"At least you've got your pig."

Have I mentioned that CSI rocks? Have I really? Huh, I don't remember.

So the Crossover episode with Without a Trace and CSI aired, and I'm still in heaven. TV shows are underrated. [kicks stupid reality tv shows out of her world]

So the story goes....

Night Shift is called up on a case, Catherine and Greg are the first at the scene and they start processing but when they run the information through the lab, they're called back ordering them to immediately stop. So they stop. They're not told why. There are two bodies, one of a ten year old boy in the living room and a brunette woman in the bathroom. Grissom comes in and goes, "Guys---what the heck? Why aren't the bodies being released?" And Catherine's like, "Got me, supervisor man."

Outside the crime scene, a helicopter lands and Brass greets Jack Malone, FBI from New York. This scene was so awesome. xD
Jack comes into the crime scene all formal and looks at Greggo, "Gots enough pictures of this place?" Greg's like, "Yep." He turns to SuperDave, "Flip it over." SuperDave flips the body over and it reveals a boy, murdered with cause of death seeming to be blunt-force trauma to the forehead with a hammer. Jack Malone then starts briefing them on a case six years ago when a young boy was kidnapped from his babysitter's apartment. The babysitter was killed by a bat found at the scene and the killer took the bat with him. This case has the same MO, female supervision is killed with a hammer found at the scene but this time the boy is also killed. Jack believes that the boy is the same boy that was kidnapped 6 years ago. Only evidence of the killer on both cases is a bloody palm print.

Catherine's like, "Well, dude, there could be a resemblance but a lot can change in six years."
Grissom's like, "We'll do a DNA test." And we already know that Grissom's kind of weary of dear ol' FBI Agent Jack Malone.

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What I really liked about the opening was just how cool it was. xD The Cold Opener was still very CSI-esque, and Greg <3. But then Jack Malone just comes strollin' in!

They then speculate why the killer would come to Vegas, meaning wait six years to kill the kid he kidnapped. Catherine says, "Most three year olds do what you tell them to do, most ten year olds do what they want to do." Autopsy on the brunette woman showed that she was raped but Jack said that the babysitter six years ago was not raped. They're still thinking it's the same guy.
They dig through some stuff at the scene and find some poker stuff. They conclude that the boy was not a permanent guest and that whoever was staying with them weren't either. Warrick and Jack check the local casinos for a poker tournament player number 273. They find the guy looking -very- nervous, he runs for it. Warrick and Jack go after him and Jack stops him with one arm to face connection. FBIs get rough.

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Warrick processes the poker suspect, taking full palm prints. Jack comes in to interrogate alone. Brass watches in through the two-way mirror. Jack starts getting rough, because they keep talking but not using a direct object in their sentences (GEEZ TOO MUCH ENGLISH!). Brass rushes in and breaks it off, in the process he drops a folder on the ground with a picture of the dead boy and the poker suspect is distraught. He says, "This is my son!" He starts crying, and Brass is giving Jack these eyes of "Look what you've done...."

Next scene, Jack's pacing the halls of the Crime Lab. Grissom comes up to him. Grissom ran poker suspect's palm prints and it didn't match the one at the scene. Jack tells him that poker suspect was a Mormon from Montana who stole lots of money from a church to go gamble. He thought he'd borrow the money, gamble a little and take it back. The brunette at the scene was an old girlfriend of the poker suspect. Wendy interrupts, says she's got the results back from the DNA test and poker suspect was telling the truth. He and the boy are related and so the boy is not the same boy kidnapped 6 years ago. But Jack still believes that this guy is the same guy so they continue with the investigation even if they still don't know where the original boy is.

There were also results on the SAE kit revealed two semen donors. One was Tom (the poker dude) and an unknown and the same unknown matched to two rape murder cases. Jack thinks the culprit has laid low for a bit and now he's struck. Jack also mentions that it breaks the pattern, Grissom says, "If there is a pattern." Wendy implies that some times there won't be DNA in the system because small towns can't afford to run it. Jack says, "It's out there, we just haven't found it." And Grissom and Wendy share this case saying, "This guy's a real piece of work."

Next scene, Jack's walking down the hallway and Hodges spots him out of his lab and he catches up with him and gives Jack a file saying there was a substance on the kid's collar. Hodges identified it as fertilizer. Hodges also inquires about the possibility of working at the FBI level and Jack basically shoots him down. Hodges, Hodges, Hodges.

Jack then goes to the morgue and he asks where Tom Michaels is. Doc Robbins tells him he's in the room saying goodbye to his son.  Jack comes in and apologizes for his conduct in the interrogating room.
"You're afraid I'm going to sue?" Jack doesn't respond and he goes onto telling him the story about the kidnapped child and the culprit.
"I'll do everything in my power to catch this man."
"Is that what you told the other kid's parents?"

Brass and Nick go to a pawn show to pick up the stolen jewelries from the crime scene. Brass's snark comes back. And how I missed it. The jewelry store owner says that he bought the jewelry from the guy and gave him directions to the Tangiers. There the culprit gambles a bit, making sure now to reveal his face to the cameras. Archie and Jack mull over the video surveillance, and they see the culprit chat up a waitress.  Jack tells Archie to zoom in on the ball cap. The logo says, "Hardgreen Harvest". Jack says that the boy had fertilizer on him so this would probably indicate that the suspect -is- the guy they're looking for.

Next scene Grissom is leading Jack into his office.
Grissom: "I'll call in some additional AV techs to help Archie with the footage, but you know. I've learned that sometimes you can go faster by going slow."
JacK: "Well, I like to go fast by going fast. [mumble]"
Grissom: "I get it after your interrogation technique. Well maybe you should go back to your hotel, take a nap?"
Jack: "Is this your office? Really? I mean, by choice? It's not some kind of surplus overflow issue?"
Grissom: "What's wrong with my office?"
Jack: "Oh I don't know. Why don't you tell me? [looks at Miss Piggy]"
Grissom:"It's an irradiated fetal pig. I use it to determine the effects of radiation on tissue."
Jack: "For what?"
Grissom: "For fun."

