A supposedly normal family is shown in their house at dinner and then mysteriously disappear .
30 days Later. The house is empty and inside they find an unconscious man. He hit his head and fell. So he would've bled to death if the little girl selling chocolate bars hadn't found him. He's Doug (Nico Nicotero) and is an addict with a criminal record. He tells them the family found him and brought him home to work for him. The son, Ethan (Robby Rassmussen) picked him up at the minimart for odd jobs around the house and they even let him stay there. They asked him to dig trenches for the sprinklers in the garden. Greg (Eric Szmanda) processes him and Brass (Paul Guilfoyle) is convinced he knows the whereabouts of the Connor family, since he's their suspect. Well, not mine though.
Finn (Elisabeth Shue) finally gets to work her blood analysis expertise at the CS, so I was a little hasty in saying last ep she doesn't do that anymore. But she still looked so smug and she's always laughing. She finds the blood spatter is concentrated in one area on the floor, but then there's blood spatter and cast off veering in different directions. Some of it is facing downwards on the cabinets, which means it didn't belong to Doug. There's also some on the ceiling and Nick (George Eads) finds a curtain missing from the window, the remaining curtain also has a missing tieback. Finn throws Nick out so she can use the luminol and doesn't want him trampling on evidence.
Outside Morgan (Elisabeth Harnois) finds the window pane has new caulking on it and Nick notices the pane of glass has been replaced. He also notices some red stain on the mat outside, which could be blood. Nick speaks with the neighbour, Madge (Edie McClurg) who tells him that she thought the family were moving as there was a large storage truck out there. As well as seeing Doug there too, she thought he was a relative. She gives him the name of the removal company. Las Vegas Consignments. Doug tells Brass he ran out of money for food and as he didn't get paid, he sold off some furniture and then gradually sold off more of it. He didn't tell the police about the family, cos he'd be accused. They left in their blue SUV and didn't come back.
Nick manages to track down the furniture and it's brought back, DB (Ted Danson) told them about the blood spatter for the reluctant ones who wouldn't give it up. Also noticing the poker in the fireplace is missing in the set. Finn also finds a whole lot of blood concentrated in the middle of the room and then drag marks going towards the back door, so a DB was dragged out. Morgan uses ground penetration radar and finds the family dog buried in the garden with its throat cut.
Morgan does a search of the dumpsters and finds a storage receipt. Hodges (Wallace Langham) telling her he keeps a recycling diary, detailing how much he recycles. He wished people would recycle more cos landfill is getting full up with too much waste that can be recycled. Yeah, you hear! The storage is in Doug's name. He tell them he didn't go there and it's not him in the photo. Obviously it's not him as he's got his head down and wears a hat. He's not the only one who wears plaid either. Brass tells him he knew Ethan as they were in the same hospital together, as Ethan was in hospital when his car brakes were cut, but Ethan doesn't even recall him. The obvious giveaway being that Ethan knew him and so Ethan becomes a suspect now.
Brass interviews Dwight's (Adam Lieberman) boss, Marvin Braxton (Robert Davi) who imports from Columbia ad his company has been accused of money laundering. He says Dwight stole money from him and it's in his personal account. Dwight was CFO for him and the money is still there. At the storage facility Finn and Morgan find the SUV and blood in the back, as well as Dwight's DB. It's mummified and has been there a long time. Morgan matches DNA from the blood to a female, so it could have been the wife, Claire (Kenda Benward) in the back, which still leaves open what happened to the children. Morgan notices tar on the side of the car, so he possibly drove through a newly tarred road and was made to dump the DBs before being brought here.
Doc (Robert David Hall) finds he was beaten, blunt force trauma being the COD. Hodges finds debris from the car which is red in colour indicating Red Rock canyon, after talking about the reptilian Mesozoic era. Morgan calls the Department of Transport and they find which road has been tarred recently. Using ground penetrating radar again, Morgan finds a possible DB. It's a woman wrapped in their own curtain from the house and they assume it to be Claire. Doc autopsies her and Finn notices the IAD she's wearing. Which is unusual since she had a hysterectomy. The woman was beaten and is identified as Jessica Fenton (Tina Casciani) She works in IT and on her computer, Nick finds a sex tape with Dwight. It's apparent she was recording that as she looks straight at the camera. Sh also put the money into Dwight's account.
They assume that Claire found out and invited her to the house, where she beat her up. Thus it was her in the chair and not Dwight. They decided to cover her death up. But then if she hadn't gotten carried away with beating her, she could have claimed self defence since she was stalking her. There's also DNA found Dwight's his fingernails which belongs to Ethan. Which is what I said, then I changed my mind and said both the children did it and boy was I right (as usual, ha!) Then later changed my mind again. It could have been all Heather (Leah Bateman).
Morgan finds Jessica's credit card was used in two places in Arizona, once to buy bus tickets for the family and to check into a motel. Here the police find Heather and Brass interviews her. She says she didn't report them since she didn't want to get them into trouble. Her family isn't perfect but they ruined her life. See, it's all about her, which makes me think she killed the father too. She says it wouldn't have happened if he "kept it in." Cos Ethan was also sleeping with the mistress. So she could be referring to both of them. They left for a movie she says and she hasn't seen them since. Yeah cos after everything that happened, you'd really wanna go see a movie. That look she gave and her entire demeanour changed when she said they ruined her life. As the camera pans into the canyon and the DB's of both Ethan and the mother buried underground.
They did stringing in this ep, finally, I love the stringing aspect of it. It's just so interesting. DB resorting to using the old protractor to measure the angles of the blood. Also finding that the husband was probably subdued with the curtain tieback and then beaten with the poker, as he'd be the first to be taken care of. Lots of clues here telling you that this wasn't the perfect family, as DB thinks they were. A beautiful wife and children doesn't automatically mean perfect family. Nick also pointing out that they're all doing separate things in their photos, except for the one family photo together, which realistically looking at it, hides a lot of secrets.
Well this ep was a repeat in terms of storyline in some ways to the CSI ep 1.7 Blood Drops, where the entire family was killed and the daughter, Tina did it, which is what I said when watching. Turns out the daughter did it again here. As well as the ep in CSI:Miami when the entire family was killed once again, but the daughter survived. Though she wasn't the killer. Gosh my brain/mind works so laterally doesn't it, thinking back so far! Ha. Then again I like making those sorts of connections and allusions.
Henry (Jon Wellner) returned in this ep but Sara was missing again. Liked the way in which Greggie was adept in accusing Doug as he's done in the past. So very dedicated of him.
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