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CSI” - “Let it Bleed” - Oct. 30, 2008

A man with a knife in his back walks away from the camera muttering about smelling brains. He’s a zombie. As he walks by two CSIs Nick explains that even though it’s the night before Halloween, people in Vegas celebrate all week. They’re on their way to process another “407,” a liquour store robbed by a “cop.” Third one tonight. As they say this another “cop” runs out of a store in front of them. Nick and Riley give chase. The guy shoots at them as he runs inside the back door of something. Fake cop, but real gun. Nick goes after him while Riley calls it in. The guy busts into the interior of the building, which is under construction, NIck continues to chase. The guy finally stumbles and falls and loses his gun. Nick has him in his sights when the guy bolts out a window and falls dead in a dumpster. He falls on top of another body, a female. Grissom reprimands Nick for chasing but is glad the guy led them to the girl. She’s, um, fresh, according to Riley’s nose.

They take pictures of the girl in the dumpster, which they’ve brought to the lab, contents intact. Then they lift her out. Nick notices a tattoo on her leg of some kind of fish. It’s temporary. Might be a club stamp. If they can figure out where she was they can figure out who she is.

Cut to a club with the same fish logo. Riley and Catherine navigate among the dancing costumed masses. She sees her daughter. She coughs up her fake ID. Lindsey tries to bitch but Catherine points out that a girl her age who was there last night was murdered. (Trump that, missy.) The victim was working the VIP section in the back. Catherine and Lindsey go to talk to the owner in said section. They show him - him being Jason Lewis of “Sex and the City” - the picture of the dead girl. He doesn’t recognize her and wonders if there’s anything else. Catherine gripes her under-age daughter was let in. He snarks that meant she had a fake ID, which is not poor club management but poor parenting. Catherine is not amused.

Nick and Jim examine the uniform of the dead “cop.” They think it’s a real cop uniform from Reno.

Riley and Greg are looking at the previous evening’s surveillance video from the front door of the club. As suspected she was ushered in the back so they don’t have her arrival but they do have her departure. She’s struggling angrily with the bouncer tossing her out but sexy club owner guy whispers something in her ear that makes her leave calmly and happily. This was four hours before they found her.

Grissom and Catherine take more pictures of the dead girl and pull glass from her body. The clinking glass seems to unsettle Grissom, Catherine’s voice sounds far away to him. The wounds from the glass are superficial, so she was already dead when the “cop” fell on her. Catherine asks if he’s getting any sleep. She says she isn’t either. She asks what he hears from Sara. He says he doesn’t know where she is. Grissom notices track marks on the girl’s arm. She says most people don’t start off shooting up so she must’ve been a longtime user who graduated from snorting or smoking. There’s also white powder on her nose and hives on her belly. A cop comes in with a folder for Grissom. The vic Angela Marie Carlos, popped up in the Homeland Security database. She was the daughter of a drug dealer named Juan Ramon Carlos, a big time dude in Colombia. He’s got a sister in Henderson, they go to make the notification.

They visit the sister, who is sad. She last saw Angela two months ago when she went to college in Utah. She used to live with the sister but they sent her to Utah because she liked to party, like her mother. Angela only had one real friend, Sylvie. The sister says the cops might catch who did it but Juan will never forgive her.

Nick talks to Reno cop, the one who lost his uniform. He was in town to testify at a trial, hooked up with a call girl who wanted to wear his uniform to role play, spilled champagne on it and sent it out for cleaning. He didn’t get it back and housekeeping said they hung it on the door.

Greg breaks the news to Angela’s friend Sylvie. Turns out sexy club owner guy was a “friend” of Angela’s family. For some reason Angela had a fight with him and he kicked her out. Sylvie didn’t leave with her, she hooked up with some guy. She wasn’t worried because “nobody touches Angela.”

Riley and Catherine go to visit sexy club owner guy and confront him with his lie. He said as soon as he saw her, he sent her out. Catherine says she thinks that sexy club owner guy does business with her father. He pretends he doesn’t know her father. Catherine says it wouldn’t be the first time SCOG got rough with a girl as he has a prior rape charge. They were dropped he points out.

Robbins and Phillips, in their examination, discover another piece of glass in Angela’s head. Grissom comes in and says Robbins has something he’s never seen before. He holds up a test tube of blood that has some funky stuff going on- we go inside her veins as they explain some science stuff about blood being “hemalized”(?). An unknown chemical imbalance caused her blood vessels to rupture. Causes are a bunch of stuff and they’re waiting on a tox screen before they determine cause of death.

A female CSI lab tech is examining and printing the chopped off fingertips of the “cop.” (Ew.) They’re sliced up but a computer scanner puts them together. Nick comes in looking for a hit. They get one, Thomas Taylor. He has several violent priors.

Lindsey sits in Catherine’s office playing a video game. Catherine says being grounded means staying home. Lindsey protests she wasn’t doing anything wrong and proffers the Breathalyzer results she made the cop who took her home give her. She apologizes for the fake ID. She tells Catherine she doesn’t have to worry. But, Catherine says, she will.

Hodges calls Grissom over to tell him about tickets to a lecture by some archaeological dude and Grissom wonders if he’s asking him out. Hodges wonders if that’s a yes. Grissom is more interested in the determination of the white powder in Angela’s nose. Not cocaine but a stimulant often used to cut it called atropine. Her tox screen came back negative for both. Atropine also has a tranquilizing effect on fish and other animals. (It should be noted here that the club sports a bunch of huge aquariums).

Jim reports to Nick that the Reno cop was in a special room at the hotel. Nick wonders how the dead “cop” had access to such a high level room and wonders why he was wearing patent leather shoes. He surmises he might’ve been in town for a reunion or wedding and the shoes were rentals.

Greg tells Riley that they got a GPS hit on Angela’s cell. They think if the killer has it they have the killer. They head out and pull over a dump truck. He dumps his load. They call the number to see where it rings. Riley finds the right bag. They open it and take pictures. It’s filled with broken glass and Angela’s purse. If the dump truck serviced the club of SCOG- who is named Craig apparently- then they think they have him.

Riley and Catherine look over a map of Vegas and determine the places she was, weren’t on the truck’s route.

Whitney visits Robbins to report that Angela’s blood was a mixture. Which can’t be since Robbins took it from the heart. She ran it twice and it came back as a mixture as one female and two males. It’s contaminated somehow. He pulls out Angela’s corpse to draw more blood.

Nick tells Brass that the dead “cop” Taylor and another guy - Barry Wonderlick- rented a tux and shoes and were staying across the hall from the real cop.

Robbins and Whitney report to Grissom that the reason Angela’s blood was hemalized (sp?) was because she got a blood transfusion with no medical need. Because her donors were of a different blood type that’s why she had the funky ruptured blood vessel reaction. A weird way to kill somebody. They now have two unknown suspects.

The friend of the dead “cop” has been cooling in the drunk tank all along, couldn’t post bail. Wonderlick and his friend were there for a bachelor paty. They ran out of cash and got into a brawl with the bouncers at a strip club. He told Taylor to get the cash for his bail. He’s bummed that his best man let him down. Nick assures him that Taylor tried his best and tells the story of the stolen uniform and armed robberies- which we now see. Wonderlick, who’s gun it was, is impressed. But then realizes it didn’t end well.

Hodges is scanning photos of glass shards. The computer pieces them together into shape. He also pulls a fleck of something from the folds of Angela’s purse. Under the microscope it’s scaly. Fish scaly. He brings his findings to Catherine. It’s a goldfish flake. The glass shards created a goldfish tank. Apparently, fancy fish in fish tanks eat goldfish.

