Sara (Jorga Fox) sits alone all dressed up at a table in a restaurant when a man walks up to her with a cake. It's her birthday and it's not clear if they know each other. He claims he guessed it was her birthday and that he saw the way she was looking at the couples around her. She asks him to join her. They later go up to their separate rooms in the lift together, he presses 12 for her and 18 for himself. When it gets to her floor, she doesn't want to get out and instead goes up to his room..
Greg (Eric Szmanda) arrives just as Sara is getting out of the lift who tells her about the DB on the 18th floor. She rides back up with him and is shocked that the same man is the DB. DB (Ted Danson) arrives and she tells him she knows the man and she was with him last night for an hour, but nothing happened. Are you sure? That'll come back to bite her - it always does.
The DB is Taylor (carter MacIntyre) and David (David Berman) says he's been stabbed seven times but there aren't any defensive wounds. As soon as seven was mentioned did anyone think of Sara's father like me, he was also stabbed seven times by her mother which clearly demonstrates this case is definitely about Sara. Greg notices there's lipstick on the wine glass which he checks for prints and Nick (George Eads) asks since when do steaks not come with a steak knife. He moves the furniture and finds a necklace, a heart. They both recognize it as Sara's. The prints also match Sara.
DB tells them what Sara said and wants this case treated like any other, i.e. they follow the evidence. It was so nice to see that it was mostly Greg and Nick who investigated this case and had her back especially since they're friends, and family as Greg reminds them. They've known her for years and still managed to remain objective, whilst still believing in her innocence. Also liked the way Finn (Elisabeth Shue) was in her corner after her little talk with Doc (Robert David Hall) and that she didn't judge her about any indiscretions she may have been involved in. She understands, well she would, considering the state of her personal relationships, ha, that's it's okay to do such things if your husband's not around. Hey that didn't come out right. I wasn't meant to be condoning extra martial affairs or one night stands! Then again Sara's divorced, but we don't know this yet. Morgan (Elisabeth Harnois) too takes the same stance of understanding.
Of course it would be left to Hodges (Wallace Langham) to show a different opinion, which is understandable, someone has to. Especially when Morgan tells her what he's said. Also liked the way he wouldn't let Sara into the lab, not for personal reasons, but cos he's just removed all traces of her from it so he can remain objective and not contaminate the evidence as he pulls a hair from her head.
As Nick and Greg process the CS, Sara is questioned by Crawford (Alimi Ballard). He asks why she left so quickly. Sara explaining she got a text from Gil (and what was in this text, we weren't told). He shows her the phone records where she called Taylor at midnight for eight minutes. She doesn't recall the call and tells him she took a sleeping bill. Sleeping pill with booze, yeah that's a good combination. Especially considering the past and how much trouble she got into after drinking and being arrested in one episode. It's also recorded she returned to her room after two so there's almost three hours which can't be accounted for.
Greg finds a clump of Sara's hair in the shower drain (Sara shedding so much hair, it just looked like it had been cut straight from the head) as well as damp towels. He wants to process the bed but the sheets are missing. Morgan takes blood from Sara for a Tox screen. Most of them think she cheated on Gil. Finn tells her they've got her back and she should just go home. When she arrives the dishwasher comes on and inside is the missing steak knife. She tells Greg and Nick that someone is playing games with her. Greg searches her house and finds an envelope with photos inside, showing her with Tyler outside and being very intimate.
Sara finally admits she met him two weeks ago and was shocked when he turned up at the restaurant. The alcohol and drug levels in her blood are extremely high but she insists she only took one pill. She finally comes clean and admits Gil is no longer her husband. She didn't want to tell anyone. Hodges finds the hair matches Sara's, as it would. But that could have come from anywhere. There was also a large amount of Zolpidem in her blood, which causes the person to forget. Also leading to side effects such as sleep walking. Sara sees her necklace on the monitor and asks Nick where that came from since she wasn't wearing it laat night.
