CSI: Miami Episode 9.06 Reality Kills

Our team is called to the scene of the murder of Courtney Alderman, reality star to the hit show "The Burroughs take Manhattan, when she collapses and dies in front of a crowd of fans at her premiere party. Each cast member now a suspect in her murder. In the autopsy theater Calleigh and Dr. Tom are perplexed over Courtney's murder, not being able to locate her fatal injury. Upon further investigation they discover that she was stabbed through her ear, a small puncture in her ear drum that went straight through to her brain killing her instantly. Each cast member is interrogated and comparisons are made between the reality portrayed on the show and their real lives. We learn that Gabe unknowingly sold contaminated drugs so he would have a "thing" on the show, and a teenage boy who bought it is on life support as a result of it. They trace the bad drugs back to a rave-chic with a business sense who hung around the clubs. They get the ingredients of her toxic drug mix and save the boy just in time. We learn that Courntey was actually married and her husband, James, has been living in the room across the hall in the hotel from her since the cast arrived in Miami, and that she was pregnant with his baby. According to James, Courtney was supposed to quit the show and go home to Connecticut with him, and that she was contractually obligated to keep the marriage a secret. Next we learn that another star, Zachary "guns" Rittner, is a virgin and in a seminary student studying to be a priest. He made up the character and thought he could reach out to sinners through the show, and has been donating his earnings to the church. Walter and Natalia discover that the spike at the bottom of Statue of Liberty ice sculpture is broken off. They have found the murder weapon, albeit melted away. Upon close analysis of the ice sculpture they find remnants of ingredients in spray tanner in a tiny groove in the ice, near where the spike was broken off. Contents in the melted ice contain tanning spray elements leading us to Courtney's co-star Shea, who happens to be launching her own tanning spray line. Shea, now unraveling reveals the truth, she could not bare Courtney leaving the show, potentially causing it to be cancelled; that the attention and popularity she garnered from the show was all that mattered to her and she did not want to lose it all. Now under arrest for murder her "fifteen minutes of fame" comes to an end.