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    Crime Scene Investigation: CSI The Unauthorized Guide to the CBS Hit show CSI Las Vegas: Season Two
    Crime Scene Investigation: CSI The Unauthorized Guide to the CBS Hit show CSI Las Vegas: Season Two
    Crime Scene Investigation: CSI The Unauthorized Guide to the CBS Hit show CSI Las Vegas: Season Two
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    Crime Scene Investigation: CSI The Unauthorized Guide to the CBS Hit show CSI Las Vegas: Season Two

    By Kristina Benson

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    It's clear that CSI Vegas has captivated the minds of TV viewers all around the world. What isn't clear is what it actually means. This guide answers many of the questions you've been asking about CSI Vegas. From an analysis of the plot and its symbolism to hidden clues within the show, this book provides inside analysis and news that can't be found anywhere else. The book includes a complete interpretation, and analysis for CSI Vegas Season Two. This is quite simply the Ultimate Unofficial Guide to CSI Vegas
    Season Two. THIS BOOK INCLUDES: Plot Analysis and Interpretation, Hidden Messages, and Trivia.
    DISCLAIMER: This book is unofficial and unauthorized. It is not authorized, approved, licensed, or endorsed by CBS, Viacom Inc., its producers, writers, distributors, publishers, or licensors. Any use of the trademarks and character names is strictly for the purpose of analysis and news reporting. All material related
    to the analysis is © CBS © Viacom and © Jerry Bruckheimer © CSI

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEquity Press
    Release dateDec 5, 2011
    ISBN9781603322881
    Crime Scene Investigation: CSI The Unauthorized Guide to the CBS Hit show CSI Las Vegas: Season Two

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      Crime Scene Investigation - Kristina Benson

      Crime Scene Investigation: CSI

      The Unauthorized Guide to the CBS Hit show

      CSI Las Vegas: Season Two

      By: Kristina Benson

      Crime Scene Investigation: CSI The Unauthorized Guide to the CBS Hit Show CSI Las Vegas: Season Two

      ISBN: 978-1-60332-288-1

      Smashwords Edition

      Edited By: Brooke Winger

      Copyright 2008 Equity Press. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without either the prior written permission of the publisher or a license permitting restricted copying in the United States or abroad.

      The scanning, uploading and distribution of this book via the internet or via any other means without the permission of the publisher is illegal and punishable by law. Please purchase only authorized electronic editions, and do not participate in or encourage piracy of copyrighted materials.

      DISCLAIMER: This book is unofficial and unauthorized. It is not authorized, approved, licensed, or endorsed by CBS, Viacom Inc., its producers, writers, distributors, publishers, or licensors. Any use of the trademarks and character names is strictly for the purpose of analysis and news reporting. All material related to the analysis is © CBS © Viacom and © Jerry Bruckheimer © CSI

      Trademarks: All trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Equity Press is not associated with any product or vender mentioned in this book.

      Table of Contents

      Episode Guide

      Burked

      Chaos Theory

      Overload

      Bully For You

      Scooba Doobie Doo

      Alter Boys

      Caged

      Slaves of Las Vegas

      And Then There Were None

      Elli

      Organ Grinder

      You’ve Got Male

      Identity Crisis

      The Finger

      Burden of Proof

      Primum Non Nocere

      Felonious Monk

      Chasing the Bus

      Stalker

      Cats in the Cradle

      Anatomy of a Lye

      Cross Jurisdiction

      The Hunger Artist

      Episode Guide

      Burked

      A gardener arrives at a beautiful home in Las Vegas and is greeted by two happy yellow labs as he gets out of his truck. He wanders through the lush greenery surrounding the home and peers through the blinds. There is a body on the floor.

      The next shot is of Gil and Catherine arriving on the scene to walk towards the body. Catherine, in this scene, fills the function of providing exposition, telling us that the house belongs to Tony Braun, son of Vegas business mogul Sam Braun. She explains that he came to Vegas to revitalize it when it looked like its peak had come and gone. He allegedly had ties to Bugsy Siegel.

