Friday, 23 March 2012

CSI: Miami - 'At Risk'

At risk of tennis injuries? Lotsa guys playing tennis, now one the coach's being informed that the lights in the locker room are burnt out - he goes and has a shower in the conveniently dark locker room and gets locked in and attacked by a crazy evil dog. The janitor goes in to help and gets attacked too!
LMAO of course they send Ryan in to deal with the dog haha and he's freaking out - until Walter gets the tranquilizer gun out, that is haha I love those guys.
So apparently the janitor is dead, the coach is all sad cos they were friends, and he says it was his routine, so someone clearly knew it, and tried to kill him. The janitor ended up dying because he saved the coach's life :(
Walter and Delko identify the dog using its implanted microchip - it was covered in scars, too. They go to the owner's place (a Mr. Torres) and accuse him of training the dog to fight - he says the dog, Brutus, was rescued from a dog fighting ring, just like all the other dogs he owns. But he says someone broke in and stole Brutus a few days earlier.
Natalia finds a broken raquet on the floor near the door to the locker room - they figure out that it was used to wedge in the handles to keep the door shut. With the help of Tom (who is apparently an epic tennis player, he plays Samantha on weekends - a fact which makes Ryan use his squeaky jealous voice XD ), they determine that the unique string tension settings on the raquet belong to a Jack Brody, a famous tennis player who's apparently in town, conveniently at the Academy where the attack happened. But he says that he hands out his raquests to fans after big games - so it could have been anybody (that seems kinda stupid to me, I mean how rich is this guy? Aren't tennis raquets expensive?) He also admits to going into the locker room because he heard the screaming, the janitor was already dead and the dog took a big bite out of his arm before he smacked it with the raquet - then it took off, and he called 911. Which makes no sense, if the dog took off, because didn't they find it back in the locker room when they got there??
Natalia found a peice of paper - a cheque, i think - on the floor of the locker room all torn up and she identifies it as having something to do with this rich, rediculously angry woman name Mrs. Wells who tracked down the coach (in the shower) to demand her money back because her son still sucks at tennis -.- The kid doesn't even like tennis!! But she's insistent, gee no wonder he sucks. And she proclaims 'I don't touch wild animals, I wear them' which seemed like a pretty solid excuse, even if it was disgusting...
The coach says that all the money paid by the parents goes to scholarship students, so Calleigh checks the list of incoming and outgoing expenses, and finds that one of the North kids (the foster ones with the crazy killer father) goes to camp there. They also find, from 10 years ago, $100,000 paid out for 'miscellaneous expenditures', and the employee helping them said he wasn't allowed to discuss what for. Calleigh asks a germaphobe receptionist (who keeps using sanitizer) if she can see Austin North, and she is told to come back later, because he doesn't have preactise until 3.
OHMYGOD they found a paper with the boxes of files - it's the transcript of a deposition, from 2002, of a kid saying that the coach molested him. This shit just got sick. The coach denies it, but the name of the kid was redacted so nobody can say who it was - even though he may be the killer.
Awwe Calleigh sees Austin at camp and I'm very confused he looks exactly like Parker from Bones! His foster mom isn't too happy to see Calleigh - even though Calleigh (vaguely) warns her about the molestation charges. She and Ryan find hand sanitizer on the envelope in which the deposition file was found (I knew that would be important). The receptionist says she wanted them to know about the allegations, but not to humiliate the poor boy again. Calleigh covinces her to give the name. It's the same guy (names Andrew) who had showed them the expenses ledger in the first place. And there's a Black Keys song playing in the background - we play it at work, it's awesome :)
They confront Andrew and he says he made it up - his parents forced him to, so they could get a payout. And the he says what I was just wondering 'If Coach Hopper really did those things, why would I still be working for him?'
Calleigh talks to Austin and he says that he likes Coack Jack (the famous player) the best of all the coaches, cos he always waits with him for his foster mom to come get him, and he (Jack) gave Austin a cell phone, saying he could call him anytime no matter what - and when Calleigh looks at the phone, Jack is the only contact listed. Austin asks her not to tell Brenda, the foster mom, and she says 'I'm sorry but I have to, and do you know why? You should never trust an adult who asks you to keep a secret for them. You didn't do anything wrong but he shouldn't do that.' and the look on his face just about broke my heart, cos he was clearly feeling guilty over the whole thing :( OK I also just IMDb'd him, and I was right he did play Parker, as well as was in the movie Yours, Mine and Ours (which I have seen like 20 times and love lol) and he is apparently the great, great-grandson of Babe Ruth XD that's so random but also so awesome! And I was also right in that he didn't play Austin North before, it was a different kid. (Ironically, 'North' is the last name of one of the families in Yours, Mine and Ours).
Natalia and Calleigh discuss the possibility that Jack is abusing boys. Tom and Walter find a peice of blue fabric in the bite wound on the victim's neck - fabric which matches Jack's jacket, which he admitted to, but Walter and Calleigh point out that he must have been bitten first, when he let the dog loose. They also confront him about Austin and he says that he gave him the phone because he wanted to support Austin and he hung out with him all the time to keep him away from Coach Hopper. He says he had known about the coach abusing boys when he had been in school, and saw him talking to Austin he confronted him, and the coach threatened his career, and everything and said that no matter what, he would still be in charge of that school.
Then Ryan and Samantha are loading evidence into a van and one of the police dogs tries to attack Ryan (he has bad luck with animals, that one) so they look at the evidence he was holding - the janitors jacket. It has traces of pheremones on it, which are used to provoke agression in dogs. So they wonder where it came from, because its presence would have certainly ensured the janitor's death - and prior to this, they assumed he was an innocent bystander who tried to intervene and got killed. Even when Jack Brody admitted to releasing the dog, he said the death of the janitor was an accident, that 'no one else was supposed to be there'. They go back to the dog-rescue guy. Turns out he had been Jack's roommate and he had been molested by the coach, then changed his name. And he had planted the pheremones on the janitor's jacket (unbeknownst to Jack) because the janitor had known about the molestation an had just stood by and let it happen.
Calleigh and Natalia discuss how horrifically wrong this case is - the two guys are going to jail and the abuse they were trying to prevent would be able to continue. Then they go back to Andrew and ask him to tell them the truth. He says he wants to help, but he signed a nodisclosure agreement after the court case so he can't say anything. Calleigh asks him if anything else had happed following the agreement, and therefore n ot covered by it (love that girl and her loopholes) and he stammers a yes. ]
Then we see the coach being arrested and lead out of the tennis club in front of a bunch of cameras - he asks Horatio to cover his face with a jacket and Horatio goes 'You've been covered up long enough' and turns away. As he's led through the crowd and people are screaming at him, you see a guy (but we don't know his identity) pull a gun out of his waistband and shoot. Coach Hopper drops to the ground, and Horatio turns around in slow-motion looking stunned. People scream. The credits show up.
I've gotta say, I kind of saw that (shooting) coming, once I realised he was being led out in such a public place, and to such outrage. I just hope that whoever did it gets a high-five for finally taking down such a sick bastard. Maybe there's a part 2 coming up?

1 comment:

  1. Super cool that you're such a fan of this show! Believe it or not, I was the "unnamed shooter" at the end of that episode!

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