The driver, Wes (Jesse Mccartney) tells Nick, "they're bleeding, they're dying." So he recalled that as an immediate event but nothing else. Hey look a cast member didn't get to say the last lines before the opening credits. Nick asks the nurse for his clothes and Doctor Stewart (Michael Bryar French) and nurse call him "crime lab." DB (Ted Danson) arrives with a shirt for Nick since he's all bloodied and tells him he did a great job. The nurse, Lauren (Nazanin Boniadi) brings him the Vic's clothes and the bullet recovered from Wes's abdomen. She comments on how Nick's done this before and Nick replies, "more times than any person should have to." Hey she's a nurse, sure she's in the same position too, so what a comment for her to make. Also whenever our Nicky is around a woman they always have him acting a little weird in the sense of maybe this'll be the one for him and sometimes some flirting is thrown in.
Morgan finds the car belongs to Elena. There's no GS or high velocity blood spatter anywhere and Sara (Jorga Fox) concludes he wasn't shot in the car. Vartann (Alex Carter) discovers Elena is missing. Wes has no memory of who shot him but has bruising on his hands. His parents say he has friends and he lives at home. His father, Jonah (Philip Casnoff) doesn't recognize Elena and comes up with a comment that Wes wouldn't hang out with someone like her.
Henry (Jon Wellner) cuts out pieces from the shirt to analyze for DNA and finds there were three other Vics involved, including Elena. One was a match to her brother Juan. DB knows someone who can help, a blood whisperer, "sometimes blood is all you need."
He goes to recruit Finn (Elisabeth Shue) at a forensics seminar and calls her "Jules" which she hates and not in front of other people either. DB: "of all the mock crime scenes in all the world..." Paraphrasing Casablanca. She knows how it ended last time, which isn't a comment to a romantic past since DB loves his wife and wouldn't do anything like that, so it has to be about a past case since at the end he says she's been out of the game for a while now. DB purposely leaves behind an envelope for her. He also says that playing the Vic means she misses him or not. When she had that wig on and was playing the Vic that hair resembled Catherine, don't know if that was just an oversight or if it was meant to have been staged that way.
Wes will only talk to Nick, as any Vic would and he recalls a man in a room with a gun and he tried to fight him. Flashes to a bloody man and woman. The way their heads twisted round was just like the heads twisting from the Master when he all the people on Earth changed into him in Doctor Who. David Tennent's final episode. Wes also remembers another woman and Nick gives him the pendant he carried in his pocket. Her name is Vicky (Sarah Dumont). Greg analyzes the bullet and matches it to a liquor store robbery. It has Wes's DNA and an unknown female donor. Sara calls it a through and through as the bullet went through her.
Finn turns up and lays down some ground rules: 1. call her Finn. 2. they're never going to talk about the past. Hey this is CSI the past is always mentioned here. 3. Needs a safe word for when DB gets all Zen-talking. This being 'stop.' He gives her $1 consultation fee. She asks for the best DNA mind around which is Greg of course. She tells Greg that blood spatter can also help reconstruct blood events, which is what she does. There was a struggle with a man, leading to blunt force trauma. Elena was also fighting with Wes and Juan fired though Vicky. They assume Wes is innocent in all of this just cos he appears to be a Vic and never for a second think he could be the perp. Also since he was probably left for dead. Well that part was right.
Vartann ran a web search on Vicky and found photos of Jonah with Vicky, his former PA. So they were probably having an affair. She then chased Wes as his mother, Leslie (Mary Page Keller) thinks and Sara asks her if she thinks someone else could be signing her cheques, such as her husband. Jonah tells DB that Wes was driving the Bentley as it's at the scrapyard, when DB tells him it crashed through Vicky's wall. Greg shows Hodges (Wallace Langham) some coats and he thinks they're new lab coats. They're work smocks from Elena's car and Vicky's apartment. Hodges: "Laverne and Shirley go femme fatale." He analyzes for trace. Morgan finds the phone records of Elena, Juan and Wes and pinpoints a business park. Here they find Vicky and Elena's DBs. Elena's face is beaten up and Vartann comments that he knows someone who can help, i.e Juan.
David (David Berman) finds TOD was 18-24 hours ago and Doc Robbins (Robert David Hall) says same as Vicky. Nick says she bled out but Elena wasn't so lucky as David discovers every bone in her face was crushed. Nick finds the weapon and says, "what happens in Las Vegas kind of stayed on Las Vegas" and Sara raises him as if a bet. Wouldn't expect those sorts of lines from them. Sara notices the print is from a workboot and they follow it out to find tyre treads, as well as red paint transfer and crusty white substance. Hodges finds it's sodium bicarbonate and the paint was royal crimson red from a 1950's Austin Healy. Soda blasting is used in auto shops before a car gets a paint job.
Juan makes a run for it as expected and Vartann gets a chase scene as Juan runs into the police car. Morgan comments maybe he can fix the dent before they take him in. Finn reconstructs the CS and finds Wes had the gun. Juan fought him and Vicky and Elena tried to intervene. Juan fired though Vicky and hit Wes and then shot him and ran. Elena had 10-12 blows to the head and there's a knee impression in Elena's blood from Juan. Juan wasn't the trigger. Juan was in trouble all his life and the one time Elena needed him he couldn't help her. It was obvious Wes did it. DB tells Juan he's got a smart friend who is his friend too. referring to Finn.
Nick tells Wes he hurt them all. Wes replies he doesn't know the man who did this and Nick agrees with him. DB offers Finn a position and she'll think about it. She returns his dollar and will call him maybe. DB: "maybe I'll answer." She writes his name on the envelope, "Diebenkorn" and no one is meant to know that. So how come she knows his name and no one else doesn't. Also at least we got his name revealed. They could have had us guessing what is was for a while.
Hey Vartann returns after Catherine's left, a bit silly he wasn't in her last episode. but think it was must be the ultimate compliment for Michael Vartan to have a character named after him in CSI. (See my Celeb Style Icons Blog) since Anthony Zuiker's wife is a big fan of Michael's. Pity they didn't get him as a guest star in an ep!!
CSI has had many episodes where the amnesiac doesn't recall whether they did it or not and in this case he was guilty. CSI:Miami 7.12 Headcase where an amnesiac was found wandering the street. Also CSI:NY 7.3 Damned If You Do where a mother suffers amnesia after being beaten and the CSIs think it was her son. hey Hodges always comes up with some throwback to an earlier age reference, this time Laverne and Shirley, maybe his mother watched that too. I recall that show.
At least Elisabeth looks to be a good replacement for Catherine and her character was subdued especially since she could have been more gung ho in her first appearance and a bit too full on, luckily she wasn't and it seems like she really cares about her work and was moved when DB mentioned Juan having her as a friend who helped him out in the end.
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