CSI: MIAMI
1X08:  SLAUGHTERHOUSE
ORIGINAL AIR DATE ON CBS:  11/11/2002
TRANSCRIBED FROM DVD

Written by LAURIE MCCARTHY
Directed by DICK PEARCE

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SUMMARY:  The team investigates a multiple murder in a single family where the 
only one unhurt is the one-year old daughter.
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CSI:  MIAMI
1X08:  SLAUGHTERHOUSE
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COLD OPEN:

[EXT. MIAMI RESIDENTIAL AREA (STOCK) -- DAY]  



[EXT. VARIOUS COMMUNITY - DAY]

(A couple of people carry their surf boards under their arms and they cross the 
street.)

(An elderly man pulls his trash bin out to the curb.)

(The Gardener looks into the back of his truck.)

(The elderly man leaves the trash bin out on the curb.  He heads back to the 
house.)  

(Camera moves along the sidewalk and in the distance, we see a toddler walk out 
along the lawn.  Her sleeper is covered with blood.)  

(The automatic sprinkler system activates and starts watering the lawn.)

(The toddler with the bloodied jumper continues walking along the sidewalk.) 

(The toddler starts walking across the street.)

(The Gardener turns around and sees the toddler in the bloodied sleeper walking 
across the street.)  

CUT TO:



[EXT. COMMUNITY - DAY]

(Det. Adell Sevilla instructs an officer holding a clipboard.  The officer 
leaves.  Horatio exits his vehicle and makes his way toward her.)  

HORATIO:  Adell, what's going on?

ADELL SEVILLA:  Gardener saw a bloody kid all on her own.  Called in at 2:48 
P.M.

(Off on the sidewalk, a couple of paramedics have the toddler on a gurney and 
are undressing the toddler, checking her for injuries.  The toddler cries.)

HORATIO:  You get an ID?

ADELL SEVILLA:  Not yet. We're door-to-door every house on the block expanding 
the perimeter.

HORATIO:  No missing persons?  No car accidents?

ADELL SEVILLA:  Nothing in the immediate area.

HORATIO:  Okay.  (to the paramedic)  What do you got?

PARAMEDIC:  There's not a scratch on her.

(The other paramedic wraps the toddler in a blanket and sits her up on the 
gurney.  The toddler cries.)  

HORATIO:  (to the toddler)  Hi.

(The toddler stops crying.)  

HORATIO:  Well, the blood had to come from somewhere, didn't it?  My guess is 
that someone close to this child is either dead ... or dying.

FADE TO
END OF TEASER
ROLL TITLE CREDITS

(COMMERCIAL SET)



FADE IN.

[EXT. COMMUNITY -- DAY]  

(The toddler cries loudly.  A woman holds her in her arms as Horatio takes a 
swab sample from the back of her wrist.)  

HORATIO:  I'm going to take this.

SPEEDLE:  Okay.

(Speedle holds out a small bottle for Horatio to put the swab in.)

HORATIO:  There you go. Hematrace.

(Speedle pulls the swab out and tests it.  Horatio turns his attention back to 
the toddler.)

HORATIO:  Good job.  You are a good girl.

(Speedle puts the sample in the tester that Horatio holds out.  The drop turns 
pink.)

HORATIO:  (to Speedle)  It's human blood.  (to the toddler)  Okay, and we know 
it's not hers, right?  (to Speedle)  Okay. You know what ... let's bag the 
sleeper and get it to Megan.  We need DNA and trace on the fabric.

(Speedle picks up a package and opens it up.  Horatio turns his attention back 
to the toddler.)

HORATIO:  You ... are a good girl.

(Speedle picks up the sleeper and puts it in the package.)

CUT TO:



[EXT. COMMUNITY -- DAY]  

(Horatio joins Det. Adell Sevilla out on the sidewalk.)

HORATIO:  Too much blood for a casual injury.

ADELL SEVILLA:  How far could she have possibly walked?

HORATIO:  I don't know.  Your average adult has been clocked at two-and-a-half 
to three miles per hour, but to my knowledge, no toddler has ever been road-
tested.  But I'll tell you what I'm more interested in is that sunburn on the 
side of her face.  You have a sunburn on one side of your face it means you've 
been walking in a straight line, doesn't it?

ADELL SEVILLA:  Our gardener said she was headed towards hibiscus avenue.

HORATIO:  Mm-hmm, Hibiscus ... which means she was traveling due north.

(He points in the direction.  Adell nods.)  

CUT TO:



[INT. CAR (MOVING) - DAY]  

(Horatio is in his vehicle driving around the neighborhood in the direction the 
toddler came from.  He looks around the various front lawns and continues to 
drive.)  

CUT TO:



[INT. CSI - LAB -- DAY]  

(Megan and Speedle work on the toddler's sleeper.  Calleigh walks into the 
room.)  

CALLEIGH:  Hey, guys.

DELKO:  Hey.

(Calleigh takes a lab coat off the hook and puts it on.)  

CALLEIGH:  Everybody's talking about the bloody child.  Do we even know where 
she came from?

SPEEDLE:  That's the question.

MEGAN:  This is the answer.  Want a leg or a foot?

(Megan cuts a piece of bloodied material off.)

CUT TO:



[INT.  CAR (MOVING) -- DAY]  

(Horatio continues to drive around the neighborhood.)  

CUT TO:



[INT. CSI -- LAB]  

[SCOPE VIEW] Close-up of soil in the blood.

(Megan looks up from the scope.)  

MEGAN:  Some type of soil. Here.

(Megan moves aside and lets Speedle look at the scope.)  

CALLEIGH:  From any lawn that she crossed?

MEGAN:  Well, her feet were soaked with blood.

[SCOPE VIEW]  Clearer view of the soil and blood.

SPEEDLE:  Well, that narrows it down.

(Speedle takes the slide.  Megan nods.)

SPEEDLE:  I'm going to go look at this for a little while.

MEGAN:  Let me know.

CUT TO:



[INT.  CAR (MOVING) -- DAY]  

(Horatio continues to drive through the neighborhood.)  

(As he drives, he hears a woman screaming.)

WOMAN:  Help!

(He slows in front of a particular residence and notices that the front door is 
wide open.)

(He hears the woman's scream clearer and louder.  Horatio parks the car and 
watches the front door.  He sees a teenaged girl run out of the house.)  

WOMAN:  Help!  Somebody help!

(A second teenaged girl runs out of the house and the two girls laugh and shout.  
One woman picks up the hose and sprays the other woman with water.  They laugh 
as they play.)

(Horatio continues to drive around the neighborhood.)

CUT TO:



[INT. CSI -- LAB]  

(Several dissolves of Megan, Speedle and Calleigh as they continue to work on 
processing the evidence.)  

(Megan puts the samples in the machine.  She stands next to Calleigh.)

MEGAN:  (sighs)  All right.

(Calleigh's phone rings.  She answers it.)

CALLEIGH:  Duquesne.

INTERCUT WITH:

[INT. CAR (MOVING) - DAY]

(Horatio drives around the neighborhood.)  

HORATIO:  Calleigh, have we gotten anything off Profiler Plus yet?

CALLEIGH:  Amelogenin's up.  We've got two different bleeders: One male, one 
female.

MEGAN:  Make that three.

CALLEIGH:  Another male.

HORATIO:  Out of how many samples?

CALLEIGH:  We're three for three and counting.

(Cut to:  The printer prints out the results.  Speedle picks up the paper and 
looks at it while on the phone.)  

