CSI 11.21 "Cello and Goodbye" Review

                                         
Catherine receives a call regarding a DB found in LA, accompanied by Ray, they find Haskell has kidnapped Gloria. Leaving behind more clues for them to follow, will Ray save her in time? Catherine meets Ecklie's daughter.

Haskell is in the process of enjoying his baked Brie dessert, that looked revolting, akin to blood when he cut into it.   Gloria (Tracee Ellis-Rose) and Phil (Dean Norris) invite Haskell and Tina (Amanda Wyss) over and just completely trust two strangers.  Haskell drugs their drinks and catches a glimpse of himself in the mirror.   Ray (Laurence Fishburne) has nightmares.   Tina admires Gloria's ring.  Haskell asks how Gloria met Ray and attacks Phil.   Ray showers, as does Haskell, who washes the blood away.  We're meant to draw conclusions here in the sense this is something Ray will do when he goes in pursuit of Haskell.  Catherine (Marg Helgenberger) calls Ray about a DB found in LA.

SID called them in and Brody Morgan (Elisabeth Harnois) wanted them here.   Catherine asks her if she eats at her CS.   TOD is 48-72 hours.   He has sharp force wounds.   Ray explains that Phil was Haskell's eleventh Vic, even though he didn't stab him 12 times.   This is Vic number 12.  Flashes to Ray meeting Haskell for the first time in the season 9 episode.   There's a blood pool at the condo and it's a gory sight.   Ray immediately opens the parcel and finds a postcard of the Willoughby Observatory, with a message "You never forget your first time" written on the back, as well as Gloria's ring.   Greg (Eric Szmanda) has access to the surveillance footage of Gloria's garage and sees them coming home and Tina and Haskell leaving in their car.   They realize Haskell looks the same and Catherine admits she was wrong about him having surgery to his face.  Det Sosa (Danny Nucci) admits he was wrong about them wasting their time in LA.   Catherine assures Ray they'll find her.   Ray: "three days and three nights of heaven on earth and then just heaven."  Those were Haskell's words.   It's been 72 hours already so Ray believes Gloria is dead.   He can't do this and Catherine lets him return to Vegas.   Was that really what he wanted to do, did he just say that so he could search for Haskell on his own, or did he have a change of heart on the way to the airport.

Catherine calls in Sara (Jorga Fox).   Ray has a flashback to Haskell's first kill.  "You never forget your first" echoes throughout this episode.   Ray has officer Blake (Michael King) drive him to the airport, but Ray has  him stop at the bar, for a drink.   Think Ray changed his mind on his way to the airport which is why he uses the excuse of a drink to give Blake the slip.   Ray calls the only person he can talk to..."understand when I've done what I've had to do...only person I have ever loved is dead.   Only one thing left for me to do.   Goodbye Al."  Meaning go in pursuit of Haskell, and, or kill him.

Sara says they were drugged.   Catherine feels she knows Brody from somewhere.  The blood on the walls looks like high velocity spatter to Brody but she realizes their CS has been contaminated by flies, didn't Sara hear them buzzing.   Sara explains this is Haskell's MO: to kill the man and take the woman alive.   There's blood and tissue on the knife.   Phil was hit, strangled.   Brody's use of artistic language to describe the CS, "blood was the paint, body's the brush" and Haskell painted a Picasso.   Haskell wanted Ray to feel the horror.   Brody says Haskell wanted to get inside Ray's head, which we already know, he's been in his head for a while now.

Sosa tells Catherine Ray never got to the airport and cue Ray arming himself with a weapon and a laptop.  Ray looks at another postcard of the Observatory.   Catherine calls Nick (George Eads) "sounds like he's in a dark place."  Yes he is and not just inside his head, but also where he'll end up in the house at the end of the episode.   Haskell met Gloria and Phil at a benefit concert.   Catherine needs to know about the lore/history surrounding the Observatory, but Brody's only into science.   Sara reminds her they already have someone into both, i.e.  Greggie.   Willoughby J Willoughby was into money laundering, where he made his profits and he shot his wife in the head.   Catherine now gets the joke with the postcard and the ring and tells them Haskell wanted Ray to play.   Telling Greg to "work your magic." Ray is also working his magic and follows Tina to a hotel.

Nick tells Sosa there are some CSIs left in Vegas.   They find Tina dead; shot once in the head and once in the leg, as well as being beaten.   Tickets are scattered about with the same message: "You never forget your first."  Brody e-mails Nick a copy of the ticket.  Catherine recalls she's Ecklie's (Marc Vann) daughter.   She took her step-father's name.   Brody processed the hotel room and finds DNA belonging to an unknown African-American.   Catherine still posits Ray isn't armed and that providing DNA isn't compulsory.   Sara also defends Ray as not being a murderer.   Nick finds Ray and waits for him in his room.   He pinged his cell to track him down.   Nick: "I'm part hound dog."  He's here to help and he knows Ray didn't kill Tina.   Cos Ray wouldn't just suddenly change his character completely and become who he was fighting against becoming all those years and do something out of the ordinary.  It's obvious Haskell would have killed Tina, you know, it's her own fault, not like she didn't know that was coming after everything he's done and who he is.

Ray tells him the blood on the ticket was Gloria's.   Haskell wanted Ray to find her.   Nick tells him Haskell is turning Ray into a fugitive and is leaving them clues.   He's been doing that since the last episode.   Nick calls the lab and Hodges (Wallace Langham) wants to know if he's found Ray.   As his Dirty Harry "antic can reflect badly" on the team.   Greg identifies the tickets to Santa Monica Pier, prompting Ray to recall his first date with Gloria in Baltimore was at the carousel.   Haskell turns up and says this is their first, unchaperoned date, but Ray's brought Nick and Haskell escapes.   Nick is arrested for flaunting his gun in public, ha.   Nick: "I'm not getting on my knees."  Before his escape Haskell warns Ray if he shoots him then he'll kill Gloria too.   But Ray located Gloria without Haskell leading him there.

Ray tells Sosa he doesn't know why Haskell didn't shoot him, but he took the gun from a mugger.   Catherine sends Ray home and very much plays the boss here, putting her foot down.   Telling Nick she sent him to find him, not "cowboy up on some vigilante mission." She can understand Ray doing that but not Nicky.   Who still insists they'll get Haskell.   Sara analyzes the beach sand from Gloria's condo, probably sand from construction, such as sand blasting.   Brody: "rings of a tree give up its history" and so will the layers of the paint chips.

