Jesse (Eddie Cibrian) looks at an on-line article about the woman he is keeping an eye on and the word, 'stalker' immediately jumps off the screen at him and at us. As though we're meant to believe Jesse lied to Calleigh (Emily Procter) about her and that he's still stalking her. (Mentioned for an upcoming episode about this.) Also we get to see Calleigh and Delko (Adam Rodriguez) in bed. That's something we didn't want to be subjected to. SO their on-again, off-again 'relationship' appears to be 'on-again'. Either that or they seem to be jumping into bed together whenever the opportunity presents itself. A man on death row gets a last minute stay of execution from the Governor. Horatio (David Caruso) watches a news report about the troops in Afghanistan.
They are all paged and called into work. Louise Russo,(Phyllis Somerville) the eyewitness from the murder trial, 15 years ago, saw into the bedroom window of the Bradshaw's from her kitchen and saw the man stab his wife. Trees obstruct her view from her kitchen window. The prosecutor in the case, Evan Talbot (Denis O'Hare) now State's Attorney, told her to say she saw the killing from her living room window. Highlighting how miscarriages of justice can occur and how everything needs to be checked and double checked in capital murder cases. Delko says he killed his wife and daughter and his son survived. Horatio asks whether there was misconduct on the part of the prosecutor. They have 24 hours to prove Louise's testimony was accurate, or Horatio stipulates, the "killer walks free." Which kind of defeats the purpose anyway, since the CSIs are investigating whether her testimony was correct and so they have the right man for the murder. They need only to prove he did it, over again.
Delko summarizes, the Vic was Sarah Bradshaw (Lois Atkins) mother and wife. Caitlin, was 5 and Todd, (Nick Eversman) 7 and he survived. Jesse was first on the scene 15 years ago. Todd was unconscious and didn't see the attacker. They have the murder weapon to support the eye witness, that they were stabbed. Flashes show Sarah being repeatedly stabbed. They have her blood, his prints and the blood pool revealed a void on either side of the Vic. Jesse says the killer is a psychopath. Prints are found in her blood, also in the bathroom.
Her husband claimed an intruder broke in through the window and killed them. The window was broken from the inside and the Vic's blood on the glass was put there after the murder. Jesse : "I'm telling you, capital punishment was made for this guy." Again showing Jesse strongly believes in the death penalty, which kind of goes against his character since he's always so compassionate. Doesn't mean you have to be compassionate towards the killer, but the death penalty is a strong punishment, without taking into account all the miscarriages of justice that occur. Once an innocent victim of such a system is killed erroneously, there's no bringing them back and no vindication for them.
James Bradshaw (Anthony Michael Hall) tells Horatio he came home from work and fell asleep. He was awakened by screams and saw a man in a black mask; who stabbed Sarah, they fought and James took the knife from him. The killer ran. Sarah was dead. He asks Horatio to let him live so he can help find the killer. James was stealing pills from the hospital and selling them. He gave the police a list of his buyers. Donald Newhouse (Nicholas Lea) is on that list as a buyer. Ryan (Jonathan Togo) asks him to tell them what happened again. He worked the nigh shift with James and was addicted to pills. But he didn't kill anyone. His alibi was he was at a meeting for addicts. Calleigh says that's anonymous and can't be checked. So all roads point to Newhouse as being a potential suspect, but he didn't strike me as being guilty, though he was hiding something. To top it off, they had Krychek from the X-Files playing a potential suspect and he looked rather uneasy when questioned.
Delko questions Louise about where she saw the killer from. She says he did it and it doesn't matter what difference where she saw him from makes. Delko refers to Todd as being his "only surviving son" well James only had one son. In the flashbacks, Jesse's in uniform and a rookie. Showing how he started out in MDPD. Talbot tells her that she had an unobstructed view from the living room and if she says this, they they can hold James responsible for the murders. He put words in her mouth and she let him. Louise trusted Jesse in that he wouldn't let her do anything wrong. It wasn't up to Louise to trust anyone, she should have trusted her own judgement and what she saw.
Jesse wants to speak with Delko about Louise's statement. Delko, always has to play the good guy, like he's never made mistakes in the past. can think of plenty, like sneezing on evidence in season 1, and then he couldn't stick it out working for the defence either. He notices in the original statement that 'kitchen' was erased to living room. Jesse took the original statement. (Why were statements taken in pencil anyway?) Talbot made Jesse write down she witnessed the murder from the living room and asks Jesse if it's his first murder case. He 'fooled' Jesse into believing that too.
Jesse believes Louise did witness the murder. Jesse was doing what he thought was right and Horatio interrupts what could have been a potential argument. Horatio: "there is another witness." He handles it and speaks with Todd. Who says that his parents fought but can't believe his father killed them. Horatio asks if he heard a train. He heard her scream and someone was on top of her, hurting her. This wasn't in his original statement since no one listened, but Horatio is listening now.
They need to re-examine all the evidence and Jesse adds there weren't any CSIs back then to handle all the evidence and he's "not to blame for everything that went wrong in this case." Delko is not swayed either way by Jesse's comment and replies, "Your words not mine." Jesse still believes James is guilty. Calleigh questions Newhouse as to why his semen was on Sarah's clothes. They were having an affair, which he calls a bit of fun and he ran out through the bathroom window. He had to kick it open and he didn't come forward at the time since they had a witness. That was convenient for him, so many holes in his story that the finger of suspicion would point to him, either that or his story is too perfect, but still suspicious.