SPEEDLE:  Yep, somebody's trading the old for the new.  The soil on the 
toddler's feet was laced with glyphosate.

HORATIO:  That's a heavy-duty grass killer.  They may be resodding.  So let's 
look for a location where they're resodding, okay?

CUT TO:



[EXT. COMMUNITY -- DAY]  

(A helicopter flies above.)  



[INT. CAR (MOVING) - DAY]

(Horatio's two-way beeps.)

CALLEIGH:  (from phone)  Horatio.

HORATIO:  Go ahead.

INTERCUT WITH:

[INT. CSI - DNA LAB - DAY]

CALLEIGH:  We've got four different bleeders, and based on the alleles, they're 
all related to the girl.

DELKO:  (from ratio)  Horatio, we spotted the house that's being resodded.

(Delko is in the helicopter above.  He looks through the binoculars for a better 
look.)

DELKO:  It's coming up on your right.  I'll get fire and rescue.

CUT TO:



[EXT. CAPLIN RESIDENCE -- DAY]  

(A police officer drives just ahead of Horatio.  They both stop in front of the 
house with the resodded lawn.)  

(Horatio, Det. Adell Sevilla, and an officer exit their cars.  They head for the 
house.)

HORATIO:  Easy.

(They look up the front walk leading up to the open front door.  There's a clear 
set of toddler-sized footprints leading out of the house.)

HORATIO:  This is the place.

(Adell takes out her weapon.  The officers around her withdraw their weapons at 
her lead.  Horatio looks up and waves to Delko in the chopper above.  Delko sees 
Horatio.)

HORATIO:  (to Adell)  Ready?

(Horatio takes out his weapon.)

DET. ADELL SEVILLA:  Yeah.

(Cut to:  Two officers take the lead and head for the front door.  Behind them, 
Horatio and Adell follow.)

DET. ADELL SEVILLA:  (shouts)  Detective Sevilla!  Miami-Dade Police!  

(They pause for a moment outside the front door.  Then, they enter.)

CUT TO:



[INT. CAPLIN RESIDENCE - FOYER / LIVING ROOM - DAY - CONTINUOUS]

(Horatio and Adell follow the two officers into the house.  They cautiously 
sweep through the house.)  

DET. ADELL SEVILLA:  (shouts)  Miami-Dade Police Department!  

(Horatio enters the living room and finds two bodies dead.  The teenaged boy has 
his arms wrapped around the baby.)

(Adell shuts the open door as she continues further toward the living room.)

DET. ADELL SEVILLA:  Police department!

(Horatio walks into the living room and sees that it's clear. He puts his gun 
down and heads for the third body on the couch.  He walks around the couch and 
sees that it's a woman with her mouth shot off.)

(The man on the floor moans.  Horatio steps forward and puts a hand on his 
shoulder.)

HORATIO:  Get me rescue in here!  I have a survivor!

DET. ADELL SEVILLA:  Roll fire/rescue!

HORATIO:  (to the man)  Who did this to you, sir?

JASON CAPLIN:  My son ... needs help ... 

HORATIO:  Listen to me.  Think. Is there anybody else in the house?  Sir? 

(Jason Caplin shakes his head.)  

HORATIO:  Okay.

(Horatio looks over at the son dead on the floor nearby and notices the dead 
baby wrapped in his arms.)

(Jason Caplin coughs.)

(Horatio walks over and pulls Luke Caplin's shoulders up and looks at the baby.)

DET. ADELL SEVILLA:  (o.s.)  All clear.

(Adell walks over to Horatio.)

DET. ADELL SEVILLA:  Horatio ...

HORATIO:  Yeah?

DET. ADELL SEVILLA:  We got another one.

HORATIO:  Okay.

(Horatio stands.)

CUT TO:



[INT. CAPLIN RESIDENCE - HALLWAY TO BEDROOM - DAY - CONTINUOUS]

(Horatio and Adell stand in the doorway looking into the boys' bedroom.  Sitting 
at the desk at the computer with a gunshot in his back is Timmy Caplin.  He 
looks down for a moment.)

HORATIO:  Have your guys hang out.  They're going to be here awhile.

DET. ADELL SEVILLA:  Yeah.

(Off screen, we hear a faint beeping sound.)

HORATIO:  What's that?

DET. ADELL SEVILLA:  What?

(Horatio follows the beeping sound into the kitchen.)



[INT. CAPLIN RESIDENCE - KITCHEN - DAY - CONTINUOUS]

(Horatio sees the microwave oven beeping.  The red light in the window flashes:  
END.  Horatio opens the microwave door and sees the baby bottle inside.)

CUT TO:



[EXT. CAPLIN RESIDENCE - FRONT - DAY -- CONTINUOUS]  

(Horatio meets Speedle out in the front.  The place is filled with officer cars 
and curious bystanders.)  

SPEEDLE:  The final blood count is five.

HORATIO:  Four dead, three kids.  One adult survived.

SPEEDLE:  Any sign of an intruder?

HORATIO:  Not at first glance.

SPEEDLE:  Well, the last guy standing is the one I want to talk to.

HORATIO:  Actually, he's not standing; he's riding.  That was him.

(Just then, the EMTs wheel out the gurney with Jason Caplin on.)

HORATIO:  Where's the little girl?

SPEEDLE:  She's with social services till they place her with the family.

HORATIO:  If she has any left.

FADE OUT.

(COMMERCIAL SET)



FADE IN.

[INT. CAPLIN RESIDENCE - FRONT -- DAY]  

(Calleigh sits on the low concrete wall putting on her shoe covering.)  

HORATIO:  Let's start in the back, Eric.  (to Calleigh and Delko)  Might take a 
minute to acclimate yourself.  There's a whole lot of red in there.  Okay?

CALLEIGH:  Okay.

(Horatio turns and heads into the house.  Delko picks up his kit and heads for 
the back.  Calleigh stands up, picks up her kit and heads into the house.)

(Delko slowly makes his way through the back as he looks for anything that might 
help them.)  

WHITE FLASH TO:



[INT. CAPLIN RESIDENCE - FOYER / LIVING ROOM - DAY -- CONTINUOUS

(Calleigh steps into the house.  Speedle is inside snapping photos of the crime 
scene.  He's currently taking pictures of the mother, Stephanie Caplin.  Horatio 
stands in the far room in the back.  Alexx is tending to the body of the 
teenaged son and baby.)

DET. ADELL SEVILLA:  Occupants are Jason and Stephanie Caplin.  Dad's an 
optician at Stonybrook Mall.  Mom's a stay-at-home.  

(Speedle snaps a photo of Stephanie Caplin.  Adell kneels down next to the 
teenaged son.  Evidence marker #2 is near his head.)  

DET. ADELL SEVILLA:  Four kids:  The oldest is Luke, he's 16; 

(Quick flash of:  Luke Caplin holding the baby.  Resume to present.)  

DET. ADELL SEVILLA:  Timothy's nine and the only other victim found in a 
separate room.

(Quick flash of:  Timothy Caplin dead at his desk.  Resume to present.)

(Horatio steps over the teenaged son and walks into the living room.)

DET. ADELL SEVILLA:  Our toddler, Erin, the only surviving child, is seventeen 
months.

(Just outside the sliding doors to the back yard, Delko puts on his protective 
shoe coverings preparing to enter the house.)

(Adell turns to look at the baby.)  

DET. ADELL SEVILLA:  And Max ... six weeks.

ALEXX:  Not a very long time down with us, Angel.  And back up you go.

DET. ADELL SEVILLA:  Neighbors say nice family nice kids, never any problems.  
Mom was tired because of new baby.