They call in Craig and he’s annoyed. She wants to know what he feeds his fish. He has no idea, he thinks the fish are a pain in the ass. They’re always getting sick. He’s got a guy named Goya who feeds the fish. The cops and Riley and Catherine descend on Goya’s warehouse. (Wow, Goya is Nick Turturro). They cuff him and ask him about the boxes he’s pushing between the tanks. They read “sand” but they’re bricks of coke. Catherine surmises somehow Angela was involved. Goya reminds his buddy Joe that they have nothing to say.

Catherine takes pictures of the rows of goldfish tanks. There’s also tons of atropine. And a broken glass coffee table with a little white powder residue on it. Riley finds another tank with bloody tubes in it. The warehouse is on the dump truck’s route. Catherine pieces it together as we see it: Angela came to get drugs, saw the powder on the table and snorted it not realizing it was pure atropine, had a seizure, collapsed on a goldfish tank on the glass coffee table. Riley proffers the tubes hypothesizing they tried to transfuse her to settle a score with her father. (I think it was to try to save her).

In interrogation Joe and Goya say they would never mess with Juan’s daughter. Joe says he was just going to give her pot from his own stash. But while he was getting it she saw two bowls of powder and decided to have a toot and made the wrong choice. (We see this as he speaks). Joe called Goya in a panic. Instead of calling an ambulance or dumping her at the hospital they decided to give her the transfusion based on the urban myth about Keith Richards getting transfusions when he was all smacked out. They show us giving her the transfusion, sticking the needle in their arms. They were trying to save her. They gave her back to Craig by tossing her in that particular dumpster so that Juan would make the connection and kill Craig. Goya blames Hess.

Grissom is petting his dog when the phone rings. He picks it up. And we cut to Craig’s dead body slumped against one of his own fish tanks. Catherine takes pictures. We then see a blood trail that leads to Sylvie lying dead on the ground where Greg takes photos. And… Goya and Joe lying dead as Riley takes pictures. And finally Juan’s sister lying dead in her house. Takeaway message? Don’t mess with Juan.

Murder –what else? — leads to the usual team meeting at BAU headquarters, where pregnant J.J. briefs her colleagues on the latest case. Or series of cases. “Six victims have been killed in a series of burglar homicides all over central California,” she explains.

The latest pair of victims: a couple who resided in Sacramento. J.J. assures the team that each death comes courtesy of the same unsub as the DNA is a match. Also: local cops and press have already come up with a not-so-clever name: the “Highway 99 Killer.”

“What’s unique about this unsub is that after he kills them, he apparently sits down for dinner in their homes,” Hotch points out. Worse, he showers and sleeps in the victims beds. Ew. Creepy.

The team arrives at the Sacramento crime scene. Local law enforcement tells Derek that the male victim had his shirt placed over his head and his pants placed over his legs. “This may be some form of transference,” Rossi theorizes. “He pretends this is all his. He’s playing out his fantasy.” Meanwhile, a neighbor says she spotted a mysterious man on the victims porch around 5:30 a.m. The couple was killed at 1 a.m.

Rossi has an idea. He calls Reid, asking the boy wonder whether train tracks connect the last two murder scenes. They do.

Derek and Rossi walk the tracks with a train-yard operator, who explains that he occasionally sees “hobos” jumping trains. Reid, meanwhile, calls Garcia and asks her to find homes within one mile of train tracks in the area. He suspects there might be more murders than originally reported.

The team returns to Sacramento police headquarters to brief the local investigators. Hotch explains that the killer does NOT travel on Highway 99 — sorry, folks — but makes his way from crime scene to crime scene by train. Reid says that the unsub will have a rash around his mouth. Why? Because along with making his victims’ homes his own, he huffs their household cleaning products.

“If you get close to him you wont miss him,” Emily says. “He will smell like a combination of human filth and paint thinner.”

Cut to the yet unrevealed killer, huffing cleaning product from a bag while riding the rails through farm country. Will our beloved BAU team be able to catch up?

Derek and Rossi will certainly try. They come across a hobo camp, offering food in exchange for information. The hobos are of little help, although Derek notices the complex series of symbols carved and drawn onto nearby rocks and trees. One hobo draws a symbol warning the next group that the cops are looking for someone.

Back at the station, Garcia calls with disturbing news. “I found his DNA in three more cities,” she says. In other words, the killers reach stretches farther than anyone suspected. “It can happen when unsubs cross jurisdictional lines,” Hotch explains.

Garcia has even more news: the killer arrives into towns when the sales of certain crops squash, apples, etc. spike. “So he’s in town for a big harvest,” Emily says. A migrant farm worker, perhaps? Bingo!

Another dead couple has been found — and the team is on the scene. “The first few murders were five to eight days apart,” Reid points out. “This one was just one day from Modesto. If we don’t find him soon …” Yeah, we get it, Reid. The team must hurry — as usual.

And they do. Derek and Rossi, investigating the scene of a previous crime, find a symbol carved in a tree outside. J.J., meanwhile, calls Hotch and the gang. Jewelry taken from the Sacramento crime scene has shown up at the pawn shop in Modesto. Better yet, security cameras have captured a blurry photo of the seller. Dark skin, about 5-foot-8, red rash around his mouth. Hotch tells J.J. to circulate the photo.

Hotch, Emily and Reid are snooping around a local apple-picking operation when Garcia calls with what she refers to as a “triple whammy.” The movement of a group of migrant workers matches that of the killings — up until a certain point. One of its members has a long criminal record. That same workers fingerprints show up in the home of one of the victims. Ladies and gentlemen, we have a suspect.

Hotch, Emily and Reid visit the group with wich the the suspect once worked. They pass out photos of the suspect. One man recognizes the killer. He speaks softly to Emily in Spanish. “It’s his brother,” Emily announces.

She questions the man, who says his brother got the group fired from a big job and has been following them ever since. The suspect has also been giving his brother money — probably from the robberies. “He has been trouble all his life,” the man says of his hermano.

Speaking of, the killer scouts another home. A woman sleeps on the couch inside. She awakens to see a news broadcast warning viewers to “lock their doors” and “keep the lights on.” She, of course, has done neither. Just then, she looks outside and sees the killer! She SCREAMS and the killer flees.

The team gets a call: the suspect has been spotted. And wouldn’t you know it? Eye witness accounts put the fleeing suspect in Derek’s search area. Bad luck for the killer, as dedicated BAU watchers well know. Gun drawn, Derek creeps around the train tracks, exploring open box cars. He spots the killer knifing a local cop and gives chase.

Before you can say “inevitable,” the chase moves to the top of a moving train. While Derek fights with the killer, Hotch pulls up alongside the tracks in an SUV. He takes aim and shoots. The killer falls from the top of the train to the tracks below … DEAD.

Back at the station, the team discusses dinner when J.J. enters with a gorgeous young woman. Agent Jordan will be filling for J.J. while she is on maternity leave. Derek has met the woman before. “Briefly,” he says. The two smile knowingly at each other.

Uh oh. Garcia ain’t gonna like this.

Young Ned plays roulette, betting with chocolates that a note in the box told him were from his dearly departed mother. He lost and never gambled again - except by opening a pie shop when love of carbohydrates was out of fashion.

Chuck invents new pies while Olive asks who the strange square-shouldered man in the booth is. Ned says the man gives him that feeling of shivering while you pee. The man is Dwight Dixon, a friend of Ned’s parents. Olive thinks the stranger is cute. Dwight is looking for Ned’s dad. Ned is not inclined to help.

