At the CS, the investigation is already underway as Brass (Paul Guilfoyle) takes charge and wants the press to stop broadcasting and wants the dog removed. Inside a woman has been shot and killed, she's Lee Berman's (Gil Bellows) wife, bigwig owner of a casino who has connections to Ecklie (Marc Vann) and threatens to call him too, when Nick (George Eads) catches up to him. He finds a gun in his car and an empty bag in the car boot. Inside the house Doc (Robert David Hall) comes out in person cos he knew her and she was a good woman. As DB (Ted Danson) later tells him, the good always pay for the bad.
Inside, Finn (Elizabeth Shue) takes photos of the CS and Greg (Eric Szmanda) works out how the elaborate security works at the house and how the intruder managed to evade it to shoot her. DB finds a laptop on the bedroom floor and a woman appears inside of it, then everything disappears. If Berman had moved out of the house and taken his clothes with him, what was the laptop doing there.
Cue Washington DC and a woman, Ryan Avery (Patricia Arquette) who's interested in Berman and wants to go to Vegas to pursue this case. She's finally given clearance and has a spat with the pilot of the airplane, thinking she's getting special treatment by her having them fly her there. She retorts with a witty comeback and he doesn't want to get embarrassed any further and so agrees to take her. Morgan (Elisabeth Harnois) finds the bullets from Berman's gun don't match to the 9mm casings left at the CS, even if he did have GSR on his hand when Nick tested him at the CS. Thus he may have been at the firing range since he's a member. Berman is shocked that his wife has been killed and when questioned by Brass, his lawyers prevent him from talking.
Avery listens in and wants to ask her own questions, she's from FBI Cybercrimes and is a behavioural scientist. She watches Berman's pupils enlarge when she shows him a photo of Kitty and she's not here to ask him about his wife. He makes the lawyers leave and she knows that he was having an online affair with her. She talks to the rest of the team and calls her own computer analyst, Clikk (Kick Gurry) asking who is into online dating sites. Nick gives Hodges's (Wallace Langham) name since it's a good name and she finds out he's been on sites but not this particular one. He explains it's cos of his fiancee, but she doesn't need to know.
Pulling up Kitty on the website, she works out Kitty isn't real but is an avatar. That's what I said, she didn't look real from her movements. Also she sees her touch the left side of her face and knows that the person is real, but the person controlling her is behind the scam. She's used men agents and others to chat with Kitty but she only responds to those who have money. Avery wants to work with Finn and will be able to use the hard drive to find info. She finds that Berman was online and was being watched whilst she talked about sex, from which she earlier discovered is all Kitty talked about. She also finds footage of Berman telling her he's not going to pay anymore and that he wants to meet by the Blue Diamond with the money, but to leave his family alone, when Kitty threatens them.
Nick checks out Berman's car and finds that the empty bag could have been used to make a payoff to the real killer even if he didn't actually kill her. Also that he manually programmed the address of the Blue Diamond into the car. Berman admits he was having an affair and was ashamed to mention it before cos he was doing this and his wife got killed cos of it. They find that he was paying off the cyber criminal to stop him from hurting his wife, but there wasn't any money there and cos he was defiant, he made the man angry and he went after his wife.
Berman is released and is able to pick up his dog, but he says he doesn't own a dog. The dog is from a shelter and Nick also finds CCTV footage of the man who rescued the dog from the shelter. Hodges and Greg both saying it's Nick with a pooch. Hodges says that Greg will be looking after her. Hodges manages to find she was a shelter dog from her chip and Nick thinks since the gated community was able to have people walking their dogs, that's how the killer got in. Security would have thought he was just another man. They finds the killer's abandoned car at the airport and he's in the wind. Nick also shows Avery the 'proof of kill' video on the burn phone which she didn't particularly want to watch.
As Berman is released, he sees a woman who is Kitty and calls out to her. Kitty is actually Susan (Torrey DeVitto) just a wife and mother of two girls who says her face has been plastered all over the news. He took her face and her body to make an avatar and take money from people by running this sex site. Avery asks her if she's on any social sites and she's on one, 'Friendagenda' but she only knows two people on there. There's once called Nebula 1, who has been on the site a number of times. Avery also tells Susan that she grinds her teeth at night, which is why she touches her face, that's how she knew she was real. Avery manages to find out what his avatar pic was before Nebula 1 and she asks Nick how often he's changed his avatar, he says once after he shaved his beard off. Yes noticed there was something different about Nicky! ha. She comments how Nebula means dark mist.
She looks at his room and Nick notices all the take out boxes in his trash, as well as saying the photo was taken in the dark. Avery posits he's an agoraphobe who has his food delivered so he can't go out. She asks Nick why he thought the photo was taken in the night and he says cos of the stars outside. Obviously I said they weren't stars but lights and this leads her to the archway. When officers arrive, he's gone but there's plenty of screens open with men on the sites. She asks to see the four corners of the room and tells them to run when she sees the camera. Also knew that explosion was coming, it was that obvious.
Avery is angry she didn't realize before that he wasn't in Vegas and she says DB's killer and her man are in the wind now, she made him go outside. She finds the only way she can lure him out now is if she uses Susan as bait, but she promised she'd protect her and her daughters. She makes her give a press conference to lure him out and says that she was used by him and was cyber raped, which is still rape, she wants him to come out and she's not afraid of him. Avery arrives at her house pretending to be her and he comes up behind her with a gun. Avery tells him he wants to hurt her but he hasn't used that gun before. He got the killer to kill Berman's wife, but he threatens to use it now. She makes him use the knife saying he wants to cut her, which he does when he slashes her arm. She won't use her code word yet, cos she's adding more time to his sentence for assaulting an agent. She finally says her code word, 'mushroom' and he's arrested.
Avery brings out Susan's husband to visit them from Afghanistan and says she'll be seeing DB again. This was the Pilot ep to new show CSI:Cyber, which Channel 5 will be showing here next year. Adding a third show to the CSI line of spin offs with CSI:Miami which ran for ten years and CSI:NY which ran for nine and were no longer seen as viable options. Funny when she was walking to the plane, that music/song being played had a beat of CSI:Miami "Won't Get Fooled Again" to it. So she's off to investigate a bank robbery where 3C was stolen out of many accounts, adding up to $80 million, will that be the first ep of the new series.
Right will have to remember Nick's line of 'back the bus up!" for future reference when some shocking comment is required! ha. Seemed like a bit of a routine ep but showing how easy it is to get hacked and info used from social networks and sites. Sara wasn't in this ep and neither was Henry again.
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