Parent's anniversary is filmed by their son, Cody (Colin Ford) and his mother, Laura ( Fay Masterson) is angry at children breaking the lamp again. She takes the video camera to film them and is beaten and left to die. Horatio (David Caruso) posits it's safe to say it was "overkill." ME Tom (Christian Clemenson) concludes that every blow was fatal and she was swung at from all angles, demonstrating rage from the killer. Jesse (Eddie Cibrian) thinks she could have interrupted an intruder and Natalia (Eva La Rue) believes he could have killed her. Isn't that what Jesse just said. Jesse notices a void on the ground, so something was there to stop the blood spatter. Jesse notices Cody is sad, as sits drawing pictures. (Which was the clue.) He controls whatever he draws in his pictures. Horatio tells him he's a good record for catching the bad guy and it's "highly likely" he'll get him. Yes, especially when he's talking to him. Than again Horatio makes promises which he always ends up keeping.
The video caught her husband, Chuck (Mark Moses) laughing with another woman. Jesse refers to him as the first suspect. He'd be suspected first anyway since he's the spouse. Chuck found her and he asks how a grieving husband should react. (Well he's played many a grieving husbands, twice in Desperate Housewives, alone.) Jesse tells him if he was lucky enough to be with his wife on their twenty-third wedding anniversary, then he'd tell Chuck how to react. However, Jesse does know how Chuck feels as he's also lost his wife, who was killed. (Season 8.17 LA) Reminding us this is still a sensitive subject for him. The woman in the video was Bridgette (Andrea Bogart) a neighbour and Cody's teacher. Jesse tells her that her body language reveals more than she's telling when she was with Chuck. The murder is personal.
Delko (Adam Rodriguez) checks the bank records of the CSIs. Walter (Omar Miller) has made numerous deposits, but he's innocent, obviously. Seriously could he really suspect Walter. He calls the bank for more info and Calleigh (Emily Procter) walks in; causing Delko to go on the defensive. So apparently they're on again, after last episode. Calleigh notices he's stressed. Bridgette admits she likes to flirt. Ryan (Jonathan Togo) tells her that Laura's dead now and Chuck couldn't resist her. Calleigh thinks she more than just flirts. Bridgette has a test she does when she's worried about parents at home. She pretended to wipe something off Cody's shirt and realized he's being abused. Calleigh finds there were reports of domestic violence but no charges were filed.
Dave (Wes Ramsey) notices someone was in the video with the mother, there's a ghost image, which wasn't erased when filmed over. It's Thanksgiving dinner and the image is enhanced by him. Her mother forced her daughter, Andrea (Olesya Rulin) to eat from the dog bowl. Calleigh declares the mother was the monster in the house. Delko talks with Rebecca Nevins (Christina Chang) and takes issue with what he has to do as part of his job; which doesn't prevent him putting forward Walter as a possible suspect. Walter and Ryan examine the CS and Walter doesn't find the murder weapon. Ryan thinks it might have been left in the car and asks Walter to take a look. Walter suggests they should both take a look and finds blood spatter on the headlight and bumper. The car made the void in the drive and was moved after the murder. Chuck doesn't know about the blood on the car and moved it to make room for the ambulance. Horatio asks why he didn't mention Laura's abusive behaviour before.
Horatio and Natalia question Andrea and her boyfriend, Logan (Nic Roebuck). She fiddles with a lighter. Fire calms her and Natalia notices the bruises on her wrists. She sneaked out to see Logan and her mother handcuffed her to the bed. Andrea called the police but they didn't do anything. Horatio notices a glass chard on the floor and checks their shoes. Logan admits he was there. Rebecca questions Walter about the money in his account and Walter gets angry at Delko for dobbing him in. He sarcastically thanks him for watching his back. He was accused of stealing the diamonds. We know how Walter hates being accused falsely. Walter's friend was paying back a loan. He wants Delko to stay away from him.
Jesse doesn't believe Chuck. ME Tom finds the COD was blunt force trauma to the head, using a round, 3 diameter object, probably metal. Calleigh recalls an aluminium bat and Logan plays baseball. Tripp hopes Ryan doesn't find any evidence implicating Logan as he was only trying to save Andrea from "Mommie Dearest."
Ryan: "It's like the line between Vic and perpetrator keeps becoming blurred." As they've noticed over past episodes and seasons. Similar to Calleigh saying they have to investigate all crimes and treat all Vics as individuals even if they are bad or criminals. Recently seen in the Spring Breakdown episode where Calleigh clearly was more on the side of Alexis who humiliated Courtney, since Alexis became a dead Vic herself. Logan doesn't know how the bat got in his bag. He snuck in and dropped the lamp. Ryan explains Logan would do anything for Andrea. Andrea confesses to killing her mother. We don't often see Jesse behind a desk (and won't again). She admits to hiding the bat in the bag and couldn't leave Cody alone with her when she left for college. Andrea explains she slapped her and Andrea hit her once. Horatio knows she's lying since Laura was hit nine times.
