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CSI Miami Season 7 Episode 3 Recap and Review

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A therapist's daughter is murdered in the middle of the night and the CSI team is sent to solve the case. Was she murdered by her mother? Lover? Or Brother? Read the recap and review of CBS's CSI: Miami.




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During his therapy session, a man tells his psychologist, Dr. Rachel Marsh, about his dreams. He dreams about how he is going to kill her, by sneaking up on her while she is alone. Later that night, Chelsea Marsh, the psychologist's 16 year old daughter is killed in her mother's home office.

Horatio is sent to investigate the murder. They find a clock and a glass table broken. Horation asks the psychologist if she knows anyone who would want to hurt Chelsea or if she has any violent patients. She says that she cannot break the confidentiality agreement with her patients.

Eric Delko arrives on the scene and realizes that the victim's mother is his therapist. He tells Detective Calleigh Duquesne that he started to see her after the CSI team discovered that their office was being bugged.

Tara Price finds evidence on the scene that shows Chelsea dying between 1 to 4 a.m. They find no signs of struggle. Delko finds a blood sample on one of the chairs.

They take all the evidence back to the lab. The team finds that Nick Burham was Dr. Marsh's last client before her daughter died and they bring him in for questioning.

Nick tells Horatio about his dreams. He says that he cannot control his dreams, but did not kill Chelsea. He admits that he lost his temper and broke her clock. He says that he was in bed when the murder occurred.

Further examination of the victim's body shows that a thin sharp object was thrust into the back of Chelsea's head. The murder weapon went through her mouth and chipped her tooth causing it to fall out.

The team runs the blood found on the chair through a database and finds that it belongs to a young lady named Allison O'Conner.

Calleigh interviews Allison and finds that she was one of Dr. Marsh's patients and Chelsea's classmate. She is surprised at the news that Chelsea was murdered. Allison says that she cuts herself with a razor and must have smeared some blood on the chair during her last session.

Additional tests on the body shows that the victim was filled with anti-psychotic and anti-depressant drugs.

Horatio asks Dr. Marsh if she wrote her daughter prescriptions. She says no and adds that the family has been shaky since her husband died. She says that her son Jason took care of Chelsea when she was busy.

Calleigh questions Jason at his house. He says that his sister was depressed and was seeing someone. He says that he noticed a woman sneaking around the house one day. Jason tells Calleigh that he remembers her vanity plate reading, 'LUV CORY.'

The team runs the plate through the DMV database and finds that it belongs to a Pam Dashell. They bring her in and ask her why she was at the Marsh's house. She says that he followed her husband around because he was looking to take custody of their son. Pam explains that she was searching for evidence to use against him in court.

The team then goes to investigate, Shane Huntington, who was Chelsea's boyfriend. Shane tells the team that Dr. Marsh was his therapist and he met Chelsea after a session. He says that the two broke up last night and had amazing breakup sex. He says that he did not kill Chelsea.

Delko is called into Dr. Marsh's office for a complaint. She says that one of the CSI team took her files. Delko says they did not and then looks at the file cabinet. There are fingerprints everywhere and Delko deduces that CSI did not take the files because they all wear gloves. The team runs the prints and find that one set belongs to Eddie Dashell.

Horatio meets with Eddie and asks him about stealing the files. Eddie also has a criminal record. He says that his crime was in self defense and that he took his files because he wanted to see what Dr. Marsh was saying about him in preparation for his upcoming custody battle. Eddie says that he read the files, but did not steal anything. He says that he did not murder Chelsea and that he was with his son last night.

Horatio visits Pam Dashell at her work, a beauty salon. Cory is there and Horatio asks him if he was with his dad last night. Cory says that his dad took him out fishing. Pam says that Eddie had a court ordered night of visitation and dropped Cory off in the morning. The CSI team spot a pair of scissors and decide to take it in for testing.

The scissors matches the width and depth of the murder weapon. They look further and find a piece of brain matter on it. They bring in Pam and she confesses to murdering Chelsea. She says that she knew that Dr. Marsh was going to testify that Eddie was a good man. She did not want to lose custody of Cory, so she accidentally stabbed Chelsea, thinking she was Dr. Marsh.

After her revelations, the police arrest her and take her away.

Later, there are reports of gunfire at the Marsh residence. Horatio and Delko arrive at the scene and find Dr. Marsh shot in the chest. Horatio goes around back and finds Jason washing blood off his hands.

The team brings in Jason for questioning. Jason tells the team that he heard a gunshot from inside the house and found his mom in the front. He says that he panicked and started to wash his hands. Jason hands Horatio a wad of cash and says that he was paid to steal his mom's files by Shane Huntington.

Calleigh meets with Shane and he admits to paying Jason to steal the files. He says that he burned his records because he did not want his dad to find out about his bad behavior. He says the rest of the files are in the trash. Calleigh arrests Shane for burglary and takes the rest of files back to headquarters.

At the station Calleigh and Delko look over the files and find that Nick Burham, Dr. Marsh's last patient, broke the clock with a gun. They bring him in and he admits to killing her for refusing to treat him after Dr. Marsh's daughter died.


BeeThoughts


I felt like this episode was full of holes, inconsistencies and unbelievabilities. The look on Delko's face when he arrived at his therapist's address was not believable. He looked surprised even though he was supposed to been there many times. Wouldn't he have known who he was dealing with at the time he got the call and was driving down? Another detail that was not addressed was the fact that Chelsea had sex with her boyfriend that night. Wouldn't there be a condom or physical signs that she had intercourse that night. I didn't believe that all of the events could have possibly happened within one day. There was too tests and questioning to be done in that amount of time. Another unbelievable point is with the son Jason being brought in with the wad of cash in his pocket. I think that the police would have searched him for weapons and found that he was stashing the cash.

- Kristofer M.


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