CSI: NY - 1.21: "On the Job" Review

Danny is involved in a shootout with an undercover policeman. The CSIs must find all the evidence to show it was a good shoot. Danny and Mac have words.

Danny (Carmine Giovinazzo) and Mac (Gary Sinise) process a CS and Mac believes the killer wanted money.   Jan Knight was DOA and the gun is found.   Danny notices high velocity blood spatter on the wall next to the window.   He hears a noise in the closet and is hit by an assailant.   He pursues (hot pursuit ha) and identifies himself, leading to a shoot-out in the subway.  Danny fires the last two shots and a cop is killed.   Mac takes Danny's gun.   Flack (Eddie Cahill) identifies him as Officer Rodney Minhas (Gilbert Rosales).   Stories of six witnesses are all consistent: a man came down the stairs ran to the middle platform and hid behind a pillar.   He saw Danny and fired twice.   Minhas came down the north stairs and starts shooting at the same man Danny was chasing.

One question I have to ask which no one did here, at least I can't recall if they did, but did no one ask why Minhas was there at the same time Danny happened to be chasing the perp? Seems more than coincidental.   Can't be he happened to be in the right place at the right time.

Danny insists the cop fired at him first.   Flack breaks it up, "I don't want anybody making their minds up about this until we know the facts." Mac asks what happened. He chased the perp in the subway: onto the platform and shoots at him, turns and runs and Danny fired twice.   He's not sure if he hit the perp with both rounds.   Danny: "I followed my training by the book, Mac."  Minhas didn't ID himself.   He was an imminent  threat and he took him out.   Mac warns IAB will want a statement so Danny mustn't say anything until they issue the preliminary report.

Aiden (Vanessa Ferlito) finds a message recorder from an injured civillian who was standing next to the perp.   IAB Chief Hillborne (Joe Morton) wants a statement from Danny.   He has 48 hours before he talks to them.   Only uniforms have privilege detectives have no right.   Danny is insistent he has nothing to hide.

In story 2 Stella (Melina Kanakaredes) investigates a DB found in toilets in Central park.   Sandra Lopez, 19.   Matrice (Noureen DeWulf) and Glenda (Kimberly Dooley) were nannies.   EMS says the Bureau of Child Welfare is locating parents.   Stella processes Daniella, the baby who will be released when parents arrive.   Hawkes (Hill Harper) finds blunt force trauma to her head and a single blow.   Granular matter in the wound checked under autopsy scope coming up with feldspar, quartz, mica on a granite shaped rock.   Evidence of burn trauma with singed hair in nose and throat.   Sexual assault kit is positive.   A print is found on the rock but there's no match to anyone.

Hawkes removes a round from Minhas's shoulder, which wasn't fatal.   The second one entered his ribs and bled to death.  There's no way to determine who fired the fatal shot.   On the recorder shots are heard from three sources, one voice is heard to say, "undercover, I'm on the job, don't shoot."  Then Danny's shots are heard. He fired after Minhas identified himself.   Who was going to hear his ID through all that noise and commotion.   He may as well have flashed his badge.

Bullets are recovered from the pillar.   The perp fired twice and hit a civillian.   Minhas has hit the wall near Danny and the round is recovered.   Danny fired twice, one in the shoulder and one round is missing.   Danny leaves hospital.   Aiden looks at the platform and Mac takes Danny off the case.   The audio tape story doesn't match the witnesses.  Mac: "Evidence is damaging to you."  Danny didn't hear anything.   Mac thinks the missing bullet is the one that killed Minhas.   Danny needs to call a lawyer and talk to someone and  Mac didn't mean IAB.   Flack says the bullet that skip-marked could have been fired by Danny or the perp.

The Myerson's butler tells Stella how Sandra was acting strangely.   They had a robbery a month ago where a nesting doll was stolen and then anonymously returned.   Bartender does some firebreathing at the bar named Steve Dark (Chris Tardio).   She came onto him and breathed fire but couldn't' do it.   His DNA doesn't match the rock.   Hawkes runs the DB through the system.  Sandra was a thief and Chad (Chad Lindberg) finds an address fro her.   A blue sapphire necklace was stolen and there were prints on the jewellery box.   They tried it on, jewellery went missing and Sandra was blamed.  

Aiden finds a bullet in the stair without any blood.   The round is matched to Danny's gun.   Mac concludes Danny killed Minhas.   His round wasn't found.   Danny talks to Flack and about time to.   He doesn't want to call a lawyer.   Flack: "Don't start taking things into your own hands, listen to me."  He and Aiden are returning to the apartment to look for answers.   Danny still believes it was a good shoot and he has to do something about it.  

Flack demands he should stay quiet and let Mac handle it.   Danny: "Mac's worried about the reputation of the unit."  He's always worried about the rep of the unit but in this case he was also worried about Danny though he didn't say as much.   Flack: "You're wrong, he's got your back."  Danny is too busy wanting to defined himself, er that's what lawyers are for.   Flack tells him to trust the system but he knows what the system is like.  Wonder what that was about, Danny's gripe with the system obviously relating to his past, but we're not told anything further.   Flack: "Don't hang yourself Danny."

Stella finds there's no match to the prints in the system but those of Glenda are found in AFIS for robbery at Matrice's employer's address.   She asks for a lawyer and Stella wants her prints.   She checks the nesting doll for prints and there's a match to the stone of Matrice's prints.   They steal from each other's houses and leave prints at each other's homes.   All wiped clean but one.  She took the doll and Glenda wiped it down.   Sandra put it back, she confronted Sandra.   They were all trying to make money for health insurance.   Stella tells Mac the baby is everything anyone could want.   She's the strongest person he knows.  Yet throughout all this she didn't ask how Danny. She was too busy worrying about her own case and feelings for the baby.

Three men were in the room and one bled badly.   Knight pulls a gun and the perp takes the bullet.   Aiden says the window was open and the bullet is outside in the tree.   Mac finds the through and through was positive for blood.  Bullet in the tree was fired by Knight's gun.   The blood spatter matches the bullet.   Minhas was the mystery man from the apartment.   He was shot here so Danny didn't kill him.   He took another entrance down the block.   There are tickets on the car and blood on the pavement.   Minhas was the driver and was in the apartment with the perp.   Flack runs the VIN.

Danny followed procedure and tells his story to Hillborne.  The preliminary account of his statement is inaccurate.   Minhas's behaviour was irrelevant.   IAB will review if he's fit to be a policeman.   Mac gave him an order not to talk.   He had findings clearing Danny of the shooting and any responsibility in Minhas's death.   Their info will be useless in his defence.   Michael Armstrong (Maurice Compte) is the registered owner of the car and a gun is found in the apartment with his prints.   Armstrong hid in the closet.   Minhas wasn't trying to help him he was trying to kill him.  

The DA refuses to prosecute Danny.   Mac tells him you don't win in this situation.  IAB isn't calling it a good shoot, just there isn't enough evidence to prosecute.   Mac: "There's two things I wanna say to you....one I thought I'd never tell you.   I was strongly discouraged against hiring you."  The decision was Mac's to hire him and he followed his gut.   Danny is adamant he can account for every second of the shooting.   Mac says he can't cos Mac can't account for it.  He's off the promotion grid.   Mac gets a call from Hillborne.   So who was bad mouthing Danny, not so that we knew.   There must have been some Tanglewood connection here with Danny's past but it wasn't explored nor was it mentioned again, so really there was no point mentioning it just for the sake of this episode.

At least Flack showed he was there for everyone, especially Danny, but he chose to ignore his advice. So much for talking to him.  He went 'rogue' and decided to do what he wanted even going against Mac's advice to keep quiet.   But it wouldn't have hurt Mac to have told him he's got his back.   But in a way he did, cos that's why he told him to go home.   How could Danny have given a statement  to IAB without all the facts being in and the evidence too?   It was just supposition without proof and his version of events.   Aiden and Flack were the only ones concerned for Danny. Stella was off gallivanting around, absorbed in her own case.   Nothing new there then.

Appropriate title for this episode stealing whilst 'on the job' and besides, Minhas was a dirty cop which was nicely covered up by IAB.   What happened to the policemen who were running behind Danny in the opening?  They took their time getting to the subway.  Stella only getting the names of the nannies and not their addresses.   Was she going to contact all of them through their employers when she didn't know who they were either?  

The character of Steve Dark in this episode is also the name Anthony Zuiker gave to the character in his Dark Origins digi-novel.

In CSI episode Play With Fire, Gil (William Petersen) defends Catherine (Marg Helgenberger)when her actions affected everyone and he's told by the Director that it's not Gil's job to protect his people but only the integrity of the lab.   Gil: "Without the people there is no lab." Here Mac does have his back but Danny doesn't believe he does.     CSI season 2 A Little Murder Catherine is attacked by a perp hiding at the CS still.

NCIS - 7.18: "Jurisdiction" Review

The investigation of a dead man leads the agents to encounter agents from the coastguard and one of whom they suspect could be Gibbs' female double, cos they're so alike and she's a redhead.

Marines finds a dead diver on the beach.   Tony (Michael Weatherly) checks his desk for the van keys and finds gum, lip balm and change.   Ziva (Cote de Pablo) finds some leftover candy from Valentine's day.   Tony can't resist asking who it's from, it matters since Ziva "didn't eat it, so that person must not mean very much to you."  Ziva replies it means nothing, which got Tony's goat, he's glad he wasn't her Valentine and so is she.   Tony found McGee's (Sean Murray) CDs in his desk, which means McGee should've looked harder for them.   McGee apologizes for not thinking to look in Tony's desk.   Whoever drove the van last, has the keys.   Tony got pizza cos he was hungry, that's nothing new, so doesn't he have his own car to drive now, or the agency car.

Ziva asks where the dumpster is, why's she asking that when she's been here long enough to know.   Gibbs (Mark Harmon) finds the keys on the lift floor and everyone scrambles for them.   Ducky (David McCallum) recalls strolling on Brighton Beach,  with his mother and friends and hates eating snails.   Don't we all.   Palmer (Brian Dietzen) prefers oysters, oh don't mention oysters when Tony's around, who naturally has to refer to them as nature's aphrodisiac.   Back to that again from season 4 and before.   Tony calls Palmer's girlfriend, 'Blondie'.   Her talents don't cease to amaze Palmer.

