SubscribeCSI: Vegas – Season 8
Episode 8.01: Dead Doll
Air Date: September 27, 2007
Spoiler #1: The eighth season begins with Grissom and his team searching for Sara, who was kidnapped by the so-called miniature killer and left to die underneath a wrecked car in the desert. Source: TV Guide
Spoiler #2: Grissom and the team are in a desperate search to find Sara, who was recently kidnapped by the miniature killer: Natalie Kimble. Their only clue to Sara’s whereabouts is a mysterious miniature that shows Sara trapped beneath a flipped red Mustang somewhere in the vast desert surrounding Las Vegas. Every member of the team serves an integral purpose in the hunt, with Catherine surveying the initial kidnapping scene, Greg scanning the desert in a helicopter and Nick and Warrick tackling Natalie’s bizarre and terrifying apartment. Nick gets the luckiest break when he finds the location of the auto yard where Natalie purchased the Mustang. That clue and the digital maps Natalie had stored on her computer provide the team a radius with which to narrow their search.
But a storm is raging in the Las Vegas desert, and floodwaters begin to rise on Sara as she struggles to escape from beneath the car. She survived a treacherous ride out into nowhere with Natalie, and finally, she manages to free herself from the Mustang just in time. When morning breaks, the weather is hot, and Sara has nothing to eat or drink. She’s mobile, but with a broken arm and the other injuries Natalie inflicted upon her, it’s rough going. She walks continuously, doing anything she can to stay awake and survive.
All the CSIs fan out across the desert, and as the hours pass, Grissom becomes more and more frantic. Meanwhile, although she’s in bad shape, Sara has her wits about her. She carries the rearview mirror of the Mustang along with her, and when she finally collapses in exhaustion, it remains visible. Soon, Nick spots the glint of the sun’s reflection on the mirror, and he sprints to her side. A medevac helicopter is called to the scene, and with Grissom next to her, Sara is carried away to safety. Source: CBS
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Episode 8.02: A La Cart (fka Aftermath)
Air Date: October 4, 2007
Spoiler #1: The suspicious death of a go-kart racer who is killed while riding on a highway is investigated; and a murder at a restaurant where patrons dine in the dark is probed. Source: TV Guide
Spoiler #2: When a man’s body is found shredded into pieces on a highway outside Vegas, the team moves in to handle the evidence. Of particular interest is the man’s head, which is found in a football helmet some distance from the other parts of his body. Hodges discovers that some of the rubber from the crime scene is used in tires for go-carts. That leads them to a go-cart track, and a group of teenagers who raced their high powered go-carts down the highway. After creating a jello-molded replica of the body, they deduce that the victim was killed by the pieces of an 18-wheeler tire that exploded next to him during a race.
Another case is of a victim stabbed to death at a new restaurant, Blind, where patrons dine in the dark. The restaurant is owned by Pippa Sanchez, who got the concept from her blind ex-boyfriend (and current waiter) Michael Bowie. He inspired a place where diners could focus all their senses on the textures and tastes of food. But when he confronted Pippa about sharing in the restaurant’s financial success, she refused and fired him. He decided to take his revenge by killing one of her patrons in the hopes that the bad publicity would destroy her.
Meanwhile, Sara is recovering from the injuries she sustained in the desert at the hands of Natalie Davis. At the same time, she and Grissom are both grilled by Ecklie over their recently revealed relationship. Because their romance violates lab policy, Sara agrees to leave her spot on nights and take swing shift. It breaks up the team, but she believes it will be better to have more daylight in her life. In the end, Sara, Grissom and the rest of the team take a trip to the go-cart track where they blow off some steam racing each other. Source: CBS
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Episode 8.03: Go To Hell (fka Epiphany)
Air Date: October 11, 2007
Spoiler #1: An entire family is murdered, except for a daughter who may be possessed by the devil. Source: TV Guide
Spoiler #2: The CSIs stumble upon a grisly multiple murder related to a girl who has been through an exorcism. The victims are parents of Amy, a 12-year-old wild child, and they had attempted to rein her in when they discovered that she was in a relationship with a 23-year-old man. Eventually the parents became convinced that their daughter was possessed, and sought the help of a fly-by-night exorcist. Unfortunately for them, the exorcism failed, and they end up murdered. Amy is still missing.
While the police search for Amy, the CSIs must figure out who committed the killings. At first they believe the older boyfriend was involved in child porn, and he murdered the parents to get to Amy. But Amy is soon found with her boyfriend, and she’s placed with child services. As the evidence begins to point to an even more shocking conclusion, the exorcist takes matters into his own hands. He knows the truth: that Amy committed the murders of her own volition. He hunts Amy down, and throws her to her death at the Child Protective Services facility.
