Recap
It’s looking like her innocent high school party is getting less innocent as people fill her house. Texts go out and the number of people filling her house goes up exponentially. Every corner of every floor “jumpin.” From the front door to the wooden balcony. Kids drinking too much, dancing too much, total chaos as the party go-ers have no regard for the house that they inhabit. A couch carried to the balcony door; passed from person to person until finally it’s thrown off of the edge and into the yard. Too much weight for the wood to endure. It begins to “creak,” as it “cracks” and breaks, plummeting towards the ground; carrying the mass of people to the earth with it. It crashes under them and they lie broken in the grass. Writhing and moaning in pain. Libby Drake lies dead amongst them beneath the rubble. That morning at the scene Jo asks Don what happened; “Starts out as a group of high school juniors getting a buzz on. Party goes viral, jumps to 700 in under 2 hours.” Dr. Hammerback kneels over Libby. Jo is taking pictures of her. She is bloodied and dirty, wearing a gold heart necklace. Her greenish blue eyes stare blankly into the sky. Her cheek and forehead lacerated and most of her body covered in broken pieces of the deck that once protruded from the house above. Dr. Hammerback looks into her eyes and sees that she had been asphyxiated believing that the weight of the balcony compressed her body. She would have been unable to breath with the weight on top of her. Jo mentions that there were more than 50 people on the deck when it collapsed, plus a marble table. Danny is investigating more of the wreckage he finds an 8 imprinted on something and examines it. It looks like a fingerprint with an 8 in the middle/side of it. The pieces of wood are taken to the lab, to try to determine why it broke under the people. Sheldon and Lindsey begin by seeing how much weight the wood would have been able to support before breaking. They find that the wood would have held all of the people but the addition of the marble table was too much. The person that brought out the marble table “could be guilty of manslaughter.” ..
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