Meanwhile Emerson falls into a food coma from beef balls and cuttle fish. Until he opens his fortune cookie and it says “Help Me Emerson Cod.” He goes down to the dim sum place and runs into Simone, the dog trainer he once had the hots for. They chat and he heads off to find a weeping woman. She’s La Di, married to the chef, who’s dead now. She wants to hire Emerson to find who killed Bao. One night he couldn’t sleep, complaining of “pressure.” Ironically, he was killed by an exploding pressure cooker.

They visit the morgue, where he has a pole through his head. Ned gives him a poke and Chuck questions him in the Mandarin she apparently speaks. The man with the pole through his head pops up, freaking out that someone is going to kill him. He’s not sure how or when, but it’s coming because he lost a bet.

At the restaurant, their daughter Mei thinks her dad died accidentally. She introduces Rubbie Wu, the manager of the Dim Sum and her fiance, who she doesn’t seem to thrilled about. They both deny he had a gambling problem.

Olive’s aglow because Dwight stopped by again. She tries to guilt trip Ned into helping him. Chuck also suggests he give it a try. Ned gives her his dad’s address, which he’s had since he got word at boarding school that his dad had moved on and started a new family.

An elderly Chinese man enters the Pie Hole. He heard Emerson at the restaurant and has information. That place ran an illegal gambling establishment since it opened.

Emerson says he searched the place already, but he returns with Ned and Chuck. At the sight of Simone at one of the tables, Emerson hides behind the curtain. Ned notices no one at the table is eating. Instead they are rotating covered bowls on a lazy susan and betting with soy beans -playing poker with food.

At his office, Emerson talks to Simone, who explains how the game is played. She doesn’t know anything about Bao’s death but gives him the run down on the shady players at the table (and Jim, the plumber). Simone was at a dog show the night of the murder. As she leaves she says he’s denying what’s going on between them. Emerson explains that the more he’s into someone the worse it’ll end, and by that logic, they’d end very badly. In response, she kisses him. He attempts to remake his argument, thinks better of it and then goes against that better judgment.

Meanwhile, Olive and Chuck make a surprise pie delivery to Ned’s dad. A teenage boy welcomes them in and climbs into a box, popping out in another one. But then he pops out of the first as well. Twins, Maurice and Ralston. They’re there alone, dad left a few years ago. But they have Ned’s eyebrows.

Basking in super-attentive afterglow, Emerson reviews pictures of the restaurant and notices something. He calls Ned. The busboy is wearing an expensive watch. And now he’s on the run. Emerson, Chuck and Ned follow him as Chuck tells Ned about her visit. He knew about the half-brothers, but not their names. He has no desire to know them.

Emerson finds the newly repaired bun steamer about to blow again. A pipe shoots off, nearly beheading Emerson, who shimmies out of the way with a Soul Train move, and it ends up impaling the busboy.

Ned gives him a tap and the busboy turns out to be Perry, and insurance adjuster who was undercover. He’s pleased to have been murdered, because that’s a big payout. He tells them Bao had taken out a $200,000 policy the day before he died. The beneficiary was his daughter.

When they try to talk to her, the poker goons intervene. A waiter brings Emerson another fortune cookie with a note telling him to meet across the street. He finds Mei, who asks why she’d ask him for help if she killed her dad. She says her mom doesn’t know about the gambling. Mei’s afraid of a poker goon named “Shrimp Boy.” She tells Emerson about the bet her dad made: Her dad gambled on credit and bet that if he lost his daughter would marry Shrimp Boy’s socially handicapped cousin, Rubbie. 20 minutes later, Mei was engaged.

At the Pie Hole, Emerson says they need to question Shrimp Boy, but can’t get past the body guards. Ned suggests contacting Simone and lots of middle school giggling about Emerson doing it ensues.

Chuck and Olive apologize to Ned for going behind his back to his brothers’ house. Ned says he doesn’t want to meet them because it might make his dad happy somewhere.

Emerson waits outside the Dim Sum, hiding when he sees Simone. But he gets an idea. Meet the new waitresses: the ethnically dressed Chuck and Olive. They begin with green tea and herbs that make you pee. Chuck serves the body guards, who soon get up to go. Olive locks them in the can.

Emerson and Ned come in. Emerson dressed like Linc from “The Mod Squad” and Ned like a cowboy. They chat up Shrimp Boy about the girl he won. He says Bao tried to win his daughter back but had nothing to bet with. Emerson and Ned whisper at the table with Chuck stopping by. They now think Bao must have tried to bet someone else, possibly Rubbie so he could cash in Bao’s life insurance once married to Mei.

Emerson distracts himself by accidentally winning a hand and Rubbie comes over with a gun on him.

He ties up the Pie folk and Mei as Shrimp Boy and the poker goons watch, thinking Rubbie won Mei fair and square.

The facts were these: Rubbie suggested Bao bet his life insurance policy to try to get Mei back, but he lost that too when Rubbie came up with an amazing hand.

Mei realizes her dad was trying to fix things and Ned realizes he might not know the whole story of his dad abandoning him (it’s a semi-poignant moment that comes with Ned wearing a fake mustache).

Suddenly, in walks Simone with Bubble Gum. No one locked the door. She fails to register the five people tied to chairs and instead chews out Emerson for dodging her earlier. She catches on when the poker goons pull their guns on her.

Rubbie starts to untie Mei when Bubble Gum starts begging from him. Simone guesses he has food in his pocket. Chuck confirms she saw him stuff food in there while she was waiting on him.

Shrimp Boy, able to forgive homicide, kidnapping and illegal poker, draws the line at cheating. He agrees the bet was non-binding and allows everyone to go. Rubbie goes off to jail.

Mei gets the insurance money who gives some to her mother who gives some to Emerson who goes in search of Simone. He suggests she show him her cards and he’ll show his.

Ned and Chuck visit his half-brothers house. He admits it’s harder to admit he doesn’t know why what happened with his dad happened.

The twins answer. “Hi, I’m Ned, I thought I’d stop by because basically we have the same dad.” Group hug.

From a car on the street, Dwight sits with a gun.

House and Cuddy hooked up! OK, they just kissed. But, House and Cuddy hooked up! We’ll get back to that later. But, House and Cuddy hooked up!

But we digress…:We opened on a guy having some serious issues in his kitchen, apparently pouring himself cups of coffee from a row of coffee makers on his counter, and dumping them into the sink. He is marking down results on a clipboard. His 12 year old daughter comes in and he asks her if she called a friend to spend the night (it’s her birthday). She tells him that when he has a friend over, so will she. She leaves for school and suddenly is home again, telling him that it is 4:30pm. He has lost time. Later he blinks and is sitting in the living room with her, again losing hours. His daughter was equally flabbergasted by his bizarre behavior. She finally asked him what was wrong and he said, “I don’t know.”

Cue: awesome theme music.

Cuddy was giddy about her adoption approval and handed House the case of the messed-up, coffee-drinking guy. House knew that Cuddy was meeting the mother of a baby she would be getting and Cuddy admitted the woman was delivering a baby girl in two weeks. The birth mother had confessed to “some past meth use.” House told Cuddy “you’re not equipped to handle a real kid, let alone a factory second.” Cuddy said she wasn’t going to change her mind about adopting.

The coffee guy was a consumer product tester who worked at home and the team was trying to figure out his problem.

