Adam (AJ Buckley) accesses the online chat site 'looking at yo and is attracted to the girl on the site. He likes her moves and music. He notices Mac (Gary Sinise) approach and thinks he's going to enter the lab. Adam liked the way she said his name with her French accent. When he goes back in he finds the girl being strangled by a hooded killer. Don't know why Adam switched from the site so many times when he saw Mac, since if Mac was going to enter the lab he'd have seen him and his computer was facing inwards, so he still would have had time to switch to something else. He was hiding what he was doing from Mac, yet it's Mac who he has to run to, informing him of what he's witnessed.
What's this silent thing Flack (Eddie Cahill) and Jo (Sela Ward) have got going? There's some sort of attraction there. At least from the looks they give each other, especially Flack, there's something there, or must be my over-active imagination! Jo: "What is it with you boys?"
Flack: "...snails and puppy dog tails."
Adam explains about how the site 'looking at you.com' has a live feed between two computers. The killer choked her, but he wasn't able to video capture it. The video transmission only lasts until someone gets 'next-ed'. Flack doesn't even know if the murder occurred within their jurisdiction. Hey but that would mean they'd have no case... Adam believes what he saw was real, he's never seen anyone murdered before. Kind of questioning his integrity there by asking him this since even if he just worked in the lab, he should know what he's seen, he's not flaky or prone to making up such stories.
Hawkes (Hill Harper) has set up the computers to different databases so he can research everything Adam recalls, but he can't remember anything. Jo explains memory loss is not uncommon in trauma as the "brain locks out information" and uses her valuable FBI training to illicit the necessary clues from Adam, by asking him questions such as when he had his first kiss. (Something which Adam doesn't object to as being personal, since last episode, he didn't like the way Jo knew everything about him in his file.) She then asks him to describe the girl he saw getting killed.
Jo continues, sometimes when "the memory experiences a traumatic collapse, sometimes you have to dig from the other side using memory triggers...emotions from the past, to trigger the present." They narrow down the countries from what Adam remembers. Such as the news being on the TV with a 58 in the corner. Jo mentions local TV news usually put the temperature in the corner. Narrowing this down, to surprise, surprise, Manhattan. It could only be...Adam recalls the stone face of a woman, this leads them straight to her building.
I have to say it, only 2 episodes in and Sela has grown on me. Her FBI skills make a refreshing change from their normal investigative tactics and she's a welcome and refreshing change from Stella (Melina Kanakaredes). She doesn't try to be one of the guys and is a great actress too. Sorry to all Stella fans, but I never was a fan of hers. Jo fits right in.
The expression on Adam's face when he sees the DB says it all, that he's clearly a lab guy, but also because he was talking to her seconds before and to actually see the horror that he did, it's not easy for him to face. Danny (Carmine Giovinazzo) and Lindsay (Anna Belknap) analyze the CS. Sass's iPad screen has fingerprints on there, larger than hers. Also a piece of wood with a number in the corner is found. The DB was still lying there and hasn't been moved, like it usually is, before they carry out their investigation. Seemed cold and cruel, leaving her there like that and Danny and Lindsay, working around her, as if she doesn't exist. Is in sharp contrast to Adam, who had to leave and couldn't bear to be in the same room. It does show how the two of them are CSIs and this is what they always come across, so take it in their stride, but it's not so for Adam, he's never seen a DB so close, if at all.
Flack identifies her as Sass DuMonde (Amra Silajdzic) from Paris. Didn't know what to make with the next scene when Jo tells Adam to "man up." It was both funny and poignant at the same time, since what he believes she's telling her to do is insensitive, he realizes she was only trying to get him to talk. He can't keep things locked in, or "contents may explode under pressure." You can just picture Jo saying that to her children, which we get to hear about and may get to see in the future too. (Which we did.) As Adam's chat was terminated, someone else may have seen the actual murder take place and thus the murderer.
How did Lindsay ascertain she was strangled with the headphones at the CS, since they are missing, but also since she hasn't been through autopsy yet. Anyway, having said that, I also deduced the headphones were used to strangle her. I don't like Danny and Lindsay working together at a CS. It's enough that they are together. Danny has an excuse to mention Lucy, not once, but twice in this episode, saying she could have picked Sass's lock, it was so old. Danny comments, how it doesn't feel like just a murder and oh no, now Lindsay's almost finishing off his sentences. Oh, seems Adam and Danny buy their plimsoles from the same store. Ha.
Hawkes finds the IP address changes and locates it to Draga Financial, a Wall Street firm. Sass wasn't an employee, but it's like "finding a needle in a stack of needles." Adam can come up with another way, as he explains, "every computer accesses the Internet through a series of virtual ports." He could find Draga's 'financial network and locate a computer with a matching port, cease it with a virus and remotely control everything on Sass's computer'. Mac doesn't want him hacking into their network, "just because you were witness to a crime, doesn't mean you need to start committing them." He was very abrupt towards him again.