Ducky finds the DB didn't run out of air, the propeller took his forearm off after he was dead.   Tony: "This was no boating accident."   Richard Dreyfus's line from Jaws (1975) which Palmer also recalls.   TOD was 3-5 days ago.   McGee uses the PDA now and loves that bit.   Ducky finds a puncture wound through his wetsuit.   Lt Jensen (Brody Hutzler) wasn't alone, someone stabbed him and left him in the water to die.   Gibbs doesn't call it an accident.   Tony mentions, "clean, no nonsense, stoic."  When he sees the house.  Gibbs: "stoic."  Tony calls that an understatement.   House says a lot about a man.   Which explains why Tony has an apartment!  A woman sneaks up on Tony from behind, then Gibbs creeps up on her and another man comes up behind Gibbs.  All carrying guns and badges.   Tony comments it's a scene from Reservoir Dogs (1992) .   Only she's cuter than Harvey Keitel.

She IDs them from CGIS (Coastguard Investigative Service) and Tony laughs when he hears Coastguard.   She slaps Kyle (Eddie Shin).   Tony: "nice headslap."  McGee comments they have a wider enforcement jurisdiction.   Tony with yet more jokes, "Yes, Virginia there is a CGIS" and mentions  Corky in Life Goes On.   Tony asks if she reminds them of anyone?  McGee: "Like who?"  Oh come on it's obvious Gibbs of course!    She also drinks coffee.   Gibbs says Jensen is Navy so the case belongs to NCIS.   Recon flights saw the salvage boat adrift.   The Captain's dead and Jensen and the captain were seen at the marina on surveillance.   Gibbs likes to conduct his own investigations, so does she.   She asks if it's cos she's a woman, coastguard or got the drop on Gibbs.   Gibbs doesn't know her.

Ducky comments Davy Jones was after Jensen.  Palmer thinks he's quoting Jack Sparrow.   Already said twice before by Tony in the episodes 1.15 Enigma and 4.14 Blowback.   Ducky quotes Dickens' Bleak House.   Palmer likes Treasure Island personally and used to jump on the bed thinking he was Jim Hawkins, at 23. "The boy's story is the best he's ever told." Gibbs knows that was Charles Dickens.   COD was death by drowning.   Gibbs doesn't believe a master diver could drown but Ducky points out he was injured.   Abby's (Pauley Perrette) not herself today.   Usually she knows when Gibbs is coming, but she didn't know today.   He had rubber from the regulator in his teeth.   The hug didn't help her.   Gibbs tells her not to bang her head cos he needs what's in there.

Tony checks out Abigail Borin (Diane Neal) not in that way but you never know what's going through Tony's head.   It's another Abby.   She's a Sergeant, no spouse, no "little Borin's, it's uncanny: former marine turned surely investigative agent who flies by the seat of her gut."  Well she's not all Gibbs, as Gibbs did have a daughter and has been married 4 times.   Ziva asks how Tony knows all this.   McGee jumps in replying Tony was eavesdropping outside the conference room, their conference room, not the lift conference room.   Tony calls it recon, research, "McTattle.   The law of nature's being violated; matter and anti-matter colliding or something." McGee reads comics.   Ziva wonders if he's obsessed with her, cos she reminds him of Gibbs, or she's attractive.   Tony claims not to have noticed.   Tony not notice a woman's looks, never!  Hey but Tony called her cuter than Harvey Keitel before so how could he not have noticed.  Abigail creeps up from behind like Gibbs and asks 'what'.   Tony: "what have you got" she says, as does Gibbs.

Jensen had a storage facility.    Do they have a problem.   She was an only child from a small Ohio town.   Gibbs was from a small Pennsylvania town.Gibbs says they can connect Jensen to the boat, prints on the boat and blood matched him.   Abigail's outsourced and Molly (Hong Chau) gives them the info about the prints.   Gibbs asks what his people have got?  A large deposit was made into the captain's account.   Tony has a warrant for the storage unit.   Gibbs can't call her Abby!  His girlfriend, Missy (Shanna Moakler) "can't believe he's dead...you mean he's deceased too." McGee gives her a look.  He didn't have much money but told her he'd have some money when he returned.

At the storage unit, Tony finds treasure charts, Calafuego, Tony mentions pirate treasure.   Ziva says it looks like Davy Jones Locker.   Tony remarks Davy Jones used to sing with The Monkees.   Ziva asks real monkeys.   Tony: "I envy your brain sometimes."  Oh Tony is just there to try Ziva isn't he and most everyone else, with his comments just to confuse her even more.   Ah bless him.   As for envying her brain, Gibbs said much the same thing about Abby's brain, well that he needs her brain, not so much envies her.   They were looking for sunken treasure.

Abby heard he was having his own personal problems with ...both are Abby.     E-mails between Jensen and Mavrey, talked about Calafuego.   Abigail doesn't believe in coincidences, neither does Gibbs.   His wife, Andrea Mavrey ( Gabrielle Miller) says her husband is out of the country and has no way of reaching him.   She denies knowing Jensen.   Abigail wants to bring her in for questioning based on her gut.   Just like Gibbs relies on his gut.   Tony now mentions swashbuckling movies, took his time.   Erroll Flynn as Captain Blood, (1935) Douglas Fairbanks in the Black Pirate (1926).   Imagine Gibbs as a pirate, eyepatch, peg leg, parrot on shoulder.   Tony was lucky he didn't get a slap for that.   They would get $250 million if the boat was found.   Mavrey had money to fund Jensen.   Tony links it to the Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948).   Mavrey needed money.   Vance (Rocky Carroll) finds Dr Kalsa (Aaron Lustig) never left the country, logged onto his website to perform live surgery.   Tony says you can watch it online if you pay $19.99.

Abby sticks to the original formula.   The coins are fake, there is no treasure and Andrea said she didn't know Jensen.   Tony thinks the widow and the stud diver did it together.   Oh Tony took his time connecting the wife, would've thought she'd have been his first suspect.    Tony: "Ziva did you hear that."  Ziva: "yes I heard the wife did it, oh Tony you are a genius."  But as said he didn't say that earlier, not once did he suspect her at all.   Off he goes again this time with Body Heat (1981), where the wife hired a stud to kill the husband.   He's mentioned this movie twice before too in 3.12 Boxed In and 5.5 Leap of Faith.   He has a a Live Aid T-shirt signed by Bob Geldoff in his locker.  Gibbs: "Yo ho ho."  Tony says it's "time to walk the plank matey."

A private jet was hired to fly to Guam, Kyle gets the coastguard to intercept the plane.   Ducky's alone and depressed, Sophie left him, she wanted to change him and he's back to wearing bow ties again.   From the mould he found Jensen suffered three fractures of his incisors from a seizure.   He bit through the mouthpiece and that's why there was rubber in his mouth.   Ducky explains he was suffering from congenital retention of iron and so he couldn't be a diver.

Abby says they changed the Caf Pow formula which explained her behaviour.   She didn't find anything in the blood.   Abby: "There's something rotten in Denmark."  Paraphrasing Hamlet.   The plane was empty and was a decoy.   Tony mentions the wife's nice pad, he's used to big mansions isn't he, from childhood.   She gives them a sob story, it wasn't possible for him to kill anyone, no cos she did it.   Medical records show Navy doesn't have any records about a liver condition.   It wasn't Jensen but Mavrey who had seizures as a boy and a liver disorder.   Jensen is Mavrey.   He embezzled for the treasure hunt.     Abigail asks who Bogey is.   (Humphrey Bogart was in the Treasure of the Sierra Madre.)  When Tony mentions the Treasure of the Sierra Madre again.   Missy bought two tickets to Mexico and he never showed up.   Vance thinks cooperating with sister agencies produces great results and Gibbs agrees.

Ziva and Tony watch a movie together.   Tony says Ziva doesn't have any friends, but she does.   So why is she with him on a Friday night watching a movie with him.   Ziva says he's her friend.   Tony: "really."
Ziva: "No." Tony's date cancelled, so did hers.   The way these two just make things up don't they, just like when they told McGee the wrong story about who slept where in Paris.   Good episode especially now they've got a female version of Gibbs, even dresses almost the same with the long coat and everything.   Of course Tony had to notice the similarities straight away, he's so into that kind of stuff.

Notice Andrea Mavrey's house is Jenny Shepherd's (Lauren Holly) house.   The team also had doubles/doppelgangers in the season 2.12 episode Doppelgangers, only this time round, Abigail is more like Gibbs, albeit she's a woman.   Tony paraphrases, 'Yes, Virginia there is a Santa Claus' at the beginning.

CSI: Miami - 8.21: "Meltdown" Review

The CSIs investigate a bank robbery where a man is killed, leading to the proceeds of the robbery being stolen from the Miami-Dade evidence lock up. Delko is sent to investigate in secret with Horatio's approval.

A man buying a ring is killed when the jewellery store is raided.   One of the robbers take the ring from his hand, which is unusual.   They pass Horatio (David Caruso) on the bikes when he's in pursuit, but they didn't just disappear.   Tread marks on the road reveal they drove into a truck.   They did a u-turn and doubled back, Ryan (Jonathan Togo) suggests they rode onto something.   Calleigh (Emily Procter) can't find anything wrong with the SUV.   Jesse (Eddie Cibrian) says it was used to block the road and it's been stripped of the VIN number.   Jesse asks if Calleigh's okay after she sees Jake (Johnny Whitworth) in the crowd.    Jesse notices the VIN plate on the ground.   Calleigh wasn't looking for it.   No she was too busy wondering what Jake was doing there.   Well he could only have been undercover, yet he appeared to be a suspect the way he vanished.

Inside the store, Tripp (Rex Linn) wonders how they managed to open the display cases as the manager, Leonard (Tim Russ) has the only key.   They left behind the expensive pieces.   Tripp thinks it could be an inside job.  Natalia's (Eva La Rue) hearing aid attracts her to a device hidden in the plants.   ME Tom (Christian Clemenson) finds trace under the Vic's fingernails.   He's clearly upset at his life being taken like that and the ring being stolen too.  "Snatched from his dying hand."  Tripp identifies the device as a signal jammer, it blocked the feed to the wireless surveillance cameras.   A woman outside looks for her boyfriend, Ben (Christian Campbell) and ME Tom scraped his nails for trace, outside the store in public.

Walter (Omar Miller) identifies the trace under the Vic's nails as latex.   Tripp follows up on the VIN number which leads to an address and to a truck, stepping on the diamonds, which have been discarded outside on the ground.   Shots are fired and inside the building they find Jake has shot one of the robbers, Joe (Celestin Cornielle).   Jake was recruited for the heist and they found out he was a cop.   He claims self-defence.  Jake drove the truck and they threw the diamonds away as the serial numbers could be traced back to them.   Jake left the VIN number for the CSIs.   Horatio says the trail hasn't gone cold yet as they still have the diamonds to follow through on.

