CSI: Miami

Season 4 - Episode 12 - The Score

Written by Barry O’Brien
Directed by Jonathan Glassner

Wayne Reynolds runs a private club that caters to men and the art of picking up women.  At one of his “parties,” two of his students, Paul Sanders and Todd Manning, are sharpening their newly acquired skills.  Manning watches Sanders sweep Heather Larkin upstairs for the big score.  Manning makes contact with a girl named Mia and they go upstairs to one of the private rooms.  In the room, Manning opens the closet door and Sander’s dead body rolls out; written across Sanders chest is the letter “L.”  Alexx determines that who ever killed Saunders did it out of rage.  Wolfe discovers soy fibers on Sanders shirt.  Horatio gets a call that Marisol Delko has been arrested for possession of marijuana.

 Calleigh and Wolfe interview possible suspects, starting with Reynolds.  Wolfe asks Reynolds to hand over his contact information for the club’s female guests.  Manning tells Tripp he didn’t kill Sanders, that they were friends and trained together in the seminar.  Manning leaves his shirt and jacket with Tripp for further investigation.  Wolfe runs Manning’s clothing against Sanders’.  Calleigh does a handwriting analysis on the women’s contact cards obtained from Reynolds; one matches the L on Sanders’ chest.  Heather Larkin admits she wrote the L on Sanders chest after telling him what a loser he was for trying to make her.  But when she left him he was very much alive, she insists.  Horatio learns Marisol could get a felony conviction for the five bags of pot she was arrested with.   Calleigh finds soy fibers on Reynolds clothing.  Reynolds admits that he and Sanders had a disagreement over Sanders trying to start his own training seminars, but swears he didn’t kill him.

 Wolfe confirms that Sanders was married and talks with his wife, Brenda. She admits she was at the club that night.   Sanders had told her he was doing research work for his new pickup seminars but when she saw him go upstairs with Heather she became jealous.  She was so upset that she ran out of the club.  The lab finds that 2 of the bags of marijuana that were found on Marisol were not pot at all, lowering her charge to possession of less than an ounce.  Horatio meets with Monica West from the State Attorney’s office.  Wolfe gets a print belonging to Karen Manning, a reporter who happens to be Manning’s sister.

She posed as Heather Larkin to get access to the club in order to write an expose on Reynolds and his pickup technique.  She was at the club that night doing research and went upstairs with Sanders.  That’s when he came on to her and she brushed him off and wrote the L on his chest.  Horatio learns that three of the five bags of pot were actually oregano and he and Delko question the dealer, Kevin Gifford.  Gifford admits he sells fake weed when business is down, and agrees to testify to that fact.  Calleigh and Wolfe discover another piece of evidence – an atomizer filled with fragrances and human pheromones which are considered aphrodisiac.  Manning’s shirt was saturated with the pheromones, and he ultimately admits he killed Sanders after watching the guy take his sister upstairs.  When he confronted Sanders, he says Sanders told him he had his way with her and Manning became enraged.  Monica questions Gifford, who confesses that he did sell Marisol the pot and that his business has been slow so he actually sold her oregano instead.  Marisol invites Horatio over for dinner.  He’s hesitant at first and she assures him it’s just dinner; he finally agrees.