More information to fill the lists for cancelled shows of 2012 and renewed shows of 2012. And this one feels exactly as the official announcement said it. There´s a legacy from the show, and it will be remembered fondly (and hey, it will also be on tons of reruns and syndication deals in the US and internationally). But it was time to let it go. CBS cancels CSI: Miami after ten seasons of air, and the priciest Continue reading
Great mystery, good police show… of course we´re talking about CSI… this time CSI: Miami airing last night an all new episode called Dissolved. And here are all the spoilers for it.
Champagne. Beautiful people. Drinks. Welcome to the Miami. Suddenly, a not-so-beautiful man enters the room: Ron Sarris. Turns out Sarris has been staying rent free with the young punk throwing the party. Sarris begins asking questions about the punk’s latest score. “For someone telling me to keep my mouth shut, you sure are asking a lot of questions,” Jimmy sneers. Suddenly, the two are fighting. Sarris throws the punk into a nearby swimming pool — and something strange happens. Jimmy begins to boil!
Moments later, the team is on the scene. A certain red-haired CSI dons his sunglasses to take a look at the boiled body floating in the pool. Just then, Ryan arrives with news: the witness who called in the incident is none other than Sarris. Growls Caine: “Well, here we go.”
YEEE-OWWW!!! Cue opening credits. We don’t get fooled again and all that!
Caine interviews Sarris, who is just as slimly as we all remember him. The latter reminds the former that he is currently working as a confidential informant. He denies boiling Jimmy — at least intentionally. “I was the target,” Sarris claims. “I swim laps every day … You know who knows that? Julia!” Caine doesn’t want to hear it. Montage time! Travers, Calleigh and Eric examine the pool. The result: the water was filled with concentrated sodium hydroxide — or, “pretty nasty stuff,” according to Travers. Eric quickly deduces that the substance was introduced to the pool through the filtration system. Calleigh and her beau investigate the filtration shed and uncover a partial shoe print. “I guess the killer must have stepped in it,” Calleigh says. i guess.
Eric and Frank head out to interview the pool cleaner, a Ken-doll looking dude named Pete. He explains that someone broke into his truck the other day and stole his set of master keys. Hmm. Someone would need those keys in order to get into the filtration room and fill the tanks with chemical death. Caine, in the meantime, runs into Kyle in the CSI hallways. “Mom has been calling me nonstop,” the boy says. “She’s always getting mad talking about Ron.” Just then, Julia calls Kyle’s cell — but Caine answers. Mom immediately hangs up. So Caine heads to Kyle’s pad, where Julia has been hanging out. Lieutenant Red asks if Julia has been threatening Sarris. “Ron deserves to die!” Julia screams. So we’ll take that as a “yes.”
Back at the lab, Eric and Ryan examine Pete’s truck. The former discovers a tiny clump of hair. “There’s something strange about this hair,” Eric points out. “It’s from an animal.” In fact, the hair belongs to either a cow or a deer. “It must have got transferred from wherever he stole the keys,” Eric theorizes. Ryan helpfully points out that sodium hydroxide is used to tan cow hides. Cut to a nearby tannery, where Ryan and Caine interview the owner. He takes the pair to a long-sealed storage facility. Inside, something stinks like a decomposing human. Sure enough, Ryan opens a barrel to discover a half-decomposed torso. Someone is melting bodies in barrels of the same stuff that killed Jimmy. Just then, Caine notices a cigar cap on the ground. Wait — do we know anyone who smokes cigars? Let us spell it out for you: R-O-N-S-A-R-R-I-S.
Caine brings his arch nemesis in for questioning. Ron denies wasting a good cigar then spins a tale concerning Jimmy bragging about a big score the night before his death. Ron then fingers Jimmy’s partner: Sean Echols. Tara, meanwhile, continues to pop pills. Ryan enters, looking none too happy. “You’re showing up late to crime scenes,” Ryan points out. “You’re taking pills at work. What is that? Is it Oxy?” Tara begs Ryan to show mercy and keep his pretty mouth shut. Before Ryan can retort, Kyle enters and a montage begins. The trio clean the remains found in the barrels. Ryan soon finds a wedding ring with an engraved date. “I’m going to cross check this with the missing persons database,” he explains. “See if I can’t find a next of kin.”
