"Pirates of the Third Reich"
is the fifteenth episode from the sixth season of
the American
crime drama CSI: Crime Scene
Investigation, which is set in Las
Vegas
, Nevada
.
Summary
A half-naked woman is found half buried in the desert with a number
branded on her arm. She has no hair
and is missing her right hand. The woman turns out to be
Lady Heather's estranged daughter, Zoe. The
autopsy reveals she was starved to death, injected with a flesh
eating bacteria and probably chewed off her own hand; one of her
eyes is also not actually attached, but is only
sitting in the
socket. After looking
over photos of Zoe while she was still alive, Catherine and Grissom
realize that her right eye was brown while her left was blue;
however, Zoe was found with two blue eyes. A rambling homeless
person named Captain Jack is found with only one eye, and it is his
eye that is in Zoe's socket (a DNA test having confirmed it was not
the victim's). A medical examination of the suspect shows that he
has been lobotomized and has also been branded with a number. The
team investigates the Betz Clinic where the deceased, and the
homeless man, underwent a
sleep therapy
session for
insomnia.
Nick and Warrick head into the desert and find a house which is
owned by the head of the clinic. The house smells strongly of
decomposition, but they discover plants called "
corpse flowers" in the garage. Nick speculates
that the only reason someone would keep such foul smelling flowers
would be to cover up the real thing. They become suspicious when
Lady Heather is found
breaking and entering
in that very house, but the owner chooses not to press charges.
Heather hints that she suspects he's hiding something and reveals a
very valuable manuscript that she recovered from the house, having
subtracted it in the hope that charges would be pressed thus
allowing CSI to process the house. The manuscript is later proved
stolen from a nearby library.
The doctor is found dead in his car the next day, however his body
is frozen solid. Lady Heather appears with a semen sample from the
suspect, claiming to have slept with him the previous night,
despite the fact it would have taken up to two days to freeze the
body. A search of his records leads the CSIs to believe that their
suspect is the identical twin of the doctor. The twins were raised
by adoptive parents (who were
Jewish).
Grissom suspects that the killer appears to harbour
Neo-Nazi beliefs and murdered his brother (who
decided to follow the Jewish faith), who was the frozen corpse. He
then took over his brother's identity and medical clinic.
After obtaining a warrant, the house is searched. The CSIs find a
room with documents detailing the killer's gruesome "experiments"
and an area where he held his victims.
Over the doorway is
sign that reads Arbeit Macht Frei
("work will set you free"), which was the sign over the entry at
Auschwitz-Birkenau
. In one of his notes, he writes about Zoe,
"subject is physically pure, with the exception of the right eye."
Catherine realizes that the killer removed Zoe's brown eye and
replaced it with Jack's blue eye in order to "perfect" her. Upon
hearing muffled moans, they open a hidden door that reveals a dark
cell with chains and equipment for branding inside. A pair of
conjoined twins are also found
(branded with numbers as the other victims were) but one dies in
the hospital, with the other dying before the CSIs find them.
Grissom speculates that Zoe, chained to the wall and terrified of
what would become of her, chewed her own hand off to escape. The
killer is nowhere to be seen.
Grissom then finds a piece of jewelry belonging to Lady Heather and
immediately leaves. He finds her on the road with the killer tied
to her car, whipping him in a rage. Grissom manages to stop her
from killing her daughter's killer by using a "
safe word" that registers with her.
Continuity
Lady Heather also appears in the
following episodes:
Tony Amendola returns in the role of
Professor Rambar, who first appeared in "
Secrets and Flies". Amendola previously
appeared in
CSI as two different characters in "
I-15 Murders" and "
Viva Las Vegas".
See also
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