Special Delivery

Horatio’s team investigates the murder of driver Doug Gavoli, whose bloody body has been found in his delivery truck. Hearing that Gavoli had been involved in a row with construction boss Marco Trejo that morning, Ryan and Eric question him, but Trejo claims that Gavoli had been harassing his girlfriend and he’d only warned him off.

Back in the lab, mucus on the victim’s shirt is soon traced to a 16-year-old called Travis who clearly has something to hide and makes a run for it when Ryan and Natalia try to question him. They catch him but Travis swallows a bag of drugs and, as he denies involvement in the murder, he collapses from a heroin overdose.

Then the team find there’s a second victim. Sheila Holland has been crushed under the moveable benches at her son’s high school; she was on Gavoli’s delivery list. Horatio visits Sheila’s doll-making factory but soon discovers some of the dolls had been used for smuggling heroin, though warehouseman Sam seems to know nothing about it.

Tripp heads to the next location on the delivery list but is met by a hail of gunfire and Horatio arrives just in time to help silence the gunmen. They’ve stumbled across the drugs lab. Accessing Sheila’s computer, Eric and Walter discover she was receiving huge payments from Marco Trejo and they uncover an online heroin-ordering scheme. Trejo thought Gavoli was taking his money but swears he didn’t kill him.

Then Calleigh finds a photo in the unconscious Travis’s hand, which turns out to be of Travis and warehouseman Sam, who were once best friends. Sean eventually confesses he’d discovered about the drug trafficking and had decided to take out the source himself, killing both Sheila and deliveryman Gavoli…