DELKO:  Front and sliding glass doors were both open.  No signs of forced entry, 
though.  Nothing else suspicious on the outside perimeter of the house, either.

HORATIO:  Okay, so everything we need is right here and we have a happy, all-
american family shotgunned to death in their home.

SPEEDLE:  Except the dad and the toddler.  Right, but the toddler belonged home.

HORATIO:  What was the dad doing here?

DEKLO:  Along with two kids who should've been in school.

HORATIO:  Mm-hmm. Alexx, do we have a time of death?

ALEXX:  Between 11:00 A.M. and 1:00 P.M.  Was everyone home for lunch and they 
got surprised by someone?

DELKO:  Someone they knew.

HORATIO:  What we do know is that mom is the only one not shot in the back, 
right?

(Horatio makes his way back to the door.)  

ALEXX:  Mom's wound is consistent with a self-inflicted gunshot.

HORATIO:  We have spatter on that muzzle, Calleigh?

CALLEIGH:  Yeah.

(Quick Close-up of:   A gun fires, hits its off screen target and blood spatters 
back in frame toward the muzzle.)

(End of CGI POV.  Resume to present.)

CALLEIGH:  And a number four buck.  That's a hell of a recoil.

HORATIO:  So it could've bounced out of someone's hand and made the three feet, 
right?

(Behind her, Speedle takes a swab of the blood spatter on the wall.)  

CALLEIGH:  Yeah, it could've come out of dad's grip or come out of mom's.

HORATIO:  All right, let's GSR everybody and start with mom.

SPEEDLE:  Well, if we're looking at murder-suicide, she was the last to die.

HORATIO:  Right.  So we need a timeline.  Who was shot when?  Let's work on 
that.

SPEEDLE:  The blood will give us that, but it's going to take a while.  

(**)  HORATIO:  Take all the time you need.  (to Adell)  Let's alert the 
neighbors they're going to have company for awhile.

DET. ADELL SEVILLA:  You bet.

(Adell leaves.)

CUT TO:



[INT. CAPLIN RESIDENCE - TIMOTHY'S ROOM - DAY]

(Alexx is looking at Timothy's wound.)

ALEXX:  The wound area's wide.

HORATIO:  From a pellet pattern, right?

ALEXX:  Enough distance from the shooter to the victim for the pellets to 
spread.

(Quick close-up of:  A gun fires.  Pellets travel in slow motion toward the 
boy's back.  As they get close to the boy, the pellets spread wider.)

(End of flashback.  Resume to present.)  

ALEXX:  No defensive posture.

HORATIO:  That's because he was taken by surprise.

ALEXX:  Probably because of these.

(Quick black & white flashes of:  The killer enters the room and gets closer to 
Timothy who doesn't hear a thing because of the headphones.)

LYRICS:   (through headset)  Sometimes I think that I am better off alone 

(End of flashback.  Resume to present.)

ALEXX:  Liver temp is 99.  If he died four hours ago with his mother and 
brothers, his fever was 103.

HORATIO:  So, he was home sick.

ALEXX:  When you're ready to snap, one more tug on your sleeve is all it takes.

HORATIO:  Okay.

(Horatio turns and leaves.)

CUT TO:



[INT. CAPLIN RESIDENCE - LIVING ROOM - DAY -- CONTINUOUS]  

Several dissolves of:

(Speedle takes a swab of blood spatter on the ground.  He boxes the swab.)  

(Speedle picks up the camera and snaps photos of the blood spatter on the 
walls.)

(Speedle takes a swab of the blood off the wall.)

(Speedle writes down on the swabbed box.)  

(He continues to work.)

CUT TO:



[INT. CAPLIN RESIDENCE - BEDROOM - DAY -- CONTINUOUS]  

(The bedroom is a mess and untidy.  Delko is examining the bed when he finds 
some hair samples.  He picks up a strand and puts it in a bindle.)  

(Calleigh steps inside the room and puts her kit down.)

CALLEIGH:  This is the only unmade bed in the house.

DELKO:  Yeah, kids are cleaning their rooms.  Mom and dad lived like this.

CALLEIGH:  Mom was, anyway.

(Calleigh opens the dresser drawer and checks the clothes.)

CALLEIGH:  Dad's getting his needs met somehow.  (She closes the dresser 
drawer.)  Everything in here is washed and pressed.  There's a crib in the room.

DELKO:  Yeah, nobody's getting any sleep.

(Delko continues to check out the sheets.  Calleigh looks at the photos on the 
dresser and on the dresser mirror.)

CALLEIGH:  It's no excuse.

(Delko finds a medallion dangling from a chain on the baby's mobile.)  

DELKO:  Baby's first jewelry was an amulet?

CALLEIGH:  Oh, you can get them at any corner botanica.

DELKO:  Not exactly the place you'd shop for a newborn.

CALLEIGH:  They're actually supposed to ward off evil spirits.

DELKO:  Hmm.

(Deklo finds a prescription bottle.)  

DELKO:  So is this.

CALLEIGH:  Paroxetine HCl.  It's an antidepressant.

DELKO:  Bottle's full.

CALLEIGH:  It was filled three weeks ago.

CUT TO:



[INT. CSI - DNA LAB -- DAY]  

(Megan is working in the lab.  The officer walks in carrying an evidence bag.)  

MEGAN:  Hey.

(He hands the evidence bag to her.)  

OFFICER:  There you go.

(She takes it and reaches for the envelopes inside.)  

MEGAN:  Thanks.  Tell Horatio I'll call as soon as I get something.

OFFICER:  Okay.  I'm sure I'll be seeing you again.

(The officer leaves.)

(Megan takes out the first swab and gets to work.)  

CUT TO:



[INT. CAPLIN RESIDENCE - KITCHEN -- DAY]  

(Horatio and Delko are in the kitchen.)  

DELKO:  I don't see blood or any sign of struggle in here.

HORATIO:  No, not physical anyway.  This place isn't a mess.  It's downright 
filthy.  Kids will pick up after themselves, but they will not clean.

(Horatio opens the fridge and finds it sparse.  The drawing on the fridge reads:  
I love daddy.)

HORATIO:  Empty fridge ... overflowing garbage.  They obviously live on fast 
food.

(Sounds of flies are heard.  Horatio sees the fast food bag on the counter.  He 
heads toward it.)

HORATIO:  Looks like somebody didn't eat their lunch today.

(He looks inside the bag.)

HORATIO:  Got a couple of burgers ... half-eaten fry.

(Horatio looks at the French fry.) 

DELKO:  Wouldn't have lasted ten minutes in my house.

(Horatio puts the French fry down and picks up his flashlight.  He looks 
around.)

HORATIO:  Well, mom did give up the fight.  Who's been taking care of the 
family?

(Speedle turns the corner and heads into the kitchen.)  

DELKO:  Sick kid, teenager's out of school early ... dad picks up lunch for 
everyone?

SPEEDLE:  I got a point on the timeline, or at least a place to start.

CUT TO:



[INT. CAPLIN RESIDENCE - LIVING ROOM - DAY -- CONTINUOUS]  

(Speedle, Horatio and Delko return to the living room.  Calleigh stands next to 
the teenaged boy and baby on the floor.)  

CALLEIGH:  We isolated specific bleeders on parts of the sleeper, but on the 
feet, it was an extreme amount of everyone's blood.

(Quick flash of:  The toddler cries as he pads through the living room.)

(End of flash.  Resume to present.)

(Speedle looks at the small bloodied prints on the floor.)  

