According to CSI Files sources, “By the Book” involves the brutal murder of Doug Latham, President of the Holfcroft Communications Syndicate. Latham essentially owned every media outlet in Miami. He is found dead in a suite at the Agramonte Hotel, stabbed in the abdomen and scalped Indian style.

Latham did not spend the evening alone in the hotel room. He was accompanied by a hooker, Anna Savarro. Latham and Savarro ordered food from room service and from there, things become hazy. Latham and Savarro were both drugged.

Eric and Calleigh go to the Agramonte Hotel and question Jesse Stone. Stone is the food serive worker who delivered the room service to Latham and Savarro. When told Latham and Savarro were drugged via dosed food prior to Latham’s murder, Stone points out that the kitchen is busy and he’s not the only one who had access to it. He simply delivered the food to the room.

Horatio speaks with Savarro. She was drugged along with Latham, but was not murdered. However, her apartment was broken into. Horatio points out that the drugging, Latham’s murder and the fact that her apartment was broken into was no coincidence. He offers to protect her.

While investigating Savarro’s apartment, Calleigh is harassed by Steve Stringer. He points video camera at Calleigh, telling her he catches stories live on film and then sells them to the news programs. Calleigh refuses to comment until she learns that Stringer had been in the neighborhood at the time of the break in because he believed Shaq’s Bentley had been seen and wanted to catch him slumming. Coincidentally, Stringer caught the robber on film exiting Navarro’s apartment.

Back at the lab, the thief’s face from the video is matched with Miami Dade’s Arrest Records Database. A match is found -- Louis Santone. The video also reveals what Santone stole from the apartment. A little black book.

Ryan brings Santone in for interrogation. Ryan asks why Santome passed up cash and credit cards, taking only the little black book. Santome says he thought someone was coming and grabbed the first thing he saw. He didn’t realize until later that it was just an address book. Ryan discredits this story, telling Santome the book was kept in a locked drawer. Santome refuses to admit that anyone may have paid him to steal the book and he turns it over to Ryan. Santome ends up telling Ryan that no one can protect him from the guy he stole the book for.

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.

“By the Book” is expected to air on the 30th of April, 2007.

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