Doc Robbins (Robert David Hall) picks Ray up at the airport, he'd have been here even if Catherine didn't tell him to come.    He believes Haskell wanted to hurt Ray not kill him.   Ray uses Hodges' passkey to access the computer at work, or he threatens to go "all Dirty Harry" on him.   Greg knows about Willoughby and tells him he donated land to LA and was a bigamist, shooting his first wife, who survived, witnessed by his second wife and his seven year old son, Arvin.   His first wife was in a psychiatric hospital in LA and his son lived with his uncle.   His wife's maiden name was Thorpe and was from Nessus, Nevada.   That's why last week's episode was set there, most of it anyway.   That's where Gloria is.   Ray goes through the Nessus school yearbooks and finds Warren Thorpe in one from 1976.   Haskell is Thorpe's son and he kills him.   Catherine and Nick don't find anything at the hospital, but a note, "Made you look."  Ray finds Gloria still alive at the house and Haskell holds a gun to him.   So Ray will end up shooting him in self-defence and Gloria may be too traumatized to say anything.

Oh well, guess all those clues from last week were for the benefit of viewers, never mind, aside from farmer Thorpe (Raymond J Barry) who else would refer to his son as "squirrely-looking."   - Only a father, I'd have gone for weasel.   That was the part about the bandages when I said Haskell wasn't fully bandaged and Thorpe gave an accurate description of Haskell, which if everyone had been paying attention would have shown he didn't have surgery done.   There had to have been some sort of connection to the farm and this wasn't Tina, as Thorpe appeared to have misled them.   Didn't Thorpe recognize his own son until he killed him.

The call Ray made to Doc could just as well have been to Heather (Melinda Clarke) since he confided in her, but it was a nice change to see it was someone much closer to home, as they have developed a close friendship with Doc, who plays the call for Nick, with whom Ray also shares a special friendship and good to see Ray asking Nick if he's "got his back."  He didn't really have to ask as Nick would be there for him, he found him after all, just as Nick would be there for any other CSI too.

Brody is added as a permanent  character in season 12, which is good to see, at least she's someone watchable and not smug.   No need to say who I mean, from CSI:NY show!  She's an expert too on insects it seems and happens to be estranged from her father, Ecklie, in the same way as Brass's (Paul Guilfoyle) daughter, Ellie.

Funny moment when the team, almost all of them, arrived in LA, pointed out by Sosa.   Didn't have to venture far as the show is mostly filmed there.   Willoughby J Willoughby killed his first wife, well attempted to and it's not revealed until later he had a second wife and a child.   This must have been an allusion to Haskell killing Tina, shooting her in the head.   Although she wasn't his first wife, or any sort of wife.   Of course Ray wouldn't have killed Tina, he'd be giving in to the darkness inside of him and he's not a killer - he's a doctor, one reason why he told this to Heather in Unleashed, he wanted to save lives, not take them.

There are numerous flashbacks to past episodes to keep the Haskell story in perspective and to remind us this vile man is nothing but a killer and that he was named the Dick and Jane killer on the basis of this and met with Ray back in season 9, 19 Down for this specific reason.   Reference also to the number of stab wounds which mirrors the order in which Haskell's Vics were killed.   Phil being number 12 and Ray being the eleventh in the episode Meat Jekyll.   Greg getting involved in research for Willoughby, that's his forte (and maybe I shouldn't say this, but no mention of his book either.)

Haskell leaving the bodies at the farm (it wasn't a body farm, bad pun) was another clue for Ray, that we also missed, he was telling Ray who he really was and where and how it all started, with his grandfather, Willoughby.   Willoughby J Willoughby was based on Griffith J Griffith, a Welsh-American industrialist, who donated land to LA - known as Griffith Park and left money in his will to build the Griffith Observatory in 1935 and the Greek Theatre, also located in the park.  He shot his wife in 1903 in the Hotel Arcadia and served two years in prison.   She survived, but was disfigured.

In CSI episode Eleven Angry Jurors, Nick uses tree rings to solve a crime and here Brody mentions tree rings too.   Paint chips to tell the history of a building have been used in many CSI episodes and most recently in the season 7 CSI:NY episode The Untouchable.

Danny Nucci was in the CSI:NY episode Vacation Getaway.   Michael King playing another police officer here after his stint in CSI:NY episode 3.8 Consequences, where he played a corrupt officer,  Det Dean Truby, part of Flack's (Eddie Cahill) team.

Scandal 2.15 "Boom Goes the Dynamite" Review

                                                        
David (Joshua Malina) leaves the school where he's teaching and drops his papers, thinking he's being followed.  He rushes straight over to Olivia's (Kerry Washington) where Harrison (Columbus Short) thinks they're after Wendy's flashdrive and so won't hesitate to k.., David finishes for him, kill him.  He hasn't seen anyone but has a feeling.  Olivia sends Huck (Guillermo Diaz) to watch him and Huck by now is reeking. Obviously it's cos of his waterboarding torture which makes him have an aversion to the water, or as he tells Quinn (Katie Lowes) at the end when she confronts him about it, it's the rain and when it stops raining he'll be fine.  Yeah cos this is Washington, the sunshine state!

Olivia meets Jake (Scott Foley) at the restaurant which he doesn't like at all cos he can't have a date here. He takes the wine and they leave, ending up at the Jefferson Memorial.  She calls it  a meeting, he insists on date.  She wants to ask about him Albatross.  Wendy knew about it so she must have told him too.  He will answer but then they'll go back to their date.  He tells her it's about State Department documents being sold to Tehran and some dead man did it.

Mellie (Bellamy Young) thinks Fitz (Tony Goldwyn) is drinking too much cos he's not sleeping and she has him under her thumb for now.  She leaves for bed and he has a visitor in the middle of the night.  All so mysterious until we find out it's Jake.  He seems to know Fitz very well as they reminisces as they name drop other friends they knew.  We get the big reveal that it was Fitz who wants Jake to watch Olivia.  Gotta wonder why.  It's gone from photo surveillance to full blown video surveillance but he won't tell Jake why, even when he tries to pry.  He just tells him she's no good.  Well Jake is learning all about Olivia for himself since 'dating' her isn't in his brief.  Though right about now even Jake can't put two and two together and figure out the real extent of their 'relationship' and how far the animosity goes.  I call it animosity cos it's a love/hate relationship as far as Fitz and Olivia are concerned.

Olivia has a new client, the Caldwell, a political dynasty, Peter (Eric Mabius) wants their youngest, Will (Sam Page) elected as governor of North Carolina.  To do this Olivia tells him he needs a wife but everyone thinks he's gay cos he hasn't seen anyone for ten years.  He denies being gay but anyone could see it's cos of his feelings for his sister in law, Marion (Lisa Sheridan) and vice versa.  Yes it was one of those stories which will be close to Olivia's heart, least so cos she's going through the exact same thing.  Broken heart, lost love nothing will come of it.  So they need to find Will a wife.