Turns out the ring belongs to a man named. Bill Moore. Sondra Moore is soon brought in to answer a few police queries. “This is Bill’s ring,” she says through tears. “When I couldn’t reach him on the phone, I feared the worst. It’s like he vanished!” There’s more bad news: the second set of remains belongs to Sondra’s brother in law. Sonda asks about her sister, who was with the two men when they all disappeared. “There’s a chance shes still alive, right?” Sondra asks. Growls Caine: “There is a chance.” But don’t bet on it, sister.
Back at headquarters, Ryan has told Caine about Tara’s pill problem. The two break into her locker and discover a bottle of Oxy. In a FLASHBACK, we see Tara blaming Julia for the missing prescription. Caine doesn’t look happy to hear he has been fooled. Our guess: he won’t get fooled again (no! no!). Frank and Calleigh, in the meantime, have taken the CSI Hummer into the backwoods of Miami. They find Sean Echols living in a rundown shack and dressing a wild boar. Calleigh accuses Sean of being Jimmy’s partner and helping to kidnap Sondra Moore’s husband, sister and brother in law. Sean denies it all. We wonder. And so do Calleigh and Frank.
Back at the lab, Ryan is about to confront Tara about her pill-popping problem when BANG! BANG! BANG! Shots fired! Who’s holding the gun? Why, it’s none other than Julia! “Officer Wolfe, put your gun down,” Julia says. She then demands that her son come with her. “I’m going to get him back,” Julia says. Caine enters and explains that he knows she didn’t steal the prescription pills. Realizing she has no way out, Julia puts the gun to her head. “I’m sorry, Kyle,” she whispers. But before mom can pull the trigger, Caine grabs the gun. Ryan immediately cuffs Julia while father and son watch. “You’re under arrest,” Caine grows. Moments later, Julia seems … off. She mistakes the state attorney for her own lawyer. “I get confused,” she says. “Did I put our son’s life in danger?” Caine doesn’t need to answer. His steely gaze says it all.
Calleigh and Eric, in the meantime, share a quiet moment in which he explains that the brother in law, Walter Barnett, was frozen before being dissolved. But why? “The smell,” Calleigh says. In other words, Jimmy and pal froze the bodies so they could get to the tannery without being noticed. Calleigh then points out that big-game hunters freeze their kills in a similar matter. Frank enters with news: Sean Echols works as a trash collector — and guess which tannery is on his route? Looks like we have a loser, folks.
Cut helicopters! Cue Hummers! Cue tanned and well-dressed officers! All converge on Sean Echols’ shack. Calleigh races to an industrial size freezer and finds the frozen body of Rebecca Barnett. Seconds later, Echols sits in the hot seat. “Why would you attempt to dissolve two of the bodies but not Rebecca’s?” Calleigh asks. In response, Echols SLAMS the glass table with his cuffed hands. A bottle of water tips over and spills onto Echols’ boots . They begin streaming! “The water has activated the sodium hydroxide causing your shoes to burn,” Calleigh says. “It also proves you were at the pool last night.” Echols explains that he and Jimmy robbed and murdered the victims, but only had two barrels. Rebecca was put on ice until the other two were done cooking. Unfortunately, Jimmy wouldn’t shut up about the big score, so Echols had to silence his partner. Case closed.
But not the episode. Ryan brings Tara to Internal Affairs. The IA officer presents Tara with a bag of prescription pills found in her locker. “You hurt Horatio,” Ryan says. “You implicated Kyle. You implicated Julia.” The IA officer then places Tara under arrest for a variety of charges, including theft and tampering. “Ryan?” she asks. Says the Wolfe man: “I gave you every opportunity, Tara.” Cuffed, Tara is led away.
