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• The season 10 premiere of CSI: Vegas began with an amazing…I mean AMAZING 3-D look through the entire lab and lot outside where a huge incident was taking place. We see shards of glass and blood droplets in mid air, along with bullets frozen in their trajectories. Dr. Robbins was using his crutch to take out a gunman and Langston was in mid-kick sending a gunman backward through a window. It was incredible. I’ll try to get you a clip of it.
• 48 HOURS EARLIER: Stokes is studying a book about caring for arachnids while a large tarantula crawls through an aquarium. I guess he’s going to take over the bug thing where Grissom left off.
• Catherine told someone on the phone about Riley leaving them with 100 open cases. And Langston got promoted to CSI Level 2.
• The team is called to the scene of an auto accident where a popular actress is dead. The other driver still had a pulse and the evidence shoed that he had kept his foot on the gas pedal after the crash. She had been stopped when he hit her.
• Catherine assigned Greg Sanders to go to a fleabag motel to check out a dead body. He protests because he thinks he should be able to stay and wants someone with less seniority to go. He loses his argument.
• A young man was in Brass’ office where he is questioned about the starlet being on the road at 4 am. He tells Brass that she had been on her way to the set of a movie she was working on. He’s her significant other and his father owns a casino.
• At the motel, Sanders finds the man’s body. He was robbed and had been dead for at least two days. He finds some fibers between two teeth in a dental partial.
• Dr. Robbins tells Catherine that the starlet had been 8 weeks pregnant. We see that he has a ghoulish hobby of collecting photos of dead people’s faces.
• At the hospital, the doctor tells Langston that the drunk managed to survive the crash, but with a broken C2 vertebra. He had had blood alcohol level of 1.8 and GHB in his system. Stokes finds a small vial of something in the man’s duffel bag and they take it to analyze it.
• When they look further in his possessions, he has a scrapbook full of pictures of the starlet he killed, along with duct tape, rope a hunting knife and a teddy bear. He had been stalking her.
• The guy had hacked into the film production company’s computer and had all the info from the actress’s call sheet, so he knew where she would be.
• Langston thought the guy wanted to kidnap her, but not kill her yet. Stokes thought he wanted to kill her with the accident. Just then, Brass found out that the driver had regained consciousness and he went to talk to him.
• The guy knew he had killed her but wasn’t making much sense otherwise.
• Langston & Stokes studied some security tapes near the crash scene for clues. They figured out that someone overrode the traffic signal to make her have to stop.
• When the boyfriend went to the morgue to view the actress’ body, he almost showed no emotion at all. Was he in shock?
• They didn’t find an “emitter” in the man’s car, but knew one had to have been used to stop her at the light. The one that had been used was an illegal one, without an identifier, so it hadn’t been one of the police, fire or ambulance ones.
• Langston went to the hospital to check out the driver and found bruises from a seatbelt on the passenger side. He hadn’t been driving after all. They figure that the real killer hit her, pulled the unconscious man to the driver’s seat and broke his neck.
• Just when Catherine was getting read the riot act about information leaked to the press, Sara Sidle walks in. She married Grissom and while he’s lecturing at the Sorbonne, she came to help out temporarily.
• Catherine read riley’s exit interview where she basically trashed Catherine as a leader. Then, when looking over the bad press on the case, she finds an article about the boyfriend having other women sue him for paternity.
• Langston & Stokes go to the hotel where the guy in the hospital had stayed and paid cash. The surveillance video showed him being taken from the bar by the boyfriend’s security man.
• Brass took the security guy to talk to him while Catherine asked the boyfriend about the reason he hadn’t been with her that morning. He took an engagement ring from his pocket and told her he was going to give it to her, but hadn’t had the chance.
• The security guy told Brass that he had talked to the stalker to get him to go away, but Langston did some homework on the guy and found that he raced cars. He searched the guy’s room and found a crash helmet, with white powder on it. He suspected it was airbag dust from the crash. The guy asked for a lawyer.
• The dust was confirmed to be airbag talc. Catherine confided in Sara about the exit interview. Sara suggested that Catherine make someone the second in charge to help her.
• Just then, men with dark sunglasses, black suits and white shirts burst into the morgue. The bodies were all pulled out and things were in total disarray. They carried out a body in a body bag. Dr. Robbins tried to stop them and the bullets started to fly. Two of the men got into a large panel truck with the body and fired at Stokes and Sara as they drove away.
• Two people from the lab were injured, but stable. They seemed to be Russian mobsters and instead of taking the actress’ body as people expected, they took the body of the bum that Sanders had been investigating. The bum’s DNA came back and he was the actress’ father.
• Nick & Sara arrived at a scene where the father had been put through a wood chipper. They found out that the man had been a diagnosed schizophrenic and the actress had been taking care of him as well as she could.
• The boyfriend’s father had hired the security guy to breakup the actress and the boyfriend. When the security guy went to talk to the father, they struggle and he kills the father. So now the only thing he can do to fix things is to kill the actress too.
• They know they have to find a way to connect the security guy to both murders. The father had bitten the man’s sleeve and swallowed his cufflink. They sifted through the remains to find it. He was arrested for killing the father, but they couldn’t connect him to the actress.
• Catherine called Nick Stokes to her office and promoted him to Assistant Supervisor on the Graveyard Shift. Then she handed him a pile of folders to go through for her.
• The episode ended with Langston going to visit Robbins in the morgue. Robbins is doing an autopsy and when he opens the abdomen, they are both shocked and puzzled. We don’t get to see what it is. I guess we have to wait for next week.

Discussion Points:

1. Were you disappointed at how little Sara was involved this week?
2. Did I miss something? Why were the men in black that broke in to the morgue to steal the man’s body from the Russian mob? I didn’t see how they were ever connected that way, did you?
3. What are your thoughts about Riley leaving in such a negative way?
4. What are your thoughts about Grissom & Sara being married now?
5. Did you notice that Hodges was intent on protecting Wendy? I wonder how long he’s going to have a crush on her before letting her know…
6. Did you like this episode? What did you like/dislike most about it?

Leave a comment to let us know what you think!

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Episode 6.01: Epilogue
Air Date: September 23, 2009

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• The season 6 season premiere of CSI: NY began with a review of the final scene in season 5. The CSIs were having a toast to Jessica Angell, who had been killed. Just then, a car drove by and sent a shower of machine gun bullets through the group as they all hit the floor.
• A month later, we see Mac in the office, going over evidence, Flack with a pretty new girl and Stella getting dressed while an undressed Adam watches from the bed. [Wow! I didn’t see that coming!]
• Mac gets a phone call and joins Danny (in a wheelchair) at a dark room with very large crystal chandeliers. Soon, a woman joins them. She tells them that her brother is just a scared kid caught up with two others in something. They try to get her to tell them what she knows.
• Just then, the elevator doors open and a man in the shadows fires a machine gun at them. They all hit the floor. Danny pulls himself to help the injured woman as Mac goes after the gunman. She dies before she can tell them anything. The gunman gets away.
• When Stella & Hawkes show up at the scene, Danny fills them in. the only thing they learned from the woman was a name…Jake.
• Flack shows up, just back from a leave of absence and says he’s going to help. He and Mac go over security camera footage…no camera in the elevator.
• At the crime scene, Danny flashes back to the night of the bar shooting. Lindsay reminds him that there’s no permanent damage to his spine. He may regain the use of his legs eventually. He’s not so optimistic.
• At the office, Stella scolds Mac for taking Danny and going without backup to talk to the woman. He quotes Shakespeare: “Tempt not a desperate man.”
• Another phone call and Mac tells Stella that it’s happened again.
• The team arrives at the scene where a car drove past a large group of people waiting to get into a club. A car had driven by and fired a machine gun at the crowd. Everyone looks up at a large lighted billboard that reads, “Do we have your attention? Pay us and we’ll stop.”
• A reporter at the scene had tipped them to another similar shooting at a closed restaurant two weeks before. The team goes over everything so far and determines that the shootings are not targeting cops, not with the intent to kill because there had only been one fatality and one of the locations was closed. They want to scare people.
• Just then, a clean-up crime scene technician tells the CSIs that she found an unreported bloody fingerprint on the ceiling of the elevator at the crime office building. Adam gets defensive because he says that he checked everything.
• They realize that Mac must have injured the gunman and that now they may have DNA to identify him.
• Haylen, the cleanup tech tells Adam that she wants to work in the lab and he tells her that the job she’s after is his, so he won’t help her.
• Sid pulled a piece of tempered glass from the woman’s shoulder that Hawkes examined and found that it put her in the bar, the night of the shooting when they were all there.
• Flack shows Stella the body of the missing security guard from the night in the office building. They look at the blood trail to see that the killer tracked the guard there and killed him. The killer was also wounded and took the guard’s sleeve to bandage the wound.
• At the lab, they determine that the woman had worked in the building, so they got copies of the voicemail greetings to compare to the tip line for identification.
• The blood from the elevator matched the blood on the front of the dead guard’s shirt and Hawkes’ investigation told them that the guard had stabbed the killer with the same knife that killed him. They had an identification of the killer.
• The voice recognition software helped them identify the woman as Risa Calaveras. That means that her brother must be Jake Calaveras.
• Stella tells Mac that the shooter was dumped at the hospital and died soon after. They decide to study the hospital security camera footage. They got a license plate number and a suspect’s identity.
• They show up at the suspect’s apartment in time to see Jake Calaveras pointing a gun at him for killing his sister. They tell him that he shouldn’t shoot him and they will take care of him. Jake tells them it’s too late and shoots the other man. They take him into custody.
• In the interrogation room, Jake explained to Mac that the other two had wanted to get the city to “work for them.” He said that Risa had talked him out of going with them the night of the bar shooting. He didn’t know she had been there to try to stop him.
• Adam caught up to Stella in the office to talk about the night they were together. She blurted out that it had been wonderful and stupid and memorable and something they should never do again. He acted relived and agreed with her.
• The episode ended with Stella helping Mac pack up the case files, Lindsay holding her baby and Danny in the wheelchair trying to move his legs. Suddenly, one of his feet barely moved. He looked up and smiled.

