Felt like back to old territory with this CSI ep, which kind of wanted to put in twists and turns at every instance to make the episode appear a little different, but really didn't make much of a difference. Oh and my suspect I got straightaway, sorry if you don't like me always writing that, ha, force of habit! The DB of a girl is found in her car on a highway and it appear she's been there overnight, after the driver abandons the car there and leaves on the headlights.
Nick (George Eads) arrives at the scene where Det Crawford (Alimi Ballard) is already examining the CS. The Vic was Debbie Logan (Hannah Kasulka) a sixteen year old girl, but there's no evidence to indicate she was actually killed in the car. She has a headwound and Morgan (Elisabeth Harnois) finds the car seat had been pushed back and the seat was too far for her to have driven it herself. Yes it was the 'old seat in wrong position' ploy. Greg (Eric Szmanda) finally manages to get a print off the passenger door and this is matched to a thief, Ernesto Sanza (Emiliano Torres) who also left a flyer on the screen of her car. There was no rain, so the flyer must've been placed there during the night as it's still in pristine condition.
Autopsy evidence reveal Debbie was sexually assaulted and there's also trace under her fingernails. The DNA from which doesn't lead to a match in the system. Finn (Elisabeth Shue) is dismayed at yet another young rape Vic and once again it's a case close to her heart, since she was almost in that position too in Girls Gone Wild, not so long ago and it seems she still hasn't been able to come to terms with what's happened. She still has trouble believing this could happen to someone so young and vulnerable.
DB (Ted Danson) talks with Debbie's parents, as he's more usually tasked with that lately. Her parents had no idea that she was out and she'd taken the car. Her father, Jim Logan (Jack Coleman) is a Reverend and they took her phone from her cos of falling grades. Nor did she sneak out to see boys. In short, she was the perfect child, with the perfect life. Now the reason why I thought it would be one of them, is the way her mother, Carolyn (Rya Kihlstedt) held onto Jim's hand, there was just something about that in terms of not all couples acting in this way. Especially since he was a Reverend and the way he had the Bible.
Ernesto states he uses the flyers to steal from peoples' cars but he didn't kill her or rape her and he put the flyer up in the desert. The car was at a certain spot and he gives them the location. Here Nick and Greg visit and Nick finds a flyer, so he may have been telling the truth about dumping the flyers and going home. They knock on the door of the building and are let in as the bartender,Rex (Paul Telfer) assumes they're the Harris brothers. Nick and Greg looking like brothers, ha. Well, obviously no one would use their real names etc. They're lead inside and can pick any girl they want and Nick notices the blue tinsel which also was found in Debbie's hair. So apparently, they're 'accosted' by the girl's and Nick insists they're not going to get what they want here. The brothel owner, Madame Suzanne (Sherilyn Fenn) turns up and she claims she hasn't seen Debbie nor does she pimp out sixteen year old girls.
She lets them look around on the condition that Nick lets her know if anything catches his eye. They look at the different signs to the doors and Nick seems to have a particular penchant for the 'Asian Room', ha. Greg takes the 'Western' room to analyze and he notices the coloured bottles on the table. Similar to the shard of glass Doc (Robert David Hall) found embedded in Debbie's knee which came from an apothecary bottle. Nick also finds blood in the floorboards and Greg finds more broken glass.
Everyone is brought out of their rooms and the clients are arrested. One of them is a prominent supervisor for Brine County, Roger Ridley (John Heard) and he helped Suzanne open up the place legally. She tells them that Rex told her about the girl he found outside and she told him to dispose of her DB. Rex made it so she'd be found and wasn't trying to hide anything. He also covered over the blood on the ground. Then hitched back. Nick telling him he's an idiot, yeah you messed up the CS and took the DB away too.
Hodges (Wallace Langham) and Henry (Jon Wellner) (who made an appearance this ep, finally, as Sara and Brass vanish, ha.) Check the dirt and Hodges finds a 1926 penny, he wonders if it's worth anything. Henry finds a piece of turquoise, whilst asking Hodges about the story going round that he frequented a brothel too. He replies he did but it's another story. Henry handing him the turquoise saying, "don't say I never give you anything."
Nick also finds the rock in the bushes that was used as the murder weapon and also footprints from a pointed shoe, possibly one with a high heel. Finn and Greg takes samples from the shoes the girls are wearing and one of them calls Greg 'Prince Charming', ahh. He also gets a sample of a shoe (it's a flip flop, okay and not a thong, we don't call them thongs here!) which has glass embedded in it. Finn saying Kirsten (Tina Ivlev) told her she wasn't in the Western room. She tells her of how they sometimes find runaways here and she didn't want Suzanne finding out she was here. She's about to tell her more, which Greg thinks could've been a confession, but Jim walks in and stops them. Okay he goes on to reveal he's her father. That she ran away from home and this is the only chance he gets to see her on a Tuesday. He pays $500 for the privilege.
So he does frequent the brothel but not for the reason they earlier believed, as he also has an alibi for the day Debbie was killed. He'll get the best lawyer for her no matter the cost. DB and Finn discuss the case and they are told that there's DNA in the Asian Room belonging to the same person that raped Debbie, leading back to Roger, of course. He used to play Calleigh's dad in CSI:Miami, hmm, wonder what she'd say about all this? Ha. This is where Nick and Crawford head and arrest him, but her father ha already beaten them to it, holding a gun on him and threatening to shoot. Nick talks him down.
Crawford says they have evidence he raped Debbie and it wasn't consensual, as he points to the scratch marks on Roger's face. Finn later confronts her mother as Roger''s made a statement telling them she was behind selling Debbie to him. Carolyn was a prostitute herself and was arrested three times, but she Lord what she did. She wanted her daughters to do the same and she's not remorseless at all, especially since they were adopted. Also she married Jim but she didn't have a perfect life, he was stifling and she hated being married to him. They also have the bloody shoes she wore at the CS and Crawford shows her the photo of the turquoise bracelet she had at home, from which she lost the stone.
Jim is distraught at what's happened, feeling he wasn't there for his family, but DB tells him it's not too late, as Kirsten walks in. At least he has the chance to make amends with one daughter. But it's often the case, when helping others, it's family members who garner the least attention. Paul Telfer played Marine Corporeal Damon Werth in three eps of NCIS and was the man Tony (Michael Weatherly) thought Ziva (Cote de Pablo) was seeing.
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