CSI: Episode 10x09: Appendicitement
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whogeekI cannot stop giggling. Because this was just.... Hilarious. I'll have a great lot to say about this later on, but for now, I'm just going to roll about on my bed giggling insanely.
Edit: Ok, now that I've managed to calm down:
Episode Review!!
First off, when Cath is on the phone with Langston, he says something about having colleted the last finger on his 420, which made me snicker. Then Henry thanks her for giving him the night off, and she tells him to get out before she changes her mind. Henry get's kidnapped by three guys wearing masks, bundled, into a car, and they drive out into the Nevada desert. The masked men threaten Henry with a knife, before pulling the bag off his head, still with the knife. Henry looks really scared, thinking these three guys are gonna kill him. Then the masked man beside him(Hodges) says "Happy Birthday Henry" and all three mask come off, revealing Nick, Greg, and Hodges. Greg proclaims that they are taking him for the "Best Birthday Ever" at Harry's Hog Hideout, which serves, according to Nick, "The best BBQ know to mankind." So they continue driving (Nick and Greg arguing for a moment about who knows how to get there, which feeds my Nick/Greg muses that they've been there before together). Several (inferred) hours later, Everyone is bored, and Henry gives a pretty good impression of Nick because they haven't gotten there yet. He then notices that the moon is rising(almost sunset at the time) and it's a full moon, so all the crazies will be out. Hodges says that there is no statistical proof of that, at which point they get run off the road, flip the car(which greatly saddens me, because it's a very nice, older car, which I have a bit of an obsession with), end up rolling it, screaming madly the whole time. They get out, Greg and Hodges having to climb out through their windows, and Nick seems rather inordinately pleased at managing to roll the car. He, Hodges and Greg laugh in relief that they aren't worse off, while Henry is irritated that they've wrecked the car, and now are laughing about it. The don't have cell service, and Greg announces that they're only about a mile from Harry's(he thinks), and they can walk. Hodges passes out some flashlights from the trunk, and Nick grabs a revolver, checking to make sure that it's loaded before they head out. It's full dark by the time they make it to Harry's, and they find it closed due to a Hep B outbreak..... five months ago. They start looking around to see if there's a working phone around back, and find a.... well, a body with a raccoon fused to the face. Oh, and the body is holding a gun. "Best, birthday, ever..." And that's all in just the SETUP of the episode, before the opening credits.
The Boy's Case: The boy's climb in through the shattered window and head over to inspect the body.... bodies. Both bodies appear to be badly burned, at least the top half of the human, and the back of the raccoon. There don't appear to be any bulletholes in either body, but both are clearly dead. Nick goes to look for a working phone, while Greg and Hodges go outside to see if they can figure out what happened to the dead guy, leaving Henry to watch the body. Greg and Hodges figure out that the crispy duo were killed by an explosion the human set off in an attempt to kill the raccoon. Nick heads back into the kitchen-back room to find a phone, which, unfortunately, doesn't work. The handyman-turned-night watchman comes back and threatens Henry with a shotgun. Nick comes up behind him, convinces him not to shoot Henry, and that all of them are law enforcement once Greg and Hodges come in and tell the guy what happened to his friend. Watchman-dude goes on to explain about "Raccoon-zilla" and Gomez(the dead guy) being locked in an "Epic battle." They say goodbye to Gomez, and then hear a car pull up out front, run out to see a woman(Harry's wife) is drunk and has smashed into the decorations out front. Shirly(Harry's wife) tells them that Harry cleared the accounts and took of 6 months ago, and then the place had a Hep B outbreak and was forced to shut down the next month. Shirly's car is toast, and reeks of alcohol, and they suspect that she's the one who ran them off the road. Watchman dude, still don't know his name, says there's an old ham radio in the back(Sqeeee!! **is this close to getting her ham radio license**) and Nick heads back to see if they can get it running. In the back room with the watchman, Nick sees something in the walk-in, and goes to check it out. He opens the door to see "Harry" hanging in the middle, apparently dead. He points his gun at the watchman and heads in to check it out, and realizes it's a rubber prop, meant to scare new customers. Shirly, talking with Greg, Hodges, and Henry, and Greg goes to find a phone or, if he can't find one, make one. Hodges goes to the bathroom, sneaking into the basement, which has an unlocked padlock on it, where he finds a distillery. Nick get's the radio working, only to have it pop a vacuum tube when he tries to use it. Greg finds the dead phone, and spots a tool kit with several wires sticking out. He realizes he can make a phone that will hook right into