Discussion Points:

1. What do you think of the hookup between Stella & Adam? Did you see it coming?
2. I really liked how supportive and optimistic Lindsay was about Danny’s injury. What are your thoughts about them?
3. What was your opinion of this episode? Was it a satisfying result after the shooting and the cliffhanger?
4. Do you like the new character, Haylen?

Leave a comment to share your thoughts about it!

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CSI: Miami – Episode 8.01 – Out of Time
Air Date: September 21, 2009

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• 2009: The season 8 premiere of CSI: Miami begins with the team, dogs and other officers in an all-out search of the Everglades for Eric Delko. Meanwhile, Delko stumbles, blood-covered, through the swamp on foot.
• After he collapses and they find him, he flat-lines in the ambulance. The flashback begins.
• 1997: Eric Delko is driving a wrecker-truck through the Everglades in search of salvage. He finds a submerged car and pulls it out of the swamp. Blood is dripping from the trunk. He finds a dead body in the trunk and calls for the homicide team.
• Horatio shows up and Delko reminds him to get a pair of sunglasses.
• 2009: Alexx Woods is in the hospital and says she’ll oversee his treatment.
• 1997: Horatio explains lividity to Delko, then goes to notify the husband of the woman’s death. The guy is nervous, doesn’t have an alibi, says he pawned the gun and there’s a smell of bleach in the house. Horatio’s partner seems quick to judge the husband, but Horatio wants to wait for the evidence before arresting him.
• Alexx is doing the wife’s autopsy and gives Horatio the 9 mm bullet she extracted from the head. The bullet matches the ammo found in the home. There’s also blunt-force trauma to the head.
• We see Calleigh in the precinct and Jesse Cardoza rescues her from some jerks that were hitting on her. He shows her to the lab and tells her that it’s his last day there. He leaves her there and goes to Horatio to find out how he can help on the case.
• Jesse gets to the home and finds that the place has been wiped down with bleach, but when he takes off a baseboard, he finds blood.
• Back at the precinct, Calleigh questions her new boss’ interpretation of the bullet evidence. Horatio tells her she did the right thing.
• We then see Det. Tripp with hair…not a full head of hair, but at least there’s still some. Horatio asks him about any domestic violence calls for the couple. Tripp says that they were just yelling at each other, no violence. But he told Horatio that he did arrest a peeping Tom in the area and gave him the info. The creep was a landscaper.
• When they bring in the landscaper, he seems guilty, but Horatio’s partner lets him go. He still thinks it’s the husband.
• Calleigh, who has been asked to help with the case, joins Horatio in the parking lot. Before they leave, Delko tries to get her phone number. She tells him she would never date anyone “remotely connected with work.”
• Calleigh & Horatio determine that the car was wrecked before it was pushed into the swamp. Jesse found blood spatter and a blood pool, consistent with blunt force trauma before being shot. Alexx found evidence of sexual assault on the wife’s body. But it was the kind of evidence that happens when the body was desecrated after it was dead.
• Horatio and Calleigh found no evidence that the husband was in the car when it crashed but that the landscaper definitely was there.
• Meanwhile Horatio’s partner has already been to the DA to get an arrest warrant for the husband.
• 2009: Horatio sits at Delko’s bedside and asks him to hold on. He tells him that he’s not ready for him to go yet.
• 1997: Delko & Horatio go back to the swamp where the car was found. They find trace from the car on the guardrail and footprints that suggest that something was thrown into the water. Delko fishes around in the water near a storm drainage pipe and finds a 9 mm gun.
• Jesse & Cardoza go to the house and determine that the air conditioner carried small drops of blood back at the killer and the window behind him. They examine the landscaper and find a small amount of blood in one nostril. They can prove he was in the house and fired the gun.
• Horatio found out that he needed to get a special new kind of DNA test that can determine DNA from only a few cells. The lab tech that does the test is Natalia Boa Vista. The blood from the nostril matches the victim. The landscaper is charged with first-degree murder, the husband is set free, charges dropped against him.
• As Jesse Cardoza leaves with his box of belongings, he congratulates Horatio for being named the head of the new CSI division. Jesse suggests that Horatio call Speedle for his new team.
• Just then, Delko shows up and gives Horatio a new pair of sunglasses. Horatio tells him that he has a great eye for detail and that he should go to the police academy and then look up Horatio.
• 2009: The entire team waits by Delko’s bedside as he gradually wakes up from the coma and smiles at Horatio.

Discussion Points:

1. Was it a satisfying explanation for how the team started?
2. Do you like the new character, Jesse Cardoza?
3. Is it just me, or is it significant that Delko looked at Horatio, but not at Calleigh as he woke up?
4. Also, did it look like the scenes from 2009 seemed like they were shot before David Caruso got a facelift and the flashback scenes afterward?
5. What did you think of the bubbly, vivacious Calleigh vs. the all-business, tough as nails Calleigh of today?

Leave a comment and let us know what you think!

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I’ll be watching for interviews and videos of her there too. So be sure to check back for those!

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CSI: NY Episode 5.11: Forbidden Fruit
Air Date: December 17, 2008

While cruising down a dark road, patrolmen spot a man pulling a woman’s body from the trunk of a car. They drive up, and he runs. As the officers catch up to him on foot, he falls from a fence and impales himself on a piece of rebar.

At the grocery store, Mac runs into Ella McBride, the owner of the confessions website SecretsU from episode 5.07 Dead Inside. Ella invites Mac to breakfast, but he gets a text, though, about the new case.

At the scene, Don tells Mac that the man is Tony Clark, a department store buyer. The woman has no identification, no signs of trauma, defensive wounds, no missing or disturbed clothing, or any of the usual clues to what happened. Her mouth does show internal bleeding. Danny hears Clark’s cell phone. He is receiving a text from a blocked number:

“Is it done yet?”

Danny finds a red stain on the floor of the car with traces of vegetation, but neither Tony’s nor the victim’s shoes have anyting similar on the soles. The car title has the name Isabelle Vaughn. Mac, though, has already run the plates and received preliminary info on the victim. She’s a talented, successful, young handbag designer. Danny wonders if the the red stain was blood came from an accomplice.

As Sid makes his Y incision on Isabelle, liquid oozes from her abdomen. He calls Hawkes down. The liquid is her stomach, liver, and other internal organs. Sid tells Hawkes that this…saponification…is the cause of death, and the breakdown continued long after her death. He shows Hawkes the contents of both bodies’ stomachs: citrus peels, dandelion, raw onions, vinegar, tobasco, and duck blood soup. Isabelle, though, also had sodium hydroxide, drain cleaner, in her stomach. She would have had to drink at least 18 ounces to do this damage. It appears that she drank it voluntarily. Hawkes wonders why, if this was a suicide, would Tony dump the body.

In a pawn shop, Detective Angell leads Stella to the body of Declan Rooney, 29. He is lying with a snapped neck and broken fingers, the torture methods used by the killer of the Rat Fisherman, the same man who threatened Stella. [See Episode 5.05 Cost of Living.] Stella says the killer, Sebastian Diakos, is “on the wind.” Angell counters that he may have just blown back. Stella notices that the only apparent missing item is whatever was on a mat lying on the counter.

Adam tells Danny that Isabelle had elephant dung under her fingernails. Danny offers Adam a beer if he figures out where that came from, but Adam tells him that he and Lindsay are going to have some big expenses coming up with the new baby.

Lindsay walks up, and wonders why Danny isn’t at Isabelle’s apartment. He says it was clean, but he’s about to go over to Tony’s apartment. She tells Danny that she felt the baby kick earlier. They go to a quiet hallway, where he tries to feel it, but the baby has settled down. He wants to be alerted right away, the next time, though.

Lindsay returns to the lab to find Mac looking over a variety of strange foods laid out on the counter. She offers Mac a berry to put in his mouth for a few seconds. She says it matches the trace that Danny found. It’s a “miracle fruit,” Synsepalum dulcificum a very trendy West African fruit that makes sour foods taste sweet for about an hour or so after coating your tongue. Mac tries an onion, but it tastes sweet. They realize that this would explain how she drank a caustic substance without realizing.

Danny, Hawkes, and Don find the remnants of a “strange foods” party in Tony’s apartment. Danny finds the miracle fruit, and the foods on the counter and tables match the contents of Isabel Vaughn’s stomach.

Don gets a call. Quincy Feeney is the one who sent the text message to Tony. Quincy tells Mac and Don that she idolized Isabelle Vaughn, but she didn’t know her. Tony was friends with her. She says Tony didn’t kill her, but found her dead at his party. He sent everyone away from the party, then led Quincy to the bathroom, where Isabelle was lying. They thought she’d had an allergic reaction. She claims that they were going to dump the body, because the scandal would have ruined Tony’s image and career.

Mac asks if the clothes she’s wearing are the same clothes from the party. They are, so he asks to see her boots. There are red stains on her soles that seem to match the stains on the carpet in Isabelle’s car. She helped Tony put the body in the car. Quincy got in the driver’s seat, but Tony insisted on doing it himself. She says the plan was for Tony to dump the body, then meet her in Long Island City to dump Isabelle’s car. Tony never showed up, though.

