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CSI: Season 8, Episode 3 – Go To Hell

Last week’s episode, A La Cart, faced the CSI teams with two unusual cases. This week, the team tries to solve a murder of an entire family, except for one of the daughters (who is supposedly possessed by the devil) that remains missing.

The CSIs stumble upon a horrible multiple murder in a motel. To identify the victims, the CSIs asked a copy of the motel registration and found out that the family were checked in for a week. The car’s plate number and registration led to an address, where Warrick and Stokes immediately investigated only to find out a child dead sleeping on her bed.

In the meantime, Sara works a morning-shift case with the newbie CSI, Ronnie Lake, which bombards Sara of numerous questions about everything she could think of. Their victim is a homeless man who died of cardiac arrest because of dehydration.

Back at the other case, finger prints led to numerous recorded criminals along with a sex offender-turned reverend, Rev. Rhodes. As it turned out, the parents found dead in the motel attempted to rein their daughter in after discovering she is having a relationship with a 23 year old man. As parents who find it hard to believe that their little girl is having sex voluntarily, they become convinced that their daughter is possessed, seeking the help of Rev. Rhodes.

During the interrogation, Grissom asks Rev. Rhodes if the exorcism has worked on little Amy. Unfortunately, Rhodes admits he has failed because Amy’s father interrupted the procedure. As a result, the parents end up being murdered, while Amy remains missing.

In Sara’s case, she notes a complication on their victim: handcuff marks, leading Sara to believe that a cop may be the one responsible for the homeless man’s death. As it turns out, the homeless man punched the police officer, after the officer stopped the victim and another homeless man who were fighting for food. The cop knew that the man only punched him for an opportunity to go to jail where there’s free food and water. Since the cop really did kill the man, Sara wished he had just taken him into jail after all.

As the police searched for Amy, the CSI team figures out who committed the shocking murders. Grissom and the other first believed that they were after people who are involved in child pornography, killing the parents to kidnap Amy for a new film.

The police eventually found Amy with her 23-year-old boyfriend. She was immediately placed into child services. However, the evidence begins to point to an even inhumane conclusion as the CSI team finds an online conversation between Amy and the man, as she asks the 23-year-old man how far he could go just to be with her. As it turns out, Amy had planned the whole thing.

Unfortunately, Rev. Rhodes, knowing that Amy had committed the murders due to the evil inside her, hunts her down and finds her at the Child protection facility. Amy falls from the top floor as the Reverend tries to “save her”, causing her immediate death.

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CSI: NY Season 4, Episode 3 – “You Only Die Once”

Last week’s episode “the deep”, Mac and the CSI: NY team investigated an underwater crime scene and stopped two Albanians who are attempting to bomb the city. This week, Flack opens the episode as he fools around with his girlfriend (Devon) in her Manhattan apartment. While they were in the apartment, Flack heard noises coming from the living room to find out they are being robbed. The robber sees Flack and immediately escapes down the window using a rope.

Flack chases the robber, who stepped into a one-of-a-kind, batmobile-like car. Using a taxicab that Flack stopped, he chases the robber down the city. The robber’s car emits some unique fluid, which becomes lit with fire that blocked Flack’s pursuit.

The CSI team arrives and investigates the robbery. Flack and his girlfriend gives a description of the man. A few hours later, Mac calls Flack for another crime scene in Bond Street only to find the corpse of the robber he saw earlier in Devon’s apartment. The same man robbed Chief Brigham Sinclair and now puts pressure on Mac and the team to solve the case.

The thief, who died of asphyxiation, was identified as James Stanton. Dr. Hammerback discovers long underwear and a tuxedo under Stanton’s jumpsuit. A part of the thief’s skull has been removed post-mortem.

The CSI’s evidences, particularly the butterfly wing scales, led them to the Manhattan Conservatory that hosted a benefit the same night as Devon was robbed. Randall Rodrique was incharge of the event coordination, but does not recall Stanton’s presence. His assistant Maude, on the other hand, does and says that Stanton was thrown out of the party for fighting with another guest.

