A woman on a plane is harassed by a man who wants to have a good time with her. The stewardess takes her bag and places it in a compartment as she reluctantly lets go of it. The man wants a drink but the stewardess refuses. Hey she needs training you don't call passengers, "sweetie!" Also the mouthy woman sitting behind, was meant to have her seat in an upright position when the plane was landing. Upon landing in Vegas, the man realizes his watch is missing, after he helps the woman with her own bag. There's a scuffle and she's desperate to get off the plane.
Later Nick (George Eads) and Sara (Jorga Fox) are called to a CS where the same woman has been found. Nick would like to go to Morocco and Sara laughs that he'd like to open a bar in Casablanca and Nick says she can call him Rick, at least that was his name was, of course it was. They see the Vic was either pushed from a car or was fell out. Sara and Nick measuring the distance from where she was found to where she could have been thrown out. Sara equating the distance, with Nick estimating a 1. He comments on her being a Physics Major and being able to work these things out. They estimate the car was speeding around 45mph. Nick finds skid marks and reckons she was thrown out from there. Sara notices a laser on Nick and tells him to get down, thinking it's a shooter. They see two boys and give chase.
Brass (Paul Guilfoyle) and Finn )Elisabeth Shue) question the passengers and ask if anyone's seen the woman but they complain about their personal items being missing. They recall the man who tried to pick up the woman and he now sports a black eye. Brass asks him how he got the shiner and he says it was from the old man on the plane. The woman is identified as Janet Riggins (Ellen Hollman).
They have Janet's bag but not her personal belongings. Sara goes through them and DB (Ted Danson) checks out her licence which is a fake since Sara's licence has the outline of the State of Nevada around her picture, but Janet's one doesn't. Hey why does Sara carry her licence around with her in the lab? Surveillance from the airport shows shows Janet in a hurry to leave the airport and without her luggage. Then the same man follows behind her. Kenny Greene (Jaleel White) the man from the plane follows her and he doesn't have a black eye there. Kenny thinks they've found his watch, but Brass questions him about the black eye. He says he was trying to speak with her and she punched him. He didn't see that coming. For someone who had been the Vic of assault, she was violent herself, though it's a reflective action, gotta wonder why she didn't do the same when her husband would beat her. Anyway Kenny took her phone to bargain with so that she'd give him back his watch.
Doc (Robert David Hall) carries out the autopsy on Janet and finds she was bruised over the years and beaten up. Some of her injuries are older as he tells Greg (Eric Szmanda) and she got a blow to the head when she fell from the car. Doc took his time getting to her DB, since it's morning when Nick and Sara go see the man on the phone. This is after Hodges (Wallace Langham) finds a number on her phone after Janet called him. The call was made to,Jefferson Nally (Ethan Embry) who has a cleaning business. He used to know Janett as Helen and she was coming out here, but he didn't know when. Also they had contact over the past six months online, but when he found out she was married he ended things. He knew her from high school. Yeah a likely story, he was my suspect! Sara is angry he didn't help her, but gives them his card and says if they're looking for anyone to do clean up for them. Nick replies sarcastically he's got other things to do.
DB, Brass and Finn see which passenger was able to keep an eye on the overhead compartments and Brass says a thief would sit round the back area and be able to see all of them. Thus they think it was the old man. I actually loved the reconstruction they did in the season 1 plane episode Unfriendly Skies. That was a great ep and one of my all time faves! It also had to have been someone who boarded early, meaning Hank Kasserman (Joel Grey). He's brought in and was found with all of the stolen property in his hotel room, as well as using Janet's money, $30,00 at a casino. He waited until people were sleeping and ensured Kenny had been drinking, then stole the things.
Janet's luggage is finally located, they must've got lucky, ha, no one took it, or it didn't go missing. Morgan (Elisabeth Harnois) checks it out and finds things like her small bronze shoes, lots of other pairs of shoes, her teddy bear and Nick comments they're things you take when you're not returning home. She was going to leave her husband, Allen (Todd Cahoon). Who turns up at the morgue and threatens Doc cos he won't let him see her. Who let him down there unaccompanied. He pushes Doc back just as Nick arrives and tells him he's investigating her murder. Allen found out she was having an affair and then she took his money. He got on a flight so he could meet her here, but his flight was late due to mechanical problems, which alibis him. Worse luck! he was a smarmy piece of work, secretly wishing Nick could've given him a taste of his own medicine, all in the line of work of course, well he did assault Doc.
Sara questions Jefferson who says he set her up with a man named 'Wolf' who would give her a fake ID and make all the arrangements for her location. Sara's still disgusted he didn't help her, but he says he did this for her. The Wolf wanted money in return but she didn't have it. He has his phone number, all so very convenient for him. Hodges further analysis into her fake licence reveals a security strip at the back, which is actually used for security badges like theirs and was printed on a high quality printer. He finds out which place has one of those and the woman tells them, they could print a fake licence, but it's illegal. She recalls the security guard or the cleaning crew were here after hours. This being Jefferson of course.
Nick brings in the boy, (Matt Shively) who along with being placed in the room with rough looking men, finally recalls he saw a farmer with a pitchfork, identifying Jefferson's truck, a man with a broom. Jefferson admits he was the Wolf, but she didn't have her money. He was helping her, which wasn't very noble at all, cos at the end of the day it was just his greed. He gave her a lift and she wanted out when she found out it was him. They fought and she attacked him, he pushed her out of the truck. Couldn't she have waited until later, gosh she had a temper too. He claimed he loved her, but Sara replies if he did, he would've gone back, instead of driving off.
Some great scenes between Sara and Nick in the opening and later on, as well as betwen Brass and Hank. He calls Brass a young man and so he should be on the ball looking for her killer, knowing she was beaten since she hid her bruise with make-up, when Brass refers to him as an old man, he emphasizes he has a limited social security cheque. Thus he steals. Also good was the scene at the end, when Nick waits for Allen after returning his money to him. He sends the cab away and has Officer Mitchell (Larry Mitchell) arrest him for assaulting Doc. Whether the judge actually accepts his argument of him assaulting Doc or not is anybody's guess, but Nick's happy just having him in lockdown, since it's late on a Friday and there's no court until Monday. Though he should've gotten much more than this for the type of lowlife he really was. At least Nick gets a chance to ensure he gets some time behind bars.
Seems Jefferson was no better, though he professed to love her, he didn't really show much love when all he could were are dollar signs. Same as Allen, he was more physical and obvious in his abuse of her, but Jefferson was more subtle, until he struck her in the truck; neither of them being any good for her, though she didn't realize until it was too late.
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