LOL. I love Jack and Grissom. And then Sara comes in. Grissom introduces them. Sara gives some sympathizing words to the current missing persons case gone serial killer and Jack's like, "Yeah." Very short, and Sara's like, "...Well, I got called into work early. But I did pick up Hank and I took him to the sitter." (Throughout the message/conversation Jack is looking back and forth from Griss to Sara) Sara leaves, and Jack's like, "Is Hank your kid?" And Grissom's like, "Hank's my dog. She walks him for me sometimes."
Jack: "Yeah, that's how it starts. I have some experience dating in the workplace."
Grissom: "Really? And how did it work out for you?"
Jack: "Undetermined."

HOPE FOR JACK/SAM.  What I really liked about this scene was the fact that Sara formally got to meet Jack, and Jack got to see the interaction between she and Grissom and their happy ending of an office romance whereas Jack's "office romance" wasn't very happy----though for one thing he was having an afffair. (But I haven't seen all the seasons so maybe Jack finally gets divorced and is still dating Sam). And it's overall a cute GSR scene and I'm so glad that Jack got to see it. :D

Next scene, some kids in a neighborhood in Boulder City are playing soccer, and the ball is kicked away. A kid goes and gets it but finds a man,  nearly dead and asking the boy to help him. Next scene, detective of Boulder City lead Sara in the house that the man found owns. The detective and the cop clear the house and Sara observes all the blood stains on the floor. The Detective finds the body of the wife in the living room floor, bludgeoned and covered with a comforter. Similar to the brunette woman in the first crime scene.

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Grissom and Sara process the crime scene while Doc Robbins check the body of the wife. Grissom ponders about why he would re-use the murder weapon as he finds the hammer missing from the first crime scene. Sara inputs that maybe the killer found something better, and she shows them an empty gun-casing. Doc Robbins then tells them that the husband died at the hospital and that the wife was raped. He also tells them that the liver temp of the wife tells them that her Time of Death was earlier than her husband. Sara summarizes, "So he was here and alive while his wife was being raped and killed?"
Doc Robbins responds: "It looks that way."

Sara is visibly shaken by this and Grissom talks to her outside. She asks if they know how the killer selects his victims. Grissom responds that they're random. Sara: "They were spending the night on the sofa. Watching TV. It's just---- it's just wrong." She walks away. Grissom looks after her thoughtfully until he hears a train nearby. He remembers that at the first crime scene there was a train near there too and he concludes that the killer may be riding the rails.

Archie mulls over another video surveillance of the guy again in the casino. He looks at a poster on his way out, and makes a phone call and they see him dial three numbers: 911. But he's calling for information. Nick calls in to ask for the telephone records of that pay phone in the casino. Archie zooms in on the poster, and notices that it's the same waitress that he talked up while he was gambling. He sees the name "Gina" on her name tag. The killer called to get Gina Farantino's phone number but it's unlisted.

Jack goes to talk to the casino manager about the waitress, Gina and she says that she hadn't seen Gina since the day before.  She also said that the man cashed out and left after confronting Gina. Nick gets the prints off the check out form that gamblers have to fill out so that the casino owners can get the cut of the winnings. Nick gets the prints.

Scene jumps to a highway trooper with a routine car stopping, and he notices the license plate number matches that of the one out for Gina's car. He approaches the car, and waves to something in the backseat. He then looks into the driver window and asks for license and registration. The guy pulls a gun and shoots him. The guy then drives away.

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Jack Malone sits in the highway trooper's car looking the surveillance of the stop. Grissom processes the body. Jack comes out and talks to Grissom and he's told that the calibre that matched the gun missing from the husband and wife's house. Grissom asks if the waitress was in the car with him, Jack responds that the highway trooper was waving at someone in the car but they can't be sure it's Gina. Grissom gets a phone call from Catherine and she informs them that she ran the print that Nick pulled from the casino and it came up "Terry Lee Wicker" which also said that he was once married to Gina Farantino.

Catherine gives them directions to the nearest train station. Grissom and Jack rush over there and jumps on the train. Now this whole scene was just comical to me. Because Jack and Grissom had to go through a stationary train to get the moving train and Jack jumped onto the cargo and through motorcycles and chains and all that action jazz. He jumps out on the other side and Grissom's standing there already waiting for him with the face that just screamed, "What the heck?" and then, "Come on, let's go." I LOVED that scene. I just died laughing because that is probably the best comically done Grissom I had ever seen and I just love the Grissom vs. Jack. :D  Grissom and Jack pwns Batman and Superman.

So they look through all the passengers of the train and find a man in a cap. Apparently he's a homeless person and he got paid 100 to put on the cap and get on the train. Grissom and Jack are like, "Crap." Grissom and Jack go back to the train station and check the abandoned car there. In the trunk was Gina Farantine, strangled to death.

Grissom gets a call again and it's Brass. Brass tells him that Gina's kid was supposed to get picked up at his school but never showed and the teachers said that they saw Coby (the son) getting picked up fitting Wicker's description driving Gina's car. Grissom concludes that the trooper wasn't waving at Gina but Coby.



END OF CSI EPISODE. Stay tuned later for my summary on the Without a Trace portion of the crossover. :)

In other news. I've been officially inducted into the National Honors Society. And Goran (#2 behind me in class ranking) didn't.  Take that. It's probably because he doesn't do any extracurricular activities.

-[Kit]