SPEEDLE:  Okay, so the toddler was here, veered away from the mother, around the 
father, sharp right to the brother and the infant.

(Quick flash of:  The toddler steps into the pool of blood.)

SPEEDLE:  (v.o.)  But here, the blood from the brother pooled around the 
toddler's foot.

(End of flash.  Resume to present.)

HORATIO:  So that means the toddler was over Luke when he bled out.

ALEXX:  This victim, this room temperature probably didn't take but a few 
minutes.

HORATIO:  Hmm, so she was inside within minutes of the killing, but she's the 
only family member not shot.  Why? Why was she spared?

DELKO:  She's the only girl.

SPEEDLE:  She was hiding.

HORATIO:  Maybe she was just lucky.

WHITE FLASH TO:



[INT. CAPLIN RESIDENCE - GARAGE - DAY - CONTINUOUS]

(Calleigh snaps photos in the garage.  Horatio stands near the doorway looking 
around.)  

CALLEIGH:  Mom normally drives the wagon, but it hasn't been used in a while.

HORATIO:  Was that door closed?

CALLEIGH:  Yeah, the garage door was down.

HORATIO:  So dad goes to work, like normal.  At 11:45, he gets a call from mom, 
and then he leaves upset, right?

CALLEIGH:  So dad's out of surgery?

HORATIO:  Not yet.  Sevilla spoke to his assistant.  (Horatio sees the keys 
still in the car.)  Dad leaves his keys in the ignition but remembers to close 
the garage door.

(He turns around and sees something.)  

HORATIO:  And here's the gun safe.

(He walks over to the door and sees something.  He smells it.)

CALLEIGH:  What is it?

HORATIO:  It's ammonia.

CUT TO:



[EXT. MIAMI COMMUNITY (STOCK) - DAY]

HORATIO:  (v.o.)  Take a look at the position of her body.



[INT. CAPLIN RESIDENCE - LIVING ROOM - DAY]

(Horatio and Adell Sevilla look at Stephanie Caplin on the couch.)

HORATIO:  She's the only victim we found at rest.

DELKO:  Females don't usually suicide by shotgun-- too messy.

CALLEIGH:  Well, did you see the house?  I think there was a bigger concern than 
mess.

HORATIO:  Okay, Speed, how long do you think you're going to be here?

SPEEDLE:  (sighs)  All night.

HORATIO:  All night.

SPEEDLE:  Okay, keep me posted.

(Horatio leaves.  Alexx works on the body as the Coroners wheel out a body on 
the gurney.  She zips up the bag with the baby inside.  She picks it up and 
leaves.)

(As Delko works, something falls on the back of his neck.  He jumps and looks 
up.  On the ceiling is more blood spatter.  Delko sighs heavily.)

CUT TO:



[EXT. MIAMI CITY (STOCK) - NIGHT]



[INT. CSI - FORENSICS LAB - NIGHT]

(All four bodies are out on the examining tables.  Alexx pulls the sheet up to 
over Timothy Caplin.  Horatio is in the room.)

HORATIO:  Alexx?

(Alexx moves to the teenaged son first.)  

ALEXX:  Luke, 16 years old.  Shot twice:  Once in the shoulder, once at the base 
of the skull.

HORATIO:  Two wounds.  Maybe he was on the move.

ALEXX:  Running only gave the buckshot pattern room to expand. 

HORATIO:  Enough to hit the baby.

ALEXX:  Newborn -- a few pellets was all it took.

(She picks up the beaker with the stomach contents inside and takes out 
something hard and white.)  

ALEXX:  People really don't chew, especially hungry teens.

HORATIO:  And the infamous half-eaten bag of french fries.  So ... Luke brings 
home lunch but doesn't get to eat because the killing has started.

ALEXX:  Something else.  He had an acute gastric ulcer.

(Quick CGI to:  Camera moves to the body and down to the insides where it 
settles on the stomach.  The lining tears, bubbles and fizzes.)

(End of flash.  Resume to present.)

ALEXX:  He bit his nails, and the enamel on the dentition was worn down to the 
second layer.

(Quick CGI to:  Close-up of the teeth in his mouth grinding against each other.)

(End of flash.  Resume to present.)

ALEXX:  A 16-year-old stress case.

HORATIO:  16 going on 40.  What about the mother's reach?

(Alex measures Stephanie Caplin's fingertip to her shoulder.)  

ALEXX:  Twenty-seven inches.

HORATIO:  Shotgun muzzle is 24.5.  She could have absolutely reached that 
trigger.

ALEXX:  No gunshot residue on her hands.  Not unusual with a long barrel.

HORATIO:  Dad and Luke?  

ALEXX:  There's too much blood on both of them to tell.

HORATIO:  What about the mother's wound?

ALEXX:  One shot, close contact, pellets were a compact mass 

(Quick flash of:  Stephanie Caplin sitting on the couch.  The shotgun muzzle is 
pointed at her mouth.)

(End of flash.  Resume to present.)

ALEXX:  ... pushed by a pressurized gas cloud into the brain, turning the 
medulla to pulp.

HORATIO:  So she died instantly.

ALEXX:  And the nine-year-old's wound was immediately fatal, as well.

(Horatio's phone rings.)

ALEXX:  One shot, dead center, severed his spinal cord.

(He answers his phone.)

HORATIO:  Horatio.  (pauses)  Okay.  (He hangs up.)  Jason Caplin just got out 
of surgery.

CUT TO:



[INT. HOSPITAL - CAPLIN'S ROOM / HALLWAY -- NIGHT]

(The nurse rolls Jason Caplin onto his side.  From the doorway, Adell Sevilla 
watches.  The doctor walks up to her.)

DOCTOR:  Buckshot penetrated his kidney.  We removed it.   Packed and ligated 
the renal artery.  Sutured his multiple splenic lacerations.  He's got some will 
to live.

ADELL SEVILLA:  Did he say anything about his family?

DOCTOR:  Just that he thought he heard the baby screaming.

ADELL SEVILLA:  Okay if I talk to him?

DOCTOR:  He's slightly altered because of the inhaled anesthetic, but ... you 
can try.

(Adell Sevilla walks into the room.  The nurse leaves.  Adell sits next to the 
bed.)  

ADELL SEVILLA:  Mr. Caplin?  I'm Detective Sevilla.  I was at your house 
yesterday.  Do you have any idea who did this to you?

JASON CAPLIN:  I don't know.  I ... I saw my son.  He was ... he was hurt.

ADELL SEVILLA:  Did you see anyone else?  An intruder, maybe?

JASON CAPLIN:  I felt this ... this heat on my back.  I heard the baby cry ... I 
don't know.

ADELL SEVILLA:  That's okay.  Tell me, Mr. Caplin, what were you doing home from 
work?

JASON CAPLIN:  My wife had called.  She was upset ... 

(Quick flashback to:  Stephanie Caplin is on the phone.  The baby cries in the 
background.)  

STEPHANIE CAPLIN:  (to phone)  You're never here!  I can't do this alone!

JASON CAPLIN:  (from phone)  We're both tired.

STEPHANIE CAPLIN:  (to phone)  You don't know what tired is!

(The baby continues to cry.  Stephanie Caplin )

STEPHANIE CAPLIN:  Make him stop!  You've got to do something to make him stop, 
or I ...

(End of flashback.  Resume to present.)  

ADELL SEVILLA:  Or what?  Mr. Caplin?  Did your wife threaten to hurt herself or 
the children?

JASON CAPLIN:  No.  She ... she loved them.

