A DB is found buried in the sand, another is found stacked inside a washer and a third is found impaled on a spike sculpture. Calleigh (Emily Procter) is pretty vexed and questions what type of person puts a girl out in the laundry. Tripp (Rex Linn) blames it on Spring Break. Calleigh given the limelight now, away from Horatio (David Caruso) when she has the last line before the credits, "There are going to be consequences." Ryan (Jonathan Togo) believes the sand constricted the DB's lungs, suffocating him. Since when did Ryan start second guessing before the evidence is in (my fave phrase). He's not an expert on determining COD.
Jesse (Eddie Cibrian) thinks he most likely drowned as the tide was high. ME Tom (Christian Clemenson) will enlighten them. There was probably more than one killer. Ryan is adament that it's a prank gone wrong and the tide ended it. That's his theory. First he suffocated and then the tide finished him off, now Ryan can't make up his mind. Don't know why they keep chopping and changing Ryan's character so much, he goes from extremes in practically every episode. Jesse tells him they still need to find who did this.
Walter (Omar Miller) can still recall his Spring break and calls it a miracle he's still alive. Some characterization of Walter, we know he's a fun loving guy from past episodes but not so much about his misspent youth. ME Tom thinks it was a bad aim, commenting on the DB. Calleigh still harping on about how Spring break is meant to be the best part of your life, not the worst. Well, maybe it was for her, but not everyone's like her, or as pretty as her. Bet she didn't have any problems throughout school and college. Tripp calls it a body dump and all the hotels send their laundry here. Any evidence on her form the killer would have been destroyed in the washer. Calleigh notices the debris collector on the side which could have collected something belonging to the Vic or the killer.
ME Tom is majorly outnumbered and overwhelmed with the body count and he can't examine everyone's body, no but he kind of favoured Calleigh's over Ryan's. But opts for Horatio's DB. There were no IDs, but present were second and third degree burns and residue on the pipe. Horatio likens them to being flare components, so he was shot with a flare gun. Walter finds tempered glass from the window. and scorch marks. Horatio surmises the blast originated from the hotel room. Dean (Peter Mooney) admits to firing the weapon at a man at the party, but he didn't hit him. He doesn't recognize the DB. Walter thinks he's lying; "That story's got holes in it as big as the one in our Vic's chest."
He and Horatio conduct a demonstration with dummies, judging where the body was found and where it landed; 20 feet away. So he fell from a bigger height. Horatio ends up on the roof. The dummy still lands 4 feet short, he's 'fast running out of real estate'. The DB was never in the room, the flare was fired as he was falling from the roof. Walter calls that an urban legend. He's big on those; calling the murder Dean's alibi. Heel impressions are aslo seen close to the edge of the balcony. Horatio concludes he was pushed.
Ryan calls ME Tom to see how the autopsy is progressing but ME Tom tells him their body isn't the only one in town and Ryan proceeds to hang up on him. That was uncalled for, see what I said about his character constantly being altered by writers. The female DB had broken bones, no bruising and blunt force trauma. Calleigh refers to her as a "poor thing, beaten and thrown away." Sympathy and compassion is all fine and good but Calleigh was acting in a way she hasn't before either, never seen her show this much feelings towards a Vic before.
Usually she's the voice of reason more than over zealous emotion. ME Tom has the Vic's room key. Tripp and Calleigh question a woman at the bar, she's been charging drinks to her room. Her name's Courtney (Chelsea Hobbs) but she wants to see Tripp's ID first. Tripp was becoming annoyed with her as he asks for her ID. She denies recognizing the photo of the Vic, and claims she's drunk. She dropped her keycard on the beach, so the Vic must have picked it up. She's drunk, but not enough to realize she must have dropped her keycard, or it's location; so why not tell the hotel she lost it.
ME Tom finally gets round to Jesse and Ryan's DB and finds saltwater in the lungs, so he drunk-drowned and was murdered. Ryan still thinks it's an accident. His jaw was fractured perimortum. Jesse notices burn marks on his ear.; identified as residue from a flare. Dean shot him with the flare. Calleigh finds a button from the washer belonging to the Vic's dress. She thinks chlorine would've set the print. Walter finds their Vic had a VIP bracelet from a club and Jesse also turns up at said club. Calleigh says all three Vics went through the same club. The bouncer recalls the woman as she left her credit card at the bar. her name is Alexis (Teresa Castillo). She was helped by a blonde. Walter: "At least their Vic has a name."
Calleigh and Tripp check out Alexis's room and there's a huge blood stain on the floor where she was killed. Calleigh says she was sharing the room with the two other Vics and there's photo of them all together. From their university records they're identified as Brad (Simon Miller) - Horatio and Walter's DB and Paul, (Alan Ritchson) - Jesse and Ryan's DB. They all had wrap sheets but the charges were dropped. Ryan plays the video on the laptop from a social network site belonging to Alexis, uploaded a year ago. An overweight blonde woman was ambushed in a humiliating way. Whoever threw Brad off the roof, states Walter, was wearing a VIP bracelet. Calleigh had very little to say on the video and Alexis's behaviour, presumably she would have found out about it. The bracelet wearer is identified as Hillary (Cassie Scerbo) and Brad gave her a black eye, she's blonde, but she's not the killer. There was another woman there; Courtney, but she claims not to recognize Brad. She denies everything.
