- A young Hollywood actress is killed in what appears to be a simple drunk driving collision, but the team soon suspects that there is more to the case than meets the eye, and a shootout in the crime lab may confirm their suspicions.
- While the press swarms around the apparent simple drunk driving collision death of starlet Olivia Hamilton, the team soon suspects foul play and elaborates. Surviving opposite driver Richard Wilkes's confession is mistrusted, as he was a deluded stalker and unlikely to pull off the ingenious traffic lights manipulation. Other suspects include Olivia's socialite steady boy-friend, Macau gambling mob heir Denny Ocampo, and Tom O'Neill, CEO of the exclusive Hollywood security company father Ocampo hired. Olivia-fan Greg is angry to be send off to a measly old man's murder in a lousy motel, but that ties in after an armed surprise raid on the morgue.—KGF Vissers
- Riley leaves the CSI team and Catherine is understaffed, when Brass summons her to investigate a car crash, where the victim is the famous starlet Olivia Hamilton. The driver of the truck that hit her car is Richrd Wilkes, who has miraculously survived and her boyfriend Denny Ocampo, who is the son of a casino owner, is distressed. While investigating the apparent accident, Catherine receives a call and assigns Greg to investigate the murder of an old man in a low-budget motel. While investigating the cases, Nick and Langston find that there was traffic light manipulation and Denny and his bodyguard Tom O'Neil become suspects. Further, the team finds that both cases are related and involve family business.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- "CSI" - "Family Affair" - Sept. 23, 2009
We open frozen in space, apparently all mayhem has broken out in the lab as we see various characters in duress, dodging bullets, their faces frozen mid-yell. The most important detail is that one of the frozen tableaus is Nick and Sara side by side shooting at something.
An onscreen tells us that what we're about to see unfolded 48 Hours Earlier
We start with exposition: We hear Catherine talking to someone on the phone expositing that Riley quit. We see Langston stabbing into some ballistic gel. Eckley comes in complaining about all the classes Langston took. Langston says he paid for them himself and took vacation time to attend them. Eckley likes this and tells Langston he's been promoted to CSI: 2.
There's a call. It's a fatal traffic accident. At the scene a horde of press and gawkers is there. It's because the victim is famous young actress Olvia Hamilton, a pretty blonde. A man runs through the police cordon screaming her name. The driver of the other car is miraculously alive. They deduct that the driver crashed into the actress and for some reason kept his foot on the gas pedal. Olivia's car was stopped and it seems the driver didn't even try to stop before plowing into her.
As the CSI's comb the scene. Another call comes in. Catherine tells Greg to take it. He gripes that there are people on the scene with less experience who should be sent. Ray pops up and says he's present. Nick tells him to quit whining and do what his superior tells him to. Catherine seems perturbed by this.
Brass interviews Olivia's boyfriend Denny Ocampo, son of a casino big wig. He has his expensive bodyguard in tow, Tom O'Neill. Denny tells Brass they'd been dating a year. Olivia was making a movie nearby. Brass interviews him. Denny says he hopes the cops put a bullet in the head of person who did it. Brass tells him as the son of a powerful casino man he shouldn't make statements like that, which could come back to bite him.
Greg is at fleabag motel on the other call. An older man was killed. The cop he's with is mad he's at this crummy homicide instead of the one with the Hollywood star. Greg reminds him that this man was brutally murdered and whoever did it is worth getting off the street. The cop apologizes. Greg finds fibers in a bridge of two teeth he finds on the floor that were knocked out of the old guy's mouth.
Robbins reports to Catherine that the cause of death was internal hemmorage and Olivia was pregnant, far along enough that she probably knew.
At the hospital the doctor tells Ray the driver, Richard Wilkes, was drunk when he plowed into her. It's miracle he's alive and in good shape since his C2 vertebrae was crushed.
Back at the lab Conrad is informing Catherine he's added a new CSI. Catherine doesn't want to train someone new. He assures her this person has experience and should fit right in with the team.
Turns out the driver was a crazy stalker of Olivia's and had a kidnap kit with duct tape, rope, and a knife and was also on something other than booze.
Nick, Conrad, Catherine and Langston extrapolate about Wilkes. Langston posits that stalkers who kill want to get famous so it doesn't make sense that Wilkes would be suicidal, wanting to die before he got his glory. Conrad wants to know if he can tell the press the murder was intentional. Langston says yes, Nick says no.
Brass goes to see Wilkes, who has woken up. He confesses, blearily, that he killed Olivia. Brass talks about, and we see, Wilkes going to her set the day before. She had him booted. He got mad and went to intersection and drove into her. He was mad she loved herself more than him even though she signed a letter back to him "love, always."
Ray and Nick overlook some nearby video surveillance. As they do Ray gets a review board letter clearing him for using force in the season finale. Nick tells him it was kill or be killed and to not let it bother him. Ray hasn't, and that's what's been bothering him. They roll the tape back and notice Olivia's car was stopped at a red light that should have been red. They realize someone with an infrared emittermade it red illegally. They wonder why they didn't find an emitter in Wilkes' car. Ray gets an idea.
Hodges chats up O'Neill who apparently famous in his own right as a bodyguard. O'Neill wonders about Wilkes. Hodges spills that Wilkes confessed but they're still not sold since it doesn't add up.
Catherine brings Denny and O'Neill down to see her body, uncovers her face and Denny walks away.