CUT TO:



[INT. CSI - HALLWAY -- NIGHT]  

(The elevator door opens in front of Horatio.  Adell Sevilla steps out holding a 
package in her hand.)  

HORATIO:  Hey.

ADELL SEVILLA:  Hey.

(She hands him the paper sack.  He turns and leads her to a lab.)  

ADELL SEVILLA:  Dad's clothes -- blood's starting to smell.

HORATIO:  All right.  Come on in here.  Is he talking?

ADELL SEVILLA:  He's not winning any spelling bees, but he was lucid.

(They enter the lab.)

[INT. CSI - LAB - NIGHT]

ADELL SEVILLA:  Okay, now, he claims his wife called him at the office and he 
came home.

HORATIO:  Did he say why?

ADELL SEVILLA:  She was upset, baby wouldn't stop crying.  Now, it sounded like 
U-turns from office to home were not unusual.

HORATIO:  Okay, did he say he saw who shot him?

ADELL SEVILLA:  No.  Now, he remembers coming in seeing his son covered in 
blood, and then the next thing you know, he felt a hot pain in his back.

HORATIO:  Okay, in all your years, did you ever hear of a self-inflicted gunshot 
wound to the back?

ADELL SEVILLA:  Most people can't pull off shots to the front without a fifth of 
scotch and a very nimble big toe.

HORATIO:  Okay, so hormonal depression and long arms could get us there.

(She considers it.)  

HORATIO:  Okay.

ADELL SEVILLA:  Hmm.

(Horatio leaves through one door; Adell leaves through another.)

CUT TO:



[INT. CSI - DNA LAB -- NIGHT]  

(Megan writes on a clipboard.  Delko walks into the lab.)  

MEGAN:  What do you got?

DELKO:  Some hairs from the master bedroom.  (He puts the envelope on the table 
next to her and in front of the other stacks of envelopes of her.)  Long, dark.

MEGAN:  Mom's a blonde.

DELKO:  Well, in, uh, in your spare time, maybe.

(Megan smiles; Delko chuckles as he leaves.)  

CUT TO:



[INT. CSI - LAB]  

(Calleigh powers up the ALS and examines the shotgun from handle to tip.  At the 
very end of the muzzle, she finds a few sparse spatter drops of blood.)  

(She turns the ALS off.)  

Several Dissolves of:  

(Calleigh untwists the barrel off.  She tests the barrel for GSR.  She tests the 
pad, looks at the results, then puts the pad aside.)  

(She swabs the inside barrel of the gun.  She looks at the tip of the swab.)  

(Cut to:  Speedle puts together a hand-drawn sketch of the room where the 
bodies, blood and gun was found.)  

(He also draws in projected lines of fire and where the shells were found.)  

CUT TO:



[INT. CSI - LAB]  

(Speedle sits at the table drawing the crime scene when Horatio walks in.)  

HORATIO:  Now, how are the crime scene sketches coming?

SPEEDLE:  Marking evidence as it rolls in.

HORATIO:  Mm-hmm.

(Delko walks in.  He hands the file folder results to Horatio.)  

DELKO:  Megan ran the hairs from the master bed.

HORATIO:  Hmm, not the mom, but a female relative.

SPEEDLE:  The sister was so broken up.

HORATIO:  Or maybe mom had more than hormones and kids to worry about, huh?

FADE OUT.

(COMMERCIAL SET)



FADE IN.

[CLOSE-UP:  BABY BOTTLE and SHOTGUN]

(The baby bottle and shotgun are in the fumer.  The fumer fills up with fumes 
and the prints on the baby bottle are revealed.)



[INT. CSI - PRINT LAB]  

(Calleigh looks at STEPHANIE CAPLIN'S print card under the magnifying glass and 
compares the tape lift print removed from the baby bottle.)  

CUT TO:



[INT. CSI - CONFERENCE ROOM]  

(Horatio and Adell Sevilla interview Stephanie Caplin's Sister.)  

ADELL SEVILLA:  Did you know your sister was seeing a psychiatrist?

STEPHANIE CAPLIN'S SISTER:  (nods)  Yeah. Yeah, she was having a rough time.  

(Horatio pours her a glass of water.)  

STEPHANIE CAPLIN'S SISTER:  Not sleeping, and, uh, th-the baby ... the ... the 
baby cried a lot; colic.  And she, uh ... 

(Horatio puts the glass of water on the table in front of her.)  

HORATIO:  Here you go.

STEPHANIE CAPLIN'S SISTER:  Thank you.  (Horatio sits down.)  She ... she was 
having a hard time.

ADELL SEVILLA:  Can you be more specific?  Because, you know, baby blues are one 
thing, but postpartum psychosis, that's quite another.

STEPHANIE CAPLIN'S SISTER:  My sister was depressed.  She wasn't crazy.  

HORATIO:  She had medication that she wasn't taking.

STEPHANIE CAPLIN'S SISTER:  She was worried about what it would do to the baby.  
She was nursing.

(Horatio shows her a photo of the medallion.)  

HORATIO:  Have you seen that before?

STEPHANIE CAPLIN'S SISTER:  Yeah.  I gave that to her.  It's a charm to make her 
feel better.  How about your brother-in-law?

ADELL SEVILLA:  Did you help him feel better?

HORATIO:  We have evidence that you were in their bed recently.

STEPHANIE CAPLIN'S SISTER:  All I wanted was my sister's happiness.

ADELL SEVILLA:  Well, that goal can get you into trouble.  Where were you 
yesterday morning?

STEPHANIE CAPLIN'S SISTER:  In buffalo, on business.  If you don't believe me, 
call the airline.

ADELL SEVILLA:  Still doesn't explain your little trick between the sheets.

STEPHANIE CAPLIN'S SISTER:  I held my sister when she couldn't stop crying.  
When she couldn't get out of bed, much less the house.  And that's a hell of a 
lot more than he did.

HORATIO:  And that's your brother-in-law you're talking about?

STEPHANIE CAPLIN'S SISTER:  Yeah, Jason.  He hid at work day and night, leaving 
her alone with four kids.

HORATIO:  Well, sounds like it was too much for her.  

STEPHANIE CAPLIN'S SISTER:  It was too much for anyone.

HORATIO:  Hmm.

STEPHANIE CAPLIN'S SISTER:  My sister loved those kids.  Yeah, they drove her 
nuts.  Okay, yeah, she was a wreck, but there is no way in hell that she killed 
them.

(She looks from Adell to Horatio.)

(In the background, we see Calleigh out in the hallway.  She knocks lightly on 
the door.)  

HORATIO:  Excuse me.

(Horatio stands up and exits the room.)  



[INT. CSI - HALLWAY - CONTINUOUS]

(Calleigh shows Horatio her report.)  

CALLEIGH:  I fumed the shotgun, but there were no usable prints on it.

HORATIO:  Okay.  So who do we think was feeding the infant?

(Quick flash of:  [INT. CAPLIN RESIDENCE - KITCHEN - DAY]  Timothy tightens the 
baby bottle cover and puts it in the microwave oven.)

CALLEIGH:  (v.o.)  Timmy's prints were on the bottle.

HORATIO:  (v.o.)  Right, so the nine-year-old is parenting the baby while the 
mother is doing what?

(End of flashback.  Resume to present.)  

CALLEIGH:  I don't know, maybe she was opening the gun safe.  Hers were the only 
prints on it.

HORATIO:  Mm-hmm, so then why didn't she kill the toddler?

CALLEIGH:  Couldn't find her?  I mean, she's a woman who can't function.  If you 
can't function, you can't keep track of your children.