Caine, in the meantime, attempts to convince a judge to go easy on his ex wife. “I believe that my action led Julia to a state of mental disintegration,” he growls. The judge seems amenable to having Julia committed. And so she is. We end the episode with Julia sitting in a wheelchair inside an institution — and Caine visiting.
Great mystery, good police show… of course we´re talking about CSI… this time CSI: Miami airing last night an all new episode called Collateral Damage. And here are all the spoilers for it.
Glittering waters. Sailboats. A fancy restaurant with beautiful diners. Welcome to Miami. A harried waitress rushes between tables, stopping at one where a seemingly perfect family munches and laughs. The waitress serves the family dessert when, suddenly, a grenade lands on the table! BOOM! Looks like a job for a certain man who ought to have stock in the protective eyewear industry.
Sure enough, Caine is quickly on the scene. He carries bloodied bodies from the ruined restaurant. Calleigh, in the meantime, questions the young son whose family is either dead or wounded. Steve Emerson explains that the clan was celebrating his dad’s birthday. Unfortunately, dad is dead, as is a woman named Raquel Dominguez. Eric notices a fuse from a homemade grenade. “Boom,” Eric says. Caine grimaces.
YEEE-OWWW!!! Cue opening credits. We dont get fooled again! No! No!
Caine and Frank interview Mr. Molina, the restaurant owner. The entrepreneur explains that Raquel worked for dad, a.k.a. Warren Emerson. “She was with him so long that they were practically blood relatives,” Molina says. He also suggests the team talk to Tonya Rush, the waitress. So Caine does. “If I talk to you, I’ll never get my children back,” she says. Huh? Tonya explains that her kids were taken by child services just a week prior and that she can’t afford to “get involved in a police investigation.” She then clams up.
Caine visits child services and discovers that the kids were taken due to neglect. They were found sitting alone in Rush’s house at around midnight. The mother claimed to have hired a babysitter named Maria Lopez, but no one by that moniker could be located. “What if I could prove the mother is telling the truth about the nanny?” Caine growls. The case worker says he might reconsider.
Back at the lab, Kyle, Tara and Ryan examine Warren Emerson’s body, including a severed foot. Kyle moves said foot — and a grenade falls out of the pant leg! The grenade the hits the floor, dislodging the pin. Ryans’ eyes widen … in … slow … motion … before … BOOM! The explosion rocks the lab, sending our heroes scrambling. Once the smoke clears, Ryan makes sure Ryan and Tara are OK. They are both fine — except that Tara is on her hands and knees, furiously scooping up pills that were scattered in the explosion. Uh oh.
Later, Ryan theorizes (with the help of a FLASHBACK) that two grenades were thrown in the initial attack, but only one detonated. “The force of the blast must have lodged the grenade into Warren’s pants,” he says. Ryan then asks about the pills. “Are you hooked?” Tara, immediately angry, explains that the pills are “for the pain.” A likely story. “I’m fine,” she insists. Lt. Sunglasses, in the meantime, has brought in Steve Emerson for questioning. “He set up the reservation and asked for a table by the window,” Caine tells Calleigh. Mom, a.k.a. Deborah, is there too. Both bristle at the suggestion that Steve had something to do with setting up the attack. Deborah then recalls a flash of yellow. A car, perhaps?
No time for that now, however. Caine heads to Tonya’s house to comfort the suddenly childless mother. She explains that “Maria Lopez” was a law student, but the school suddenly has no record of her existence. “I think she’s using an alias,” Caine growls. But why? “I don’t now yet,” he growls. Cut to Ryan and Eric, who are actually working on the case. They photograph yellow paint chips on a wall near the crime scene. “A getaway car,” Ryan suggests. He theorizes that the yellow car spotted by Deborah got “hemmed in” before bashing into the wall and the valet stand. In fact, there appears to be an impression of a license plate on the stand! Eric works his magic — using foil and a Taser — to uncover three numerals: 190.