Ryan discovers the seal on the evidence box containing the diamonds is broken and one of the envelopes is missing.   Walter looks at the chain of custody.   They were logged in by Calleigh and checked out by Ryan, who says he put them back.  Orlansky, (Rashawn Underdue) the officer on duty, confirms Ryan did put them back.   Ryan: "Somebody stole the stolen diamonds."  Question being couldn't that somebody have waited for the investigation to be completed before they charged in.   The fingers would point to Ryan after he's been in so much strife since he got here.

 Rick Stetler (David Lee Smith) (never far behind) wants the cameras fixed as the signal was jammed by the device, which Walter turned off.   Walter is adamant he didn't do it.   Now it's his turn to be fingered as in the next episode too.  Rick wants to handle the investigation, but Horatio puts his foot down as he always does with Rick.   It's Horatio's lab, his investigation, but he'll share the results.

Ryan and Natalia process Joe's clothes and there's a mark under the blood stain.   Natalia finds a memory card which has photos of the store.   The robbers could have made a key using the photo.   The photos were taken from opposite the store.   It's a real estate office owned bu the Vic, Ben Rooney.   His girlfriend Kayla Pennington (Kathleen Robertson) says he was there to buyher an engagement ring.   They believe Ben was casing the store, but she's the more likely suspect to me - she knew him 3 weeks yet agreed to marry him, that was an obvious clue.   Besides now that he's dead she can also say anything.   Calleigh wonders what she's not saying.

Horatio says boric acid is used in metal casting, the diamonds were removed from their settings, so they wanted the gold.  Jesse mentions Spano (Kevin Weisman) who is a fence and Horatio asks him on info about the gold, which increases in investment.  They need to widen the net.   Horatio doesn't agree to a deal with him.   "Poof, take him." Horatio wants the FBI called.   Delko (Adam Rodriguez) arrives for the signal jammer, he's always been on their team.   Natalia says Delko is the one who's causing her hearing aid "freaking out when he walked in."  He's spying on them.   Natalia reminds him she was a mole in the lab for the FBI and he's wearing a wire.

 He's been working on the evidence for months.   That's news to us, as this was a way for his character to be brought back permanently, worse luck.   Small amounts were missing.   Horatio knows what he's doing and Delko volunteered for the gig as he could protect the team.   That's why he's here, he can go through the recordings from his wire first.  He's so caught up in the job that he didn't even tell Calleigh, so I ask would he really suspect her?

Delko questions Jake who accuses him of being jealous.   GSR  containing mercury was found on the signal jammer.   Jake isn't the only one who uses those bullets and asks if Delko's working for IA now.   Delko also accuses Jake of stealing the diamonds and Jake replies he nearly got killed for his efforts.   Delko thinks he's been undercover too long.   Jake gave them the signal jammer so the GSR would have been already on there.   HE also adds that until Delko goes undercover he can't tell him what it's like to be on the job.

Jesse accuses the gang of being 60 second men.   They took only the gold and escaped on the bikes.   Horatio analyzes the photos from the witnesses and  notices they were wearing facial prosthetics.   One of them is Ben's girlfriend, Kayla, she shot Ben, and all of the robbers were female.   Ben was the mark.   Jesse believes he was more than that since if he was just a mark then why didn't she melt the ring down with the rest of the gold.   She fell for him and went back to the store to see if he was alive.   Well he wouldn't still be alive after getting shot like that.   She claims she couldn't shoot him.   Jesse says Kayla isn't a murderer and gives up her partner, Whitney (Tina Casciani) .

 Horatio and Jesse locate her and Horatio finds the gold is being transported as part of the bikes themselves, which Jesse missed when he analyzed one of the bikes in the truck.   Horatio tells her if the shipment had already gone then she'd have left the truck behind.   He's no fool.   Horatio uses a gold pen to check for gold.   Jesse says the gold was hidden in plain sight to get through customs.

Calleigh tells Delko he doesn't need to worry about Jake as he was with her.   Delko being defensive, says it's not about them but about the lab.   Calleigh explains Jake was with her at the hospital to get him checked out, then adds she thought Delko wasn't jealous about their on-again/off again relationship, so guess they're on again.   Delko claims to be curious that's all.   Yeah, pull the other one.   Thus Jake couldn't have stolen the diamonds so much for Delko's accusations.   Walter's use of "poof" too, just like Horatio.

Ryan claims to be going home and they decide on drinks.   Walter's buying.   Natalia changes her mind about going as she has to be in court.   That was a quick turnaround, she was acting a bit suspiciously and now Ryan's going for drinks too.   Did she not want to go as she'd have to sit around with Delko and his 'lies' to the rest of them, but then she can't be that  self-righteous, as she did the same thing too.   Then when everyone found out, she wanted them to trust her.   Where was Jesse, he wasn't invited for drinks, so it was safe for her to go; and no he wasn't stealing stuff from evidence either.

Apparently evidence had been missing from lockers for a while and they've only just got Delko on the case, surely someone had to have been suspected.   Out of the 3 shows, CSI:Miami is where someone or another on the team is always suspected of doing something wrong, and where such bad things actually happen.

In CSI:NY episode 7.18 Identity Crisis, the woman who was a con artist dressed as a man to steal from her marks.   You can see where that idea came from.   In this episode, the robbers were women and wore prosthetics, in CSI:NY, she wore a mask.

The Vampire Diaries - 2.16: "The House Guest" Review

Katherine wants to help. Jenna asks about isobel, and Bonnie and Damon look for the burial site of the witches who were massacred there. Speak of the devil vampire, Isobel arrives.

Damon (Ian Somerhalder) thinks Katherine is Elena (Nina Dobrev) as she's wearing her clothes and then Stefan (Paul Wesley) thinks Elena is Katherine, but she is really Elena.   Katherine thinks it's easy being Elena and they all need her, especially since none of them know what Klaus looks like.   Matt (Zach Roerig) asks if Caroline's (Candice Accola) made her decision or she should leave him alone.   Stefan feels this may be Katherine's only chance to get Klaus.   Damon tries to burn Elijah (Daniel Gillies).  Katherine only tells him afterwards that he can't get the dagger back now and he wonders why she didn't warn Damon he would die if he used the dagger.    Cos Damon would burn her.   She always gets what she wants.   She wanted out of the tomb and knew he'd die, she didn't care.   Stefan wants the Martins on their side.

Jenna (Sara Canning) asks about Isobel.   Elena asks her how they can tell someone what they know.   Alaric (Matt Davis) wants to be with Jenna but can't until he can tell her about Isobel.   Bonnie (Kat Graham) says she's looking for the site of the witch massacre centuries ago and if she can't find it then she can't help.   Emily told her about the witches.   When a witch dies violently, it releases mystical power marking their place of death with this power.   Elijah was looking for this place.   Stefan says Elijah didn't have a weapon to kill Klaus cos he didn't need one.   If the burial site is found, a weapon won't be needed.

Jonas (Randy J Goodwin) thinks Elijah should have killed them.   Jenna and Caroline wallow in their relationship problems.  Sometimes it's hard to tell he truth.   Lukas (Bryton McClure) tries to channel Elijah with a spell and astrally projects himself and finds himself in Damon's cellar and thinks he sees Elijah.   Emily died on the massacre site.   Damon doesn't believe Katherine is being sincere about helping.   She's not lying and she senses a presence.   When she's not around, Damon shows Stefan a passage from the journal.   Lukas removes the dagger from Elijah and Katherine tries to push it back in.   Jonas tells Lukas to kill Katherine.   Damon uses a flame thrower to burn Elijah calling it a "crazy-assed witch attack."  Lukas burns.

Alaric sees Jenna at the Grill.   Matt ignores Caroline.   Jenna can handle whatever Alaric's keeping from her.   Jenna: "Not tonight Ric, tonight I have traded you for Senor Tequila."  Caroline compels the singer on stage to let her sing and does a rendition of Eternal Flame, appropriate for what's happening not only in terms of burnings, but their relationships and ironically, Caroline will always be eternal, ha.   Hey I thought of this song the other day.   Matt kisses Caroline and Jonas attacks Stefan.   Damon stakes Katherine for the dagger, next time he'll put it in her heart.  

 John (David Anders) and Isobel want Stefan and Damon out of Elena's life and made Katherine a deal: killing Elijah would get her out of the tomb.   She could help with Klaus and kill Stefan, the deal was to save only one of the Salvatore's and she chose Stefan over Damon.   Why is that not surprising that Katherine has been making all these deals and counter-deals?   That she would be working with Isobel.   Only last episode she lied about the dagger and also how not killing Elijah would get her out of her tomb.

Bonnie mentions dating Jeremy (Steven R McQueen) to Elena.   He's had pain in his life and he deserves to be with Bonnie, she gives them her blessing.   Katherine knows what to do about Jonas, who wants Elena to get his daughter back.   Elena tells him he doesn't need Elijah.   Matt is hit with a bottle in his neck by Jonas and Caroline makes him drink her blood.   It's not Elena but Katherine, how many of us weren't surprised with that revelation.   It's too common an occurrence not to happen.   She kills Jonas and attacks Bonnie.

Damon insists it was Katherine's idea.   They need Elena if they're to take on Klaus.   She's not a threat to Elena.   Alaric loves Jenna but can't tell her about Isobel's death.   Jonas gave Bonnie her powers back and wants her to kill Klaus.   He also told her how to do this.   Damon says the town knew Emily was a witch and Katherine turned her in.   Katherine knows he's lying about the site of the massacre but Damon's not in the mood to take on Katherine. He tells her there are six bedrooms in the house and she should use one.   Yes six rooms but they all use the same one bathroom!  Caroline's blood healed Matt: she's a vampire.  Vicki knew.   Isobel returns.

Seems funny that Jenna wanted the truth from Alaric and she didn't get it from him, but Isobel turns up and that came as a shock, even to Elena.   Plenty of shocks, twists and surprises this episode too, would an episode be complete without them.   It seems Matt finds out what happened to Vicki and he's the last one to know, as well as who or what Caroline is.  

Funny Alaric was being honest about Isobel being dead and she arrives on his doorstep.  What was Jenna meant to think, duh, he was lying.   She probably thought Elena was keeping this from her too.   Damon is responsible for many deaths on this show, or he wouldn't be Damon, but the way he used the flame thrower on Lukas was gruesome and what a way to go, being burned like that and he wasn't even a vampire.  

