Nick and Greg look into the murder of a father, whose daughter went missing 5 years ago and Ray investigates a dead body found in the desert, with a little help from Hodges.
Ray (Laurence Fishburne) and David (David Berman) are called in after a DB is found in the desert. Along with a nylon bag, containing styrofoam. David finds a key chain on the Vic; who appears to have puncture marks on his back, which Ray points out are uniform in pattern, resembling bite marks. Ray supposes the bitemarks are from "Godzilla." Doc Robbins (Robert David Hall) comments on the monster on the loose. COD is brain injury caused by sudden deceleration, such as a car accident. There is perforated skin, muscle. Hodges (Wallace Langham) can't resist getting involved in the investigation, after his analysis on the bag reveals what was found inside is used to construct simulated muscle. Thus there are dinosaurs in town! Hodges wants to "go now, go now" in the words of the song.
For the first time, this season, CSI delves into two separate cases. Nick (George Eads) and Greg (Eric Szmanda) investigate the death of the father, Phil Kohler (William R Moses) whose daughter was abducted and killed 5 years ago. Det Reed (Katee Sackoff) surmises that the TOD was last night. Nick tells her about his daughter being murdered 5 years ago. Along with her friend Rachel. Their bodies were never found. Nick met Phil and his wife, Sharon (Marta Martin) who were divorcing now. Greg finds no tearing around the wound, there are random powder burns around his face and the gun must have been held away from his head, which is strange for a suicide. Also there's the presence of brunette hair. His gold watch is missing. (No, this isn't a case covered in earlier seasons, as I remember them all, no really I do, all the episodes that is.)
Catherine (Marg Helgenberger) questions Sharon, who was the one who gave him the watch. Coincidentally, she bought the watch as he was going to become a father, so the significance is obvious and poignant at the same time, especially in the flashback to come where he gives it to Carly. Showing not only he's given up on finding Witney and therefore on closure, but that it might help Carly come to some closure in her life. Also signifying his end was nigh. That's a bit of a morbid thought.
Phil had an affair with Carly Beck (Jessica Hect) Rachel's mother, calling it "shared grief." Greg conducts a 'distance determination' pattern, showing the gun was 36-48 inches from Phil's head when it was fired. Phil's arm is 30 inches long. Nick: "that's murder." The hair is a match to Carly. Reed apologizes for the remark she made at the house earlier on, as she's been working on her 'sensitivity ' before proceeding to break down the front door to Carly's house. Yeah, that's sensitive. Nick sees there are items missing from Rachel's room, as well as a computer and printer. He finds a photo on the floor of a decomposed body. Rachel had a grey sweatshirt on and Witney Kohler was wearing purple. The photo is of Witney's remains.
Kyle (Brett Tucker) hot on the heels of his appearance in the opening episode of season 7 CSI:NY was rather over-doing his Aussie accent here! Also he didn't turn out to be the killer again. Hodges comments that one of the dinosaurs ate a man. He also says they need to see some dinosaurs fight each other, to which Ray replies, no they don't. Ray finds one dinosaur with blood on its teeth. Henry (Jon Wellner) identified the logo on the Vic's keychain as being from the university's Paleontology programme. The Vic's name was Brian ( Nate Hartley). His fiance was also a student too. Henry asks Ray to call if he needs help since Hodges called in sick, as we know to take photos with a dinosaur, on the sly!
In contrast to last week's episode, Nick here bats for Carly telling Catherine they don't know that she killed Phil and she couldn't have done it; when Catherine says she could have tried to extort money from Phil, or confronted him about the DB in the photo. Nick believes Holt killed the girls. Nick tells Carly in a flashback to 5 years ago, that he goes out "110% on every case and only work with the evidence, and the evidence tells him only Witney was in the van." He promises to do everything to help.
Doc's studied the photo and finds that she was probably killed 5 years ago but there's no way to tell how long the DB has been there. Brass (Paul Guilfoyle) informs Nick that Holt's been in a coma after a suicide attempt. Carly wrote him letters begging for him to tell her where Rachel is. Greg enhanced the photo of Witney and saw billboards in the background. Identifying these he was able to ascertain where that particular billboard is located. Nick and Greg find Witney nearby. COD was strangulation, 2 fingers were severed and an attempt was made to sever the third finger also. The likely tool is a bandsaw.