      Brass arrives and they all proceed to examine the body. An empty pill bottle and crushed foil indicates that he had been popping pills and taking heroin while lying around the house in his underwear. The credits roll.

      When we come back from break, Sara is taking photos. She pauses, staring at the shag carpet for a moment before picking up a pair of tweezers and extracting an earring.

      Grissom then observes Tony has adhesive on his wrists. The two of them conclude that Tony had company that evening. They then wonder if that someone had cleaned up the body: usually a dead body voids itself of fluids rather rapidly, and at this scene, there are none present. Sara points at Tony's torso, noting three small red marks, and comments, Interesting love bites on his chest. She also notes that the body is posed. She asks Gil when he figured this to be a homicide instead of a drug overdose, and Gil replies, When I saw the TV on.

      Outside, Catherine is judging people who have heroin addictions and gathering clues from the outside of the house. The gardener had said that this one morning was the first time in five years the gate had been left open, and that there is no sign of forced entry.

      Warrick appears, goes inside, and looks at the buffet of drug paraphernalia littering the top of a dresser. A heroin addict's confetti. Must have been going on a binge, he says. He picks up a balloon and observes that the inside is filled with black tar heroin. Brass comes in and asks Warrick if he can get a print of those balloons; Warrick turns around and says with a swagger, I can get a print off of air.

      Down in the kitchen, Sara is pawing through the garbage and finds a box of saltines with duct tape inside.

      Later, at the morgue, Gil walks in on David the coroner examining the sole of his shoe. When he sees Grissom, he ceases and desists doing so and gives us a lowdown on the body. His lifestyle was no secret -- sex, drugs and a big bankroll. Whatever he did went up his nose; his nasal cavity looked like raw hamburger. Gil observes the abrasions around Tony's mouth and acidly poses the rhetorical question, Hard to shave when you're stoned? David informs that such marks may also be a result of someone placing an object over someone's mouth to smother him/her. David also points out signs of petechial hemorrhaging (burst blood vessels in the eyes), which can also happen under circumstances in which there is no foul play. Gil concludes from the visit to the morgue that It’s hard to OD on just inhaling heroin. I know he was restrained, which leads me to believe someone forced him to ingest lethal amounts of heroine and Xanax.

      Back at the scene of the crime, uniformed officers are sealing off the front porch with police tape when a floozy blonde barges in like a moose, telling them that she has been answering stupid questions from reporters for hours, and that this is her house. Catherine asks Brass who she is and he says, It's Braun's squeeze. She's an ex-stripper too. Perhaps you two met in a professional capacity? Catherine ignores this slight and asks where she has been for the last twelve hours, and Brass says, Quote, out, end quote. The blonde (named Janine) is then unceremoniously fingerprinted.

      Catherine takes off from the crime scene and makes a beeline for a casino, where she manages to get an audience with Sam Braun just by dropping her own name. He comes down to the reception and together they stroll through the casino. He proceeds to reminisce about seeing her naked when she was a stripper and wanting to take her home with him even though he was married. Their walk down memory lane is interrupted by Sam’s son complaining that reporters were disrupting the flow of valet parking. Sam dismissively sends him off and walks Catherine to a little bar, and muses fondly over the memory of his late son Tony. Catherine confronts him about Janine, who is a gold-digger. Sam agrees and laments that now that the body’s cold, she’ll be going after his assets and whatever she can get her hands on.

      Back at the lab, Gil is sitting in front of a fume hood, preparing to lift fingerprints from the pill bottle. They match Janine’s prints.

      After commercial break, Warrick is excitedly getting prints off the heroin balloon and Grissom is complaining about the office coffee to Nick, and Nick is complaining about the bug bites on his leg to whoever will listen. As it turns out he sustained heavy bug bites while crawling through the foliage in Tony’s yard. Gil instructs Nicky to coat the wound with nail polish, and on the way out, Gil and Nicky establish that Nicky lifted prints that place a human entering or exiting the residence via the doggy door.

