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Friday 25 May 2012

CSI: Miami - 8.6: "Dude, Where's My Groom" Review


A groom fails to show up for his wedding, leading the CSIs in search of not only him, but also the missing groomsmen, whilst stumbling across a theft and a murder.

Groom, Charlie (Charlie Koznick) doesn't turn up to his wedding and his groomsmen are missing too.   The bride-to-be, Kim (Alexa Havins) says if he doesn't show he'd "better be dead or dying."  Naturally she'd have to make that comment and then take it back.   A call is made where it appears there are two DBs in a bloodied fountain.   They're not dead, but the missing groomsmen; Jack (Tug Coker) and Sean (Greg Winter).   Tripp (Rex Linn) says the blood in the fountain is human, from their clothes, but it's not theirs.   Horatio (David Caruso) says "someone's dead." Calleigh (Emily Procter) asks for Charlie's brush and a photo so they can check the blood for his DNA.   Calleigh gets the last line before the opening credits now, which was always left to Horatio in the past.

Natalia (Eva LaRue) takes a sample from the fountain for analysis and to check the DNA.   Jesse (Eddie Cibrian) prints Sean and Jack and tells them that "not remembering, doesn't mean not guilty."  Their blood is also taken for the Tox screen.   Jack was the best man but hadn't spoken with Charlie for over a year.   Sean had a crush on Kim that he couldn't get over.   Jesse shows Ryan (Jonathan Togo) the bloodwork results on "Dumb and Dumber" which had traces of Scolpamine, if added to alcohol, it impairs memory.   Jesse comments it's abundant in the LA club scene.   Just incase no one knows or remembers that Jesse returned to Miami from LA.   They need to "rely on the evidence to tell them what happened."  Says Jesse.   How many times was the word, phrase, needing to rely on the evidence, etc, said in this episode alone.

Jesse notices some residue on the bottom of the champagne bottle.   Ryan finds some green flakes on Jack, when they process the two.   Ryan thinks it's confetti.  Jesse uses the UV light and finds a stamp on Sean's hand from the Ciel Blue hotel.   (In much the same way that Mac (Gary Sinise) shined the UV light on the apron in season 7's CSI:NY episode, Do No Pass Go.)

To Natalia's dismay, all the blood samples prove to be contaminated from the chlorine in the fountain.   So Horatio knows the blood can't be confirmed as Charlie's.   He tells her Walter (Omar Miller) should check the paper from Jack's pocket for any writing.   Jesse and Calleigh check out the hotel and find nothing of any use.   Calleigh doesn't find any evidence of blood but does find a pair of undies with a logo of a drop of sweat on there.   Jesse identifies the logo as being from Club Perspire which perks Calleigh's interest, of wanting to know how Jesse knows.   Trying so hard to give him some sort of a character, but it was just not enough for Jesse to be around as a character for much longer.   He replies Walter told him about it.   As only Walter would or could!

At the club they find the undies belonged to Carmel (Jessie O'Donahue).   Charlie  was here with Jack.   She calls Jesse "Dimples" so Calleigh had to follow suit.   Jesse wonders where Sean was and accuses him of getting Charlie out of the picture so she could have Kim.   He's over her and is married with a baby on the way.   Calleigh didn't do a very good job of watching the video footage from the club, when it's left to Horatio to spot Kim near the door, "catching her fiance in the act."  Charlie left her a message promising there'd be no strippers and she accuses him of lying.   Which Horatio sees as motive enough to kill him.  She went back to her parents house.

Walter only now analyzes the paper, when Horatio mentioned it ages ago.   He didn't have to wait to analyze it in front of Horatio.  He uses Haematol to remove the blood and see what is under there, it should absorb and dissipate the blood, but instead it begins to destroy the writing.  Horatio sends Calleigh to check out Julio, the bails bondsman (Sal Lopez).   Jack was there alone and bailed out Sean with a cheque.   That's why Jesse explains Sean wasn't at the club with them.   Jesse calls them 'Frick and Frack'.   Why take the two there, when they could have just shown the bail bondsman photos of them.   Calleigh takes the cheque which was signed by Kim's father, Timothy Hewitt (JC MacKenzie).   He tells Calleigh Charlie turned down an offer of a job with him and he gave him the cheque for a downpayment on a house.

All three of them were at Clay Bennett's (Philippe Brenninkmeyer) house.   He called the police to have them removed and Charlie and Jack stole his limo, so he sent his security man after them.   The limo is found with a DB inside, that of the security man, Tito (Chris Gonzalez).   Tripp asks if 'The Three stooges' could be capable of something like this.   Natalia found DNA in the back pant pocket and it doesn't match Charlie so he could be alive.