In a quiet moment, quiet, ha, Abby (Darby Stanchfield) gets it on with David again on the desk which appears to be Olivia's office, I wasn't looking, ha.  But they do that again in the car later on, David's car, saw that, ha, and she tells him it doesn't mean anything.  The terrorists send the Whitehouse a video showing one of the hostages being beheaded which Mellie is privy to, as is Cyrus (Jeff Perry) and Cyrus knows they must launch a drone strike and show strength.  Fitz agrees to do this and later tells his other staff that it was Mellie's idea, "blood for blood."  Mellie thinks she should speak with the families to tell them they're negotiating behind the scenes.  Cyrus hates being left out in the cold but obviously Fitz seems to be relishing it.  Also he confides his feelings to Olivia and hates how Mellie is getting in on the act and his job. Olivia thinks he should just let her be Mellie cos sooner or later she'll put a foot wrong and then Cyrus will step in.

Jake watches Olivia be unhappy in her bedroom in her robe and calls her.  She undresses but at least he had the decency to turn the camera off, thus far!  Mellie thinks she should talk to the families, a conference call, and tell them what they're doing.  Cyrus gets his own back as he blabs to a reporter that she should call in too.  This gets leaked obviously and Fitz isn't too happy.  Mellie is summoned which she enjoys and is told off about going behind his back giving out military info to civillians.  Meanwhile Abby tells the potential wife of Will about what she'll be getting into with the family and clearly she puts her off.  Thus they go for the second choice.

Olivia is invited to the fundraiser and learns Fitz will be there too.  Harrison calls to tell her one of the candidates leaked the story to the press and she wants him to handle it.  Which he does by telling the reporter he can have the entire story instead of just this one breaking news one.  Fitz makes his speech endorsing Will as candidate and watches Olivia who doesn't seem to be interested in him, as she gets a call from Jake and Harrison, he tells her the story is handled and Jake, calling him Henderson, thinks he's Olivia's man.  Yeah right.  Anyway Jake wants a second date and she's really happy which Fitz picks up on from afar.

Olivia realizes Will has feelings for Marion, took her time cos if she was on the ball, she'd have picked it up sooner, like the first time we're shown her.  She sees the two of them together and tells him to end it, giving him a speech about how Peter loves her, will never leave her, they have children, celebrate anniversaries whilst he has nothing.  He should end it and make his own life.  Easier said than don as she's the voice of experience. Olivia finds out Peter already knew about the two of them, but family comes first.   Fitz summons Jake again and asks if Olivia is seeing a man.  He lies and tells her there's no man involved.  I want to see how long this lie lasts and does Jake really think he can keep seeing Olivia without Fitz finding out.

Didn't know whether to be happy or not, in a sly way, the way in which Jake pulled the wool over Fitz's eyes he kind of deserves it for everything he's done to Olivia really.  I mean everything like having her at his beck and call and then just dropping her like that cos his what, pride is hurt amongst other things.  Instead of confronting her and Cyrus and the others about the vote rigging he just plays them.  Of course they know he knows but he should face it like a man too.

The other aspect of the episode is that a woman named Molly (Mageina Tova) comes forward.  She's been following David cos she knows who killed Wendy.  She saw him having a fight at her house and she knows he knows too.  Olivia gets Huck to find if there's any footage at her house.  Huck manages to unencrypt one of Wendy's files and Olivia is surprised too when she sees it.  Also Grayden Osborne (Kurt Fuller) tells Fitz that he's done a thorough check and the mole isn't in the CIA or any of the other agencies.  That's cos it's you.  That much was obvious.  Seems Fitz is no longer running a tight ship, especially after being shot seems like everyone's crawling out of the woodwork.  Cos lo and behold, Molly IDs Osborne as the man who argued with Wendy as he appears on the TV.  Small world is Washington.  And there was Kashfar bounded again over and over.

Some choice lines from Jake this ep, such as " I can never get used to calling you President."  "Who would have thought you would be here?"  Kind of harks back to that whole vote rigging again.  I know that was dealt with but looks like Fitz wasn't capable of achieving or amounting to much on his own.  Mellie said that, his own father said that too, and now Jake is saying it.  Though hopefully we get some more reveals on how well they know each other and from where.  Aside from the navy it looks like, since Fitz was in the navy too. Maybe Jake harbours a little resentment towards Fitz and so is happy to 'mess' around with Olivia on the side.  Kind of implying he may have an inkling that this is personal for Fitz.  Only an inkling.  But still can't help but get shivers when thinking none of Olivia's conversations are private any longer.  Shame they don't don't talk about private stuff anymore.  Though Cyrus does mention their feelings about Mellie.

Love Olivia's white dress, you know she's not going to get up to any hanky-panky by the sorts of clothes she wears, no short skirts here, or any skirt and this dress was too tight! ha.  Though have to see what she wears with Jake!  Enjoyed this ep, Scandal hotting up as it hasn't of late, especially with the Defiance eps!

CSI 11.20 "Father of the Bride" Review

                                            
Nate Haskell is back on the scene as a video sent to one of his bride's father sends Ray into a quandary. Sophia returns as Deputy Chief. Haskell's next targets are revealed.

Nick (George Eads) and Ray (Laurence Fishburne) searching for a CS at the beginning, was almost indicative of Ray's search for Haskell (Bill Irwin).   Who else would leave DBs in his wake.   Nick comments on there being lots of manure here and Ray can smell it, can't help wondering if that was a snide remark about the B.S churned out by Haskell in this episode.   No one was really on the ball, I have to say as far as Haskell was concerned.  Rray nearly drives into a, "holy cow" as Nick says.   Hey Nick should know all about cows from the question Gil (William Petersen) asked him: "What do cows drink?"  All those seasons ago.   They comes across scattered DB parts in a barn.  Ray was oblivious he was stepping in manure.   Nick Ids the larvae, as is his new speciality now, so they were dead up to 96+ hours ago.   They find hands from a male DB and a female DB without hands.   Nick: "She body, he hands."

Ray is called back to the lab where he finds Catherine (Marg Helgenberger) and Brass (Paul Guilfoyle) watching a video from Haskell sent to  his bride's father.  Haskell left him "enough breadcrumbs to follow."  He's afraid to catch him or "maybe you don't like looking in the mirror, Ray."  He knows how to get Ray riled up.   Vivian's (Kate Blumberg) parents got the video and she's one of Haskell's brides, as seen in the Targets of Obsession episode.   In the video, Vivian appears to be tied up and beaten.   It looked like it was all an act.   As Haskell wouldn't really turn on one of his brides without good reason.   Her parents, Avery (Bruce Davison) and Jean (Roxanne Hart) Tinsdale got the video 4 days ago and Ray was right when he said she's probably already dead.   Tinsdale says she only calls when she needs money, well this was one of those times, only Haskell was the one who wanted money.  Catherine comments they don't want Haskell killing her, or adds Brass, anyone else.

Doc Robbins (Robert David Hall) tells Nick he smells of a portaloo/portapotty.   The killer went "happy with a hand axe."  Contusions around the cut were post mortem.  Indicating the same tool used by the same killer.   Archie (Archie Kao) is unable to tell where the video was filmed.   When arrives newly promoted Deputy Chief Sophia Curtis (Louise Lombard)  heading up a Haskell task force.   She wants to call in the FBI as she thinks Haskell is no longer in Vegas.   but Ray wants her to hold off on doing that, she was right he probably wouldn't still stick around, not when it's obvious he's got a personal vendetta and agenda against Ray.   So perhaps it would have been better if they had been called in.   Archie traces a wi-fi signal to Vegas, which was convenient.   Haskell calls Tinsdale to arrange a meeting place.