the phone lines from what he has. Henry, left with Shirly, get's hit on by her, still greiving the loss of Harry to, according to a postcard from him, another woman, when she finds out that it's his birthday. The next morning(they spend all night there) Greg climbs the phone pole outside to connect his homemade buttset(yes, that is the coloquial term for it, thank my dad for me knowing it) to the phone line. He contacts Cath, and lets her know all of what's happened to them. So now they're waiting for the Highway Patrol, and a coroner to show up. Henry goes to clean his hands, and accidentally tips over a bottle of sulfuric acid, splashing some on his hand. Greg and Hodges get Henry's hand under cold water, while Nick gets a bucket of charcoal from under the big indoor grill to neutralize the acid. The second bucket of charcoal reveals a skull and, eventually, an entire skeleton. Luckily, the cops are almost there, so Nick sits down with the two suspects to wait. Back at CSI, they start laying out the skeleton, and autopsying Gomez. Gomez has a record for forgery and disappeared shortly before his trial. The skeleton is confirmed to be Harry, and his ribs are... missing. Harry had Hep B, and the incubation period of 4 weeks... Put it together. I dare you. Well, Nick and Greg did. Shirly and and watchman dude are interviewed, and blame each other for Harry's death, and, subsequent, um, eating. Henry comes into the breakroom, where Nick and Greg are discussing the case, and the fact that neither suspect had motive. The postcard Shirly showed him had the prints of Gomez's mother on it. He then had QD look at it, and determine it was a forgery, as well as the withdrawl of funds from the bank. They realize that Harry probably knew Gomez was on the run from the law, and was using it as blackmail materieal. Gomez got fed up with it, and killed Harry, cooked his ribs, wrote the postcard to Shirly, sent it to Florida, who sent it to Shirly to complicate things, and withdrew all the money from his accounts. Case closed.
The Vegas Case: A 911 operater gets a frantic call from a woman saying that someone is trying to kill her. the 911 operater tells her to calm down and try to get away from her attacker. It's too late for her though, and she is drowned in a bathtub. The 911 operator dispatches a couple of officers to the scene, who find the dead girl, and an old fat guy asleep in front of a tv wearing a sleep apnea machine(same mask my dad has, too). Brass shows up and they wake up the old guy, who aside from having apnea, also has chron's(sp?) disease, and is in pretty constant pain. He tells Brass that the girl is Lilly, and his girlfriend. Brass takes him downtown, while Cath and Langston stay to finish processing the house. Langston finds body fluids and a small bloody piece of metal in the house. The broken hypodermic needle that was pulled out of the dead girl had ketamine(sp?) which is a "party" drug, but there was none in the girl's system. The gauge of the broken tip doesn't match the gauge of the homeowner's medical needles. the piece of metal is probably from a pair of scisors or snips. The homeowner is interviewed by Brass, and continually falls asleep, as he is also a narcoleptic. At one point he falls asleep, and Brass, attempting to wake him up, touches his wrist and finds him dead. Doc Robbins finds the dead guy's intestines are badly degraded, and it's a surprise he lasted as long as he did. Catherine finds an unaccounted for footprint in the bathroom where the dead girl was found. The dead guy is found to have 2 apendixes, one healty, one, not, and a scar on his navel, consistient with laproscopic surgery. Langston announces that "Dr. Jekyl," who previously killed a man and tied his intestines around a kidney in a bow, is back. So, their dead guy had surgery several days ago, because the sutures on the extra, diseased apendix had started to dissolve. The bit of metal Langston found had their vic's blood, and was probably part of a pair laproscopic scisors. The antibiotics in the guy's system kept him alive far longer than "Dr. Jekyl" would have expected, and because serial killers can be obsessive, he may have gone back to finish off his victim. But because the vic was operated on in his own house, "Jekyl" would have been someone the vic knew personally. Langston and Cath conjecture that when "Jekyl" went back, he surprised Lilly, who managed to call 911, he tried to inject her, failed, so he drowned her, and had to leave before he could finish off his intended victim. Langston supposes that there may be something linking the victim to the disturbed doc back at the house. They head back to the house and take all of the vic's personal and professional contact information, to go into storage for when Jekyl strikes again. Cath wonders, if Jekyl took the first vic's bowtie, and left another one inside, here he left an extra appendix, so what did he take? Langston searches the room where the vic was found asleep, and notices his book, flipping to the appendices, where part of a name has bee cut out of one page. Doc Robbins disects the diseased appendix, finding anothe hypodermic needle tip inside it. In the tip of the needle is a piece of paper, with the word "Michelangelo" on it.