Back at the lab, Lindsay and Danny study the batmobile car and found out that it had state-of-the-art tires and “memory polymer siding”, which makes it possible for the car to repair itself literally. A new robbery leads the CSIs to arrive at a serial number, which they were able to trace to Elliot Gano – a man working at a car dealership. Gano tells the CSIs that he loaned the car to James, but got into a fight with him after claiming the car was stolen, eventhough it was parked just outside the benefit.

Mac eventually tells Flack about the stalker and harassing calls h e has been receiving since he went back from his vacation. The message left by the caller was recorded on a flight on 767 to JFK airport – the exact flight Mac had when going back to New York. Flack promises to investigate about the mysterious caller.

At the lab, Hawkes determines a breach on their lab firewall. Mac orders the power to be shut down, but their lab table continues to glow, within Stanton’s tuxedo. The team discovers microtechnology sewn in the tuxedo’s lining, making Stanton and his partners guilty of not only stealing jewelries, but also hacking into the rich and famous’ PCs and committing identity theft.

Upon recovering the stolen information, Hawkes shows Mac an e-mail that accuses Chief Sinclair of sexual harassment. Mac tells Hawkes to keep the info private as he talks to Sinclair about the e-mail. The chief claims it is an extortion attempt to destroy him.

Linday discovers that the liquid emitted from the high-tech car was a combination of ethanol and Gilmore 171- the alcohol brand that sponsored the conservatory party. This led to the CSI team’s investigation back to Randall Rodrique. With lack of evidence, Stella and Flack decided to spy on a big party held that evening for the mayor, which Rodrique coordinated.

At the party, Stella pretends to be an event photographer to look for signs of “smart water”, which the robber was sprayed with during the last Manhattan apartment robbery. After taking a couple of shots, Stella discovers the smart water on Maude, the assistant. Maude tries to escape using her batmobile, but is stopped after a couple of barricades and car brake failure. However, she denies killing James Stanton.

Lindsay and Danny discovers that the airbag in the car was rigged to kill, while the breaks were sabotaged. The cayenne pepper found on the airbag leads the CSIs to Booth Rody, the co-employee of Elliot at the car dealership.  As it happens, Rody was the lookout for all robberies, but became jealous of his partners since he fells they are only using him and never letting him get into the action. As a result, Booth Rody sabotaged the car to kill his partners.

Back at the office, Mac finds out that someone leaked out the damning e-mail, which brought Sinclair’s attention back to Mac again. Plus, Mac receives his lost luggage, only to discover a bloody t-shirt inside it.

Who is sending these messages and shocking items to Mack?

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House Season 4, Episode 3 – 97 Seconds

Last week,  House hides a patient from Dr. Cuddy and allows 40 of his applicants to diagnose the mystery patient. This week, after firing 30 of the applicants for his new staff, House splits the ten remaining candidates into two teams, by gender.  One lady applicant insists that she groups with the males, or as House calls them, “the danglers”.

The two teams compete ferociously in diagnosing a wheelchair-bound man with spinal muscular atrophy who was admitted due to fainting and showed signs of aspiration and liver failure.

At the clinic, House faces a suicidal patient that tries to kill himself by placing a knife on a live electric plug. House became curious with the patient’s motifs and tries to talk to him. The patient replies by explaining after being in an accident and becoming dead for 97 seconds, “it was the best 97 seconds of my life”.

As the two teams try to one-up each other, complications arise when one team assigns a treatment to the patient but does not follow through to make sure their treatment was executed.

While the students are busy with their assignment, House experiments on himself to see what happens in the moments when people hover between life and death. He did what his suicidal did with the knife and obviously, became paralyzed for a few hours and eventually came back to his senses, even saying “i love you” to Wilson.

Meanwhile, Foreman runs his own team of fellows in his new job at another hospital. Although Foreman and House had the same case, House let the patient die because he was busy making the diagnosis into a competition, allowing an applicant to screw up. Foreman, on the other hand, got it right, but was fired for using a “House-like” treatment to help a patient.

