CSI: Miami

Season 5 - Episode 21 - Just Murdered

Written by Ty Scott
Directed by Eagle Eglisson

On the deck of a pricey sailboat, Hank Atherton points a shotgun at his chainsaw-toting wife, Laurie, who threatens to cut the boat to pieces.  As Horatio brings the situation under control, Wolfe approaches and tells Horatio that thirty year-old fitness trainer Mandy Felding has been found dead in the Atherton’s multi-million dollar home.  

 While Alexx and Ryan examine Mandy’s body, teenager Nathan Atherton explains that Mandy was his dad’s girlfriend.   Alexx reveals that Mandy died of blunt trauma to the head.  Ryan spots a vase and a hole in the wall where drywall flakes match those on Mandy’s body.  Hank Atherton tells Tripp that Mandy’s murderer is probably the same guy who stole his Lamborghini.  Horatio arrests Hank and Laurie Atherton. 

 Natalia discovers semen in Mandy’s body, belonging to her jealous husband, Todd.  Todd confesses to killing Mandy with the vase after learning she’d been having an affair with Atherton.  Horatio arrests Todd and frees Hank and Laurie Atherton.  Delko, Alexx and Natalia stand near Hank Atherton’s stolen Lamborghini, which is accompanied by the very dead body of Stan Lockwood.  Alexx determines that Lockwood’s neck was broken when the car door was slammed on his head.  Natalia finds the Lamborghini keys in the middle of a fire ant mound, along with the car’s bill of sale to Lockwood from the Athertons.   Laurie admits to selling Hank’s car to Lockwood for two hundred dollars, to spite Hank.  Horatio and Wolfe arrest Paul Warner, the Atherton’s pool boy and Laurie’s part time lover, for Lockwood’s murder after discovering his shoe print on the Lamborghini, his fire ant-bitten arm and bits of Lockwood’s flesh in Warner’s jacket zipper.  Wolfe arrives at the bank where the Athertons and sleazy divorce lawyers Stacey Wakeman and Allen Comden argue over the Atherton’s empty safe deposit box.  Comden and Stacey convince the Athertons to sign over their house to them for legal fees.  

 Calleigh discovers Comden’s dead body, along with a bloody cake knife covered with Laurie and Hank Atherton’s finger prints.  Horatio arrests Laurie and Hank after they admit to murdering Comden.  Nathan is relieved that his parents will be apart forever.