Meanwhile, Sara works a case with a newbie CSI named Ronnie Lake. Their vic is a homeless man who died of a cardiac arrest, due to dehydration. But Sara notes a complication: handcuff marks on the man, which lead her to believe a cop may be responsible for the death. It turns out that the homeless man had punched a police officer, who decided not to bring the man in. The cop knew the man had only started the fight to go to jail where there’s food and water. Sara wishes the cop had taken him in after all. Source: CBS
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Episode 8.04: The Case of the Cross-Dressing Carp(fka High Roller)
Air Date: October 18, 2007
Spoiler #1: Grissom investigates the mysterious hanging death of a young man whose body looks like that of a female. Source: TV Guide
Spoiler #2: Episode 8.04, titled “The Case of the Cross-Dressing Carp” will have the team try to solve the murder of a Native American man who was found buried in the concrete of a freshly-destroyed hotel. The team discovers the man was killed about 60 years ago. Source: SpoilerFix.com
Spoiler #3: When a young man is found hanging from a tree strangled to death, the CSIs move in to find the killer. It appears that the man, Brian, was taking hormone injections in preparation for a sex reassignment surgery. But as usual, there’s more to the story. Brian lived near a local water treatment reservoir where children often swam and fished. The recycled reservoir water was considered “grey,” meaning purified, though it was not meant to be drunk.
A former hydrologist, Paul Cyden, had enlisted Brian’s help to find out the truth about the reservoir. The water had been contaminated with pharmaceuticals, which had leaked into ground water in the town as well. After Paul is murdered in his home, Brian’s mother is identified as Paul’s shooter. She had misunderstood Paul and Brian’s connection, and believed he had murdered her son. But Brian had killed himself, unable to deal with the humiliation of his misshapen body. To make matters worse, Brian’s mother, ill with cancer, ultimately discovers that her cancer is also due to the water’s contamination.
Sara continues to work alongside Ronnie Lake on swing shift, and they handle the case of a body found at a construction site. With Greg’s help, they deduce that the man had been a reporter covering the opening of a casino (built by Catherine’s father, Sam). He died with a film canister in his hands. When Greg develops the film, he discovers evidence that the gaming commissioner at the time was on the take. Sam’s bodyguard, Benny Dunbar, killed the reporter to keep the news quiet. Lily, Catherine’s mother, helps out on the case, and Greg takes her out to get more information from her for the book he’s writing on Vegas.
Meanwhile, as Grissom continues his study of bees, he makes a proposal of marriage to Sara. She accepts. Source: CBS
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Episode 8.05: Chick Chop Flick Shop
Air Date: November 1, 2007
Spoiler #1: Grissom and his team investigate when an actress is killed on the set of a horror porn film. Source: TV Guide
Spoiler #2: So here’s your first clue about this week’s episode: It’s entitled “The Chick Chop Flick Shop,” and it’s aptly named. The reason? Grissom and his fellow CSIs go behind the scenes of a horror porn movie when one of the lead actresses, known for her slasher films, is murdered on the set. — Tim Holland at TV Guide
Spoiler #3: A horror film studio loses its main star when scream queen Weatherly Adams is murdered after a night of filming. The CSI team moves in and questions a number of suspects, including Weatherly’s former boyfriend, Oliver Zarco, a one-time film crew member who was recently disfigured in an on-set accident. The two studio owners, Vincent and Mason Lafoon, also come under scrutiny when Mason sets Vincent up to take the fall for the murder.
As Brass interrogates Mason, he confesses that Weatherly’s death was really an accident–she tripped and fell on a pipe, impaling herself. Stanley Vespucci, head of production, insisted “the show must go on” and faked the murder so his company wouldn’t be accused of safety violations. But Dickie Jones, a diminutive actor who has taken a shine to Catherine, turns up murdered at the studio after witnessing Weatherly’s accidental death. Ronnie Lake discovers his body when she returns to the scene to locate her missing cell phone. She ends up involved in her own horror movie scenario, finding movie director Zach Putrid shot by Stanley Vespucci, who also killed Dickie to keep him quiet. But Ronnie is rescued by an unlikely hero: Oliver Zarco, dressed in one of Weatherly’s finest dresses and a blonde wig, who takes out Stanley with an ax. Source: CBS
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Episode 8.06: Who and What
Air Date: November 8, 2007
Spoiler #1: The FBI’s Jack Malone (Anthony LaPaglia) joins forces with Grissom to track a serial killer after a boy who was kidnapped six years ago in New York matches the profile of a murder victim in Las Vegas. The episode concludes on “Without a Trace.” Source: TV Guide
Spoiler #2: When a woman and a young boy are murdered in a house, CSI processes the scene, but they get a special visitor from the FBI: Jack Malone. Malone flew in because there was a hit on VICAP to a palm print found in the house that echoes a NY kidnapping case six years back. An adopted boy was taken from his home and his babysitter was murdered. He’s been missing ever since.
