CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

On the third floor of the Eiger Mansion at night, Bruce Eiger runs frantically down the hallway, his corpulent flesh vellicating as he lurches towards his final destination.

Later, Eiger's lifeless bulk lies at the foot of his marble stairway, perpendicular to the driveway, blood-splatter patterned outwardly from his porcine skull.

A media circus surrounds the crime scene. Reporter Laurel Tessler faces the camera and spouts the arc of Eiger's existence, reduced to a bite-sized, abridged format: just turned sixty; threw himself a half million dollar birthday party at his ritzy casino; cause of death unknown.

Ecklie approaches the scene with Grissom and asks Brass for the 411. The wife came home from canasta and found Eiger dead. Catherine spots Grissom and asks Ecklie what's going on, since it is her scene. Grissom is the senior supervisor and it is an "all hands on deck" case.

The CSIs deduce that Bruce Eiger either fell or was pushed from his balcony. Warrick notices that the victim's facial impact is consistent with the pool of blood surrounding his head, but not with his current position. Someone other than the paramedics moved him.

Donna Eiger, Bruce's wife, tells Brass that the staff always gets Thursday night off. Brass tells Donna that Bruce wasn't wearing boxer shorts when he died. Donna admits to putting them on him because he was naked and she knew the press would be there.

Grissom examines the garage and notices that all the cars are present and there is no evidence of any kind of panic. He thinks it is suspicious that Donna would find her husband dead and then calmly park her car and lock it in the garage.

Catherine smells crap and tells Ecklie not to move. Near his feet is a small turd. The Eigers don't have pets. Nick calls to Catherine from the third floor balcony, telling her he found the launch point.

Sara notices an oil stain in the driveway and tells Gregg that people this rich don't have cars that leak. He points out that their visitors may. Grissom has Greg swab the oil.

Warrick finds a pair of glossy handprints on the railing of the third floor balcony. Catherine points out that if Eiger was pushed it would have required a strong person given his incredible heft.

The CSIs enter the upstairs study and see a glass of scotch and milk on the table. There is a half-smoked cigar next to the glass. It appears that Eiger was interrupted and struggled with an intruder. They find a glossy handprint on the floor as well.

In the Autopsy Room, Dr. Robbins tells Sofia that Bruce Eiger's sphincter was damaged from repetitive insertions. Aggressive anal sex or perhaps rape. Additionally, there is an unusual rash around his genitals slathered in ointment. They also found a gallon of milky fluid in his stomach and fecal matter on his feet. Eiger's pupils were severely dilated. Cause of death was ASPHYXIA. He choked on his own blood, but he survived the fall. If he hadn't been rolled, he may have lived.

Catherine finds Grissom and Sofia just as they exit the autopsy room. She is upset because she feels that she has been cut out of the case. Catherine grabs the autopsy file out of Sofia's hands.

Catherine goes into her office and plugs her digital camera into her computer. Nothing. She checks the memory card and finds that is isn't hers. Someone switched her 256 MB card with a 32 MB card. She has no evidence photos.

James Mandelbaum, attorney for Eiger, tells Brass that he is simply trying to protect his client. Brass replies that his client is dead and they already know he was a sodomite.

Ecklie tells Grissom that Eiger was trying to buy the Queen Regent Casino out from under Sy Magli, so he invited some of the gaming commissioners to his mansion for a party. He got his license a week later. It appears that Eiger has "dirt on everyone, or just wants them to think he does."

There were numerous calls from Eiger's house to Sy Magli's office, which is odd since they were business rivals. The calls came between midnight and 4:00am. Perhaps they were lovers.

Brass talks to Sy Magli at his casino. Sy turns to a beautiful young girl, Tanya, and tells her get her "sweet ass back on stage." Sy informs Brass that the last time he saw Eiger was at his birthday party. He didn't have friends, just enemies. Sy admits that he was having sex with Donna Eiger, which explains the numerous phone calls.

Catherine tells Grissom about the theft of her camera's memory card. Ecklie overhears and Grissom instructs her to quickly get back to the crime scene.

In the Trace Lab, Hodges tells Nick that Eiger had diaper rash and the ointment found between his legs is Brenner's Ointment. Hodges says that the handprints from the railing and study floor also contained the same ointment, but the hand size is different from Eiger's. There were no drugs in his bloodstream, but he had dilated pupils.

Catherine pulls up to the Eiger mansion and finds Donna Eiger washing the blood off of her steps. Catherine asks her to stop. Donna's cell phone rings and she talks to Sy Magli, who drops her. Donna thought she was more than a "hate lay."

Catherine calls for a van to collect the Eiger trash cans. Once in the garage, she and Warrick find rolled carpet, a soiled man-sized cotton diaper with safety pins, and lady's slacks, hose and shoes covered in blood. There are feces smeared on the edge of the rug, with half a handprint evident.

Warrick, Grissom and Catherine take the carpet back to the mansion and unroll it in the study. The half handprint is flush with a wall. Grissom pushes against the wall, under the molding, and a crawl-through entrance opens up. Grissom enters first.

Inside a secret room, Grissom emerges from the crawl-hole, followed by Catherine and Warrick. They find an old-fashioned baby's room, but everything is designed for a man-sized baby: giant playpen, rocking horse, crib and toy chest.

Grissom finds several empty enemas, which explain the repetitive insertions. Warrick finds a complex security system in the closet, indicating the room was most likely a panic room initially. Grissom comes across a plastic bag in the trash can with the logo "Forever Baby" on it. Catherine finds a mini-fridge with rows of baby bottles filled with milk.