Sass's professor Aldicott (Gerald Downey) used to own the headphones. Danny found a fragment of rare wood used to make them . Danny: "I failed calculus, but my teacher didn't kill me." He was threatened by her boyfriend and he stole the headphones from him. Jo analyzes the iPads for prints and Mac can't resist going on the 'looking at you' website, where he helps a boy with some of his homework, before telling him he's to young to be on there.
Lindsay finds a father who installed a network logger on his daughter's computer and he caught the suspect's image on camera. Mac: "we're looking into the eyes of our killer." Hawkes suggests running it through the visual enhancer. The prints from the iPads match Torry (Escher Holloway), he's in the system for theft. Flack is impressed with Jo's interrogation techniques, just as he was last episode. Torry denies killing Sass. He admits he gave her the stolen laptops, but she later dumped him and so interjects Flack, "he was dead to you." Jo hones in on Tory's swallowing. He swallows an awful lot and that's due to an OCD disorder as a result of stress. If he admits the truth, he'll get better. She provides us with more exposition on the body and the nervous system. Which wasn't at all boring. causing him to describe the car he stole the iPads from and Flack comments that he's thirsty now. Again, like last episode, he asks Jo if she thinks he killed her. Hey, he never used to do that before, he used to decide for himself.
Hawkes enhancement of the photo reveals a cross between Torry and Aldicott, to give a third suspect. Jo accesses the 'looking at you' site now and connects to a marine in Afghanistan, to whom she shows NY City through her laptop. Adam attempts to hack into Draga's computer, well at least, accesses it and Jo warns him off, after she receives a call from an FBI friend who informed her someone from the NYPD was snooping around. They provided her with info on their investigation of Draga. Adam could get charged with intent. Adam tells her he knows about her reputation at the FBI and how she whistleblowed. Now she's going to do the same to him. Her reasons for leaving were due to "conviction and evidence" and getting her job done.
Adam again admits his feelings of sadness since Sass shared her final moments with him and then he saw her die. he may even have fallen for her, a bit. It was over 3 minutes later, and you know what, it was exactly over in 3 minutes. I didn't exactly time it, but it was. Jo convinces him that what he's attempting to do will only harm him and it won't bring her back. (Like Cat (Marg Helgenberger) in CSI) Jo too tells Adam to go home. See, she hardly knows him and yet she has his back.
Flack's got an iPad too! A theft report was filed from Draga by a Christopher Garcia (Ricardo Molina) . They check out his office, but he's not there. He's out chasing Adam. But stupidly he leaves behind Adam's photo on his computer. He took a long time going after him. Wouldn't it have been better for him to find out who Adam was before he had a chance to spill about the murder. Mac calls Flack, Don now. Normally, he calls him Flack. Didn't Garcia realize if Adam saw him then someone else may have too, so it was a little futile going after Adam to cover his tracks now.
Good to see Adam get in a punch or three. At least he can fight when it counts and isn't just a cute geek! Then it took Garcia ages to pull the trigger, why don't you have a good look at him first instead! He was on the take, when his laptop was stolen, he panicked. When he found Sass he killed her. Therein lies the danger of using stolen goods! The message being crime doesn't pay and her boyfriend got her killed by giving her the stolen computer.
Lindsay downloads her music and plays it in the lab. Danny comments she had talent and Carmine should know, since he's a talented musician himself! Ha. Mac bawls out Adam in his office and suspends him for 3 days. Even if it was in the office, people could still hear him. Usually he likes to dress down his team in front of others, like he's done with Hawkes in the past, in front of the entire lab. As he did a few seasons ago. This time it was poor Adam's turn to suffer his wrath. Which Flack and Danny have also suffered at some point. Some of them, more than once. He wouldn't have treated Lindsay in that way! Anyway, speaking of Flack, he wasn't around much in this episode, hope that changes in the future. Also his hair was much more tamer this episode.
Hawkes and Danny engage in a little light sabre teasing of Adam. Jo and Mac connect to each other online. She thinks he was tough on Adam and he probably wished he too had a next-ed button in his office. Mac stands by his actions, he disobeyed him and Mac's orders are law. They then vie over who can next-ed each other first.
What can I say, Danny's well and truly domesticated by Lindsay now, she has him under her thumb. The change in his character is noticeable too, whereas before he was a care-free spirit, he's now rather restrained. See the contrast when she's not around, he can be one of the guys and be himself, the funny Danny we knew and loved. Not that we still don't! Such as the teasing of Adam with Hawkes here, with his "Obi Wanna-bee Kenobi" remark. Telling Adam he disobeyed one of Mac's direct orders. Danny's done that too in the past, as in season 1 twice, when Mac wanted him to stop investigating the misdemeanour, but he carried on anyway.
Also appears to be Adam's second run-in with Jo, last episode she told him about his file and this week she caught him accessing the computer, but at least she did understand why he was doing that. I call this an 'Adam episode.'
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