The hit forensic crime drama continues its eighth season. In tonight’s episode, the CSIs’ investigation into the murder of a well-respected socialite leads them into the murky world of illegal dog-fighting. Meanwhile, Warrick is questioned over how a stripper ended up dead in his car.

The discovery of a pile of decomposing dogs is gruesome enough for the authorities, but when the beaten, bloodied body of a woman is found among them it is time to call in the CSI team.

When Dr Robbins sees the body on his autopsy table, he is shaken to recognise her as Elizabeth Rodriguez –a socialite who, along with her husband Felix (Jesse Borrego, ‘24’, ‘ER’) had recently been honoured for her humanitarian work.

Robbins’s band had been playing at a function the couple attended, and he remembers them dancing right in front of him. “You gonna be OK with this one?” asks Catherine gently. “I’m just not used to seeing them alive,” replies the doctor.

Felix Rodriguez says that he left the function before his wife because he hated events like that – Elizabeth didn’t mind, as long as he showed up for a while. He is shocked to hear that she is dead, and claims in a dazed voice: “I didn’t kill her. I love my wife.” It appears that he is telling the truth; there is
nothing to link him to the crime scene.

Wendy gets a lead when she analyses saliva from multiple dog-bites on Elizabeth’s arms and legs. Some of it matches a dog named Hannibal, who belongs to notorious gangster Gino Aquino (Vincent Laresca, ‘24’, ‘CSI: Miami’). Gino also happens to live in an area of the city where Elizabeth had an outreach centre for gang members, which suggests that the pair may have crossed paths. But when the CSIs pay Gino a visit, he tells a sceptical Nick that the dog in question was never returned to him.
Dogs enter the equation again when it transpires that Elizabeth’s blood contains traces of a drug
used to euthanise canines. On the list of buyers of this controlled substance is a rescue kennel that
Elizabeth donated money to –and when the CSIs get there, they find blood, strands of her hair and
restraints matching ligature marks on the body.

Steve Card, who runs the kennel, is brought in for questioning, looking even guiltier when it emerges
that he was the only person with access to the euthanising drugs.

Card claims that he came into work to find the bloody crime scene and cleaned it up in a panic – he thought Gino’s gang was to blame. “Nobody cheats the D Street Killers out of $50,000 and lives,” he says, explaining that the ‘humanitarian’ Elizabeth was actually an extremely successful dog-fighter and had conned the gangster out of the cash. “She was no Mother Teresa,” he says.

“See, she’d still be alive if she wasn’t a dirty dogfighter.” But when Gino tells a different story, the CSIs do not know who to believe... Meanwhile, Warrick is still trying to get to the bottom of who killed the stripper found dead in his car (see last week’s episode, ‘Cockroaches’).

Cleared by Internal Affairs, the hot-headed CSI then resumes his dangerous quest to prove that
Lou Gedda, the mobster owner of the stripper’s club, was behind the murder. “You and I both know Gedda killed that girl,” he insists to Grissom. “You just gotta give me a chance to prove it!” But after
crossing the line one too many times, Warrick is out of chances –and ends up getting suspended for
his troubles. Will Gedda get away with murder?

Tuesday 11th March at 9:00pm on five