Thirteen and Taub went to check the guy’s house and found a barren room where his young daughter lived. Taub said single people shouldn’t have kids. They found some mold in the baseboards of the apartment. It’s never mold. Back at the hospital, Thirteen did some tests on the daughter. The girl said she was four when “the accident happened” and her mother died. She said, completely stone faced, that she didn’t “get what the big deal about death is.” Thirteen and Foreman saw the patient trying to leave the hospital and they realized he was sleepwalking.

Foreman insisted sleepwalking wasn’t a diagnosis if they didn’t know why he was sleepwalking. House realized they were only going to find out what the guy was up to if they let him walk out his dreams while sleeping.

Cuddy went to meet the birth mother at a diner. She just had one question for Cuddy, which was what she was going to name the baby. Cuddy said she was thin

So there are only six episodes left in the series and I am excited to see how it ends but also upset that it is ending.  Now those of you who haven’t watched it are probably saying six episodes are alot.  They are but in this series we get a new episode every monday thru friday.  So that means the entire series will be done on friday.  It is exciting the episodes are only 2 minutes long and they have packed quite a lot into those episodes.  Also the way the series is going I think ending it on Halloween will be very fitting.  So everyone should check it out they show the episodes on the wb.com and also on myspace.  Check it out.

Tommorrow I will be discussing Gossip Girl, I now I am late to the party but I am suddenly obsessed with this show.  I love it but have only been able to watch a few of the past episodes online so I guess I am going to have to rent it.  Anyone else out there that loves the show?

Back at the office, Ecklie introduces Patricia Alwick, a grief counselor, who will be available to help them deal with Warrick’s death.

A new CSI checks in, Alwick tells her it might be hard to join a team under these circumstances. She’s Riley Adams. Grissom comes for her.

A Metro Bus drives through the night. A man lies in running shorts and shoes, frozen on a bench. No wallet, cash or keys. The body’s in full rigor. Riley tries to boss David and he looks to Gil for confirmation. Lividity tells her he was here when he died. But he’s been there less than 90 minutes and full rigor takes 12 to 14 hours to develop. She spins a complicated theory about rapid onset rigor. Gil is intrigued.

The autopsy on Carla shows nothing. No organ damage, no disease, no trauma.

In the morgue Riley meets Dr. Robbins and has fun with black light on her veneers. (The lesson: she’s a little off-kilter and glib.)

The tox screen on the second victim shows a passel o’ drugs. Robbins says the COD is cardiac arrest, same as the lady in the park. His liver is slightly pinkish and reddish, like Carla. He posits gaseous asphyxiation and Gil says he’ll have Hodges run a test.

Hodges goes to visit Alwick, but Greg is already there.

They’ve ID’d the second guy, Harley.

Gil does Hodges’ test for him…and does it wrong. Gil gets a text to another scene.

Broad daylight, a man is frozen like a wax statute on the sidewalk, hailing a cab. The businessman has an empty briefcase with no ID.

At the lab, Grissom decides they’ve got a serial killer working at a pace of one a day.

Greg finds lead in the man’s shoes, which is what must have been standing him up. Under his nice business clothes he’s dirty and scabby. Gil thinks he was homeless. He had lice, dead lice.

They all had traces of a sleeping pill in their systems.

Catherine and Riley go to Carla’s house to try to find a link between the three. Riley finds her bad stuff drawer, with condoms and weed. There’s a painting of Carla on the wall. She looks dead. It was done by a local artist named Jersey Skaggs, he paints people who look dead.

Brass visits him and shows him a picture of Carla, who used to model for him. He doesn’t recognize the men. He says he doesn’t kill his models, or even sleep with them much anymore. He also wants to paint Brass nude. (He says no, where would he pin the badge?)

Alwick chats up Grissom as he gets tea. He says he’s busy. But he does want her advice on something…he’s been having a problem with Hank….but they’re interrupted.

Hodges comes in and says the victims have carbon monoxide in their heads. Gil thinks they were given a sedative then changed and posed in a gas chamber, giving the killer 10 hours to place them around town.

Riley watches a local art blog, they’re calling the murderer the “Mannekiller.” The message board has at least one supporter of the claim it’s art.

Greg finds burlap fibers on all three victims.

Alwick stops by to ask Grissom why he holds her profession in such disdain. She knows Hank is a dog. He apologizes. Hank’s been listless, he wonders if pets can take on the emotions of their owners. Grissom says he’s been distracted lately, having a hard time focusing on the details. He wants to know how long this typically lasts. She tells him there’s no time table, but he needs to talk about it with someone.

Brass has Harley’s juvy record: he was arrested at a party a Skaggs’ place. Skaggs says the party was five years ago, he can’t remember him. He’s fascinated by the crime scene photos, death mocking life. The poses look familiar. Someone showed him the sketches months ago.

Skaggs doesn’t know who he was, but he was entering a municipal statue competition. The guy was a contractor working on his studio.

The parks department sends over the entries. One of them, from Arthur Blisterman, matches how the bodies were found, but there are six statues and they’ve only found five victims so far (Nick mentioned the others briefly). The final one is a boy on a bike.

They stake out Blisterman’s house, but he’s not home. Riley thinks one of the blog posters might be their guy. On the site there’s a photo of the first victim, but before the crime scene tape was up. The anonymous poster is the murderer.

They bring in the site host and have him post to get Anonymous to respond. Meanwhile, a woman comes in crying that her nine-year-old boy is missing. They locate the IP address Anonymous is using, it’s a public library.

The cops go there and pick him up. There are burlap fibers on his laptop.

Greg wonders if they come from whatever space he’s using. They look at city plans for the area around the library.

He says he’ll only talk to someone to understands his art. Grissom sits down with him but Blisterman doesn’t want to be rushed into talking about the boy.

Riley and Greg search the locations on the map as Gil listens to the crazy guy talk about art making like beautiful. He says they were nothing until he made them extraordinary. He whines about his art being ignored. Gil tries to focus him by telling him he’ll be put to death if he doesn’t help them. He’s not scared of dying, he just doesn’t want to be forgotten.

Catherine finds a warehouse that used to be used for natural fiber bags and shipping materials.

Gil promises Blisterman that no one will ever forget him. But Blisterman says without the boy the piece is incomplete.

Cops swarm the warehouse.

Gil reads the address from a text. Blisterman says they’re too late to save him. Gil turns off the camera.

In the warehouse they find Blisterman’s sketches and the boy on a bike in a chamber, posed with a dozen ropes. They cut him down and Riley performs CPR. For a while, he remains as frozen as the previous victims. But then, after a few tense moments, he breathes.

A truck driver, Bobby Jones, jams to AC/DC on the radio. It is a rainy night and as the hauler rounds a corner, the man’s jaw drops. A car sits in the middle of the road! He steps hard on the breaks and the truck jackknifes … but it’s too little, too late.

BAM! The cab SLAMS into the car, crushing it like a child’s toy. Jones leaps out of the cab and examines the wreck. Inside the car, a couple stares back. Dead.

Back at the office, the crew is about to call it a night when Jennifer enters with bad news. “There has been a series of suspicious car accidents that could be connected,” she explains. In short, autopsies confirm that the bodies in the cars were dead BEFORE the cars were struck. The cause of death to the most recent victims: Blunt force head trauma.

No accident, indeed.

Cut to a happy, middle-aged couple driving at night. Bleary-eyed, they stop for the evening at a ranch-style motel. Their car is the only one in the parking lot. And yet, as the happy couple walks toward their rented cabin, the “no vacancy” sign blinks to life.

Uh oh.