Next week, watch out as House diagnoses a patient that could see dead people.

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CSI: Season 8, Episode 2 – A La Cart

Last week’s episode was the ending to the miniature killer case, wherein Sara became the suspect’s target, the CSI team eventually finding out about Grissom and Sara’s relationship and the search for Sara in the desert.

This week, the team is faced with two unusual cases – one is the head of a varsity football player found in the desert and a high-profile murder of Hampton Huxley (The Hugh Hefner of CSI Las Vegas) in a hip restaurant called “Blind” that serves food in the dark.

Jim Brass, Catherine and Brown was assigned to the Blind crime scene, while Stokes and Greg investigates the beheaded guy. Back at the lab, Sara is questioned by Ecklie for an administrative inquiry about Grissom and their relationship.

Stokes and Greg discovers the identity of the varsity player (Matt Bartley) and his hobby was go-cart driving. They visited the go-cart venue to ask around about the victim, only to find out that he has been competing with “A-rod”, who usually loses to the vic. A-rod tries to escape, but Stokes captures him before he could get away.

Rodney Banks was brought to the station, confessing that they took their competition to the highway and stated that the last time he saw Bartley, he still had a head. He then dumped the body in the desert and towed the other go-cart back to the city.

At the Blind restaurant, Jim Brass questions the two “Kitties”, who are counterparts of Hugh Hefner’s Bunnies. Since they are the ones with Huxley during his death, they may have motifs. But blind waiters as well as the chef, who was once a Kitty, can also be the suspects.

Greg and Stokes investigate the two go-carts and determined that both cars had road dirt, but only one had blood stains. Grissom then had the idea that Matt Bartley may have been decapitated by accident, which could verify Rodney’s story. Grissom, Greg, Stokes and Ecklie experimented on a human dummy made of jelly to determine if an exploding truck tire could really cause decapitation. The experiment’s result: the dummy was beheaded.

At the lab, Dr. Al Robbins finds a pointed piece of a pen in Huxley’s head. Since the victim’s body had honey, ink and blood, the evidences and fingerprint led to one of the blind waiters. The blind waiter lost his eyesight 2 years back, when the chef and him were still dating. After stealing his recipes and ideas, the chef opens up her own restaurant and hires him to be a waiter. To finally get back at her, he kills Huxley and tries to set the chef up by placing the weapon on one of the Kitties’ bags (to give the chef a motif to kill).

The episode ends as Grissom and Sara were in the car talking about what they told Ecklie during the administrative inquiry. Sara tells Grissom that she’ll move to the “swing” since she needed the daylight. The episode ends with all the CSI team having a laugh while driving go-carts and Sara watching from afar (with her hands still injured). Does this mean Sara will be transfered?

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CSI: NY Season 4, Episode 2 – “The Deep”

Last week, Mac’s return from London shocked him with a crime scene on the Statue of Liberty’s face. This week, the CSI team is faced with a diver’s body that has been found with a tank filled with oxygen. How can he die of asphyxiation?

At the lab, Dr. Hammerback finds that his body has several starfish that feasted on the vic’s internal organs, but the cause of death is fatal amounts of cyanide in the body.  Since the victim had a congenital ear deformity called “cabbage ears”, the prosthetics led to the victim’s identity. His name was Doug Holden, an advanced certified driving instructor. Flacks and Stella questioned some of Holden’s students, including a married couple and two Albanian men.

Back at the lab, Lindsay discovers that the stomachs of the starfish had asbestos from subway cars, leading the team to suspect that Holden was killed in old subway cars dumped in the East River around 1970s. Hawkes and Danny took a dive to check out the cars only to discover the body of Holden’s missing partner, Matt Campbell.

The team finds out that both divers died of cyanide poisoning. Campbell’s body, however, had several gold coins in his pocket. Stella takes those coins to the antique store to determine its origin, but discovers all coins to be fake. A guy named “Drew Bedford” introduces himself to Stella.

