CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (TV Series)

Gentle, Gentle (2001)

Robert David Hall: Chief ME Dr. Al Robbins

Quotes 

• Al Robbins : [to Grissom about baby Zachary]  I can't give you exact time of death, but I do know cause of death was asphyxiation.

  CSI Dr. Gil Grissom : He was smothered.

  Al Robbins : [nods]  The retinal hemorrhages are the result of intercranial pressure from an edema. The edema was caused by an acute lack of oxygen.

  CSI Dr. Gil Grissom : Smothered how? Did you find hand marks? Trauma around the mouth or nose?

  Al Robbins : No.

  CSI Dr. Gil Grissom : He was in a blanket when I found him... wrapped pretty tight.

  Al Robbins : Positional asphyxiation? Maybe. Abductor might've tried to protect him from the cold. Suffocated him by mistake. I'm going to run tests on a microscopic fiber I found in his throat. But I don't think his death was benign, Gil or accidental. Sternum was cracked. X rays say the fracture is fresh. Manhandled and suffocated. This little guy didn't have a chance.