The team makes its way to an area outside Reno where the three accidents have occurred. Jennifer says the press is still reporting the incidents as simple car wrecks. Hotch stresses the importance of keeping up that charade, lest the killer change his methods. “If the unsub finds out were here, all bets are off,” he says.

Some time later, the team arrives at the local sheriff’s office and sets up shop. Spencer marks the murder sites on a map. Jennifer explains that three couples were staying in the area without reservations. “The common theme here is no paper trail,” Spencer observes.

Hotch, meanwhile, interviews the father of the victim. Jack Laufer explains that his son-in-law was into camping but has no idea where the man usually pitched his tent. He does provide one clue, however. “My baby had a sweet tooth and John would always bring her back these donuts,” Mr. Laufer says.

Cut to a plate of donuts inside Flo’s, a local diner popular with residents and travelers alike. Derek and Emily enter and flash their badges. They show the waitress photos of the victims. She recognizes both. The pair had eaten breakfast at the counter two mornings in a row. “Nice couple,” the woman says.

The team rushes back to the office to call Garcia. The bubbly researcher promises to send a list of phone numbers and addresses to more than 300 hotels and motels around Flo’s diner.

Speaking of victims, the happy middle-aged couple from earlier awakens to find breakfast waiting for them … and the wife’s underwear missing. The problem: neither ordered the breakfast, despite the meal being exactly what the two had discussed earlier while cuddling in bed. Understanding dawns on the husband. Someone has been watching and listening.

“It’s time to go,” the husband says.

But it’s too late. The door is locked from the outside. Boards slam down over the windows. The room goes dark. The couple is trapped!

The next morning, Jennifer arrives at the office with news. Ian and Abby Corbin — our happy middle-aged couple — have been reported missing. Hotch notes that the couple has been missing for more than 24 hours. The other victims had been missing for 48 before they turned up dead. “We may only until tonight to find them,” Hotch says.

The couple didn’t use a credit card and weren”t traveling on the interstate. “Sounds like were looking for somebody who works the night shirt at a back road motel,” Sheriff Bruner says. Hotch suggests concentrating on the most remote hotels — places where the murderer would have plenty of time and privacy.

Back at the (Bates) motel, the couple is cracking under the pressure. The killer bangs on the window and sets off loud alarms. Abby shrieks when she finds a bloody tooth in the sink. An unidentified pair of eyes watches from behind a grate in the wall.

Hotch pulls up into a small, familiar looking motel. The manager behind the desk is a nice enough chap … until Hotch leaves. Then the young man locks the door and stares menacingly at the departing FBI agent. He tersely dismisses another couple looking to rent a room, claiming the motel is full.

We have our man. But will the team figure it out in time?

They’re sure working on it. Garcia sends news of a convicted and jailed rapist who was arrested for assaulting five women. But something about the case is odd: four of the victims were not tortured or killed. The final woman was. “The last victim wasn’t his,” Hotch says. “It was our unsub’s.”

The Corbins, meanwhile, are trying desperately to escape. Ian goes into the bathroom and the door slams shut behind him. Abby hears struggling behind the door. Suddenly, it opens to reveal the young motel manager/ maniac. He stands over the terrified woman, holding a baseball bat.

Sheriff Bruner brings in a box of suspects from the previous rape case. The team begins flipping through the manila folders, looking for someone with a history violent enough to match that of the unsub. Hotch finds such a match: Floyd Hansen — the same man he had visited earlier. “Let’s go,” Hotch says. “I know where were going!”

Abby, bleeding, is tied to the bed. Ian, bleeding worse, is strapped to a chair with duct tape. “Abby, I love you,” Ian says. “I’m going to get us out of here. Do you hear me?” But Abby has passed out.

Hotch beats himself up as the team speeds toward the hotel. “Hotch, we talked to so many people it could have been any of us,” Rossi says. Garcia calls: Hansen was an abused child, whose mother died and whose father remarried a prostitute. The cell-phone connection suddenly dies. The team is too far out in the country.

The team arrives at the motel and splits up to check rooms. One after another, they break down doors. Rossi finds a bag of women’s underwear, noting that the killer has probably been at this longer than even they had suspected. Suddenly, Hotch hears noises from a certain room — and with good reason.

Inside, Ian has managed to stand up in his chair and charge Hansen, knocking him against a wall. Hansen recovers and beats the man mercilessly with a bat.

Derek and Hotch break down the door and burst into the room. Hansen flees out of the back door and into the woods. Our heroes give chase. Now it’s a foot race — plain and simple. Hansen runs blindly out into the middle of the road … and into the onrushing headlights of a truck!

Oh the irony!

The truck SLAMS into Hansen, killing him instantly.

Later, Hotch is still berating his own judgment. “It happens to the best of us,” Rossi says. “Welcome to the club.”

We opened on Thirteen having a hot make out session with another girl in her apartment — and it isn’t even sweeps week!

Soon enough, the nameless girl had a seizure after they’d had sex, which was undoubtedly going to leave Thirteen with some explaining to do once House got hold of this story. Thirteen, it turned out, didn’t know the girl’s name and the patient had mixed ecstasy with alcohol. House and Foreman asked Thirteen if she’d also been doing drug and she said, “Not diagnostically relevant.” Thirteen, Kutner and Taub all thought the problem was easily explained by blood clots, but House wanted more tests.

House sat in as Thirteen injected her friend with a massive needle to get some bone marrow. He asked several probing questions about the patient’s evening with Thirteen that made Thirteen uncomfortable.

House had his private investigator — remember that guy? — look into where Wilson was earlier that morning because he was afraid Wilson was lying to him about where he’d been. Wilson’s back at the hospital, by the way.

Thirteen, also known as Dr. Hadley, discovered that her patient/lover had used her to get House to figure out her undiscovered illness. Thirteen wondered if the woman had faked the seizure, but she said she wouldn’t have faked a symptom because that would have only made it harder for House to do his job. Thirteen still didn’t believe there was anything seriously wrong with the woman and wanted to discharge her. Thirteen said House was using the patient to get information on her personal life. Then the patient crashed.

House rubbed Thirteen’s nose in the fact that she was wrong about the patient, then he suggested that she was just jealous of him because the whole time the patient was with her, she was really thinking about his “huge, throbbing … diagnostic skills.”

House figured out that the patient was a serious drug user, which upset Thirteen. She was mad because she knew that meant that the woman’s seizure was set off by something she’d done at Thirteen’s house, which meant House was going to go through her house. Thirteen refused to give him her keys, though, so he had Foreman come along to pick the lock. But he couldn’t, which prompted House to tell him, “You’re a disgrace to your stereotype.” House opened the door with a key he’d had his private investigator make.

House found a brown recluse spider in Thirteen’s apartment, which could have caused the seizure and heart problems if the patient had been bitten. He had Thirteen examine her for a spider bite. Thirteen told the woman she didn’t intend to see her again, but the woman suggested they had potential for a relationship. Then Thirteen realized the woman’s hip was numb, which meant it wasn’t a spider bite.

House staked out Wilson’s place with the private investigator and saw that Wilson appeared to have hired a prostitute.

Foreman, who knew that Thirteen was afraid of what House might have found at her place, told Thirteen he’d found it. It was the result of a recent test that showed her Huntington’s Disease was more advanced than she’d thought, which meant she had less time. Foreman told her to do things to make her better, but Thirteen decided that doing drugs and having sex with strangers was her way of having fun, “cramming as much life into my life as I can.”

After the patient stopped breathing during surgery, House and the crew went over more possibilities, but Thirteen was missing. We saw her in an exam room, having hooked herself up to an IV. She answered a knock on the door by saying there was an exam going on, but the door opened anyway. It was Cuddy, and she didn’t look happy.

