CSI: Miami

Season 5 - Episode 16 - Broken Home

Written by Barry O'Brien & Krystal Houghton
Directed by Sam Hill

Horatio surveys Edward Crowley’s bloody body as Crowley’s sixteen year-old daughter Heather stares, motionless.  Heather explains to Horatio that she noticed a man’s shadow outside the window while babysitting twelve year-old Justin Montavo at the luxurious Montavo home.  Heather is unable to identify the whereabouts of either her mother or the Montavo family.  As Horatio promises to find Heather’s mother, Detective Tripp discovers Kimberly Crowley’s dead body on another part of the Montavo’s expansive lawn.

 Alexx probes Kimberly’s punctured neck while Wolfe examines the murder weapon, a bloody garden tool.  Delko tests Heather’s hands for blood.  Wolfe and Alexx question Delko’s competence.  Natalia and Calleigh determine that Edward was attacked much earlier than his wife Kimberly; evident by the squashed fly and grass imbedded in his head wound.  Wolfe and Tripp recover fingerprints belonging to Dr. Mike Lasker from the Montavo’s windows. 

 Lasker tells Horatio that he was trying to retrieve some “stuff” the Montavos stole from his house.  Renee and Dave Montavo deny stealing from Lasker and explain to Horatio that the night of the murders they passed out in their car after drinking too much at a party.  Natalia finds drug residue – specifically GHB, a popular and dangerous party drug, in glasses from the party the Montavo’s and Lasker attended.  Lasker admits to spiking the Montavo’s drinks.  Wolfe and a Uniform find a bag of Lasker’s property hidden in the Montavo’s house.  Justin confesses to sneaking out of the house and stealing from Dr. Lasker while babysitter Heather was busy making out with her boyfriend, Zach Griffith.  Tripp matches Lasker’s loot to some of his dead patients’ stolen property reports.  

 Calleigh tells Delko that he made a rookie mistake and ruined Heather’s initial evidence test.  Delko redeems himself after testing Zach Griffith’s motorcycle helmet and determining that it was Edward Crowley’s murder weapon.  Zach admits to hitting Edward Crowley when they argued about Zach sleeping with Edward’s wife, Kimberly.  Heather confesses to stabbing her mother with the gardening tool after learning she slept with her boyfriend.  Horatio arrests Dr. Lasker for killing -- and stealing from -- his unsuspecting patients.