This is confirmed when she sees a picture of a card for the Lower Linx club, which she says has a well-equipped back room.īrass and Nick visit the club, but find the owner, Michelle Tournay, uncooperative. Grissom shows Lady Heather the photos from the bedroom and she believes that since there's no dedicated sex room in the house, Ian didn't "play" at home. Riley theorizes that Justine killed Ian, redressed him and tied him under the car, but the guys don't think she could do that on her own. In the closet, Nick finds a bloody shirt in the laundry basket its bloodstains match the puncture marks on Ian's nipples. Riley comes across a picture of Justine with breast implants, but hits the mother lode with a chest under the bed that's filled with S&M gear. Greg finds a butt smudge on the television and semen stains on the stand. All of this suggests that Ian was a submissive, meaning he was probably in a sexual relationship with a dominant.Īt Ian's house, Greg, Nick and Riley are notified to look for any S&M paraphernalia in the bedroom. She informs him that the puncture marks come from a practice called "stacking," in which the nipples are raised and made more sensitive using needles, and the burn marks on the tongue came from electrical torture done with a pair of metal sticks. As a result, he consults an expert on the subject: Lady Heather, who since their last meeting has become a sexual therapist. The signs of binding and torture leads Grissom to believe that Ian took part in S&M.
The doc labels the cause of death as manual strangulation. In addition to the puncture marks around the nipples and restraint marks, Ian also had electrical burns on his tongue. As suggested by parts of the furniture and the women's magazines in the house, Riley realizes that Wallace was living with a woman the magazines identify her as Justine Stefani.Īt the lab, Doc Robbins presents more strange findings from the autopsy. The back door to the house is also unlocked. He also found some fresh oil stains and rope burns, indicating that Ian was tied up in his own garage. Meanwhile, Grissom watches a video from Sara she's on a research boat south of the Equator and is happy for the first time in a long time.īack in Ian's house, Nick notices that Ian's car is in the garage, but the other spot is empty. Henry informs Catherine that Ian had low levels of THC and alcohol in his system. Riley finds evidence of blood on a living room chair, while Nick finds evidence of a bloody fistfight in the hallway, as there's a blood drop with an air bubble in it down by the baseboard of the wall. Nick, Riley and Brass go to the victim's address and identify him as Ian Wallace. The victim is identified from the softball shirt he was wearing.
This led the driver to drag the body into the middle of the desert as an accidental body dump. The working theory is that the victim was tied to the undercarriage of a truck, but when the rope melted, the body dropped onto the road. She collects a tire track found in the mud and finds a length of bloody rope with burnt ends. The victim has strange puncture wounds around his nipples that are inconsistent with tattoos or piercings.Ĭome daylight, Catherine returns to the scene where the body was found along with an unwilling Hodges. Furthermore, there's no brusiing from the rope burns and no clotted blood in the stab wounds, meaning that those injuries happened postmortem, as well. Doc Robbins points out that there was no blood flow in the facial scrapes, meaning that the injuries happened postmortem. In autopsy, Nick examines the victim's shirt and finds nine stab wounds on it. Ligature marks on the wrists and burnt motor oil on the shirt suggests that he was tied to the undercarriage of a vehicle with a high ground clearance.
His face has been reduced to a pulp and is full of asphalt. The victim is male with no forms of identification on him. Catherine tells him that first responder is responsible for doing so. When he arrives, he finds the victim covered in a tarp, which has contaminated the evidence. The episode opens as Grissom, who has just watched a video message from Sara, heading out to a crime scene in the rain. When the team investigates a case involving the world of domination, Grissom pays a visit to Lady Heather to help find some answers.