Evidence from the house leads to a poker player from Utah; his son and his ex-girlfriend were the vics in this case. He wasn’t involved in their deaths. But DNA from the woman’s body matches that of two other rape-murders in CODIS; one in Wyoming and the other in Idaho. A short time later, another rape-murder turns up, this time with the victim’s husband killed as well. Sara takes the case hard; the constant bad news is getting to her.
Grissom and Malone realize that the killer is riding the freight train to various points, then hopping off and killing innocent people as he likes. They track him to a casino, only to find he’s abducted a woman and killed a police officer as he fled the area. Later they find that the man, Terry Wicker, has also taken a young boy from a local school. When they come across the vehicle the man was driving, they find the missing woman in the trunk and ID her as Wicker’s ex-wife, and the mother of the boy Wicker has taken. It’s appears that the man came back to find his son, and perhaps take revenge on his ex.
Meanwhile, Wicker leaves town on a bus, with his son beside him. Source: CBS
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Episode 8.07: Goodbye & Good Luck
Air Date: November 15, 2007
Spoiler #1: Sara questions her future as a CSI when a past case comes back to haunt her. Source: TV Guide
Spoiler #2: The team lands the case of a young girl, Kira, pushed from her dorm window. When a connection to an old case comes up, Sara grabs the chance to put away the man she believes is a killer: Marlon West. His sister Hannah publicly confessed to a prior murder, but secretly told Sara that her brother Marlon was the real culprit. Now Sara wants to put the guy, a student at the university, away for good. But 14-year-old Hannah is on the scene too, a student at the graduate school where her brother attends college. Sara is certain Hannah is manipulating the situation.
A broken tooth from the scene ties Marlon to Kira, since it appears that Kira punched him and embedded a tooth in her hand. But she slept with another young man that night, and they were both high on GHB. It turns out that their sexual lubricant was spiked, and Marlon’s fingerprint was on the tube. Everything leads to Marlon, but Sara is convinced that Hannah is the guilty one. She believes Hannah wanted to get rid of Kira to have her brother all to herself. Marlon confesses to Sara that he had Hannah help him spike the lubricant, but he wouldn’t have hurt Kira. Sara believes him. They try to get Hannah to confess to Marlon privately, but she knows immediately that he’s wearing a wire. Not long after, seeing no end in sight, Marlon hangs himself in his jail cell. Hannah is devastated, but Sara finds no pleasure in seeing the girl suffer.
Sara has ghosts to bury, and she’s come to the realization that she must leave to do so. At the lab, she kisses Grissom goodbye and places her vest in Ronnie’s locker. Before she goes, she leaves Grissom a letter that explains her decision, closing it with the words, “Know that you are my one and only. I will miss you with every beat of my heart…I love you. I always will. Goodbye.” Source: CBS
Episode 8.08: You Kill Me (fka Cockroaches)
Air Date: November 22, 2007
Spoiler #1: Hodges stages hypothetical murders in the lab so his colleagues can play CSI; Grissom’s team members reach out to him after Sara’s departure. Source: TV Guide
Spoiler #2: Hodges requests Wendy’s assistance in what he’s calling a “thought experiment,” in which he presents scenarios of various CSI lab rats getting offed in the lab by a fellow technician. Soon, the rest of the “rats” want to join in the murder game. Later, Hodges reveals the true point of his exercise to Wendy: he’s developing a board game, and he’s looking for creative situations to make the game more realistic. Wendy is into the game, until she discovers the prototype character he created in her image: a buxom, yet clumsy tech.