Not one death, not two, but three.   Jonas also gets killed (so much for wanting to kill Klaus by themselves).   Another plan falls by the wayside (as they so often do).   At least Jonas gave Bonnie her power back and told her about the witches' burial site.   Damon finally tries to burn Elijah's body this week, but that was a bit too late, then telling Katherine to find her own bed (he wouldn't have done that centuries ago!)  It seems Damon may have been peeved Katherine chose to save Stefan over him.   Yes Katherine, many of us were!

Katherine can't really be trusted considering she's done so much back-stabbing (pun intended?) always putting herself first and just plays everyone against each other.

Lie To Me - 2.10: "Tractor Man" Review

Cal and the team must prevent a disgruntled farmer from detonating a bomb and at the same time, determine if he has a real bomb on board his tractor. But he has an accomplice.

A farmer drives up and parks his tractor with a trailer in tow outside the Treasury building, demanding to speak to the president.  Cal (Tim Roth) has a group of school children at the Institute and gives them a talk on lying, in an attempt to determine who stole the class turtle.  He wants the culprit to own up instead pointing the finger cos he can do that anyway.  He introduces Ben (Mekhi Phifer) as an FBI agent but he needs Cal and Gillian (Kelli Williams) urgently.  Eli (Brendan Hines) is left in charge of the children.

No one can leave the building since it's safer inside but everyone needs to be kept away from the glass.   Cal examines Harold's (Sean Bridgers) face closely by use of the cameras and doesn't believe he shows signs of bomber anxiety.  Ben's boss, Steele (Miguel Ferrer)  arrives and suspects there is a bomb on the tractor as ammonia readings have been picked up.  Cal wants to be in charge since it's his call.  Harold has a wife, Mary (Jennifer Irvin) back at the farm and his son.  Ria (Monica Raymund) and Agent Irving (Sean Blackmore) are sent there.  Mary doesn't believe Harold could set off a bomb and Ria picks up on her fear.

Eli can't seem to keep the children entertained or focused so Cal suggests he should get out his guitar.   Steele wants snipers placed and Cal has to distract  Harold, who tells Cal the bomb will explode of anything happens to him.  Harold isn't lying but he too shows signs of fear as if someone else is pulling the strings, or is holding a gun to his head and Cal knows what that's like (re his past.)  Ben notices the explosives on the seat  which weren't visible before.

Ben also finds the 911 caller who called in the threat is Ron Jackson (Ronnie Steadman) and he too has a farm, which Ria and Irving check out..  In the barn, blasting caps used for explosives are found.  Gillian listens to the end of the call and  and posits there was joy in the caller's voice since when you smile, this is visible in your speech.  Ben wants to use a water disruptor on the tractor which will help to limit the effects when they detonate.

Harold admits Mary is being held and he was forced to do this.  Ria is warned about Dave Miller, (Sam Littlefield) the man also at the farm and she stalls him long enough for Irving to arrest him, after Ben calls him.   Oscar overhears Steele talk about the bomb and Cal admits there is a bomb but he has to keep this secret from his friends.   Oscar later acts strangely and Eli tells him a about story about being in love with a girl from the sixth grade.  He wrote his feelings down in a song and gets Oscar to do the same.  He smiles.   Their teacher, Miss Angela (Felicia Day) admits she's afraid and Eli does too.

Jackson's phone is located to a downtown hotel and Cal tells Ben what to look for since he'll be disguised, but ends up accompanying Ben.  They spot the white van with the bomb and search the crowd.  Cal spots Jackson and asks him about Harold and he opens up his phone.  Cal gives the signal and Jackson is shot.  Eli and the children sing about white lies, which Gillian listens in on.

Jackson was going to tell Harold how to disarm the bomb and he's willing to sacrifice his life to save others.  Harold says goodbye to Mary and Ria plays the video of Dave being questioned and Cal sees he's lying about the bomb.  Cal agrees to go out alone and rescue Harold, which he does and opening up the trailer he finds it full of corn.    Cal is actually pleased with Eli's actions and their teacher plants a kiss on Eli.  The turtle thief confesses and Cal tells her he'll have a job for her here.

Plenty of character dynamic in this ep with Ria out of the office, even if it appeared convenient for the purposes of the storyline.  Eli entertaining the 'troops' and Cal had to venture out too and take risks with his life, as well as Harold's.  Cal not being certain again at times if there really was a bomb or not but he did put himself in the firing line to rescue Harold.  Luckily Emily wasn't around to see this since he promised her in Secret Santa he wouldn't put himself in that position again.  More reference to Cal's 'secret' past when he says he knows what it's like to have a gun held to his head.  In the Secret Santa episode he mentioned his stint working for MI6 in Bosnia and also suspect he may have found himself in a similar position in Ireland.  Gillian took a back seat in the ep as she was relegated to the background.

Guess Eli had to get a song in since he sings and writes his own songs under The Brendan Hines.  This one wasn't written by him.  He released an album of his own songs in 2008, entitled, Good For You Know Who.  "...everybody does it because it feels all right and it's more polite, but a lie's still a lie even when it's white..."

Like Cal's arguments with Steele for saving Harold. Even Ben ended up arguing with him since Steele was so hasty and so establishment in his eagerness to react.  Don't know what was going on with Jackson and the 911 call, since he could have exploded the bomb and gotten away with it instead of using Harold as a distraction.  What was the point of focusing that much attention on Harold?   Also it appears Eli has forever been enamoured with girls, going back to sixth grade!  Though he does get a kiss out of this scenario. Who was jealous?

CSI 12.14 "Seeing Red" Review

Nick (George Eads) and Morgan (Elisabeth Harnois) are about to tuck into a burrito when a car crashes into a billboard trailer.  They pull the driver from the car and Nick discovers he has GSW to his head and abdomen.  Wanted to ask what Morgan was doing out with Nick but guess they were on a work break, slash that to eating break and besides they're not going to be an item.  If they were then she'd have gotten her wish to be with Nick, alone ha.  Mind you she doesn't want Greg (Eric Szmanda) either.  That burrito looked horrid and they didn't even get to eat it.

The driver, Wes (Jesse Mccartney) tells Nick, "they're bleeding, they're dying."  So he recalled that as an immediate event but nothing else.  Hey look a cast member didn't get to say the last lines before the opening credits. Nick asks the nurse for his clothes and Doctor Stewart (Michael Bryar French) and nurse call him "crime lab."   DB (Ted Danson) arrives with a shirt for Nick since he's all bloodied and tells him he did a great job.   The nurse, Lauren (Nazanin Boniadi) brings him the Vic's clothes and the bullet recovered from Wes's abdomen.  She comments on how Nick's done this before and Nick replies, "more times than any person should have to."  Hey she's a nurse, sure she's in the same position too, so what a comment for her to make.  Also whenever our Nicky is around a woman they always have him acting a little weird in the sense of maybe this'll be the one for him and sometimes some flirting is thrown in.

Morgan  finds the car belongs to Elena.  There's no GS or high velocity blood spatter anywhere and Sara (Jorga Fox) concludes he wasn't shot in the car.  Vartann (Alex Carter) discovers Elena is missing.  Wes has no memory of who shot him but has bruising on his hands.  His parents say he has friends and he lives at home.  His father, Jonah (Philip Casnoff) doesn't recognize Elena and comes up with a comment that Wes wouldn't hang out with someone like her.

Henry (Jon Wellner) cuts out pieces from the shirt to analyze for DNA and finds there were three other Vics involved, including Elena.  One was a match to her brother Juan.  DB knows someone who can help, a blood whisperer, "sometimes blood is all you need."

He goes to recruit Finn (Elisabeth Shue) at a forensics seminar and calls her "Jules" which she hates and not in front of other people either.  DB: "of all the mock crime scenes in all the world..."  Paraphrasing Casablanca. She knows how it ended last time, which isn't a comment to a romantic past since DB loves his wife and wouldn't do anything like that, so it has to be about a past case since at the end he says she's been out of the game for a while now.  DB purposely leaves behind an envelope  for her.  He also says that playing the Vic means she misses him or not.  When she had that wig on and was playing the Vic that hair resembled Catherine,  don't know if that was just an oversight or if it was meant to have been staged that way.

Wes will only talk to Nick, as any Vic would and he recalls a man in a room with a gun and he tried to fight him.  Flashes to a bloody man and woman.  The way their heads twisted round was just like the heads twisting from the Master when he all the people on Earth changed into him in Doctor Who.  David Tennent's final episode.  Wes also remembers another woman and Nick gives him the pendant he carried in his pocket.  Her name is Vicky (Sarah Dumont).  Greg analyzes the bullet and matches it to a liquor store robbery.  It has Wes's DNA and an unknown female donor.  Sara calls it a through and through as the bullet went through her.

Finn turns up and lays down some ground rules: 1.  call her Finn.  2. they're never going to talk about the past.  Hey this is CSI the past is always mentioned here.  3.  Needs a safe word for when DB gets all Zen-talking.  This being 'stop.'  He gives her $1 consultation fee.  She asks for the best DNA mind around which is Greg of course.  She tells Greg that blood spatter can also help reconstruct blood events, which is what she does.  There was a struggle with a man, leading to blunt force trauma.  Elena was also fighting with Wes and Juan fired though Vicky.  They assume Wes is innocent in all of this just cos he appears to be a Vic and never for a second think he could be the perp.  Also since he was probably left for dead.  Well that part was right.

Vartann ran a web search on Vicky and found photos of Jonah with Vicky, his former PA.  So they were probably having an affair.  She then chased Wes as his mother, Leslie (Mary Page Keller) thinks and Sara asks her if she thinks someone else could be signing her cheques, such as her husband.  Jonah tells DB that Wes was driving the Bentley as it's at the scrapyard, when DB tells him it crashed through Vicky's wall.  Greg shows Hodges (Wallace Langham) some coats and he thinks they're new lab coats.  They're work smocks from Elena's car and Vicky's apartment.  Hodges: "Laverne and Shirley go femme fatale."  He analyzes for trace.  Morgan finds the phone records of Elena, Juan and Wes and pinpoints a business park.  Here they find Vicky and Elena's DBs.  Elena's face is beaten up and Vartann comments that he knows someone who can help, i.e Juan.

David (David Berman) finds TOD was 18-24 hours ago and Doc Robbins (Robert David Hall) says same as Vicky.  Nick says she bled out but Elena wasn't so lucky as David discovers every bone in  her face was crushed.  Nick finds the weapon and says, "what happens in Las Vegas kind of stayed on Las Vegas" and Sara raises him as if a bet.  Wouldn't expect those sorts of lines from them.  Sara notices the print is from a workboot and they follow it out to find tyre treads, as well as red paint transfer and crusty white substance.  Hodges finds it's sodium bicarbonate and the paint was royal crimson red from a 1950's Austin Healy.  Soda blasting is used in auto shops before a car gets a paint job.

