Doc (Robert David Hall) is at a funeral where a friend's daughter, Ana (Vanessa E Garcia) has been murdered and her father, Gabriel (Benito Martinez) suspects there's more to it than a drug overdose since she didn't take drugs. He begs Doc to go to Mexico and find out for himself. DB (Ted Danson) agrees to pull strings for him and Nick (George Eads) goes with him, he can also help Doc with the Spanish.
Greg (Eric Szmanda) Sara (Jorga Fox) and David (David Berman) are called to a CS where a couple's DBs have been found in concrete. From the photo it looks like a husband and wife, Brett (Graham Hamilton) and Clare (Monika Casey) Marsh. Someone used some sort of cement expanding material wrongly which expanded the concrete and revealed their DBs. A man rushes in saying it's his home and sees his wife. It's Brett, as Greg recognizes him from his photo and says he was away and that his brother, Jeff, was doing some renovations for him, he thought he'd mess up but not get killed. Sara agrees to help David take the bodies out of the cement and at the lab she finds Jeff had a gun in his hand. Greg assumes that Brett killed them cos she was probably having an affair. Sara doesn't think it's likely since Clare has blood spatter on her and is dressed in a revealing outfit. She also has a finger nail missing. Sara posits it's a double homicide.
In Mexico, Agent Javier Silva (Bayardo De Murguia) from the Federales drives Nick and Doc to the morgue, talking about how the Cartel practically runs the town and that the police are corrupt. Dropping them at the morgue, the coroner, Dr Blanco (Julio Oscar Mechoso) is less than pleased to have Doc encroaching on his territory and remarks on how much they get paid over there. Doc is less than impressed by the conditions of the morgue and the overall state of the office, which is in stark contrast to their own LVPD lab.
Doc insists on carrying out the autopsy and he leaves him to it. Doc finds trace in her hair and it appears her feet have frostbite, strange for somewhere where the temperature hardly drops. Doc finds evidence of drug use. Nick finds corn husk trace on her dress and also has a sample of the cocaine. Nick has some tacos and looks at the paper where Javier tells him murder is big business and sells papers. Nick notices the men who were killed also had corn husks and he rushes to the make-shift cooler where the DBs are kept. Dr Blanco wouldn't allow cross contamination. He tells Doc that he picked up the DBS, but then got a call saying he missed a DB. At the dump site, Nick finds tyre treads in blood, but they seem to have been made after the initial blood had already dried up. Whilst there, they're visited by some Cartel men, wanting to know why they are here.
At the lab, Finn (Elisabeth Shue) finds the gun barrel is damaged so chiseled out the interior of the gun to match the striations of the bullet. As well as finding a single hair. It's identified as belonging to Brett, but he tells Greg he didn't do it. Greg once again putting forward his story about Brett returning early to find Clare and Jeff together. He claims she didn't even like Jeff since she had the house fumigated last time he was there.
Hodges (Wallace Langham) tells Doc that Ana's blood didn't have any drugs and Hodges makes judgements about the office, pointing out mould spores and the like. Doc saying he's a hypochondriac and insane. Doc takes one of Ana's hairs and finds it's got traces of heavy metal poisoning. He finds mease lines on her nails, again an indication of poisoning and could explain the frostbite on her feet, as she'd be trying to keep them cool, after feeling them burn. Nick wonders what was in her nose and uses Doc's water to put some of the cocaine in the bottle, but it doesn't dissolve. He examines part of it under a microscope to find it's pulverized plastic, used in making milk jugs. There's a plant outside the town, again run by the Cartel, but Nick insists on going and takes Javier with him. He returns with a file of trucking records, as do the police. They arrest Javier for Ana's murder.
Nick calls Brass (Paul Guilfoyle) to tell them about this and he has the State Department ready to get them out. He tells them Nick and Doc are persons of interest in Ana's murder. Nick looks through the records and finds there was a delivery made from Las Vegas. Nick calls Brass so he can find the trucker. Mateo (Jorge Jimenez) is on his way back to Vegas. Brass questions him and he says she was already dead in one of the drums. He left her with the other DBs so she would be found and her parents would get some closure.
David shows Doc the DBs in the morgue as Doc's passing the time, not checking up on him. He finds that Clare also had traces of heavy metal poisoning. Meaning the two cases are related and they didn't need to travel to Mexico after all. Morgan (Elisabeth Harnois) mentions the green paint on Clare's shoes and Sara tells them that Clare may have been seeing an artist. She finds that the painter was renting out a room, but no one can recall his name. They find Ana's painting there and a sketch of Clare, ready to be painted. Greg also finds a broken wine glass which has traces of thallium. So they were both being poisoned. He kept them there so that they would have to depend on him, but took it too far. Sara finds a letter from Ana saying she's leaving.
Sara also finds Clare's nail in the back of Ana'a painting. She must have recognized her. Brett doesn't know his name cos he wasn't interested in hearing about him. DB talks with Gabriel, but he doesn't know who it could be as he owns the company but DB isn't accusing him of being involved. Obviously he knows who the employee is, cos he goes after him. Sara finds an artist, Keith (John Ruby) was commissioned to paint for them and he worked at Ana's and Clare's school. His phone is tracked to Gabriel's house. DB arrives in the nick, ha, to save Keith and prevent Gabriel from pulling the trigger, telling him it's not what Ana would've wanted.
Doc tells Blanco he apologized to the Police Chief, which he sees as a breath of fresh air, cos no one's that honest here. Doc leaves him his tools and wishes he could do more. Blanoc replies it's faith. Nick tells Javier to look him up when he's next in Vegas.
An ep where they start out with two different cases and evidence leads them to one case. Haven't done one of those in a while in CSI, love those eps. So good to see Nick take an active role in the ep too, considering he was made to miss out on five. Sara's back, but Henry's (Jon Wellner) still missing, ha. Also one of those eps where the husband didn't kill the wife, as they normally suspect, but funny to see Greg still going for that angle with his theories.
Fake fingernails lost at a CS have long been the vain of many a CSI ep ranging from CSI itself to CSI:Miami and CSI:NY so they're too numerous for me to list here, but nice to know that they're still going strong on that evidence front. No pun, re strong and nails, since this sometimes can't be used in the same sentence. Though must stop as this is fast becoming a fashion piece!! ha.
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