Half the team investigates the apparent suicide of a man from a balcony and the others look into the bizarre killings of a couple, did they kill each other or was there foul play?
Some women on a night out in pursuit of a men come across a DB. Ray (Laurence Fishburne) smells alcohol, thinking he could have fallen off the balcony. David (David Berman) notices the back of his skull has been obliterated. Ray surmises his injuries could have occurred by falling from any floor. Nick (George Eads) questions the two women witnesses and one thinks he's staring at her cleavage. Our Nicky, no way! In actual fact he spots some brain matter in her cleavage. "...little piece of brain." Any old excuse. Ha. The other one can't help flirting with him, she does that when she's nervous and also comments she was looking for a nice man with a badge. Which Nick takes all in his stride. Catherine (Marg Helgenberger) identifies the Vic as Brad Malone (Brian D Johnson). Det Vartann (Alex Carter) notices her hugging the man. "You got all that for a hug." Catherine tells him her father left her part of The Eclipse, which is news to him. She didn't want everyone to know and he's "everyone." As he puts it. Catherine putting her foot in it with her choice of words.
Catherine, Nick and Ray, respectively say, "Come to gamble; see a show; kiss your life goodbye." Nick and Ray check out Brad's hotel room. His clothes are neatly laid out and no note is found. Nick comments, "There's no signs of sexual activity." That's an understatement. Ray notices prints on the balcony door.
In the second story, Greg (Eric Szmanda) and Sara (Jorga Fox) investigate the double homicide of a couple. Brass (Paul Guilfoyle) says the wife called the police. Sara doesn't find any blood on the phone but there is cast off. Greg asks the parrot what happened, but "he's not talking." Sara thinks she was killed less than an hour ago and the husband is in the bath. Sara comments on the family photo. Greg remarks, "there's something very wrong with that." The cat isn't around. They theorize/speculate what could have happened. David arrives late to check the DBs and asks "What is the deal with glass tables today?"
The print on the balcony door in the hotel room belongs to Brad. Nick goes onto the balcony and finds fhat he was pushed from elsewhere. Would've thought someone would have gone out onto the balcony before then as the body is under the next balcony. Ray, Nick and Vartann enter the room next door and assume the two women are DBs. Ray finds the blood that they're covered in doesn't belong to them and they don't recognize Brad's photo. Dana (Leisha Hailey) can't recall anything, they had too much to drink.
Doc Robbins (Robert David Hall) conducts the autopsy on the DB husband in Sara's case,and says he drowned. You can drown in so little water. Don't know why Sara was so shocked at this. How many years has she been a CSI. He had scars on his upper body. Brass questions their neighbour Dwayne (Damon Harriman) who threatened the parrot. His alibi, he was having phone sex. Which is exactly what this episode is about, not phone sex but sex. at least the first story is. All the prints in their home belong to them and the window has been broken for weeks. There was no intruder and Sara thinks the couple killed each other.
Catherine processes the two women and Ray and Nick check their rooms. Nick finds blood on the pants and there's blood on the balcony Nick also finds a feather. Catherine questions Stacey (Jennifer Aspen) and comments she too was "married to one of those." I.e a cheating husband. Stacey wanted to have fun, she doesn't remember if their drinks were out of their sight at any time, well they wouldn't be if they were so busy drinking, at least Stacey was. Dana denies knowing Brad and yet she naively doesn't realize how much forensics will reveal. There are signs of sexual activity on her. Catherine will help them figure this out.
Dana claims to only have ever been with her husband. Ray comments on alcohol affecting judgement and how you'd do things you wouldn't normally do. Prompting Nick to recall when he got drunk once and ended up with a box of corn flakes attached to his head. Ray: "Why am I not surprised." Work that comment out for yourselves. Ray finds an iron under the bed, testing positive for blood. Nick thinks it's "probably a manage a trois - someone always gets left out." Nick and his threesome comments, there's another funny one to come later. They think Stacey killed Brad and Dana helped with the DB.
