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The team gets a call reporting another victim. They arrive at a festival held in a theater and
find the body of Dante Gunther, a horror movie director.
Dante’s publicist informs the team that he was acting strangely and pulling out his hair before
he died.
The team investigate Dante’s room and find a source of radiation, a small strip of metal tucked
underneath the cuff of his pants. They later discover the object is an anti-theft device.
The team examine an old piece of paper containing a note recently written by Dante. On
it, they find traces of thallium, a reminder to call Dante’s agent, the time of the festival, and
an address for another location. They deduce that the paper is from the 1930’s and evidence
indicates that it has undergone preservation treatment.
Bonasera and Taylor figure that the source of the paper is the NYC library, which had reported
a recent water pipe burst.
They go to the basement where the special collections of books are held. They find high levels
of radiation stemming from a Tibetan Book of The Dead. The book has the same symbol that was
on Liza’s forehead and has a page torn out. They also find black mold that matches the sample
found on the first victim’s shoes.
Details of radiation found in the library are released to the press. A lawyer, Jesse Paulson,
holds a news conference announcing his lawsuit against the City of New York for the deaths of
Liza Carpenter, Dante Gunther and his wife Molly.
Mac visits Jesse in his office. He shows Mac a portrait of his wife that he painted and says
that Molly, who worked at the library, died two months ago. He gives Mac permission to exhume
her body to confirm that she was killed by the same radioactive substance.
Detective Flack finds that the library runs a system where people wanting to read the special
collections books must sign them out. He discovers that one of the people that checked out the
deadly book is Timothy Cran, who has a record of attempting to break into the radioactive holding
facility, Three Mile Island. They also find that Timothy’s address is the same as the address found
on Dante’s note.
Bonasera and Flack go to the address and find that it is a Buddhist temple. They meet with
Timothy, who now goes by his Buddhist name, Lhamo. Dante was working on a movie and
approached Lhamo for research. Bonasera scans him and finds no radiation.
Back at the lab they find a sample of sea sponge within the pages of the library book. Within
this sponge they find an insect protein.
The team exhumes the body of Molly Paulson and find levels of radiation. They scan her
stomach and find lesions. They are led to believe that she ate a radioactive poison. Using this
evidence they deduce that Molly was an intended target.
The detectives find that, Lawrence Wagner, Molly’s coworker at the library has not been at
work since her death. They search his desk and find a smoke detector and a container of iodine,
a substance that can be used to protect the body from radiation.
They go to Lawrence’s house and find that he is in his backyard covered with lesions on his
face. They take him in and find that he was trying to create a cheaper energy alternative. He
used his position at work to steal smoke detectors to use for this experimental energy source.
The team, however, finds no traces of thallium and eliminates him as a suspect.
Tests from the sea sponge are complete and the team finds that the insect protein is carmine,
which can be used as a paint pigment.
Mac remembers Joel’s painting of his wife and they rush to his house. Joel confesses that he
obtained the thallium from one of his clients, a chemical company. He says that he was tired of
practicing law and wanted to retire. He says that he wanted to have one last big payout, so he
poisoned his wife, laced the book with thallium, and planned to sue after more victims piled up.
Joel is arrested and taken to jail.
Afterwards, the CSI team visits Sid who is recovering from his radiation exposure.
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