Back at Tony’s apartment, the Danny finds a blood trail leading to the bathroom. The sink and its surrounding area are splattered with bloody vomit. There’s no sign of struggle, but a dirty glass on the vanity. Beneath the vanity, Danny finds a half-empty bottle of drain cleaner. They suppose that Tony took the opportunity to spike Isabelle’s drink.

Ella McBride meets Mac in his office. She’s seen news of Isabelle’s murder all over the internet, and thinks she can help. She shows Mac a card sent in a few months before. It has the logo and signature pieces from Isabelle’s handbags glued to one side, and the words “I want her dead” on the back.

Mac and Don visit Isabelle’s business partner, Marina Melton. They tell her that they know that Isabelle was suing her to regain full control of her label. She denies having any reason to fear Isabelle’s “frivolous” suit, claiming that she had become one of the biggest women’s accessories manufacturers in the country on her own. She owns the rights to the label, the contract means Isabelle works for her. She had found her making bags in her dorm room. Mac shows her the death threat card. She recognizes the design elements as Isabelle’s but claims not to know who would have made it.

Danny finds Hawkes in the lab. Hawkes has been testing all the drinks from the party that might have delivered the poison in Isabelle’s glass. Most of them, though, are too acidic to have be sodium hydroxide. The exception is the liquid in the blender. It has a pH of 14. There are no useful prints, but Hawkes hopes to isolate all the ingredients to find a lead to the killer.

Danny receives a report that the sodium hydroxide in Isabelle’s system was pure, so it couldn’t have been the drain cleaner. Otherwise, it would have included bleach. The hope that looking at the guests at the party, they can figure out who would have access to laboratory quality sodium hydroxide.

Sid talks to Stella and Mac about Declan Rooney’s murder. He says that this type of neck-snapping requires a rare skill. He shows them that the direction of the head turning matches that of Woolford Bessie, the Rat Fisherman…left to right. Mac lists the types of special forces that could have trained the killer.

Stella insists that it is Diakos, but Mac says that they only have cause of death connecting the murders. Stella tells him, though, that Diakos was introduced to her as an expert in ancient Greek artifacts. Woolford Bessie was killed over a priceless antique coin. Rooney owned a pawn shop, and Stella believes that he may have come upon something that Diakos wanted. Sid says the kill was pretty clean, but that there was a metal splinter in Rooney’s arm.

Stella rushes out of the lab with the splinter. Mac follows her. He’s concerned over her obsession with finding the killer.

Stella tests the display mat from the pawn shop counter. She shows Danny that she was able to do a surface mapping of trace metals. An image of King Phillip II appeared, just like the image on the coin that the Rat Fisherman had. The splinter from Rooney’s arm matches the metal used to encase the first such coin they had found.

Stella and Detective Angell meet with Stan Trovato, a former counterfeiter. Stella offers to have his brother moved to a closer prison, if he’ll craft them some fake King Phillip coins. At first, he thinks he’s being set up, but gives in, if they’ll put it in writing, and move his brother first.

Mac finds Hawkes disassembling the DNA analyzer. Mac is concerned that he’s taking a $200,000 machine apart, but Hawkes tells him that it requires recalibration. Running elimination samples from the party guests, in particular Marina Melton, he got no results. Mac says he took Melton’s reference sample himself. Hawkes tells him that either the machine needs fixing, or he’s discovered the first human with no DNA.

Adam tells Danny that a smelly bag from Tony’s apartment contained elephant dung, just like that found under Isabelle’s nails. The vegetation in the dung matches that from the Manhattan Zoo. Colby Fisher buys dung from the zoo, and uses it to make paper. Fisher was at the party.

Danny and Don visit Fisher. He says he meant it as a joke. He says he didn’t pick Isabelle. She was just the first person he met at the party. He says he just wanted to see if the berries worked. He claims he didn’t offer her anything else, and that he wouldn’t hurt her. He says he was very close to her, having had a casual sex relationship. He also made hang tags for her bags until a couple months ago. As he’s telling them this, Danny notices jars of sodium hydroxide sitting nearby. Fisher says they use it to bleach their products.

Lindsay tells Mac that she found no identifying marks or traces on the SecretsU card. When she removed the logo and handbag parts, she found a detailed sketch drawn on the card, but nothing else significant. Ella’s prints were the only ones on it, and the glue used to make the card match the glue Ella uses to hang the cards on her office wall. On the computer, Mac brings up the “handbag” card and the statement that Ella wrote out when she was a suspect in her father’s murder. He matches pencil strokes in the new card’s handbag sketch to elements of Ella’s handwriting.

Mac visits Ella, and asks why she made the card. She tells him that she wanted someone to talk to. She asks if the way he treated her in her father’s murder investigation meant nothing. He’s angry that she made him waste valuable time on a fake lead. She apologizes for such a stupid stunt, but he leaves, still angry.

Danny tests the sodium hydroxide from Fisher’s factory. It matches that from Isabelle’s stomach.

Don and Danny question Fisher. Don tells him that the phone company records show that they talked all the time for two months. After that, she ceased calling, but he kept trying to call her. Eventually, she had Fisher’s number blocked. He says that he didn’t tell them about the extent of their relationship, his cheating on her, and his desire to get her to come back, because he knew they’d arrest him. He figured it wouldn’t have mattered once they found the real killer.

He explains that the affair with Isabelle’s partner Marina went on for two months, before Marina called it off. She stopped the affair, then told Isabelle about it. He says Marina is diabolical. Don says he thinks he killed Isabelle. When they tell him that the sodium hydroxide from his paper plant matched the substance that killed Isabelle, Fisher seems shocked that it would be possible.

Mac calls Stella into his office. He says that the chief’s office wants to know why a CSI is moving Marty Trovato to a downstate prison. She says Stan Trovato is helping her. Mac insists that she stop what she’s doing.

Danny tells Mac that Fisher has contacted a lawyer. Hawkes comes in with news on Marina Melton’s DNA swab. He found flakes of betel quid in the blender. The leafy plant produces a mild stimulant that also isolates DNA from saliva making it appear that there is no DNA in a sample. It’s also used primarily by southeast Asians. Melton is from Thailand, and, when she was hooking up with Colby Fisher, she had access to his sodium hydroxide.

Mac brings in Marina Melton. He tells her that officers found her snuff box, full of betel quid, as well as…sodium hydroxide. He tells her that she couldn’t take it when the woman whom she’d used to make a lot of money, Isabelle Vaughn, stood up to her, and wanted to take her designs away, she couldn’t stand it, and she killed her.

Detective Angell finds George Kolovos in a diner. Not identifying herself, she hands him one of the fake coins. He tries to act uninterested. She starts to leave, and he asks what she wants. She tells him she’ll be in touch, and leaves. She gets into Stella’s car and tells her that he took the bait.

Mac receives a call from Ella McBride. She’s crying, and keeps repeating that she’s sorry. He rushes to her apartment and finds her sitting on the kitchen floor. She has cut her wrists with a kitchen knife, but not deep enough to hit the arteries. She says she’s so tired of being alone.

As Mac carries Ella out, the camera closes in on a card on the wall. It says, “I WILL MAKE HIM LOVE ME.” The “O” has the the peculiar curl at the top that Mac found in her drawing and her handwriting.

Talk about your themed sets of subplots: Obsession…much?

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CSI: Miami Episode 7.11 Tipping Point
Air Date: December 15, 2008

We see the blurry vision of a man lying in the back of a car. He seems to be suffering shock. There’s blood on the window.

As an large auger digs into ground, and we see the man lying, buried alive in a box. He cries out, when he sees the earth dug away, and the auger coming at him. The operator probably cannot hear him, though. The auger rises and lowers back into the box holding the man.

Horatio stands over the dead man. The auger operator tells him that they just broke ground that morning to begin an 18 month construction project. He says that his foreman thought he heard a scream, but it was too late by the time he could stop the machine. The man says that they began work on the site around 9:30 AM. He tells Horatio that he had picked the area with the loose dirt, thinking it would be an easy place to start, never imagining what was there.

At the site, Tara is examining the body. Calleigh asks her if he must have been sedated in order to have gotten him into the box. Tara points out a bullet wound on the man’s abdomen, which, apparently, she’s just now found. This is how he was so easy to get into the box. Frank interrupts to tell them that he’d just found out that someone called in a murder to the Crime Stoppers. The phoned-in description matches the construction site victim, so he was likely shot elsewhere and dumped at the scene.

Tara wonders, out loud, if they can believe a tip from someone who received a reward to give it. Frank points out that, aside from the call, they’re starting out without any leads. Calleigh asks Tara about the old-looking cell phone in the man’s pocket. Tara says it looks like a cardio messenger.

Tara tells Horatio that a cardio messenger sends data from the man’s pacemaker back to health care workers who can trace his arrhythmia. Using the device, she has identified the victim as Michael Olvera. The EKG data shows his heart stopping at 9:21 AM. It also shows that his blood pressure dipped sharply at 8:00 AM. So, that must be the time he was shot. They figure that the murderer had plenty of time in between to get him to the burial site.

At the building where Olvera lived, Delko and Horatio tell a young man of his murder. The man tells them how Olvera…AKA Reverend Mike…was a helpful man who probably was the reason that he wasn’t in prison. Olvera used the home to help teens learn life skills that helped keep them out of gangs. The young man says that Olvera always knew he was a target. The man was always having to clean up graffiti and fix broken windows. Recently, someone had painted the wall outside.

Delko photographs the painted wall, and uses an image filter to reveal the graffiti beneath. It says “Cranios Rifa”…translated “Cranios Control”. According to Delko, Cranios is a hispanic gang that has used kids to do their dirty work. Delko also finds a tag saying, “ZAR”, but doesn’t know what it means.