Lindsay found larvae (in Campbell’s body) that are found in regions 100 feet deeper than the Hawkes and Danny previously looked. The two went diving again only to recover an old chest with more golden coins, a statue and a syringe. While searching for other clues, Hawkes got trapped in a metal pole. Fortunately, Danny came back to free Hawkes and they both got to land safely.

At the CSI lab, Danny examines the syringe and discovers large amounts of cyanide in it, making it the murder weapon. Plus, it also has a DNA with a mutation only unique to people from the Balkan descent. Stella recalls the two Albanian men she questioned.

At the Albanians’ apartment, the first suspect (Zamir Duka) tries to run pass Mac and Flack but was caught immediately. Stella searches for the other suspect, but instead finds a room filled with information on makings of a bomb. Mac and Flack put together that the commissioner has been running investigations into Iraqi insurgents, which the two Albanians would want to stop. After hiring the two certified divers to train them, the Albanians killed the men by luring them into the deep waters of East River with a promise of hidden treasure, which ended up being fake.

After calling in a death threat against the commissioner, the second suspect dived deep into the river to place the bomb. Flack learns about this threat and discovers that the commissioner is taking a helicopter to a UN conference, wherein they will land right over the water just as the Albanians have planned. The police disarms the bomb before the suspect could successfully set his bomb off, while Mac and Flack races to the pier to surprises the suspect that he’s under arrest.

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House Season 4, Episode 2 – House Hides a Patient

The season opener of House saw Dr. Gregory’s hardheadedness as he tries to solve a patient’s health case by himself, as he refuses to hire his new staff. In this episode, the questions remain: Is House really considering of hiring a new diagnosis staff? Will Cameron, Chase and Foreman ever return?

In a lecture room, House meets 40 aspiring applicants and discussed why Buddy Ebsen, the original Tin Man in the 1939 movie “Wizard of OZ” was replaced due to allergic reactions from the aluminum makeup used in the film. But when a lady officer from the NASA shows up with cash in House’s office, claiming to “hear with her eyes” and asked to keep her health condition off-the-record, House used his “resources” and let the applicants help him solve the case.

House divided the group into 4 — some tested the patient’s blood, the other group tested her stool, one group was asked to break into the patient’s home to find what she’s hiding and the remaining were asked to clean his car. House then saw Chase walk pass his office.

As usual, House went to Dr. Wilson’s office and asked what Chase was doing in the hospital. Wilson says that Chase accepted a job in Arizona and finds it interesting that House sees a vision of Chase (the one he fired) instead of Cameron or Foreman, who voluntarily quit the job. Wilson psychologizes House and says that what he’s experiencing is “repressed guilt”. House, of course, finds Wilson irritating and tries to focus on his patient.

One blonde applicant played her entire group that they’re wasting their medical education for some arrogant doctor. Most of her groupmates left with her leading the team, but she went back after only 1 “competition” was left cleaning the car. She even stole House’s car keys and just drove through carwash. Back at the office, the group of applicants were discussing her health condition to the patient when she experienced a psychotic attack, ran and locked herself in the hospital chapel.

While outside the chapel, House saw Cameron (with blonde hair) downstairs enter the hospital door. As House and the group of doctors extort the patient into coming out the chapel, Cuddy arrives and discovers that House is hiding a patient and demands to know her name. Everyone in the classroom did not disclose the patient’s name, claiming House never told me, except for one doctor who was asked to break into the patients House. When House went back into the lecture room, he immediately fired the guy who ratted the patient out.

Back in Wilson’s office, House told him that he saw Cameron. Wilson says it’s impossible since she was with Chase in Arizona. From their debate about House’s vision, he came up with a solution about his patient – they should stress the patient’s liver (and from one of the applicant’s suggestions) by getting her wasted. The patient along with House and three other doctors took a couple of tequilla shots. After a few shots, the patient drew short of breath.

While debating with one applicant about killing the patient’s dream versus the doctor’s beliefs, House saw Foreman pass by the room. He followed Foreman, but was stopped by Cuddy in the hallway. House found out that the patient’s problem was with her lungs and needed a lung biopsy to treat her. However, since NASA is unaware of her condition, the patient begged House to find another way to hide her health problem, scar or any sign of her being sick.

