An SUV crashes into a stationary Bentley, causing one death and one survivor who is pulled from the wreckage by a man who appears to be an innocent jogger. Jesse (Eddie Cibrian) comments he saved the boy's life by pulling him free (thought you weren't meant to move vics from their cars). Calleigh (Emily Procter) covers the DB woman so that her son wouldn't see her and be left with the trauma of replaying what he saw over in his mind. Funny she calls him her son, when they haven't established who any of the passengers are yet. Jesse tells her she's compromising evidence. Leading to this week being Calleigh's turn to do something she reprimanded Jesse for doing in the Dude Where's My Groom episode, when he searched the suspect's bag without a warrant, or consent. Which would lead some to comment on this being self-righteous on Calleigh's part.
Horatio (David Caruso) finds a girl who was thrown from the car and she's still alive. He believes the car was driven by "somebody with something to hide" and you know he's right. Ryan (Jonathan Togo) takes photos of the accident. The second driver was driving a stolen car. Jesse tells them they didn't know which car was at fault yet but Walter (Omar Miller) adds that innocent drivers don't run. The seat was further back than his is so they're looking for a tall driver. or as Jesse teases, they "must be looking for a big guy." In relation to Walter.
Walter: "Word is tall." Great to see them jibing each other like that, adding a fun dynamic. Thus Jesse comments on the "good Samaritan, being not so good." The driver, Victor (Paul Gasol) pretended to be passing by and he wants to speak with a lawyer. He was turning and the SUV came from nowhere. Jesse notices he escaped without any scratches and this will be relevant for later. He was returning the car for her sister, she took it from her boyfriend. His sister Martha (Paloma Guzman) later tells Jesse he was returning it for her. He always helps her out. Victor later turns up DB in custody. Why did they call out for Jesse to help, they're all officers but they can't handle an emergency inside the station themselves!
ME Tom (Christian Clemenson) notices this is the largest Vic he's ever examined. He explains to Jesse why he died using a tub of jelly (jello). The Vic's head and brain, before the crash was solid and after it got shaken around, his brain became all mushy. He suffered a "diffusional injury from the impact." His head "fractured with invisible cracks. Tom says his brain stopped working, known as "Talk and Die syndrome." He could have been like that for days and no one would have noticed.
Ryan comments on how Victor thought he had dodged the bullet and assumes that Victor drove into the SUV. Without all the evidence being in, Horatio wouldn't be happy if he heard that. Walter says the car was turning right and the SUV came from over the bridge. Ryan sees the tyre treads are away from the centre of the road and so the SUV braked before the impact. But why did it swerve? Walter believes the driver could have been drunk.
Cue Tom once more. The woman's blood/ alcohol lever was .115, she was over the limit. They contact the Vic's husband, Ballard (Henry simmons) who tells them the children were at a Pep rally and Karen (Sherri Saum) was picking them up. Calleigh passes her own judgements to him about having a drinker in the family and knowing how difficult it must be. Again she hasn't grasped the full picture either and though her husband may have been unaware of certain things about his wife, he would know if she was a heavy drinker or a drunk.
Dave (Wes Ramsey) retrieves the GPS data from the car and finds Karen was at The Rum Room earlier in the day. She left her glasses there and only ordered one drink, which was guzzled by her male friend. She was having an affair. Horatio believes they may have got a 'false/positive' from the blood test. Calleigh tells him the blood was collected post mortem, thus bacteria built up producing ethanol. The vitreous humour in her eye would clarify this, but the one eye that was still attached to her DB is compromised. Leading Calleigh on the hunt for Karen's eyeball. Walter has to show she was in the driver's seat before the accident. Calleigh's looking for her eyeball and he doesn't want to know or help since eyeballs are like Kryptonite to him. So that was horrible of Calleigh to scare him with the eyeball like that after she finds it.
ME Tom finds Karen's blood/alcohol level was .02. She wasn't drunk. Ryan analyzes the tread on Karen's shoe from the tread on the brake pedal and finds it doesn't match her shoe. Karen wasn't driving. Calleigh apologizes to Ballard for accusing his wife but she doesn't tell him about her affair. She asks for their children's Lily's (Nieko Mann) and Greg's shoes. Greg has a suspended licence so he couldn't drive. From then on they should have realized this would have only left Lily. Ryan and Walter discuss whether they'd want to know if his wife was having an affair and Ryan says he would.
The treads match Greg's shoes. He drove two weeks ago and was racing that's why his licence was suspended. Tripp (Rex Linn) adds he had Marijuana in his possession too. They check out the SUV and Walter surmises that soft plastics do not need a high temperature to melt. Greg could have been driving the car on another day and braked hard. They need to trace the path of the passengers. Walter explains friction would cause the fibres from clothes to fuse to the car panels. Ryan has a go at Walter by saying he was "promoted from the nightshift and now he thinks he's God's gift to forensics." Umm, could say the same thing about Ryan too. He was promoted from his traffic gig and has been in trouble ever since. Ha. Though admittedly, sometimes through no fault of his own.
There's a match from Greg's jeans to the back door, so he was in the back, leaving either Lily or Karen as the potential drivers. Calleigh believes there'll be evidence of Karen under the steering wheel. Concluding Lily was driving. Lily explains her mother didn't have her glasses, so she had to drive and swerved to avoid the alligator on the road. The steering felt heavy and she couldn't control it. Leaving yet more pieces of the puzzle to be solved and more likely for Horatio to check out the car. He finds that the steering fluid was low and the pipe had been cut. He thinks Ballard tried to hurt his wife, but why would he since his children would also be in the car. Tripp is the one who breaks the news of Karen's affair to him.
Calleigh sniffs an odor coming from the car, which Jesse describes as Marijuana. He asks why she's smelling him and then Ryan tells her he didn't do anything. Yeah Calleigh suspect all of them and not yourself, ha. Then she lets Jesse be the one to pull out the part from the car. It was hidden in the car and Greg cut the steering line when he hid it there. He was selling it to his friends only, as if that makes it any better. So Greg's actions led to his mother dying and there was Calleigh saying he'll play what happened over in his mind, at the beginning. Which he will do. Now he'll have the guilt to deal with too.
Jesse tells Martha her brother saving a life and was a hero. A bit of a long winded episode with many twists leading up to the son being the one responsible for the accident even if he wasn't driving. With Walter, Jesse and Ryan all teasing each other again, as is the norm with them now. Something that Speed (Rory Cochrane) and Delko (Adam Rodriguez) used to do in the early days.
Eddie got to meet up with his former Sunset Beach co-star, Sherri, though not having much of a role, they didn't really get any proper scenes together. As well as Jason George appearing in the first epsiode of this season too. Another of Eddie's former co-stars.
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