Side Notes: First off, I want. That. Car. I have a thing for muscle cars, and especially classic muscle cars. mmmm. Both of 'em, actually. Second, Nick seems entirely too happy to have rolled that car. Thi... Oh what the hell... forget counting. Greg's hair, when they're walking after the sun has set, looks like it's glowing. Because he's got blonde hair, and everyone else is a brunette. Admittedly, it's dirty blonde, but it's still blonde hair. The look on Greg's face when he puts the, for lack of a better term, 'coon cannon together with the dead guy, and Hodges reaction cracked. me. up. I'm surprised that Greg is so blase about this whole thing, considering that he got blown up and blown through a window too. Henry has a surprisingly good singing voice, a clear, strong tenor; which can be pretty hard to find. Nick's ears move. When he raises his eyebrows, his ears move too! **Giggles about that for a moment** When watchman-guy asks Greg and Hodges if they're cops, Greg nods, but it turns into an "eh, kinda" shrug. The look Nick gives Greg and Hodges when Hodges is all "Technically it's not a rodent" and Greg hits him is so freaking hilarious. Reminiscint of any parent's, "behave yourselves, we're in public" look. And yay for the Ham Radio mention. And Nick wondering if there are any extra vacuum tubes was pretty great. I liked the moment when Greg realized he had what he needed to make a jury-rigged buttset. That little smile that was "heck yes, I can do this." Greg telling Cath she wasn't going to believe what happened was pretty classic. A bit of a cliche, but still classic. Why is there sulfuric acid next to the sink? What purpose does H2SO4 have in a bar? Especially concentrated sufuric acid? **the chemist in me is very mad, and refusing to stop yelling about this.** And hey! Nick is being Hamlet now! Ok, I think I've lost my taste for ribs for a while. That's just... ugh **shudders** And poor Henry. All of this on his birthday. Nick, Greg, and Hodges kidnapped him, he sprained his ankle when the car rolled, found a dead body, got threatened with a shotgun, got hit on by an alcoholic, and had sulfuric acid splashed on his hand. Lovely day.
So yeah. This episode is definitely now one of my favorites now. Because it was simply hilarious. Especially everything with all the guys out in the middle of nowhere.
Edit: Ok, now that I've managed to calm down:
Episode Review!!
First off, when Cath is on the phone with Langston, he says something about having colleted the last finger on his 420, which made me snicker. Then Henry thanks her for giving him the night off, and she tells him to get out before she changes her mind. Henry get's kidnapped by three guys wearing masks, bundled, into a car, and they drive out into the Nevada desert. The masked men threaten Henry with a knife, before pulling the bag off his head, still with the knife. Henry looks really scared, thinking these three guys are gonna kill him. Then the masked man beside him(Hodges) says "Happy Birthday Henry" and all three mask come off, revealing Nick, Greg, and Hodges. Greg proclaims that they are taking him for the "Best Birthday Ever" at Harry's Hog Hideout, which serves, according to Nick, "The best BBQ know to mankind." So they continue driving (Nick and Greg arguing for a moment about who knows how to get there, which feeds my Nick/Greg muses that they've been there before together). Several (inferred) hours later, Everyone is bored, and Henry gives a pretty good impression of Nick because they haven't gotten there yet. He then notices that the moon is rising(almost sunset at the time) and it's a full moon, so all the crazies will be out. Hodges says that there is no statistical proof of that, at which point they get run off the road, flip the car(which greatly saddens me, because it's a very nice, older car, which I have a bit of an obsession with), end up rolling it, screaming madly the whole time. They get out, Greg and Hodges having to climb out through their windows, and Nick seems rather inordinately pleased at managing to roll the car. He, Hodges and Greg laugh in relief that they aren't worse off, while Henry is irritated that they've wrecked the car, and now are laughing about it. The don't have cell service, and Greg announces that they're only about a mile from Harry's(he thinks), and they can walk. Hodges passes out some flashlights from the trunk, and Nick grabs a revolver, checking to make sure that it's loaded before they head out. It's full dark by the time they make it to Harry's, and they find it closed due to a Hep B outbreak..... five months ago. They start looking around to see if there's a working phone around back, and find a.... well, a body with a raccoon fused to the face. Oh, and the body is holding a gun. "Best, birthday, ever..." And that's all in just the SETUP of the episode, before the opening credits.
