A professional asset seizer, Tom Connor (Patrick Kilpatrick) is arrested by airport security before he can fly off with the plane, belonging to Howard Burgess (Nicholas Guest). One of the security men notices a smell from inside the plane and finds a DB in the toilet. Tripp (Rex Linn) admits to Horatio he also lost money from his investment. Horatio (David Caruso) asks if they were trying to "break him out or set him up for murder." Horatio gets his one-liners back, but not as good as the ones before. Jesse (Eddie Cibrian) has to get him out of the toilet, but he plays 'Rock, Paper, Scissors' with Ryan (Jonathan Togo). Ryan tells Jesse to "have fun with the potty party." Jesse comments he wouldn't want to get his sweater vest dirty! Walter (Omar Benson Miller) is roped in to do the dirty deed instead, as Jesse puts it, "the Miami way." Repeating what Ryan said to him. Jesse would get his white shirt dirty!
Walter finds a rolled up Marijuana cigarette on the plane. Tripp says they should be able to get the coordinates of Burgess' ankle monitor as the red dot is still on and is moving. At the Burgess mansion, the monitor is found on the dog and Jesse notices blood. His son, Daniel (Shawn Pyfrom) was at home. The cigarette must have been from a party on the plane. He states he wouldn't hurt his father (clue there then.) He hurt his hand when he removed his father's ankle monitor. He says he wasn't a bad man and was going to give the money back to the investors. Horatio asks what he would have paid them with, but Daniel doesn't know where the money is. Yeah that's what they all say.
His mother, Allison Burgess (Andrea Parker) (she's not been around much since after her JAG and The Pretender days. She was in an episode of The Mentalist.) Anyway, Allison is working in the mall and Horatio had to say her name loud so people heard and starts a riot, practically. She is almost attacked by one of the men who lost his investment too. They were living in separate wings of the house, oh the luxury and she didn't know he was cheating the investors. He is arrested all so that Jesse can help him out. The man is a diabetic and Calleigh (Emily Procter) asks for a drink for him with sugar. What did she go into the room for, if she wasn't there to question him.
The man's name is Carlos (Lombardo Boyar) and Burgess stole everything from him. Jesse takes an interest in him and hopes he gets a second chance. Then makes a phonecall to someone he knows, but we don't know what it's for until the end, but we do know it was to help him out. Yes it's that obvious. Jesse: "Everyone deserves a second chance." Speaking from experience no doubt, but not that we'd know, since his character wouldn't be around long enough for us to find out. Walter wonders if Jesse's calling a girlfriend.
Ryan accompanies Horatio to the Burgess house in the hopes of finding his ledgers, where Horatio notices creaking in the floorboard, lifted up to reveal exactly what they came for. That was convenient. Horatio says they may help find who killed him. Ryan comes up with the word 'noise' in the ledgers. Calleigh thinks it could be a password.
ME Tom (Christian Clemenson) determines the COD to be strangulation and the DB has a clue regarding the murder weapon: which was a chain. An exciting moment for him was the demo with a banana, squashed until nothing is noticeable on the outside, but inside it's mushy. That's what the DB's vertebrae were like. They were separated when he was strangled indicating sheer force, so a machine was used. Jesse and Calleigh check out the hanger and he comments that rubber chock blocks would be more appropriate for the type of plane Burgess has and we discover Jesse has his pilot's licence. Burgess was killed with the winch, which Jesse had to notice again. Really where would they be without him. Another repossession man attempts to take the plane, he just happened to be there at the same time.
The plane is actually owned by Gary Archer (Andy Buckley) and Horatio tells him he should have come to him first about the plane. He didn't hire the first repo man and a signature on the letter is identified as Allison's. She sent the first man, Tom Connor to retrieve the plane because she believed it was hers. However, Burgess hadn't paid for it.. Jesse analyzes the chain and Calleigh says the blood and soft tissue match the Vic. She's so excited this is her first "death by winch" case. Yeah that's something to be really happy about! Jesse remarks she hasn't changed since the day he left and she recalls that was her first day here, when she was all gung ho and rearing to go. She asks why he left and he said part of it was personal. Jesse gets back to the case, lest the writers give away too much about him, ha, and tells her they missed part of the toilet: the septic tank.
Another job for Walter. See he always comes up with the clues and solves the case! They find a contact lens in the filter and Jesse (again) suggests they can get a Lensometer and measure the prescription. Walter assumes it could be Carlos. Jesse checks his glasses but they're not a match. Contact lenses cost more than glasses, so how could Carlos have afforded them anyway. Jesse even offers to walk him out, showing how much he really cares about his job and the people he meets along the way whilst doing it. It's more than just a job to him.
Burgess' car is found and Horatio notices the slashed tyre, with a motorbike tread nearby. Daniel drives a motorbike. He ran him off the road because instead of paying back the investors, he was going to leave his family behind. Wasn't fooled by his son claiming to care about the investors and how his father should do the right thing in paying them back. He's been raised with the rich spoils so naturally he'd want the same lifestyle now. Daniel asks Horatio how he can fix this and he replies, he shouldn't grow up to be like him.
Ryan is still stuck with the books in the lab and finds Archer invested with Burgess too, which Calleigh points out, he never mentioned. Jesse checks Archer's contacts, which match the lens they found. He was hiding the DB and the lens fell out. His whole family invested with Burgess and lost everything. He wanted his plane back, they fought and he lost his temper to the point of winching him by the neck. In which case why didn't Archer just take the plane then, did it matter he didn't have his licence, he'd just killed the guy! So breaking the law didn't matter to him.
Calleigh shows Horatio the plane photo and he notices that the word noise isn't a word, but "NO153." The money's on the plane, but he's beaten there by Daniel, who's taking what he claims is his. But the money isn't his. Horatio: "In my experience, the truth comes out - it always does." Daniel is like his father and so much for Horatio telling him not to be like him, he already is. Horatio's blind faith in Daniel was clearly put to the test and he proved Horatio wrong this time round. It's not very often, if at all, suspects or their families lie to Horatio and are able to mask their true nature. But this was covered nicely by the writer having Horatio tell him that the truth can never stay hidden.
Jesse, Ryan and Walter joke about working the case. Carlos gives Jesse the news that he's been hired to manage an apartment building. This is his second chance. Walter comments that's the call Jesse made earlier. Jesse wouldn't admit to it of course, being modest, "What call?" Or as the five announcer said in the UK, "Wish he'd call me!"
The episode title, not only about the plane - but the money being hidden on it too and thus in plane (plain) sight, as such things always are in CSI shows.
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