This ep of CSI begins differently to most eps in that Nick (George Eads) and Greg (Eric Szmanda) are already interviewing a Vic, Owen (Brandon Keener) who claims he had a chunk of his leg removed to be eaten. He was blindfolded and led to where this happened. He says that Nick took a bite out of him and we see Nick with blood on his hands and around his mouth as if he really did eat part of his body. He then changes his mind and says he sounded more like Greg. He could smell brimstone, but he didn't see his attacker. Doc (Robert David Hall) calls Nick and shows him the severed arm they found, which had a chunk removed from it like a steak and a serrated steak knife was used to make the cut. As well as the arm having traces of salt and sage, which Doc adds didn't come from his tasting but Hodge's (Wallace Langham) analysis. Nick hopes they find the rest of the body and that he will still be alive, which seems pretty unlikely. Maybe I should substitute pretty for highly unlikely.
Doc then examines the arm and DB (Ted Danson) takes a maggot from the arm, and they determine whoever made the cuts didn't have any medical training. Nick IDs the arm as belonging to a Dennis Hagel (Sheldon Coolman) and he hopes he turns out to be alive. Greg checks out Owen and tells DB he spent time on a cannibalistic website. He has a 'vore' fetish which stands for vorarephilia, a fantasy which involves another person eating them. Owen tells Greg it was just roleplay but he took it too far. After contacting him, he picked him up at his home and blindfolded him, He went along willingly. When Owen finds out what Dennis did for a living, filming, he directs (no pun) Greg to a website, which has a snuff video showing everywhere.
Sara (Jorga Fox) and Morgan (Elizabeth Harnois) watch this video as a Miss Feed apparently strips to her undies and then a man places an endoscopic camera in her mouth, leading to her stomach. Sara then notices the edge of the knife as she's stabbed on camera. Morgan prints frame by frame footage of the video and Sara finds from the stomach contents that she had eaten a doughnut covered hotdog, identifying she got her meal at Hangover Grill and she is IDed from the receipts as Brenda (Heather Ann Davis) with Morgan commenting she's not going there again. Morgan also tells Sara about a logo on the knife which is Russian.
Ecklie (Marc Vann) talks to DB about his job and how he misses being in the lab, it's a clean job and DB comments his is too, as long as he hasn't been burying bodies in the desert yet. He can understand why that happened. He's thinking of giving up being sheriff at the next election, but we somehow know that won't happen. There's not much evidence for them to go on at the moment. Morgan and Sara find Brenda's house and her DB, along with Dennis's. Both of them had chunks removed from their DBs, Dennis specifically had his whole arm removed and it appears that Dennis was stabbed first and is inconsequential. Her bag is also missing, so Sara thinks the killer is a cannibal, and a thief too.
Hodges tells Greg about reading up on cannibals since he took a cruise in the Caribbean when he was 11 and that the killer saw Brenda as eating all those bodies and thus she contained all their spirits. Her credit card was used by her sister, Colleen (Nicole LaLiberte) but she was in jail when Brenda was killed. She uses Meth and needed money from her which she wouldn't give her. Brenda told her she was helping people who couldn't help themselves much like Colleen.
Finn (Elisabeth Shue) has an invite to a party where Brenda was invited and Morgan rushed in asking if she's going on a date with Nick. Finn assures her it's only a 'work date.' Why did Morgan look so concerned, well she did. Nick and Finn enter the property where everyone watches them and appear to be feeding on bloody body parts. One of the guests who appears to be the host brings out the main course, an apparent DB on a table. Finn calls for back up and Nick finds it's jello. The DB wakes up and was paid $100 to be the main course, which Nick tells him will pay for his trespassing of the property.
Finn takes Gary Karlov (Steve Valentine) prints and notices the cufflinks, which have the same logo from the knife. It's a family crest from his village. Finn shows him the CS photos and he admits he's got a fetish of being fed on. He shows her his chest where he gave the killer pieces of his own flesh to eat and watched him dine, as well as giving him the knife. Brenda was helping him get over this fetish and the man, named Eater, didn't like losing his 'food' supply so he killed her.
Gary gives them a sketch of the man which is broadcast on the news, describing him as the devil. Greg works on where the man could be and where Owen was held, as he recalls train sounds, the smell of brimstone which Owen mentioned and could be sulphur from a pesticide factory. When Sara and Greg arrive there, the place is deserted but they find his table prepared for another meal.
A security man runs inside LVPD saying he has the man handcuffed in his car, but when they arrive, it's empty except for a severed hand in the handcuffs, which is supposed to show he ate his own hand and escaped. The security man, Todd (Eric Petersen) admits the killer chose him as he threatened his niece and nephew and had their photos. Also that when you looked at him, he talked you into doing whatever he wanted. Moments later he has a ceasure and dies of cyanide poisoning, leading Ecklie to say that he was the man as he wanted to be remembered for his crimes. Finn asks Gary to ID Todd, but he says it's not him, Finn thinking he's lying. David (David Berman) finds the hand didn't even belong to the killer but to someone else and it was cut, not bitten off from the arm.
DB is angry that Ecklie broadcast the news since they're not even sure he's the killer, but he's made his decision which is also to run for sheriff again. He thinks Todd and Gary were working as one to spread the myth. As DB gets a cup of coffee, he spots the killer in the crowd, but bumps into a woman and the killer vanishes.
Yeah, to return another episode, well he had better. CSI once again delving into the spooky and supernatural with this dark tale of fetish and a man being able to supernaturally control others. Suppose there could be some truth in the rumours that he could be supernatural and powerful as Hodges says, getting his powers from the spirits of the bodies he consumes, but he's really only going to turn out to be a killer with a fetish gone too far. Steven Valentine always appears in such macabre eps of shows, he was also into this stuff when he was in Crossing Jordan, as Dr Nigel Townsend. Also Brass and Henry were both missing this ep. Can't believe that Paul Guilfoyle didn't even get to film a whole season of 22 eps before they 'disposed' of him from the show!
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