HORATIO:  Hmm, that's true.

CUT TO:



[EXT. CAPLIN RESIDENCE - FRONT DRIVE -- DAY]  

(Speedle and Delko are getting their things out of the CSI Van.)  

SPEEDLE:  You know, plenty of times my parents wanted me gone, but at least they 
fell short of taking me out.

DELKO:  (smiles)  Yeah, how short?  Just short, or miles away?

(Delko shuts the door.  The two make their way across the street toward the 
house.)  

SPEEDLE:  What does "Delko" stand for, anyways?

DELKO:  "Delektorsky."  My dad's Russian, my mom's Cuban.

SPEEDLE:  Yeah?

DELKO:  Yeah.

(They both duck under the crime scene tape.)  

SPEEDLE:  You got any brothers or sisters?

DELKO:  Three sisters.  Why?

SPEEDLE:  They're all older, right?  I mean, you're the baby.

DELKO:  Maybe.



[INT. CAPLIN RESIDENCE - FOYER - DAY -- CONTINUOUS]  

(Delko and Speedle walk through the front door.)  

DELKO:  So you think the little girl was the favorite, and that's why she made 
it?

SPEEDLE:  Who knows?  That's what we're here to find out.

DELKO:  Yeah. Let's find out.

(Delko walks to the left toward the bedrooms and Speedle takes the right toward 
the living room.  Delko looks at the photos on the foyer cabinet.  He looks into 
the son's room and sees the latest brand new scooter next to the bed.)



[EXT. CAPLIN RESIDENCE - BACKYARD - DAY - CONTINUOUS]

(Speedle walks out of the house into the backyard and looks around.  From the 
other side of the house, Delko also appears in the backyard.  He's holding a 
notebook and pen.)  

DELKO:  They don't have a dog.

(They both kneel in front of the empty dog house.)  

SPEEDLE:  Well, if they did, it didn't last.

DELKO:  But I guess we know how the toddler did.

(Inside, they find a bloodied baby blanket.)

CUT TO:



[INT. CSI - WAREHOUSE -- DAY]  

(Calleigh and Horatio are suited up and are pushing make-shift wall frame into 
place around a couch similar to the one from the Caplin's house.)  

(Horatio picks up a female dummy and carries it over to the couch.)_

CALLEIGH:  I removed the pellets from the shotgun shells, but I left all the 
powder in, so it should give us a good kick.

(He places the dummy on the couch.)

(Quick flash of:  Stephanie Caplin sits back tiredly on the couch.  End of 
flash.  Resume to present.)

HORATIO:  Okay.

(Calleigh positions the dummy.)  

CALLEIGH:  And usually suicides ... lean forward to get a better shot.

(Horatio picks up the shotgun from the table.)  

HORATIO:  Right, which would create spatter directly above, right?  But in this 
case, the blood is back here.  So she needs to be back.  That's good.  (He 
positions the shotgun.)  Be about here.

CALLEIGH:  Yeah.

HORATIO:  Are you clear?

CALLEIGH:  Mm-hmm.

HORATIO:  All right, here we go.

(Horatio fires.  They both look at the spatter up on the plastic walls.)  

HORATIO:  There you have it.  You used boiled noodles, huh?

CALLEIGH:  (smiles)  For brain spatter it was either that or oysters.

HORATIO:  Yeah.

CALLEIGH:  So she's either the most relaxed suicide on record ... 

HORATIO:  Or she was taking a nap.

CUT TO:



[INT. CSI - LAB -- DAY]  

(Delko and Speedle share their findings with Horatio.  )  

DELKO:  The blood on the blanket from the doghouse proves that the toddler was 
there after someone was injured.

(Quick flash to:  The Toddler is climbing out of the doghouse.  She heads for 
the house.)

(End of flash.  Resume to present.)

HORATIO:  Right, but her feet were drenched with the blood from all five 
victims, though.

SPEEDLE:  Not until after she was hiding in the backyard.  The transfer from the 
blanket came from one bleeder: The mom.

HORATIO:  And there's no chance she walked outside by herself?

DELKO:  No.  I scraped every inch of that blanket.

SPEEDLE:  (o.s.)  It was loaded with her saliva and epithelials.

DELKO:  But no trace chemicals or soil from the backyard.

(Delko draws a line from the doorway to the doghouse.  He writes:  11'4".)

DELKO:  Eleven feet, four inches from the doghouse to the closest doorway.  
Someone had to have carried her.

(Quick flash of:  Someone carries the crying toddler out of the house and into 
the doghouse.)

(End of flash.  Resume to present.)

HORATIO:  So who had glyphosate and soil on their shoes?  That's what we need to 
find out, gentlemen.  Let's do that.

(Horatio heads out.)  

CUT TO:



[INT. CSI - LAB ]  

(Horatio examines the bottoms of the shoes.  On the table in front of him, he 
has all the victim's shoes.  On one particular pair of sneakers, he finds 
something.)  

(Cut to:  Horatio grabs the print out results and reads it.)  

HORATIO:  Okay, here we go.  Luke has traces of glyphosate and soil on his 
shoes.  So does dad.  No one else.

SPEEDLE:  Either one of them could've been out back doing yard work.

HORATIO:  Mm-hmm, which means whoever carried the toddler into the yard did so 
with mom's blood, right?

(Horatio hands the print out to Speedle.)  

SPEEDLE:  Right. So, her wound was instantly fatal.

HORATIO:  Mm-hmm.  Which means someone was still standing ... 

(Quick flash of:  As Stephanie Caplin sleeps, a gun is pointed at her head and 
cocked.)  

HORATIO:  (v.o.)  ... after she died.

(End of flashback.  Resume to present.)  

HORATIO:  And that means that this is not a murder-suicide.  It's a murder, 
isn't it?  Now, there are only two family members left capable of doing this.  
And that's Luke and dad.

SPEEDLE:  You think the kid could've done this?

HORATIO:  I don't know.  He's a 16-year-old kid with an ulcer.  Maybe he got 
sick of taking care of everyone.  What do you think?

FADE OUT.

(COMMERCIAL SET)



FADE IN.

[EXT. MIAMI (STOCK) - DAY]



[INT. CSI - LAB -- DAY]  

(Speedle is examining the victim's clothing under the magnifying glass.  
Calleigh stands nearby and watches.)  

CALLEIGH:  Why are you looking at the pants and not the shirts?

SPEEDLE:  Shirts are a mess.  Any spatter from a vic's going to be lost among 
the primary.

CALLEIGH:  But it's hard to get spatter with a shotgun -- the barrel's too long.

SPEEDLE:  Unless we're not looking for spatter.

(Speedle finds something and pushes his chair away so that Calleigh can see it.)

[MAGNIFYING GLASS VIEW]  of four dots on the material.

CALLEIGH:  That's transfer.

(Speedle looks through the file folder and finds the photo of the bootie from 
the Todder's sleeper.)  

SPEEDLE:  That's tread ... from the toddler's footies.  The question is:  Whose 
blood is it?

CUT TO:



[INT. CSI - LAB]  

(Horatio walks into the lab.  Speedle holds the print out results for him.)  

HORATIO:  Speed.  What have we got?

SPEEDLE:  Results from the transfer stain on Luke's pants.  Mom's blood.

(Quick flash to:  Luke runs into the living room and grabs the toddler from the 
floor and carries her out of the house.)

HORATIO:  (v.o.)  Instinctively, he picked up the toddler, thinking the killer 
might still be in the house.

(End of flash.  Resume to present.)  

HORATIO:  And he did it after mom was mortally wounded.