Cuddy told House about Thirteen hooking herself up to an IV for fluids and Cuddy wanted Thirteen to take a drug test. House defended Thirteen and said she didn’t have to take the drug test. Then he fired her. She was shocked, but he told her he just wanted to save her from taking a drug test, which probably saved her career. He said he was “already taking responsibility for one doctor with a drug habit,” as he popped a couple of Vicodin.

Wilson admitted to House that he started dating a woman who “used to be” a prostitute. She wanted to become a lawyer and he told her he’d help her pay for law school.

Thirteen was going through the patient’s X-rays in hopes of coming up with something that could save her job. She realized that the woman had a cyst that threatened to explode her lung if the doctors continued with a treadmill test they were doing. She raced to where Kutner and Taub were doing the test, where she found them trying to figure out why the patient couldn’t breathe. She explained that the patient’s lung had collapsed and she jammed a syringe into the woman’s chest, allowing her to breathe again.

House told Thirteen “my employees can take it from here.” Foreman and Taub tried to talk him into giving her job back, but he’d have none of it. He asked Thirteen how much clearer he had to make himself. She walked out.

House and the PI talked about the Wilson issue, and House said Wilson had a Messiah complex and wants to save women.

House told Thirteen that her recent exploits were about control rather than just having flings. Then he told her that the patient has Lam, a disease that gives her cysts that will continue to come back even after removal and will eventually make her lungs stop working. She had 10 years to live, and House wanted Thirteen to give her the news, even though it didn’t mean she’d get her job back. She said she’d do it because she knew what it was like to get that news, and, she told him, “no one should have to get it from you.” She broke the news to the patient, and said, “I’m so sorry.”

Thirteen told the patient about all the stages of grief she’d go through after getting her terminal diagnosis. They decided they’d race to the finish. Thirteen said she’d come back later, but noticed blood out of the bandages around the patient’s chest, which was a new symptom that took Lam off the table. Thirteen told the doctors this, leading House to wonder if “fired” has a whole other definition that he’s not aware of. Thirteen said he didn’t have to pay her, but she wanted to finish the case. She went to help do more tests, but House told her, “you’re just a visitor.”

Foreman asked Chase if he thought Foreman was boring, because House had his private investigator look into Foreman and found that he hadn’t done anything interesting since he was 17. Chase confirmed that, indeed, Foreman is boring.

House told Thirteen that the patient needed a bone marrow transplant and asked Thirteen to get the woman’s consent.

The private investigator handed House a bag of Wilson’s trash, which included some used syringes. “He’s using,” the PI said. House smiled, walked into Wilson’s office and praised him for his craftiness. The syringes, the prostitute, all of it was made up because Wilson knew that House was having him followed. House still wanted to know where Wilson was that morning, and Wilson, knowing that House would just keep having him followed, told House to be outside his house at 8 o’clock that night.

Thirteen told House that the patient said yes to the transplant. House told Thirteen that she was in a downward spiral and that she was going to push people away until she died. But until then, he could use her because she did good work. She realized he was trying to save her, making her spend time with the woman to forge a connection.

House noticed Thirteen’s lips were cracked and deduced that the patient was suffering from Sjögren’s syndrome, an auto-immune disease which caused her tears and saliva production to dry up and made her mouth vulnerable to a yeast infection, which she had passed to Thirteen. Sjögren’s explained the patient’s other symptoms, including the lung cysts, and Thirteen’s dry lips. It also meant that the patient was no longer going to die, and House prescribed treatment for the disease. Thirteen later admitted to Foreman that now she suddenly felt alone.

House followed Wilson that night — to a baby store where Cuddy was shopping for a crib. She told him that she was adopting a baby and had used Wilson as a character reference, and that’s where Wilson was that morning. House looked stunned by the news and when Cuddy asked if he was going to congratulate her, he said, “If you’re happy, I’m…” Then he walked out.

Back at her house, Thirteen was hooking up with another strange girl.

Here is a new show that I am loving

Chuck

FLASHBACK! Sarah, wearing braces and looking very much like a teen of the 1990s, arrives home to find cops in the driveway. From the maudlin music playing on the soundtrack, we know something has gone horribly wrong!

Teenage Sarah rushes to a wooded area and begins digging next to a certain tree. She soon uncovers a box filled with cash. A note attached reads: “In case of emergency. Daddy.”

BURBANK, CALIFORNIA. 2008. Sarah, braces gone and looking very much like a woman of the new millennium, pretends to be Chuck’s girlfriend inside the Buy More when her face goes pale. Standing just a few feet away is mysterious young woman who looks a bit like she might have once been BFFs with Paris Hilton.

The two women — approximately the same age — stare daggers at one another.

Sarah grabs Chucks arm and begins walking him quickly toward Casey. The two exchange a few lines of cryptic spy speak before Sarah squirrels the oblivious Chuck to a back room, where he is told to stay put. The room is filled with sleek, high-tech computers a fact that quickly awakens Chucks geek love. “She’s so beautiful!” he coos.

Meanwhile, Sarah confronts the mysterious woman at the yogurt shop. “I know exactly who you are,” the woman says. “We went to high school together! Jenny! That’s it! Jenny Burton!”

Turns out the womans name is Heather and, back in the day, she wasn’t too kind to brace-face Sarah/ Jenny. A man named Mark enters, who also apparently went to high school with Sarah/ Jenny. Chuck, anxious to know more about the origins of his not-so-secret love, ignores Sarah’s command to stay put and enters the shop. He repeatedly refers to Sarah as “Jenny” — much to her chagrin.

He then shakes hands with Mark and immediately has an Intersect moment! Mark might be mixed up in something pretty awful. But what?

Cue catchy opening credits!

Back from a short commercial break, Big Mike announces that he is taking a few days off — meaning Lester will be in charge. “When you look at him, I want you to see Big Mike and not some scrawny ass Indian kid with a Bay City Rollers hairdo,” the boss man says before leaving.

Back at headquarters, Sarah is angry with Chuck for deliberately poking around her past. But the General considers Sarah’s association with Matt — a traitor who developed plans for a super-bomber jet and then sold them to the highest bidder, according to Casey — a perfect cover. Chuck and Sarah will have dinner with Heather and Matt in an effort to learn more about the latter’s involvement with secret bomber plans. Sarah (Jenny) is less than pleased — but Chuck is lovin’ it.

Meanwhile, Lester has instructed the staff to make the customers happy by providing whatever discount they desire. “Lester’s new sales policy,” Morgan explains to Chuck, who watches more than one happy customer exiting the store with loads of stuff. “We’re giving away the merchandise.”

Later that night, Chuck and Sarah/ Jenny eat dinner with Heather and Mark. Heather is short with Mark — and downright bitchy to Sarah. What’s her deal? Mark, sweating profusely, excuses himself to the restroom where a big man with a gun emerges. “Your time is up,” he says with a thick Russian accent. “Give us plans now!”

Chuck, quite by accident (Sarah spilled wine on his crotch), enters the bathroom and finds himself on the wrong end of a gun barrel. Just when you think it’s the end of the Chuckster, Casey enters and roughs the Russian up while Mark hides in the bathroom stall. When Mark finally emerges, he is convinced that Chuck is some sort of killing machine. Naturally, Chuck introduces himself as Special Agent Charles Carmichael.