Doc Robbins finds non-linear clotting, blood was still flowing when he fell. He has paint chips on him from the railing and had sex beforehand. Also present are nailmarks on his body. Nick and Catherine examine the bedsheet, all the blood is from an unknown male. Nick comments the "3-way was a 4-way." Catherine tells Vartann they found a condom with an unknown male donor and he thinks they're just making it up, that they can't remember. Catherine is defensive as she found herself in a similar situation once. Someone roofied her drink but she was lucky she wasn't raped. That's another thing she never told Vartann. She doesn't like to talk about it and he's getting used to that now. Nick interrupts them with his findings of GHB in their system, but Dana wasn't drunk as her blood/alcohol level was too low.
They met Kyle (Leonard Roberts) at a bar and Stacey invited him back to their room. Dana accuses Brad of raping her, but she didn't push him. Well that's one thing she told the truth about. But lied about Kyle pushing him off the balcony. Again there's one word for that Dana, forensics! Hodges (Wallace Langham) finds the feather was synthetic and he knows it was from the bar, Pillow Club, from personal experience. To which Ray said nothing. As for the bar, it was more like a CSI:NY fad. One where Stella (Melina Kanakaredes) would take Flack (Eddie Cahill) with her and she'd know all the lowdown on it too! Nick calls it an 'adult slumber party'. Kyle is the bartender and has a wound on his head. Stacey asked for the GHB. Brad came out to help Dana and she hit Kyle with an iron.
The parrot is still in the house and Greg takes him back to the lab. Sara thinks the parrot is traumatized, which is what I said right about the same time! Greg finds hairs and feathers in the bath trap. There's blood on the feathers and Sara notices their CS has been contaminated by the cat, which is evidence now. Doc Robbins concludes that the husband didn't kill his wife. She has lacerations on her scalp, with talon marks. Parrots are smart. Hodges is afraid of birds after being attacked by Canadian geese, he thought they'd be friendly! They need to process both and Hodges opts for the cat. There's blood under the parrot's wings which explains the cast off she found. He attacked the wife and she fell on the table, stabbing herself with the knife. The cat was responsible for killing the husband as it saw the chance to go for the parrot in the bath. It was a 'Psycho (as in the movie) shower cat,' in my words! But who called 911? Brass says "Sylvester and Tweety attacked their owners."
Greg cuts his finger with the knife and the parrot upon seeing the blood, picks up the phone and dials 911, saying, "help me, help me."
Nick says Dana lied about Kyle, he was in the ER. They wonder how she could have pushed Brad off the balcony and engage in a '3-way' reconstruction (ha.) Ray falls off the railing and asks them to "check out his ass." Which Catherine calls a "work of art." Ray explains Brad was sitting on the railing, due to the presence of lots of partials and toe prints. Nick says Dana was sitting in his lap, which Catherine has to do since Nick won't! Ray comments on the Karma Sutra position, as he's a doctor. Nick: "This is my first 3-way - I'm very excited." The blood pattern matches Brad's injuries. It was an accident. Dana tried to save him that's why there were scratches on him.
Dana comments on the "incredible mind-blowing sex" she had with him and Catherine suggests she leave this out when telling her husband. Catherine confronts Vartann by telling him couples don't tell each other everything and she won't change him if he doesn't try to change her. He can take it or leave it. That was a bit abrupt coming from her, leaving it all on his shoulders. What happened to compromise or does she expect him to do everything she wants. She got her own way about not moving in together too.
An episode about relationships. Most everyone knows about Catherine and her father by now, so why doesn't Vartann. Trouble in paradise there. The episodes where Catherine woke to find herself naked in a motel room, were season 7's Built to Kill Parts 1 and 2. When she and Nick attended a John Mayer concert, Catherine was slipped a roofie in her drink. Nick felt guilty at this happening to her as they were out together at the concert. She also didn't want to tell anyone what happened but told Sara and then eventually everyone else found out.
Also first episode this season which had two separate stories.
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