(Horatio heads out of the lab.)  

CUT TO:



[INT. CSI - LAYOUT ROOM -- DAY]  

(Speedle puts up a photo of the kitchen on the viewbox.  He turns around and 
reports to the rest of the team.)  

SPEEDLE:  Okay, so mom and dad aren't doing their jobs.  The oldest son steps up 
to the plate.

HORATIO:  Luke tries to bring his siblings lunch ... and walks into a massacre.

(Quick flash of:  Luke comes home with the package of fast food and steps into 
the living room.  Surprise, shock and horror on his face at what he finds.  End 
of flash.  Resume to present.)  

DELKO:  Once Luke's in the living room, why not save the infant?  The swing and 
the bassinet were in the room.

CALLEIGH:  I don't know.  Judgment call.  Who could imagine shooting something 
so small?

(Quick flash of:  Luke walks into the living room and sees the toddler near the 
couch.  He turns and sees the baby in the swing set.  He goes to pick up the 
toddler and rushes out of the house.  End of flash.  Resume to present.)

HORATIO:  While Luke is busy saving the toddler, the killer goes after his next 
threat: Timmy.

(Camera focuses on the photo of Timothy Caplin slumped over his desk, shot in 
the back.)

DELKO:  Nine-year-old boy; some threat.

(Calleigh flips through some file papers.)  

SPEEDLE:  Okay, so Luke comes back in, tries to save the infant.

(Horatio looks at the photo of Luke and the baby.)  

HORATIO:  But he dies trying to get the infant out the front door.  And why does 
that happen?

SPEEDLE:  Dad was blocking his path.

HORATIO:  But dad's been shot in the back, and his wound is not self-inflicted.

(Horatio looks at the photos of the shotgun on the floor and of dad on the 
floor.)  

CALLEIGH:  Maybe it was the result of a struggle.

SPEEDLE:  But over the only other family member, the infant.

CALLEIGH:  Mm-hmm.

HORATIO:  Wait a minute.

(Horatio picks up a photo of a the infant's clothes.  He puts it up on the 
viewbox.)

HORATIO:  Speed ... whose blood did we find on the infant's clothes?  Let's take 
a look at that.  Show me.

SPEEDLE:  The infant's own ...

HORATIO:  mm-hmm.

SPEEDLE:  Of course ...  Luke's ... mom's spatter.

HORATIO:  Where's dad's blood?

(Speedle points to them on the photo.)  

HORATIO:  Those are gravitational droplets.

CUT TO:



[EXT. MIAMI COMMUNITY (STOCK) - DAY]



[EXT. COMMUNITY -- DAY]  

(Horatio pulls up the drive.  He exits the vehicle and heads for Jason Caplin 
carrying his daughter.  He's speaking with a woman from crime scene clean-up.)

WOMAN IN WHITE:  Yeah, you can discuss that with them.

JASON CAPLIN:  Thank you.  Thank you very much.

WOMAN IN WHITE:  It's just routine.  

JASON CAPLIN:  (to toddler)  It's okay.  Daddy's here.

(Horatio walks up to them.  Det. Adell Sevilla joins them.)  

HORATIO:  Good morning.

JASON CAPLIN:  Oh, finally.  You the insurance adjusters?  Oh, hold on. You're, 
uh ...

HORATIO:  I'm a criminalist.  Mr. Caplin, I'm with the MDPD.  This is Detective 
Sevilla.

JASON CAPLIN:  Right, right.  From the hospital.

HORATIO:  Hmm... you're feeling better.  Well, I spent four days in the hospital 
flat on my back.  I have staples holding my chest together, and they're pulling 
up the flooring in my house, because it's rotted with blood.

HORATIO:  Yes, blood.  Blood is why we came today.  We want to talk to you about 
your blood on your baby.

TODDLER:  Mommy.

JASON CAPLIN:  Shh!

(He looks at them.  His demeanor changes.)

JASON CAPLIN:  I ... I bled on my baby?  I got shot. I guess my blood must have 
been everywhere.

HORATIO:  Spatter normally travels, but in this case, we found gravitational 
droplets of blood on your baby's clothes.

ADELL SEVILLA:  And just to be clear, that's a problem.

HORATIO:  Right. Because that proves that you were standing over him while you 
were bleeding.

ADELL SEVILLA:  Luke's body was covering that baby.  He died protecting that 
child.

HORATIO:  And you had, shall we say, other instincts.

(Quick flashback to:  Open on the infant in the swing.  Behind the baby, we see 
Luke standing outside in the backyard.  He's just put the toddler in the 
doghouse and turns to look at the infant.)

(Cut to:  Jason Caplin slowly makes his way back to the living room.  He's 
holding the shotgun in his hand.  He walks toward the infant.)

(Luke sees his dad with the gun.  He runs back to the house.)  

(Cut to:  Luke tackles his dad.  He rolls over, grabs the shotgun and gets to 
his feet.)  

HORATIO:  (v.o.)  You thought he wouldn't risk the shot if you had the infant in 
your arms.

(Jason stares at his son with the gun, then dashes to grab the infant.  Before 
he can get the baby, Luke shoots Jason in the back.  Drops of Dad's blood fall 
on the baby's clothes.)  

(Luke unstraps the baby, picks the baby up and heads for the door.)

HORATIO:  (v.o.)  Reverse the situation, and you didn't hesitate.

(Jason gets to his feet, picks up the shotgun, and shoots Luke in the back.)

(Luke reaches for the front door.  He gets the door open.  Jason cocks the rifle 
again ... )

(End of flashbacks.  Resume to present.)  

(Officers help Jason Caplin, hands cuffed behind his back, into the back of the 
police car.)

OFFICER:  Watch your head.

(Adell shuts the door.)

(Horatio walks toward the open window.  Behind him, the woman from Social 
Services is carrying the toddler.)

(Jason Caplin looks at Adell Sevilla.)  

JASON CAPLIN:  I never slept.  I-I couldn't think.  I mean, even at work, I 
could hear them screaming for more.  One morning I woke up, and I just knew ... 
I couldn't face them again.

HORATIO:  So you shot them in the back.

JASON CAPLIN:  I tried, I-I ... I-I just couldn't.

(Done, Horatio and Adell step away from the car.)

ADELL SEVILLA:  Did he just confess?

HORATIO:  He's laying the groundwork for his defense.

ADELL SEVILLA:  Insanity?

HORATIO:  Mm-hmm.  Two-pronged:  "I didn't know what I was doing, and I 
certainly didn't know it was wrong."  

ADELL SEVILLA:  Just might work.

CUT TO:



[EXT. MIAMI CITY (STOCK) - SUNSET]



[INT. CSI - DNA LAB - NIGHT]

(Horatio processes samples from the clothes.)

(Quick flashback to:  [CRIME SCENE]  Horatio smells the safe.)

CALLEIGH  What is it?

HORATIO:  It's ammonia.

(He takes a swab sample.  Calleigh dusts the safe handle for prints.)  

(End of flashback.  Resume to present.)  

(Horatio looks at the print out results.  Speedle and Adell Sevilla are in the 
lab.)

HORATIO:  Nh-3.

SPEEDLE:  Ammonia.

HORATIO:  Mm-hmm.  Which was on dad's shirt, which he used to keep his prints 
off the gun safe, didn't he?

SPEEDLE:  And then he called his wife from the car.

HORATIO:  Mm-hmm.

ADELL SEVILLA:  Phone records confirm he made a call from his cell.

(Quick flash of:  [GARAGE]  Stephanie Caplin's on the phone and walks into the 
garage.)  