Ryan checks out the CS with Walter (Omar Miller) and Natalia (Eva Larue). She hears Walter asking Ryan if she's been to the doctor yet and she can hear them. She wears a hearing aid. Ryan: "She's the Bionic Woman." Some expected fun banter between the three. The house is as it was the night of the murder. Demonstrating how they not only didn't have CSIs back then, but also the absence of CS cleaners too. Just think if Todd had sold the house, there wouldn't be evidence for them to check now. So wonder what outcome that would have led to. Walter asks who'd buy such a house. They use luminol and find blood by the bathroom window. Ryan declares that if Newhouse had broken the window, he would have transferred the blood there. Walter questions how Newhouse got the blood on him and follows a blood trail to where Sarah was murdered. Newhouse stood over her as she died. Ryan is certain Newhouse killed her and the blood proves it. She was bleeding out by his feet.
Liked the way how every piece of evidence they came across now, or re-examined pointed to Newhouse as the killer, whereas for 15 years, it had always been James. Just to throw everyone off track and confuse; with Ryan sure it was Newhouse and Jesse positive it was James. But if it had turned out to be Newhouse, that would have made Jesse incorrect in his actions as a rookie and also in Louise being wrong.
Newhouse claims he left his wallet in the room and came back for it. She was dead. In his flashback, she's still alive and he didn't call for help and left her there, not even anonymously. So much for loving her! Louise doesn't ID Newhouse and is adamant James is the killer. Louise is run over by a man in a car. Well he chose a lousy time to run her over, when Jesse and Delko were around. He's caught and he swears it was a an accident. Tripp (Rex Linn) calls it " hit and run, genius." Then says it wasn't an accident as they find a map with her name and location and a gold bar. Horatio doesn't find a record for Phillip Hale (Scott Michael Campbell). Tripp finds he was a caddy at a golfclub, near the hospital where James worked. James wasn't a member but Newhouse is. Newhouse denies it and they're just making him out to be the killer. Everything is just too convenient.
Newhouse says he loved her, James found out about them and killed them. Newhouse is a coward for leaving her there and not helping her. Walter tracks the gold bar to a theft from an Orlando safety deposit box, to a man named Sage, released two weeks ago. He was housed in the same block as James. James doesn't know Hale, but he knows Sage. He hired him to kill Louise, but why now and why not a year ago, two years ago, or even back then. He had to wait for his execution date and for the story about the prosecution and their witness. James tells Horatio he can't prove anything and is ignorant of the affair. Watch James change his tune here. First he says he can't prove anything, as if he's taunting Horatio and then feigns innocence of everything. Then says he's close to getting out. Newhouse is his suspect and they've also lost their eyewitness, so Horatio is doing a better job of making the case for him than any defence attorney. But then why didn't his defence attorney do a better job for him. He had money and the more money you have, the better defence you're supposed to mount. Horatio: "I'm not finished yet." No he wasn't and no glasses in this episode either.
Horatio refers back to Todd's testimony about the train and thinks about the weather for that night. (Always the weather which plays an important part in some episodes, which I won't mention here.) Hurricane Erin was off the coast of Miami, a category 1 storm with 50mph winds. Jesse posits the train could be the wind. Horatio uses a wind machine to check it out. The trees sway at 75mph, revealing the bedroom window from Louise's kitchen. So why didn't Louise or anyone else recall the wind back then, something like that was forgotten or not mentioned. Horatio explains the wind tunnel effect between tall buildings, creating a funnel and as the pressure increases so does the wind speed. Jesse says Louise was telling the truth.
Jesse admonishes Talbot for changing her testimony and risking both their careers, almost letting a killer free. Delko and Jesse shake hands. Todd already knew his father was the killer and he can stop being afraid of him now. Horatio mentions his son having bad luck too but he made a new start and so can Todd. He's selling the house. Calleigh and Delko talk about 'it' not happening but 'it' does and he asks if they should meet at her place or his. Todd tells James he deserves this and doesn't forgive him. Horatio Skypes Kyle (Evan Ellington) who tells him about the school they helped rebuild.
James was a psychopath killing his wife is understandable, not justifiable or excusable, murder never is; she was cheating on him, but killing his children too, that's just reprehensible. An episode questioning the pros and cons of capital punishment, as already mentioned and can it ever be justified as a form of punishment. There was plenty in this episode to make you take either suspect's side, but Newhouse was too obvious a scapegoat. Anthony Michael Hall playing a ruthless killer convincingly, but didn't have much to do; putting behind his good guy character of Johnny smith. Hey Johnny Smith killed Sarah, (Nichole de Boer) his old flame from the Dead Zone.
Jesse and Delko could have come to blows, not physically, which would have been interesting to see. Since Delko wasn't around when Jesse was here and so he knows nothing about him and yet he chooses to make judgements about him and how he did his work 15 years ago. Then has nothing to say when Jesse says he's not entirely at fault in the case.
In the CSI episode The Execution of Catherine Willows. Catherine has to go over the evidence again, which surfaces in the case of John Mathers. A rapist and killer she helped put away 15 years ago. (Apparently 15 years is the norm in death penalty cases in CSI shows). Mathers is granted a stay of execution on the basis of new DNA evidence.
In CSI:NY season 1 episode The Fall, Flack's (Eddie Cahill) memo book is analyzed to reveal that notes relating to an investigation by his mentor had been altered using a different pen. Again I ask, why use pencil to fill out police reports.
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