Episode 7.18 - Flight Risk
Air Date: March 16, 2009

This episode sounds vaguely similar to the CSI: NY episode where Mac investigated a murder while he was a passenger on a plane. But as usual, with only a sentence of spoiler to go on, this could really play out in many ways. I’m wondering if the plane will be taking off from Miami or landing in Miami. And I wonder if any of the CSIs will be passengers. Sometimes investigations involving planes are interesting because there are a limited number of ways to hide evidence in a sealed place like a plane.

Press Release:
WHEN A FLIGHT ATTENDANT IS MURDERED, THE CSIs UNCOVER ALL THE DIRTY SECRETS OF AIRPLANE TRAVEL, ON “CSI: MIAMI,” MONDAY, MARCH 16

“Flight Risk” - When a flight attendant is murdered, the CSIs uncover all the dirty secrets of airplane travel, on CSI: MIAMI, Monday, March 16 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

SERIES REGULARS:
Horatio Caine……………………….. David Caruso
Calleigh Duquesne………………….. Emily Procter
Eric Delko……………………….. Adam Rodriguez
Ryan Wolfe…………………………. Jonathan Togo
Det. Frank Tripp………………………….. Rex Linn
Natalia Boa Vista……………………… Eva La Rue
Dr. Tara Price…………… Megalyn Echikunwoke

RECURRING CAST:
Kyle Harmon……………………….. Evan Ellingson
Maxine Valera…………………………….. Boti Bliss
Michael Travers……………………. Chris Redman
Dave Benton…………………………. Wes Ramsey

GUEST CAST:
Suzanne Grady……………………. Michelle Pierce
Grant Lawson…………………………. Tom Parker
Carolyn Morrow……………………. Sarah Buxton
Aaron Nolan…………………………… Seth Gilliam
Jenna York………………………. Jaimie Alexander
Marvin Duffy……………………….. Nathan Baesel
Louie Clayton…………………….. Johnny Palermo
Russell Webb……………. David Thomas Jenkins
Molly…………………………………. Kimberly Huie
Zach………………………… David Thomas Jenkins

WRITTEN BY: Sunil Nayar
DIRECTED BY: Joe Chappelle [Source: CBS]

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.
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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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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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CSI: Vegas - Episode 9.06 Say Uncle
Air Date: November 13, 2008

At a Korean street party, gunshots interrupt the fun, and send the crowd running, ducking, and scrambling for cover.

The team shows up, but no one seems to have seen exactly what happened. A young woman and a young man lie dead on the asphalt, she with two bullet wounds, he with three. Grissom spots only one casing nearby, but the rest may have been scattered by foot traffic from the crowd. Riley opens the man’s wallet, and identifies him as Sung Bang. He also has an prison release form in his pocket, indicating that he spent six months in detention for two DUIs and had just been released that morning. Hodges notes that the man is loaded with ID, but the woman doesn’t even have lint in her pocket. Just a few feet away from the bodies, Grissom finds a child’s sunglasses, spattered with blood.

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CSI: Vegas - Episode 9.05 Leave Out All the Rest
Air Date: November 06, 2008

The team works a scene out in the desert during a heavy downpour, where a man’s body is badly beaten up, and his fingers and toes torn off. Ligature marks on the man’s wrists make it look like he was tied up and dragged behind a vehicle. On his back, burnt motor oil, and scorched shirt fabric make it appear he was actually tied to the bottom of a vehicle.

Nine stab wounds are in the victim’s shirt. White tissue around the facial wounds indicate they happened post-mortem. No bleeding around the stab wounds in the torso, as well as lack of bruising around rope marks also point to happening post-mortem. Nipples are swollen with puncture wounds around the arioles.

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CSI: Vegas Episode 9.04 Let It Bleed
Air Date: October 30, 2008

A man in a police uniform runs out of a liquor store. Nick and Riley give chase. When the man runs into a building, Nick follows, but tells Riley to call for help. The man, cornered, jumps out an upstairs window, landing in a dumpster. Inside the dumpster is also a woman’s body. The man had small bills, beef jerky, and a porn magazine. Riley notes that the woman smells fresh.

An ink stamp on the victim’s upper thigh leads the team to a club. There, Catherine finds her daughter, dancing with a man, and sporting a fake ID. Catherine scolds her, and sends her with a patrolman. Riley says that she must have come in through the back, not having a wristband indicating she paid the cover at the door. She must have been in the VIP area.

Catherine and Riley show the Craig Hess, the club owner, a photo of the victim. He says he doesn’t recognize the girl. Catherine tells him about her own underage daughter being there, and threatens to card the other patrons and shut the place down. He smugly retorts that her parenting is the problem and she’s only seeking to ease her guilt by placing the blame on a legitimate club for accepting her daughter’s valid-looking ID.
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CSI: Vegas - 9.03 Art Imitates Life
Air Date: October 23, 2008

A woman is found dead and leaning casually against a light pole. She is seemingly frozen in place, like a wax figure. No burn marks, no signs of lightning. The body is in full rigor, and is roughly the same temperature as the outside air, around 100 degrees fahrenheit. She’s sporting a brand new mobile phone, that has no personalization yet. The only call on it, so far, is to MovieFone. Her purse is totally empty, and pretty new looking.

Back at the lab, the “frozen” woman’s fingerprints turn up in the health workers database. She’s Carla Peretti, an LPN at Desert Palm Hospital.
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Episode 9.02 - The Happy Place
Air Date: October 16, 2008

The show begins with Sara and Grissom sharing moments in bed. As obvious as it is that they still care deeply for each other, he can’t convince her to stay in Vegas. His phone rings. It’s the lab.

A woman, Sprig Grenigier, leaps to her death from an apartment window. The team begins investigating the apartment and surrounding scene. They are unconvinced that Sprig committed suicide. Minutes before her death, she had received a phone call from a payphone across the street from the apartments.

Meanwhile, Grissom leads the investigation at the scene of a woman’s body in the alley behind a pawn shop. Her eyes have been poked and ruptured like a pair of grapes, as if by a pair of thumbs.
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This was a very intense episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Warrick. Grissom. McKeen. Hodges. Organized Crime. CSIs arrested.

• Why didn’t Warrick suspect something bad, when Gedda called him?
• Did McKeen seem a bit twitchy, early in the episode?
• Was assigning the investigation to the day shift necessary protocol?
• After Grissom’s splatter pattern discovery, and the cuffs, did it seem like the DA changed his mind to drop the charges a little too quickly, given his misgivings just a couple scenes earlier?
• What else is McKeen up to, that he needed to get Warrick out of the way?
• In the second to last scene, did it seem like the waitress gave Warrick a funny look as she disappeared into the back?
• Is it possible that the waitress took out some trash, and may have witnessed McKeen at Warrick’s car?

What did you think of For Gedda? Discuss your thoughts on the episode in the comments.