A few words from our sponsors later, Casey interrogates Mark, who prefers to “deal only with Special Agent Carmichael.” Mark reveals that he was to meet the buyer of the plans tonight, but that it might be a problem because he is also supposed to take his wife to their high-school reunion. Casey proposes they meet the buyer at the reunion. “No one’s gonna mess you, man,” says Chuck/ Agent Carmichael. “I got your back.”

Chuck then stops by the Buy More to discover that Lester’s friendly negotiating ploy has the store down $3,700. He jokingly suggests throwing a keg party and charging mall employees and customer to attend. Much to his horror, Lester decides it’s a great idea. “Glad I’ll be 100 miles away,” Chuck quips.

Later that night, Chuck and Sarah/ Jenny enter the Cougars reunion to the soothing sounds of the Backstreet Boys. Heather and her minions whisper and giggle. The pair is suddenly accosted by Dick, a high-school jock who mercilessly hits on Jenny/ Sarah. Chuck, meanwhile, has another Intersect moment! Dick, he says, has connections to the Russian mob. Sarah’s former tormenter might be the drop man!

Mark makes plans with Dick for the drop while Sarah clues in the deejay (Casey). Then, the nerd-turned-gorgeous-superspy heads outside to confront Dick, who mentions that Sarah’s dad spent a long time in prison. Sarah kicks the man in the face, knocking him out cold. “I’m sorry,” Sarah tells Casey. “Just working out some childhood issues.” Not that it matters. Dick’s trunk is full of bootleg DVDs and other stolen merchandise. He’s small time — and not the drop man. So who is?

Cut to Heather, who walks up to the Russians (posing as alumni — and none too convincingly at that) and points out Mark and Chuck. “Kill them both,” she hisses.

After a short commercial break, we return to the Buy More where the party is raging — and leaning periously toward “out of control.” Lester takes the microphone and attempts to kick everyone out — but they don’t listen to him. The party continues.

Chuck, in the meantime, has spotted the Russians and had another Intersect moment. Improvising, he rushes to the deejay booth and takes the microphone. He shines the spotlight on the Russians, letting Sarah and Casey know who to target. Sarah then notices Heather ducking out of the gymnasium. “She has a part in this,” Sarah says of her old nemesis.

“You go,” Casey says while eyeing the Russians. “I got these two.”

Sarah slides off her heals and enters the girls locker room. “Why’d you do it, Heather?” Heather explains that she married a geek for his knowledge, but betrayed him when someone with deeper pockets offered to buy that geek’s creation. “My husband wasn’t ambitious enough and these Russians offered me a lot of money,” she says.

And then … CATFIGHT! Punches! High leg kicks! Bloody lips! The fight moves into the shower! The showers are accidently turned on! Now its a WET CATFIGHT! More punches! More high leg kicks! More water!

Casey, meanwhile, has taken care of the Russian thugs while Mark hides in a locker. Once again, Mark believes Chuck has saved his life. “I knew you wouldn’t let me down, Agent Carmichael,” Mark says. Casey rolls his eyes.

But back to the CATFIGHT! Bruised and battered, Heather now taunts her old high-school nemesis, calling Jenny/ Sarah a “jailbird’s daughter.” “Guess you didn’t follow in daddy’s footsteps, after all,” Heather sneers. Sarah has had enough. She kicks Heather into a trophy case, knocking her out cold. “Go Cougars,” Jenny growls.

Meanwhile, “Jenny Burton” has been named queen of the reunion! Chuck and Casey are shocked. Just then, Jenny/ Sarah enters the gym. Bruised and soaking wet, she allows herself to be crowned. The crowd applauds. Chuck smiles like a proud not-quite boyfriend.

One final commercial break later, the party at the Buy More is over. The store is a complete wreck. “Don’t worry,” Morgan says. “We’ll fix this.” MONTAGE! The employees clean up the store throughout the night and into the following day. As Big Mike gets out of his car, Lester thanks the staff for all their hard work. “Guys, what we have accomplished here is incredible,” Lester says. It’s a rare heartfelt moment.

Big Mike enters and congratulates Lester on running such a tight ship. But the assistant store manager has decided to call it quits. “The pressure of management is too much,” Lester says. “I would really appreciate if I could just resume my former position.” Big Mike is not pleased.

Chuck and Jenny, in the meantime, share a cheeseburger. Chuck wonders aloud what made Jenny into Sarah. As if on cue, we get a FLASHBACK!

Sarah looks at the wads of cash left behind by her father when Director Graham suddenly emerges from the tree line. “I’m the man that put your father in prison,” he says. “The question is: Who are you? In San Diego you go by Jenny Burton. In Wisconsin, its Katie OConnell. In Cleveland, its Rebecca Franco …”

Graham then explains that dad’s scams put him in a great deal of danger. He put pops in jail to save his life. Graham then offers to save Jenny’s life. “You like names so much,” Graham says. “What do you think about Sarah Walker?” And an origin story ends.

Back in the present, Chuck declines to ask Sarah about her past. “I know who you are,” he says. “You’re a girl I want to share a cheeseburger with.” Chuck then gets up to look for a knife to cut the burger with, but Sarah stops him. She pulls a knife out of her leg holster, which Chuck simultaneously finds awesome and disturbing.

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“CSI” - “The Happy Place” - Oct. 16, 2008

As Coldplay plays in the background we intercut between two scenes: It is evening and a pretty young blonde cooks in her apartment and an old white lady stares down a young black man on the bus. He is sitting, she is standing. As the blonde gets a call the young black man finally gives up his seat on the bus to the elderly woman. Then we see the blonde strip down to a bikini and head for her balcony. From inside the bus we see the young man glad of his decision until there is a loud crash on the bus. The CSI team shows up and we see the young woman splayed on top of the bus. Someone wonders about the bikini and Catherine quips “maybe she wanted to leave a good looking corpse.” The non-star CSIs tell Catherine and Nick to step back and then flop the soupy corpse into a bag as Eads quips “shouldve taken the elevator.”

Who are you?

A phone rings in a bedroom and we pull back to see Grissom and Sara lying in bed, fully clothed. She wants to go away, he says he can’t, too shorthanded. He wants her to stay. She says she can’t stay here. She muses it would be nice to go to Galapagos. They are melancholy.

Back on top of the bus Nick and Catherine quip and we learn that the girl’s name was Sprig and she lived with her boyfriend. We pan up to her balcony and watch as Nick and Catherine enter. Catherine notices something smells good and heads off to the kitchen. Nick goes out to the balcony where a beach towel sits on a bench and visualizes Sprig taking her leap. Catherine finds some kind of casserole in the oven and notes that a timer sits on 32 minutes. She finds a cookbook open to pot roast that was set to cook for ten hours and notices a “Save the Date” card for her wedding to fiancé Brett. Apparently this was going to be a dinner with the in-laws. Suicide isn’t making sense to them. Nick notices that her cell phone got a call just before midnight. Catherine goes to make a call of her own and when going through her contacts mutters “oh God” as she comes across the entry for Warrick. They run the number.

Over at another crime scene in an anonymous alley, Detective Williams asks Grissom what took the lab so long to arrive and Grissom gruffs “were a little shorthanded.” Chagrined and remembering about Brown, the detective apologizes. A woman was ostensibly mugged and killed via blunt force trauma. Grissom visualizes her head being banged against the concrete where he has found a pool of blood. Al finds a Tangiers room key in her back pocket. Grissom takes pictures. They flip her over and find that her eyeballs have been pushed back in her head. Grissom opines that it was pure rage.