Juan makes a run for it as expected and Vartann gets a chase scene as Juan runs into the police car.  Morgan comments maybe he can fix the dent before they take him in.  Finn reconstructs the CS and finds Wes had the gun.  Juan fought him and Vicky and Elena tried to intervene.  Juan fired though Vicky and hit Wes and then shot him and ran.  Elena had 10-12 blows to the head and there's a knee impression in Elena's blood from Juan.  Juan wasn't the trigger.  Juan was in trouble all his life and the one time Elena needed him he couldn't help her.  It was obvious Wes did it. DB tells Juan he's got a smart friend who is his friend too. referring to Finn.

Nick tells Wes he hurt them all.  Wes replies he doesn't know the man who did this and Nick agrees with him.  DB offers Finn a position and she'll think about it.  She returns his dollar and will call him maybe.  DB: "maybe I'll answer."  She writes his name on the envelope, "Diebenkorn" and no one is meant to know that.  So how come she knows his name and no one else doesn't.  Also at least we got his name revealed.  They could have had us guessing what is was for a while.

Hey Vartann returns after Catherine's left, a bit silly he wasn't in her last episode. but think it was must be the ultimate compliment for Michael Vartan to have a character named after him in CSI.  (See my Celeb Style Icons Blog) since Anthony Zuiker's wife is a big fan of Michael's.  Pity they didn't get him as a guest star in an ep!!

CSI has had many episodes where the amnesiac doesn't recall whether they did it or not and in this case he was guilty.  CSI:Miami 7.12 Headcase where an amnesiac was found wandering the street.  Also CSI:NY 7.3 Damned If You Do where a mother suffers amnesia after being beaten and the CSIs think it was her son.  hey Hodges always comes up with some throwback to an earlier age reference, this time Laverne and Shirley, maybe his mother watched that too.  I recall that show.

 At least Elisabeth looks to be a good replacement for Catherine and her character was subdued especially since she could have been more gung ho in her first appearance and a bit too full on, luckily she wasn't and it seems like she really cares about her work and was moved when DB mentioned Juan having her as a friend who helped him out in the end.

Desperate Housewives - 8.4: "School of Hard Knocks" Review

Susan decides to take a painting class, Danielle returns home, Renee suggests Tom is having an affair and Gaby is in yet more strife with the PTA at Juanita's school.

Mary Alice: "It is often said that children learn their most important lessons outside the classroom...master the art of conversation..but for Gaby Solis the art of morning drop-off was something she never learned."  Gaby (Eva Longoria) drops off Juanita (Madison De La Garza) and lets her out before reaching the drop off point.   She is faced by Dana (Beth Littleford) who removes Gaby's drop off privileges.   If Gaby can take the placard from her then she can have it, but Gaby can't reach it.   Mary Alice (Brenda strong) "Some of our most important lessons are learned outside the classroom and when it came to school politics, Gaby's education was just beginning."

Mary Alice: "When it came to her separation, Lynette Scavo was determined to do everything by the book...kept perfect records of her household expenses...convinced her by the book approach was the right one." Tom (Doug Savant) and Lynette (Felicity Huffman) are considering counselling to find a way to reconnect.   Renee (Vanessa Williams) wonders if that's the case then why does Lynette dress so awfully if she wants to win him back.   Tom's whitening his teeth and working out and Renee thinks he's having an affair.   Lynette thinks he's taking care of himself and she's not.   If he was dating he'd tell her.

Bree (Marcia cross) checks the mail and fears another letter.   Gaby doesn't believe whoever sent it is good at blackmailing them.  Gaby also believes Susan (Teri Hatcher) is acting normal now and she couldn't be further from the truth.   Danielle (Joy Lauren) arrives, her husband, Leo has left her.   Susan needs to know if Mike (James Denton) still loves her and he replies there's nothing she could do to make him stop loving her.   He's just relieved she's not having an affair.   Susan wants things back to normal, which is what Gaby just said.   Mike tells her it won't be easy since things like this just don't disappear, he's done things like that.  She wants to attend a painting class and they decide on no more secrets between them.   Now if they could tell Tom and Lynette that.

Gaby has to walk Juanita to school from the B parking lot and the other mothers, Melissa (Lindsey Stoddart) and Rachel (Jillian Armenante) talk about Dana, who is in an elected position.   Gaby didn't vote for her cos she doesn't vote.   She wants to storm the PTA meeting like Braveheart, or the 300.   Andre Zeller (Miguel Ferrer) looks through Susan's portfolio and she confesses she's a fan.   He doesn't see her illustrations as art, which is about, "tearing guts out and smearing it all over the canvas" and calls her a bored housewife, which was a mistake.

Bree wants to talk about Danielle's future and tells her she turned into an alcoholic sitting in the chair after her marriage ended.  (Oh could the blackmailer be Danielle? She turned up conveniently and in need of money.)  She needs start-up money for exercise equipment she designed.   Tom's taken to protein shakes for lunch and Lynette confirms their appointment with the counsellor.  Gaby attends the PTA meeting for freedom and to oppose Dana.  Dana gives Melissa and Rachel their placards back and Gaby now has to park in the C parking lot;  which was over doing it.

Renee finds Danielle has been selling a fantasy 'sex swing,'  which she buys too.   Lynette buys Penny (Darcy Rose Byrnes) a tablet so she can spy on Tom via webcam when she's over there.   She sees him with a younger woman, Chloe (Ruby Lewis).  Susan shows Andre her painting of a lone tree.   He comments the tree is lonely like Susan cos there's no more Oprah.   Susan is shallow and so is her life and she's afraid of ugly.   She knows what ugly is and Susan lets rip when she loses it with the canvas and paint.   Bree tries out the equipment not knowing what it's for.   Danielle accuses Bree of always judging her.

Mike tells Susan, "It's not going to go away, it's a part of you."  It's like he doesn't want his dark past to be a part of him but it is.  Susan wants things the way they were.   Bree admits she's not perfect and has no right to be critical and isn't in a position to judge Danielle anymore.   She agrees to become a silent investor.   Susan returns for her portfolio and she's late for class.   Andre wants the 'crazy woman' here all the time.

Lynette wants to spy on Tom.   Renee: "So he can lie to you through his unnaturally, white teeth."  Gaby drops Juanita off at school and drives into Dana, accidentally, then has to apologize.   She can't work as PTA president and so Gaby will have to work as Acting President.   Dana was fun before she took this job and had a husband and hopes this will do the same to Gaby.   Lynette meets a doctor, Jane (Andrea Parker) at the fitness centre and talks to Tom.   She asks if Tom is really serious about Chloe and he replies he's had drinks with her mother, Jane.   He was going to speak about it at counselling, but Lynette no longer wants to go.

Mary Alice: "We often learn our most important lesson outside of the classroom...the powerful truth about the state of our relationship...sad fact life's colours aren't always rosy...wait for the chance to teach a lesson of their own."  Vance (Jonathan Cake) is still distraught over Bree and can't let it go.   A file with Alejandro's photo is placed on his desk.   Some would say it's about time Gaby got to take on some adult responsibilities and from next episode's trailer, it appears some of what Dana said to her about not having time for her husband may ring true.   It's been a long time coming, since Gaby has gotten away with so much, including roping the others in to cover Alejandro's death.

Susan just appeared to be her usual ditzy self when it came to the art class and getting angry.  She doesn't usually express it in that manner; no she clumsily makes mistakes and how much of that pent up rage actually have to do with Alejandro.   Bree taking some responsibility with how she's dealt with Danielle in the past.   Lynette and Tom just seem to go from bad to worse, nothing new here then, with Lynette's mind working overtime when he said he's only had coffee.   Thus far.   Appears she's determined to drive him away for good, like this show.  ha.  

Mike actually understanding Susan's plight and it would have been difficult to comprehend if he hadn't been able to understand what she's going through.   Apparently Bree didn't attend Danielle's wedding as in the episode, Kids Ain't Like Everybody Else, was when she first met Leo.   The episode title is from an unmade Stephen Sondheim musical this time: Climb High.   Andrea Parker is best known for her role on JAG and Pretender.

Supernatural - 1.9: "Home review

Dean reluctantly agrees to accompany Sam back home on a case, when Sam dreams about the tree in front of their house and a woman in trouble. In Kansas they meet Missouri and Mom.

Lawrence, Kansas: a woman, Jenny (Kristen Richardson)  looks through photos and her daughter, Sairie (Haili Page Philippe) says there's something in the closet..   But the closet is empty.  She puts a chair in front of the door so it won't open, but the chair slides away.   Jenny finds a chest in the cellar with photos of the Winchesters: John, Mom, Dean and Little Sammy written on the back of the photo.   The door opens and there's fire.   The woman screams through the window.   Sam (Jared Padalecki) dreams about her.  He draws the tree.   Dean (Jensen Ackles) surfs the Net and finds a case about a trawler crew being missing.   Cattle mutilations and a man shooting himself int he head three times.   Real X-Files territory.   Sam's seen the tree before in photos and knows they must go back home.

Dean: "Okay, random, where'd that come from?"  Sam tells him their house was rebuilt and there's people there who need their help.   Dean must trust him.   Sam: "I have these nightmares and sometimes they come true Dean.   I dreamt about Jessica's (Adrienne Palicki) death for days before it happened."  Dean thinks it's a coincidence.   He dreamt of blood dripping, fire and did nothing about it.   Now he's dreaming about the tree, the house, it must mean something cos that's where it all started.  

Well Sam's secret is out now, at least about his dreams/premonitions.   Sam thinks a demon could have killed them.   Dean: "First you tell me you've got The Shining , then you tell me that I've gotta go back home, especially when...when I swore to myself that I would never go back there."  Dean's done plenty of swearing so he's sworn to himself too, bad joke.   He's just like Dad (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) then since he didn't go back there either, though we find that Dad had been in Lawrence (and is still there when they arrive.)  Yet Dean knows they have to go.

Jenny opens the door and Sam introduces them as Sam and Dean.   They wanted to see their house and she found their photos, now that couldn't have been a coincidence.  Yes but now they could have been anyone using their names.   She has a baby int he kitchen, Ritchie (Jamie Schwaneback) who loves his juice.   She moved here from Wichita.   They have lots of happy memories and the light flickers, there's rats, the sink's blocked.    Dean asks if she's seen the rats or if she's heard them.   Up to his usual questions.   Sam says there's nothing in the closet.   Sairie says something came into her room and it was on fire.   Sam adds that flickering lights and scratching is a sign of a malevolent spirit.   Dean: "I'm just freaked out that your weirdo visions are coming true."  As if they wouldn't.

