■ THE QUOTABLE CAINE
| ■ CRIME SCENE INFORMATION:
BODY COUNT:
| 1 | THE CRIMES:
| MURDER:
- Victim(s): Jesse Cardoza
- Suspect(s): Bob Starling, Melissa Walls, Keith Garwood
- Whodunit: Bob Starling with the assistance of both Melissa and Keith, though Melissa flips on him and helps to bring him in.
| PATH OF EVIDENCE:
| From the field:
- greeting card Starling left for Horatio with the words "they all fall down", and the cryptic symbols hidden between the words in invisible ink that they discovered said "Man Marks Earth Ruin"
- rigged rifle that had bullets filled with sand
- rigged rifle in parking garage
- fake bomb on pier
- wires that Melissa wore to catch Starling's confession
From the morgue:
- tissue from Jesse's lung that indicated presence of Halon gas
- small shard of glass stuck in Jesse's head wound, from a camera he was working on before he died
From the lab:
- letters Starling sent to the CSIs, proving he coordinated all three attacks on university employees from 8.24- "All Fall Down". They had droplets of ink on the surfaces of the pages that came specifically from Inkjet printers
- gun from the first murder at the beginning of "All Fall Down"
- Halon gas tanks fed into the lab's A/C system
- photographs of Starling and Melissa on the camera that Jesse was processing before he died
| PERSONNEL ISSUES:
| The lab mourns the loss of Jesse Cardoza. Those that seem to be hit hardest by his death are Walter, Natalia and Calleigh. Walter and Jesse were good friends that played basketball together, Natalia discovered Jesse's body and was distraught to realize he couldn't be revived (they had been shown as having romantic potential last season), and Calleigh knew Jesse from when she first started at the crime lab, as shown in the flashback scenes from 8.01- "Out of Time". |
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| ■ SHOW EPISODE BEST MOMENTS AND BIGGEST SHOCKERS
- Beginning: When Horatio walks out of the elevator, he discovers Eric having breathing difficulties and Calleigh on the floor.
- Before Theme Song: When Natalia finds Jesse, she bursts in tears. (there was an arranged date between Natalia and Jesse- see8.03- "Kill Clause")
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| ■ FULL EPISODE SUMMARY
| Picking up off the tail-end of the season eight finale, the lab is in chaos. Everyone is coughing, drooling and fainting all over the evidence as Horatio races back to the lab from Bob Starling's lecture hall to find out what Starling has done to his team. Once he saves the day by shooting out a window and letting oxygen into the lab, they set to work and discover that Halon gas has been fed straight into the air conditioning system. While Horatio managed to save the vast majority of his team and other colleagues, they suffer the tragic loss of CSI Jesse Cardoza (cause of death: cerebral hypoxia coupled with subdural hemorrhage from falling). The hunt begins for whoever was responsible for helping Starling to carry out his carefully made plans of destruction. |
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