Reed interviewed Holt's cousins to find his uncle had a place where Holt used to spend time. Greg recalls how this case was his first week in the field and feels he should've done more to help. Nick agrees that sometimes with certain cases you don't feel you are doing enough. Nick spots a new shovel with a fibreglass handle amongst the old tools. Greg finds a bag with the initial 'R' on the front.
Jane, (Nora Kirkpatrick) Brian's fiance tells Ray she went back to her dorm, Ray shows her footage of her pashing (to use the Aussie term for making out!) another boy, Travis (James Immekus). The dinosaurs made her hot under the collar to put it mildly. Ray conducts a test on Jelloman, by placing him in the mouth of a dinosaur's head, on loan from a colleague at university. The bite from the T-Rex didn't cause Brian's wounds. His injuries are more indicative of a fall, so he fell onto the lower teeth from a height. Ray goes up on the lift and finds blue and yellow fibres in the dinosaur's mouth, similar to those from Brian's clothing.
Reed shows Catherine items Carly pawned for money and the watch. She is chased and arrested when it's found Carly sold her car. Nick finds a note in her bag from Holt. He demanded $5,00 for a map for each girl, showing where he buried their bodies. She was given the wrong map. Brass rebukes her for leaving Witney in the desert without telling anyone. She told Phil, but he wasn't interested and was about to call the police. He gave her the watch to sell. She got a call from a friend of Holt's asking for more money for the other map. The map was sent to her 3 days ago. Brass tells her Holt has been in a coma for 10 days.
Ray tells Travis he used his credit card to pay for tickets which wasn't very clever. He knew Jane from before. There was dirt on his tyres, prints on the control of the lift and blood in his car. Travis admits it was an accident, Brian wanted a photo with the dinosaur, Jane knocked him off the lift and he fell into the mouth of the dinosaur before falling onto the floor. All very convenient for Jane. Ray asks what I was thinking, if it really was an accident, or she just didn't want Brian anymore. (Remember the fiance is almost always guilty, like the one in the Blood Moon episode.) She craved red meat and so got a burger on the way home. She pretty much confirmed she killed him, when she lawyer-ed up. The red meat being an analogy for Travis, since Brian was a herbivore and she didn't want him anymore.
Nick and Brass find the letter was sent from outside of prison. Holt got a notepad and wrote to Carly and drew 2 maps. Richter (Michael Bowman) found Holt and said there was no suicide note. Nick, Greg and Reed go to Richter's house and Nick recovers part of the map before it's completely burned. Richter wanted money, he watched Holt hang himself and killed Phil since he'd call the police. Brass says he should have burned his shirt instead, since they found Phil's blood on it. Hodges analyzed the shovel, so he got back in time to actually do some lab work! To find evidence of seeds, soil, which Greg followed up to a company who specifically used those in a specific area and finds the map led to an intersection. Here they recover Rachel's remains and Nick has the unenviable task of informing Carly.
Such a different episode to last weeks as far as the Nick/Greg storyline went. Nick had no compassion for the hoarder in last week's episode, even though she had also lost her daughter. Infact, she lost 2 daughters, as one was a serial killer. Yet he showed so much feeling and sympathy towards Carly now and 5 years ago. Similar to Greg, who last week told Ray he couldn't stand the DBs, but this week he was okay. Even though he did feel he should have done more back then. Nick was right when he said he gave more than a 100% on each case, since it's in his nature to go the whole 9 yards, as shown by his meticulous dedication working on the map to finally give Carly closure.
Sara's (Jorga Fox) turn to be absent this week. Catherine had very little to do for someone who is meant to be leaving soon.
Also why the addition of Katee Sackhoff (that's Starbuck from Battlestar Galactica to most people) when they've got Brass in the show, as it relegates the permanent cast members to bit parts when this happens. It's okay when there are more cops needed, but Ray didn't have anyone helping him, other than Officer Mitchell (Larry Mitchell) and that was only in the beginning, so Brass wasn't being utilized anywhere else.
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