Frank escorts Wanda Ramoz into the station to see Horatio. He asks about her tip, but she wants to know how much she’ll get. Horatio is dismayed by her appeal for money, when a man has been murdered, but Frank tells her that Crime Stoppers can arrange for anywhere from $50 to $1000. She tells them that, while she was working placing flyers on windshields, she heard a gunshot. She spotted Reverend Mike lying on the ground next to a parked car. She ran, and didn’t see anyone else.

The team works the scene where Wanda saw Olvera. There is blood spattered on the curb, and Calleigh finds a 9mm bullet wedged in a tree. Delko finds a Saint Jude pendant lying in the water in the gutter. He wonders if it’s Olvera’s, since he’s the patron saint of lost causes, like the name he uses for his home.

Calleigh tells Horatio that the blood on the bullet matches Olvera, and finds a IBIS match to a bullet from a ten-year-old drug bust. That case records show an arrest of a Hector Salazar. The gun was never recovered, so they could only put him away for drug charges. He served ten years, and was released a week before.

Horatio asks Salazar about shooting Olvera. Salazar challenges that they couldn’t connect him to the gun ten years ago, and can’t now. Horatio, though, points out that the recent graffiti on Olvera’s house has the last three letter of his name on it –”ZAR”. Pointing out a nasty scar on his left forearm, Salazar claims to have seen the light, proving that the system works.

Frank shows Natalia a list of Crime Stoppers calls. She doubts their usefulness, but Frank points out one from Darryl Broadman, who lives across the street from where Olvera was shot. He called to turn in shouting from his neighbor’s apartment, around 8:00 AM.

Frank and Natalia visit the apartment where the shouting originated. The woman tells them that she was arguing with a funeral home over the cost of her daughter’s burial. Laura, her daughter, was shot three weeks earlier, while walking home from school. The funeral director accepted $1000 for the burial, but called to demand another $1000.

As Natalia tells Frank that she thinks there might be something about he funeral director, and that they should talk to him, Matteo, Laura’s brother catches up to them. He hands Natalia a brochure, and says it’s where his sister is. He asks if they can help his mom.

Valera asks Ryan why they didn’t tell her about Olvera’s necklace. She says that she might still be able to find blood in a crevice. She finds a trace, and matches the DNA to Rafael Vargas, a member of Cranios.

Horatio and Ryan go to arrest Vargas. As Ryan cuffs him, Horatio sees Wanda putting a flyer on the Hummer. He finds a message penned onto it, telling them that the “Craneos” are doing something in the shipping yard.

At the shipping yard, Delko and Horatio find a security guard locked in a container. He tells them that he was attacked by three men, who also took some ANFO…aluminum nitrate/fuel oil, an explosive…from the container. The guard describes one of the men as having a horrible scar on his left forearm: Hector Salazar.

Horatio tells Salazar that he should have covered his scar. Salazar says he wanted to be found. He claims to have wanted to help them find where Olvera was shot, and about the ANFO theft, having fed the information to Wanda Ramoz. He tells Horatio and Frank that Reverend Mike visited him a lot in prison, and convinced him that he had better options. When Olvera was murdered, he resolved to help bring down his own gang, and that it required someone on the inside. He pleads with them to let him help them. He tells Horatio that he remembered him as the cop that helped put away an inmate who had killed another inmate. Horatio was the first authority he’d known who cared about justice for the “animals” in the prison. Horatio agrees to let him help them.

Natalia visits the funeral director, claiming to have little money, and needing to bury her husband. He offers her “The Simple Things” package for $1000. She asks why, then, is he charging Gloria Nuñez twice as much for the same package, and holding her daughter’s body as ransom. Confronted with the facts, the director agrees to upgrade Mrs. Nuñez to the nicer package.

As Natalia tells Mrs. Nuñez about her visit to the funeral home, upstairs, Matteo pulls a handgun from his backpack. Matteo drops the gun and it goes off. Natalia pleads with him to tell her about he weapon, and what he knows about the murder. He won’t talk, so she takes him into custody.

Calleigh matches the ballistics on the weapon to the 9mm that killed Reverend Mike. Delko finds Matteo’s prints all over the gun. The partial print on the trigger, though, doesn’t match. It belongs to Freddie Granada, the kid from Reverend Mike’s home; one of his “lost causes”.

Horatio, Delko, and several uniforms catch up with Granada. With his UV flashlight, Delko finds blood traces in the back of his car. They tell him they found the gun, and ask why he killed Olvera. He says it was the price of admission to get back with “his boys”. He says that Reverend Mike lied. It wasn’t easier to be straight. No one would hire a former gang banger, but now he claims to have “benefits for life”. Delko challenges Granada’s claim to be “stone cold”, saying he would have just dumped the body, and wouldn’t have used a box.

Salazar calls Horatio, and says he knows what the ANFO is for. They plan to use it on Reverend Mike’s house. Horatio and Delko rush to the House of Lost Causes. Delko tosses a tactical camera into a window. He finds the detonator, but not the charges. They also see a woman lying on the floor. Horatio rushes in, though Delko warns him that there’s only thirty seconds left. He runs out with Wanda, just in time.

Wanda tells Horatio that she was attacked for informing the police. She says she liked the money she made by snitching for Hector, and tried to get more info on her own. Horatio promises to keep her in protective custody until they find the bomber.

Ryan and Calleigh examine the video from Delko’s tactical camera. They pan around, until they find the cans that held the explosives. Ryan recognizes them from Vargas’ shop. Horatio and the team arrive in time to find Vargas about to kill Hector Salazar. When Horatio and Delko enter, Vargas uses Salazar as a shield. Salazar, though, surprises him, managing to get away. Horatio fires and hits Vargas, but Vargas’ weapon goes off as he falls. The shot hits Salazar’s chest, and he goes down. Both men die on the shop floor.

As Horatio watches Hector die, he remembers Hector’s promise to bring down the Cranios, and his anger for their murdering Olvera, the man who was keeping kids from turning out like himself. A musical montage reveals that Hector Salazar’s sacrifice led to the capture of loads of munitions, and the gang. Natalia shows up at Laura Nuñez’ funeral. Horatio stands next to Hector’s lifeless body, seemingly sad and proud.

Horatio shows up to find Wanda Ramoz watching workers fix up Reverend Mike’s house. He asks what she plans to do with the money, to which she noticed that Reverend Mike’s place could use some new computers. She thanks Horatio.

Natalia: This is why we do it, isn’t it?
Horatio: Yep. Yep. This is exactly why we do it.

Damn you, CSI: Miami. Where is that box of tissues?!?

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CSI: Vegas Episode 9.09 – 19 Down
Air Date: December 11, 2008

In a dimly lit living room, two men watch a video. On the video, a woman seems to be wimpering, as if she is held captive, perhaps being tortured or sexually assaulted. One man, seated on a sofa, says it brings back old times, and asks the man standing behind him what he thinks it’s worth. At that the other man strangles the seated man, and stuffs his lifeless body into a large trashbag. He drags the body out of the house, and places it into a car. In the dark, he dumps the body off a cliff into a ravine. The camera captures the body’s exposure to the elements and visible decomposition.

Grissom finishes a crossword, and walks out to hand Riley paperwork for a case of suspicious remains at the city dump. She jokingly pretends excitement over the assignment, “Awesome! Trash run for the low man on the totem pole.”

Greg gets a recovered stolen vehicle. To Nick he hands a possible arson at the Burger Giant. He hands Catherine a 419 in Green Valley. Grissom somberly announces his departure from CSI, and tells them that Catherine will take over. They will also get a new Level 1 CSI. He gets a message that there’s another case, that he’ll take. As he walks away, the team looks stunned.

Grissom looks off into the woods as he’s examining the scene of the dumped body. An officer comes over and tells him that two hikers found the trash bag, and said it wasn’t a popular trail. Grissom tells him that the body could have been there just a short time, or for years, but tells him to forewarn the coroner.

Catherine, Nick, and Hodges examine the “soup”. As they inspect the lack of clues in the mess of bones, clothes, and decomposition “juice”, Catherine notes that the generic clothing won’t help them ID or guess the gender of the victim. Nick finds a Star of David pendant. They do find some locks of hair. Catherine tells Hodges to separate it and get it over to Wendy for mitochondrial DNA testing. They don’t know whether the hair is the victim’s or possibly his attacker’s.

Dr. Robbins inspects the skeletal remains, noting to Grissom that it’s most likely a caucasian male about 5 feet 9 inches. Partial fusion of the coronal (cranial) suture indicates an age of at least 25 years. His broken hyoid suggests strangulation as the cause of death. Al asks Grissom if he’s really leaving, and if he’s running to or from something. Grissom takes leave to his office.

Grissom checks missing persons for Jewish males wearing Star of David pendants. A Joel Steiner shows up, missing since 1997, and listed as a possible victim of the “Dick and Jane Killer”. Grissom calls the team together and they discuss the Dick and Jane Killer, Nathan Haskell. He killed several couples, the males of which were found dumped in remote locations, all with post mortem stab wounds. None of the females were ever found, and the killer would never discuss them. He was picked up at a sobriety check point in Reno.

Haskell changed his plea to guilty and received life without parole. The seven males that were found, each had one more stab wound than the previously found victim…the first had two, the second three, the third four, etc. Grissom says that they theorized that the first male victim was never found. Joel Steiner and his fiancée were reported missing earlier than the other DJK victims, and were linked to him because they lived near his home.

Joel Steiner’s parents talk to Brass. Mrs. Steiner says that she had the pendant made especially for Joel. Brass asks them for DNA samples, explaining that the private lab that handled Joel’s sample misplaced it.

