CSI: Miami

Season 4 - Episode 16 - Deviant

Written by Krystal Houghton
Directed by Scott Lautanen

On a typically sunny day at a neighborhood park, eight-year-old Isabel screams at the top of her lungs.   Clearly panicking, Philip Gordon runs from the scene like a man running for his life.  Four men chase him; Gordon reaches a fence and starts to climb.  A hand pulls him to the ground; the men circle him and begin beating him.  Later, Horatio and Tripp view Gordon’s dead body at the scene.  Tripp runs a trace and learns Gordon was a registered sex offender who was not supposed to come within 100 ft of a child.  Gordon lived in Alexx’s neighborhood; she tells Horatio everyone knew he was a registered sex offender.

 Alexx examines the body and finds a stab wound in addition to bruises from the beating. 

Delko finds a child’s toy cell phone on the playground.  The phone belongs to Victor Terraza’s daughter, Isabel.  Terraza tells Horatio that Gordon tried to grab his daughter while she was playing.   He confesses that he and the other men went after Gordon after he approached Isabel.  Terraza says everyone in the neighborhood knew about Gordon because of the posters that were everywhere.  Alexx finds a trace of a green fertilizer on both Gordon and Isabel.  Delko finds one of the posters; it has Alexx’s fingerprints all over it.   Alexx tells Horatio that she put the posters up to protect her kids.  He warns her that now she needs to think about protecting herself.

 Gordon was living with his brother, Robert, and his wife Hayley.  Delko and Tripp arrive at Robert’s house which has a broken window and graffiti all over it.   Hayley tells Horatio they were letting Gordon stay with them until he got on his feet.  Delko takes Gordon’s computer back to the lab.  Alexx gets her schedule changed to nights by Gary Halliwell, the chief Medical Examiner.   Halliwell tells her she’s got a better shot at the Deputy Chief position if she stays clear of Horatio’s team.  Delko’s investigation reveals that Ned Ostroff, another sex offender charged with stalking a porn star, had sent Gordon a “pornado,” better known as email porn.   Ostroff admits he sent Gordon the verboten porn in hopes that Gordon would be sent back to jail.  Since Gordon moved into the neighborhood, Ostroff had been getting harassed by the neighbors and he just wanted Gordon gone, but swears he didn’t kill him.

 Wolfe finds a rock in Robert’s trash can with the message “you ruined everything” and tracks the rock to Julia Hill, an 18-year-old girl from the neighborhood.   Ten years prior, Gordon broke into her home and molested her.  Alexx tells Wolfe she got harassed by Halliwell for writing the prescription for Wolfe’s eye infection.  Wolfe denies telling anyone about it, but somehow, the department’s “mole” got the information to Halliwell.  The note found in Robert’s trash reveals traces of fertilizer.

 Ostroff is frantic; he tells Horatio that someone threatened him with a gun.  Alexx tells Horatio she’s feeling guilty about putting the posters up.  Horatio assures her she was just trying to protect her family.  Calleigh IDs the gun as a Colt 19-11.  Delko searches Ostroff’s neighborhood for the owner of the gun and comes across Terraza’s name.   Horatio is certain that Terazza brought Isabel to the park to bait Gordon.  Tripp pats Terraza down and finds a knife, but it doesn’t match the one that stabbed Gordon.  Delko finds a serrated knife, the kind used in the killing, in Robert’s house.  Hayley confesses that she and Robert had been trying to have a baby for three years and she was finally pregnant but the stress of having Gordon living with them caused her to lose the baby.  Robert confesses to Horatio that he went to

 the park to find Gordon and tell him he had to move out.  But once he caught Gordon lurking on the playground, he knew his brother wouldn’t change; Gordon even confesses to him that he didn’t know if he could change.  Robert admits he lost control and stabbed his brother.  Alexx tells Halliwell she’s going to continue to work with Horatio and the team because they are like family and she wants to work with people she respects.  Horatio assures Alexx her posters weren’t to blame for Gordon’s death and that he’s glad to have her back.