Dean tells Sam he doesn't recall much from that fateful night, the fire, heat and he carried Sam out the front door, which Sam didn't know.   Mom (Samantha Smith) was on the ceiling and the Thing disappeared.   Sam needs to find out if it's the same Thing and needs to talk with neighbours, friends.   Dean calls Dad.   There's a voice message: 8669073235.   Dean: "Dad, I know I've left you messages before, I don't even know if you get them.   But I'm with Sam and we're in Lawrence and there's something in our old house...I don't know what to do, so whatever you're doing, if you could get here please.   (he breaks down.)  I need your help Dad."  Well that plea fell on deaf ears.   At least Dean had the courage to actually step foot inside the house, unlike Dad, who not only didn't go into the house, but didn't even show his face when his son asked for help.

Plumber Joe (Jerry Rector) comes to fix the sink and puts his hand down the disposal, only to lose it.   Now who in their right mind would put their hand down there.   The mechanic at the garage tells them it's been 20 years since John disappeared, but he loved Mary and the kids.   Something caused the fire, an electrical short in the ceiling.   John read books and went to see a palm reader in town.   There's a Missouri Moseley (Loretta Devine) in Dad's journal.   Dad: "I went to Missouri and I learned the truth." Dean thought he was referring to the State.

Missouri: "You boys grew up handsome and you [Dean] were one goofy looking kid too."  She takes Sam's hand and says sorry for Jess, she can read thoughts and sense energy.   She tells Dean not to put his foot on the table, which he was thinking about doing.   She went to the house with Dad and she could sense the Thing.   It was evil.   Ritchie wants his juice.   Missouri thinks something is back in the house, keeping an eye on the place... "It feels like something's starting."
 Dean: "That's a comforting thought."  The door to the baby pen is opened and Ritchie gets shut in the fridge.   They return to the house with Missouri, Dean wanted to show her the house he says.   There's something in the house wanting to hurt the family and she wants to stop it.  There's a dark energy in the house centre;  Sam's nursery where it all started.   Dean uses his EMF.   Missouri: "amateur."

Missouri doesn't believe it's the Thing that took their mother.   It's a different energy than the last time she was here.   There's more than one spirit here.   Missouri: "all those years ago, real evil came to you - it walked this house, that kind of evil leaves wounds and sometimes wounds get infected.   This place is a magnet for paranormal energy."  A Poltergeist is here and it won't leave or rest until it's killed Jenny and her children.   Dean: "Nobody's dying in this house ever again!"  Missouri makes some poultices and Dean even tastes it.   The poor boy is starving again, ha.     They need to be placed inside the four corners of the house walls.  Should destroy the spirits and purify the house but they need to work fast.   Sam takes his time putting the poultice in and the lamp cord comes after him, like a snake and the knife drawer opens in the kitchen.   Look a knife for Dean.   Which is thrown at him.   Sam gets strangled with the cord.   Dean saves him after he puts the pouch in the wall first.

The spirit seems to have left and Missouri says Dean will clean up the house.   But Sam's dream hasn't taken place yet, when he saw her in the window.   Dean watches the house from the outside and Sam has a bad feeling.   He sees her at the window.   Dean goes for the children, just like he did with Sam that night and gets to kick down the door again, as in the Pilot when he came looking for Sam at the end.   Sam gets trapped int he house;  he's thrown around and pinned to the wall.   A figure appears and turns into Mom.   Sam tells Dean not to shoot, he knows how it is.   Dean: "Mom."  She just ignores him and makes for Sam to say sorry and she tells the spirit to leave her house, to let go of her son.   Then turns into fire.   Sam: "Now it's over."  Jenny gives them their photos.   Missouri: "Your mom destroyed herself going after that thing."  To protect her sons.   She tells them to keep in touch and was never heard from again.

Missouri returns home, where Dad is and was all this time.  She believes, "the boy, he has such  powerful abilities, why he couldn't sense his own father, I have no idea."  Dad wants to talk to them but not yet, not until, "I know the truth." So after all that, he waits around when his sons are in trouble.   Can't forgive him for ignoring Dean's pleas like that when he's clearly distraught and not just about returning home.   Okay so he knows they can handle themselves, especially Dean, but that's no excuse.   He was practically begging for help.   A bit selfish in Dad not wanting to step foot in that house.   


So nothing much is revealed about the events from that night or what killed Mom, since this was a Poltergeist Mom came to fight, but why did she wait until the boys arrived to do that.   (Get me, calling them boys now! ha.)  Missouri didn't tell Dad Mom's spirit was possessing the house, not that we know of anyway.   Perhaps he already knew and this was another reason why he didn't want to go back.  Clearly the traumatic events were too overwhelming for him to go there.   Probably another reason why their photos,etc, were still in the house.

Dean realizes the extent of Sam's visions and so does Missouri.   Of course Sam not being able to sense Dad was to open up a whole new can of worms, casting doubt on whose son he really is, or why that Thing was in his nursery and how everything started there.

Some bloops in this episode, when Jenny gets Ritchie out of the fridge, the child lock on the door is opne, but when Ritchie was inside it was locked.  Dean's phone number on the phone message is different to the one used in 1.4 Phantom Traveler.   Sam's strangled by the lamp - the lamp behind him moves away, in the next shot, it appears to be further away.

CSI: NY - 1.20: "Supply & Demand" Review

Mac et al investigate the killing of a boy and get themselves into a case of drugs. Stella has another complaint lodged against her. Mac must apologize to a Vic's father.

A girl hears gunshots from a neighbouring apartment.   A boy is dead and the lock is broken.   The place has been trashed and so has the Vic, comments Mac (Gary Sinise).   The blood trail and the position of the debris reveals the Vic was shot and dragged near the door and the killer was using the DB to send a message.   The Vic was Will Novick (Devin Cromwell) from Hoboken, a business major at Chelsea Uni.   Jordan, (Lindsay Parker) the roommate was a freshman who ditched classes.   Mac: "Killer could've come for one thing, left with another."  There are no usable prints at the CS.   Blood spatter from the gun is revealed after the place was trashed.  Stella (Melina Kanakaredes) finds theatre tickets with blood.    There are razor scratches on the glass and traces of heroin.   Jordan is missing.

Hawkes (Hill Harper) finds a fatal GSW to the head and other various evidence of beatings.The Vic wasn't a user.   Mac needs to follow all leads.   Will's father says he wasn't a dealer and Jordan's father, Martin (Matt McCoy) paid her rent.   Danny (Carmine Giovinazzo) determines the purity of the product.   Stella checks out Will's social security number and doesn't find any paycheques since high school.   But there were deposits.   Stella: "The worst part is the people they leave behind."  Aiden (Vanessa Ferlito) matches the blood on the tickets to the Vic.   Two tickets are missing.   Will was a scalper and Jordan was seen a month ago by Will's digger.   Jordan's purse with broken straps is found in an alley still containing cash and credit cards.

Mac discovers a knife used in a home invasion, which has synthetic fibres consistent with furniture cushion fillings.   Fresh blood is on the ground.   High velocity spatter is on the wall and a gunshot ricochet mark.   The blood trail leads to the end of the alley, where a man jumps out and attacks Mac.   He knows his rights and under the Fourth Amendment he can't be forced to undergo surgery.   A phone is found in his pocket.   Jordan wanted to use the laundry but didn't have a bag with her.    Stella believes Jordan could be in danger of a run in.   Flack (Eddie Cahill) finds the college has its own laundry.   Aiden examines scrapings from Deroy's (Don Wallace) fingernails and uses a tazer on him.

Stella checks the PDA with the name of Paul Collins who was 18 and OD-ed.   Danny mentions there being white powder in the baggie.   There were two incoming texts for a meeting on campus.  The phone rings.   Jordan was the dealer not Will.   Mac answers the phone and Stella has to ask what he's doing at this number.   Would've thought that was obvious.

Stella wants to prevent a fatal OD and shows Jordan a photo of Paul.   Flack: "Well I'm the cooler head.   You knew you blew it."
Stella: "I blew it, what about Buffy the friend slayer back there."    Flack says there's a Chinese wall around Jordan.   Aiden discovers superglue on Deroy's  hands and clothes.   Compared to Jordan's DNA sample.   The witness was collateral damage.   Mac processes the contents of the purse to find a time line or links to Deroy.   White residue is in the purse.   Stella looks at Jordan's financial records.   Flack: "There's nothing more depressing than looking at a rich kid's money line."  Six weeks ago her cards were paid off and then frozen.

DNA from Jordan's lipstick match Deroy's fingerprints.   Her bag was snatched after 11am.   Aiden sues the student ID to track done what she did.  Stella shoves an autopsy photo in the face of a teen and it's the fourth complaint against her in three years.  Mac doesn't want any management tips from IA Chief Hillborne (Joe Morton) and tells him to run his own staff as he does his.  Thar's just it though Stella can get away with anything and does.   Stella: "I know how trials work Mac."
Mac: "Good, act like it." That's all the reprimand she got.

Aiden looked for more heroin to check and found a designer bag with more drugs.   But the bag is a fake.   She took it apart and superglue was used to glue a fake insignia.   Someone got the wrong bag and they check out the fashion district.   A card was swiped at 11.31, Andrea Alixx has a campus address.   Jordan sold her drugs.   Aiden looks at different bags from each store.   Seven stores use the same benzene based glue and one uses superglue at a warehouse.   Danny notices powder on the table.   Flack gets a warrant to search Jordan's home.   Stella: "Thar's why evidence collecting is so important.  People lie."    Water in the toilet bowl is positive for drugs.   The water diluted the drugs.   Deroy had her address and she never told Will and the jury won't forgive her for not warning Andrea.

Mac says they were thorough, disposed gloves, shirts, shoes, weapons but not the T-shirt which has stray blood from Will.   Deroy killed for sport.   His distribution ring is broken up.   He'll be taken care of in lock-up.   Mac apologizes to Will's father for doubting his son.  "The evidence is solid."  Another episode where Mac apologizes to the Vic's family for making hasty accusations and assumptions, just as Danny did with the gypsy cab driver's son in 1.18 The Dove Commission.   Stella has been over zealous as per usual in her treatment of suspects, but doesn't really get much of a dressing down.   She also loses her temper again and is a loose cannon, even if she was looking for justice.

