Two girls are at the mall and on of them gives the other a make-over. They leave and some boys whistle at them, as one of them wearing a baseball cap watches the newly made over girl, Cara (Harley Graham). Her sister Lexi (Hunter King) says she looks hot and she meets someone called Axel (Luke Benward) who introduces her to Peter (Chad Addison). They go off together and Lexi leaves her with Peter, as they head somewhere more private. Nick (George Eads) is called to the CS where Peter is found with his head in the toilet. David (David Berman) says his throat was cut and he's only been dead for about an hour. Nick notices what looks like the remains of some sort of bug on the back of Peter's jacket. David finds his phone in his pocket and Nick tells him it could have his ID on there. Also telling David to use Peter's thumb to get into it, coming up with the name Peter Corday. Sara (Jorga Fox) tells Nick that a cleaner was suspicious of the sign on the door and he looked inside. Nick shows her the photo of the girl who is Cara, on the phone and Sara notices her shopping bag could lead to her identity.
Morgan (Elisabeth Harnois) tells DB (Ted Danson) that the credit card used in the shop belongs to a John Nolan (Brett Cullen) head of the San Diego crime lab. He's in Vegas for a wedding and she adds Nick is speaking with him since he once offered him a job at his lab. Nick explains that his credit card was used and he shows John the photo of the girl. He recognizes her as his daughter Cara. He mentions she was at the mall wit her sister, Lexi. She lives in Vegas with her mother, Tori (Lisa Rinna). Nick asks for their numbers so he can ping them and a recent photo of Lexi. Hodges (Wallace Langham) finds the exoskeleton Nick found belonged to the hairy desert scorpion, which is native to Nevada anyway. Its venom can't kill and his cousin found one once in her shoe. Doc (Robert David Hall) has done the autopsy on Peter, saying he died from exsanguination and the killer was right handed.
Finn (Elisabeth Shue) finds footage from the mall cameras, showing Lexi with the other man, Axel and Peter. She puts him through facial recognition, showing he has a record for pandering and Sara is shocked that he's a pimp, so he could have taken them for sex trafficking. He tells Sara he doesn't know what happened to them cos Lexi left later and he was at work. He also has a scorpion tattoo on his neck, which was a bit of a red herring. Ecklie (Marc Vann) tells DB to do whatever they can to find the missing girls, with DB pointing out that they found theirs and Ecklie also adds they should do everything to keep John informed.
Morgan triangulates the girl's phone signal and she and Greg (Eric Szmanda) head out there. They find their phones but not them. One of the phones has a video showing a man driving them in a car and demanding the phone when he sees Lexi making the video. So he threw the phones out there, but didn't leave any prints behind on them, especially as Greg uses his finger on the screen to play the video, didn't think they'd have him do that. Greg notices he doesn't have a tattoo on his neck, so it wasn't Axel. Nick tells John of Axel's alibi checking out and that it wasn't him on the video, John wants to see the video, but Nick advises against it. Saying that he's going to do everything to get them back. He also asks if he's got any enemies and any recent cases he's been working on. John mentions a biker gang and Nick asks for the file. Morgan also says Lexi tried to send the video to someone and it turns out to be John's number. He says she and Lexi were estranged but Morgan adds she reached out to him and that means something. Since she was in the same position with Ecklie.
Finn tells DB the biker gang angle didn't pan out and maybe the kidnapping had nothing to do with John. Greg tells DB about a man named Dennis who's been sending Lexi texts of his genitals. He hands DB the file, but he doesn't want to see the photos. As well as a text which reads, "you're just like you're mother." Sara interviews Tori and she says she found Dennis on top of Lexi about to remover her clothes, but she didn't call the police. They'd been drinking and doing E and Lexi tried some too. The police would've found out and she'd have lost custody. Got to ask what John saw in Tori, cos they really were as mismatched as they come. John is angry and confronts her and Sara has to stop them, reminding them that this is about finding their daughters.
