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Necrophilia Americana
Season 2
Episode Number: 40
Season Episode: 17
Originally aired: Wednesday March 22, 2006 on CBS
Writer:
Andrew Lipsitz
Director:
Steven DePaul
Show Stars: Carmine Giovinazzo (Danny Messer), Anna Belknap (Lindsay Monroe),
Gary Sinise (Detective Mack ”Mac” Taylor), Hill Harper (Dr. Sheldon
Hawkes), Melina Kanakaredes (Detective Stella Bonasera), Eddie
Cahill (Detective Donald ”Don” Flack, Jr.)
Recurring Role: Robert Joy (Sid)
Guest Stars: Reynaldo Gallegos (Jose Martinez), Max Burkholder (Sam), Scott
Michael Morgan (Harry Vernon), Jennifer Piper (Ceci Astor), Vincent
Young (Stewart DeCaro), Marina Black (Carolyn Astor), Vincent
Guastaferro (Mr. Douglas), Brian Catalano (Jim Morris), John Prosky
(Museum Administrator), Adam Clark (George Clark), Anna Carolina
Arias (Elena Martinez)
Production Code: 217
Summary: A young boy witnesses the death of a museum curator but doesn’t
want to tell anyone about it. Danny investigates the death of an urban
golfer found dead on a construction site.
The scene opens at the Manhattan Museum of Science; children are visiting the Cycle of Life
exhibit. One kid notices the flesh- eating beetles are missing. The display case glass is broken; a
bug trail leads us to the dead body of a woman, covered by beetles, lying on a diorama of plains
animals.
Mac and Stella are at the scene. Mac remarks the victim had no wallet or ID, and Stella ads
she had no face, either: the bugs have eaten it. Amidst the diorama straw, Mac finds a piece of
paper, with some kind of drawing. Stella notices the woman is wearing a ring with a peculiar
design. Since the diorama does not appear to be disturbed, they conclude she was killed some
place else and dumped there. Mac explains the beetles have come from the Cycle of Life exhibit;
they are flesh eaters and were attracted to the body. Their species: Necrophilia americana.
While Stella follows a blood trail in search of the murder weapon, Mac assigns duties to his
team: he’s going to look at employee records, Hawkes is to work on the body, Lindsay is to ”put
to work” her affinity for bugs, since the beetles were the first on scene. When she claims to have
no such thing, Mac adds: ”And no eating.”
While they process the scene, disassembling the diorama and collecting beetles, Mac finds
out there’s only one unaccounted for employee: Ceci Astor. She’s the granddaughter of the Astor
family the museum wing is named for. She didn’t show up for work and can’t be located anywhere.
The museum administrator tells Mac he knows of no one who’d want to harm Ceci Astor;
she always tried to make things right for everybody. ”Sometimes she tried too hard”, he concedes,
”but her heart was always in the right place.”
Lying on the floor of a weaponry/armor exhibit, Stella finds Ceci Astor’s employee ID. On a
rack nearby, there’s an ancient sword on display – but the blood on it is recent.
Back at the now deserted room, Mac hears a noise and follows it, only to find a little boy
trying to hide behind cases. He tries to convince the boy to get out, thinking he’s lost, and throws
him his badge to make him see he’s one of the good guys. The boy comes out reluctantly – he’s
grabbing a comic book, his face is smudged, and Mac sees a beetle coming out of his shirt pocket.
On another part of town, at a construction site, Danny meets Flack, who introduces him to
the dead body: Jim Morris. His face is bruised, but there’s no blood or ligature marks.
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