      In the morgue, David has collected the contents of Tony's stomach in a jar. The contents of his stomach indicate that he ate heroin and Xanax but there are no undigested pills in his system. David guesses someone smashed them up and dissolved them in red wine. Apparently there were fifty pills dissolved in the wine he ingested.

      Out on the streets of Las Vegas, Warrick and Brass are having a little talk with Tony's old dealer. They learn that, contrary to Janine's previous reports, she did not leave Tony’s house the minute the dealer showed up, but stuck around long enough to give him thirty Xanax. This leads them to talk to Janine, who claims that she just happened to drop thirty Xanax down the sink.

      Greg and Grissom, in the lab, are running a series of analyses. Greg explains that heroin has a half-life of nine-and-a-half minutes before metabolizing to the more chemically stable morphine. Tony Braun, however, didn't have enough of either Xanax or heroin in his system to kill him. Greg adds, however, that there is another way to take heroin, and that’s through an anal suppository. Upon hearing this, Gil looks mildly disgusted.

      Gil then meets up with Catherine, who has brought an actual mannequin into the office on Gil’s orders, but has no idea why. He then tells her a long story of Burk and Hare, two 19th century figures who made a living by drugging people, suffocating them, and then selling the bodies to a teaching hospital. They apparently got away with it until a medical student at the teaching hospital saw his fiancée on the teaching table. Grissom and Catherine then opine about Tony’s cause of death: Janine administered an overdose, but then the gardener showed up, and she panicked and realized she didn't have enough time for an overdose to take effect. Gil explains that Burke would lean on his victim's chest, covering his mouth and nostril, but when you're doing drugs, you're a slob, and when you're being manhandled, you're even sloppier, like this. They conclude that he was Burked.

      The next scene is of Blue Diamond, which is a desert. Brass comes over to a scruffy looking guy who is digging a hole, and asks this guy happens to be digging on private property. The guy says his name is Curt Ritten, and that he has an order from Tony to begin digging if Tony dies under mysterious circumstances. Brass orders him aside, and everyone files downstairs to check out the shelves and shelves of silver bullion that Curt has unearthed.

      Back at CSI central, Sara's taking her duct tape out of the freezer and dusting for prints. Soon Warrick comes by with three rolls of duct tape found in Curt's truck. Sara asks Warrick why anyone would bury twenty-three tons of silver bullion in the middle of the desert. Warrick tells her that for the past twenty years, the value of silver's gone to nothing and the commodity brokers are going to charge a storage fee per troy ounce and there's only one thing worse than losing seven to eight percent on silver a year, and that's losing nine to ten percent because of a storage fee. Sara persists and asks What good's twenty-three tons of silver coupons when you're dead? Warrick then looks down at the tape they’ve compared and gleefully says: Oh, we got ourselves a positive association! Roll to tape, Curt to Tony."

      Under questioning, Brass presses Curt into revealing that Curt built the underground vault, and he was on friendly terms with Tony, going over to the house to hang out and watch football.

      This leads to the issue of a warrant, and Catherine a plainclothesman enter Curt’s place. Catherine immediately walks over to a chair where a skirt is artlessly draped -- the same skirt Janine was wearing a few scenes ago, incidentally -- and says to the detective, I thought you told me Carl's wife lives in Carson City? She does. They both do. He just stays here when he's working, he replies, staring at the skirt. Both of them freeze as they hear a door creak, and follow the sound to a bathroom door. Of course, it’s Janine, who has been in the shower and didn’t hear them enter.

      Unfortunately, however, the prints on the tape don't match up either Curt or Janine. Not only that, but the prints for the doggie door came back for Walt Braun, Tony's brother and a pit boss at the Tangiers. All pit bosses, it turns out, are required to keep prints on file. This means that they have nothing to hold Janine on, and they're going to hold Carl until he can post bail. They also need to deduce how duct tape from Curt's truck ended up around Tony's wrists without Curt's prints on it.