Stella also missed finding the blood spatter in the alley and the knife and she arrived there before Mac did, so not much of a thorough investigation of the CS on her part.   What was the point of flushing the contents of the bag and not the bag in its entirety and why keep the T-shirt of everything else has been discarded.   Stella hates criticism so doesn't acknowledge Flack's comment about losing her head when interviewing.   The IA chief was especially introduced for the next episode when it all goes pear shaped for Danny.

CSI episode Chaos Theory also had a missing roommate.   In CSI episode Play with Fire, Gil (William Petersen) defends Catherine (Marg Helgenberger) just as Mac defended Stella here.

NCIS - 7.17: "Double Identity" Review

The agents look into the death of a marine and Tony once again suspects one of the two wives. All about double ids, stolen money, and attempts to get their hands on it.

A park policeman hears gunshots in the park and finds a dead marine.   Tony (Michael Weatherly) is washing and drying his sock in the office.   There, bet you didn't think he could also do his washing there, I mean after the countless number of shirt changes and deodorant refreshers, ha.   Tony got his feet wet.   Ducky (David McCallum) comments Gibbs (Mark Harmon) is working him too hard and he doesn't have time to do his laundry except in the office.   Tony stepped in a puddle whilst texting Ziva.  (Cote de Pablo).   He thinks cos she's a Probie that she's also his PA.   Ducky loves the rain, don't we all.   Actually it's mostly raining in NCIS, especially when one of their own is killed off, or hurt.   Tony asks for talc.

McGee (Sean Murray) notices Ducky is wearing a tie and not his customary bow tie.   Gibbs gives Tony socks and he only wears one white one.  The park policeman comments the DB has muddied prints and when the FBI were involved in a case, they identified a man with a mobile fingerprint scanner which lights up McGee's face.  Tony says they haven't been issued with those yet.   The policeman prints McGee and his police record comes up, which was meant to have been expunged.  "You broke into a police impound yard?"  Tony to McGee: "What's the matter with you?" Notice Tony didn't seem too perturbed by this, since his police record may not have been expunged either.   But then being in the PD formerly, Tony probably still has his connections.  (Or not.)  McGee doesn't have a middle name.   Thought that would always be 'Probie'.  Ha.

The Marine, Lt Mayne  has a wife and he was MIA in Afghanistan 6 years ago.   (Mark had a cold when these scenes were filmed.)  Tony's face lights up this time when he hears 'wife.'  Tony to Gibbs: "You subscribing to the DiNozzo theory - always suspect the wife."  I was waiting for him to come up with that.   Gibbs smiles, that'd be too obvious.

Ziva removes Tony's sock from the lamp and she can't resist smelling it.   Yuk.   Ziva has a fetish for smelly socks ha, or the fact they belong to Tony and she just can't help herself.   Well she's been accustomed to smelling his armpits and when he passes wind.   Mayne was on a three man deep cover recon mission and went missing.   One of the three, Gontz (John Edward Lee) was dishonourably discharged.   Abby (Pauley Perrette) has a puppy in the lab, Mortimer is a seeing eye dog.   The gun is unregistered with the Mayne's prints.

Abby notices Ducky not acting like himself, "un-Ducky like."  He left during lunch.   Gibbs thinks he's fine, he said that about Tony in season 4 when Ziva was certain he had some sort of an illness everytime he slipped off to the hospital.    Gontz is questioned.   They left Mayne there to get the car after he broke his leg and he disappeared there.   Holcomb (Michael Rose) is the major and they both repeat the same story verbatim.   Ziva and McGee look at each other.

Mayne is conscious but can't be questioned.   His second wife, Rachel (Christine Lakin) shows up providing Tony now with two suspects in the wives club.   She met him two years ago and they were both runners.   She didn't go jogging that day cos of her hamstring.   They've been married over a year and he lied to her about his family and also inheriting money.   McGee finds over $5 million in one account and Mayne was worth over $22 million.   PI Iger (Joe Guzaldo) investigated him.  

Tony sneaks in to question Mayne.   Thereby agitating his condition and he dies.   Tony asks the doctor if he's ever been married.  he's been married twice but not at the same time.   The question Tony should have been asking is why isn't he married already ha.  Ducky wears another new tie.   He needs some personal time but everything fine.   Gibbs tells him half his team is worried about him and Ducky guesses which half, Ziva and Abby.    So anyway why didn't Mayne return to his first wife, Leah (Susan Misner) even though she'd want to know about the money, none of the other marines disappeared.   Ziva sits inside Iger's dirty car.  "Stake-outs are brutal." Particularly when Tony's around.

 Iger ran credit card checks on Mayne and had a  photo of a a marathon runner, he thought he knew him.   Holcomb hired him.   McGee comments he acted shocked.   Tony jumps on the bandwagon about one of the wives being guilty, or so he thought but Holcomb looks guilty.   Gibbs finds it's all connected to what happened in Afghanistan.   Tony looked like he was expecting a slap..   Holcomb and Iger are escorted so they 'meet' in the lobby, on purpose, courtesy of Ziva and McGee.

Iger told Holcomb it wasn't Mayne and he never come to terms with what happened; he was lying again.   Ducky discovers Mayne never broke his leg.   Abby suggests Mortimer should have a playdate with his mother's Corgis.   Abby finds a second gun was involved.   Ducky comments his "neckwear seems to be a source of fascination."

Tony finds an Afghan drug lord claimed the Americans stole money from him.   Tony: "he is the weakest link."  Gontz took fire and found the money.   They left Mayne to guard the money and Mayne stole it.   It rains again.   Holcomb is seeing Leah, he used to check up on her and his own marriage fell apart.   She called him from the hospital and was trying to protect Holcomb's career and marriage.   Their alibi checks as they were together in Falls Church.   Tony still suspects Rachel, wife number 2.   He thinks "the hotty did it."

Tony hates the rain, he had his car washed.   Gibbs comments you wash the car in Winter.   Ziva recalls Iger's car was clean outside and the phone was turned off.   Ziva says he never turns his phone off.   Tony and McGee check out Iger's car and Tony wants to break in.   He gets McGee to use his computer programme.   McGee says he's got a record and no warrant.   He has an App on his phone with which he can use the VIN number to access all the data and download all the codes.   Tony thinks his MIT education paid off for something as he unlocks the door.   McGee should patent it.   Tony then gets him to access the files on Iger's laptop.   McGee still falling for Tony's "requests" though not as much as he used to.

Ducky gets flowers for his mother and Abby follows him to the cemetery.   He missed her at the opera, Madame Butterfly.

An e-mail is found on Iger's computer from the private lab which matched the print to Mayne so he knew about Mayne.   He has a registered .45.   Tony says by withholding this info he could blackmail Mayne.   Tony regrets they can't use the info cos McGee broke in and obtained it illegally from his computer.    Tony posing on the car as if he hasn't done anything wrong and didn't put McGee up to it either.   Gibbs stops Iger with the car and he claims self-defence.  

Ducky was going to tell Gibbs soon about his mother's passing but he didn't want to impose with his personal loss and wanted to deal with it himself.   He also met a woman, a real estate agent, Sophie, who  is younger than him.   He's selling the house and found a home for the dogs.   Gibbs thinks Sophie doesn't like his bow ties then.

A lot going on here especially with Ducky as we see he lost his mother and then met a woman who hates his bow ties and is really just attempting to change him.   What is It with PIs and money.   There was also a PI in season 2 episode Blackwater where the PI wanted the reward the dead marine's family had put up.   He was one of McGee's 'mentors' as he was a writer.   Okay he was someone McGee was in awe of.   Tony telling McGee it's "all about the Benjamen's."

Michael Rose was also in the season 1 episode Left for Dead.  Re the mobile fingerprint scanner, in 7.7 End Game, Ziva used a similar device to to ID a Vic.   Randy Vasquez was also in JAG as Gunnery Sergeant Galindez.   Nina Foch, Mrs Mallard, passed away in December 2008 and this was written into the show as Ducky's mother also passing away.Tony could have quoted the film Three Kings but didn't, wonder why.  

Bible class: Leah and Rachel were sisters who were both married to Jacob.

Lie To Me - 2.9: "Fold Equity" Review

Cal et al are in Las Vegas to find who kidnapped a player for the World Series and Cal goes wild, even after Gillian warns him about Vegas and 'roulette.'

A finalist, Jake (James Immekus) at a World Series poker tournament is missing after he witnesses a murder and Cal (Tim Roth), Gillian (Kelli Williams) and Ben (Mekhi Phifer) are in Las Vegas to scope out his disappearance and monitor the other players.   Cal is requested by even organizer, Ellis (Todd Stashwick).  The one place where Gillian told Cal not to go in episode 2.1 The Core of It when they were having financial trouble and yet, funnily enough; they end up here.   Gillian: "...promise me you'll never go back to Vegas."  Well someone made Cal forget that promise.

Ria (Monica Raymund) and Eli (Brendan Hines)  hold the fort at the office and end up in a bet when Eli keeps talking about his date and Ria tells him she's only into him cos of the expensive restaurants he's talking her too.   Ria seems jealous.   Yeah maybe she wanted to eat at those restaurants too!  There was a brief moment of visible attraction when she leans into him telling him to look into her eyes to show him her dilated pupils and Ria touched his leg.   Then she backed off quick smart.  Perhaps this moment was nothing more than lust!  So if Ria didn't like him romantically or lustfully in the past, why did she dilate her pupils to demonstrate, more importantly if there was no attraction there, how did she get her pupils to dilate?   Silly question, oh never mind.

Also why the big fuss over who Eli was dating, just co he has the world's lousiest success rate when it comes to women, er, Ria hasn't fared much better when it comes to men.   Did Eli not read the micro expressions in Ria's face when she was that close to him?   Eli and Ria's burgeoning 'friendship' seems rushed for someone who didn't much like him.   A case of when the cat's away - this is what they'll end up doing at the office.   Let's hope not.   Ria had a nerve trying to play Eli since she doesn't lie or much like those who do normally or voluntarily.   Yet she had no qualms about doing so when he was seeing someone else.   She was peeved at him  for lying on several occasions in season 1 and for drawing her into that web of deceit too, but it seems okay for her to lie now.

A distinct lack of continuity here when Cal doesn't leave use his webcams behind to monitor his office, okay they didn't have to show him visibly watch his staff, but at least he could have mentioned it.   Since this was his second foray away and Gillian was with him this time.   Think that 'spying' was just to watch Gillian and his rival back then.   The "world's best liars" in one place and yet they weren't good enough to fool Cal.   They were full of it, manipulating and using each other.   Mason (Richy Jay) faked the kidnapping to remove Amadeo (Jose Pablo Cantillo) as a player and competitor and he was doing much the same to Mason.  Poppy (Abby Brammell) accuses Cal of not being able to read her and where did she get off criticizing and insulting Gillian and her walk.   Cal: "[Gillian] feels women like you bring out the worst in me."  Which they do and she did.   So much for defending Gillian that's all he had to say.

