Greg (Eric Szmanda) and David (David Berman) are already at the CS when Nick (George Eads) arrives and they think it was a hit and run, but Nick tells them the angles are all wrong, and the car's direction isn't right to send him in that direction. The glass on the ground is thick so came from a window, David's found plenty of glass on the Vic. Nick thinks they may have a jumper. Greg says there's nowhere to jump from on the block. David finds his ID shows Silver Spring office tower 30th floor, they all look towards it. Nick: "well you've gotta admit that's one hell of a jump." I said he sprung along way! Nick, Greg and David were at the CS in the opening last ep too. Kind of deja vu.
Greg and DB (Ted Danson) check out the building and DB remarks a tornado went through there. Greg notices the glass is the same. Two blown out windows like an entrance and exit wound. Something came though one window and went out the other. Greg says you can hit it with a baseball bat and nothing would happen to the glass and it could be a rocket propelled grenade which could've been on a timer. DB says the pattern is radial. The propeller sent him out onto the street. Greg says what goes up comes down and must be out there. DB wants the window put back together, needle in a haystick or an impossible puzzle. Greg and Finn (Elisabeth Shue) put the glass back together on the window. When they've done it Greg comments it's bigger than any RPG he's ever seen and Finn measures the hole to about 24-30 inches long.
Morgan (Elisabeth Harnois) talks with Sara, (Jorga Fox) cos that was her little on air scene this ep and thinks the Vic Bradley Weeks' firm had links to the Colombian cartel. Hodges (Wallace Langham) analyzes the scorch mark evidence and tries to find what it is, as Henry (Jon Wellner) walks in. Hodges refers to it as a UFO, not in the usual sense of the word, though he is happy that they're not alone in the universe. He found jet aviation fuel in the scorch marks and charcoal in the residue which he and Henry both say is carbon. Hodges might be able to determine if the jet was going fast or slow and finds it was going slow and also whether it was throttling up or down.
Nick determines a general area where the object could've landed and he and Finn find a damaged taxi with the object inside it and the remains of a human body. The taxi driver (Robert Romanus) says he was home all night and no one was meant to be in it. Finn finds the helmet and the boot which Nick says still has part of a foot in it. He and DB watch the video of a man flying in what's known as a wind suit or squirrel suit and which can fly at 200mph. He sees how Morgan and Hodges are going at putting the suit back together and Morgan mentions her ex used to have a sky diving suit which made him look like a clown, infact a lot of his clothes made him look like a clown. Nick comments that's why he's her ex. This suit was more sophisticated and she also found a black box. Henry tells them he matched the DNA to a military database after getting no hits in CODIS and it belonged to Robert Holland (Cuyle Carvin) he's in the airforce and stationed at Nellis.
DB questions his CO, Major Mills (Matt Letscher) and his wife, Amanda (Tamara Feldman). Mills says the suit came from TRP a DOD contractor and that Robert wasn't on duty last night. He was quick to pass the buck to TRP, so he was my immediate suspect and how he kept touching Amanda. Not to mention he also wanted it to seem like Robert was flying when not on the job. Later Amanda tells DB that she doesn't believe he'd do that and that the airforce will try and take his pension away from her. DB promises to do what he can.
Greg finds there were two parachutes in the suit but none of them had been used. He also found a parachute that would've been set off automatically. Nick places the chute inside the chamber, expecting a pop when the shoot was meant to open at that particular descent level. Nothing happens and Greg notices the wiring on the chute has been altered, when he rewires the circuit, the chute pops as it should've done. Nick and Crawford (Alimi Ballard) speak with his boss at TRP, Claudia Mason (Virginia Williams) who seemed to be flirting with Nick, especially when she asked him what his name was. She mentions Project Icarus and Nick mentions that's a strange name for a project considering what happened to Icarus in the Greek myth.
At the lab they're introduced to Ferris (Arjun Gupta) who is working on the suit. He designed his own tools and they take him to the station for questioning, Nick taking a look at that tool too. He tells Ferris the tool is similar to the one used to alter his chute and Ferris begins to get a headache, asking for something for it. Ferris tells them he knew about Robert logging extra hours for money after hours, it was an incentive Claudia paid them. He holds his head and neck and then starts talking about some girl they met before falling to the ground in violent convulsions. He bleeds out.
Doc (Robert David Hall) calls it a cerebral edema and he could've had HACE: High Altitude Cerebral Edema and he found Robert also had this too. Finn mentions Nick talking about the hypobaric chamber and thinks Ferris could've also been in this. Nick has a warrant to search the lab as Claudia is concerned about meeting deadlines and he needs a military judge's warrant. He tells her he doesn't need JAG permission to search. She doesn't have the key for the black box, the airforce does. DB tries to get the key from Mills telling him his wife is concerned and it's the right thing to do, which he agrees to do. See once again the suspect trying to be too helpful like they used to do in CSI:Miami eps.
Hodges goes through the box and finds that Robert was already dead as his vital signs all indicated zero. Greg recalls the Sherlock Holmes quote (nice reference again to Sherlock as Greg was in that CSI ep 5.11 Who Shot Sherlock when he was finishing his proficiency test- some good continuity there) "eliminate all factors, the one that remains must be the truth." He looks at the altimeter reading which shows he didn't jump from a plane. He calculates the flight path showing he jumped from Delmar Towers, so he was base jumping. Where Claudia also had a room. They figure out they were having an affair and he must've died on her so she put him into the suit and disposed of the DB from the top of the building.
Morgan and Greg check out the room and Greg finds blood on the side of the bed. He then uses luminol to spray the floor, finding a large blood pool as well as a blood trail leading to cast off on a wall. The blood pool shows Robert was beaten. Morgan finds the murder weapon with blood and a hair on it. Crawford shows them security camera footage from the night which shows Amanda and him fighting. Claudia denies knowing that Robert used the room and she's lawyered up. She noticed he'd been acting differently and she thought he was having an affair. He told her he was doing a base jump. She's not lying now. Hodges tells Nick that Robert had furosmide in him and it's a diuretic, used by models and body builders. In large doses it can be lethal and the sodium inside of him made it worse as he was also in the hypobaric chamber.
Henry process the sheets on the bed and the murder weapon and finds a DNA match, not to Claudia but to Mills. See, he was so helpful and out of character for military people, who are never helpful. Mills admits they were having an affair but to him it was more. Robert decided to leave him and he lost it. He killed Ferris cos he was Robert's best friend and he would'be known about them. As Crawford shows him the bottle of furosmide they found in his apartment. He did it not once but twice cos he didn't have a choice. Finn replies there's always a choice.
DB talks with Amanda who finds there's nothing but an empty house to go to. She asks if he keeps secrets from his wife and he replies he used to but not anymore. She tells him she's lucky. But aren't they having problems together. We haven't seen his wife in a long time.
A bit of a routine ep but at least we had some interesting scenes with Greg and Nick. CSI likes to indulge in eps where they have to figure out where the body came from. They've done quite a few of those. Like Scuba Doobie Do, 3.10 High and Low where Nick, Warrick and Grissom found a man was thrown from a six storey building was already dead before hitting the ground, that was too similar to this ep. To name but a few eps.
I always wanted to get my joke in somewhere and now I can, about the Flying Dutchman, aka die Fliegende Hollander in German, thus Robert's last name was Holland and so he could be seen as 'the Flying Dutchman' very appropriate here, don't you think! Or just one of my bad jokes.
You may remember Matt Letscher from Scandal as Billy, still playing a bad guy here as well!
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