Two girls end up at a rave in the desert. Shots are fired and one of them is shot. DB (Ted Danson) and Sara (Jorga Fox) arrive at the scene both on the phone to their respective spouses. Don't know if that sounded like Gil (William Petersen) will have to watch again. Sara comments on the "joys of long distance relationships" and she's been doing it longer. They process the scene which is a large one. David (David Berman) finds the girl was shot through the heart. She has restraint and ligature marks on her. The rave goers have been questioned but not many of them recall much. One Morgan (Elisabeth Harnois) speaks to is an intern, Amanda (Dana Davis) and she claims she doesn't drink, do drugs and didn't see the girls. She's attending to her own arm after being injured after a nitrous oxide canister exploded in the air. Cue lots of CGI to demo this point. Sara: "Smoke in the desert, fire in the sky." Didn't think they'd come up with this line from Sara of all people.
Morgan and Greg (Eric Szmanda) go over all the footage collected from phones and what was uploaded and he's put it all together like it was a real image and they were already there themselves, which is how we see the two. Morgan spots Amanda handing out nitrous oxide in balloons from the canister and she oculd be sacked if anyone saw her do that. She also attends to the DB girl at the scene and holds onto the other girl. Morgan pays her a visit at the hospital and she tells her she took her to her car to calm her down and has her here. She was waiting for her to calm down before admitting her.
Morgan talks with the girl and shows her how she will collect evidence from her by firstly dong it to herself. She needs to take a DNA sample which is when Morgan gets the biggest shock of her forensic career. The girl doesn't have a tongue. Morgan is clearly upset and has to walk out of there. Calling DB this is too much for her to handle. She doesn't know how anyone could do that to the girl. Her reactions and sentiments are similar to Sara in that respect as we know how emotional she can get over cases, which is always good to see in a CSI, since their workload is far from easy. The same with Nick (George Eads) too. I think that's one reason the show has lasted so many seasons.
Sara finds out from Doc Robbins (Robert David Hall) that the Vic was kept as a sex slave and human trafficking is rife. She was in shackles all the time, had bed sores, never been to a doctor or dentist. Meanwhile Morgan gets some info from the girl and bonds with her. She tells her about her father being shot, but he's better, a little insensitive since the other girl was shot and she didn't recover or have the chance. But she tells her about her friend Hodges )Wallace Langham) and how he's kind of weird but he's a nice guy. So we assume something is going on with them, but she just calls him her best friend. She writes down her own name and address. The girl takes the marker and draws a picture which looks like flowers through bars. It was apparent that the girls were sisters as discovered by Henry (Jon Wellner) when he checks their DNA.
Nick arrives at work and puts his suit away when Hodges asks him if he's had a job interview. He was in court, Hodges gives him the details of the case and what he's found by way of trace of tin on the mushrooms and Nick recalls there's a mine here. Nick and Moreno (Enrique Murciano) who is on the case cos of vice, backtrack their way from the CS to where the girls came from and find themselves on a road from Bull City. On Highway 238 where Moreno has made a lot of arrests. Known as "Smuggler's Way." Lots of shoe prints and tyre marks are found, as well as a cow RFID tag and trace from an accident involving blue and white vehicles. One of them Nick believes is a truck. Nick and Moreno having time to talk about Finn (Elisabeth Shue)and how she's hot but Moreno adds she's "hot and cold." That relationship won't be going anywhere cos Enrique doesn't return to the show, which is a shame since his character here was used a lot in the ep and we can see why he's such a good detective and addition to the show. Yes good enough for series regular I think, even if it was only on a semi-permanent basis.
Hodges comes up with some results for Nick and uses his lunch, Nick still eating those burgers I see! ha. Hodges tells him he's here for his break and Nick says he'll give him something in return for what he has for him. Nick traces the truck details back and finds the driver. He was transporting another girl in his truck. the girl, Elena (Zuleyka Silver) tells them he's her cousin and he wouldn't do something like that. She saw the girls run away but didn't know they were in the truck. Oliver tells them much the same thing. That he was pulled over by a car and a man with a hoodie came out and he overpowered him with his gun and threatened to shoot him. It's a wonder why he left witnesses. Nick asks where he touched him and the man gets the wrong idea. They get no DNA from his shirt, but do get trace of R502, used in air conditioners. Jacinta's (Madalyn Horcher) father, Adrian Flores (Michael Irby) works with HVAC conditioners.
The CSIs look for missing girls in the system and come up with Jacinta and Rose. Their mother was in Mexico and their father has been in toruch with the police. Morgan and DB take him to see Jacinta and he does act shocked at seeing her there, but he was my suspect from the outset. Someone who claims to care about his daughters so much would have taken more care of them. He was smarmy. By the time they find out the trail leads to her father he's already discharged Jacinta. Morgan lets rip at Moreno as if it's his fault they're gone. He rightly tells her he wasn't the one who bought her father here and he's doing everything he can to find them. It was the doctors who let them go.
They try to find out what the picture means but can't seem to find flowers in the desert. Sara and Morgan look over a map of the area and Morgan finds the flowers are actually wind turbines. Adrian ties Jacinta up in the trailer and douses the place with gasoline. She gave him trouble, talked back and that's why he cut out her tongue. He abused Rose and she tried to save her cos she would be next. Their mother is dead. The CSIs arrive and he throws the lighter into the trailer anyway. Morgan runs in and Nick follows with the key to unlock her chains.
The scene with Sara and Doc was shocking to say the least as he says this is one of the few times where he's glad to see Rose no longer has to suffer. She would never have been whole. Sara saying she didn't even get a chance to try and recover. A particularly disturbing and harrowing episode but it's not new to the show as it has covered many similar cases. What was unpleasant though was the extent a parent could go in abusing their own children and getting away with it for so long.
Since Moreno will no longer feature its' surprising Finn and he didn't get anymore scenes together especially since he and Nick share a conversation about her. She didn't have much to do and it looked as she was only given that scene so we'd know who they talk about, ha. A great scene between the two, as they search for clues. Nick telling him at one pit he should "watch your step."
Moreno: "What's that supposed to mean?" He's about to step on some mushrooms. Also when at the end Moreno tells Nick he's not a bad cop for a CSI. Something we've always known about Nick.
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