Re: Gil <3 Cath #22: PureJoy - What Would He Do W/O H
So Bite me, you damn mosquito!
* --the walk-through--
BRASS: That's Ray Lester, the vic's husband.
CATH: Was he injured?
BRASS: No, uh, that's his wife's blood. He said he checked to see if she was still alive and he held her until the paramedics came.
CATH: Wouldn't you?
BRASS: You never met my ex.
CATH: Tequila will always remind me of Señor Frog's.
BRASS: Which one?
CATH: Cancun. My honeymoon. My dime.
BRASS: Well, if you ever want to go back, it's on me.
CATH: Is that a proposal?
I was SO waiting for some kind of sarcastic line from Gil to show he was a bit jealous - maybe something about keeping the flirting to a minimum? He looked like he was steaming internally.
* --Cheers to David!!--
DAVID: It's like the Red Sea in here.
GRISSOM: The Red Sea's not red, David.
DAVID: No, it's blue from afar and transparent when held in hand, like any other body of water. I was just speaking figuratively.
CATH: I'm assuming those boot prints aren't yours.
DAVID: Please, I was just waiting for you guys to clear a path. Blame the paramedics.
I think this is the first time that someone other than Cath, Brass, or the main team members actually talked back to Gil and not kept quiet. I LOVE it! Gil's expression seemed that he was impressed. ( I know I was)
* --the punchline--
CATH: What are you thinking?
GRISSOM: Led Zeppelin, "Stairway to Heaven."
*groan* Oh man! That was as lame as they come!! You could see that from 10 miles away.
* --the assignments--
GRISSOM: Becky Lester. Catherine and I got here a half an hour after her husband called 911.
CATH: Edges of the blood pools were already dry. The pools themselves were tacky.
NICK: Which means she'd been down here at least an hour or two before you guys even got here.
SARA: Why did the husband wait so long to call?
CATH: Good question.
GRISSOM: Coroner won't touch the body till Catherine and I are done processing around it, so, Sara, would you please go up the front stairs and work your way down the back stairs?
SARA: You got it.
GRISSOM: Warrick, could you process the blood evidence from the front door to the back stairwell? And if you'll notice, she doesn't have any blood on her feet.
WARRICK: So I can assume those bloody footprints aren't hers.
GRISSOM: Nick, Brass is in the study with the husband and he's waiting for you.
yeah Nicky, she's waiting for you with a huge set of pearly whites!! Beware of the vampire! Hey! Cath's discussing blood! Oh yeah *slaps forehead* she's the blood spatter expert. I'm impressed that TMTB actually remembered.
* --how did she fall?--
SARA: Guys, if she fell, even if she was pushed down these stairs, I would expect to find smudge marks on these walls.
CATH: Yeah, she would've instinctively reached out for leverage.
SARA: There are none. Not to mention, that if she was up here before she was down there ... she should've landed head first.
SARA: The body position is inconsistent with the fall.
CATH: Well, it's inconsistent if she fell down the stairs. Maybe she fell up.
SARA: Catherine, can I borrow your micrometer?.....Blood spatter measures two millimeters.
GRISSOM: Medium spatter. Suggests impact with a blunt object.
SARA: But if she was hit, where's the castoff?
GRISSOM: It is a low ceiling. Pretty hard to swing a weapon.
CATH: Sometimes first blush gives you a head rush.
Is this the first time we've heard "first blush" since episode 2 when Cath arrives at Holly's crime scene? It gives me shivers. The visual of Sara on the stairs with her arms up toward each wall is imbedded in my brain. I always want to say "nail her to the cross".
* --suffocation?--
SARA: Maybe one of them snored or had insomnia or liked to work at night.
GRISSOM: Or maybe they were suffocating each other and he couldn't breathe.
Yeah Gil, that would sum up your situation with Sara quite well.
* --too much information?--
GRISSOM: Well, you've given me a lot of information, doc, and none of it very helpful.
Oh but it turns out useful throughout the investigation now, doesn't it! C'mon Gil! Stop jumping to conclusions!
* --She gets the best one-liner again!--
CATH: You want fries with that?
* --the trio banters--
BRASS: Hey, ready for a quiz? Guess how Ray's first wife died?
GRISSOM: Wait. She had a stroke on a stairway. Robbins told me. Is that the autopsy report?
