The judgements and recriminations were out in full force this week in Miami, with Delko (Adam Rodriguez) and Ryan (Jonathan Togo) deeming the suspected quarterback to be guilty even before the evidence was in. Yes you've guessed the one time Jesse (Eddie Cibrian) was needed around to be objective. With Delko coming up with the old, "guilty people run" line. So what was that he did back at the end of season 7 in the episode Seeing Red, when he came charging out in the car with his father and was shot at by Calleigh (Emily Procter). How wrong was he here and not so much as an apology or remorse for wrecking someone's life.
The scene opens with Ryan and Delko chasing the suspect and Ryan attempting to to follow suit when he jumps the railing and barely hangs on. Ryan almost made it. With flashes of the suspect, Brady Jensen (Zane Holtz) with the bottle girl, Kristen (Nicole Taylor) getting it on. Brady can get to pick the team he plays for. An agent, Chip Ford ( Glenn Fitzgerald) tries to sign him up. Naturally Horatio (David Caruso) would be waiting for him at the other end, gun in tow, "You can't outrun this." Flashback to Brady being chased and finally the DB of Kristen in the pool, showing what he was running from.
Brady desperately tries to get Tripp (Rex Linn) and Delko to stop the car and not drive into the media frenzy that awaits him and denies killing Kristen. Delko with his line: "guilty people run." Tripp doesn't want to hear him out. Kristen said she wanted to talk but kissed him instead. Delko adds he did this. Since when do CSIs start making false judgements and accusations, they've barely begun to collect the evidence and when does the evidence not speak for itself. ME Dr Victoria Mercier (Meta Golding) takes the place of ME Tom (Christian Clemenson) this episode as he's teaching a seminar. Walter (Omar Miller) apparently also knows the lowdown on bottle girls to add to his repertoire of knowledge as far as women go; continued on from last season. Mercier says the DB was on her back and was flipped onto her front. Walter finds a phone in the pool filter, whilst taking CS photos.
Natalia (Eva La Rue) dries it in the Women's under the dryer and Walter's uneasy about being there. He had to go in there with his sisters when younger and didn't know where to look. The last call was made to Sarah Walker (Nadine Valezquez) who tells Horatio that Kristen asked her to cover her tables. Sarah has scratches on her arm. Horatio is eager to help her, especially when he hears she's a mother with a son. She denies going to the cabana. Mercier doesn't find any chlorine present in the water in her lungs, but there is alcohol. The crown of her pre-molar was chipped with force. The bottle was forced into her mouth. Ryan and Natalia look for alcohol run-off on Brady's clothes. He didn't buy any and nothing is found on him. Ryan forcefully replies he's hiding something so he's going to sit in the cage and rot.
Calleigh was hiding behind the computer the entire episode until the end and offers to run a SIM search on the card from Kristen's phone for Natalia. Kristen sent a text to Amanda telling her she's 'not doing this anymore, it isn't right.' Amanda (Peta Wilson) was Kristen's boss and claims to run the hottest club and wants it back. Travers (Christopher Redman) examines Kristen's stomach contents and says they can use radioactive carbon isotopes to determine the vintage of champagne. Grapes catch small amounts of radioactive carbon isotopes in the atmosphere and radioactive explosions increased the amount of C14 and the use of fossil fuels diluted the amount. The vintage is put at 1957 which is a rare champagne.
Bottles are electronically tagged at the club and the buyer is traced as Richard Ellison (James Frain). Well that was an easy find. He's not wearing his jacket which is at the cleaners and Sarah is working there too. Her job is 24/7. So who looks after her son since she says she's doing this for him. She can't point the finger at anyone since they're all powerful. Delko and Natalia don't find any champagne run-off at the cabana or the missing crown. Delko poses the question: when she was forced the champagne not where and they still think it's Brady. Even Natalia's joined in now agreeing he's guilty. When he worked scuba he came across a phenomena called delayed drowning, when Vics appeared fine but later died.
