CSI Files
Captain
Synopsis:
The bodies of a woman and a ten-year-old boy are found beaten to death in a Las Vegas apartment. The woman is identified as Carmen Davis but it is the unidentified boy who brings FBI Special Agent Jack Malone to Las Vegas. Based on the similarities of the attack to one that occurred in New York six years ago, Malone suspects the child may be Jason Tyler, a boy who was abducted at the age of four after his babysitter was murdered. The CSIs discover missing jewelry and gambling sites in Carmen's computer history, leading them to Tom Michaels, a card shark they suspect was staying with Carmen. He runs when they try to arrest him but Malone and the team soon learns that it was because he stole from his church, not because he raped and murdered Carmen and killed the boy. In fact, the boy was his son, Evan, and Michaels is crushed to learn he's dead. Hodges finds fertilizer on the boy's body, and Nick and Brass track Carmen's stolen jewelry to a palm shop and learn that the man who brought the jewelry in asked for directions to the Tangiers casino. While Nick and Archie study the surveillance footage, the CSIs get a call: a couple has been bludgeoned to death in Boulder, Nevada in a similar manner to the way Carmen and the boy were killed.
Archie is able to get a logo off the killer's hat: Hargrain Harvest. Nick notices the killer looking at a poster with a waitress at South Point Casino in Boulder on it, and when they see the killer called information, Nick gets the phone records and learns he was calling to get Gina Farentino's information. Malone and Nick go to the casino and learn their suspect won $2,500 and talked to Gina but was rebuffed. They're able to get his prints off tax forms he filled out at the casino. The CSIs get another call: their suspect has shot an officer who pulled him over. On the camera in the officer's car, they see the man wave to someone else in the car. Catherine phones Grissom: AFIS got a hit on the prints to a man named Terry Lee Wicker who spent two years in Sing Sing and was married to Gina when he did time. Grissom and Malone find Gina's car abandoned by a cross-country train stop and they leap on the train hoping to catch Terry. But when they find a man with the hat Terry was wearing, they learn Terry paid him a hundred bucks to wear the hat and take the train. Grissom and Malone return to the car and find Gina's body in the trunk. They learn Gina had a son, Kobe, and that a man matching Terry's description picked him up from school. Meanwhile, Terry and Kobe are on their way out of town on a bus....
Analysis:
Action-packed is the best way to describe the first part of the CSI/Without a Trace crossover. Watching a manhunt unfold always makes for exciting television and the luxury of having two hours in which to tell the story means that the writers can fully flesh out the chase. Of course, the fun of CSI is that as the manhunt goes on, the CSIs are uncovering clues: fertilizer on the bodies, the hat their killer is wearing, the number dialed information for. The fact that the killer is clearly on a spree makes for very exciting television, and it's fascinating to watch as the puzzle pieces come together and the picture becomes clear.
Jack Malone stands in stark contrast to the CSIs. Though <font color=yellow>Anthony LaPaglia</font>'s FBI agent is sometimes as cool and contained as Grissom, he has a simmering anger that can boil to the surface at any moment. As often as we see the CSIs chase, wrestle and even trip suspects, I can't recall a time we've seen one punch a suspect the way Malone does with Tom Michaels when the man tries to run. And though we've seen Brass and the CSIs get aggressive or even angry in an interrogation now and then, manhandling a suspect is definitely rare. Make no mistake: the FBI and the Las Vegas Crime Lab definitely do things differently.
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The bodies of a woman and a ten-year-old boy are found beaten to death in a Las Vegas apartment. The woman is identified as Carmen Davis but it is the unidentified boy who brings FBI Special Agent Jack Malone to Las Vegas. Based on the similarities of the attack to one that occurred in New York six years ago, Malone suspects the child may be Jason Tyler, a boy who was abducted at the age of four after his babysitter was murdered. The CSIs discover missing jewelry and gambling sites in Carmen's computer history, leading them to Tom Michaels, a card shark they suspect was staying with Carmen. He runs when they try to arrest him but Malone and the team soon learns that it was because he stole from his church, not because he raped and murdered Carmen and killed the boy. In fact, the boy was his son, Evan, and Michaels is crushed to learn he's dead. Hodges finds fertilizer on the boy's body, and Nick and Brass track Carmen's stolen jewelry to a palm shop and learn that the man who brought the jewelry in asked for directions to the Tangiers casino. While Nick and Archie study the surveillance footage, the CSIs get a call: a couple has been bludgeoned to death in Boulder, Nevada in a similar manner to the way Carmen and the boy were killed.
Archie is able to get a logo off the killer's hat: Hargrain Harvest. Nick notices the killer looking at a poster with a waitress at South Point Casino in Boulder on it, and when they see the killer called information, Nick gets the phone records and learns he was calling to get Gina Farentino's information. Malone and Nick go to the casino and learn their suspect won $2,500 and talked to Gina but was rebuffed. They're able to get his prints off tax forms he filled out at the casino. The CSIs get another call: their suspect has shot an officer who pulled him over. On the camera in the officer's car, they see the man wave to someone else in the car. Catherine phones Grissom: AFIS got a hit on the prints to a man named Terry Lee Wicker who spent two years in Sing Sing and was married to Gina when he did time. Grissom and Malone find Gina's car abandoned by a cross-country train stop and they leap on the train hoping to catch Terry. But when they find a man with the hat Terry was wearing, they learn Terry paid him a hundred bucks to wear the hat and take the train. Grissom and Malone return to the car and find Gina's body in the trunk. They learn Gina had a son, Kobe, and that a man matching Terry's description picked him up from school. Meanwhile, Terry and Kobe are on their way out of town on a bus....
Analysis:
Action-packed is the best way to describe the first part of the CSI/Without a Trace crossover. Watching a manhunt unfold always makes for exciting television and the luxury of having two hours in which to tell the story means that the writers can fully flesh out the chase. Of course, the fun of CSI is that as the manhunt goes on, the CSIs are uncovering clues: fertilizer on the bodies, the hat their killer is wearing, the number dialed information for. The fact that the killer is clearly on a spree makes for very exciting television, and it's fascinating to watch as the puzzle pieces come together and the picture becomes clear.
Jack Malone stands in stark contrast to the CSIs. Though <font color=yellow>Anthony LaPaglia</font>'s FBI agent is sometimes as cool and contained as Grissom, he has a simmering anger that can boil to the surface at any moment. As often as we see the CSIs chase, wrestle and even trip suspects, I can't recall a time we've seen one punch a suspect the way Malone does with Tom Michaels when the man tries to run. And though we've seen Brass and the CSIs get aggressive or even angry in an interrogation now and then, manhandling a suspect is definitely rare. Make no mistake: the FBI and the Las Vegas Crime Lab definitely do things differently.
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