The remaining applicants discussed on a solution to force a patient into surgery. They ended up with an unconventional solution — asking the patient to get a boob job to find what’s wrong with her lungs. This way, NASA will only have records of breast augmentation, instead of a lung biopsy.

While in the surgery room, they discovered cysts on the left side of the lungs, while House asks the team to make a diagnosis based from the heart attacks, psychosis and cyst. No one answered correctly, except Chase who was upstairs watching the surgery. (House thought he was a vision and asked an applicant if he was seeing the blonde guy too).

After they have finally diagnosed the patient, House and the remaining doctors were back at the lecture room for the big decision. After firing more than half of the doctors, House asked the oldest guy in the batch to stay. He found out that the applicant had no medical degree and cannot be hired as a doctor. House hired him as an assistant, instead.

When House confronted Wilson about Cameron, he finally told House that she has been an attending doctor in the ER of the same hospital for three weeks. House visited Cameron at the ER and found out that it was her who recommended House to the NASA officer. When asked why House ratted the patient out to NASA, Cameron knew, House couldn’t kill the patient’s dreams.

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CSI: Season 8, Episode 1 – Dead Doll

Season 7 ended when the CSI team caught the miniature killer, Natalie. As her last miniature, she planned an attack on Sara, as a way for her to get back at Grissom for leading the only man (her adopted father) she ever trusted to suicide. Sara’s disappearance forced Grissom to admit their relationship out in the open.

As a clue, Natalie made another miniature that displayed a car wreck in the desert, with a miniature of Sara under it. The season opens as the team searches for Sara and Grissom, while studying the miniature, discovers that she only has a few hours left before she drowns when the rain floods up under the wrecked car.

As the rain continues to poor, water under the wreck car fills up, while Sara tries to get out from under the car without any success. The CSI team discovers Natalie’s car and tracked down its GPS system to determine which locations she went recently.

Down at the station, Sophia Curtis and Jim Brass led Hodges to swab Natalie for DNA and trace because she has wounds on her scalp. Natalie is experiencing all the signs of a psychotic breakdown – delusions, hallucinations, which could last days or months.

Upon receiving the surveillance tapes from where Sara was abducted, Grissom learned that Natalie used a stun gun to bring Sara down.

(In a flashback scene) Natalie drives the car, while Sara is locked in the compartment.

Brown investigates the car and discovers that Sara climbed her way up to the backseat of the car from the compartment. The scene suggests a fight between Sara and Natalie.

Sara attacks Natalie while driving and jumps out of the car. She was left on the dessert without any energy to fight back. Natalie tied her up again as they drove to another location. Sara was drugged and slowly loses consciousness. She woke up to find out that Natalie was placing down a car on her, pushing her arms to the ground.

While checking out Natalie’s apartment, Stokes found a clue written on the wall – a contact number of Desert Diamond Auto Yard. Jim Brass immediately went to interrogate the crew of the auto yard to find out that Natalie asked them to tow a red convertible. The man from the auto yard gave directions to the desert site and rescue teams along with Grissom’s CSI located the red car.

Upon reaching the car, Stokes and Grissom dug up the dried sand where Sara was supposed to be. They discovered that Sara was able to climb out of the car when the rain got high enough for her arms loosen from the car’s weight and swim her way out.

Now without the rain, Sara is trying to search for help while walking through the deep and wide desert of Las Vegas. She is dehydrated, disoriented and tries to leave clues behind for the team to follow. She eventually collapses on the ground.

As Stokes and Sophia roamed through the roads of the desert, Stokes’ attention was caught by a glare in the middle of nowhere. As a survivor that Sara is, she brought along a side mirror of the red convertible to signal for help. Without a pulse, Sara is treated by paramedics and brought to the nearest hospital in a helicopter, with Grissom by her side. Sara eventually regains consciousness to the sight of Grissom’s name on his vest.