Grissom tries to stop Hodges in the hallway to speak with him. Hodges breezes on by, replying, “A little too late for that, huh? Hey, you gotta do what you gotta do. Have a nice life.” Grissom looks stunned.

Hodges examines the victim’s clothing.

Wendy reports to Grissom that she was able to “put the screws” to a guy at the lab…her uncle…to get the DNA results quickly. The blond hair was a minor DNA match to Nathan Haskell. Hodges rushes up to Wendy and Grissom, and addresses only Wendy. He says the shoes in the soup were only available since two years before. The D&J Killer has been incarcerated for at least the last 10 years.

Catherine shows Grissom the shoe company’s website. It was s custom design, so she has requested the customer records. Grissom begins to discuss his surprising her with his news. She stops him, though, and says she knew even before he knew.

The records come back. The sneakers were designed by Gerald Tolliver, a Hawthorne, Nevada man with a record of theft and drug busts. He was registered as a criminal informant just before he disappeared six months before.

Nick and Greg go to Tolliver’s house in Reno to meet with Ken Martz from the Reno Police. He says he didn’t work the DJK case, but he was the officer who caught Haskell. Tolliver’s house is still in probate, so still accessible by police. Inside, he shows them blood that matched Tolliver, both on the wall and the floor. Greg notes a partial shoe print found in the blood. Martz wondered how Tolliver is connected to DJK, since he was seventeen at the time of the murders, and was never part of the investigation. Nick notices a bizarre collection of taxidermy and other items, and wonders if Tolliver was a murder memorabilia afficionado. He remarks that Tolliver could have gotten a lock of DJK’s hair from Ebay, but wonders about the Star of David, since it was never recovered.

Riley matches items from Tolliver’s house to victim photos from the DJK’s file, including a school letter from one victim’s jacket, a pair of eyeglasses, a pair of Pearl Jam tickets from the arena where Joel Steiner and his fiancée were last seen.

Grissom tells Catherine that Haskell’s attorneys argued that the murders were the work of more than one killer, stating that he alone couldn’t have subdued the males and females at the same time. Grissom wonders if Tolliver was an active participant. Meanwhile, Greg matches the shoe print from Tolliver’s house to one from the recent “S&M double murder” of couple Ian Wallace and Justine Stefani. Ian also had nine post mortem stab wounds. In light of their discoveries related to Tolliver, this links the new murders to the DJK. He thinks it’s a copycat trying to make Ian and Justine the ninth DJK couple. Nick surprises Greg by interpreting his assertion as finding a copycat killer who just happened to kill an accomplice that no one knew existed until after his own death. Greg is bewildered, but Catherine promises to help him catch up. Nick suggests they go to Ely Prison to talk to Haskell. Catherine doesn’t believe that the guy will talk to them, since he seems to want to be the main character in his own story.

Brass tells Grissom that Ely State Prison has sent over all of Haskell’s correspondence and logs of his phone calls. He told detectives to look for any names that will link Tolliver to Haskell. Brass tells Grissom that it’s too bad he’s moving on, seemingly implying that any interaction they have at gatherings might not be as meaningful. A detective tells them that Haskell has had a lot of calls with a professor at WLVU, and has plans to participate in an upcoming seminar on criminology, including a video Q&A with the students. Grissom plans to attend. Brass will talk to the school and have Grissom go in posing as a visiting professor.

In the seminar, professor Raymond Langston (Lawrence Fishburne) makes opening statements on the common attributes of serial killers: male, caucasian, under 30 years old. He also points out exceptions, as well as Jane Goodall’s witnessing a rampage by chimps.

Haskell is evasive, at first. He then agrees to be honest, and tells Langston that he doesn’t like his book. Grissom asks if he’d ever shared his experiences with anyone, but Haskell insists that he worked alone. Haskell tells them that his definition of “fun” is taking something away from someone. He points out a “nice Jewish girl”, and says he’d take her on a vacation of three days of heaven on earth, then just a little “l’chaim.” [Creepy!]

Greg and Nick tell Catherine about the tickets from Ian and Justine, and note Joel’s Pearl Jam tickets. Ian had ordered tickets for three consecutive nights of Paramore concerts. The couple went missing after the first night, but the third night’s tickets were used. Catherine jokes that the murderer “wasted” a couple, but wouldn’t waste a pair of tickets.

Students, and Grissom, ask Haskell about the female victims. He says nobody ever asked, but, when he took them, they stopped being neices, girlfriends, daughters, etc. One student asks if any resisted. He said a couple of them fought a little, but only at first. He answers one student that he subdued them without force. He then changes the subject back to “the Jewish theme.” He explains that the Jews in the Holocaust panicked when they thought they were about to die. He continues that the Nazis comforted them by giving them the hope that they were really going to be given work to do. He says that, when you take a person to near death, then give them hope, even just a little, you can do anything you want to. And, he says, he did. At the end of the seminar, one girl looks upset. A male student offers to buy her a drink, and she accepts.

Archie and Greg examine internet video of the Paramore concert of the night after Ian and Justine went missing. Zooming in on a frame that includes their seats, they notice that the two men sitting there seem to have matching hats: “Reliant Wash and Wax”.

Brass takes officers to the car wash, and question the two men from the video. They claim to have bought the tickets from a scalper. One man still has his ticket in his wallet. Besides Ian Wallace, prints on the ticket match Curtis Keesey.

Police enter Keesey’s home, where they find a body.

Grissom and David Phillips examine insects on the latest victim. As Grissom identifies the insects, Phillips tells him that he’s going to miss this work. Grissom tells him that there are bugs everywhere, but that he is going to miss Phillips. David gets misty-eyed, and has to turn his face away and leave the room.

Back at Keesey’s house, Catherine notes that his tires match those at Justine Stefani’s murder scene. Nick says, though, that his shoes don’t match, so he must just be the driver.

Catherine, Greg, and Grissom examine the physical evidence from the four murders. They wonder if the unidentified killer was also an accomplice to the DJK. They speculate that he killed Tolliver, when he decided to become an informant. Grissom adds that this might have fueled his taste for killing, leading to the other three murders.

In the second day of the serial killer seminar, Professor Langston asks Haskell about his mistakes leading to his capture. One student adds that he must have wanted to get caught, didn’t he? When Haskell protests the idea of wanting that. Grissom responds, though, that this careful killer was captured because a rookie cop noticed a drop of blood in plain sight inside his car. Grissom asks how such an average sized man was able to overpower large, athletic men, while subduing the female victims, without any help. Haskell seems defensive and tries to change the subject. As Langston tries to push him to answer, Joel Steiner’s mother appears in the back of the room, first demanding, then begging, Haskell to tell where her son is. Students calm her down.

Grissom tells Haskell that they know that he had accomplices. He then adds that, if he were to identify them, he might be let out of keepaway. Haskell identifies Grissom to the rest of the class as a member of law enforcement, explaining that “keepaway” is the form of solitary he is in. Angry, Langston kills the video feed.

Langston complains to Brass and Grissom about their “hijacking” his class without his knowledge. He tells them that he would have helped, if he’d been informed of the existence of another DJK. They tell Langston that they’ll keep him informed. He storms out, proclaiming, “I know a kiss off, when I hear one.” Grissom tells Brass that Langston was an M.D. back east. He studied a case of several dying patients, who ended up being the victims of an “angel of death” physician.

Back at the university, Langston receives a call from Haskell. He tells the professor to look out the window, because he’s in the parking lot. It turns out to be a prank, though. He wants to talk about what happened with Mrs. Steiner. Langston conferences Grissom in on the call. He tells them that seeing all those faces made him miss killing. He adds that Mrs. Steiner’s outburst made him want to offer closure. He gives an address out in the desert. He says he’ll find Joel, and, if they’re lucky, they’ll find something else. He warns them, though, that closure often leads to something new. At the scene, they find Joel Steiner. Under the railroad bridge, they find another, fresh body with ten stab wounds. [It looks like one of the students.]

Brass tells Grissom, “I guess you won’t be leaving just yet.”

to be continued…

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CSI: NY Episode 5.10: The Triangle
Air Date: December 10, 2008

On the street, near the Empire State Building, a man is walking about, frantically talking to himself…or his cellphone…about the “airwaves”. At the same time, several people talking on their phones or listening to radios all suffer horrible interference. This includes Danny, who has just been talking on his phone to Lindsay about the baby. His phone goes out as he’s heading into the 34th Street Station. The strange man talking about the “airwaves” announces to himself the arrival of “The Bermuda Triangle.” An armored car nearby is stalled at an intersection. The driver can’t reach anyone on his radio or his phone. When he slides the peephole open to check on Carl in back, Carl is suffering from a rain of sparks, and is apparently being electrocuted as a result of the phenomenon hitting the whole block. The driver seems unable to exit the cab, and bangs the glass crying out for help. The back door swings open.

The driver, Greg Hufheinz, tells the team about the incident. They ask if he had opened the door to help, but he tells them that drivers are instructed to stay in the cab until emergency assistance arrives.

Stella and Mac examine the irregularly shaped “bullet” wound on Carl Custer’s chest. There’s no GSR, exit wound, or apparent bullet. He has burns around his eyes, as well as on his wrist near his watch. Stella spots a small, black pineapple sticker on the guards cuff. She asks Mac if the crime scene seems strange, but Mac has already walked away from the body.

Don tells Stella about the driver’s protocol to stay in the cab, but he has found a witness from a nearby bus stop who says she saw someone turn a knob on the back door and open it. The few who noticed the person disagreed on whether it was a man or woman, and none of them noticed a uniform. Stella says there were no prints on the handle. Stella wonders where Mac disappeared to. Don responds with the common urban legend about that block being the “Bermuda Triangle”. Of course, Stella is not buying it, but Don goes on about all the calls that come in about that block. [Interestingly, the High Eye logo on the armored car has a triangle with an eye in the center.