She then says the necklace belonged to Edie and mentions Ronald Basderic (Adam J Harrington) the man stalking Edie from Frank's diner which they investigated a few months ago. She meets Basderic and tells him she knows he's been stalking her, that he put the necklace there but this time she will get him. He's aware of Sara being with Taylor and also how she hasn't told Gil she was with him. She pushes him back out of anger.
Later she's taken ot the lab as she tries to get Basderic's phone records and sees him beaten up, claiming she did it. Greg gets the footage which shows her pushing him, but that's the only camera and there's no other footage there of the actual beating. Sara knows he did that on purpose so they couldn't see anything else. Finn processes Sara and takes her clothes to analyze. Nick and Greg are angry about her being arrested but Crawford tells them she's on the footage this time. Nick questions Basderic and Finn tells him there's no evidence of Sara beating Basderic and there should have been some sort of trace. Thus he's making it up. Sara is released since he doesn't press charges and DB tells her to go home and is suspended. Handing her a restraining order from Basderic.
She gets a call about her mother, Laura (Kay Lenz) who is in hospital for drinking again. She had her moved to Vegas. Sara then recalls her father and how he was stabbed seven times. Her mother mentions Basderic coming to see her and Sara stabbing Taylor. They find the sleeping pills had been tampered with, also Morgan finds the drain covers were swapped, the one taken from Sara's house was put into the hotel room. Also Nick finds the hotel key could have been overridden providing Basderic with easy access. Greg also matches Basderic's clothes to a capped man at the hotel on camera, both have coffee stains on his trouser leg and he's wearing the same shoes. Greg works out what Basderic did with the other Vics too and realizes Basderic is trying to kill Sara and then will claim self defence.
Sara sits outside his house and doesn't answer Greg's call. Nick and Crawford confront Basderic and take his gun whilst they talk. Nick tells him he won't let him hurt Sara and Crawford gives him back the gun. He returns home where Sara confronts him and he shoots at her, firing blanks, cos Crawford swapped the gun magazine. Saw that coming. Basderic hacked her e-mails and paid off Taylor to be with her. Even paying for dessert. Sara recorded Basderic's admission.
Sara returns to work and Nick and Greg tell her she should have come to them. Nick adding through her they were tying to hold onto Gil. They will always be here for her.
Sara was arrested for drinking in Bloodlines and yet she still manages to turn to drink even after she sees firsthand what it's done to her mother. Sara telling her mother she's fine was her putting up a brave front cos she didn't want her to worry. Since her mother would like to get to know her. Thought of the episode with Catherine, Weeping Willows where Catherine's 'date' was accused of murder.
Brass (Paul Guilfoyle) wasn't in this episode cos he would have been too close to Sara to investigate but also showing that Crawford can do just as well, when he tells DB he wasn't entirely honest with him, that he's a detective now, but has been a cop for a while and knows how to read between the lines and DB tells him he told him everything they found, he focuses on evidence not 'reading between the lines'. DB leaving the investigation to the other CSIs, especially those who are close to her but that doesn't matter since they will do the right thing. Enjoyed this episode. Strange Sara didn't want to go out with her former NTSB boyfriend when investigating the plane crash but she preferred to go out with a stranger. Well suppose it was cos her marriage is finally over. As Nick tells her, if it's over, it's over, there's no point dwelling on it!
Sara saying she didn't want to tell them since she didn't believe it herself. probably only ended up getting divorced since William Petersen wasn't in the show, maybe things would have been different if he still was.
Finn and her usual shallow comments, ha; "I figured he'd have to be really good looking to get Sara's interest."
Doc: "...you're talking about people we know." Then asks if they're Team Sidle or Team Grissom?
Doc: "I see no reason why we can't protect both."
One niggle though Sara knows the team are good at what they do and they eventually find out what really happened, so why lie about only meeting Taylor now? They won't judge her, except Hodges as Morgan puts it, "might as well have cheated on God, in Hodges' eyes you pretty much did."
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