Doc Robbins thanks Nick for taking a shower, not that he did it for him.   He examines the female torso as being fit so natural causes as the COD is ruled out.   She has a scar probably from liposuction.   (Knew both cases would be connected to Haskell.)  Nick gets a hit on the hand to a Dr Kole.  Arriving at the Dr's office, Nick and Greg (Eric Szmanda) find 2 blood pools and blood spatter on the wall.   Nick finds a bullet in the wall with tissue remains and Greg finds a chart without a name on it.   This must be the primary CS.   Ray chases and catches Tina (Amanda Wyss) at the meeting with Tinsdale.   When questioned by Catherine she tells her she admires Haskell's courage as he's a Vic of the justice system.   She hates Vivian.   Catherine: "...couldn't even if I tried "to put words in Tina's mouth, that is.   Her lawyer (Terry Bozeman) mentions a cop beating a civillian warrants action, but Ray isn't a cop and he didn't beat her, he apprehended her.   Thought doing something like chasing a suspect is something Ray would have left to the cops.

Henry (Jon Wellner) says Hodges (Wallace Langham) is moving out of his mother's house, so he can help Ray with the prints on the box.  He finds a perfect print on the tape which matches Haskell.   Ray calls it his signature.   The box contains a half torn photo identified as Jack, Vivian's ex husband.   If he was Vivian's first husband didn't this strike anyone as a clue, that perhaps he was meant to signify Ray, thus providing an indication of who Haskell was really after.   Tinsdale lies about the conversation with Haskell.   Brass tells him the phrase, "wasn't the deal..." relates to Tinsdale.

Nick determines the blood matches the time line of the maggots on the DB.   Greg thinks Kole was seeing a patient and both were killed.  Nick prints Lydia Kole, (Tawny Kitaen) the doctor's wife, who she saw him 5 days ago.   Nick's reaction to her 'faking' noises was a little uneasy, he looked around to see if anyone else could hear.   Greg matches the bullet Nick found to the gun used in the Haskell escape, thereby connecting the 2 cases together.   Thus Haskell was at the office.   Nick believes Haskell had plastic surgery, which must have been to throw them off the scent, since he hardly had anything done to his face.   That's not something Haskell would do, he wouldn't alter his appearance in such a dramatic way, where would be the fun in that, in which he so readily revels.

Brass comments Haskell's "like the Joker in Batman - except without the laughs."  Ray surmises Haskell isn't holding Vivian for ransom.  Kole and the nurse, Teagen (Shy Pilgreen) were already dead when Tinsdale got the video.   See, the photo of Vivian's ex is a reference to Ray.   Archie retrieves the video file on the computer deleted by Tinsdale, he was hiding secrets, and abused his daughter, Vivian.   Haskell was blackmailing him and Catherine says the money was already paid to Haskell.   Everything goes back 5 days.   Ray rushes off after Haskell, but where would he find him and Catherine stops him from blindly doing so.  She says Jack disappeared after Vivian was married, so Haskell is talking to Ray, yes he is but no one got the gist of what he was really saying.   They'll go after Haskell together.

Tinsdale is dead at his house, an apparent suicide.   His wife allowed him to abuse Vivian.   Haskell leaves a message on another computer for Ray.   Greg matches the blood pool at the office to Kole and the bullet matches Teagen.   The DNA doesn't match the torso but to an unknown male and there's no match to Haskell either.   They return to the barn and the farmer (Raymond J Barry) tells them Tina was shacking up with a "squirrely" man.   He also describes the man with a bandage on his face, which he assumes was the result of an accident, but everyone assumes his face was fully bandaged when it wasn't.   At the house they find tyre treads from a  yellow sports car which sped away.   Inside there's electrical equipment, also the smell of decomp and as Nick puts it, "snap, crackle maggots." Officer Akers (Larry Sullivan) identifies the music on the radio as Bach's Cello Solo in G, "that's just not right."  They find DBs in the bath.   Nick: "Talk about not right."

Brass identifies the driver of the car as Frost,  who rented the car but didn't return it.   Blood from Kole's office matches and Catherine found Frost's file, so Frost was there when Kole and Teagen were killed.  Ray thinks the chart Greg found belonged to Haskell.   David (David Berman) matched Vivian's hands by the colour of her nail polish.  Ray checks her hands as positive for lead so she fired a gun.   Doc Robbins determines all the Vics were killed 4-5 days ago.   It was obvious Tina was the one who chopped them up and killed Vivian.  All the electrical equipment was bought by Tina and all the videos were recorded the day after Haskell escaped.   Ray figures out they're not in Vegas, finally, just as Sophia predicted.   Again with the surgery that Haskell never had! Catherine posits they're both fugitives, "plastic surgery, bimbo, Porsche." Leading Brass to say they need to call LAPD.   Since they'll fit in there.   Cue Ray's ex, Gloria (Tracee Ellis Ross) and husband Phil (Dean Norris).   Didn't know Gloria was a musician and that she played the cello.   The same symphony Officer Akersidentified.   As if Haskell didn't know she was Phil's wife and Ray's ex.

Good work on Brass's part seeing as he's been to LA in Hollywood Brass.  That's where everyone goes with bimbos and expensive cars.   When Nick and Greg arrived at the house it's a shame no one figured out the significance of the music.   That was a glaring clue, Haskell's "breadcrumb" he left for Ray but he wasn't there when the DBs were discovered.   Wonder if he'll find out next episode.   Also why didn't Ray work out Haskell would go after Gloria, especially since she's a newly married bride, Haskell's forte.

Great to see Sophia back (Louise Lombard is a great actress and she's always under utilized in everything she's been in!)  Pity she won't be around for long.

Haskell has led the CSIs a merry dance (oh Catherine mentioned Haskell dancing with Ray) in his attempt to make them work damn hard.   So whilst they were 'wasting' time on DB counts, he was well away in LA, exacting out his own sickly thought-out plan: his "best laid plans," all the while being a thorn in Ray's side, with his taunts and egging him on in the videos.   Yes he was playing Ray in a cat and mouse game and Ray fell for it when Catherine said much the same thing.   Ray was ready to bring it on, go in blind.   I can't help but feel that the photo of Vivian's ex, Jack was an obvious and direct reference to Ray in all the clues but no one clicked.

The cello music wasn't mentioned so we'll have to wait and see if it's mentioned next episode and if Ray works it out.   Brass only mentioned LA at episode's end, so who knows if they'll get to Gloria in time.  Obviously US viewers have seen the season to the end, so this might be more benefit to those who haven't.   What about the way the writers kept Gloria's cello playing under their hats - until the last second, so no inferences could be drawn , 'til we actually saw her playing the same Bach solo.   An interesting approach.  Still Haskell's forte are couples so...

