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Jojo
22-04-2006, 15:03
"Bang Bang" starts off at the Olympia Hotel casinos. Officer Steve Boatright is walking his beat when suddenly he spots two men fighting. He approaches them and tries to get them to stop, but the argument ends with one of the two men pulling out a gun and shooting Boatright twice. Pandemonium breaks at the casinos as everyone starts running. One of the witnesses is Tina Brown, whose husband is in the surveillance room of the hotel, watching the scene unfold.

The scene preceding takes us to the case that began 15 hours before the Boatright shooting. Warrick and Grissom arrive at the scene of the crime, where Janice Cutler has been shot in the face. Her blood and brains are all over the place, and if this is a case of domestic abuse it's one of the nastiest. The CSIs make an interesting discovery in the Cutler's bedroom: a sock under the bed that evidently didn't belong to Mr. Cutler. What makes the discovering interesting is the fact that about once a month, Janice paid a man named Timothy Johnson a hefty amount of money.

Brass and Sara talk to Timothy, who lives in front of the Cutlers and is also their gardener. Timothy admits he was having an affair with Janice because she claimed she was unhappy with her marriage. The night before, they were together in her bed when suddenly her husband Willie came home. Janice urged Timothy to hide in her closet, and while inside Timothy heard the couple arguing. Moments later, Willie opened the closet door and threw Timothy out. Timothy left out the back door and thought that when he left, Janice was still alive. It looks like Timothy wasn't the last person to see Janice breathing, but her husband Willie, who is conveniently missing.

Turns out Janice was not the only one having an affair. Warrick and Nick discover Willie had been seeing a prostitute named Sally. They interrogate Sally, who was "dating" Willie, although these dates invariably ended up with the proverbial exchange of money. Sally thought Willie must've been a travel agent, because he always promised to take her away and even gave her a brochure for Hawaii. She also thought he must've hit the jackpot at some casino, because even though he had new money, he still wore WalMart pants. Sally describes Willie as a harmless, sweet man, but how does a man go from harmless to homicidal? Only one person can answer that question, and to find him the CSIs have to hit the casinos.

15 hours later, Warrick is in the Olympia security room, where he and the surveillance director have just witnessed Boatright's shooting. In the television screens, they clearly see Willie near the scene of the crime. Could he have shot Boatright, too? Warrick watches through the surveillance cameras as Willie takes off, a few officers in pursuit. Willie runs towards the elevators, and at the same time a young African American woman emerges from them. Willie grabs her and dives in. The surveillance director orders the elevator technicians to stop the elevators while Warrick tries to keep a lid on his emotions: the woman Willie took as hostage looked like his wife Tina. Surveillance from inside every elevator at the hotel comes up, but all the elevators are empty. Willie is gone.

Jojo
14-05-2006, 09:19
More details:

A security guard breaks up a fight at the Lucky Dragon casino only to have one of the men take his gun, shoot him and run to the elevator where he takes a girl hostage and flees to a room on the third floor. Brass and the SWAT team arrive, ready for action. The action flashes back to fifteen hours ago, when the CSIs stand over the body of Janice Cutler, who was fatally shot in the mouth. Her husband, Willie, is nowhere to be found, instantly casting suspicion on him. Sara notices a smudged print on the 1 key on the phone and finds grass in the bedroom closet, while Warrick discovers an escort service brochure. The CSIs question the lawn boy, Timothy Johnson, who was sleeping with Janice. Willie caught them and threw him out, enraged, but Janice was alive when Timothy left. The CSIs trick Sally, the prostitute Willie called, into coming in to the lab, and she says he was sweet and offered her a brochure for a trip to Hawaii from a travel agency.