Ray goes to see Wilkes. Wilkes wonders if he's a reporter and is clearly excited that the press wants to see him. Ray puts an oxygen mask on him to shut him up. He scans Wilkes body and uncovers a seatbelt injury that proves he was in passenger seat. They exposit that someone else was driving, moved Wilkes over, snapped his neck so it would like Olivia's stalker who killed her.
Eckley enters with the National Enquisitor with photo on cover of Olivia that looks like it came from the crime lab and a headline with the stalker's confession. (O'Neill obviously sold the story) Conrad is pissed and yells at Catherine. Nick defends her and she says she can defend self. Conrad tells her to get a grip on her people, and thinks maybe Riley was right. Catherine is confused. He's mad she didn't read Riley's exit interview, which he left on her desk. Right then, Sara shows up.
She hugs everyone and meets Langston. The CSI's asks if she was tired of being happy and married? Sara exposits that she and Grissom are living in Paris. While they wait for research grant to come through he's going to the Sorbonne and she decided to come back and give them a hand because she heard they needed help..
Catherine goes into her office and reads Riley's exit interview. We see phrases like "ineffective leadership" and "no team unity" highlighted. Hodges brings her an apple. She asks who he blabbed to. He apologizes. She tells him not to do it ever again. He, chagrined, agrees.
At the casino where Wilkes was staying Nick and Ray discover video of O'Neill talking to Olivia's stalker 3 hours before she died. They deduce that he was the driver but wonder why he has no bruises from the airbag.
They find O'Neill watching over Denny gambling. Brass pulls O'Neill aside as Catherine interviews Denny. Did he know she was pregnant? Yes. She wonders why he didn't you ride with her to the set like he normally did. He says he wishes he had and pulls out an engagement ring.
Langston looks at photos of O'Neill on his website. One shows him with a race car and a driving helmet.
Brass interviews O'Neill who says he talked to Wilkes because a threat to Olivia was a threat to Denny. He says he walked him back to his room, watched him pack his stuff and followed him to the highway. Brass points out a bag in the vidoe. O'Neill says it's gym stuff. Ray enters with the bag and pulls a helmet out of the bag. He says he's a tactical driving teacher. Ray asks about the white powder on it and he guesses it's airbag dust. He exposits that O'Neill was paid by Denny's dad who didn't like his relationship with Olivia. Having him kill her would a cost effective way of dealing with the situation. O'Neill says it's too bad for them Wilkes confessed he wants a lawyer..
Back at the lab, the find out that it is airbag dust. Catherine wants to know how they'll prove their theory. Ray says he'll figure it out. Sara she likes him. Catherine tells her about Riley's exit interview and admits things are different post-Grissom. Sara makes a baseball analogy about team line-ups and Catherine is surprised. Sara jokes that apparently part of being married is sharing a spouse's interest. She says Catherine has great old players and new talent - Wow, just like this show viewers!- and she just needs to reshuffle. She says Catherine is great CSI and manager, the only thing Grissom had that she doesn't is a Catherine.
Phillips enters the morgue and it's in disarray with bodies pulled out the freezers and men in black suits charging out with a body in a bag. Robbins whacks one and calls for security and were back at the start of the episode as we see the CSIs take on the intruders and the intruders fight and fire back. Ray puts one through a wall, a lab tech is shot, the men rush out and Sara and Nick go out after them and shoot a them as their van drives away.
In the after, irony alert, CSIs take pictures of the busted up lab.. Surprisingly they didn't take Olivia's body, they took Greg's bum...who was Olivia's father.
Nick and Sarah follow the trail - the men in black were mob enforcers- and come upon a construction site with a ground up body. She takes pics. They find a toe.
Turns out Olivia's dad was a troubled schizophrenic. She was his only. She tried to take care of him but it was hard. She miraculously kept the relationship kept out of the tabloids. But they found pics of the two of them meeting on O'Neill's camera. They extrapolate from a recent big deposit in his account that casino daddy was paying to break them up and getting these photos in the tabs might help. But O'Neill probably got curious went to talk to the old man, who freaked out and O'Neill killed him accidentally. With this murder the pressure was on, then he realized he could get the stalker blame him for her murder and get Olivia out of Denny's life permanently. The way to prove it is to find evidence on or in the old man's body. Langston notices sees missing teeth, sees the x-ray of and notices something in his throat, and sees the picture of the bridge with the fiber in the teeth.
Nick and Sarah sift thru the body parts in the morgue. Langston realizes the old man sucked down a cufflink. They rummage through the stuff and find it. They realize this is why O'Neill wanted the old man's body. He discovered the body had been found when he came and saw Olivia's body and a tech looking at x-ray showing his cufflink.
We cut to news coverage of O'Neill being arrested. Watching, Langston is mad they can't bust him for killing Olivia on purpose not just her dad by accident. Sara says he's still going to jail.
Nick and Greg are feeding a dangerous looking spider. They realize it's Little Stevie who's been missing for some time. They want to make sure to tell Sara so she can tell Grissom.
Catherine calls Nick into her office. She tells him she couldn't do the job without him. He says he loves her too. Then she promotes him to asst. supervisor. He is elated him until she hands him a pile of paperwork.
Ray visits Robbins. He's working on a body. He opens him up and Ray looks at it aghast and quizzical and asks "what the hell is that?" Robbins responds "I was hoping you'd tell me."
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