The episode where Gil asked Nick about what cows drink, was Evaluation Day, it was kind of misleading anyway, he asked him to repeat after him, "Silk, Silk, Silk."  Which Nick did, then Gil asked, "What do cows drink"  to which Nick replied milk, kind of rhymed with silk!  Gil corrects him by saying "cows drink water, they give milk," a little pedantic, but baby cows (calves) drink milk.   Just thought I'd mention that as they had  Nick going on about holy cow, and cows being sacred in India.  So who was thinking as far back to season 1.

Also Raymond J Barry was in the CSI episode The Accused is Entitled, where he was Gil's mentor.

Sara (Jorga Fox) and Hodges both missing in this episode again, people will talk, ha.

CSI:NY 9.14 "White Gold" Review

A girl paints graffiti on the wall as she's an animal rights activist when she and her boyfriend see a van and a car.  One drives into the other and then hear gunshots.  They describe the incident and their stories check.  Jo (Sela Ward) comments on the weather and wishes she was back in Alabama.  Mac (Gary Sinise) also says the same thing with her whining, trying to be funny.  Mac thinks it could be a carjacking.  Adam (AJ Buckley) and Lindsay (Anna Belknap) process the CS as Adam takes readings of the tyre tracks and Lindsay finds broken pieces of the light.  Knew she'd be first up on the scene as soon as the opening credits rolled!  Sid (Robert Joy) performs the autopsy and the Vic bled out from his gunshot wounds.  The Vic also has a white substance in his nostrils which he finds is flour.  The Vic is missing his gall bladder which is strange for someone his age which will make it easy for him to be Ided.

Adam asks how Lucy's taking the news of a new baby and then tells Lindsay about his own older brother who was pissed over him but they worked it out.  Danny (Carmine Giovinazzo) found the Vic was Paul Tortucci (Kanin Howell) and he bakes pizzas which Danny describes as good.  He and Mac pay a visit over there and find Paul was the owner Ray's (Daniel Roebuck) nephew and was a good boy.  He brought him up as his own after his parents died and promised he'd look after him.  He lived above the pizzeria.  They believe Paul was carjacked and his BMW was stolen but Paul drove a van.  They find they have their story wrong and theorize Paul was now the carjacker and got shot, but he doesn't have a record.

Lindsay finds the BMW belonged to Rowena (Chasty Ballasteros) and Flack (Eddie Cahill) pays her a call along with Lovato (Natalie Martinez) yet more waste of space!  Flack comments on her jacket and thinks it's fine, he paid her a compliment.  Lovato only wants him to be honest with her, that's all women want. Rowena says she was here for three days and hasn't seen her car since then, it was stolen.  Lovato thinks she's lying of course and wants to drag her down to the precinct!  Agh!  She shows them her leg in a cast.  Adam shows Jo the simulation of the accident which he did using the data he collected from the CS.  It shows the van tried to swerve the car but it was the car which caused the accident.  The two vehicles are found and Hawkes (Hill Harper) measures the impact on both vehicles.  It appears the van was weighed down when it hit the car so something is missing.  Danny finds a hidden compartment under the floor and thinks something could have been smuggled.  Paul did say he was going snowboarding in Canada.

Hawkes also finds some pellets on the floor of the car, as well as blood on the transmission wires and GSR on the driver's side of the door.  He also finds the seat is pushed right back.  Adam uses his simulation again to calculate the weight of the cargo which turns out to be 533 pounds.  Mac and Jo get a warrant for Paul's apartment and Jo finds money hidden behind the grate on the wall.  With Ray making the funny comment of how they don't know Paul from Adam! Ha.  He's back at the lab!

Hawkes finds the pellets were from a welding torch and so the man in the passenger seat was a welder. Hawkes also gets a hit on the blood he found which belongs to Reno Martell (Myk Watford) and he's 6' 4" and has a record.  They get his address from his parole officer and at the apartment Danny thinks he's hit paydirt, "boom."  However the blocks turn out to be cheese.  Mozzarella.  Hawkes finds a clean corner in the kitchen which has been wiped of blood.  Ray recalls the cheese incident when some men came over from Canada and said he could make money by smuggling it across the border into Canada.  It's called white gold.  But he didn't want any part of it.  Paul took over the running of the books and they started to make a profit so he thinks maybe Paul was involved.  Mac notices one of the men cut open the cheese and thinks it looks like drugs and someone could have mistaken it for drugs.

Outside Mac and Jo wonder who could have sat there and watched Paul.  Then notice an auto shop.  The owner, George (Leif Gantvoort) also has a record but says he has an alibi.  Jo collects pellets from the ground and Mac finds cigarette butts on the floor by the door where someone had a perfect view of Paul. George tells them it was Felipe (Sam Situmorang) and he hasn't been to work today.  He doesn't know much English.  Felipe is found in a dumpster and Hawkes finds he was stabbed twice.  He also has defensive wounds and Flack notices something stuck to his sleeve.  It's a matchbook from the Blue Moon.

Flack and Lovato wait for Reno to show up and when they do he tries to escape.   Lovato tries to take him down using her legs again, what is it with her legs?  Reno tells them it was all Felipe's idea.  He watched Paul and thought he was loading drugs late at night.  That he drove the car and shot Paul after dragging him out of the van.  Reno says he was having a bad day.  When Felipe saw it was cheese he lost it and so Reno had to stab him in self defence, twice.  Flack: "You're like a one man Ellis Island."  When Reno says Felipe was new around here. Flack tells Mac he'd believe him.

Jo tells him they're the ones he's going to tell the truth to and then he does but this time Mac tells him of the seat being pulled back to his height position, the blood on the wire when he hotwired the car was his and GSR was on the driver' side of the door.  He claims self defence again when Paul tried to grab the gun from him.  As for Felipe, the neighbours heard yelling and Felipe didn't know English.

Mac pays a visit to Ray for a slice and gives him the photo of him and Paul when he was little, that Danny found in the van.  Mac tells Ray he didn't let his brother down since he brought up Paul to be good when he could have gone either way.

A bit of a routine ep which I didn't find interesting at all.  hey even Flack and Danny's scene together at Reno's apartment was rather flat, compared to their scenes throughout past seasons.  It appears they really were scraping the bottom of the barrel, the cheese barrel, when they came up with this story, it was cheesy which is not a pun, not to mention most of this final season was hit and miss.  CSI:NY used to be good and one of my fave CSI shows! What happened?  At least Danny got more to do this ep than he has of late, even showing sympathy towards Ray after they break the news of Paul to him..
Danny: "If you had told me this morning we'd be investigating a cheese murder, you know what I would have said."
Hawkes: "Please don't."
Danny: "No whey!"

