"Follow The Evidence. Again And Again"
Story Theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOKTj71GOy4
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Brief Nudity/Sexual Content | Mild Gun Violence | Mild Language | Smoking/Alcohol/Drug Reference
In Las Vegas, forensic investigators are trained to solve crimes by examining the evidence. They are on the case 24/7, scouring the scene, collecting the evidence, and finding the missing pieces that will solve the mystery. Led by Steve Rogers, who has come to the team after heading the Seattle Crime Lab. His number two is Halle Berry, a CSI III and a blood pattern expert who previously worked with Steve in Seattle. She is a blood-spatter expert with extensive knowledge of criminal psychology. Halle supervises a team that includes Ksenia Solo, a former foster-child who was met at a conference in San Francisco. As the team's longest serving CSI, Ksenia often assists Loki Laufeyson, a once off-beat tech analyst and an experienced, intuitive crime solver. Loki is partners with Sally Brookes, a former Los Angeles criminalist. Assisting the team are tech Tony Stark, his colleague and rival, Tom Felton, who jointly works in the lab as both a toxicologist and DNA technician. Others include Dr. Carla Gugino, the ever-professional medical examiner, and Thor Odinson, who's been a tough, manly CSI for 15 years.
Season 1, Episode 1
"Check In, Check Out"
Elderly couple, Richard and Anne Smith are found brutally murdered in room 114 at the Sky View Motel, each one stabbed more than 100 times. The investigators remember the specific motel room because they’ve been there twice: A man named Mark Bell, who was killed in the bed with his legs nearly severed from his body and that the police assumed the incident was drug-related. The other, Alex Garnez was attacked while sneaking a cigarette in the bathroom. He survived, but his wife, Tina, was violently bludgeoned to death in her sleep.
Evidence suggests that there was a third person in the room with the Smiths. Wondering if there might be a connection between the three cases, Tom Felton analyzes the bedspread from each scene. The substance on the sheets came from a male named Randall Wicks, who was arrested for sexual battery in the very same motel room. In an interview, Randall says he is a prostitute who used the room with his clients and that he defended himself after one of the women went crazy and attacked him. Sally Brookes visits Alex Garnez in the hospital and shows him Randall’s photo, but he says that Randall isn’t the man who attacked his wife.
The team eventually finds out that the Smiths helped a homeless man named Rudy by chasing off some guys who attacked him and that they gave him a place to shower and shave. According to Rudy's profile, he has a history of mental illness. After tracking down Rudy at a homeless shelter, they interrogate him, and he claims that his mind tells him to kill the couple. They ruled Rudy as their prime suspect for the other deaths as well, but after a week he is arrested, an officer responds to a call from the motel one night and finds a woman named Alison Stone covered in blood, brandishing a broken bottle, and talking non-stop as she was rambling things that don't make sense. He finds another dead body in room 114. Classifying the victim as one of Alison’s students named Matthew, it was found out that he had a crush on her and that he called her to the motel, hoping she would return his feelings. During an interogation, Alison insists that nothing was going to happen, until she claims that she has been “possessed” and killed him.
Realizing that the room itself is somehow responsible, Tony Stark and Tom Felton head into the motel room to test for substances that might cause the occupants to become violent. After a while, Stark is sprayed in the face with an air freshener in the bathroom, but he starts talking nonsense in the bathroom and he unknowingly attacks Tom just a few short minutes later. He survives after isolating Stark in the bathroom and calling for backup.
After they manage to take Stark to the hospital, Tom finds out that Stark tests positive for a drug called LSD, a drug that causes anxiety, paranoia, and delusional behavior. Loki and Thor go through the motel and they discover in the bathroom that the air freshener was connected to the next room over. They search through the room next door and they discover that there’s a surveillance camera in the closet. The resident claims that it wasn't him that was behind the murders. They then find out that the video from the surveillance footage transmits to the manager’s office. They get a search warrent to the manager, Trent Reager, to search the room and they find a whole corner of surveillance equipment watching all of the rooms in the motel. As they interrogate him, it is revealed that he is a voyeur, and he rigged up the LSD so he could watch how it affected the unsuspecting guests. It rules out that Mark Bell killed himself by stabbing his own legs, Alex Garnez attacked his wife, Alison killed her student, and that Rudy killed the Smiths.