Greg is at the ICU of a hospital. He meets a cop who offers condolences for Brown and tells him his victim is a black female who’s been comatose for 8 years as the result of a rape-assault. We go grainy flashback style to the woman being attacked. The cop and Sidle worked the case. We see inside the hospital room as the cop explains the husband pulled the plug on his wife. He offers to have the uniforms drag the guy out but Greg tells him to hold off he’s going to make a call.

Back at the lab Grissom shines lights on and takes samples from the alley victim.

Back at the home of swan-diving Sprig Catherine finds little notes from Sprig to herself about controlling her weight taped to the back of postcards. (Presumably her honeymoon locale.) Nick discovers she’d just lost her job at the bank. They get a call telling them that the last call came from a pay phone across the street. Nick goes to print the phone while Catherine talks to Sprig’s fiancé Brett. As Catherine prints him he explains he was on a business trip in Phoenix, Sprig wasn’t depressed but she’d become obsessive about her weight in advance of the wedding and was worried about the cost of the wedding and the fact that she’d been fired from the bank. After five years of loyal service she was canned when 10k was missing from her drawer. The fiancé swears there’s no way she did it.

Back at the hospital Sara shows up outside the rape victim’s room. She goes to talk to the husband who she knows from the original case. He explains that the gang member who put her in the hospital had started harassing him. The husband claims he found a newspaper clipping from the original crime with a note scrawled across it from the perp saying he’d been back to violate her again and she enjoyed it even more the second time. The husband says disconnecting her breathing tube was the only way he knew how to save her. When asked for the note he says he burned it. Sara takes his hand and says that although she’s no longer a CSI she will go with him to the police station for support.

Nick shows Catherine bank video footage of Sprig doing what looks like making change. It turns out that a man came in with two 50s and walked out with 100 100s. When questioned Sprig couldn’t remember the customer so the bank figured she was in on the scam. Nick has found footage of the same scam at another bank. When Catherine questions that teller she can’t remember him either. Catherine asks if she’s done anything to lose weight lately and the teller says no but she did quit smoking with the help of a hypnotherapist and gives Catherine her card: Viviana Conway aka Madame Marvelous. Catherine goes back to Sprig’s box of home evidence and finds the same card in her belongings.

Cut to Madame Marvelous’ (Glenne Headley) stage show where people are onstage clucking like chickens. Nick and Catherine watch as she controls them. The seats are only about half full. They visit her backstage and she explains that the show is shtick to pay the bills but her private clients, like Sprig are who she really cares about. As she takes off her wig she explains that all hypnosis is self-hypnosis and that she had Sprig visualize going to Hawaii, taking off her towel and running and jumping into the water in her teeny bikini. (Putting the pieces together now: towel on balcony, bank robbery, a hypnotist with a half full show in need of cash and not wanting a client to suddenly remember her hypnotist and squeal?)

She talks about altered states and when Nick jovially asks if she could make someone rob a bank she laughs and says hypnosis isn’t magic and that she can’t make people do things they wouldn’t otherwise do unless it was already in their nature.

At the police station Williams’ learns the alley victim was a Paula Bonfilio who had gotten in trouble gambling and the room key belonged to a pit boss who was “helping” her get out of her debt. He and Grissom go and talk to her son Scott who says he just spoke to his mother the night before and that she was with his baby sister Lexie. Cut to a news report in the lab about an amber alert being issued for 2-year-old Lexie. Scott is impressed with the speed. He has brought a pacifier for DNA matching and explains that his mom was a desperate gambler who often stole his paycheck and gambled away his college funds. He stopped asking where she was going but does note that it was odd for her to be out for the night with Lexie.

Grissom goes to another lab where he’s shown Paula’s movements through various casino camera footage. (She put Lexie in casino day care, which Grissom calls a sign of the apocalypse). She gambles, she heads off with a guy, she gambles again, a different older guy pulls her away from the table and she throws a 500 dollar chip in her bag. (Apparently the higher denomination chips sometimes have radio transmitters in them and Grissom will alert the casino). She and the older guy picked up the baby. They went to a pawn shop. She was declined at her ATM. She called her son at 10 and that’s where the trail ends.

At the police station the euthanizing husband is being led away. Sara pleads to the other cop on his behalf, but euthanization is felony murder. Sara walks away in disgust saying “this is why I can’t do this anymore.”

In Grissom’s office he tries to get Sara to see that with a lack of evidence that the husband could’ve made up the story to justify his actions. She vehemently disagrees. But Grissom counters the husband knew after 8 years that she wasn’t coming back and a relationship in stasis withers away. Sara says he should’ve just walked away then. Grissom says maybe he couldn’t maybe he needed her to leave him. Sara asks who they’re talking about right now.

A hypnotist works his magic on the other bank teller in front of Nick and Catherine. He discovers that whoever hypnotized her put in a block on remembering the bank robber and also put in a post-hypnotic suggestion to help rob the bank in an earlier session. Catherine has the lab run a facial match on Madame M and the “male” bank robber and they get a match.

Greg is telling Sara he has figured out that Thorpe the rapist was harassing the husband of the woman he raped because of a change in the laws. The upshot is the husband’s euthanization of his wife absolves the rapist of a murder charge.

Det. Williams has found Paula Bonfilio’s car. A hooker explains it was given to her by a dude who only asked that she drop off Lexie, which she did at the Palermo day care. They retrieve Lexie and hand her off to Scott.

Catherine and Nick go to pick up Madame Marvelous and she monologues about why she did it: because she could. Nick and Catherine put the pieces together and we see Sprig receive the call saying “it’s time for your honeymoon” from Madame M and going into an altered state and taking her swan dive. Madame M says they might have her for bank robbery but it’s like she told them, she can’t make people do anything they don’t want to do. Catherine points out that she can: she can make them sit in jail.

Sara meets up with the rapist. He’s now in a wheelchair. And has been since last Christmas so he probably didn’t come to his victim’s room and violate her again.

Williams interrogates a man whose prints were all over Paula’s car. His hands are torn up. He admits to unburdening Paula of her car and her baby and of roughing her up but when he left her in the alley she was alive. She owed him 12k. He swears he was going to give the car and baby back but then saw the amber alert and ditched them. He reiterates that he did not kill her.

Sara goes to see the husband and asks why he lied to her. He says that after awhile he realized he was the only one suffering but he couldn’t move on and leave her there like that. She says he should’ve asked the doctors for help.

The CSI’s get word that someone tried to cash the chip in Paula’s purse. Johnson looks at the casino footage and it was her son Scott. They arrest him as child protective services takes a crying Lexie away. Grissom and Williams search the house and find Paula’s purse strap with blood on it. We flash to Paula calling her son for help, him arriving and freaking on her for letting the man take the baby. In the Bonfilio house Grissom finds odd pictures of Scott taking photos of a scantily clad Paula. Grissom thinks Scott had an Oedipus complex. They then discover that they are not mother and son, no common DNA. Turns out that Lexie is their child. Turns out Scott was Paula’s student in an Ohio high school and she Mary Kay Letourneau-ed him and they ran away to Vegas. His fingerprints are in the missing children’s database. In an interrogation room Scott says Paula didn’t kidnap him but he was her hostage and that he didn’t try to get away because his parents were worse than her and he knew they wouldn’t let him keep Lexie. But then it all went to hell when he got too old for her. When the naughty faded away she started seeking risk wherever she could. The last straw was when she gave away Lexie. We flash to the scene and Scott bashing her head into the concrete and pushing in her eyes. He says he loved Lexie enough to kill for her and even if the baby can’t be with him, she’s better off without Paula in her life. He breaks down saying she promised him everything and then took it all away.

We cut to Sara closing up her luggage and walking away