Danny finding the hidden compartment in the van like he did in a season 1 episode.  If Jo was cold would've thought she'd have worn something warmer than a short jacket!  She's been living in New York for three years now and before that was in Washington.  Whoever wrote that line, well, you shouldn't have!

LFCCW Winter 2013 Michael Shanks/Garrett Wang

Hoards descended on Kensington Olympia this past weekend, 5-6 October 2013 for the London Film and Comic Con and well, hoards is definitely the right word to use.  Why do certain people think it's fine to queue jump, smoke endlessly whilst in the queue and just have a God given right to stare for no reason!  Let me say Star Trek has a more classier fandom!  Cos Destination Star Trek London 2012 was so better organized and had amazing people there, fans and crew!  Trekkies are cool.  No one acted like they were still at school.  Anyhoo, rant over!

The Star Trek talk was enlightening and interesting mostly cos Garrett Wang was doing most if not all of the talking.  Letting us into snippets of info most of us wouldn't have known about.  Like how he missed out on kissing Jeri Ryan as Seven of Nine cos it wasn't in the script of a ST:Voyager ep!!  As an actor he said he was excited for it to happen but it didn't and even Jeri said he missed out on it.  Another fun anecdote was how not to upset Voyager writers when he did that one day, he found Harry Kim was killed off and no one noticed or said anything about it in the show.  Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) just kind of grunted!

Another thing he said was how JJ Abrams didn't want to cast anyone in his Trek movies who had been involved in the Star Trek TV shows: crews or actors, except for Leonard Nimoy.  How Garrett was annoyed that none of the actors from the shows were invited to the premiere of the movies either and when he met JJ one day whilst queueing for the 2009 movie at the cinema, he didn't really have much in the way of acknowledgement. Even when he told him he watched the movie like everyone else at the cinema about 13 times.  Garrett so kindly paid for tickets for the fans in front and behind him who had queued up to watch it.
Nicole de Boer interjected of how she auditioned for every show JJ was making.  She didn't say much, she had a cold.

Also how he thought Star Trek Into Darkness: STID stood for Star Trek into Die Hard, cos it was so action orientated.  Most of his shows are though, such as Alias and that was really fast paced.  Wasn't really into Lost myself, but Garrett mentioned how he thought the casting of Benedict Cumberbatch was wrong for the part of Khan.  As we know he was an Indian character and he would have loved Naveen Andrews to have been cast.  Also how the cast appeared like they wanted to get their lines out quickly and rush through them.  Which I have to agree with, especially Spock.  I said it in the first movie, Zachary Qunito spoke fast, whereas the original Spock spoke slowly and calmly.  Hence his overdoing: "Khaannn!"  Spock would never have made such an outburst.  Irrespective of being young in years. Ha.  The line most everyone hated in the movie.

Great talk Garrett, fun and exciting!

Gotta admit though one of the main reasons for my going was to have a chin wag with Michael Shanks.  Not much of a chin wag but it was great meeting him in the flesh and he looks even hotter than on TV! His talk was with his wife Lexa Doig, but I can't help feeling he would have done more talking if he was on his own, naturally, ha.  It didn't help that most of the fans questions were kind of a re-hash of something another fan had asked.  I mean how many times can you ask what they would have liked to have come in and who was their inspiration.  Michael is obsessed with Harrison Ford, ahh, he'd like to play Indiana Jones.

Lexa was trying to be sarcastic a lot of the times in terms of being funny, but she came across as a little like having Michael under her thumb!  Saying things like he'll get into trouble when he gets home...ha!

It was a shame there wasn't a full house for Michael's talk since it was a paid talk as variation in the audience would have been good.  I didn't get picked to ask my question, what is it something I said or didn't say, cos I had much to ask.  Let's see, would he play Daniel Jackson again; what was it like playing two different sorts of doctors, one on Stargate SG-1 and one on his new show, Saving Hope.  Would have been good to have him on Supernatural again as an angel even this time round, seeing as Amanda Tapping plays a recurring one on the show.  Heck anything would have been more interesting than the same old, same old.  Oh well maybe next time I'll get my chance...Dream on hey!! ha. At least I got me hug from Michael!!

Downton Abbey Series 4 Part 3 Review

This episode Downton Abbey is overrun by the guests for the houseparty and the house is in turmoil in more ways than one.  Mary (Michelle Dockery) meets Lord Anthony Gillingham (Tom Cullen) who she used to know from before and he tells her he's not married and doesn't have children.  He's forgotten about Matthew and doesn't recall what happened to him for which he has to apologize as Mary tells him she has a son.  She goes riding with him and talks about Robert (Hugh Bonneville) and how he wants to sell the land to pay the taxes.  He tells her how they handled the situation when his father passed, by renting the house and keeping the land.  He suggests she should see the tax people and then tell Robert how to proceed.  Mary's quite happy there are other people in her position.  Would you really say something like that to someone, happy that they're in the same predicament.

She also tells him how if she had been stronger before maybe she'd be much happier right now, since Matthew changed her.  "I loved him but he changed me."  Later she's upset when Rose (Lily James) brings out Matthew's gramophone and is distraught when she sees it.  Rose forgetting it was his and not asking permission like Anna (Joanne Froggatt) said she should.  Seems everyone's forgotten about him, except for Mary and Isobel (Penelope Wilton).  Isobel doesn't want to be happy cos then she feels she's forgotten him and ends up feeling guilty.  The Dowager (Maggie Smith) tries to get her to come and see Dame Nellie Melba (Kiri Te Kanawa) who has been invited to the party.  She reluctantly agrees and it seems Nellie is relegated to the confines of her quarters regardless of being honoured by the king.  Carson (Jim Carter) even suggests she be served dinner in her room on a tray, cos she's just a singer, as Cora (Elizabeth McGovern) points out she's not happy with that and invites her to dinner.  Seating her next to Robert, who is much more at ease after he finds Nellie is knowledgeable in wines.

The men decide on a poker game with the others and Michael (Charles Edwards) is also invited to join.  He tells Edith (Laura Carmichael) at least Robert can't ignore him now.  Below stairs, the staff are running around in a kerfuffle making ready the dinner and there's more than one crisis.  Daisy (Sophie McShera) can't open a jar and neither can Ivy (Cara Theobold) or Alfred (Matt Milne).  But Jimmy (Ed Speelers) has to show off and show how a real man can do it.  Then he throws the jar in the air and misses the catch, falling flat on his back.  Injuring his wrist and can no longer perform his footman duties at dinner, for which Thomas (Rob James-Collier) must take over under protest as he's the under butler and it's beneath him!

Carson comes up with a plan though after Molesley (Kevin Doyle) brings round the groceries as he's working for Bakewell now.  Carson thinks he can do them a favour and take over, to which he is also disappointed.  The Dowager is pleased to see him though.  Robert loses at cards against Samson as do the others cos obviously he is a card sharp. Which Michael recognizes as the next night he wants to play cards again as the others are listening to Nellie.  Carson asks if the kitchen staff should be able to attend the singing and Robert says they must as these are new times now.  As Carson was just lamenting to Mrs Hughes (Phyllis Logan) about how they haven't got much staff now after the War.  Progression really isn't his strong suit.

