CSI Miami: This Corporation Will Do More Than Just Work You To Death

On this week’s episode of CBS’s hit crime drama CSI: Miami the show opens with a man crashing through a glass guardrail several levels up, inside a hotel. He dangles by the tips of his fingers for several moments before he comes crashing down into a tank filled with deadly stinging jelly fish.

This was a tragic event that took place at a corporate party, but it opened the door for an even larger tragedy as the CSI: Miami team discovers that the corporation this man worked for may have killed him to collect on a half million dollar life insurance policy.  It was strange when the man’s widow showed up at CSI office wanting to get a death certificate to try to cash in on her husband’s life insurance policy.

Of course the first suspicions fall on her but it turns out that she wasn’t the beneficiary of the policy and actually knew nothing about it until after her husband’s death.

After digging through the corporation’s history the team discovers that deaths in the company spike every June and that everyone who meets their end also had a life insurance policy taken out on them by the company itself. After some forensic work and further investigation they are able to show that one of the latest deaths was no accident. The evidence leads them right to the killer who immediately confessed to several murders all for the promise that he would keep his job permanently.

Unfortunately the CEO of the corporation, who came up with the idea of killing off the staff for insurance money, has an air tight defense that likely would allow him to get away with murder. However, as Horatio mentions right near the end of the episode, justice seem to have a way of working itself out. In the end the CEO was out of jail by that afternoon, just as he boasted he would be. Unfortunately for him, the brother of one of his victims decides to take justice into his own hands and shoots the CEO while he is out relaxing with a martini on his yacht.

This wasn’t your grand scale episode, but it sure made you sick to your stomach to even imagine that a corporation wouldn’t only be willing to work you to death, but would actually just kill you outright.