Sometime later, Frank approaches a yellow sports car with a license-plate number ending in 190. He is about to call it in when — BANG! BANG! — shots are fired! Frank dives for cover, then chases the shooter through a suburban back yard. The young man attempts to scale a fence, but is quickly corralled by our favorite bald-headed cop. “Didn’t your mother ever teach you not to shoot cops?!” he demands. Apparently not. Soon after, Caine and Calleigh arrive on the scene. “No bomb-making materials,” Calleigh says after searching the house. The trunk of the car, however, contains rolls of metallic paper. Calleigh suggests taking them back to the lab, where Eric explains that the material looks awfully similar to strips found on credit cars. “Ken Jarvik is making counterfeit credit cards,” Calleigh observes. Thanks, Cal.
Later, Ken explains that he was just sitting in his car outside the restaurant when the dining room suddenly exploded. He might as well have told Frank and Eric that unicorns exist. “I didn’t kill anyone!” Ken yells. Frank slams the lad’s head down on the table before Eric intercedes. Ken, blubbering, admits to making fake credit cards. He says the operation is based out of a nearby abandoned factory. Isn’t that always the case? Caine and Eric hustle over to the factory to discover none other than Steve Emerson loading boxes of faux plastic. Lil’ Stevie quickly breaks down, explaining that restaurant-owner Molina sold real credit numbers to Steve and Ken for a cut of the profits. “So you pirated the wrong credit card and someone took issue,” Caine growls. “Steve, you were the target of the restaurant explosion.” Steve is crushed. He got dear ol’ dad killed.
But not so crushed that he can’t provide another valuable clue. Turns out that an anonymous someone sent Steve an email a few weeks ago. The missive contained a picture of Steve, Ken and Molina — clearly a warning. Caine kindly requests a copy of said picture. Back at headquarters, Tonya arrives with a pair of cancelled checks she used to pay her mysterious babysitter. Both checks with cashed at the same place: a convenience store. Caine heads to the store, applies a little pressure and gets a name: Yvette Cervantes. “Thank you for your help,” he growls at the frightened clerk.
Calleigh and Dave, meanwhile, examines Steve’s photo. Dave explains that he can figure out what kind of camera produced the picture by examining the individual pixels. Or something like that. “It’s like the DNA from the camera is being passed on to every single photo it takes,” he explains. Whatever dude. The result: “This was the camera that was used to take pictures of us,” Calleigh gasps. In other words, the photog is Cameron West, who loyal viewers might remember as having less-than-savory ties to the Russian mob.
West is soon in custody. Ryan explains that Steve and the gang unwittingly stole a credit card number from a Russian mobster. Eric notes that the triggering device in the first grenade was made from parts of a camera. “That’s pretty creative for a photography nut,” Eric quips. We would have to agree. West just smiles. He knows the CSIs don’t have enough evidence to hold him. Eric warns West that the Russians will not take kindly to the photo/ bomber missing his intended targets. “You’re making a mistake,” Eric says. Something tell us that we havent seen the last of Mr. West … or the Russians. So case closed, but not really.
Caine, in the meantime, has tracked down Yvette. The young woman starts to cry. She explains that she used to work at the bombed restaurant, but never reported her tips. But just two weeks ago, Molina called and threatened to report the former waitress to the IRS if she didn’t watch Tonyas kids. Yvette stayed until child services arrived before sneaking out. “Jason is a bad man,” Yvette says. “I’m afraid if I go back on this, he’ll find me.” Caine tells the woman not to worry. “Molina is in custody,” he growls.
Cut to Molina’s cell. In a FLASHBACK, we see Tonya refusing to help Molina in his credit card scam. “When she refused me like that, it put me in a compromising position,” Molina says. “If she loses her kids, she’s not about to jeopardize losing her job, too.” So Molina arranged for the kids to have a babysitter who would call child services and then leave, resulting in the kids being taken from their mother. In retrospect, the plans seems needlessly complicated (but we digress). Growls Caine: “I’ve got a news flash for you: the insurance money from the restaurant is going to her.” Molina is FURIOUS. Tonya, on the other hand, is overjoyed to be reunited with her kids. Caine pushes young Maggie on a swing in the park. He is a true hero — sunglasses or no sunglasses.
