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When a local [[cat lady]] is found dead in her home, [[Gil Grissom|Grissom]], [[Catherine Willows|Catherine]] and [[Warrick Brown|Warrick]] must discover how she died, and who killed her. Elsewhere, [[Sara Sidle|Sara]] and [[Nick Stokes|Nick]] investigate an explosion from a bomb in the engine of a woman's car. |
When a local [[cat lady]] is found dead in her home, [[Gil Grissom|Grissom]], [[Catherine Willows|Catherine]] and [[Warrick Brown|Warrick]] must discover how she died, and who killed her. Elsewhere, [[Sara Sidle|Sara]] and [[Nick Stokes|Nick]] investigate an explosion from a bomb in the engine of a woman's car. |
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Marcie Tobin had driven the car to a repair shop to find out the source of a weird noise in her car engine. The mechanic claimed to have looked under the hood, saw the bomb and told her to run. The investigators realize that the bomb aimed at the driver, suggesting that it was intentional and personal, as bombs usually are. Upon sifting through the fragments of the blast, Nick comes across an end cap, indicating that the bomb was a pipe bomb. Brass, having run a background check on the victim's husband, inform them that he works at Tobin C&D, a demolitions company, prompting Sara and Nick to pay him a visit. They interview Jonathan Claddon, the husband, and find that he knows how to make a bomb, raising their suspicion. At that point, the owner of the company, Barclay Tobin, who is also Marcie's father, orders Jonathan away. Barclay Tobin makes it clear that he dislikes his son-in-law, suspecting him to be cheating on his daughter. He also tells them that all his foremen, including Jonathan, has access to dynamite, voluntarily offering them employee fingerprint records. A visit to Greg reveals that dynamite containing sawdust add nitro, identical to those used at Tobin C&D, was used in the bomb. Investigators notice that the latch was blown open so the hood must have been closed when the bomb went off. Sara and Nick surmise that no one would slam the hood on a ticking time bomb. Also there were no fingerprints so they suspect the mechanic was lying. Nick find that tool marks on a bomb fragment match a vice grip found at the car repair shop, and match the prints to Marcie Tobin, It turns out that she and her father had tried to frame Jonathan for attempted murder to prevent him from getting a stake in the family business in the event of a divorce, as a a criminal can't benefit from his own malfeasance. |
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In the end it turns out that the 8-year-old girl next door |
In the end it turns out that the 8-year-old girl next door had stabbed the cat lady with a pen because she refused to give her one of the cats as a pet. |
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== See also == |
== See also == |
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Cats in the Cradle is the twentieth episode in the second season of the popular American crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, which is set in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Plot Summary
When a local cat lady is found dead in her home, Grissom, Catherine and Warrick must discover how she died, and who killed her. Elsewhere, Sara and Nick investigate an explosion from a bomb in the engine of a woman's car.
Marcie Tobin had driven the car to a repair shop to find out the source of a weird noise in her car engine. The mechanic claimed to have looked under the hood, saw the bomb and told her to run. The investigators realize that the bomb aimed at the driver, suggesting that it was intentional and personal, as bombs usually are. Upon sifting through the fragments of the blast, Nick comes across an end cap, indicating that the bomb was a pipe bomb. Brass, having run a background check on the victim's husband, inform them that he works at Tobin C&D, a demolitions company, prompting Sara and Nick to pay him a visit. They interview Jonathan Claddon, the husband, and find that he knows how to make a bomb, raising their suspicion. At that point, the owner of the company, Barclay Tobin, who is also Marcie's father, orders Jonathan away. Barclay Tobin makes it clear that he dislikes his son-in-law, suspecting him to be cheating on his daughter. He also tells them that all his foremen, including Jonathan, has access to dynamite, voluntarily offering them employee fingerprint records. A visit to Greg reveals that dynamite containing sawdust add nitro, identical to those used at Tobin C&D, was used in the bomb. Investigators notice that the latch was blown open so the hood must have been closed when the bomb went off. Sara and Nick surmise that no one would slam the hood on a ticking time bomb. Also there were no fingerprints so they suspect the mechanic was lying. Nick find that tool marks on a bomb fragment match a vice grip found at the car repair shop, and match the prints to Marcie Tobin, It turns out that she and her father had tried to frame Jonathan for attempted murder to prevent him from getting a stake in the family business in the event of a divorce, as a a criminal can't benefit from his own malfeasance.
In the end it turns out that the 8-year-old girl next door had stabbed the cat lady with a pen because she refused to give her one of the cats as a pet.
See also
External links
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