Volleyball players are simultaneously electrocuted on the beach during a fundraiser and the CSIs must probe the questions of how, why and by whom? Strange how whenever someone needs help how people can only stand around and watch for ages, until someone shouts the "Call 911" for help. Jesse (Eddie Cibrian) informs Horatio (David Caruso) they can't investigate until Hazmet gives the all-clear for the bodies to be removed. They suspect bio or chemical terrorism. Horatio is right when he comments they're dealing with something more personal. Trace collection reveals some blue crystals in the sand, which Ryan (Jonathan Togo) thinks being corrosion, only there's no pipe. The crystals appear to be copper sulphate and they shouldn't be there, since Ryan tells us they're found in dyes and pigments. Thus more puzzles for the case.
Dean Collins (John Terry) owns the property and his wife, Amanda (Cheryl Ladd) organizes the charity fundraiser. Horatio isn't certain their deaths were accidental and he's more concerned with the men's deaths than with Collins not being insured. Amanda says the men were all State volleyball champions when Hailey (Kate Lang Johnson) their daughter was in high school. She was at the golf club.
ME Tom (Christian Clemenson) tells Horatio the CODs (Cause of death) will take time, but he's noticed some peticule hemorrhaging in Troy so he dies of asphyxiation. One had signs of subdural haematoma , his ears hemorrhaged. The third Vic had a heart attack, but he was only 21. Horatio notices the burn marks on all of their feet and spills out they were electrocuted.
Jesse has to dig in the sand and Calleigh (Emily Procter) gets the easy task of snapping photos. He finds the cable was cut so the electrical charge would be distributed. They follow the cable but it leads nowhere. Natalia (Eva LaRue) hasn't dealt with electrocution CODs before. Troy (Blair Redford) had a bite mark on his chest, but the skin wasn't broken. Horatio surmises the teeth marks were caused by invisible braces and thus it was Hailey.
Natalia has to spell put to Ryan that Hailey and Troy were 'together, together'. He was having an affair with Amanda and Hailey refers to her as a cougar. Which Natalia has to explain to Ryan also. You see it's okay for men to be with younger girls or any aged women, but if a woman is seen with a younger man, she's labelled a "cradle snatcher or cougar." But mothers stealing their daughter's boyfriends is nothing new. It's just the cougar term which has become synonymous with this that makes it sound so vulgar, even.
Delko (Adam Rodriguez) tells Ryan he's still suffering from headaches and is on administrative leave. Even if Calleigh can't speak to him, she didn't have to give him the cold shoulder treatment, she's meant to have feelings for the guy. So a smile wouldn't have gone astray. No need to stand there looking like a cold, stuffed dummy. Ryan suggests they could lose their jobs over this and she tells him that's not very positive and walks away. Well didn't seem she was concerned about her job either. Delko tells Rick (David Lee Smith) he was going to turn his father in. Calleigh shot at the car since she saw it as a threat and their on the speed of the car vary too. Obviously we're meant to put that down to Delko's amnesia. Rick is as devious as ever and that's always entertaining. How he tries to get them to open up by calling Delko her 'former boyfriend) because that's what he told Rick. (He didn't really.) No matter how hard he always tries to pin something on Horatio's team, he doesn't succeed. But he's good to watch.
ME Tom discovers an oversight in the bodies and can only apologize to Horatio. Relating to the burn marks on the feet, the burn marks on Peter (Jason Hastings) were made when the electricity left his body. Horatio also notices the burn mark on his chest, which was the point of entry, but he wasn't wearing any metal. There's a black substance around the burn which Jesse attempts to analyze and is helped by newcomer Walter (Omar Benson Miller) . He calls Jesse "Die-hard" because of what he did during the hostage takeover. Walter's "a man of many talents" and asks for some breathing room from 'John McClain'. The black substance is carbon from body paint that can conduct electricity. The charge went straight to the heart. Walter and Jesse check out the various videos etc from the fundraiser and Walter calls it foreplay and not a fundraiser. Jesse probes him on his knowledge about cougars.
The paint on Peter's body spells out 'propertaire of JP' don't need to know French to translate that! Jacqueline Parsons (Tia Carrere) didn't know what the paint was capable of doing. They were experimenting in bed and she "marked her territory" as Tripp (Rex Linn) puts it. Amanda didn't know her 'boundaries'. She resents being called cougar/cub as offensive and being labelled a "sexual carnivore." If she was a real cougar she wouldn't care about him, but she did. Unlike Amanda who went through men like dirty undies.
Horatio in the lab, he doesn't venture in there often enough these days! The killer tapped into the powerline in the sand and petrified lightning turns sand into glass. They were hit by lightning and were electrocuted. Natalia asking the silly question of how it was harnessed. (Learned all about lightning, conductivity in school science, geography, so where's she been?) Horatio: "We look to the sky." Jesse tells her they were struck by lightning, in a clear sky, which travelled from 30 miles away. The cable was on the lifeguard tower and Natalia can only think of a ladder whilst Jesse's already climbed up. He also has to educate her on how lightning strikes around Miami everyday. She finds a bit of jewellery in the sand. It's from Amanda's necklace. Natalia asks if he's "feeling young and hot?" She was so flirting with Jesse! Even called him Tarzan.
Jesse reminds Amanda of a quarterback she used to date in college, but she has nothing to say to Walter. Wonder why Natalie sent Jesse to the bar when she knows Amanda would make a play for him, Jesse needing a bodyguard, of sorts in Walter. She lost it a few days ago when she was with Peter. Jesse mentions the CS but how does Amanda realize where she lost it or where the CS was located, he didn't tell her. Jesse takes Ryan to the boat, but not to the cougar bar! Collins is with a younger girl, so that was perfectly acceptable. Tripp locates the rod, from under a lawnmower. It's a converted golfclub. obviously to put the suspicion back onto Hailey, but I knew it wasn't her. (It's not my fault, I always get my killer! in TV shows.)
Ryan finds the rod is magnetic since it was struck by lightning, it was magnetized. When they showed Amanda at the bar with the necklace, it was either a different view of her necklace, or it was twisted round, but now she's wearing the same necklace Natalia found a piece of. Horatio will find Hailey. The steel in the club isn't a match. Jesse asks Calleigh how the IA interview went, but she's staying quiet. He comments how all IA folk have "square jaws." Calleigh examines the clothes and finds there's blood on one of the trousers belonging to Collins. Jesse finds metal shavings from his shoe, when he shaved the heads off the clubs. He's still wearing the same shoes, that's rich people for you. Just as Amanda was wearing the same necklace. His motive: Amanda was embarrassing him with her younger men and it was shameful for a man "of his stature" and murder isn't! Jesse tells him he can't control the power of mother nature, mother being the operative word.
Jesse settled in nicely, he doesn't take any stick from the rest of the team,even when they're teasing. He's not judgemental either, to the point of saying sorry to Amanda when she finds out her husband is the killer. Not many CSIs would do that.
Horatio attempts to convince Hailey to return home and even she accuses her mother of causing the killings. It's up to Horatio to bring families together. See Calleigh's reaction here when Delko tells her they can talk again, she's so different to how she was earlier on. Delko wasn't even going into the building, since he walks the other way, so what's the point of saying 'after you'. They exchange parting glances, but the parting wasn't for long!
Electrocutions have been the subject of quite a few CSI:Miami episodes.
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