ME Tom had to peel back Alexis's face to reveal she suffered skull fractures. Calleigh offers to help him cast them, see again so hands-on from her for this Vic. Alexis was struck with an iron from the hotel. Ryan pulls blonde hair from Paul's shirt. Calleigh comments this is not a fluke, they were being targeted "by a killer blonde." At which point Ryan looks at Calleigh when she's walked away! Courtney is swabbed for DNA and Hillary refuses as she had no reason to kill them. Travers (Christopher Redman) analyzes the hair to find it was bleached, dyed and starightened. He comments there's no justification for murder, but those three were asking for it.
So it's left ot the lab rat to put forward his feelings in contrast to Calleigh's, well no else had anythign to say. Ryan understands what Travers means after he explains why he said that. Tripp tells them Jill (the woman from the video) filed a complaint against Brad and she's missing. To humiliate someone like that, he'd want to disappear too. Travers finds evidence of appetite suppressants on the hair, the side effects of which include, alopecea. Ryan explains that's thinning hair for Tripp's benefit, no doubt, he already knows. Yeah Ryan so do most people. Ryan and Travers exchange glances on the thinning hair part. Tripp says she doesn't look like she did in the video.
Dave (Wes Ramsely) uses visualization software to see what Jill would look like, and she resembles Courtney. Who's really Jill. Horatio says she's not a Vic but their killer. The video gives her motive. Jesse says she was the last one seen with Brad before he was pushed. She dyed her hair and the DNA is a match. Would've thought she'd have worn a wig instead of dying her hair, it would have been easier to disguise; no need to dye it and perhaps she wouldn't have left her own hair on Paul's shirt. Amazing that hair was still on his shirt.
Horatio comments she took advantage of Alexis when she was drunk. No one helped Jill when she needed it and they got away. "I'm the fat girl whose life you destroyed." The joke ws on Brad and she claims impaling him was the icing on the cake. Jesse tells her when someone goes through such a change as she did, they're much happier. Horatio ends by saying she's spending her life in jail; he hopes it was worth it to her. Yes it was. Almost a cheesy joke there, what with dying her hair and being worth it, you know out of the TV ads for hair products!
Calleigh still feels sorry for Alexis. When Courtney is led away, the end scene was like from a movie, strutting away without a care in the world, until she's locked up. She's happy with what she did but not for long. Calleigh was kind of overdoing it in the sentiments stakes when she clearly is disgusted at Alexis's treatment, how she's killed and dumped so coldly.
Yes it's understandable - but as I've said many times - what goes around comes around. They didn't deserve to be murdered - no one is - but they were sorry excuses for human beings and it's not just the ravages of youth, or having a good time, they were a poor reflection of humanity. It was fine for them to humiliate and make jokes at another's expense, but to get away with it. The Vic of their jokes never received justice. However, Calleigh really did go overboard with her emotions. So it was good to see her thoughts levelled out by Travers, bluntly coming out and saying they deserved what they got, someone had to say it. Shame it wasn't from a main character.
Ryan wasn't saying much on the subject and once again it was Calleigh who reminded him in a previous episode that all Vic's deaths need to be investiagted, irrespective of whether they were good, bad or indifferent. That being said, Calleigh hasn't shown this much compassion to other Vics of crimes, those who were worthy of it and deserved it more than Alexis. Jesse's comment about people who undergo the changes she went through, losing weight,etc, end up being happier is true, but she was only happy with the end product of her becoming another person, of becoming Courtney. Then she hung around to see the results of her actions; until it hit home, they were the ones who got justice for their killings, for what she did to them and she was going to rot in jail. Horatio in contrast didn't seem to have an opinion either way, not like he normally does. Of course it was worth it to her - but the dust hadn't settled on what she'd done until now.
Ryan being abrupt with ME Tom was unneccessary and Walter mentioning his Spring break briefly.
In season 1 CSI:NY episode, Crime and Misdemeanour, Stella (Melina Kanakaredes) and Mac (Gary Sinise) trace the DB of a woman found in a laundry, back to a hotel. Here Alexis was found in a laundry too and this led back to the Ciel Blue Hotel. In season 4 CSI:NY episode, Personal Foul, a basketball player dies after kissing several cheerleaders and one of them kissed him to death with her poisoned lipstick. Said cheerleader used to be overweight; changed her appearance and exacted her revenge on the player who teased and humiliated her because of her weight. A photo of her obese appearance is also found. Danny (Carmine Giovinazzo) is the one who says he hopes 'it was worth it', showing a degree of sympathy towards her. Here Horatio uses similar words, saying he hopes it was worth it. I actually recall this episode for much more shallow reasons, oops, the fact that when Flack (Eddie Cahill) lifted part of his shirt, the scar he should have had from his injuries sustained in the bomb blast from episode, Charge of this Post, was conveniently absent!
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