The Boy's Case: The boy's climb in through the shattered window and head over to inspect the body.... bodies. Both bodies appear to be badly burned, at least the top half of the human, and the back of the raccoon. There don't appear to be any bulletholes in either body, but both are clearly dead. Nick goes to look for a working phone, while Greg and Hodges go outside to see if they can figure out what happened to the dead guy, leaving Henry to watch the body. Greg and Hodges figure out that the crispy duo were killed by an explosion the human set off in an attempt to kill the raccoon. Nick heads back into the kitchen-back room to find a phone, which, unfortunately, doesn't work. The handyman-turned-night watchman comes back and threatens Henry with a shotgun. Nick comes up behind him, convinces him not to shoot Henry, and that all of them are law enforcement once Greg and Hodges come in and tell the guy what happened to his friend. Watchman-dude goes on to explain about "Raccoon-zilla" and Gomez(the dead guy) being locked in an "Epic battle." They say goodbye to Gomez, and then hear a car pull up out front, run out to see a woman(Harry's wife) is drunk and has smashed into the decorations out front. Shirly(Harry's wife) tells them that Harry cleared the accounts and took of 6 months ago, and then the place had a Hep B outbreak and was forced to shut down the next month. Shirly's car is toast, and reeks of alcohol, and they suspect that she's the one who ran them off the road. Watchman dude, still don't know his name, says there's an old ham radio in the back(Sqeeee!! **is this close to getting her ham radio license**) and Nick heads back to see if they can get it running. In the back room with the watchman, Nick sees something in the walk-in, and goes to check it out. He opens the door to see "Harry" hanging in the middle, apparently dead. He points his gun at the watchman and heads in to check it out, and realizes it's a rubber prop, meant to scare new customers. Shirly, talking with Greg, Hodges, and Henry, and Greg goes to find a phone or, if he can't find one, make one. Hodges goes to the bathroom, sneaking into the basement, which has an unlocked padlock on it, where he finds a distillery. Nick get's the radio working, only to have it pop a vacuum tube when he tries to use it. Greg finds the dead phone, and spots a tool kit with several wires sticking out. He realizes he can make a phone that will hook right into the phone lines from what he has. Henry, left with Shirly, get's hit on by her, still greiving the loss of Harry to, according to a postcard from him, another woman, when she finds out that it's his birthday. The next morning(they spend all night there) Greg climbs the phone pole outside to connect his homemade buttset(yes, that is the coloquial term for it, thank my dad for me knowing it) to the phone line. He contacts Cath, and lets her know all of what's happened to them. So now they're waiting for the Highway Patrol, and a coroner to show up. Henry goes to clean his hands, and accidentally tips over a bottle of sulfuric acid, splashing some on his hand. Greg and Hodges get Henry's hand under cold water, while Nick gets a bucket of charcoal from under the big indoor grill to neutralize the acid. The second bucket of charcoal reveals a skull and, eventually, an entire skeleton. Luckily, the cops are almost there, so Nick sits down with the two suspects to wait. Back at CSI, they start laying out the skeleton, and autopsying Gomez. Gomez has a record for forgery and disappeared shortly before his trial. The skeleton is confirmed to be Harry, and his ribs are... missing. Harry had Hep B, and the incubation period of 4 weeks... Put it together. I dare you. Well, Nick and Greg did. Shirly and and watchman dude are interviewed, and blame each other for Harry's death, and, subsequent, um, eating. Henry comes into the breakroom, where Nick and Greg are discussing the case, and the fact that neither suspect had motive. The postcard Shirly showed him had the prints of Gomez's mother on it. He then had QD look at it, and determine it was a forgery, as well as the withdrawl of funds from the bank. They realize that Harry probably knew Gomez was on the run from the law, and was using it as blackmail materieal. Gomez got fed up with it, and killed Harry, cooked his ribs, wrote the postcard to Shirly, sent it to Florida, who sent it to Shirly to complicate things, and withdrew all the money from his accounts. Case closed.