Sid finds metal shards deep inside the wound. Hawkes enters the lab, as Sid is microwaving a pig's liver. Sid explains that it wasn't a gunshot that killed Carl. The plastic and metal fragments he found inside the chest cavity lead him to believe that Carl had a pacemaker that exploded, causing massive trauma to the heart. Hawkes says he's heard of them failing, but never exploding.

Sid pulls Carl's liver from the cooler, and points out the dark lines. He then removes the pig's liver from the microwave, showing him similar lines. So, he concludes that Carls was exposed to massive microwave radiation, which also explains the burn marks where his eyeglass frames and wristwatch were in close contact with his skin. Sid continues that, after 9/11, all the radio antennae from atop the World Trade Center were replaced on the Empire State Building.

Adam shows Lindsay that the intersection camera had stopped working at 4:56 PM. Both the camera and the traffic light haven't functioned since then.

Danny catches up to Lindsay, who is satisfying a craving at a sidewalk vendor's cart. He hurriedly asks about her family's medical and mental health history. Seemingly satisfied with her answer, he proposes marriage. She pauses, then replies, "No." He seems deflated, but... Didn't he see Walk the Line?

Hawkes uses the imager to reconstruct enough of the pacemaker to read the identifying marks. He tells Mac that patterns, directionality of the fragments, and lithium cobalt oxide traces seem to confirm Sid's theory that the pacemaker exploded as a result of microwave radiation hitting the batteries. The manufacturer, Marwood Technologies, had remote monitoring on Carl's device. His cellphone would relay signals from the pacemaker. The signal, however, ended at 4:56 PM, the same time that the security cameras and traffic signals failed. Hawkes wonders, though, how all that energy coming from atop the Empire State Building could have only affected Carl Custer, and no one else.

Mac, Danny, and Hawkes look out from atop the Empire State Building. They all circle the roofline just below the base of the tower. Using electrosmog detectors, they find no signs of unhealthy amounts of radiation coming from the roof. Mac proposes running a DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) search to see if they know of anything that could cause the damage.

Stella finds Mac in his office, and asks where he was last night. He tells her he was with the FBI. Special agents picked him up and took him away to ask about the Ann Steele case (Episode 5.04 Sex, Lies & Silicone), the one with the mysterious flash drive containing Steele's client list and all the sordid details that she helped go away for these powerful people, some of whom are supposedly top government officials. They accused Mac of stealing the flash drive, and warned him to be careful. If he plans to use that "weapon" to take "pot shots" at public officials, he'd better make sure there wasn't one pointed at himself. He tells her that he took it to the property room right after Sheldon gave it to him. After speaking with the FBI, though, he returned to property and found it missing from the case evidence. He told her that he checked the chain of custody. He hadn't yet talked to the clerk he handed it to, officer Kevin Cross.

Adam shows Lindsay that he found a dust void circling the electronic lock on the armored car door. Knowing that electromagnetic radiation had disabled the electronics, he knew that the intruder would still need to bypass the actual lock mechanism. Then, he remembered a device that he was able to borrow from a friend at the Treasury Department...Satan's Ring.

Lindsay turns the borrowed ring around the lock, and the unique polarity of the magnetic charges on the ring...two south poles opposite each other, and two north poles opposite each other...charge the coils in the lock causing them to disengage. The shape and size of the ring match the dust void on the door. Adam tells her that Don is looking for anyone with a record of using a Satan's Ring to perpetrate a crime.

Don finds one instance of Satan's Ring use. It's a case he worked, and the thief was Bernie Benton. He tracks Benton down in his pub, and shakes him down. Benton insists that he was never sloppy and hurt anyone, and that he's no longer playing that game. A woman enters the pub and Benton sends her home with cash, telling her that he's closing before her shift. Don tells him not to go anywhere.

Lindsay examines the pineapple sticker that Stella found on Carl's sleeve. Currently pregnant, she becomes wary of the toxins she handles in her job. Conspicuously...for the camera, anyway...she applies the chemical under a hood to minimize her exposure to its vapors. She tells Stella that she found epithelials on the sticker. She has sent a DNA sample to Adam.

On GCMS, they notice compounds commonly found in sunblock. Lindsay tells Stella...the lab's official safety officer...that she has a pregnant friend who works in a forensics lab in New Jersey. She tells her that her friend is nervous about all the toxic chemicals she uses. Stella assures her that her friend is safe, considering all the safety protocols they follow: fume hoods, goggles, gloves, face shields. When Stella asks about her friend's partner, Lindsay is coy about the circumstances, saying they're complicated. Stella...with a bit of a nod and a wink...tells Lindsay that, if her friend's co-workers are anything like Lindsay's own co-workers, that they will surely help her, and that they'd absolutely be happy for her. Stella's caution and intentional avoidance of acknowledging Lindsay as the "friend" was very touching. [Tear.] “Tell your friend, ‘Congratulations.’”

As Sheldon tells Mac that the military is uneasy about releasing information about advanced weapons to civilians, including police investigators, Danny rushes in with news about the armored car.

Danny takes Mac to Anderson Savings and Loan, the next stop on the armored car’s route. Danny tells him that, last evening, “Carl Custer” from High Eye signed in at 5:01 PM, and walked out with a deposit transfer of $250,000. The problem is that he died five minutes before that, four blocks away. On the security video, they see the guard…young, blond, bearded. The man doesn’t look like Bernie Benton. They deduce that it’s probably an inside job.

As Stella and Mac discuss the lack of leads, Danny enters with news that all the High Eye employees checked out “squeaky clean”, and all were accounted for at the time of the incident. Mac realizes that a camera on the roof of the Empire State Building might offer a better vantage of the scene. Stella notes that it points toward the Anderson Savings and Loan. They tap into the recorded video, and find the assailant leaving the building with the cash. He gets into an old red van. The driver takes off, and almost hits a pedestrian. They seem to know how to track him down.

Stella and Danny find Yert Yallawac…the disturbed, “Triangle”/”Airwaves” man from the opening. He’s in the area doing his “research” with his equipment…a dead and half-smashed cellphone. They ask Yert about what he saw at the time of the incident. He says that, at the time of the “Wave of Darkness”, when he was monitoring congested energy channels, he heard the “warning signal” and narrowly defeated death…i.e. he wasn’t killed by the van. He managed to snatch an epaulet with a High Eye button on it from the fake guard’s uniform. He lets Danny keep it. Yert goes back to his monitoring the energy.

Adam tells Lindsay that he found no hair or epithelials on the epaulet. He decided to search based on fragrance, but any scent on the material was too faint for their equipment to make a match. She recommends using canines.

Don and a canine officer go to High Eye. The dog leads them to Greg Hufheinz’ locker. Mac and Don question Hufheinz, who insist that Carl was like family. Don tells him that the man who stole the money from the savings and loan was wearing his High Eye uniform. Hufheinz, though, tells them that he had taken his spare uniform to the dry cleaner, but when he went to retrieve it, they told him he’d already picked it up. He insists that someone else picked it up. He denies recognizing Bernie Benton’s face. Mac and Don both believe him. Don wonders if Bernie scoped out Hufheinz, stole his uniform, and took the money. They have to wonder, though, who helped him stop the real armored car.

In DARPA, Sheldon finally finds an advanced prototype microwave gun developed by Sanon Research, a midtown company. As he tells Stella this, Lindsay enters with news that the sticker was a tan-too sticker, a novelty used to leave an image on tanned skin. The person who used it, must have been at a tanning salon, but failed to remove the sticker before coming into contact with Carl. DNA from the sticker doesn’t make any direct hits in CODIS, but there is a familial match. Bernie Benton must have a daughter.

The team discuss the newest developments. Nothing in Bernie Benton’s case file mentions a daughter. Don has put a tail on Benton, though. Sheldon has checked out the microwave gun prototype. Whoever used it, also knew how to wipe it down. The user could have easily driven up behind the armored car, and set off the gun at the light, causing all the damage. The list of Sanon Research employees, though, doesn’t include any Bentons, so the daughter must have a different name.

Don and Stella visit Benton. When they describe what they’ve figured out, that his daughter was just supposed to stall the truck, but must have gotten greedy and used his Satan’s Ring to rob it; he acts as if he’s the one who did it. Don tells him that he can tell he didn’t know the details of his daughter’s actions until Don mentioned her. He won’t tell his daughter’s name or her whereabouts. Bernie assaults Don, but misses. Don cuffs him, as Stella checks Benton’s cellphone call. She finds a series of texts to a Jamie Sunderland, and reports this back to Sheldon. He finds her name. She’s a marketing representative at Sanon Research. Benton tells them that there’s no use going to Sanon. She’s lying low.

Meanwhile, Jamie Sunderland is getting into a helicopter.

Across town, an officer tells Mac about a woman finding a body in an alley. The victim, property clerk Kevin Cross, has a bullet wound in his forehead.

Lindsay tells Danny that it’s not that she won’t marry him. It’s just not the right time. She assures him that neither of them is going away, so they can afford to take “baby steps”.

In Mac’s office, he smiles and hugs Lindsay and Danny. [Yea!]

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Episode 7.10 – The DeLuca Motel
Air Date: December 8, 2008

As others in the Deluca Motel buzz around, going about their business, Delko walks out of his room. He goes to his car, makes some suspicious actions before opening the door and getting quarters from the console. As a pregnant woman gets ice, he passes her to get a coffee from a coin-op machine.