Catherine and Vartann head to the agency, Cowboy Dan's, and are shocked to discover the bodies of Cowboy Dan and an employee, Roger Banks, both fatally shot. They also find Willie Cutler alive, cowering under his desk, bleeding from a bullet wound to the side. They get Willie medical attention and the doctor says he is lucky because the bullet came close to severing an artery. He says he came into the office in the middle of the shooting and hid as soon as he got shot--he didn't see the shooter. He wants to call his wife, and when Sara tells him she's dead, he starts crying. Back at the travel agency office, Greg goes over the evidence and notes that the murder weapon has been wiped clean, but also notices a similar bloody smudge on the 1 key on the phone in Willie's office. Catherine notes that Roger Banks had just been promoted. Brass interrogates Willie about the three murders he's connected to, and brings up the promotion Roger got--the one Willie was passed over for. Does it have to with his felony record? Willie has one conviction from when he was nineteen years old, for an auto theft. Brass also asks the man about fifty thousand dollars he withdrew from his account. Willie claims it was for gambling and that he lost it all.

Greg realizes that only the 1 key is dialed because someone dialed Sunstar Taxis at 111-1111. Greg and Vartann question the driver, who recalls picking up a guy around 2:45 am who gave his name as Sammy. Greg looks at the video from the car--the man is wearing sunglasses but he bears a resemblance to Willie. It turns out Willie has an older brother Sammy, who did time for auto theft and was just released from prison six months ago. The CSIs wonder if Sammy was trying to destroy his brother's life, or if the two were actually working together. In the lab, Dr. Robbins notices pictures of Willie's gunshot wound and tells Sara there's no way the wound was caused by a bullet--more likely a sharp object. He also notices a blue streak in the injury which proves to be blue ink from a bloody pen found in Willie's office. Grissom realizes Willie faked being shot, and turns to blood spatter from his shirt, which he's able to match to Janice using serology. Willie either shot her or was there when she was shot.

Warrick has already been dispatched to the Lucky Dragon, where he is upset to discover his wife Tina on one of the surveillance cameras next to a man he doesn't recognize. When he calls her, Tina lies to him about her whereabouts, prompting Warrick to tell her they're through. Tina tells him the man with her is a VIP host helping to plan Warrick's birthday party, and hangs up on him. Warrick doesn't have time to ponder his crumbling marriage for long--he spots Willie on the cameras fighting with another man, sees Willie grab the security man's gun, shoot him and grab a young African American woman, Jackie, and head upstairs in the elevator. When he arrives with the SWAT team, Brass persuades Willie to let him into the room. Willie demands to talk to his brother, Sammy, whom Brass claims to have downstairs in holding. Brass stalls for time and gets Willie to let Jackie go and point the gun at him instead. Willie is bitter about the promotion he was supposed to get and claims he called Sammy after he lost all his money at the casino. He tells Brass that Sammy killed his wife and colleagues. Brass placates him until a call comes in from Grissom--Sara has discovered that Sammy Cutler died two months ago in Mexico. Brass confronts Willie with the news and a tense standoff ensues, which Brass breaks by calling out for the SWAT team with the safe word he established, "Jim." Willie shoots him twice. The SWAT team enters and guns Willie down, but it may be too late for Brass, who lies on the ground bleeding profusely.

CrazyLea
14-05-2006, 12:03
:( fingers crossed for Brass. Sounds like a really good episode.

Chloe O'brien
14-05-2006, 14:56
They can't kill of brass they just cant. The last two episodes are going to be fab. Its a shame they are breaking up warricks marriage it would have been nice to see more of Tina and maybe see their marriage dissolve over the series.

Jojo
14-05-2006, 20:12
We've only actually seen Tina once and we are going to get to see her in one more episode apparently - her and Warrick in a casino in the middle of a shoot out. Still, I suppose we arent watching for the romance and home lives...but hope this doesnt mean Catherine and Warrick together .

Chloe O'brien
15-05-2006, 10:15
They probably will I don't mind a bit of romance in the show as long as it doesn't interfear with the story and case, but I don't want to see catherine and warrick sooking the face of each other every week

Jojo
15-05-2006, 20:43
I prefer all the tension, with the "will they, won't they" stuff - and I definitely don't want to watch my two favourite guys getting it on with co-workers :( :wub: :D