Tripp calls the cleaners but gets no luck with the jacket, cos it's not there, that's why and they can't get a warrant as there's no cause, which Walter finds unbelievable. Erica Sykes (Amy Laughlin) sees Ryan for the exclusive on the case and attempts to trick Ryan into giving her the details when she shows him a photo the DB. Brady didn't take the photo and Ford denies it too. They think he was going to blackmail Brady into becoming his client. Brady did lie as he found her on the bed and Ford was going to take care of it if he signed with him. Brady wanted to call for help. Horatio: "no killing, no photos, no bail." Mercier calls Delko, why him? She found metallic PVC confetti in Kristen's lungs of a golden colour and this blows their case wide open. Answering Delko's question of 'where' she was killed from earlier on.
Amanda says the confetti is released at midnight, giving them the timeline for Kristen dying when the confetti was released. Ellison got the champagne at 11.17. Ryan and Dave (Wes Ramsey) check out the camera angles to determine the height the photo was taken from. Which turns out to be 5' 3" thus a woman took the photo. Sarah puts the blame on Amanda making her do it. Amanda was making money on photographing celebs at their worst when they're inside the club and Brady said he was saving himself for marriage. Horatio follows the confetti back to Ellison's table and the CSIs go over their evidence.
Ellison forced Kristen to drink the champagne and then kept his clothes on his yacht. Look he's even wearing the same shoes too, so much for having money to burn, seems men with money don't need to change. As in 8.3 when the suspect's shoes also gave him away as the killer. Tripp gets his warrant to search the yacht. Finding the jacket and Delko analyzes it to find the missing crown strategically landed in his top pocket. Walter also finds he's got champagne over his shoes. Kristen didn't want to be his bottle girl anymore. Horatio tells him she humiliated him and so he returned the favour. It was involuntary manslaughter, his actions killed her. He warns him to stay away from Sarah.
Erica gets her comeuppance when live on TV Brady says they should think of Kristen and her family and calls Erica a jackal. Which Delko finds amusing. Ryan finds this is the first time she's ever been speechless. Calleigh is going to dinner with a friend and he's also her friend. Delko is also her family and she loves him like family. Horatio buys bus tickets for Sarah and her son. Horatio always has a particular soft spot for a damsel in distress.
Running doesn't always necessarily signify or prove guilt, which Delko should know and the rest of them too. How long has he been doing this job now. This suspect, Ellison, actually feels some surprise at learning Kristen died as a result of his actions, but doesn't mean he should get away with such behaviour. As for Sarah, well she wasn't in any sort of life-threatening situation and neither was her son, so there really wasn't any cause for Horatio to take such a personal interest in her. She'll just go away and find another dead-end job like this when she returns. If she couldn't/didn't want to do it, she could've gotten out, since no one was really holding her to ransom. Suppose it appeared she was in some peril from the 'clients' cos of what happened to Kristen.
An episode also about demonizing press/TV reporters, getting what they deserve in the hunt to feed the frenzied public every morsel of celebrity outrageous and immoral behaviour they demand. Erica was only there for the lowdown anyway which is why she showed Ryan the photo, hoping for a scoop, well she got that all right! Hope ME Tom returns to the show as his character portrayal was a breath of fresh air. Especially since this season appears to be rather subdued, there's no bonding anymore, or jokey comments coming from Walter and it's not as fresh or as interesting as last season.
The scenes with Calleigh and Delko were awkward, first they appeared to be flirting when she was stuck behind the computer, but she came up with the 'just friends' bit at the end, which moved on rather quickly after he rushed in to save her last episode. No she couldn't wait to rush off to dinner with a friend; when she said that, thought she'd follow it with Delko being the 'friend.' But it didn't happen.
Meta Golding who plays ME Mercier was Tina in CSI, Warrick's (Gary Dourdan) wife.
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