CSI: Miami's "Paint it black"

The punch line for the story: the right hand doesn't know what the left is doing, literally.

CSI: Miami gets into "cognitive deficit." Ideopathic memory loss. Finally, the CSIs get to dissociative identity disorder.

The victim had traces of artist's paint in the wound. Poly terpene, linseed oil and paraffin. Traces of copper. There is an allusion to a color wheel, but it isn't developed.

The perp makes a comment in the end: A lot of the greats suffered from mental illness [eg, Jackson Pollock].

Alexis Taymore/Monica Dow.