JASON CAPLIN:  (to phone)  Honey, can you check the gun safe?  I think I might 
have left it open.

(She checks the safe.)

(Cut to:  Jason Caplin parks his car and steps out onto the driveway.)

HORATIO:   (v.o.)  Dad comes back home at 11:45 a.m.  

(Cut to:  Close-up of the safe's digital key pad.  Jason uses his gloved knuckle 
to punch in the code.  He uses his shirt and opens the safe.)

HORATIO:  (v.o.)  Opens the gun safe without leaving his prints, and takes out 
the shotgun.

(Jason takes out the shotgun.)

(End of flashback.  Resume to present.)  

SPEEDLE:  We can't prove that he told his wife to close the safe.

HORATIO:  Yes, but any plan proves premeditation, and that means he knew exactly 
what he was doing.  That's what it means.

CUT TO:



[EXT. MIAMI CITY LIGHTS (STOCK) - NIGHT]



[INT. CSI - LAB - NIGHT]

(Speedle walks up the stairs to Horatio's office.)



[INT. CSI - HORATIO'S OFFICE - NIGHT - CONTINUOUS]

(Horatio sits at his desk when Speedle walks in with the newspaper.)  

HORATIO:  What do you have?

(He hands the paper to Horatio.  The article headline reads:  "Father in family 
slaying pleads insanity; Equal access to post-partum".)

SPEEDLE: Guess what Jason Caplin's claiming?  Postpartum psychosis.  By proxy.

HORATIO:  First, he frames his wife for murder, and then he co-opts her illness.  
What a stellar human being.

SPEEDLE:  Yeah, I guess we just have to hope that the jury doesn't buy his 
story.

HORATIO:  Well, the important thing now ... is that she really knows what 
happened.

(Horatio holds out the newspaper back to Speedle.)  

(Camera focuses in on the photo of the Toddler in Stephanie Caplin's sister's 
arms.)  

FADE TO BLACK.

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THE END
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TITLE/OPENING CREDITS 
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CSI:  MIAMI
1X08:  SLAUGHTERHOUSE
ORIGINAL AIR DATE ON CBS:  11/11/2002
TRANSCRIBED FROM DVD

Starring:
DAVID CARUSO as Horatio Caine
EMILY PROCTER as Calleigh Duquesne

ADAM RODRIGUEZ as Eric Delko
KHANDI ALEXANDER as Alexx Woods
with
RORY COCHRANE as Tim Speedle
and
KIM DELANEY as Megan Donner

Created by ANTHONY E. ZUIKER, ANN DONAHUE, CAROL MENDELSOHN

Starring 
WANDA DE JESUS as Det. Adell Sevilla

CALVIN DEVAULT as Luke Caplin
DENICE DUFF as Mrs. Caplin's Sister
ALBIE SELZNICK as Jason Caplin

Music Composed by:  GRAEME REVELL

Edited by J. BENJAMIN CHULAY, A.C.E.
Production Designer:  CAROLS BARBOSA
Director of Photography:  WALT LLOYD

Co-Producer:  FRANK BALLOU
Co-Producer:  BRUCE GOLIN
Co-Producer:  LOIS JOHNSON
Co-Producer:  STEVEN MAEDA

Consulting Producer:  MARK ISRAEL
Consulting Producer:  ELIZABETH DEVINE

Co-Executive Producer:  LAURIE McCARTHY
Co-Executive Producer:  DANNY CANNON
Co-Executive Producer:  SAM STRANGIS

Executive Producer:  JONATHAN LITTMAN
Executive Producer:  NANCY MILLER

Written by LAURIE MCCARTHY
Directed by DICK PEARCE

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END CREDITS 
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Executive Producer:  JERRY BRUCKHEIMER

Executive Producer:  ANTHONY E. ZUIKER
Executive Producer:  CAROL MENDELSOHN
Executive Producer:  ANN DONAHUE

JERRY BRUCKHEIMER Television
Alliance Atlantis Productions Inc.
CBS Productions, Inc.

Co-Starring 
INGRID KOOPMAN as Stephanie Caplin
THOMAS CURTIS as Timmy (Timothy) Caplin
ISABELLA BLEU CORTON as Toddler
NICHOLETTE ALEXIS CORTON as Toddler
TOM R. HUGHES as Paramedic
DAVID MORELAND as OR Doctor

Line Producer:  JEAN HIGGINS
Associate Producer:  GINA LAMAR

Casting by: RICK MILLIKAN, C.S.A.

Original Casting by: ROBERT ULRICH, C.S.A., ERIC DAWSON, C.S.A., CAROL KRITZER, 
C.S.A.

Story Editor:  GWENDOLYN PARKER

Unit Production Manager:  JEAN HIGGINS

First Assistant Director:  ALLEN G. DIGIOIA
Second Assistant Directors: NANCY P. TOWNSEND 
Costume Designer:  CYNTHIA BERGSTROM
Forensics Consultant:  JOHN HAYNES

Production Sound Mixers:  DONOVAN DEAR 
Script Supervisor:  CARILINE DAVIS-DYER
Special Make-Up Effects:  MATTHEW W. MUNGLE / CHERI-MONTESANTO-MEDCALF
Location Manager:  MICHELLE LATHAM

Art Directors:  TIM BEACH
Set Decorator:  DANIELLE BERMAN
Construction Coordinator:  JOHN KERSEY
Special Effects Coordinators:  FRANK CEGLIA 
Key Grip:  RANDY TAMBLING 
Stunt Coordinator:  NORMAN HOWELL

Gaffer:  RUSSEL CALDWELL
Camera Operator:  MICHAEL GENNE
Transportation Coordinator:  BOB CAWLEY 
2ND Unit:  SCOTT LAUTANEN / MICHAEL PHIRMAN
2ND 2ND:  PAULA SMITH

Key Make-Up Artist:  PEGGY TEAGUE
Ms. Delaney's Make-Up:  STEPHANIE FOWLER
Key Hairstylist:  YVONNE DE PATIS-KUPKA
Costume Supervisor:  SUZANNE BANNITT-HAINES
Property Master:  MIKE SEXTON

Colorist:  GARETH COOK
Supervising Sound Editor:  MATTHEW SAWELSON
Music Supervisor: JASON ALEXANDER
Assistant Editor:  SCOTT LERNER
Post Production Supervisor:  MICKIE REUSTER
Loop Group:  THE REEL TEAM

Dialogue Editor:  TODD NIESEN
ADR Editor:  RUTH ADELMAN
Sound Effects Editor:  BRAD KATONA
Re-Recording Mixers:  YURI REESE / BILL SMITH
Music Editor:  ASHLEY REVELL

Special Effects Supervisors:  LARRY DETWILER / MARC LEIDY

Digital Effects by STARGATE DIGITAL
Computer Playback and Graphics by E=MC2
High Definition Post Production by ENCORE
Film Laboratories by FOTOKEM
Post Production Sound Provided by TODD STUDIOS
Filmed at EL SEGUNDO STUDIOS

"Won't Get Fooled Again"
by Pete Townshend
Performed by The Who

The persons and events portrayed in this film are fictitious.  Any similarity to 
actual persons, living or dead, or any events is unintentional.

(c) 2002 CBS Worldwide Inc., and Alliance Atlantis Productions, Inc.  All Rights 
Reserved.

CBS Broadcasting Inc, and Alliance Atlantis Productions Inc, are the authors of 
this program for the purposes of copyright and other laws.

Dated:08/29/2004~lky
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