Wednesday, October 20, 2010

What a party!! It's GLASSPHEMY!! (CSI:NY S07E03)

TV Show
CSI: New York Season 7 Episode 3 titled "Damned If You Do"

Storyline
A couple is found brutally attacked in their bed, left for dead. Although the woman identifies her attacker, the case takes a turn when another witness comes forward.
Source:http://www.tv.com/csi-ny/damned-if-you-do/episode/1353258/summary.html?tag=ep_guide;summary

What we learn?
There's a unique party scene there, called Glassphemy, we'll discuss about this.

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

A Red Moon? Is it possible? (CSI S11E03)

TV Show
CSI Season 11 Episode 3 titled "Blood Moon"

Storyline
After finding the decapitated body of a young man the CSI team believes that the killign was part of a ritual. Michael Wilson, the victim had residue on his body from a recent body wax and the wax was traced back to one of the hotels on the Las Vegas strip by the team. Wilson had been staying at that hotel and the CSI team search his room to find that he was in Las Vegas for a wedding that took place that day. Langston, Catherine and Nick head to the hotel chapel to speak to the wedding party and inform them of Wilson's death. However, upon arrival they find a room full of real-life vampires.

It turns out that Wilson and Julie, his fiancée wanted to get married at the annual vampire and werewolf convention, because they were practicing vampires and because they had met at the convention the year before. Vampires and werewolves are mortal enemies. The wolf hair that was found in Wilson's mouth has been traced back to Kurt Francis, a practicing werewolf. Additionally, DNA was found in Wilson's room on a yellow contact lens was tracked back to Francis. The CSI team searches Francis' truck and finds WIlson's blood and some digestive enzymes required for someone suffering from porphryia , "vampire's disease."

It turns out that Wilson was actually a werewolf and had belonged to Francis' werewolf pack. However, when he met Julie and fell in love with her, he changed to a vampire, for her, so they could be together. Francis confronted Wilson when he recognized him dressed as a vampire. He and another vampire, Thomas Stewart, decide to kill Wilson. Thomas was able to convince Julie that Wilson had ultimately betrayed her and she was actually the one to take the first deadly strike at Wilson.
Source: http://www.tv.com/csi/blood-moon/episode/1354032/recap.html?tag=episode_recap;recap

What we learn?
There's a scene about a full-red-blooded-moon called Blood Moon by Langston. Is red Moon really possible to happen?

Monday, October 18, 2010

Alzheimer's disease (Criminal Minds S06E03)

TV Show
Criminal Minds Season 6 Episode 3 titled "Remembrance of Things Past"

Storyline
A family is leaving to go to a football game when the phone rings. The mother is about to answer the phone, but her husband just wants the caller to leave a message on the machine. The caller is their daughter, Jenny. She tells them she's in a lot of trouble, and by the time they listen to the message, she'll probably be dead.

Marcel Proust wrote, "Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were."

While on vacation, Rossi is at his computer suffering from writer's block when the phone rings. He answers and Hotch describes the new case to him. When Rossi hears the killer's MO (the victims are tortured, sodomized, and then electrocuted), he quickly realizes they match an cold case that he worked on in 1993.

Rossi tells the team about an unsub called The Butcher, who was killing young blonde women in Bristol in the early 1990s. Rossi was able to pinpoint the unsub's location, but then the murders stopped and Rossi couldn't get any closer to The Butcher. The killer's MO also included the victim calling their loved ones and then ending the calls with "I enjoyed it." This didn't happen with Jenny's murder, so Rossi initially believes this might be a copycat crime.

Meanwhile, the focus switches to the unsubs. Colby awkwardly greets a blonde woman (Anna) while he's unloading a van. Later, he and his father (Lee) manage to kidnap a woman named Heather. Lee tells Heather they're going to tell her exactly what she needs to say over the phone.

Later, Lee complains that his son never helps out with anything, but Colby points out that he did help with "the woman in the hallway" when he was 10 years old. Lee wants to kidnap Anna after they're done with Heather, but Colby decides on some one else. He uses the victim, Shelly, to teach his son a lesson on how things should be done.

Rossi and Reid listen to the messages from The Butcher's other victims. Once they reach the final victim's call, they notice the message is identical to the one Jenny left, even leaving out the "I enjoyed it" line. Both victims were also found in the same place. Reid suggests there must be some connection between the two murders, but Hotch is sticking to the copycat theory. Rossi, however, still believes this is the work of The Butcher. So Hotch gives Rossi authority to investigate any leads on The Butcher, while the rest of the team focuses on the possibility of copycats.

