey, it's me. Listen, Macon County is about

to send us the transcript and the court records

for Shaw's '94 rape case.

Here to Miami?

Yeah. They will only send it to my official address.

Here's what I need-- the original court reporter,

witnesses and jury members.

Anybody connected to the trial.

You have a suspect in mind.

Yeah, I do.

Got the DNA results on the Kleenex from the condo.

No match to the victim.

Okay.

But it did match the DNA of the self-defense suit.

Okay, so the mystery woman was at the scene of the crime.

That's good, but she's still a mystery woman.

I'm just saying.

Not a mystery woman for long.

Horatio checked Shaw's visitor list.

Lawyer, family,

and no less than eight women

who visit him regularly.

That is so weird

how certain women seek out criminal celebrity.

Were you able to get any of the groupies?

Only need one.

Crystal Sherwood.

Guess how she met Shaw.

Well, just when I think I've seen everything.

According to our records,

you visit Mason Shaw in prison every week.

I feel bad for him.

Losing everything.

His wife walked out on him.

He missed seeing his son grow up.

DUQUESNE: Did your sympathy

for Mason Shaw begin during

or after you served as a juror on his trial?

How did you... ?

Court records, visitor logs.

Mason Shaw and I fell in love after his trial.

HAGEN: He was working you

from the defense table.

Guys like that always do.

Mason's a sensitive guy.

A very sensitive guy.

DUQUESNE: Yes, he's

so sensitive, in fact,

that he had Peg Donovan killed

so she couldn't appear at his parole hearing tomorrow.

What? She's... ?

HAGEN: That's right.

The leader of the rape support group ID'd you from a photo.

You impersonated a rape victim to snare Peg.

You were the last person she was seen with.

I don't know why I got so weird.

Rape is over in a moment.

Memories last a lifetime.

You want to go grab some coffee?

Talk?

Okay.

And I think we both know that sample you just gave us

is going to place you at the crime scene.

When you showed her your place, Peg Donovan's antenna

must have gone up.

I'm remodeling.

Security.

I just took her there and left.

Somebody used a 2 x 4 on her.

Not me, I swear.

Could you stand up?

Why, what's going on?

Going to find out if you're telling the truth.

MAN: You do know I had to destroy

the pattern to identify

the components in the soil.

You're already making excuses?

I think it's all right,

'cause we're all on the same team.

Hey, did you find anything instructive

in the dirt from the boot?

Clay, hay, excrement and...

Onion.

Well, Yellow Granex type F hybrid onion, to be specific.

Horse skat and common supermarket onions.

That's what you got?

Turns out they're not so common.

Sucrose at high concentrations.

Vidalia onions.

Vidalia onions.

There's only one place in the world they grow--

the southern counties of the state of Georgia.

That's where our suspect's incarcerated.

Bailey?

Nice boots.

They're prison issue.

Yeah, so I've been told.

I also heard you're the only CO to be on the

Equestrian patrol.

So?

Ever been to Miami?

No.

Well, your boots say different, fella.

You're coming with me.

CAINE: Now you, my friend,

broke the cardinal rule, didn't you?

What rule?

Mm...

Never-- and I mean never--

let an inmate know anything about you.

That rule.

I don't fraternize with inmates.

Really?

I hear, Roy, that your wife is expecting twins.

That must've been a shock.

What is...?

Well, how do you know...?

I heard it from Shaw.

Well, I never told Shaw nothing.

( light applause )

Did you kill Peg Donovan?

Who?

Come on, Roy, come on.

This is a private prison with no training, less salary.

You are vulnerable in this area.

You have motive.

Look, I told you,

I ain't never been to Miami, and I was fishing on Monday.

All right, here's what we're going to do.

You're going to let me look at your bank deposits,

and I may believe you.

My bank deposits? Yes.

I want to see if you're supplementing your income.

Well, I think you're going to have to get a warrant for that.

Minutes away, Roy.

Minutes away.

Recognize him?

He's one of the guards from Mason's prison.

We found his boot prints at the crime scene.

Now, is he the one that met you there?

Did he beat Peg with a 2 x 4?

I told you,

I didn't even know someone was there.

I locked her in and I left.

That's all Mason asked me to do.

( door closes )

( pounds on door )

I didn't know someone was going to kill her.

CAINE: Speed, it's H.

SPEEDLE ( on phone ): Hey.

Now, listen, Shaw has an 18-year-old son

who just stop visiting about a month ago.

Were you able to see him?

No. He's a freshman

at the University of Miami.

