- After a cop convicted of killing his police officer wife is killed in prison, the team discovers that he may have been framed, and Brass and Vartann may have been romantically linked to his wife.
- Vance Tolsom, convicted for the murder of his wife Anne-Marie, née Cambry, also LVPD, whose corpse was never found, is beaten to death in what appears to be a racial prison gangs fight. Main culprit Tomas Molinez admits it was staged as a favor for someone outside. Vance was preparing a retrial and Nick finds his list of people his wife had affairs with, mainly other cops. Greg finds Vance was framed and another murder sets off a series of shocking discoveries.—KGF Vissers
- When the former police detective Vance Tolsom is murdered stabbed in the neck in a riot in a corridor in prison, Langston and Nick investigate the case. Vance was convicted for killing his promiscuous wife Anne-Marie Tolsom, who was a police officer. Her body was never found and Vance has always claimed innocence. While checking his belongings in the cell, Nick finds a notebook with a list of Anne-Marie's sexual partners composed by police officers and detectives, including Ecklie, Brass and Vartann. Futher, Vance had a motion for a retrial based on new evidence. Catherine decides to reopen the case and investigate Vance again.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- While investigating the murder of a convicted ex-cop, the CSIs stumble upon a list in his prison cell with names of several individuals he believed might have been his wife's true killer.—CBS Publicity
- "CSI" - "The List" - March 10, 2011
Two lines of men in prison jumpsuits walk by each other. A fight breaks out between the prisoners. Guards in riot gear come and subdue them. One prisoner ends up dead, stabbed to death. Brass, Nick, and Ray come to investigate the scene. Ray is not nervous. Nick is not a fan of prison and its attendant sights and sounds. Brass reports it was a fight started by the Aryan brotherhood.
The dead man was a cop. Brass says he was a son of a bitch back in the day when they worked together. He was in the joint for killing his wife, also a cop. Too bad he died, he was just about to get a new trial. There's possible evidence on their shoes. Ray turns around and barks at the inmates he'll need their shoes, jumpsuits and DNA and tells them since this guy was a cop there will be consequences.
Ray and Nick collect this stuff.
David finds 27 stab wounds on the dead cop's neck and torso. He and Robbins work him up. Catherine comes in and remembers Vance as a good looking and charming guy but not one you'd want to cross. She determines the killer was right-handed.
Back at the prison, Nick uncovers the papers for Vance's new trial in his cell which includes assertions his ex-wife Anne Marie had an extramarital lover. He had a handwritten list of possibilities of other killers, including Capt. Brass.
Just as Nick sees Brass' name on the list, Brass walks in. He looks at pictures of Vance's wife on the wall and says it doesn't make sense for a man accused of killing his wife to have her pictures up. He recalls the woman as dead sexy and how every cop wanted her, the marriage was a mistake. She was the kind of woman who could make a man do anything.
Back at the lab going over video surveillance. Greg and Ray determine the killing was a hit. They set up a bunch of dummies to figure out who did the killing based on blood spatter and come up with a dude named Tomas. He's in for DUI murder of a family. Brass tries to convince him to talk. Tomas won't, bemoaning the horrors of prison. He says the murder was a way to get status in prison. He says he can't rat out the person who hired him or he'll be dead. All he can say is the hit was a favor for someone on the outside.
Nick goes to Catherine to give her a heads-up on "The List" and Brass, Ecklie, and Vartann's names are on it. She says they were all banging her and probably congratulating each other. Double standards. Turns out many of them worked her murder case including Brass and Vartann. Catherine can't believe they didn't recuse themselves. When all this comes out, it's going to come back on all of them.
Brass admits he was a player back in the day. He banged her. When she was murdered, he went up the chain of command and got the okay. Ecklie says he just had sex with her one time also and didn't handle any of the evidence. Someone named Brian was in charge of the investigation. They figure the hit came from someone who didn't want the fact his name was on the list revealed, someone who could reach into prison. They determine the guys who held Vance while Tomas killed him will have answers.
Nick and Ray toss their cells and find drugs in one and a cell phone in another. The warden also tells him the dead woman's sister came to visit. She tells Nick she hated him, but he says he had something important to tell her. It was all a set up. She started looking into it. She learned there may have been cop malfeasance and her sister told her that she had fallen in love again. She was going to leave Vance. She knew Vance wouldn't let Anne Marie go. She didn't bring any of this up at trial because she thought Vance killed Anne Marie like everyone else did. Now she knows in her bones he didn't.
