Morgan (Elisabeth Harnois) comes rushing in to the lab to tell DB (Ted Danson) that Sara's (Jorga Fox) been shot and Finn (Elisabeth Shue) is missing, as they head over to the town where it happened. Nick (George Eads) and DB fly over in a helicopter with Brass (Paul Guilfoyle) and find Sara is fine, the bullet grazed her head but it was a near miss. The deputy however is dead. She relays what happened to Brass, as Nick and DB search for Finn. We then see Finn trying to hitch a ride and is run over. Oh come on, she didn't realize what that truck was going to do when it turned around and drove back at her at speed? So naive for a CSI!
48 Hours Earlier
Sara is glad the day's over, or rather night and she just wants to go home and have some wine. Finn's got paperwork, but Morgan has tickets to a spa, so she convinces them to come along and share her suite. Cue using Finn's car, and girls going wild in the ride over, did Morgan really lift her shirt up and take a pic?!! So car breaks down and a sleazy mechanic, Darryl (Kristoffer Polaha) is called. He can't fix the car but he recommends the hotel and the bar at Larkston, plus it's Karaoke night. This being up Morgan's street (not shirt! ha) as she loves to sing and surprises them with her rendition of 'Take A Little Piece of My Heart.' Sara is impressed, but Finn is too busy making goo goo eyes at Darryl, who Morgan thinks is ugly, well she got that right. Trust Finn to go after anyone she meets in a pair of jeans! I mean over the series we've seen her with her ex, Det Moreno, she'd even go out with that fire investigator guy if she had her way. Anyway, she calls it a night but wants to spend it with sleazy Darryl, so they make out, until she finds his wedding ring in his pocket, er, living in such a hot town (as in weather, ha!) why didn't he have a tan line on his ring finger, er, cos he doesn't wear that ring very often!
She doesn't want to be with a married man but he doesn't take no for an answer and tries to rape her, pulling out a knife. Finn fights back and stabs him, before running back to tell the others, who see her with blood on her and she's been cut on her arm, which will need stitches. They all return to the CS, only to find Darryl gone. There are his bootprints leading away and also blood drops, showing he was helped. Morgan takes photos of the tyre treads and the boots etc, until Sheriff Gardner (Patrick St Esprit) arrives. He doesn't believe Finn's story and thinks they're just messing up his CS. He places Finn under house arrest.
As Finn is patched up by the local coroner, Dr Kinney (Garrett M Brown) another sleazy looking man, who tells the sheriff her bruises look like she's telling the truth. The sheriff isn't convinced. Morgan still has the photos on her phone which Sara tells Brass about and she has Greg (Eric Szmanda) check the tyre treads. They match to a truck owned by Darryl's wife, Valerie (Erin Anderson). She's found in Vegas and she was working the entire time, then drove here. Greg also tells her about the trace of marijuana found in the truck, which Darryl used to borrow. Hodges (Wallace Langham) takes the plan of the area and sees how much electricity was being used, since a hydroponics lab would need a lot of power and the trails leads to a shed. Sara investigates with the sheriff and deputy Willis (Nico Swindell-Evers).
This is where Darryl used to store cars and Sara thinks they could be it them as a chopshop. Inside one of the cars, she finds a DB of a woman, which is beginning to decompose. Morgan takes a sample of something green on her shoe. Sara wants Finn to help them cos she didn't have anything to do with this CS. Back at the lab, Doc (Robert David Hall) finds she has ligature marks, was beaten with a hammer and also a pubic hair inside her mouth (yuck) which Greg can analyze as it has a follicle attached. The girl's fingerprint leads to Brenda Whittaker, a missing woman who vanished , along with another two women who were also reported missing, whose cars were also found by Sara.
Darryl's abandoned car is found and she think Darryl could've got a bus out. Sara is called by Henry, who wasn't in this ep, and is told about the DNA from the hair, since she pulls a gun on the deputy, as well as getting DNA from Darryl. Appears he was in on the rape too and Finn wouldn't have been the first Vic. He refuses to give up and fires at Sara, the bullet grazing her. Brass clears her and IA will do the same. She thanks him for being here and he wants her to let him know when they find Finn. The green trace on Brenda's shoe is algae and Finn is told this. She goes out to find a body of fresh water where this is found.
Nick and DB check out her room and find what she was searching, after Nick asks DB for Finn's password. He first thinks of Bloodgirl and then comes up with Agnes, a favourite aunt of hers. They head to the bar and the bartender, Gary (Gregory Cruz) tells them Finn asked for some off the map areas where freshwater is found. He recalled Stone lake. Nick and DB head here, to find Darryl's DB and a pool of blood beside him. He was shot and the bullets suggest Finn's service pistol. DB also finding a 'rape kit' as he calls it complete with duct tape, shackles. DB posits Finn acted in self defence and Nick finds a bullet hole in the wall. She shot him through the heart. Nick processes the scene as DB heads back. He sees broken light glass in the road and stops to find Finn.
Sara and Morgan process Finn and find a logo impression on the leg of her jeans when she was run over, 'MMC'. Greg finds this belongs to an exclusive club, 'Million Mile Cub' and there's one registered owner in Larkston. No surprises there for finding who that is. See sleazy coroner Kinney, who was trying to be so helpful. Nick talks with him and he doesn't seem to understand that rape is rape and there's no ifs or buts about it. His used condoms were discarded in the campground where they found Darryl, showing he was also involved. He puts this down to having sex with the girls, he didn't hurt them though, that was all Darryl and Willis. Liked Nick's line where he said he's a CSI and a pretty good one at that! So true. Also he was talking to a brick wall really since he didn't understand that what he did at the end of the day still amounted to rape. He also tried to kill Finn so he wouldn't be implicated, which he calls an accident.
That was one town to stay clear off! Sara and Morgan bring Finn a spa to the hospital with a basket of goodies and Finn has to go for the heavy bottle to pick up. Remember the ep where the CSI guys went away for Henry's birthday in 10.9 Appendicitement (so strange Henry wasn't in this ep) and they ended up getting involved in a case, where this was pretty much the same but with the girls of CSI this time round. Seems wherever they go, they always find themselves in some kind of trouble. For a minute there, it looked like this episode was going to follow suite and be a rehash of sorts of the ep where Catherine was actually attacked back in season 7 Built to Kill Parts 1 & 2, where she could have been raped, but wasn't. But they had Finn fight off Darryl. Though if he didn't have that knife, wonder if she still could've managed that.
Also remember the ep where Sara spent that night with a man she met in the restaurant and was framed for his murder, after first being accused of killing him, well this story wasn't that far behind, in terms of storyline. See 13.15 Forget me Not. Finn, not one of my fave characters, so I didn't find it easy to sympathize with her predicament, she's always looking for a good time, irrespective of the consequences, not that I'm condoning what happened to her, but seems she's just that sort of a character. Sexual assault being such a difficult subject to deal with in reality.
So anyway, Morgan fronted a band in California, Sara seems not to have heard of Beyonce, but clearly was trying to get out of singing on stage.
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