Go get in his face, will ya?

All right, I'll take a uniform.

( machine whining )

( loud thud )

( grunts )

( grunts )

( grunts )

( machine whines )

( machine whines )

( grunts )

You Chuck Shaw?

Yeah, I got ten minutes left, man.

( grunts )

Well, maybe you can get your money back.

( machine whines )

( ball hits fence )

( machine whines )

What do you want?

Have you seen Peg Donovan lately?

I called her a few times.

Is that why you came down to Miami?

No.

I got a scholarship.

Academic.

Marine Biology.

When's the last time you saw Peg?

Never.

I told you, I phoned her.

My father's parole hearing is coming up,

and I asked her to go easy.

Shook things up

last time she testified, huh?

She told that story again.

Those lies...

about how my father raped her.

Lies?

I know my dad cheated on my mom,

but it wasn't rape.

It was just sex.

Hey, Chuck, do you have a... an allergy?

It's poison oak.

It's pretty hard to get that

down in Miami.

It's really humid.

You want to try again?

( laughs )

I don't remember.

You know, it's all... it's all over your face

but it's not on your eyes.

Mind if I take a sample of that?

Go ahead.

Okay, the burn on your face is from pepper spray.

Found 15% oleoresin capsicum, which is identical

to Peg Donovan's pepper spray so...

you attacked her.

No.

Well, do you want to explain that?

She was, uh, taking out the trash last week.

I, uh, walked up to her,

told her to stop lying about my dad.

Hey. Why would you want to do that to my fath...?

( screaming )

She just started freaking out...

spraying me, so, I ran.

( chuckles softly )

That crazy bitch.

( sighs )

She ruined my whole family.

How old were you when, uh, your dad was arrested, nine?

Eight.

You should take a look at something.

Those are photos of Peg's sexual assault

and the files related to the case.

I want you to look at those, and I want you to tell me

that you think that's consensual sex.

Hi. I'm Calleigh Duquesne.

Miami-Dade, CSI.

Your doctors told us that you were awake.

Do you think you're up to looking at some pictures?

It's Crystal.

She took me to her place.

Locked me in.

Crystal, open the door! ( pounding on door )

We believe the person that assaulted you

may have been waiting inside.

Do you think you can look at one more?

I didn't see anyone.

It was... it was dark inside.

Sorry.

It's all right.

Are you okay?

I'm supposed to be somewhere.

I just can't remember where.

( rustling )

You finished?

My crime scene reconstruction

indicates that you were tall enough

to swing that 2 x 4 to kill Peg Donovan.

I didn't.

I know.

Homicide just found out you were out on a boat

at the time of the murder.

Marine Biology trip.

I think my dad's playing me.

Totally fronting.

He set me up.

I... I think I might have paid for it.

What are you talking about?

Peg Donovan's murder.

My...

dad said if I... if I brought him a-a little money every week,

it would help... keep these guys off him

and pay for his protection.

All through high school, I-I brought him money.

Prisoners aren't allowed to handle money.

I know.

I gave it to a C.O. to pass to my dad.

I think his name was, uh...

Bailey?

Now you can collect this when you leave.

How'd you know?

My boss.

I just wanted to help my dad.

I didn't know it was to kill her.

I swear.

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Now we'll hear from Merle Haggard

and the Bakersfield Strangers

playing their hit rendition of...

You want me to push his hearing back?

Just until I can get my evidence together.

A parole hearing is to ascertain whether the man has paid

his debt to society.

It is not to prosecute him for a second, alleged attack.

Okay, I understand that,

but I can't file the new case yet.

Drag your heels.

The State of Georgia doesn't cotton

to dragging its heels

for the State of New Jersey.

I'm sorry, the State of Florida.

So what you're telling me is that you're comfortable

putting a violent sex offender back out on the street.

If the Board so determines.

But you're a senior member of the Board.

You can make this happen.

What we have here is a failure to communicate.

( chuckles )

I always liked that movie.

Mm-hmm. Me, too.

Shaw's hearing is at 4:30 today.

I'll be here.

There's got to be something that ties this case to Shaw.

We have to go back over the evidence.

Okay, 2 x 4,

heel print,

clothes...

The Emergency Room is not the Medical Examiner.

You got Tourette's or something?

No, look.

When a... when a victim goes to the morgue,

the ME bags and tags everything, right?

Fine tooth comb, 'cause it's evidence.

The ER, on the other hand... Is only concerned

with saving lives.

They're not concerned with the evidence.

Exactly, and the ER doctors at Grace

must have been all over Peg.