Great mystery, good police show… of course we´re talking about CSI… this time CSI: Miami airing last night an all new episode called Dead on Arrival . And here are all the spoilers for it.
Sailboats. The beach. Beautiful women. Welcome to Miami. Cut to a clip from the TV show “The Marrying Kind,” in which 10 women compete for the heart of bachelor Neil Palmer. Two women Grace (a virgin) and Kaitlin (not a virgin) are the final two contestants. In the end, Neil chooses Grace. But there’s bad news. Her body rests in the back of a limo, bloody and battered.
The team arrives on the scene and meet cheesy host Myles Martini (seriously?). Myles explains that the crew was just shooting the season finale when the body was discovered. Why did this happen? “It happened because reality just become real,” Caine growls.
YEEE-OWWW! Cue opening credits! We don’t get fooled again! No! No!
Back from an interminable commercial break, Natalia and Eric search the limo. “You watch this show?” an incredulous Eric asks. “I guess I’m more of an ESPN watcher.” He then discovers that the cap to a crystal goblet is missing. Hmm. Back at headquarters, Calleigh interrogates the chauffer, Cody, who claims to have seen nothing. “You put Ms. Carlson in the back of your limousine and she was alive,” Calleigh quips. “And then you dropped her off and she was dead.” Cody admits to leaving the car unattended for 30 minutes or so. Turns out the production team called and said to delay delivering the girls because Neil wasn’t ready. “He disappeared or something,” Cody says. Calleigh seems intrigued.
Caine interviews Neil. “You disappeared and you have no alibi,” Caine growls. Neil explains that he got cold feet. “I just needed some space,” the reality star claims, talking about the pressures of filming for three-straight months. Caine isn’t convinced. Neil says he was initially skeptical about appearing on “The Marrying Kind,” but quickly learned that it has merit. “I fell in love with Grace for free,” he finishes.
Cut to the lab, where Tara examines bodies and surreptitiously pops a few pills. Kyle notices. Later, the boy confronts his boss, who explains that the pills are nothing but Aspirin. “I don’t need to explain myself to you,” Tara snaps. Ryan and Natalia, in the meantime, watch rough footage of the victim being filmed in the limo. She finishes her testimonial when the screen suddenly goes fuzzy. Same goes for the video feed in Kaitlin’s car, although this time the woman herself turns off the camera. “So both cameras go out before the murder,” Ryan says. “That can’t be a coincidence.” Ya think?
Caine and Natalia visit a nearby hotel where the losing contestants are kept until the finale airs. They meet Marisa Dixon, who isn’t at all upset to be on a free vacation. She points out Kaitlin Sawyer. “She won’t talk to anybody,” Marisa says. Except for a certain man in sunglasses, of course. Kaitlin claims not to have seen anything. “The reason that I hid from the camera is that I didn’t want anyone to see that I was crying,” she says. Kaitlin claims to have real feelings for Neil. Caine then notices a faded, but nonetheless nasty scar on the woman’s neck. She clearly has a “past.”
Calleigh and Eric check out the spot where the limos were briefly parked. They flirt (quite awkwardly) and then get down to CSI business. Calleigh discovers a wireless signal jamming device that has apparently been crushed under the limo’s wheels. Back the lab, Ryan discovers a print: Myles Martini. Seconds later, Myles is sitting in the hot seat. He quickly (and rather proudly) explains that he carries the signal jammer because there are some moments that don’t need to be recorded. For example, the many moments when Myles has sex with the contestants inside the limo. Calleigh is disgusted. “So I have a healthy sex drive,” Myles quips. “You going to throw me in jail for that?” Unfortunately, no.
Valera, in the meantime, has discovered that the victim had sex before she died. DNA points to none other than Neil Palmer. Valera doesn’t recognize Neil, however. She prefers old books to television. Says Ryan: “Old books are printed with lead-based ink, which makes them toxic. And they say television is hazardous to your health.” So there you have it, kids: Don’t read.
