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21. Consumed

A police officer is framed for a triple homicide by a greedy woman, who is enmeshed in a bitter divorce settlement and takes advantage of the officer's sleepwalking to exact her revenge.

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Three Hispanic men are gunned down in one night by the service revolver of police officer, Tommy Callahan ( Bill Sage ). Tommy is found later that night on the subway tracks with a broken leg and while he is in hospital it is discovered that he sleepwalks with no recollection of his actions. Goren and Eames suspect that his condition was exploited to cover a targeted killing of his first victim, Eduardo Mercaldo ( Paul Knowles ). They look into Tommy's neighbor Beth Landau / Elizabeth Post ( Karen Sillas ) who cares for him and find that her ex-husband Bingham Post ( Larry Pine ) has been in prison for six years for refusing to disclose the location of marital assets of $15 million to avoid sharing it with her.

The detectives suspect that Beth discovered that Mercaldo transported money for Bingham and she killed him to stop the flow of money. When Beth and Bingham agree to reconcile, Goren and Eames visit them. Goren proposes that to exact her revenge, Beth killed Mercaldo, and the other two men, then burned the musician’s notebook with the bank account codes in the Cayman Islands to prevent Bingham from ever retrieving his money.

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