Monday January 6, 2003
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Horatio and Speedle investigate the slaying of a hooker who is found dead under a bed in a plush beachside cottage, her naked body having been stabbed 23 times. But the crime scene yields few traces of blood because the killer bathed the victim in the cottage's tub with cardamom soap. Across town at an urban gas station, Calleigh and Delko attempt to uncover why a German tourist was gunned down in an apparent carjacking. They learn that a masked assailant approached a vacationing couple's rental car, shot and killed the husband, but left the wife unharmed and then fled the scene.
Write a Recap »Two different deaths - one a hooker and one a tourist from Germany. Both eventually lead to a bleak look at marriage. hide show
Yet another one of those episodes that lets you now that if you're staying in a hotel room anywhere, you should be hermatically sealed from touching anything, since the maid on this occasion failed to notice the naked dead body under the bed. Real thorough cleaning!
The dead body turns out to be a prostitute and all the evidence points to one person - a family man who has no alibi for the time and a previous rap sheet for stabbing a woman. As usual, though, with these things nothing is quite as straightforward as it seems and it looks like our main suspect has been cleverly framed.
In the second story two German tourists are carjacked and the husband killed. It is quite amusing to hear Calleigh note that the European press will have a field day. I can still remember a few years ago how our English media were all over the actually very small spate of opportunistic tourist killings in Miami. They did try to show the city as so unsafe, simply hiring a car there was likely to be tantamount to buying a coffin.
Again, of course, nothing is quite as it seems and it looks like this may have been a hit rather than a random shooting. But how, why and who?
The endings to both stories are all rather downers. The idea that someone could stab a woman dozens of times because he felt dead inside and wanted to feel alive again, because of a dull marriage is so awful. Though it's an evil act, it's almost pedestrian in its thinking.
Two murders yet again! hide show
One body winds up naked in a beach as they
Try to find out who murdered this person while on
The other murder, one German tourist is murdered and a couple is shot.
Only difference is that the wife is alive and well but may be the suspect in killing both her husband and the tourist!
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