Meanwhile, each member of the CSI team approaches Grissom in an attempt to comfort him in Sara’s absence. He reveals he has spoken to her a few times, and currently she’s in San Francisco visiting her mother. Although no one is able to emotionally break through to Grissom, Hodges involves him in one of his “scenarios.” Always one to enjoy a good puzzle, Grissom joins in by solving the last of Hodges’ set-ups. Source: CBS
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Episode 8.09 – Cockroaches
Spoiler: The team arrives one man short when they cover the aftermath of a garbage truck run amuck in Vegas. Warrick is late, popping pills and on the phone with an irate Tina, who he’s divorcing. Once he arrives, he joins in to cover a truck that dumped a trail of trash for miles. When the driver ran from police, he was struck and killed by a car. Inside the truck was the dead body of Jason Crews, a 27-year-old club owner. His mother, Kate, was the wife of a famous mob man, Anthony Pezzulo, but she changed her identity when her husband was whacked 23 years before. She offloaded her husband’s garbage truck business to Lou Gedda back then, and told Lou to forget that she and her son Jason ever existed.
Lou says he knew Jason and loved the kid. But a Hollywood manager friend of Jason’s tells Warrick that Gedda beat him up at his club. Jason called out Gedda and vowed never to bring talent back to his strip club. Warrick believes Gedda’s got cops on his payroll, and he shows up to check out the club. Gedda’s not too happy to see him nosing around. Warrick does everything he can to get a warrant for Gedda’s property, but the judge denies it. Believing that the judge and other officials are protecting Gedda for payoffs, Warrick insults Undersherriff McKeen. Grissom sends him home.
Warrick sits in the parking lot of Gedda’s strip club looking for evidence. He ends up inside the club with three bottles of pricey champagne and a stripper named Candy on his lap, only to be found by Grissom. He’s sent home once again, but Warrick returns and follows Candy. He meets up with her at a bar, and they go a hotel. He’s high as a kite, hallucinating, and they have sex. Soon Warrick goes back to the strip club, leaving an empty bed behind. When he arrives, he’s horrified to see that Candy’s been murdered, and her dead body is in the parking lot, in his own car. Source: CBS
Episode 8.10 – Lying Down With Dogs
Spoiler: Warrick is interrogated by internal affairs regarding his relationship with Candy. He’s cleared of responsibility, but he knows Gedda is the one who had her killed. A homeless man’s print shows up inside Warrick’s car, and he goes down for the murder. When Warrick tries to intervene, Grissom suspends him for two weeks. A man inside the CSI lab makes a call to Gedda, who is pleased with the results.
Meanwhile, Doc Robbins gives evidence when a philanthropist, Liz Rodriguez, turns up dead amongst dozens of dead dogs in the desert. She had been at a party the night before where Robbins was playing in a band. The trail leads to a gang member’s dog, and a kennel that the Rodriguez family bankrolled. Apparently Liz was the #1 dogfighter in Vegas. Gino Aquino, the gang member, wanted to knock her off the top of her game. When SWAT raids a dog fight, Aquino is taken into custody, as is his dog, whose saliva was found on Liz’s body. But a sympathetic young man who worked at the kennel, an inside informant who was trying to bring down the dog ring, was the one who did the crime. He killed Liz, and fed her to the fighting dogs before disposing of the body. He thought she deserved it. Source: CBS
CSI: Las Vegas Episode 8.11 – Bull (fka Booty and the Beast)
Air Date: January 10, 2008
Spoiler #1: GRISSOM AND HIS TEAM INVESTIGATE TWO MURDERS THAT TAKE PLACE AT THE ANNUAL BULL RIDING RODEO IN LAS VEGAS, ON “CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION,” THURSDAY, JAN. 10
Brendan Wayne, The Grandson of John Wayne, Ty Murray, Professional Rodeo Cowboy, Nicole Sullivan (“The King of Queens”) And Country Music Singer Shooter Jennings Guest Star
Singer Jewel Makes A Cameo Appearance Performing The National Anthem
“Bull” – The CSIs investigate two murders during the annual bull riding rodeo in Vegas that may be connected to illegal bull breeding, on CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION, Thursday, Jan. 10 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Brendan Wayne, the grandson of John Wayne, Ty Murray, professional rodeo cowboy, actress Nicole Sullivan (“The King of Queens”) and country music singer Shooter Jennings guest star. Singer Jewel makes a cameo appearance performing the national anthem.
