First ‘Happenstance’ Plot Details Revealed

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According to CSI Files sources, “Happenstance” will open with open with housewife, Ramona Sinclair, washing dinner dishes in her suburban tract house. Her toddler son, Henry, vies for her attention while her husband, Dr. Gary Sinclair, gets irritated because she forgot to pick-up his navy blue suit from the cleaners. He needs the suit for an early meeting the following morning. Sinclair offers to bathe their son while Ramona runs to the drycleaner to get the suit.

At the same time, Las Vegas Tribune reporter Jill Case steps out of the shower in her high-end minimalist bathroom. Her face is identical to that of Ramona Sinclair. A Bose radio in Case’s bathroom plays the song “Two of a Kind” by Bobby Darin and Johnny Mercer. The same song plays on the stereo in Ramona’s Lexus. The two different women with the same face begin singing along to the song.

The bodies of both women are found that night. Ramona is found shot to death outside the drycleaner. Jill appears to have committed suicide by jumping from her balcony.

Sophia questions Dr. Gary Sinclair. According to Sinclair, his wife was a good wife and a great mother with no enemies. Surprisingly, he didn’t know his wife had a twin. She was adopted and had tried to contact her birth mother, without any success he was aware of.

Grissom questions Jill’s therapist, Dr. Gus Hoffman. Jill had obsessive compulsive disorder and suffered clinical depression as a result. Dr. Hoffman explains the disease is deceiving because those who suffer from it are high functioning. Her condition enabled her to excel professionally, but her personal relationships floundered. She did not get along with her parents. Grissom advices Dr. Hoffman that Jill was adopted. That’s news to Dr. Hoffman.

In the autopsy room, Dr. Robbins determines that Jill did not commit suicide. Post-mortem bruises appeared on her neck – two on the front, eight on the back. Obvious strangulation.

Warrick and Brass pay a visit to Jill’s place of employment, the Las Vegas Tribune. The first break in the case comes with the discovery of a flash drive hidden inside a locked desk drawer. Scratch marks reveal that someone had tried to pry the lock open.

Please note that the above plot details have not been confirmed by CBS, Alliance Atlantis or Bruckheimer Films, and until such time you should treat this information as you would any other rumour. The above information comes from early script drafts and the details of the episodes are liable to change before the episodes are shown.

“Happenstance” is expected to air on the 9th of November, 2006.<center></center>
 
Well, it appears that this is going to be a Sophia heavy episode, which I'm not happy with. She's rapidly becoming the "Abby" of CSI (Referencing the character of Abby Lockhart on ER, because her character completely took over as the main person on "ER" thus ruining the show.)
 
It's the first mention of OCD since season four's Bad to the Bone, which makes me happy. I'm already addicted to CSI, so I could never jump the shark over things such as representations of certain aspects of life, but, still, I always look forward to them showing such things as mental illness. I like to see how the show handles these issues, because, in my eyes, they've done a pretty good job so far, so it’s a matter of what they’re going to do next. Knowing OCD as I do, it makes it all the more exciting, ignoring the minor downside of having to wait probably somewhere just under half a year, to see it.

That being said, I'm not a huge Sophia fan. She's had one redeeming moment in season six, for me, when she said something to, I think it was, Sara, or Catherine, in some hospital scene, but, otherwise, she's just evil. I mean, I'm a Geeklove shipper, and she's been making some moves on Grissom, which annoys me, especially because of the whole dinner invitation thing that he offered her after she threw a spat at him. Yeah, yeah, I'm an Aussie viewer, but I've spoilt myself silly for the end of s6, so I know what's going on. Still, though, I can't help but feel that she's the kind of person who would keep trying, even when the battle’s lost. Lovely actor, evil, evil character, who just rubs me up the wrong way, way, way, too often.
 
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