A homeless man goes through stuff in an alley when he's jumped by a gang. They threaten him and eventually a masked man appears in a glow of light. He takes them on and shows them his taser as they go after him. Later Nick (George Eads) and Sara (Jorga Fox) arrive at the CS after his DB is found. As Nick removes the rubbish on the man's DB, he notices he's wearing a cape. Sara steps in some sticky substance in the alley and she asks him if that's a cape. He also finds a mask similar to Batman. Mitch (Larry Mitchell) brings Sara a backpack which contains a sketchbook and has a scene from the alley. As well as finding shoeprints indicating more than one assailant and also bare footprints. David (David Berman) mentions TOD to Nick and Sara notices a homeless man asking for his trolley. Back at the station, she gives him a pair of shoes from lost and found and also some food.
She questions Roger (Christopher May) and he tells her about the man saving him. He didn't hang around and ran off, but he recalls a red pick up truck. Morgan (Elisabeth Harnois) tells DB (Ted Danson) she found some granules stuck to the bottom of the shoe prints and DB thinks they got stuck there cos of the sticky substance and could be coffee granules. Greg (Eric Szmanda) shows him some security footage showing a masked gang smashing the windows of a store. He and Finn (Elisabeth Shue) process the CS and he takes shoe impressions. There's also white powder on the ground which came from the phosphorous lighting. Finn wonders if it could have prints, but then notices some blood on the glass.
Sara finds out DB collected comics when he was a teen and spent his last dime on them. She didn't have any such fantasy and was more of a science and numbers kind of person. She tries to show DB something from the sketch book, but Hodges (Wallace Langham) comes in telling them the ground trace was actually walnut shells, after telling them how long ago walnuts were discovered, at least have been around for 8,000 years. The shells were charred and had traces of calcium chlorate, when he leaves, Henry (Jon Wellner) comes in with a familial match to the DNA from the blood, belonging to a three striker, Martin Preach who has a son named Trey (Quincy Jones). Sara finally shows him the sketch which shows a gang member with a purple Mohawk, the same as in the mugshot.
Nick questions Trey and he says they saw him around when cruising the streets dressed in his costume and he wasn't all with it. When they tell him he's dead, he denies killing him. Morgan says that none of the boots match the ones from the store so they're looking at two different gangs in the same area. DB thinks she should look for Roger, the homeless man to see if he recalls Trey and his purple hair. In the alley they don't find Roger, but Morgan is confronted by two others wearing costumes. Greg holds a gun on one of them and says that they'd better stop unless they're faster than a speeding bullet.
They mention protecting the neighbourhood cos the police are all at the casinos and protecting tourists and find out their friend, Dominion is dead. They were looking for him cos he didn't return home and Morgan asks his name so they can inform his family. Brad Jeffries (Levi Fiehler). DB talks with his mother, Carla (Ely Pouget) and step father, Seth (Leif Gantvoort) (and could I now say that he was my suspect already). Brad got involved with the superhero side about a year ago and Tina (Tania Raymonde) and Scott (Greg Finley) were his best friends. They hung out in the basement. Nick talks to them and Tina says she was a Vic once, but Scott says he wasn't and he inflicted pain on others but this is his redemption. He sees more of his sketches and notices a red pick up in one of them They tell Nick about a man harassing a hooker and Brad helped out, then dented his fender.
Morgan mentions how there are plenty of superheroes on the Net and Hodges tells her and Sara about the walnut shells which came back to a pool cleaning company, Sundip Pool Supply. The calcium chlorate and shells are used to clean pool tiles as the walnuts are less abrasive than sand. Greg asks Doc (Robert David Hall) about Brad and he tells him he was alive after the beating at least for 60 minutes. COD was a hit to the back of the head by some object such as a club or baseball bat. Greg shows DB the marks on the back of Brad's neck and DB recognizes them as belonging to his own bat as shown in his skteth when he damaged the fender. Sara found charred walnut shells at the pool company and a demolition crew led by Tony (Dale Pavinski) were the only ones there. He also owns a red pick up. Nick and Finn head to his yard but they find him dead, wedged between his truck.
David puts TOD at midnight and Finn notices scratches at the side of the truck. Which Nick thinks could've come from Scott or Tina's suit. Sara talks with Tina who tells her she was here all night with Brad's mother but she doesn't know where Scott is. Sara tells Tina she should do something more like helping out at the shelter or helping at risk children. Greg and Morgan spoke with Tony's crew and four of them confessed to the beating but that's all. He was still alive. DB thinks maybe Tony's mask came off and he saw his face, so he came back later and killed him. But Morgan finds Tony had an alibi and was drinking.
Scott says he had gone to look for Tony and found him with the truck engine running. He reached out to feel his pulse and the blood must've gotten onto him. He lawyers up. Metcalfe (Joseph Patrick Kelly) hands them the baseball club found with Roger, who was threatening tourists, wearing a bin liner cape. Sara asks him about that night again and he says he found the club in an alley with a golden star. Nick tells DB that David's TOD was off by 18 hours cos the truck engine was running, which means Scott has an alibi. Hodges comes in mentioning trace from the bat which is all found in Ethiopian cuisine. He hands Nick an address near the CS. In the alley, Finn notices the golden star on a flag but the dumpster is empty. She also points to the camera. This shows Seth. See right again! ha. Tony approached him in the bar after he heard them talking about Brad. He wanted to teach Brad a lessen in the hopes of getting this superhero nonsense out of his system, cos he was 23 and living at home, so?
He joked about paying him $1,000 to rough him up and after some drinks this turned real. He found Brad in the alley and he made a mistake of talking about the gang which Brad didn't tell him of. Yes but Roger knew so he could'be made up any story about someone telling him. He tells DB that he hit Brad as an impulse cos he was going to tell his mother. But he's not a killer. Seth then saw Tony who got the chance to get more money from him, he rigged the winch cable so he'd get caught into it. DB adding the fist time was an impulse, the second time was murder, but he's not a killer. DB gives Sara a collection of his best comics cos she needs some fantasy in her life. It'll be their secret and she can still be known as a science and numbers woman at the lab. She thanks him. Nick's joke about him being superman, he already calls David, SuperDave!
This ep took me back to CSI:NY and their superhero episode, 2.19 Supermen, which was similar in many respects cos the hero in that was also killed, whilst out doing some good and prevented a man being mugged. Though that ep showed that the CSIs were doing good as they ploughed on doing their jobs. As Stella asked Mac if he ever pretended to be a superhero. Another ep where Sara shows more of her past and what she's really like and another locker room scene at the end. As DB says to her earlier, she's more into the right and wrong and back and white kinda stuff.
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