Branson (Allen Leech) feels out of place when having to spend time with the Duchess of Yeovil (Joanna David).  First the Dowager must put him right about not calling her 'your grace' unless they're in society and then the Duchess asks him where he's from and if he knows certain people.  Branson may be dressed in white bow tie but he he feels a fraud and lets Edna (Myanna Buring) know this.  Edna who is still after him and hopes he doesn't think of her as an a enemy, but a friend.  Sneaking into his room later that night.  More trouble abounds there.  No wonder she gave him more whiskey, getting him drunk and taking advantage of him.

Anna gets friendly with Anthony's valet, Green (Nigel Harman) who Bates (Brendan Coyle) doesn't like cos he "gets my goat" and she would have been wise to heed his words.  They all engage in a card game of their own, making lots of noise, whilst there's a tizzy in the kitchen and Mrs Patmore (Lesley Nichol) takes a turn for the worse, thinking she's having  a heart attack.  So the doctor (David Robb) is called for and Anna invites him to stay for the singing, when it's found that Mrs Patmore suffered a panic attack.  Can't think why, it's not the first time she's had to cook for so many, so why was she so out of sorts?  Alfred has to take over and prepare the bechamel sauce, which he tells Mrs Patore went down a treat and that this is what he wants to do.  Anna needs something for her headache and is attacked by Green who forces himself upon her when she turns down his advances.  He doesn't think Bates, "a cripple, can satisfy you."  She can't fight him off and cos of the music no one hears her screams for help.  Surprised Thomas wanted to listen to an opera singer, ha.

Michael wins at cards cos he's a dab hand at the game from his "misspent youth" and takes back everyone's IOUs otherwise he'll let Robert know Samson's (Patrick Kennedy) a card sharp and then no club will have him in.  Returning them back to everyone, he gets into Robert's good books and he surprises Cora by changing his mind about him and how he's quite the gentleman.  Andrew is glad he came since he's developing feelings for Mary, eve asking her to dinner and Robert is happy he came too.  Branson consoles Isobel at dinner when she sees Mary laughing and it's the first time he's heard her do that.  She doesn't want her to stay unhappy but Isobel is sad cos everyone's here except Matthew.

Mrs Hughes finds Anna cowering in a corner in her room, hiding from the others and she asks for clothes and her help, swearing her to secrecy cos if Bates finds out he'll kill the man who did this and he'll be hanged this time round since he's a felon.  She lies to Bates and tells him she fell and hit her head on the sink and her dress was ruined.  She walks out alone and cries.  Would have thought Mrs Hughes would have put two and two together and realize who did that to her since she saw Green come back and Anna wasn't back either.  Oh let's hope Anna doesn't get pregnant now, though that would be another plot for the show.

Downton trying to spice proceedings this week as we get poker playing (Mr Selfridge territory) and Anna being attacked, though the actual violence wasn't shown.  Seems everyone had their own dilemmas this episode, some more than others.  It is understandable why Anna is afraid to tell Bates what happened as he will take it upon himself to get justice for his wife.  We had all the court case business last series when he was accused of killing his first wife and how dark his character could go when he had to survive in prison.  But this isn't something she should just sweep under the carpet since it's not going to go away and we haven't seen the last of Green.  As once again it shows the inequality between the classes when it comes to getting justice.  As was also demonstrated with Carson going on about not being able to find help anymore and whether the kitchen staff should be allowed to watch the entertainment.  As they're the lowest of the low in this house.  Clearly snobbery existed between even the downstairs staff as firstly Thomas objects to having to do Jimmy's job and then Molesley does the same when he's asked to do so, summing it up with "beggars can't be choosers.

Then Green had the audacity to say goodnight to them thinking he's gotten away with it.  Which he believes he has but here's hoping he gets his comeuppance.  Anna must realize he can't get away with what he's done and obviously it's probably not the first time.  Perhaps he needs to be dealt with as in a game of Cluedo (though that that Rev Green, this one is far from reverend/honourable.)

Events should heat up next episode as there's a new jazz singer in town who catches Rose's eye, so expect plenty of problems there as he's black.  As well as things hotting up between Edith and Michael, who is still in awe that he's even learning German just for her!

CSI 11.19 "Unleashed" Review

                                                  
Ray and Sara investigate the suspected mauling of a woman by a lion and stumble onto much deeper issues. Nick helps Doc deliver a baby whilst looking into the abhorrent world of cyber-bullying.

A woman being chased by a lion in the woods is mauled.   Ray (Laurence Fishburne) doesn't believe she was hiking and wonders how she got out there.  The bite marks on her were made anti-mortum.   Sara (Jorga Fox) finds a piece of a tooth.  The lion wasn't the cause of all her injuries.   Sara thinks she may have "escaped from one animal, only to fall prey to another."  Which was exactly the case.   Catherine (Marg Helgenberger) and Greg (Eric Szmanda) were absent this episode.   Sara gets to work with Ray again.

Nick (George Eads) had cheap steak and eggs fro breakfast, 3 courses and he "still ate for cheap."  Whilst he's out with Doc Robbins (Robert David Hall) they're stopped by a man who tells them of a girl inside the house.  She's DB in the closet, apparently she hung herself.     Doc comments there's no pulse so it just happened and he needs to deliver her baby by C-Section.   Nick helps and he got sweaty pretty quickly.

Ray finds the DB suffered a compression fracture of the tibia and fibia, showing she fell vertically.   Also she has a broken jaw, blunt force trauma, injuries not caused by a  lion.   The broken tooth could belong to her.   Ray notices she hasn't shed most of the trace on her and has two burn marks from a stun gun.  Sara finds a match to Iona (Mariah Bonner)  a social worker.   She ran a battered woman's shelter with Debra (Abby Brammell) and was a battered woman herself once.   Debra mentions boyfriends or husbands as potential threats, but not herself.

The DB girl is Maria, (Brooke Anne Smith) who was17.   Nick tells the Doc how incredible he was today and he's glad to have saved a life for a change.   Nick calls him a good man.   It was like "being part of a miracle" for Nick.  COD was asphyxiation and he found 4 contused finger impressions on her arm, she was forcibly grabbed.   The leading COD in pregnant women are expectant fathers.   Maria's mother (Allison Smith) turns up looking for her, a wreck.   She couldn't cope with her daughter or the loss of her husband.   She is unaware Maria was pregnant and refuses to see her granddaughter.   Another case of the parents not knowing what's happening with their children or what they get up to.   Ecklie (Marc Vann) holds the parents responsible at the end for what happened, as we delve into another emotional storyline for Nick, who best handles such stories and Ray having to confront his real emotions too.