ME Tom (Christian Clemenson) finds epithelials under his fingernails.   Ryan finds the same green flake on Tito's body and wants it for analysis.   Tom tells him it's his as the body is his.   Ryan: "Territorial much?"

Tom replies, "Snarky much?"  It's protocol and belongs to him since it's on the DB.   He lets Ryan have the limo.   Another scene in which Ryan is shown as being rather forceful and not getting on well with ME Tom either.   Just as he made the remark to Jesse in the episode In Plane Sight, about him checking out the toilet on the plane.   Don't think they knew quite what to do with Ryan this season.   He finds blood and more flakes inside the limo.

Walter's analysis on the flakes reveals the cheap green paint is leaded on the other side.   Azurite was a pigment used before World War One.   His mother made him minor in Art History, which Ryan sneers at.   SO what, he's rather judgemental these days! Ryan thinks Bennett was more concerned with the art in the limo than the limo itself.   They check out the hotel room and Walter comments he's more of a Guitar Hero god.   Taking the dart out of the deer painting on the wall, Walter finds there's a painting under it.   Probably a Cezanne.   Ryan tells him it's a Matisse.   Ryan didn't take Art History too, as Walter suggests, but says the painting is signed.   The painting had been stolen.

They search Bennett's house but there's no sign of Charlie.   Calleigh states the DNA shows Tito has an altercation with both Jack and Sean.  Tom explains the murder weapon was the car door, it was swung twice with brute force.   So Jesse says one person did it.   The photos showing the COD have prints on the ear and cheek on the limo, so they know the position Tito was in.  Calleigh sees the prints are smudged.   However Jesse notices (as always, must he do all the work!) a finger pattern in the smudges.   So the killer braced himself with his right hand and swung the door with his left., explains Calleigh.   Jack signs the form for his belongings with his left hand.   Calleigh, the "evidence always remembers." Sean is an accessory to the murder.  Calleigh feels Jack's lawyer may be able to argue diminished capacity as he couldn't remember what he did and he was drugged.

She only says this to Jack and not to Sean, implying Jack was the only one who was drugged.   Why was Sean drunk, or drinking, as he said he's been sober three years.   (Unless he isn't quite over Kim as he claims to be - which is a bit far-fetched.)  Also he was missing from the strip club, as he had been arrested by Fort Laudadale police, so he couldn't have been drugged by Carmel; causing him to have no memory of the night's events.   However, the bottle was found with them, so the implication must be that Jack took it with him, explaining why Sean also drank from it.   Unless this was a major boo-boo on the part of the writer.

Tripp notifies Jesse about Carmel leaving the club, she was the last one to see Charlie.   Jesse grabs her bag and finds Scolpamine instead.   Yeah she thought she'd hang onto that, even after she was already paid a visit by them.   Calleigh attempts to dissuade Jesse from searching her bag as they don't have a warrant.   Did she think Jesse would gamble with Charlie's life if he was still alive by wasting time waiting around for a warrant.    She was paid to take Charlie to a car outside and the man had a Southern accent.   Of course it was obvious her father would have dealt with Charlie, as he told Calleigh earlier on he turned him down with his job offer.   It was apparent the cheque was to buy him off so he'd leave Kim.

As always in the CSI shows, in the flashbacks to the crime or the incident in question, they always manage to give the game away when they show the killer with the same clothes as one of the suspects is wearing, or similar ones.   Here, her father was wearing a striped shirt and in the flashback, the abductor was wearing a striped shirt also.   (Something to watch out for, if you never get your suspect/killer.)

Kim telling them now she called her father from the club and not earlier on, she could've saved valuable time there.   She just said she went to her parent's house.  As said, the cheque was to make Charlie go.   He wouldn't take it so he left him in a raft on the ocean.   So Coast Guard helicopters don't take the Vic's to hospital then, be much quicker than driving.   Oh and on go Horatio's shades!

A bit of a routine episode, so how many wedding episodes has CSI:Miami had now.   Also meant to be a send-up of sorts of the movie, The Hangover (2009) sharing similar plots.   It was good the way they pieced together the events and their actions with only the evidence, which explains the many references to the evidence.

Jesse had no patience with Carmel, implying there's something going on with him as far as women hiding things, or keeping secrets.   That was a little varied character trait to the Jesse we've seen so far.

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