CSI - 'Wild Flowers'

Two girls crawl under a fence and into… A rave. Seems perfectly normal – after all, this IS Vegas (or the desert outside vegas) They start making their way through a crowd of dancing people with glosticks, and I’m thinking they’re gonna stand out wearing normal clothing in this crowd…

They begin freaking out when they see someone in a hooded jacket coming towards them, and then he raises a gun and shoots at them!! Everyone (well, some of them, I imagine the majority of the crowd is SUPER high at the moment) freaks out and starts to run, and something explodes and races around overhead like a firework.

Then we hear GRISSOM!!! But just on the phone, Sara is leaving him a message saying ‘happy anniversary, we need to catch up sometime.’ And I’m thinking ‘jeez, where is he, and how long has it been since they’ve seen one another??’ Also ‘BOY I hope he turns up at the end of this episode!!’

Then we see that one of the girls from before is lying dead on the ground and was shot in the back. Apparently the bullet (or another one that missed) hit a tank of Nitrous oxide that was behind the girl, there was a lighter nearby, and BOOM!

They interview a guy who was super-baked guy who says the dead girl was with John Lennon... Or Kurt Cobain, he could only see her aura. But he filmed it all on his phone. Then they speak to a girl who wasn’t high and she is a medical intern, was just there to dance.

The videos, however, show the medical intern distributing the nitrous through balloons, and trying to help the dead girl after she was shot.

Doc Robbins and Sara realise the girl was a sex slave and debate about whether she is in a better place after dying.

When Morgan goes to talk to the intern, she says she found the other girl and smuggled her away to help her, because she was extremely shaken and scared but wouldn’t talk. She takes Morgan to her, and when Morgan takes her DNA, she then goes into the hallway and starts crying because someone has cut out the poor girl’s tongue!!  Eww!

Nick and the cute vice cop whose name I can’t remember go looking through a valley near a tungsten mine, because the dead girl’s shoe had a mushroom with traces of tungsten caught in it. They follow a path of footprints to a road where they find evidence of a cattle-hauling truck which may have been carrying the girls, and it hit a small car and was forced off the road.

Morgan is talking to the girl in the hospital, and she tries to get her to write things down… But then starts to ramble, and says Hodges is her best friend... Awww 

The girl draws a picture of some kind; it looks like a bunch of wind turbines through bars to me O.o

They find a guy named Oliver Ruiz who is on 2 lists – one of people who own a cattle hauler the right colours, and one of people who own a gun the same kind as the murder weapon.

Then David says the two girls were sisters, and then they use that to search the missing children’s database – they were so little when they went missing  Poor girls were probably taken by their mother, who had family in Mexico and from there were either kidnapped or sold into the sex trade. But their father has still been keeping in touch with police trying to find his daughters. This is so sad 

Then Hodges uses Nick’s lunch to illustrate the journey a Mexican cow makes into the USA haha and they’ve located the truck!

The girls’ father arrives at the hospital and meets Russel and Morgan – how do you tell someone their daughter’s tongue has been cut out??!! That’s just awful... They didn’t even actually say! He starts crying, probably imagining the worst, but she’s asleep so they go to talk to him some more.

The Ruiz guy was caught and brought in, his gun was gone but there was ammo in his truck which matched the gun. And surprise surprise, another girl was found in his truck too. She defends him and says he was her cousin, he tried to smuggle her into the US and she didn’t know about other girls being in the truck. According to Ruiz, the guy who ran him off the road was in a hoodie and yelling ‘where are the girls?’ and then wrenched the gun out of his hand when Ruiz tried to defend himself.

Hodges says there is trace on the Ruiz’s clothing (transfer from the hoodie-guy) that is found only in H-vac cooling systems – the kind the girls’ father works with! Oh my god, I have to admist, I considered the possibility that he was involved, but was hoping it wasn’t him!!

Russell calls Morgan at the hospital to tell her, and when she runs to the room, she sees the intern from before, who says the girl was discharged and her father is taking her ‘home’. Then Russell interrupts a fight between Morgan and the Vice cop (blaming one another for allowing the girl to get taken away by the father).

The driver’s truck had stopped in Bull Head City – and when Sara and Morgan look at the satellite images they see A FARM WITH WIND TURBINES!!! I KNEW IT!!! Then we see the dad screaming at the girl, the poor thing is totally petrified, and then the father picks up a lighter when he leaves the house he’s surrounded by cops!! Brass says ‘one move, and I’ll turn you into pink mist!’ Morgan says she smells gas, and the bastard tosses the lighter into the house behind him – Morgan runs in and pulls the girl out (they find the key to unlock her because he was hiding it on himself) and they pull her out!!

And then there is a touching scene where Morgan and the girl are sitting on the hood of a cop car and Morgan asks her yes-or-no questions to figure out the whole story, and then the girl reaches over and takes her hand :’) So, so sad that tragic things like that happen…