Sara looks through Iona's diary and finds appointment with a Doctor K.   No surprises for guessing it's Lady Heather, now Dr Heather Kessler (Melinda Clarke).  Sara: "This changes everything."  Apparently Heather knows all about Gil (William Petersen) being in Peru and Sara being married.   Heather's been expecting them.   Iona came to see her, she had a stolen childhood, which explains why she's drawn to protecting women.   She expressed her longing for love through roleplay: as a cat.   She kept one when she was little.   Role playing is a legitimate form of therapy, and she looks to Ray for support who replies, she's the expert.   They watch Iona's video attended by her boyfriend, Carter (Aaron Hill) who didn't approve of it.   She left him and he broke into her apartment to find bondage restraints.

Brass (Paul Guilfoyle) and Nick check out Maria's room.  They find her laptop and Nick believes he's found the father from a half torn photo of the Homecoming Queen.   Maria either hung herself or it was staged.   Her phone continues receiving texts.   Archie (Archie Kao) calls them elite speak.   NCulver12 was having a serious conversation with her and there are yet more messages.   Such as KPC = Keep parents clueless.   Hodges (Wallace Langham) talks of sparks flying between Sara and Heather, "I'm sure you dominated." Trust Hodges to get a comment in, which Sara doesn't appreciate.   The tooth was fake.   Leading to a dentist, Tyrell Neth (Tony Curran) with his huge mansion, where he's throwing a party.  They're his "pets" and all are free to go.   They are able to release themselves from their restraints.   Sara: "Cat got your tongue."  Iona lived in a pine tree outside, where Ray finds gouge marks in the bark.   She fell from the tree.   They theorize Neth dragged her and material from her catsuit caught onto the sprinkler head.  A man dog growls at them, he exhibits the same burn marks too.

Nathan Culver (Cody Longo) calls Maria his girlfriend.   His father (Dylan Neal) asks if his son is the only one being questioned.   He's the father of the baby.   Brass calls him lucky otherwise they'd be charging him with double homicide.  His belt was in the closet, he grabbed her by her arms and he didn't want anything to do with the baby.   His alibi; he was at school.  Nick is angry at him and Brass says he had motive.   Nick says everyone was angry at her.   Archie notices she's still getting thousands of hits on a hate e-mail site about her.   Receiving 11 million global hits.   Ecklie is disgusted.   Nick strongly  makes his  case for murder.   Maria was bullied.  Archie agrees it was cyber-bullying.   Maria killed herself and the school kids are responsible.   Nick believes she "deserves some justice and we're obligated to give it to her."  In a similar speech to Hodges some episodes ago, when he wanted justice for the man who was killed on his motorcycle.   Ecklie demands proof and then he'll back him.   Doc visited "our baby girl" but Maria's mother didn't.  He puts the timeline down to 9.30am and TOD at 15 minutes later, so Nathan was at school.

Heather advises Ray they're making assumptions about Neth based on false premises.   In attributing all the power to Neth, but he'd be nothing without his subjects.   It's a reciprocal bond, like hunter and hunted.   Alluding to Ray and Haskell (Bill Irwin).   He doesn't want to talk about him and Heather surmises Haskell was performing for Ray's benefit in the courtroom (In Targets of Obsession.)    Ray leaves and Heather adds, under her breath that he'll return.   Sara found the stun gun but it doesn't match the wounds.   So she went shopping and found Iona had her own gun.   Hodges found partial ridge detail on the material from the sprinkler, belonging to Debra.   She wanted to save Iona from what she was doing so that Iona would thank her in return, just like Iona helped her.   When Iona fell, she thought she was dead so she left her there.   Instead of helping her, which is exactly what she wanted to do, but she couldn't be bothered to check on her, that's defined as wanting to save her.   Ray explains Iona wanted to be taken care of for a while, she didn't want to be a cat forever.   He's also talking about himself when he says "they don't know how" to ask for help.  

Archie finds Nathan dated the Homecoming Queen, Cathy (Victoria Geil) eight and a half months ago.   Then he found Maria and dumped her by SMS.  She and her two friends didn't like that, so they uploaded a video and photos of Maria around the school.   The Principal (Wendy Schenker) found them offensive and the girls were suspended, which isn't an appropriate punishment, she didn't deal with the root of the problem.  They went global with the hate.   Even Nathan saw the hits and did nothing to help Maria, who was the object of ridicule and jokes, of bullying.   It got too much for her to handle and Nathan added to it by dumping her and the baby.   Nick refers to their photos as mugshots, they're the real killers and they need to be taught a lesson.   Ecklie explains they're sending a message: "You send hate, you go to jail."

Nick says their parents work and don't talk to them and agrees with Ecklie when he says the parents have a responsibility, as do the 11 million people watching the video when they shouldn't have.   What's the law going to do about them.   The short answer being nothing cos nothing can be done to stop people from watching without censorship issues coming into it and policing the Net.   When it gets out on the web, the damage has already been done.   For too long, the popular kids can do what they please and get away with it, even murder.   Parents do carry a degree of responsibility.   Also the school didn't do much to deal or deter against this sort of behaviour, not even remotely associating it with bullying.

Ray opens up to Heather and yes he did return to her.   When he applied for an internship to medical school, he was asked why he wanted to become a doctor.   He replied, "if I'm helping people, I'm not hurting them."  They laughed at him but he got in.   There's violence inside of him and he can taste the blood.   He again says what he told Haskell, "DNA is not destiny."  But it's coming to the point where he appears to be strongly rejecting that in favour of his DNA.   She tells him it's okay to lose the muzzle for a while, almost as if she's advocating violence, that it'd be fine for Ray to kill Haskell.   If Ray gives in to his nature, he won't catch him, he'll kill him.   Heather agrees.  Maybe this meeting with her wasn't a good idea after all.

All this build up for Haskell's appearance and Ray really does have a hidden dark side in him, which is only emerging now the longer Haskell remains at large.   We're being prepared for the build up, as it's obvious what Ray's going to do next.   Heather only seems to be added to carry the story forward as far as Ray goes and she'd be the only one geared to understand what role playing can achieve.   CSI has done episodes where people have been obsessed with animals or mimicking them and delving into that part of the human psyche; such as Fur and Loathing in Las Vegas.

Cyber-bullying is a phenomenon that can't really be legislated against since it's global - short of such websites being shutdown, thereby giving rise to all sorts of issues of enforcement, cost, but parents need to take an active role in this area.   Good to see Ecklie actually standing by Nick for a change on such an important matter, usually they're at odds with each other.   Also Ecklie being a parent himself can't see how other parents could have ignored such behaviour from their own children.

Another good use of the title, Unleashed referring to animals and their behaviour, as well as humans also being unleashed and behaving worse than animals.

Allison Smith was also in the CSI episode Got Murder and here, she and Dylan Neal only got a scene each. Dylan last time in CSI:Miami played a DB, mostly, in the episode Vengeance.