Episode 805 - The Chick Chop Flick Shop
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation looks into the death of a woman who died for a living.
"The Chick Chop Flick Shop" begins with a beautiful woman tied up and scared. She pleads for her life, but she cuts off with a scream as blood sprays in her face. It becomes obvious that this is not what it seems to be as she begins to cough, choking on the 'blood', and the director yells to end the scene. They are in a movie studio, filming a horror flick, and the director, Zack Putrid, gives bawdy instructions to the man squirting the fake blood so that they can do the take correctly.
As the crew prepares to re-film the scene, Brass and Nick arrive. They are being escorted by Stanley Vespucci, the Head of Physical Production. Vespucci explains to them that the studio's lead actress, Weatherly Adams, is missing. She didn't show up for filming that day, and she wasn't answering her phone. Nick and Brass look around her dressing room, which shows no sign that there was a struggle. At first they are skeptical--she didn't show up, but there's nothing to suggest that she isn't fine. However, Vespucci points out that Weatherly's purse is still there, with her keys and wallet inside. Her car is still parked in the parking lot. There is definitely something going on.
Brass and Nick look at a vase of white roses with a note of congratulations. When Brass asks who sent the flowers, Vespucci admits that he doesn't know for sure. However, he suspects that it is one of the creeps or stalkers that followed Weatherly sometimes. He even gives Brass a file with rap sheets in it. Brass says that he is going to send a patrol car to her house, just in case. In the meantime, Vespucci takes them to where the studio had a break-in.
Vespucci leads them to a large corridor where props are stored. Corpse mannequins are piled around, and Vespucci goes through a list of the ways that Weatherly "died" in their movies. Nick adds one to the list, acknowledging that he had watched Weatherly's movies. They arrive at a broken window and speculate that someone broke the pane of glass and then reached in to unlock the window. As Nick goes to collect the broken glass, he hears flies and sees a bloody mannequin nearby with an axe sticking out of its back--except that this time, it isn't a mannequin. It's the real thing, the real Weatherly, dead face-down on the floor.
Catherine and Nick process the scene. The large pools of 'blood' surrounding the body turn out to be fake blood with much smaller amounts of real blood thrown in. As Nick sprays phenolphthalein to look for the real traces of blood, Catherine tries to get prints off of the axe handle and fails. Eventually, they must break the news to everyone that Weatherly is gone. They also have to take fingerprints and statements from everyone to get their version of events. Tommy Lafoon, who owns the studio with his brother, demands that they arrest Albert Zarco-- a former co-worker who had been obsessed with Weatherly, even after a disfiguring injury cost him his job at the studio.
'CSI' Goes on a Bumpy Ride
"mmmm ooh Betty the cat done a whoopsy in the corridor" Sorry I just had a sudden urge to do a Frank Spencer impersonation when I seen that hat. :rotfl: Moving on:
The CSI team investigates the suspicious death of a go-cart racer who took his hobby to the highway, when a severed head rolls through tonight's episode of "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," airing at 9 p.m. on CBS.
Then the murder rate doubles when the team gets a second case -- the murder of a HUGH HEFNER-like publisher at a hip new restaurant where customers dine in the dark.
Dining in the dark isn't something that series star MARG HELGENBERGER, who plays Catherine Willows, is interested in. "I want to see what I am putting in my mouth," she tells ET's JANN CARL, who is on location with the hit CBS series at a go-cart rink.
"The best part about it is we are all here on one day," says GARY DOURDAN (Warrick Brown), who was competing with GEORGE EADS (Nick Stokes) to see who could bump each other harder. "That is pretty rare. Those are nice days."
The best part of the episode for many fans may be the return of Sara Sidle (JORJA FOX) to action, following her near-death experience in last week's season premiere.
"Coming into episode two, Grissom (WILLIAM PETERSEN) or Sara have been invited not to be on the night shift anymore," Jorja reveals. "Sara has decided it should be her who should leave and go to the swing shift ... For Sara, the idea of not working with Grissom anymore is devastating. The only friends she has are on this shift, so after the most devastating thing [that happened] in her life, she is going off alone."
In real life, the hardest part for Jorja was having to keep the secret of whether or not she survived her attack by the miniature killer.
"I lied to my own family," she admits. "[I said,] 'I don't know anything.' It was hard, but what was great about it, too, was there were people that actually wanted to know."
Episode 4 - The Case of the Cross-Dressing Carp
When a young man is found hanging from a tree strangled to death, the CSIs move in to find the killer. It appears that the man, Brian, was taking hormone injections in preparation for a sex reassignment surgery. But as usual, there's more to the story. Brian lived near a local water treatment reservoir where children often swam and fished. The recycled reservoir water was considered "grey," meaning purified, though it was not meant to be drunk.
A former hydrologist, Paul Cyden, had enlisted Brian's help to find out the truth about the reservoir. The water had been contaminated with pharmaceuticals, which had leaked into ground water in the town as well. After Paul is murdered in his home, Brian's mother is identified as Paul's shooter. She had misunderstood Paul and Brian's connection, and believed he had murdered her son. But Brian had killed himself, unable to deal with the humiliation of his misshapen body. To make matters worse, Brian's mother, ill with cancer, ultimately discovers that her cancer is also due to the water's contamination.
Sara continues to work alongside Ronnie Lake on swing shift, and they handle the case of a body found at a construction site. With Greg's help, they deduce that the man had been a reporter covering the opening of a casino (built by Catherine's father, Sam). He died with a film canister in his hands. When Greg develops the film, he discovers evidence that the gaming commissioner at the time was on the take. Sam's bodyguard, Benny Dunbar, killed the reporter to keep the news quiet. Lily, Catherine's mother, helps out on the case, and Greg takes her out to get more information from her for the book he's writing on Vegas.
Meanwhile, as Grissom continues his study of bees, he makes a proposal of marriage to Sara. She accepts.