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CSI: NY Season 4, Episode 1 – Can You Hear Me Now?

There’s no better way to start a CSI: New York season than to place a crime scene at the city’s # 1 icon – the Statue of Liberty. Mac was on his way home from his London vacation when he was greeted with an extraordinary sight – blood dripping down the Statue of Liberty’s face and a murder of security officer Georgia Morse (who died with a slashed throat). Another security guard named Charles Price was supposed to be on shift ended up missing. Is he the killer?

The CSI team investigates the entire scene as Danny gets blood samples hanging hundreds of feet from the Statue itself. The blood from the statue was not from one victim alone – whether or not the blood came from a person or animal, the team has yet to figure out. Mac discovers two inconsistent blood drops from victim’s arterial splatter, while Hawkes recovers a sticky substance from the vic’s body, which Lindsay later determines as condom spray.

In between their investigation, Stella asks Mac about his trip and he tells her about the mysterious calls he received in London at exactly 3:33 every night, which all ended up without answers.

The team discovers a viewing station with blood on it and wire tied to keep it from moving. As Mac looked through the viewer, he discovered a man sitting across the water, which Mac and Stella first thought to be the killer staring at them. They were shocked to find out that the man, named Damion Brock, was dead with words “two more will die” written under his shirt and wounds on both the sides of his neck. Dr. Hammerback discovers that the 2nd victim was embalmed with a cleaning liquid, which explained his abnormal orangy color, and finds another piece of the puzzle — a small metal object stuffed in his mouth.

A new character appears. Kendall, a lab tech tries to one-up Adam (and vice versa) by discovering new evidences and leads. Kendall discovers that the wire from the viewing station was from a piano (for an “A” key), while Adam explained the tiny metal object was from a music box, customized to play a Mozart tune. It was made specifically for a musician named Nova Kent.

Danny and Stella interviews Kent, but she insists that she lost the music box while moving four times in a year.Danny was not convinced of Kent’s statement.

Mac eliminated Charles Price as a suspect when he studied the blood splatter and learned that Georgia’s blood only bounced off of his security badge. Dr. Hammerback found the missing security guard, but only his severed arm reached the lab when a group of boaters reported the sight.

Flack and Stella checked out Damion’s apartment to look for clues. Stella experiences dejavu as she enters the apartment. Morton Brite, the landlord, lets them into Damion’s room and Stella recognized him as the prime suspect of an unsolved murder of Marie Cousmira that she investigated a year ago. Flack finds that Damion was embalmed in the bathroom while still alive. Stella and Flack listened to a chilling call that has just came in – it was Damion’s terrified voice recorded before he died talking about a license plate.

Stella found a viewfinder toy in Damion’s apartment, which led to another victim – Lee Nakashima with his tongue cut out, who Mac and Danny found stuck in a drum at a popular music hall. The team found a video with Nakashima (before he had his tongue cut out) describing a man’s eyes, height, built. Since both Nakashima and Damion both lived in the same apartment a year ago, Mac put the pieces of the puzzle together and Stella says that the two may have been witnesses of Marie Cousmira’s murder.

The piece of paper found in Nakashima’s mouth revealed a ticket concert of Nova Kent. The team rushed to discover a man holding flowers for her, which they immediately arrested. Anthony Colton confessed on murdering Marie and threatening Kent, but strongly denies killing the security guards at the Statue of Liberty.

Stella visited Morton Brite to tell him about the good news that the CSI eventually solved Marie’s case. Inside Brite’s apartment, Stella discovers that his piano is missing an A string. Stella puts it together that Morton was angered that his girlfriend died and three witnesses shut their mouth and chose not to report the murder to the police. Morton pours Damion’s blood over the Statue’s face to get the police’s attention and lead them to Marie’s killer. After Stella shot Morton before he could escape, he shouts: Can you hear me now?

Back at the CSI lab, Mac is still working when he recieves a phone call exactly at 3:33 am. Who can be calling Mac? A killer he didn’t catch? An innocent person put in jail? What can be the significance of that time? Let’s find out in the coming weeks.

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