Mia tells Catherine that the blood and urine on the diaper is a match to Eiger. She also found a spike in her analysis that she couldn't identify.

On the 11 O'clock news with Tom Warden, Catherine sees her stolen digital photographs. Ecklie calmly tells her that he will contact the public information officer and get a warrant for the memory card. Catherine thanks him.

At Forever Baby, an adult play land, a middle-aged woman named Madge greets Grissom and Nick. He asks if they carry adult diapers and she answers in the affirmative. Grissom tells her that they are investigating the death of Bruce Eiger. She tells him that Eiger never shopped there, but a lot of "mommies" do the shopping for their "babies." Madge continues that "some guys never love any woman but their mother...some never had a mother who loved them."

Mia conducts an Ouchterlony species testto determine the kind of milk that was found in the fridge. The gelatin of the petri dish shows a milky white line between the center and the label "Human Antibodies."

Fox Harris, a reporter, is in the Interrogation Room being grilled by Brass and Catherine. She tells him he stole Police Department evidence when he swiped her memory card. Harris points out that he shoots pictures, not people. He admits to doing side work for Sy Magli, who hired him to take pictures of Donna and Sy sleeping together. Since he couldn't find any dirt on Bruce Eiger, Magli created scandal on his own by sleeping with Bruce's wife. Harris was able to get on to the crime scene by simply wearing a dark jacket, a baseball cap and a camera.

Mia tells Warrick that all the milk in the bottles was human. Warrick quips that they are looking for "one very tired milkmaid."

Nick notices that Bruce Eiger's toy box is half as big on the inside as the toy box at Forever Baby. He removes the sides of the box and finds a false bottom filled with manila folders labeled with names, including Sy Magli's.

The CSIs also find a photo of a one-year-old boy in a diaper, no name, just the date 12-20-01 on the back. Nick opens the Sy Magli file and finds a picture of Magli sitting on the edge of a bed with Tanya from ten years ago, when she was just shy of her 16th birthday.

Warrick tells Greg that he downloaded the log from the security system hard drive and found that according to Mrs. Eiger's alibi she left for the club at 7:15pm. The computer shows that the garage door opened at 7:18pm. Dispatch received her 911 call at 11:42pm. At 8:00pm the front door opened, the milkmaid, and at 10:09pm the third floor balcony doors opened. Four minutes later the front door opens and the milkmaid leaves. At 10:30pm the garage door opens and Donna returned. What did she do for over an hour between arriving home and calling the police?

Grissom notices two shoe-shaped voids in the blood spray patterns fanning out from Bruce Eiger's head in the evidence photos. It appears Donna stood and watched her husband die.

Donna Eiger tells Grissom and Brass that she pulled into the driveway and there was Bruce. She didn't administer help. She leaned over him and taunted him with baby talk, "Did mummy's good wittle boy fall down and go boom?"

She tells them that if Bruce had lived he probably would have been a quadriplegic and she would have had to bathe him, feed him and change his diapers for real. Her last words to him were "you lose." She had an arrangement with him that she would leave on Thursday nights and his "baby-sitter" would arrive. She did not kill him, but did take off his diaper and put him in boxers. Then she dropped the diaper on the carpet and rolled it up. After all the clean up, she called 911.

Catherine tells Grissom that Mia found LSD in Bruce's yellow diaper. LSD is in and out of one's body within twenty minutes. That's why there was no trace initially. It acts as a catalyst to trigger cascading reactions in the brain.

Sara and Sofia analyze the evidence. They need to find a lactating female. Sara points out that women will lactate as long as you let them. Sara ran the oil they collected at the mansion through trace and found that it is Agip Sint 2000, synthetic motor oil – a kind used in Lamborghinis.

Hodges tells Catherine that the LSD was ingested through an enema. The milkmaid must have administered the dose.

Brass finds out from Sy Magli that he purchased a Lamborghini a couple weeks ago. Magli tells him it was a gift for Tanya Rollins, who is now 24 years old. Brass points out that they started consummating their relationship when she was fifteen.

Magli asks Brass what he wants. Brass wants to know why her Lamborghini was parked in Eiger's driveway. Magli says that Bruce Eiger and Tanya were involved. Sy Magli says he did not want Eiger dead. "There's no sport in humiliating a dead man."

Catherine and Brass confront Tanya with overwhelming evidence: her fingerprints in the nursery, DNA match to the milk in the fridge, confiscated LSD from her purse. She says all Bruce had was fear. No one would fear a crying man in a diaper.

She spiked his enema with LSD and then Eiger started to flip out. He went through the crawl space and then ran down the hall. He jumped off the balcony.

Tanya never used Eiger's secret against him because she was afraid she would never see her baby again. After she gave birth he took away the baby and gave it to his mother, telling her he would give it back once her career took off. She started mothering him and for five years she would ask about her baby and he would put her off.

At the Desert Palms Hospital, Brass talks to Daphne Eiger, Bruce's mother. She is ancient and hooked up to machines, obviously incapable of taking care of anyone. She tells him she never saw the baby before when Brass shows her a photo of Tanya's child. Daphne hasn't seen Bruce for seven years.

Off hours at a restaurant, Brass tells Grissom and Catherine that Bruce Eiger lied about the child. There was an out-of-state adoption the day the kid was born. Brass points out that what Tanya did was "immoral, but not illegal." They can't convict her or his wife.

Bruce Eiger, the most powerful man in Las Vegas, went to the place that only money could buy: his own childhood.