The Vegas Case: A 911 operater gets a frantic call from a woman saying that someone is trying to kill her. the 911 operater tells her to calm down and try to get away from her attacker. It's too late for her though, and she is drowned in a bathtub. The 911 operator dispatches a couple of officers to the scene, who find the dead girl, and an old fat guy asleep in front of a tv wearing a sleep apnea machine(same mask my dad has, too). Brass shows up and they wake up the old guy, who aside from having apnea, also has chron's(sp?) disease, and is in pretty constant pain. He tells Brass that the girl is Lilly, and his girlfriend. Brass takes him downtown, while Cath and Langston stay to finish processing the house. Langston finds body fluids and a small bloody piece of metal in the house. The broken hypodermic needle that was pulled out of the dead girl had ketamine(sp?) which is a "party" drug, but there was none in the girl's system. The gauge of the broken tip doesn't match the gauge of the homeowner's medical needles. the piece of metal is probably from a pair of scisors or snips. The homeowner is interviewed by Brass, and continually falls asleep, as he is also a narcoleptic. At one point he falls asleep, and Brass, attempting to wake him up, touches his wrist and finds him dead. Doc Robbins finds the dead guy's intestines are badly degraded, and it's a surprise he lasted as long as he did. Catherine finds an unaccounted for footprint in the bathroom where the dead girl was found. The dead guy is found to have 2 apendixes, one healty, one, not, and a scar on his navel, consistient with laproscopic surgery. Langston announces that "Dr. Jekyl," who previously killed a man and tied his intestines around a kidney in a bow, is back. So, their dead guy had surgery several days ago, because the sutures on the extra, diseased apendix had started to dissolve. The bit of metal Langston found had their vic's blood, and was probably part of a pair laproscopic scisors. The antibiotics in the guy's system kept him alive far longer than "Dr. Jekyl" would have expected, and because serial killers can be obsessive, he may have gone back to finish off his victim. But because the vic was operated on in his own house, "Jekyl" would have been someone the vic knew personally. Langston and Cath conjecture that when "Jekyl" went back, he surprised Lilly, who managed to call 911, he tried to inject her, failed, so he drowned her, and had to leave before he could finish off his intended victim. Langston supposes that there may be something linking the victim to the disturbed doc back at the house. They head back to the house and take all of the vic's personal and professional contact information, to go into storage for when Jekyl strikes again. Cath wonders, if Jekyl took the first vic's bowtie, and left another one inside, here he left an extra appendix, so what did he take? Langston searches the room where the vic was found asleep, and notices his book, flipping to the appendices, where part of a name has bee cut out of one page. Doc Robbins disects the diseased appendix, finding anothe hypodermic needle tip inside it. In the tip of the needle is a piece of paper, with the word "Michelangelo" on it.
Side Notes: First off, I want. That. Car. I have a thing for muscle cars, and especially classic muscle cars. mmmm. Both of 'em, actually. Second, Nick seems entirely too happy to have rolled that car. Thi... Oh what the hell... forget counting. Greg's hair, when they're walking after the sun has set, looks like it's glowing. Because he's got blonde hair, and everyone else is a brunette. Admittedly, it's dirty blonde, but it's still blonde hair. The look on Greg's face when he puts the, for lack of a better term, 'coon cannon together with the dead guy, and Hodges reaction cracked. me. up. I'm surprised that Greg is so blase about this whole thing, considering that he got blown up and blown through a window too. Henry has a surprisingly good singing voice, a clear, strong tenor; which can be pretty hard to find. Nick's ears move. When he raises his eyebrows, his ears move too! **Giggles about that for a moment** When watchman-guy asks Greg and Hodges if they're cops, Greg nods, but it turns into an "eh, kinda" shrug. The look Nick gives Greg and Hodges when Hodges is all "Technically it's not a rodent" and Greg hits him is so freaking hilarious. Reminiscint of any parent's, "behave yourselves, we're in public" look. And yay for the Ham Radio mention. And Nick wondering if there are any extra vacuum tubes was pretty great. I liked the moment when Greg realized he had what he needed to make a jury-rigged buttset. That little smile that was "heck yes, I can do this." Greg telling Cath she wasn't going to believe what happened was pretty classic. A bit of a cliche, but still classic. Why is there sulfuric acid next to the sink? What purpose does H2SO4 have in a bar? Especially concentrated sufuric acid? **the chemist in me is very mad, and refusing to stop yelling about this.** And hey! Nick is being Hamlet now! Ok, I think I've lost my taste for ribs for a while. That's just... ugh **shudders** And poor Henry. All of this on his birthday. Nick, Greg, and Hodges kidnapped him, he sprained his ankle when the car rolled, found a dead body, got threatened with a shotgun, got hit on by an alcoholic, and had sulfuric acid splashed on his hand. Lovely day.
So yeah. This episode is definitely now one of my favorites now. Because it was simply hilarious. Especially everything with all the guys out in the middle of nowhere.