BRASS: No, these are medical records. There was no autopsy. Jackie Lester had a heart condition. Three weeks before she died, she was admitted to a hospital with vertigo. She ignored the doctor's warnings, didn't take her medication. Family physician pronounced it a stroke.
CATH: Well, if she wasn't cremated, it's not too late for a postmortem examination.
BRASS: Judge Witherspoon is issuing a court order for exhumation. Now, look, I just came from the DA. I gotta tell you, he's already made up his mind. Husband and wife, home alone, all that blood, shaky alibi. Plus, he ays, "He
just looks guilty."
GRISSOM: How does one "look" guilty?
BRASS: You know, I'm just a messenger. What do you think the chances are he didn't do it?
CATH: Well, what do you think the chances are we're going to give you an answer before all the evidence is in?
Oh how I love it when the three of them banter back-and-forth. Brass' little smirk when he says "I'm just the messenger" is so adorable.
* --Cath vs the husband--
RAY LESTER: I didn't tell Becky everything I did every minute of the day, but that doesn't mean that I was unfaithful.
CATH: When, exactly, was the last time that you had sexual intercourse with your late wife?
RAY LESTER: Four years ago. (He holds up his hand.) Rosy Palm and Thumbelina are the only action that I get.
CATH: Uh, wow, you know, uh, a joke like that doesn't quite seem appropriate for a distraught husband.
RAY LESTER: I'm just answering the questions.
CATH: Mr. Lester, did you know that your wife was having an affair? The day that she died, she had had intercourse.
RAY LESTER: Are we done here?
CATH: For now.
Did anyone else get a PMJ flashback here with Cath telling the husband about his wife having an affair? I had a sense of deja vu with that scene.
* --he prefers dead people?--
ROBBINS: If you two don't mind ... we'd like some alone time.
Cute one-liner from Doc. He wants to be alone with the exhumed body - ewwwwwww!
* --lovers & co-workers--
SARA: If there was a murder weapon, it was not in that house. We searched everywhere.
CATH: What's in the bag?
SARA: Sex lube, found at the crime scene. Autopsy revealed that Becky was sexually active. Ray claims that they've both been celibate for the past four years.
CATH: And you wanted to see if her lover's prints were on that bottle.
SARA: Two viable prints, both in a light coat of lube. One was Becky's and the other is an Adam Gilford. Work card is in the system. He's an executive at Western Airlines.
CATH: Lovers and co-workers. That never works.
SARA: If Ray did find out about the affair, that's motive.
So was I imagining things, or was there an uncomfortable beat after Cath's "lovers & co-workers" line? Someone knows about something that's supposed to be secret?
* --Sarcastic Cath--
ADAM GILFORD: Of course I knew Becky Lester. I'm her boss. I'm the one who hired her. Hard to believe that was six years ago. And it's such a tragedy. She was loved.
CATH: By some more than others
ADAM GILFORD: Excuse me?
I love how she dishes it out to the unsuspecting.
* --Gil, Cath, Ecklie--
CONRAD: The DA figures he'll make a headline while you find corroborating evidence. You think he's guilty, right?
GRISSOM: I don't think that yet.
CATH: Oh, um, am I interrupting?
GRISSOM: No.
CATH: Brass just called with a heads up. Since when does the DA's office tell us when we're ready?
CONRAD: When the case is high profile and the DA is feeling heat from the sheriff. Look, you'll just walk him through the evidence. You won't bias your reports or skip anything ambiguous. It is what it is. If the DA wants to
shoot his wad too early, we can't stop him.
GRISSOM: Okay.
CATH: Sara and I may have uncovered motive. In the last two weeks, Ray filled out five loan applications--200 g's a pop. All denied. With his wife dead, he is the beneficiary of a $250,000 policy.
GRISSOM: Huh. I wonder what he needed the money for.
You know, I actually found Ecklie pretty cute in this scene. He wasn't being a prick. He knew the DA was going too fast, but there wasn't anything he could do about it. I did find his little look toward Cath, just before he left, to be quite interesting. Not sure if it was an actual sneer, but kind of looked like one.
* --finding the case breaker?--
CATH: P.O. Box was through a private company, paid for in cash with a pseudonym: Abe Lincoln. Ninhydrin picked up six distinct prints. Five were matched to Ray.
SARA: What about the sixth?
CATH: Becky Lester.
SARA: Hold on. Ray told Brass that Becky never saw that note, which means he was lying. If she read the note, then it's possible that Ray freaked out, bludgeoned her to death.