      Gil hightails it to the Tangiers to ask Walt about his fingerprints on the doggie door. Walt tells him he was out with Tony and Tony forgot his keys, so he entered through the doggie door to let Tony into the house. Gil notes that Walt is furiously scratching at insect bites that look just like Nick’s, and figures that Walt can be placed at the scene of the crime during the time of the murder.

      In the next scene, Brass reveals that according to the terms of Sam Braun's will, his vast empire would go to Tony, who was supposed to share it with Walt. However, he cut Janine in on a large portion of the take. Sara concludes that Curt was digging up the silver to protect Janine's interest. The only clue not fit into the puzzle is the earring Sara found on the scene. Janine explains she employs a maid who vacuums every day -- except for her day off, which happened to be the day Tony was killed. Conclusion: whoever lost the earring did so while killing Tony. Catherine and Gil spin yarns on what woman would be present, have access to Curt's truck, and have motive

      It's the wife, Bonnie, working in league with Walt. Her prints are lifted off Curt’s bail check and are found to match the prints on the duct tape. She and Walt worked together to restrain and sedate Tony, and then panicked when the gardener showed up, so they suffocated him. Bonnie lost her earring, and didn't notice until later.

      Cut to Catherine walking with Sam, and he tells her sadly, I loved one son more than the other…they're my sons. I made them, I raised them, and one kills the other. He then reminisces about the fact that Catherine’s mom was his long time mistress and the episode is over.

      Chaos Theory

      Our episode opens in 1983, as a barely-covered woman wanders down the hall of a college dorm. A towel wrapped around her, she strolls past a group of fraternity pledges, the pledges practically trip on their own tongues, and the camera swoops over to a pizza delivery guy. The camera then focuses on a thin blonde staring out of the window into the rainy night, her reverie interrupted when her cell phone rings; she tells the caller she'll be right down. We get a shot of where down is and see a cab in a parking lot. We get a shot of the blonde at a window.

      Cut to a sunny day. The camera pauses briefly on a plane ticket, then pans out to Brass and Gil walking down the hall of a dorm. Paige Rycoff, freshman, Brass is saying. Booked a one-way ticket to Boulder. Never got there. Four days MIA. Gil says, Missing persons, the first twenty-four hours are gold. After that, quicksand. He and Brass walk into Room 410, and after excusing the photographers, investigators, and police officers, take a look around. Brass notes that Paige didn't take her suitcase, her purse, or the cab she called. We see another shot of the plane ticket to Boulder and learn that it’s not refundable. Gil notes that there's no sign of struggle.

      They continue their investigation after the credits roll with a review of the security measures in place for the dorm. There are apparently four security cameras per floor and a turnstile that prevents non-residents and non-students from entering. Sara comes in and announces that the scent dogs are coming.

      Catherine and Nicky arrive, walking down the hall and wondering how they can possibly interview all four hundred residents within a reasonable period of time. Gil, h0wever, instructs them to look through the footage from the security cameras.

      Sara is in Room 410 with Gil, telling him that Paige made a note to have all her mail forwarded, including her security deposit. Gil tells us that Paige’s roommate, Jennifer Riggs, left two weeks into the semester, and that someone spackled the walls with toothpaste instead of spackle. Gil notices a difference in color between certain parts of the floor and Sara muses that there might have been an area rug, which could have been used to haul a body out of the room.

      After the dogs sniff around the halls, Warrick and Catherine suit up to go down the trash chute. As Catherine slides down, Nicky asks some security guard to see any camera that covers Paige Rycoff's room. After the tape is uncovered, Nicky and his security guard friend skip back four days and Nicky immediately notices someone covering the camera with a piece of fabric. Nicky slows the recording down and does a frame-by-frame analysis. Nicky figures out that somebody pushed off the wall and tossed

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