It's the Elite Chef reality TV show where the candidates have been whittled down to four remaining contestants. The round is the palette test and the object is to guess the protein in the four different dishes and first one to do so will be immune from the elimination round. Michelle (Cynthia Addai-Robinson) finds an eyeball in her dish and eats it until she gets a contact lens in her mouth and spits out the eyeball. Apparently Finn (Elisabeth Shue) and David David Berman) are fans of the show and David knows the show is taped in advance. DB (Ted Danson) tells them they can't watch the show until the case is solved. Thus the meat is all human and Ray (Charles Malik Whitfield) guesses right with DB asking him why he knows that, cos of the contact lens, but no one is winning the round.
Also they showed Curtis (Matthew Holmes) sipping his soda which was a clue. Morgan (Elisabeth Harnois) and Finn proceed to analyze the CS as DB also questions the producer, Nadine (Holley Fain). You know as soon as she came from behind the CS tape I had a sneaking suspicion she was the suspect here and the killer, call it a gut instinct! Ha. Well that was a lame joke! They have got hours of footage but the cameras stop rolling at 10 and everyone leaves the kitchen. The food was prepared by other chefs. Morgan finds blood in the drain and it's human. All the judges are accounted for except judge Graham (Alastair Duncan) who is missing, so they think he could be the Vic. Finn got a little too happy in this ep, as she was all smiles and laughs, you know, especially considering the subject matter.
The suspect at first appears to be Derek (Coby Ryan McLaughlin) who threatened Graham as he was sent off the show him and claimed he would never be a chef. Derek rolls up his sleeve to reveal his tattoo, again another clue! But Graham turns up, hungover and is questioned by Greg (Eric Szmanda) and Det Kevin Crawford (Alimi Ballard) he has an alibi as he was with Candy and Brown Sugar in a limo. He tries to light up a cigarette and Crawford asks him to hand it over, thinking he wants a light. He was in the kitchen which explains the boot print Greg found belonging to him but he was with Cici (Kristen Kassinger) as she was showing him some of her rubbings.
Morgan and Greg get garbage detail as they sift through the rubbish thrown out and Morgan hates maggots. Greg's used to them by now. He finds a severed arm with the meat been removed away from the bone. It shows a tattoo, thus the Vic was Derek. Hodges shows Morgan how to make caviar out of blood, as in molecular gastronomy, of which Graham is an expert. She adds she knows chemistry too. David and Finn look at the food and specifically the testicles of a bull, and he pulls out his testicle measure showing that these came from a human too. Eeww.
Nadine tells Finn that Derek was a creep and she edited the footage making him look good, especially as she shows her footage of how he threw one of Michelle's dishes onto the floor and made her pick it up, commenting that's how he likes his women. Doc (Robert David Hall) finds that Derek had a bump on his head so he was hit with a blunt object but that was 48 hours earlier. Derek was drugged with kratom which was ordered in from abroad and it seems that Curtis brought this in. Also his real name is Curtis Gant and he has a criminal record for possession. The kratom made Derek irritable thus his fight with Graham. He wasn't poisoning him as he tells DB and Crawford, he just wanted him sick so that he would have an advantage over him as he was beating him in every challenge.
Morgan and Finn search Derek and Curtis's room and Finn finds a bloody alarm clock under the bed, what Derek was hit with. They think that Curtis must have hit him since he found out about his record and threatened to reveal it. When checked for prints, it comes up with Michelle. She said she had to fight tooth and nail to get here and compete with the men. She was in Derek's room and he drugged her, she could taste liquorice. When she woke up Derek was on top of her and trying to strangle her. She clocked him (ha!) and ran away. She didn't tell anyone about the rape cos it's her word against his, but Finn just heard from Nadine that he was a jerk, so there would have been some backing for her. Greg finds Michelle did leave the room from the camera footage and he would tend to believe her. He then sees Curtis also leave the room after her, meaning they both raped her.
Finn checked up on what else the liquorice flavour could come from, including fennel and she found a cold case where a girl was raped and murdered. Her DB was torn apart by animals. This was at a college attended by both Curtis and Derek. So they re the ones behind her rape and murder. Nadine tells the crew Legal has shut down the show and the set must be cleared. That's when Curtis's DB is found in the freezer. It looks like he was hit on the head with a frozen leg of lamb. Morgan finds a discarded soda cup with some soda still inside it and bags it for evidence. They think Michelle may have got her revenge on Curtis too and Doc finds he didn't necessarily have to be killed with the leg. He could have walked into the shelf and dropped it, then fallen onto the leg. He suffered from anaphylactic shock which would have caused his throat to cease, but no trace of almond in the soda or his stomach contents was found.
This was found in the straw. A sugar straw was rolled by hand and placed inside the actual straw so he would have sipped it and suffered shock. On the straw they find a fingerprint, she could've used gloves, which matches Nadine! No surprises there! She knew about Derek and Curtis and how they had killed her sister but they were meant to have been her friends. She made Derek suffer since the animals ripped her body to pieces and ate it, that's why she fed Derek to the others. She realized it was them when Michelle told her about the rape.
Elsewhere Finn advises Hodges to take a more active role in the wedding arrangements with Elisabetta (Catrinel Menghia Marlon) as he'll regret it otherwise and not helping out shows he doesn't care forher. They sample wedding cake but can't agree on the flavours. She wants him to move to Italy after they're married and stomp grapes but he likes his job and living here. Morgan gives him some advice she got from the groom at a wedding she was at when he said you need to decide if you love the woman or if you can't live without her. Whatever he decides she'll be here for him. They part ways as Elisabetta also realizes they re so different from each other! Can't say I didn't see that coming, it was obvious since last season.
Gotta say the ep was a little boring as they just kept jumping back and forth from suspect to suspect, with no sign of Nick/Geroge as mentioned and it seems that Brass (Paul Guilfoyle) Sara (Jorga Fox) and Henry (Jon Wellner) weren't in the ep in support of George. However, it was cos they weren't in this ep anyway and so that's why it could have done with more of the cast being included, not all vanishing in one go. One reason why they didn't have to explain why Nick wasn't around if other cast members aren't, but still it was apparent in real life why he wasn't in the ep.
David using the orchidometer was funny and how he was so knowledgeable about such things, okay I know it's part of his job, and watching food shows too. With reference to the title Last Supper, was also an allusion to Morgan commenting on how Hodges likened himself to Jesus when he said he'll turn blood into caviar. Also Finn giving them advice about marriage,a little strange since she's had failed marriages but stating that she did love her first husband but they had differences and so ended up being divorced.
CSI delving into food territory, similar to CSI:NY and remember the ep No Good Deed, where Stella found the eyeball in her coffee. They also did another food ep Fare Game where the chef, played by Kevin Rahm, was into cooking insects, spiders and the like (yuck).
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