Catherine meets Vartann for lunch. He reports his leg is better. He says this is new, seeing her outside of the office in the middle of the day with clothes on. She thought they should talk. He explains he met Anne Marie at the academy. They had their good times over the years. Catherine asks why he didn't recuse himself. He points out the CSIs didn't recuse themselves when Warrick was murdered. He says he believes Vance did it, he threatened her often. Vartann runs the evidence down for her. It all points to Vance. Catherine thinks the evidence sounds too good. Vartann leaves in a huff. Catherine calls Greg to rerun the evidence in the case.
Greg does this, including a bloody knife, clothes, and evidence from the torched car. (Her body was never found). He reports high levels of EDTA, meaning someone added anti-coagulant to her blood. The blood evidence was all planted. Vance was framed by a cop or a CSI. Nick remembers another case that had similar evidence. It points to a cop named Lucas Martin, but he's not on the list. They theorize when she wouldn't leave Vance, Martin snapped, killed her and framed Vance. He's not on the list because Anne Marie's sister and Vance didn't know the guy's name.
The gang - Brass, Nick, Greg, and Catherine - head out to search for the body at an old utility substation of some kind. Ecklie doesn't like that. He wasn't informed properly. Catherine explains this place was one where Lucas worked a case. The dogs pick up a scent. Nick, Catherine, and Greg find a body. It's fresh, it's Anne Marie's sister. She was shot.
Cops from the county arrive on the scene, including Lucas Martin. Catherine reports the sister's murder. She asks about Martin's gun. He says "screw you bitch." She says "I think you mean screw you CSI Willows." She says she'll get a warrant.
Robbins and Ray go over her body. Evidence indicates she was killed by a cop. They pull the bullets and run ballistics. They match Martin's gun. He tells Brass his duty weapon was never out of his sight. Brass says it was his personal gun. Martin says he sold his gun. Brass arrests him.
Catherine tells Ray the good news. He says there's a problem. The duty log says Martin was working at the time of the murder. They figure Martin hired a goon.
Ray goes to one of the guys from the prison, Carlos, and explains the knows Carlos got it done to help a family member make bail. Carlos says he doesn't know Lucas Martin. They have the wrong cop.
Greg runs willy-nilly down the hallway to Catherine with the epithelial evidence. The stuff under Jody's nails, it came from her sister. Which of course means Anne-Marie is alive. They realize the evidence was planted at Anne-Marie's murder to actually cover up Anne-Marie's disappearance.
They figure Martin, the man she fell in love with, helped her. Martin tells Brass he didn't kill Jody. Brass says since Anne Marie is now throwing him under the bus. He should just come clean. He admits they staged her murder to frame Vance. The plan was to keep working for a few years and then retire and be with Anne-Marie, to whom he'd been sending $1,000 a month for years, under the guise of a Mexican orphanage. He gave her the gun for protection. He doesn't know where she is. He says once he told her he was putting in for retirement so they could be together. She stopped returning his calls. About three months ago.
Nick and Greg go to the sister's house to investigate. They realize after Anne-Marie dumped Martin, she reached out to her sister and ultimately killed her, cleaning out the bank account that had the remainder of the life insurance money the sister got when Anne-Marie was presumed dead. They figure the sister started visiting Vance because she felt guilty knowing he was innocent since Anne-Marie was alive.
Ray goes to Catherine and tells her Anne-Marie came back to Vegas to make sure Vance didn't get a new trial and kill Jody and frame Martin. Vartann comes in drops the bomb. One of the guys Anne Marie dallied with became a prison guard, on Vance's block.
We cut to that guy talking to Anne Marie on the phone, making plans to meet her since he knows the hammer is about to come down. He goes to meet her at midnight in a courtyard somewhere. She arrives and pats him down for a wire. She asks to see his cell phone to check recent calls. She says a girl has to be careful, especially when she's dead. She says she has tickets for a morning flight to Mexico. She says he's going to like it there. He says he's going to like Costa Rica and 100 grand better. She says that wasn't the plan. He says he realized all the nefarious things she did, including killing her sister, makes her untrustworthy. She says it's him that's untrustworthy. He says she's right. The cops, led by Brass and Vartann, show themselves. They arrest her and banter saying she's going away for a long time. She says they need to wait and see how many men are on the jury.
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