According to CSI Files sources, “Happenstance” will open with open with housewife, Ramona Sinclair, washing dinner dishes in her suburban tract house. Her toddler son, Henry, vies for her attention while her husband, Dr. Gary Sinclair, gets irritated because she forgot to pick-up his navy blue suit from the cleaners. He needs the suit for an early meeting the following morning. Sinclair offers to bathe their son while Ramona runs to the drycleaner to get the suit.

At the same time, Las Vegas Tribune reporter Jill Case steps out of the shower in her high-end minimalist bathroom. Her face is identical to that of Ramona Sinclair. A Bose radio in Case’s bathroom plays the song “Two of a Kind” by Bobby Darin and Johnny Mercer. The same song plays on the stereo in Ramona’s Lexus. The two different women with the same face begin singing along to the song.

The bodies of both women are found that night. Ramona is found shot to death outside the drycleaner. Jill appears to have committed suicide by jumping from her balcony.

Sophia questions Dr. Gary Sinclair. According to Sinclair, his wife was a good wife and a great mother with no enemies. Surprisingly, he didn’t know his wife had a twin. She was adopted and had tried to contact her birth mother, without any success he was aware of.

Grissom questions Jill’s therapist, Dr. Gus Hoffman. Jill had obsessive compulsive disorder and suffered clinical depression as a result. Dr. Hoffman explains the disease is deceiving because those who suffer from it are high functioning. Her condition enabled her to excel professionally, but her personal relationships floundered. She did not get along with her parents. Grissom advices Dr. Hoffman that Jill was adopted. That’s news to Dr. Hoffman.

In the autopsy room, Dr. Robbins determines that Jill did not commit suicide. Post-mortem bruises appeared on her neck – two on the front, eight on the back. Obvious strangulation.

Warrick and Brass pay a visit to Jill’s place of employment, the Las Vegas Tribune. The first break in the case comes with the discovery of a flash drive hidden inside a locked desk drawer. Scratch marks reveal that someone had tried to pry the lock open.

Please note that the above plot details have not been confirmed by CBS, Alliance Atlantis or Bruckheimer Films, and until such time you should treat this information as you would any other rumour. The above information comes from early script drafts and the details of the episodes are liable to change before the episodes are shown.

“Happenstance” is expected to air on the 9th of November, 2006.

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