SERIES REGULARS:
Gil Grissom………………………. William Petersen
Catherine Willows………….. Marg Helgenberger
Warrick Brown…………………….. Gary Dourdan
Nick Stokes………………………….. George Eads
Captain Jim Brass………………….. Paul Guilfoyle
Greg Sanders………………………… Eric Szmanda
Dr. Robbins……………………. Robert David Hall
Hodges………………………….. Wallace Langham
RECURRING CAST:
David Phillips……………………….. David Berman
Archie Johnson………………………… Archie Kao
GUEST CAST:
Dustin Lightfoot………………….. Brendan Wayne
Ty Murray…………………………………….. Himself
Jewel……………………………………………. Herself
Shooter Jennings……………………………. Himself
Nancy Twicker……………………. Nicole Sullivan
Wendy Simms…………………………… Liz Vassey
Erik “Precious Ricky” Hong………………………….. James Hirouki Liao
Officer Choi………………………………. Colin Kim
Cash Dooley………………………….. Eric Pierpont
Cody Latshaw……………………. Patrick McGaw
Tiffany…………………………… Whitnee Patterson
J.J Milton…………………………….. Shane Conrad
Coco………………………………….. Tamara Braun
Connie Dellaquilla…………………….. Julie Brown
Troy Birkhart……………………… Chuck Hittinger
Buckle Bunny #1…………… Rachael Cyna Smith
Buckle Bunny #2……………………… Libby Mintz
Grissley Geezer……………… Joseph Campanella
Robby Turner………………………………… Himself
Ryan Wariner………………………………… Himself
Bryan Keeling……………………………….. Himself
Faren Miller………………………………….. Himself
Garry Murray………………………………… Himself
TELEPLAY BY: David Rambo
STORY BY: David Rambo and Steven Felder
DIRECTED BY: Richard J. Lewis Source: SpoilerTV
Spoiler #2: “Booty and the Beast” opens at the World Finals of Professional Bull Riders. The arena is filled to capacity for the opening ceremonies. The crowd cheers, young and old alike, as the lights go down and the pyrotechnics come alive. The most enthusiastic members of the audience are the Buckle Bunnies, groupies with their eyes on the cowboys.
Behind the scenes, flank men get the bulls ready. They herd the bulls from their pens into the chutes. Khartoum is the legend around here. Matt Dooley, a former rider in his forties, is in charge of the massive beast, guiding him into the chute. Khartoum’s owner, Nancy Twicker, walks up and admires the bull. He’s ready to buck tonight, she can see it in his eyes.
The cowboys take their turns and go for a ride, trying to stay on top of the bulls as they do their damndest to buck the men off. Some of the riders get thrown, but others manage to hold on. The crowd goes wild when they make it. The bullfighters, more commonly called “rodeo clowns”, take charge of the bulls and lead them out of the ring, making way for the next rider to try his luck.
In the locker room, cowboys are coming and going. Some are getting ready for their rides while others are getting injuries looked at after their rides are over. Most of these men are in their twenties, early-thirties tops. Cody Prescott is in his late thirties and tries to hide a limp and chronic pain from years of being thrown. He heads out to the arena as Matt Dooley gets Khartoum ready for the ride. The announcer tells the crowd that Cody has to last the full eight seconds or he won’t be in the finals. And if he doesn’t make it tonight, it could be the last ride for the crowd favorite, the hero that stayed in the sport longer than most.
Cody is ready, and he gives the signal. Khartoum is out of the chute, bucking and trying to throw Cody off. The bull is successful within seconds, and Cody is on his back in the dirt. The bull twists around, still bucking, and slams one hoof down on Cody’s neck. The crowd is horrified as the bullfighters get Khartoum out of the way and the medics rush in to help the fallen rider. Cody comes to and tries to get up against the medics’ wishes. They try to stop him, but he’s not having any of it, so they help him to his feet. The crowd cheers as he waves his hat in the air, being led out of the arena as the judges signal that there will be no re-ride. Cody is done for the night.
Grissom, Brass and Catherine come to the arena, but they aren’t there to watch the bull riding. Cody Prescott’s lifeless body is in the middle of the ring, a bottle of tequila nearby. It appears that Cody came back for one last ride, and Khartoum was too wild for him to handle. Doc Robbins looks at Cody’s body in the morgue. An x-ray of Cody’s neck from earlier shows that the first stomping from the bull caused a hairline fracture in one of his vertebra, right on the brain stem. He was a disaster waiting to happen. Now, in the morgue, David Phillips has taken a second x-ray, which reveals that the second stomping fractured the vertebrae completely. They have the cause of death, but is the manner of death as obvious as it seems?
Meanwhile, Nick and Greg investigate the death of Tiffany Garner. The woman was the victim of a hit and run, and the CSIs suspect that she might have been Cody Prescott’s girlfriend. When they find Cody’s truck, they confirm that it was the one that killed Tiffany. Did Cody kill her because she wanted to leave him? When a third dead body shows up, the team must figure out if the victim was connected to Cody and Tiffany. In the meantime, Warrick has been out of work for two weeks and joins the Cody Prescott case on his first shift back.
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.
“Booty and the Beast” is expected to air in early 2008. Source: CSI Files
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