Rossi figures out this must be the work of a father/son team, and then news comes that Heather's phone call to her father included the "I enjoyed it" line. Rossi begins to focus on the two victims who didn't leave "I enjoyed it" on their calls. The first victim didn't, and the eighth victim, Karen Bachner, didn't either. Garcia discovers that Karen Bachner had a son named Colby. Rossi remembers interviewing Karen's husband, Lee, who had told the authorities that he didn't receive a phone call, and he didn't have an answering machine so there was no message. However, there was no message because her loved ones, Lee and Colby, were already in the room.

Lee tells Colby he wants to go hunting again, and doesn't remember that he had killed Shelly. Colby wants to placate his father, so he tells him that they're going after Anna. Meanwhile, the team tracks the duo down, but they're apprehensive about arresting Lee because it appears he has Alzheimer's Disease. Lee is literally unable to remember when he killed his last victim.

Meanwhile in another location, Colby has abducted Anna and is tying her up.

Rossi shares the details of The Butcher's murders with Lee, and reminds him that he had killed his wife Karen when she found out about the previous murders. Lee gives a vital clue about a brand of electroshock therapy equipment called Lexwell. Garcia tracks down the places that still use this brand, and locates an abandoned mental hospital nearby. The team finds Colby and Anna there just in time, and Colby is reminded about the time he helped murder his mother. Colby had always believed his mother had abandoned the family. Colby suddenly remembers that his mother told him goodbye to his face, right before she was killed. As Rossi leaves Lee finally recognizes him, and tells him, "you're the reason I stopped."

Mark Twain wrote, "When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not. But my faculties are decaying now, and soon I shall be so that I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this, but we all have to do it."

While he is in jail, Lee Mullens attempts to take his own life by slashing his wrists, but he isn't successful.
Source

What we learn?
We'll learn about the disease that the main killer suffered: Alzheimer's disease.

Sunday, October 17, 2010

Bomb suit (NCIS S08E03)

TV show
NCIS Season 8 Episode 3 titled "Short Fuse"

Storyline
Marine Sgt. Heather Dempsey (a member of the bomb squad) shoots and kills an intruder in her home. Tony is apparently being prepped to be the new face on the NCIS recruitment brochure, but then the team is called in to investigate the shooting. It seems like a simple home invasion robbery at first, and Heather claims she was alone in the house at the time. Tony discovers evidence that suggests a man was there at the same time. Heather's 911 call also includes a man talking in the background. Abby gets the intruder's gun to try to trace it, but the serial numbers have been filed off. Ducky notices that someone removed the intruder's fingerprints, making it next to impossible to figure out his identity.

During the investigation, a bomb threat is called in from the naval shipyard and Heather is called in to help. Ducky figures out that the man had a liver transplant, so Abby uses that information to try and ID the intruder. Meanwhile McGee is tracing all cell phone activity in the vicinity of Heather's house, and there's a single number he can't trace the owner of, because it belongs to the FBI. The team contacts Fornell.

The number is owned by Gary Tolin, the Executive Assistant Director of Criminal Investigations. Fornell calls Gary into NCIS at the same time as Heather's interrogation, but Gary isn't very cooperative. Heather admits that she and Gary met at a function and they headed to her house afterwards, but Tony suspects that they're not telling the entire story. Meanwhile Abby IDs the intruder as Glover Reese, a contract hitman. But who was he sent to kill, Gary or Heather?

Fornell and Gibbs figure out that Gary has been working on a lot of high profile cases, including one where he negotiated a plea bargain for a drug dealer named Gene Abbott. Abbott was involved in a shootout where Heather's brother was caught in the crossfire and ended up paralyzed from the chest down. As part of the plea agreement, Abbott gave up the identities of his associates in exchange for avoiding jail time. Heather used Gary to find out where Abbott was living now.

The team head to Abbott's farm, where they find him strapped in a chair with a motion-sensitive bomb in his lap. He'd already been there for a couple of days, and Abbott confesses that he was the one who'd sent the hit man after Heather. Heather admits that the bomb was a fake, and that she just wanted Abbott to experience what her brother has to go through every day, not being able to move and not being able to do anything for himself.

Tony is excited to see the new NCIS brochure but is disappointed when Gibbs turns out to be the cover instead.

What we learn?
We'll learn about that fancy suit worn by Dempsey. It's "bomb suit".