- A sadistic killer of young women strikes again, one year after the original crime. However, CSI soon discovers that the trail may lead back to the police officer who investigated the original crime.
- Dade student Kathy Meyers is blinded and tortured to death with starter cables. Her steady boyfriend has a criminal record. The OM recalls a case detective, Reggie Mastell, failed to make a case stick against optician Max Paulson. Mastell claims it's his work again and grossly disrespects procedure. Jessica Davi, who survived a similar attack, accuses him of dismissing her report, her fiancé Dennis Chilton is violently protective. Shortly after addict Rachel Calvado is killed the same way, but sloppily. How do the cases really link?—KGF Vissers
- A woman walks down the sidewalk. A man follows. Cut to the woman locked in the truck car. Cut to the woman lying on a bed -- a bolt of electricity coursing through her body. Could this be a case for certain man wearing a certain pair of sunglasses?
Indeed, it is. We are treated to a slow-motion montage of Caine, Calleigh, Ryan, Eric and Tara arriving at the scene. It's like the Super Friends only much better looking. Crunching rock music plays in the background as the camera pans down to reveal the woman lying D-E-A-D on the asphalt. "Let's go to work," Caine growls. Wait -- aren't they already at work? Regardless ...
YEEE-OWWW! Opening credits! Miami! Sunglasses! Etc.!
Back from commercial. The crunching rock music continues as Eric explains that this is obviously the "secondary crime scene." The woman, it seems, was dumped. "Lieutenant, we have multiple burns," Tara says. Something was clamped to the victim's body. "I'm guessing jumper cables," Caine growls. Ouch.
Back at the lab, Tara further examines the corpse. Oddly, the victim didn't put up a fight, nor was she restrained. "It's like she let it happen," Tara says. But wait! The woman's pupils are also fully dilated. Hmm.
Caine, meanwhile, checks in with Reggie. The victim has been identified as a Kathy Meyers. Her boyfriend, Tim Erickson, has been brought in for questioning. The man has a record, Reggie explains. But is the desk-bound cop overstepping his bounds? No time for that now. Caine starts the interrogation. "Was Kathy aware of your sexual battery conviction?" Caine asks. Tim is less than amused and, shockingly, denies any involvement in his girlfriend's death. You've got it hand it to Caine, though. The man is subtle.
Calleigh, in the meantime, has run on a test on the victim's pupils. Turns out an agent was dropped into Kathy's eyes, effectively blinding her. "Restraint without restraint," Calleigh says. Natalia suddenly remembers a similar case from about a year ago. The prime suspect in that unsolved murder was a Dr. Max Paulson.
Seconds later, Max is in the hot seat. The good doc has a nasty shiner and (shockingly) denies any involvement. He does, however, explain that a certain detective Reggie seems hell bent on pinning him with the murders. Turns out Reggie, who was put on restrictive duty due to misconduct on the previous case, gave the doc the black eye. Back at the office, Caine confronts the cop. "I don't need the help," he growls. Reggie, meanwhile, assures Caine that Max is the killer. "As long as I've been working this, I've never been more sure of anything," he says. Caine demands the man's badge and gun.
Eric arrives with news: A woman reported being attacked in a similar manner about eight months ago. Caine goes to visit this woman, Jessica Davis, who isn't at all happy about not being taken seriously when she initially reported the attack. She explains that she was knocked unconscious and awoke to a blinding light. Her attacker then demanded that she beg for her life. "I just hope you listen this time," she says. "The detective I spoke to passed me off ... no one took me seriously." Growls Caine: "That's about to change."
A few words from our sponsors later, Caine gets a call from a scared Jessica. A mysterious man is parked outside her house! Eric and Caine arrive on the scene to discover that the man is none other than Reggie. "He's the one who blew me off!" Jessica says. Jessica's fiancé, Dennis Chilton, threatens the overzealous cop before Caine steps in and separates the two. He turns to Reggie and growls: "If I see you out here again, you're finished." Wait -- didn't Caine already take the man's badge and gun?
Back at the lab, Eric astutely notes that eye drops wouldn't stop a woman from screaming and struggling. One montage of Eric using an infrared camera later, he discovers slight bruises on her neck from a choke hold that stops blood flow to the brain. "So were looking for someone with specialized hand-to-hand training," Calleigh says. Like a cop, perhaps? More specifically, a cop named Reggie? Eric seems to think so.
Natalia and Ryan, in the meantime, are working up a theory: Kathy Meyers clearly had her eyebrows plunked not too long before her death. Could they trace her from the salon to the scene of her abduction? It's worth a try -- especially considering the show is more than half over at this point.
Natalia and Caine visit the salon and -- voila! -- Kathy Meyers' car is parked directly out front. Underneath the car, Natalia find the victims purse. "So she was abducted right here," Caine growls. The pair follows scuff marks to a spot of industrial grease. Natalia takes a swab. Caine, meanwhile, gets a phone call with bad news. "We have another body," he growls.
Sure enough, another young woman with dilated eyes and jumper-cable burns lies on the concrete in an alley. "I have to say, I think this guy is escalating," Tara says. Caine agrees. Luckily, the guy is also getting sloppy. Caine finds a hair underneath the victim's nails. Could it belong to the killer?
Back at the lab, Valera reveals that the hair belonged to Max Paulson. Reggie might have been right, after all. Seconds later, Max is sitting under the glare of the hot lights. He claims to have been at the movies all afternoon, but our boys aren't buying it. "That's a helluva alibi," Frank says. Growls Caine: "It certainly is."
Actually, it IS. One excruciatingly long commercial break later, Frank tells the team that a movie-theater usher has corroborated Max's story. Ryan theorizes that the good doc could have snuck out the back and returned undetected. Calleigh suggests Reggie as a possible suspect. "Look guys, I rode patrol with Reggie for five years," Frank says. "He's no killer." Then again, Ryan finds a leather strip with a button clasp on the most recent victim, Rachel Calvado. Calleigh notes that the clap is the same size as one found on an ankle holster.
Hmm. Who do we know who wears an ankle holster?
Cut to Reggie, who is burning papers in his back yard. Frank and Caine approach. "I need your weapon, Reggie," Caine growls. Reggie reaches down to his ankle holster to remove his sidearm. "The clasp is missing, Reggie," Caine growls. Trapped, Reggie spills his guts. He killed Calvado and planted the hair in order to frame Max. Why? Because Reggie truly believes Max is guilty and figured he would kill a lowly heroin addict no one cared about in order to get Max behind bars. "Bottom line: You killed a woman to close a case," Caine growls.
Back at the lab, Caine takes a closer look at the Jessica Davis case file. A year ago, the CSI labs didn't have the technology to separate a pair of overlapping prints. Now they do. Why no one thought of this earlier is beyond the viewer. Thank goodness a certain man in sunglasses decided to start paying attention to the details.
One montage later, Eric separates the prints and gets a name: Dennis Chilton. Before you can say "plot twist," Caine arrests the man. "Wait!" Jessica screams. "There's been some sort of mistake! Dennis, tell them!" Dennis tells them, alright -- tells them he's guilty! But Dennis admits to killing the woman, saying he spared only Jessica. "After that, I did everything I could to make you fall in love with me," he says. Caine leads Dennis away as Jessica weeps. All this time, she was sleeping with the enemy.
Cut to a jail cell. Poor Reggie fashions a noose from a bed sheet, pulls it over his head and hangs himself.
A cheery end to a cheery episode.
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