Rick Stetler (David Lee Smith) respects Delko who tells him Horatio asked him to look at all the evidence. Rick adds he has the full support of IA. One question I always wanted to ask is that if IA are watching the police officers, who checks IA in return? Delko tells him he just wants the glory and looks good on camera, which Rick agrees with. Delko surmises more than diamonds are missing and none of the CSIs are behind it. Calleigh watches them from afar so we don't know what else they talk about. Delko meets with Sully (Brad Leland) and lets him know about the evidence stolen from one of his cases. There was over a million dollars recovered in heroin, which would have been easy to remove from the evidence locker. Delko adds the amount logged was less than that. (See CSI:NY season 3.8 Consequences.) Rebecca agrees to meet Delko at the marina later.
Natalia questions Cody and tells him when secrets are kept, it's "hard to decide what the truth really is." It's almost like she suspected him before she found the evidence, as she looks at his drawings. They're vigilante characters, his family. She discovers they had a younger brother, Bradley, who died when he was 5. Again something not mentioned by Chuck. The COD was determined an accident. Chuck was away when it happened. Bradley swallowed lighter fluid. Andrea admits he wouldn't drink it, their mother killed him. She was punishing him for burning the carpet, and it was Andrea who really did it. Natalia says they shouldn't blame themselves, parents should protect children. Their father was afraid of her and took her side. Chuck admits it wasn't an accident and she threatened to take the children away if he told. Horatio says this makes murder a last resort.
Ryan says they're looking for the trace of a killer and believes this was justifiable homicide. Natalia agrees, they "should examine the evidence and not pass judgement." Ryan thinks it may not be blood on the bat and Natalia analyzes it to be ink. Cody killed her. He left his marker open on the sofa and he left red ink on the bat. He hid in the garage and heard her shouting about the broken lamp. He wanted to make her stop and he felt relieved after he killed her. Andrea told him to keep it between them. Chuck confesses it was really him and wants Horatio to let him be father for once. Horatio wants them to talk to the prosecutor and tell their story, he hopes Cody doesn't go to prison. He's a little young for prison isn't he and surely he won't be tried as an adult after the trauma he's experienced.
Delko arrives to meet Rebecca and a paper blows away in the wind, conveniently for him. Her car blows up. Knew that was coming and Calleigh was there too.
Laura handcuffing Andrea so she couldn't see Logan, was done later in CSI season 11 episode House of Hoarders, though here her mother wanted her to stop killing boys. CSI:Miami likes to delve into domestic episodes, especially ones involving abuse of children and here the roles between father and mother are reversed, with Chuck being threatened with losing the children if he reacts. So he cowers in Laura's presence. But if he told the truth about Bradley, she would've got her comeuppance, saving Cody the pain and heartache of having to kill her because no one would do anything for them. Strange seeing Mark Moses in a role where he isn't empowered and not a killer, as we're used to seeing him as bad guy Paul in Desperate Housewives. Another reason why he would've been suspected as a killer (ha) other than the fact spouses are the first to be considered suspects in such killings.
Andrea still hasn't grown out of her habit of playing with her lighter, as this was the reason for Bradley being punished and killed the way he was. She says the fire calms her, perhaps this is what she was doing when she burned the carpet. It's no wonder Horatio goes to bat (no pun) for the family, especially Cody at the end, as this family has been subjected to so much abuse and terror at the hands of one parent; with the other choosing to be away and powerless to act, or just choosing not to. Mommie Deadest a play on the title of the book, 'Mommie Dearest' penned by Joan Crawford's daughter, Christina Crawford, about the abusive treatment from her alcoholic mother. (Made into a movie in 1981 with Faye Dunaway. No wonder Bette Davis treated Joan Crawford in the way she deserved in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane (1962).)
Good to see Natalia relating to the children, particularly Cody, seeing as she has been a Vic of abuse herself and knows they can never blame themselves for that sort of treatment. Rick trying to take the glory from Delko's investigation (and so he should). Have to wonder why Rick shows up now, as he did last time, even when Delko tells him he has Horatio's approval and Horatio said he'd let him in on the results.
Drugs going missing the subject of CSI:NY 3.8 Consequences episode. Okay so it seems I'm forever mentioning this episode, never mind, it was one of my faves.
Elsewhere Delko continues his investigation of the CSIs and posits Walter as a suspect, yeah he hated so much doing it, that he couldn't tell Rebecca he was still working on it. Well more likely than not Delko would've named Walter, or Jesse or even Ryan as possible suspects if push came to shove and gives in too readily and easily when Rebecca asks for names. Then he's so nervous when Calleigh questions him, lest he be discovered. He was even looking into her financial records, behind her back. One reason why I never liked his character - he displays very little or no backbone where his friends/colleagues are concerned. He tars everyone with the same brush of suspicion, even the woman he loves. Now Horatio didn't teach him that.
Colin Ford played little Sammy Winchester in Supernatural.
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