He goes back to his room, looks out the window, almost expectantly. As he sits to open an envelope, he hears a shot. As he goes to the window, the glass shatters, cutting his arm. He goes into the courtyard with his gun in hand. A body is floating in the pool, as he looks around the upper level for the shooter.

The team arrives, and tests all the people in the motel for gunshot residue. Delko and Horatio discuss the body…single shot to the chest, blindfolded, and no blood drops on the pool deck. Delko wonders how he ended up at the motel pool, especially since he hadn’t seen him around there. He tells Horatio he’s staying there while his condo is remodelled. Horatio doesn’t seem convinced that this is simply a construction getaway for Delko.

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Frank and Calleigh check out the victim’s room. There’s blood on the door handle, indicating he had fled before ending up in the pool. Frank says the shooter probably took after the victim and fired hitting Delko’s window. Calleigh is stumped by the buckets and burned matches scattered on the carpet. They look around commenting on how unsanitary such motel rooms are. Frank points out the busted out bathroom window. Calleigh finds a substantial wad of fabric stuck in the broken glass. Frank wonders why Delko would stay in such a hole.

Ryan finds the bullet that grazed Delko’s arm, saying it must have shattered when it hit the glass. Delko wonders what happened to the third shot that he heard, in addition to this and the one in the victim. He sarcastically “compliments” Delko on his residence. Ryan is curious why Delko has an explosives field kit on the table, and why he would have been honing his technical skills rather than going out with the gang the night before. As Ryan follows Delko out of the room, he spots a slip of paper with the name Enrico Moldano, followed by “Cutanas – 11PM Sunday”, and “1K”.

Tara tells Horatio that, before cutting the victim open, fluoroscope shows that he bled out from where a bullet fragment hit his left lung and another lodged in his aorta. Horatio is curious how he managed to get to the pool, and comments on his blood alcohol level being 0.18%. She notes that the alcohol would have slowed his body’s response to trauma. They also comment on burn marks on his palms, apparent whip marks and needle pricks on his chest. Tara wonders if it’s S&M, and notices an intact bullet not far inside the entry wound. Below it, she finds a medallion with Greek fraternity letters. She deduces this was a hazing ritual.

Natalia and Horatio question Neil Scofield, from the victim’s fraternity. Neil responds that Seth Copeland was a pledge, but he doesn’t know about a motel. Natalia tells him he should have changed his jacket, and produces the piece of material from the bathroom window. It appears to match a hole in Neil’s own jacket sleeve. Neil begs them not to bust him for hazing, or else he’ll be expelled. She asks if the gunshots were a new level. Neil says he put him on “bucket brigade”, forcing him to hold pails of water in his outstretched arms. Lowering one of them, or moving his foot from a piece of tape on the floor would require him to drink a beer. While Seth was performing the task, Neil says he went into the bathroom to relieve his bladder. That’s when he heard the shots and Delko identifying himself as police. He broke the window using his jacket and fled. He apologizes for leaving Seth behind.

Ryan tells Calleigh that the bullet from Delko’s room is “compromised”, but she said they still have the one from the victim. She tells him that lines etched into the bullet are consistent with passing through a window screen. This would imply that Neil wasn’t lying about not firing the shot.

Calleigh and Delko go back to the scene with a foam dummy to determine the position of the shooter. She is also curious why Delko didn’t tell anyone that he’d moved into a motel. They follow the laser light from the dummy out into the courtyard. Along the line, they find a broken 40 ounce. Delko remembers seeing his “neighbor” drop the bottle about ten seconds before the shooting.

The man with the bottle…Carl Reston…tells Delko that he’d been out there drinking because they are on vacation. The woman asks why they would hurt the frat kid. Delko offers that maybe they were angry at the noise coming from the kids’ room. When Reston dismisses “shooting the problem” as being silly, Horatio and Delko remind him of his violent police record: possession, disorderly conduct, and assault with a deadly weapon. Molly Reston says Carl isn’t like that anymore. Carl tells them that they didn’t see anything, after that. They had entered their room before the shots fired.

Ryan tells Horatio about the explosives kit and shows him the note he found. Ryan expresses his worry for Delko, recalling his own cover-ups when he was running bets. Horatio tells him to concentrate on the case, and promises to look into it.

Horatio pays a visit to Cutanas, in Little Havana. The bartender says he is Enrico Moldano, and Delko paid him $1,000 to get documents from his contacts in Cuba. Delko told him they couldn’t meet again, face-to-face. He would have to deliver the goods to his motel room, wrapped in the morning paper. Moldano refused to tell him what Eric paid for. Horatio threatens to hold Moldano responsible if anything happens to Delko.

Frank helps Calleigh look for the gun in the Reston’s room. Strangely, for being on vacation, they have no luggage in their room. Calleigh asks Frank to lift her up to a ceiling vent. She crawls in, following a trail in the grime showing that something slid through the duct. When she reaches the next vent, she sees a man lying dead in a tub full of ice.

Linda Bowen, the pregnant woman that was at the ice machine when Delko got his coffee, tells Frank and Calleigh that it “must look bad” that her boyfriend Joel is dead in the tub. Frank responds that it looks like she killed him, and shot her neighbor to cover it up. As Frank searches the room, Linda tells Calleigh that they’d moved to Miami, after Hurricane Ike destroyed their home, and Joel was injured hefting sandbags. The A/C wasn’t working, and extreme heat always hurt Joel’s lungs. He checked and found something blocking the air vent. He told Linda that everything was going to be all right, now, but didn’t tell her what he’d found. Later, he collapsed on the walk. She put him on ice. She didn’t want to report his death to the authorities, because she needed his disability checks to support their baby. She was worried she would stop receiving them, since they weren’t married.

Delko finds Ryan working in his lab. Ryan shos him the bullet fragment from his motel room. He says just the fragment bullet was heavier than an entire .38 bullet, like the one that killed Seth Copeland. There must be a second shooter, so he asks Delko if someone is after him. Delko doesn’t know, but says he was at the motel, because he thought his condo was being watched. He tells Ryan that no one but Enrico knew where he was staying.

Delko goes to Cutanas. He finds Moldano dead behind the dumpster in the alley. He calls for backup.

At the scene, Horatio asks Delko what Enrico had for him. Delko shows him his birth certificate. He says that, since he’s been looking into his family, people have been watching him, looking through his trash, and breaking into his car. Horatio takes Delko off the case. Tara finds lipstick on Enrioco’s cheeks and lips. She asks if Delko’s in danger, and Horatio says he might be. Ryan finds a .38 in the trash.

Prints on the .38 match Carl Reston. Frank and Horatio question Reston, telling him his prints are on the gun that shot Copeland and Moldano. He claims not to know Moldano. He tells them that they came into a lot of money, and stashed it in the air vent. They came back to their room, and he found it gone. He thought Molly had taken the money for herself. He called her out of the room, dropped the bottle, and pulled his gun on her. She smacked his arm to point the gun away from herself, when it went off. That’s when Seth Copeland was hit. He heard Delko announce himself as an officer, panicked, and tossed the gun over the building. It went off, when it hit the ground on the other side.

Ryan and Natalia find the second .38 bullet inside a 55-gallon drum, near where Reston said he’d thrown the revolver. Next to the dumpster, there are fresh tire tracks, but three of them. Natalia guesses that it was an ATV.

Calleigh tells Linda Bowen that the autopsy showed that Joel had died of a heart attack. She promises to make sure he gets a proper burial. She asks Linda where she found Joel, then follows her to the ice machine. Calleigh digs through the ice…with no gloves on…and finds a duffel full of cash. She tells Linda to wait in her room with the officer until she gets back.

Delko’s mom meets him at the lab. He asks her about his birth. He tells her that every time she tells the story, the facts change, including the length of her labor, and the location where her boat from Cuba landed. He shows her his birth certificate, indicating that he was born in Cuba. She admits that his father was her boss at the factory. She tells Eric that Alexander Shiroa was a bad man. She begs him to let it go, but that Shiroa doesn’t know that he exists. She asks if he’s in danger, and apologizes.

Calleigh calls Molly Reston in, and shows her the bag she found. Molly lights up and is ready to claim the money. Calleigh explains that the money was found divided up into uniform units of 20 and 30. This, plus Carl’s priors for possession lead them to believe that the money was earned from selling drugs. Calleigh tells Molly that she’s prepared to check with narcotics, and see if her hunch is right. She offers Molly the chance to reconsider her claim to the cash, and Molly accepts, denying having ever seen it before.

Calleigh visits Linda Bowen at the motel. She tells her she’s not in trouble. She then hands her an envelope full of cash. Calleigh tells her that according to the law, if money is found and turned in to the police, and the rightful owner refuses to claim it, it belongs to the person who found it. She tells Linda to take the money, and make a fresh start. [OMG! I am not crying during CSI: Miami.]

Natalia tells Horatio that the tire tracks from the alley don’t match any known ATVs. When she changes the search to find vehicles with the single wheel in the back, it brings up the Can-Am Spyder. There are 56 registered owners in southern Florida. Horatio tells her to find only female owners, because of the lipstick on Moldano. There are only three, and one is Kate Hawkes, a woman who was talking to Enrico, when Horatio visited the bar.

Ryan finds blood on Hawkes’ bike. They tell her that, if the blood is Moldano’s, that puts her at the scene of his murder, as well as at the motel, during the attempt on Delko’s life. She says she was there, but wasn’t expecting to be interrupted. She questions why they’re talking to her, if they know everything. Ryan asks why she tried to kill Delko. “It was a job”, she says. They ask her about Alexander Shirova, but she doesn’t know where he is.