Highlights: Cal telling Ben to bet on 00, Ben betting on his own lucky numbers.   Ben decides he's going to show Gillian there's more to Vegas than gambling and (crime scenes, ha!)  Gillian finally letting her hair down in another black number.   Cal in his suit and tie just so he could bet everything on his numbers of choice.   What a huge risk that was, especially as roulette was one game where he couldn't cheat by reading the roulette table for lies.   Cal thinks Gillian is "smothering" him when she mentions the "pull this town has on you."

 Once again showing she knows a lot about Cal and his past, more so than we do.   Hey Ben was a former drinker, should he even be gambling; appears that too is an addiction for him, or is it just cos they're in Vegas.   You know the saying, "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas."  Maybe Cal had that in mind when he slept with Poppy.   After Gillian called her "roulette" and tried to make him stay away.   Not only did he get to play with Poppy but also the roulette table at the end.

I didn't much enjoy the main storyline of this episode, the interaction between the characters was more interesting.   The way people were using each other; including Cal who managed to have a good time out of it all with Poppy, who was also using him too.

This episode was out of order production-wise and was supposed to air during Fox's Simpson's Week.   Hence Cal's reference to sideshow Bob.   Also after Cal and Gillian being so close in the past,  this week it was as if they hadn't progressed at all in their 'relationship', especially having been with Poppy and then taking her to the CS where the DB was found.

Cal: "You know what my fave poker phrase is?"
Ben: "All in, open limp, the nuts?"
Cal: "On tilt. It's so expressive."

CSI: Miami - 8.20: "Backfire" Review

Ryan and Calleigh are caught in another housefire and Calleigh succumbs to smoke inhalation, exacerbated by her previous condition. Then returns in ghost-like form and attire.

Calleigh (Emily Procter) and Ryan (Jonathan Togo) are involved in another housefire and she runs inside to save a boy she sees.   Ryans tell the officer to stay out, "We don't need anymore heroes."  She finds a boy upstairs, barely alive, so how come Calleigh was the only one to see him at this point when there was nothing wrong with her, since he's too far gone to be saved, it means she had to have seen his spirit calling for help.   But she's not in the hospital yet and hasn't succumbed to her symptoms.   She and the officer fall though the floor upstairs, when Ryan carries the boy out.   Calleigh is overcome by smoke.   Horatio (David Caruso) tries to save the officer, Leah (Megan Markle) whilst the boy reaches out exclaiming he's not dead.   Ryan notices his burnt hands and thinks he may have started the fire.   Ryan lets the EMTs know Calleigh's had respiratory problems before.   Ryan says it could be an accident, or adds Horatio, murder.

Tripp (Rex Linn) questions the boy, Patrick's (Robert Bailey Jr) grandfather, Henry Dawson (John Beasley) who believes Patrick to be at school and he wouldn't set the fire.   No that's cos Henry suspiciously looked guilty himself and that was a giveaway.   ME Tom (Christian Clemenson) finds Patrick had 70% carbon monoxide fumes in his blood, making COD asphyxiation.   Also he has third degree burns and a chemical smell on him.   Ryan: "...find it in your heart to give me a sample."  Was Ryan grovelling after the last episode, where he was so rude to ME Tom by hanging up on him.   Calleigh walks in behind Ryan saying she's okay for work, but Ryan can't see or hear here, though it looks like he may be ignoring her.   Thus she's not really there.   Ryan: "Calleigh, Calleigh, Calleigh, you always gotta be you."  She couldn't have saved Patrick.

Calleigh proceeds to peer through the microscope and identify an oil-based solvent.   Ryan calls Jesse (Eddie Cibrian) to find the painter.   Patrick had turpentine on his hands.   Walter (Omar Miller) describes that as an accelerant.   Walter suggests they find the area with the deepest charring, which will locate the point of origin.   Ryan uses the mini-ray to find heavy concentration of turpentine.   Walter feels a draft which the others don't.   Jesse thinks Walter doesn't want to be in the house as he's watching too many Rob Zombie movies.   Good to see Jesse knowing lots about Walter in their burgeoning, short-lived friendship! Patrick protests his innocence but no one can hear him.   Jesse notices the house had sprinklers but they weren't on during the fire.   Walter spots the absence of insulation in the house - turning the house into a killer.

Horatio questions the contractor, he let the fire burn and he didn't get round to the insulation as Henry wanted to save money.   Horatio arrests him.   Cue Calleigh in a white suit which she doesn't normally wear, and seems to be surrounded by a glowing light, akin to a halo, someone overdid the lighting!  Cos we know she's really not there, not her colour for starters, she doesn't wear all white, at least not for many seasons.   In the UK, there was a show from the '60's called Randall and Hopkirk, Deceased, about private investigators and Hopkirk was killed, subsequently returning as a ghost dressed in a white suit.   Only Randall could see him.  Calleigh is at the CS.   She notices an oily substance in the burn, finding a second point of origin.   Calleigh can hear Patrick as she's in a coma.   Patrick's hanging around until he clears his name and asks if she would believe him if he was dead.   Calleigh gets angry, she's never seen a ...ghost?

Tripp questions Henry's neighbour, Stephanie (Robin Bartlett) who set their lawn on fire, but claims she's not a criminal.  .   She wasa infuriated with the workers making noise at 6am.   Horatio believes she's hiding something, which she was.   Walter finds a second point of origin in the house, just like Calleigh, wax paper on the wall, which is combustible.   Jesse finds the box of wax paper in the kitchen.   Henry chews tobacco, another clue.   He denies setting the fire.   Tripp informs him Patrick has missed school on several occasions this past month.   Patrick wanted to work on the House.   Jesse believes the fire could have been set for Henry.   Patrick says the fire began in the hall.

Jesse talks with Natalia (Eva Larue) and Calleigh gets into the lift with them, but they still don't see her.   They visit Calleigh in the hospital.   Delko (Adam Rodriguez) comments she's worse than he thought.   Patrick adds no one can hear her.  Calleigh asks if she's dying.   Only she and Patrick are able to see each other.   Jesse tells Walter that Calleigh is holding on.   Horatio isn't convinced Patrick set the fire intentionally.   He could have been cleaning brushes.   Jesse says if so, then the fire was an accident.   Walter feels the draft again.   Jesse: "feather's not gonna scare away a ghost." Since we were having a surreal CSI:Miami moment this episode, it would have been good if Walter could have seen a ghost, okay that sounds far fetched, but at least we could have been led to believe the draft he was feeling was Patrick leading them to the DB body, but then he didn't know about it.   The feather floats away in the draft and Walter says the wall hasn't been sealed properly.   A DB falls from inside.   Jesse thinks the fire damage masked the smell and they wonder when he died.

ME Tom identifies Ralph (Chris Dollard) as a plumber.  Horatio surmises he died before the fire.   He has burn marks on his knees from electrocution (here's another reference to electrocution in a CSI:Miami episode.   Second one this season too.) Horatio: "Maybe that floor was hot."  Jesse finds exposed wire in the kitchen and water would have been needed to conduct electricity.   Jesse having to explain that again as in the season's earlier episode, Bolt Action.   Ryan finds evidence of water damage and Jesse checks the fuse box which contains a penny inside from Key West.   Pointing to the Stephanie.   What a silly neighbour, putting it mildly, she was a danger to everyone.   She admits the penny is hers.   Ryan tells her she's admitting to murder.   She "treated him in kind."  She had to stop the noise and freely admits to murder like she's proud to have committed it.   She'll sleep like a baby in prison - not.

Ryan tests the sprinklers and gets himself wet in the process.   Calleigh watches and says he's on the right trail and counts steps to the lawn.   She needs to let them know what she's discovered and at this point she goes into defib, just as a way of getting through to them, or so we're expected to believe.   The doctor (Scott Alan Smith) explains the smoke aggravated her pre-existing lung disease.   She writes a message for Horatio, who claims it makes perfect sense as she was first on the scene and probably saw something.   Land surveyors measure distance.

 In Miami, the water line is buried at 36.   Digging up the garden, there's a towel on the water pipe.   Horatio thinks the water was turned off and the carbon dioxide solidified turning into dry ice, this froze the pipe and stopped the water from flowing.   Tobacco stains are seen on the towel, proving  Henry set the fire.   Well, something always gives them away.   Jesse tells him he'd have let Patrick take the blame for him.   Henry did it for a better life, for the insurance, but crime doesn't pay.   He sees Patrick briefly.  Calleigh felt like she knew Patrick.   Horatio doesn't put his shades on which was good, almost as a mark of respect for Patrick.

Oh wow, Miami's foray into ghostly territory, was going to type ghastly, never mind.   What with kooky neighbours, hyped up on adrenalin and not caring about the cost of human life, she killed for some sleep.   Henry killed for money, though it wasn't intentional on his part, he'll have to live with the death of his own grandson on his conscience forever.  Then Walter and his drafts, Calleigh as a would-be 'ghost' and Patrick as a ghost and it wasn't even Hallowe'en.

CSI:Miami also likes its fire episodes, such as Alexx (Khandi Alexander) and Delko getting caught twice in fire, once in the Everglades in Slow Burn, a good episode with Joe Flanigan.   Then this was Ryan and Calleigh's second encounter with a fire.   In the previous episode, Smoke Gets in your CSIs (from season 7.14) Calleigh refused to get medical help, choosing to chew gum instead, which had a toll on her health.

Ryan here wasn't as obnoxious as they've made him out to be in some episodes, but he didn't visit Calleigh in hospital though and neither did Walter, which was a shame, since Walter asked Jesse how she was doing and Ryan was with her in the beginning.  Most of the CSIs were making prejudgements this episode, with plenty of suppositions, before the evidence was in, but Ryan kept on with his one theory about Patrick being responsible for the fire, just like in the previous episode, he was sure the DB on the beach was an accident, or a prank gone wrong.  Lots of questions to answer though, was it an accident, deliberate, was it murder, did Patrick do it.   No wonder the poor boy had to express his innocence, even as a ghost.   Calleigh was the one who provided the clue, the nail in the coffin, oh that was in poor taste, never mind.

The thing I didn't like about this episode was that just as in the season 8 opener, Delko, in his hospital bed was looking back at how it all started, how the team got together; there were lots of events he wouldn't have known have taken place, in the same way here, Calleigh kept cropping up during their investigation, when there's no way, logically, she could have done that.