CATH: What if Ray's telling the truth?
SARA: Well, Catherine, if he was, her fingerprints would not be on this note.
CATH: Unless she touched the letter before it was sent, which would make her the sender.
SARA: Well, that doesn't make any sense.
CATH: Becky thought that Ray was squirreling away money. Maybe this is her way of getting her hands on it.
SARA: She used his fetish against him?
CATH: She blackmailed her own husband, knowing that he would pay up, so she wouldn't find out his secret.
SARA: That's ingenious. And really sad.
SARA: If it's true.
CATH: Well, if Becky's saliva's on that envelope, it's indisputable.
Actually, what's ingenious is that Cath actually came up with that scenario!
* --putting it all together--
CATH: Sorry, I got held up.
GRISSOM: No, you're just in time. Ms. Willows, would you bring Mr. Sinclair up to speed?
CATH: I'd be happy to. Ray and Becky Lester were unhappily married. She was having an affair with her boss; he was indulging his biting fetish. They were having financial problems. But Becky believed that Ray was hiding money. Two weeks ago, Ray received a blackmail note demanding 200 grand or the wife finds out about bite girl. Well, we have just confirmed that the blackmailer and the wife are one and the same.
(Ecklie & Gil's jaws dropping is priceless!)
GRISSOM: Based on what?
CATH: The envelope of the ransom note. DNA was a match.
ADA JEFFREY SINCLAIR: The wife was blackmailing the husband?
CATHERINE: Never underestimate the deviousness of a malcontented spouse.
( you tell 'em girl!)
ADA JEFFREY SINCLAIR: Well, he found out and he killed her.
GRISSOM: We don't have any evidence to support that.
ADA JEFFREY SINCLAIR: Run the timeline.
GRISSOM: Couple got home around 10:00 P.M. They went outside and had some tequila. At 10:08, Ray's daughter from his first marriage phoned. Becky went inside to take the call.
ADA JEFFREY SINCLAIR: How long did they talk?
GRISSOM: It's not in Brass's notes.
CATH: Well, I have the phone records here, so ... uh, the call lasted ... two minutes?
CONRAD ECKLIE: I thought the husband told Nick it was a marathon call.
CATH: Yeah, I'm just seeing this for the first time here. Um ... the incoming call did not come from the grandfather's house......I'm gonna call this number.
RAY LESTER: (answering machine) You've reached the home office of Ray Lester. Please leave your details after the beep.
CATH: Susan called her stepmother from inside the house.
CONRAD ECKLIE: Did anybody process that office phone?
GRISSOM: The office was away from the crime scene. We, uh, checked it for a murder weapon, but that's about it. I'll get an investigator over there. Unless you're in too much of a hurry.
I think the whole point of them not checking the phone records yet when they already had them, is the fact that the DA was trying to rush everything before they were ready. because how many times do you see the CSIs get the information (in this case the phone records) and not even look them over?
* --finding the evidence--
Cath finds the bloody shirt in the girl's backpack. I'm guessing this scene was to show Cath, being a mother, knows the actions of a teenager and lets the girl play right into her hand - first asking to take her homework with her (how many teens would actually do that?) then pointing her eyes to the closet when Cath asks "what did you hit her with".
* --viewing the interrogation--
SUSAN LESTER: Well, he thought I needed a mom and that's why he stayed with her.
CATH: Blaming herself for the marriage.
GRISSOM: She doesn't seem to blame herself for ending it.
- - -
BRASS: Where was your father when you killed your stepmother?
SUSAN LESTER: He was outside. Asleep.
GRISSOM: Did you catch that?
CATH: Timeline is off.
GRISSOM: Curious. You want to talk to the dad and I'll call the DA?
CATH: Sure.
I also liked Brass' little finger thump on the table when he also noticed that the timeline was off - giving a little "heads up" to Gil & Cath too. Did anyone else get deja vu here with Cath & Gil in the viewing room. All I could think about when I saw them together there was "he hit you" from WW
* --walking in slo-mo--
Did anyone else think that the final walk down the hall in slow motion was really creepy? I'm sure the message they were trying to convey was Cath's thinking - if that were Lindsey, would she go as far as to kill Cath's boyfriend? Would she go to those lengths to ensure that her mother was happy?
Did I make it past the 3-line post minimum here? If not, I don't know what else I can come up with.