Well, her clothes are drying out in the evidence room.

Yo, check this out.

Cell phone.

Emergent situation.

Yeah, the ER nurses must have hid it in there

to keep it from getting lost.

Check the history.

( beeping ) Yep.

Here we got a 9-1-1 call

made 9:44 on Monday night.

Well, that makes sense.

I would use a phone over pepper spray any day.

Yeah, but the PD didn't give us any tapes from 9-1-1.

Maybe the call didn't go through.

It had to go through to be on the call memory.

Well, maybe it got dropped.

Either way, we know what time the call was made.

Well, let's get the tapes and see what we can hear.

So dispatch recorded one 9-1-1 hang-up at 9:44.

Nobody on the other end.

See if there's anything in the background.

Yeah, let's give it a try.

DISPATCHER: 9-1-1, what's your...

( high-pitched tone )

Ooh. What was that?

Uh, let me try to isolate the sound.

( high-pitched tone )

It sounds electronic.

JENSON: Yeah, 140 decibels.

Probably radio frequency

interference.

The crime scene was a construction site.

I didn't see anything electronic.

Mm, no, maybe it was outside or next door.

It had to have been

pretty close to react

with the frequency in the cell phone.

Okay, how close?

In the room, one or two feet away from the phone.

Well, she got locked in the room,

and she grabbed her cell phone to make the call.

Open the door!

( phone dialing )

I mean, if the electronic device

was within a foot of her at that time,

it had to be on the suspect.

DISPATCHER: 9-1-1, what's your...

( high-pitched tone )

An electronic device?

Interfered with her cell phone.

Okay, cell phone.

What kind of cell phone exactly?

It's a Medial 100.

Tyler said he can match the sound

on the tape, if we find the electronic device

her attacker was carrying.

Okay, here's what I want you to do.

Have him get his gear,

and you two get up here immediately.

Immediately, Eric.

BRENNAN: They told me you were looking for me.

( phone beeping )

Yeah, I'm, uh, I'm having trouble

deciphering these visitor logs.

See what I can do.

Appreciate it.

BRENNAN: Let me take a look at these.

New phone, huh?

Yeah, it's, uh...

It has the oddest ring.

Hmm.

You want to hear it?

( high-pitched tone ) Oh... God!

See what I mean?

Here's the bottom line, Sergeant.

We can prove that your

hearing aid was within inches of Peg Donovan's

cell phone while she was being attacked.

I never meant to hit her that hard.

It was that noise.

DISPATCHER: 9-1-1, what's your...

( high-pitched tone )

Why'd you try to implicate Bailey?

CAINE: He tried to implicate

Bailey because he could, right, Sarge?

I knew Bailey had two days off.

And you had access to his boots.

And you knew he was taking money from Shaw,

which would make him the perfect patsy.

Here's the thing I can't figure out, though.

I can prove through your bank statements

that you weren't taking money.

So what does he have on you?

There was this woman.

She was there on a conjugal.

I guess her old man couldn't deliver.

( erotic moaning )

I didn't want to lose my job.

See, my... my wife...

Shaw said we'd be even if I did him a favor.

Shaw said.

Take a look at that.

That was some favor, Sarge.

This meeting of the Parole Board

is in the, uh...

in the matter of inmate number 41720.

Welcome back.

It's good to be here, sir.

Before we proceed,

Lieutenant Caine has requested a word.

Thank you.

Mason Shaw, you're under arrest

for conspiracy to commit murder,

and the attempted murder

of a witness.

Attempted?

You told me she was dead.

Well, I guess I misled you,

huh?

How does it feel to be kept in the dark?

I should have been apprised of this

before the hearing, Caine.

So I apologize for that,

but that's the problem with these places-- loose lips.

This is a Notice of Extradition

signed by the States Attorney of Florida.

You, my friend, are about to stand trial.

Get up. Get up.

I'll be acquitted.

You got nothing.

On the contrary.

I have confessions from every major player,

including your son.

Your son.

You see, Mason,

the problem with manipulation

is that people can turn on you.

Well, Shaw, this hearing is over,

and in what may be

the biggest understatement of my career--

parole denied.

You were the one that found me.

That's right.

That's right. How you feeling?

Scared.

They told me you got him.

You know what, Peg?

We did. We got him.

How long do I have?

Peg, he's never getting out.

Ever, no parole.

No parole?

No. Ever.

What?

Don't worry.

It's okay.

Sorry.

There you go. No big deal.

I'm still scared.

I know. I know.

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