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Lieutenant Horatio Caine examines academically acclaimed Cultural Anthropology professor Adam Metzger whose corps is found wearing only shorts, hanged from a tree in KKK-lynching style with cult elements, such as a possible canine sacrifice. Wounds indicate some five hours of torture with thirteen different weapons. Weapons found in the professor's house were used to torture the dog to death. He was hated by parents and colleagues but loved by his thirteen students because of his controversial course on hatred, violence and pain, which included such guest speakers as a KKK leader and Columbian prison torturer Bardosa, whose machete-arm wound disabled him to commit a hanging. The blood found near the corps is Ned Sante's, a student who tells he was stripped by the other twelve as part of his involuntary mock lynching. Metzger also had an affair with student Ginny Taylor and left shredded notes. Meanwhile Eric Delko and Dr. Alexx Woods examine a decomposed corps in a car trunk fished ...

Kim Delaney's final appearance in the series.

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    • Author: Use_Death
    The bastard tortured an innocent dog to death. Tortured his students for fun. I call it Karma.
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    • Author: Abuseyourdna
    Good episode with plenty of twists and turns throughout the course of evidence finding for two separate crimes, one more of an accident during a crime, explanation forthcoming. This one is worth watching for the many avenues the police have to travel before arriving at the conclusions, and guilty party.

    The opening crime had Detective Bernstein and Horatio initial look at the barely-clothed man hanging from a tree with visible wounds, a first for both of them; a dead dog is found nearby. Detective Bernstein identifies the body belonging to a Professor Adam Metzger, Anthropology Department, at the university. Student Ned Sante is interrogated by Horatio. Ned was the product of the professor's mock lynching; Ned was humiliated, but did not kill anyone. The dead dog owner is student Ginny Taylor. Ginny says the professor once asked for her to kiss his shoes; she says she did. Her dog was tortured. She had no idea who killed the professor; she did not. Calleigh informs Horatio the content of the rope was bamboo, native to Columbia, coinciding with the Columbian guest lecturer the professor invited. Horatio, Calleigh interrogate the Columbian, after which x-rays reveal the tendons in the man's hands have been severed; Calleigh says he could hardly pick up a pencil. Horatio concludes the Columbian is not our killer.

    Calleigh processes the professor's wounds, neither medieval nor conventional weapons were used. Speed has assembled the professor's shredded paper indicating his notes refer to an assistant who possibly either typed the notes or shredded them, however, no prints on the professor's keyboard, no prints on any other office supplies. Horatio says the assistant wiped down blood, not prints. Office accessories including a letter opener in dagger form, showing traces of blood evidence. An image of the professor's face is left on the copy machine's glass, his glued-eyes-open from the found super-glue and cotton sweater threads left on the copy machine. Horatio asks who wears cotton sweaters that they possibly met already. A taser was likely used judging from the wounds. A warrant search for sweater-wearing student Teresa's taser was handed over to Speed.

    Horatio's interrogation of Teresa reveals her being tortured over the last year, concealing the scars with wearing cotton sweaters in the eighty-degree weather. Finally, she had enough abuse, tasering him, inflicting wounds with the office equipment accessories, later super-gluing his eyes open, blinding him by placing his head on the open copy machine and setting it to one-hundred copies. Teresa had been an experiment of the professors all along, his assistant mentioned in his shredded notes, she finally realized it and coupled with the insulting things he said about her work, is what put her over the top to kill him, which she admitted.

    The other crime was two guys scheming to commit insurance fraud by filing a claim after the one guy's car was pushed in the canal. The guy doing the pushing accidently killed himself in the process of committing the crime. You have to watch to see how this came to be.

    This was Megan's last appearance in the series, looking back, the character was reduced to less air time in the past couple episodes. Maybe they had plans of closing out the role, because the actress would move back to her former NYPD Blue character in 2003. The role was never replaced in CSI: Miami, once the character resigned, she never re-appeared.

    All together this is one to watch, to see the story unfold to its conclusion. Thumbs up for certain.
  • Episode cast overview, first billed only:
    David Caruso David Caruso - Horatio Caine
    Emily Procter Emily Procter - Calleigh Duquesne
    Adam Rodriguez Adam Rodriguez - Eric Delko
    Khandi Alexander Khandi Alexander - Alexx Woods
    Rory Cochrane Rory Cochrane - Tim Speedle
    Kim Delaney Kim Delaney - Megan Donner
    Wanda De Jesus Wanda De Jesus - Detective Adell Sevilla (as Wanda De Jesús)
    Michael Whaley Michael Whaley - Detective Bernstein
    Lenny von Dohlen Lenny von Dohlen - Professor Adam Metzger
    Vicki Davis Vicki Davis - Teresa
    Heather McComb Heather McComb - Ginny Taylor
    Ian Reed Kesler Ian Reed Kesler - Ned Sante
    Paolo Seganti Paolo Seganti - Lorenzo 'Larry' Castanotto
    Diane Mizota Diane Mizota - Jade Horowitz
    Aaron D. Spears Aaron D. Spears - Jerry, Police Diver
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