Before you can say “illiterate,” Neil is in the hot seat. “Evidence tells us you took a little romp in the hay with Ms. Carlson before she was murdered,” Frank says. Neil admits to having sex with the woman, but not hurting her. “Would you take a look at the people she DID fight with?” he says. Turns out another contestant went through Grace’s clothes and then shredded them. He reveals two names: Marisa Dixon and Erica Zabel.
So Calleigh and Eric confront Marisa and Erica. The latter contestant admits to shredding the clothes. “I was mad at her,” she cries. However, the woman denies ever physically assaulting Grace. Back at the lab, Natalia and Ryan watch footage from the show. They spot someone looking through the window at night. The man appears to be watching the women sleep. One facial-recognition test later, a name is revealed: convicted felon Russell Keener. “Creepy,” Natalia says. Indeed. The man looks like a creep.
Seconds later, Keener is in the hot seat. The man claims to have just wandered by one night. “Just took a little gander,” he says. Keener then goes on to taunt the CSIs for having any proof. Next in the hot seat: Marisa. Turns out she DID have a physical altercation with the victim — and it was all caught on tape.”Guess I did one hell of a job,” Marisa sneers. The woman claims the fight was staged. In a FLASHBACK, we see Myles directing the fight and telling the women to “stick to the script.” Marisa then says that most of the women on the show are actresses, but not Kaitlin. “Let’s just say she was always the bridesmaid,” Marisa quips.
Cut to Caine and Eric raiding Kaitlin’s hotel room. The woman is gone. Just then, Caine notices something on the carpet: a piece of bloody crystal. It’s the top to a goblet from the limo. “We found the murder weapon,” Eric says. Travers runs tests on the crystal and finds evidence of snake venom. A light goes on in Natalia’s brain — but no one elses. She calls Calleigh and urges her to bring Marisa back in for questioning.
“I made Neil an offer he couldn’t refuse,” Marisa explains to Natalia and Calleigh. In a FLASHBACK, we see Marisa telling Neil that she’ll only take $250,000 of the $1 million prize. “750k for you,” she says. “We’ll get divorced. No strings. What do you say?” Neil agreed. OK, fine. So the pair conspired to “fix” a reality show. But that doesn’t mean that Marisa killed Grace, right? Wrong. Natalia explains that she remembers an episode in which Marisa received a special treatment at a spa. That treatment involved snake-venom cream. Once again, kids, it pays to watch endless hours of television.
So why kill the poor woman? Marisa explains that Neil “went and fell in love” with Grace. The bachelor betrayed Marisa and their clandestine deal by kicking Marisa off the show. “I saw Neil look at Grace and I just knew,” she says. “He took something from me, so I wanted to take something from him.” Marisa stole the signal jammer, turned off the cameras and then killed Grace with the crystal. Case closed.
But not the episode. Why did Kaitlin run? Frank might have the answer. Turns out Kaitlin was attacked with a knife and nearly killed 15 years ago. The attacker? None other than Russell Keener. The man recently got out of prison and went looking for the now grown-up woman who put him away for 15 years. Ryan approaches Myles, asking for help. The host explains that each losing contestant is given a cell phone as a consolation prize. The gift has a hidden purpose, however. Each phone is equipped with a tracking device, so that the girls can’t “fly home” before the show is finished taping. Using the maybe-legal tracking device, Ryan locates Kaitlin.
Caine and Ryan follow the signal and find Keener standing by the side of a marina. “The little girl, she’s taking a nap,” the creepy stalker sneers. “This time she’s not waking up.” Keener explains that he was released from prison and saw Kaitlin on the TV. He recognized the very scar that he gave her (lesson: it’s OK to watch a lot of TV shows, just don’t appear on them). Caine searches for the scarred woman and finds her stuffed in a cooler filled with ice. Our favorite red-haired CSI comforts the shaking woman.
Reality, it would appear, just became real.