Morgan finds the car driven was a 1986 Chevrolet Suburban and Nick gets a text. He heads to the CS, where Officer Mitchell (Larry Mitchell) tells him of finding the girl. Nick looks at her and he asks if that's one of them. Nick replies it's Lexi and it appears she's got blunt force trauma to her head. They didn't find Cara. The marks on her feet suggest she tried to run. A foreman found her in the dumpster and a neighbour heard a noise, but the car drove away by the time she got to the window, she thinks it was an SUV. Greg thinks Nick would've been here, but Sara tells him he wanted to be the one to process Lexi. Sara having found her necklace at the scene, tells him there wasn't enough blood so she was dumped there.
Nick processes the DB, but John is also there and tells him he shouldn't be there. He leaves and Doc tells Nick her head was smashed against a hard surface and the ligature marks on her wrists and ankles show she tried to escape. Also she broke her fingernails trying to get free. She has a bite mark on her shoulder which Nick says looks like the sting mark from a scorpion. He has Doc check out the venom. As Doc explains blunt force trauma was the COD but if she had venom in her body, it would've slowed her down, allowing the killer to catch up to her. Sara asks how John is doing and she couldn't imagine losing a child like that. Also how he sent Nick a football shirt a few years back, signed by a player. Nick couldn't leave Vegas behind as this is his home, his friends and family are here, as he points to Sara. Besides it wasn't a promotion or anything, just a job and San Diego is an expensive place.
Henry (Jon Wellner) tells DB the sting was from a deathstalker scorpion. They're from Israel and are dangerous, though some people keep them as pets. Greg tells Morgan a lot of places sell such scorpions and he has a list of buyers. Morgan compares these to someone who might own a Suburban and gets a match to Kieran Clark (Owen Beckman). They find his place is deserted, but full of insects and Morgan is scared by a spider. Yeah that's all I needed to see and not just one! Greg shows her the photos on the wall of a blonde woman who is the image of Cara. She's identified as Jennifer and she used to work at a pet store. Kieran went out with her once and she turned him down after that. He stalked her and she left town. Nick tells John about this and he'll find Cara, but he doesn't want to hear it cos he said that about Lexi too.
Kieran teaches children about bugs at school and Sara says he shouldn't be allowed near children. Hodges manages to find the stone particles Nick found in Lexi's hair contained oxyacetylene, which is used on concrete to seal it. It wasn't set in yet which means that someone had their driveway recently repaired. Finn finds someone had their drive sealed within the 5 mile distance of the CS and tells this to Nick who rushes out. She tells him to call for backup, but he doesn't wait for them. He heads inside the house after noticing the Suburban parked nearby and Kieran holds Cara at knifepoint. Nick tells him to let her go, she's not Jennifer and she hasn't done anything to hurt him. He refuses saying she's his and tries to cut her throat. Nick shoots him dead.
So it was okay for him to go in without backup since he's going to be leaving anyway. At the hospital, John tells Nick he's giving up his job to be with Cara. She needs him, especially now. He wants Nick to take over the lab in San Diego and run it. Of course we know Nick's going to take it cos he left the show. Thing is CSI has been cancelled now, so it didn't matter if George left or not, he wouldn't be coming back anyway with the others. Which is a bit of a shame, cos there are some shows which are running beyond 15 seasons! Others that shouldn't have been renewed, like Castle, that's so overrated now and boring. It's had its day and should've been cancelled by now. Oh sorry, that's my rant.
We can see Nick came a long way from season 1 since he's now experienced and good enough to get his own team. That' would've made a great spin off show. Hint, hint, ha. CSI:San Diego! Did you see how comfortable he was now at taking out his gun and actually having to use it, whereas he hates guns and he's had his fair share of having one pointed at him through the years. The way John came out of nowhere and how that job offer was mentioned that Nick turned down, which even Morgan knew about, cos I'm thinking it might've been quite a while ago, before she was here. Nick also having a heart to heart with Sara about family and Vegas being his home, as well as loving those Dallas Cowboys. As well as not taking the job cos it wasn't a promotion, but now to sweeten the deal, so to speak, it actually is a promotion.
Their mother was a piece of work and funnily enough they gave Sara the job of talking to her. She's not very big on useless, uncaring mothers at that and yet she was restrained with her, when you know deep down she wanted to say something to her, but that would've defeated the purpose, which was finding the girls, as she later tells both John and Tori.
Notice Hodges said the exoskeleton was found nearby the Vic, but actually Nick found it on his jacket.
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