Wednesday 13 February 2013

CSI - 'Dead Air'

I feel like it doesn't actually rain in Las Vegas as much as it does on CSI... It always rains when someone's about to die!
It's at a news studio in the middle of a storm, and the on-air host is a bitch.. But her assistant is Jacob Zachar!!! He played Rusty on Greek!! And is incredibly adorable!! 
I already know he's not the murderer. He's too cute.
So then the lights go out and when they came back on, Teresa (the anchor) is sitting there gasping, then slumps forward, dead. On the air! Can you imagine seeing that on TV at home?? Scary stuff.
Apparently she was knifed in the back of the neck, one stab. The ehtire crew hates her, and OMG Greg's interviewing Rusty/Chad two of the cutest people from TV in one shot!! Yes please!! Apparently the killer snuck over to the desk, stabbed her and then disappeared, all within 20 seconds. I don't think they're looking for a crew member - they're looking for a ninja.
Morgan interviews a creepy techie guy, and Finn is interviewing the weathergirl, whose screen name is Rainy Days (insert eyeroll here).
HOLY CRAP.

It's a freaking Greek cast reunion this week!!!
That's Spencer Grammer playing Ella the field reporter!! She was Casey, Rusty's sister on Greek!!! Man, I miss that show...
Doc Robbins finds green residue in the neck wound, and Russell finds out that someone blew up a transformer a few blocks from the station - the cause of the power outage.
Nick found a coffee cup outside the studio, that had pee in it. Probably Chad the assistant hahaha nice move, buddy! The green stuff in the wound is a putty used to sharpen knives and blades. Makes sense why that would be in a stab wound.
Apparently the report footage of Ella being out in the storm wasn't live, it was pre-recorded (which was apparent to Rainy the weathergirl because you could see the moon behind her, and the clouds should have completely covered the sky at that point). So Morgan goes back and talks to the creepy techie guy and they figure out that the van was not where they said it was at the time.
Finn interviews Ella and apparently she'd been co-anchor a few weeks before, but she got demoted back the the field, probably because of Teresa. And I don't get this - Nick is interviewing the camera guy in the other room, behind the one-way mirror, and they can see Finn and Ella in the other room!! That's not how the interviewing room works!! So weird. Turns out that Ella and cameradude were sleeping together, which is why they 'played hooky' from the weather peice.
Ella has a theory as to why Teresa was killed (aside from her obvious bitchiness) because she thinks she was working on a big important story and wouldn't tell anyone what it was.
So Sara and Russell go look for evidence of this story at Teresa's home (which is HUGE, I might add...). Russell points out that "Apparently it pays more to report crime than it does to solve it" to which Sara replies "Well, you can say that about any job - well, except for crime. I hear it doesn't pay." I know that that line was incredibly cheesy, but Sara rarely gets jokes, so I found it HILARIOUS for her to say that hahahah... Then with a sad smile, she admits that her house often looks like that of a single woman (noooo she and Grissom can't break up!! Not before he makes another cameo, anyway!!) and walks into Teresa's dining room, which is FULL of stacks and boxes and taped-up bits of paper. Police reports, newspaper articles, all about a series of arsons in warehouses 17 years ago. And a notebook with cryptic writing in it.
WHA- Grissom called Sara and she didn't answer!! So Finn asks "Can't talk to him since what happened with the NTSB guy?" Sara says nothing happened with the NTSB guy,
Josh Randall Picture
You mean... This NTSB guy?

and she doesn't want to answer because she'll be sad when she hangs up. AWW!! 
I kinda want to learn to decode shorthand like that lol it looks fun! And being the nerd I am, I love puzzles..
Apparently the same person who blew up the transformer, also set the fires. And the person who she interviewed that was an expert in demolotions was the guy who died in the fire Finn was investigating earlier. Coincidence? No! But he was dead before the fire happened - knife wound with green goop and all.
Now Russell is asking Sara if she's 'OK'.. Uh-oh, I sense an upcoming unfortunate plot story. When they're watching the reruns of the news, Rainy has a peice of the weather map showing up on her neck, because there's a green stain on her dress. From the knife-sharpening goop. Apparently it came from the crazy crewman's workroom. His name is Denny and he apparently was in the army with the munitions expert who was killed. Morgan corners him at the station and when he runs from her, he goes outside into a huge throng of reporters. Then he has a knife that he says is his, but he didn't kill Teresa because they loved each other.
Then the reporters are pushing in, and Denny's waving the knife around, and Morgan and Detective Vartann have their guns pointed at him, and Russell's screaming for the cameras and reporters to go the hell away, and it's very very confusing, and then Denny stabs himself.
Henry (who I thought worked in the toxicology lab, but apparently now he's head of DNA?) says that he found evidence that Denny was sleeping with Teresa, and Russel (who apparently uses basketball to help him think) bounces a few times, has an epiphany, and runs off, shoving the ball into Henry's confused hands.
Morgan, Sara, Russell, Greg and Finn go back to the studio to re-enact the murder. Yay! I love when they do this! They don't do it nearly enough (and they used to do it on Bones a lot too).
Poor Zack always had to be the murder victim.
Vartann turns off the lights and they all try to run and get the 'flag' in the back of the chair that represents her 'life'. (I totally don't get why they didn't just try this in the first place.) Neither Finn nor Greg nor Morgan could get to her fast enough - then they turn around and Russell's got it.
It was the station manager!! Which is weird, considering I thought he was saying stuff, in the little booth, when the power was out.
Turns out Teresa figured out that he had set the fires, and she was blackmailing him (which is why Ella got demoted).
Then when Russell and Sara are watching the news at the end, her phone rings and he gives her a knowing look and leaves the room. Then she answers and OMG IT'S GRISSOM MAKING A CAMEO VIA VOICE RECORDING!!! That's his second of those (plus one 'in person') since he left the show!!! So happy!! But then she sounds all sad, and when he asks if it's a good time to talk, she doesn't answer and it goes to the end credits!! NOOOO!!!!

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