Back at the station, Horatio tells Delko that it’s not over. For Shirova, this is only the beginning.

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CSI: Vegas – Episode 9.08 – Young Man With A Horn
Air Date: December 4, 2008

A man and woman sing a duet in rehearsal for the show “Overnight Sensation” –an obvious take on American Idol. The producer gruffly stops them, complaining that the young man is lazy and insufficiently emotive. The man’s father rushes from offstage to defend his son. The producer reprimands the father and warns the Layla that she was flat. They resume singing. When the producer shouts over Layla’s singing, telling her to watch her pitch, she rushes off the stage, crying. At the producer’s order, the man continues singing.

Below a highway overpass, Catherine and Phillips examine what looks like a tablecloth rolled up like a handled sack. Cutting through the cloth, they find a woman’s face –it’s Layla Wells.

Wells had been wrapped up in the bundle, clothed in just her lingerie, hinting at sexual assault. Dr. Robbins notes the time of death is between 2 and 4 AM.

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Brass questions producer Drew Rich. Rich informs him that Layla had gone to her room, and told her chaperone, at midnight, that she was going to bed. He also tells Brass that Layla was an emancipated minor. The chaperone had gone to the casino to gamble after midnight. Hearing Kips’s father tell Kip that Layla’s death means that he won, Rich corrects him, calling up the most recent cast-off, from the semi-finals, to compete against Kip in the show finale.

Catherine and Stokes examine the tablecloth that Layla was wrapped in. Stokes finds the imprint from the room service company that services the casinos. Catherine notes that circles from drink condensation indicates that it hasn’t been washed for quite some time.

At the dump scene, Riley and Greg find blood drops and wheel tracks with an 11″ wheel spacing. Greg adds that they could be from a shopping cart, except that they’re missing the second, wider tracks from a cart’s rear wheels. Riley remarks on the fact that the area surrounding the underpass is teeming with homeless men with shopping carts.

Dr. Robbins notes that blunt force trauma to the abdomen was the cause of death. He adds that the impact is where the liver would rest while the victim was standing. He tells Catherine that he found no signs of sexual assault, but she was about eight weeks pregnant. She wonders if that’s the motive.

Brass and Stokes visit Layla’s room in the Palermo. Stokes reads the keycard record showing that Layla’s card was used to enter the room at 7:12 PM, right after she left the rehearsal. She had made calls to Drew Rich and to her chaperone. The chaperone was up all night at a progressive slot machine. Nick checks her web browser history. She had looked up several abortion clinics, around 8PM, followed by a series of adoption agencies.

Hodges and Archie look at web tabloid articles embellishing upon the “news” that Kip and Layla had been cavorting after hours. Hodges shows no respect for the show, but mentions that he and thousands of other men had voted for Ajaya, helping him make it to the semi-finals. Archie shows him surveillance footage of Drew Rich getting in the elevator just before midnight, followed by Layla, a few minutes later, and Kip, two minutes after that.

Brass questions Kip Westerman and his father. He dismisses Kip, and addresses the belligerent Mr. Westerman. Brass lays out his theory that Westerman left the Navy and mortgaged his home to support Kip. He concludes that he’d be wiped out if Kip lost, giving him motive to have killed Layla.

Simms shows Catherine that Kip’s DNA didn’t match the baby’s. She did find a CODIS match on a Marvin Flick, who had been charged in North Carolina in 2002 for having relations with a 15 year old. The mug shot, though, revealed that Flick is Drew Rich. The girl changed her story, letting Flick go free.

Brass interrupts Rich, who is editing the finale’s dedication to Layla. The video includes mention of Layla’s showgirl grandmother. Rich claims that Layla agreed to his paying for an abortion, but only to have it if she won the competition. He refused to be blackmailed, but says he didn’t kill her. Brass tells Rich that they have record of his leaving the Palermo at midnight, then using his credit card, 20 minutes later, at the Blue Madonna motel, just three blocks from where Layla’s body was found. Rich claims he was with a hooker. An officer takes him into custody.

Hodges tells Grissom that Layla’s lipstick contained spermaceti, a waxy liquid found in sperm whales’ heads. This, along with asbestos found in the tablecloth, hadn’t been used for decades. Layla’s belongings didn’t include lipstick with spermaceti.

Catherine and Stokes examine a map of Vegas from the 1950s. They notice one casino on the west side, near where Layla was found, that was closed but not torn down –Le Chateau Rouge.

Stokes and Greg visit Le Chateau Rouge. As they walk through, they talk about its being the first integrated casino, and all the big names that once performed there. Greg finds tracks similar to those he found at the scene, with the same 11″ spacing. Stokes finds pink fuzz on a chainlink wire, similar to the material in the sweater that Layla was wearing when she left the Palermo. Inside, Greg finds a cart that seems to match the tracks. Stokes finds the only table in the place that’s missing its tablecloth. He finds latent blood in an apparent track on the table.

When Grissom arrives at Le Chateau Rouge, he is curious about a classic limo. The passenger is Karen Rosenthal, the building’s owner. She invites Grissom into her car, and tells him about the casino. Her husband, Jules, was murdered inside. She says she never set foot inside, since that night. She tells Grissom that she didn’t sell the building because she knew the new owner would tear it down.

In the showgirls’ dressing room, Catherine finds recent footprints. One vanity is marked “Jasmine” –the name of Layla’s grandmother. Examining a lipstick from the vanity, she comments that Layla must have been trying to connect “with her roots.”

Grissom finds a bullet in the casino floor. Stokes finds Layla’s cellphone. The last activity on the phone was the camera. They play the last video that features Layla, clad in a costume from her grandmother’s dressing area, and matching the one Jasmine was wearing in the photo from the tribute video. Kip must have been holding the camera and a light. In the video, Layla is frightened by the sudden appearance of a saxophonist entering the stage. Grissom appears to hear something. He walks over and opens a curtain, revealing an elderly man (Bill Cobbs), holding a revolver down at his side. The man passes out and drops to the floor.

In Desert Palm Hospital, Grissom tells the man that he’s in custody, and being treated for dehydration and malnutrition.

Kip tells Brass that he cared about and loved Layla. He had searched online, and found out that her grandmother had performed at Le Chateau Rouge. He took her there, and she insisted they go inside. She peeled the fence open, and found an open door. Finding her grandmother’s vanity and costume, she put it on.

The man from Le Chateau Rouge tells Grissom that they were making sweet music. He says that Kip was jealous, and came at him, pushing Layla down. The sax player fired a shot and missed, then Kip fled alone.

Kip tells Brass that, although he left Layla inside, he went back and looked all over for her, but didn’t find her.

When Grissom tells the saxophoist that a girl is dead, he responds, “You got me.”

Back in the lab, Grissom looks over a documentary, case files, and clippings all covering the end of Le Chateau Rouge, and the murder of Jules Rosenthal. Despite rumors that it was a mob hit, Rosenthal’s employee Melchior Wilson was tried and convicted for the murder. Grissom tells Catherine that Wilson died in prison. Stokes matched the old man’s gun to the one from the Rosenthal murder. Grissom says that the sheriff, in the 1958 murder case, had lifted Wilson’s print from Rosenthal’s alligator wallet. Grissom demonstrates, with Hodges’ help, that his own print from an alligator wallet has massive voids from the skin’s texture. The one from the original case, supposedly from the same type wallet, was a perfectly clean print. He deduces that Wilson was framed, having probably had his print lifted from any number of places in the casino, since he was a musician there.

Grissom finds Sheriff Montgomery in a poker game. Montgomery says he’ll talk to him about the Rosenthal case, but only if Grissom beats him in a hand. Grissom wins the wager. Montgomery swears by his “evidence”, but Grissom is persistent. He knows the sheriff was part of the cover-up, and challenges him with the issue of the voids from the alligator skin. When Grissom shows him a photo of the saxophist, Montgomery quickly dismisses the pertinence of his fifty year old murder case, turns, and briskly leaves.

Back at Le Chateau Rouge, Catherine finds fibers from the costume on a chair. Stokes comments that the pattern on the arm of the chair matches Layla’s bruise. They deduce that she ran across the floor, and fell down, striking the arm of the chair. So, it looks like an accident. They wonder, then, why did the old man confess.

Riley shows Greg that there are two saxophonists on the brochure from Le Chateau Rouge, besides Melchior Wilson. The other two, Harry Bastille and Stanley Brown, seemed to fall off the face of the earth after 1958. The computer matches the old man’s face, though, to that of Harry Bastille.

Grissom asks Bastille why he confessed, when Layla’s death was an accident, and why he didn’t report it. Bastille says he wanted to keep people out of his place. He says it was the last place he was ever happy. Mrs. Rosenthal comes to the hospital, and says the man isn’t Harry Bastille. Grissom follows her into the hallway, and tells her that the man is Harry Rosenthal. She wonders why he asked her, to which he responds that that man is her husband’s murderer. Grissom tells her that the champagne she was drinking in her car is the same kind found on the floor near where her husband was murdered. She confesses that she met with Bastille after the last show, that night. Rosenthal entered the dressing room, and pulled a gun. Karen Rosenthal lept at her husband, and the gun dropped. She picked it up and shot her husband, before he could attack Bastille. He wanted to say it was him that pulled the trigger, but she didn’t want that to happen. She confessed, but “the town was very different then.” The town leaders convinced the sheriff to go after Melchior Wilson.

Walking down the street at night, Catherine asks Grissom about his coming to Vegas. She tells him that he has a good thing, now, including a “family” –at least, a work family. He answers, “Maybe it’s time to up the ante.”

Notice how much less time Grissom spends in each episode this year. His time, this episode, is near the end, and seemingly just as further insight into his upcoming departure.

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