CSI“Deep Fried and Minty Fresh”
Original Air Date: Feb 12, 2009
Nicola – TwoCents Reviewer
Nicola@thetwocentscorp.com
Looking for a drive-thru for a midnight snack? Better steer clear of Choozy’s Chicken, because they’re obviously not open past nightfall. The only people left at the restaurant seem to be a worker closing up the till and a bunch of hoodlums in ski masks hell-bent on driving the chicken statue through the front window. Not the best late-night clientele.
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Original Air Date: Feb 12, 2009
Nicola – TwoCents Reviewer
Nicola@thetwocentscorp.com
Looking for a drive-thru for a midnight snack? Better steer clear of Choozy’s Chicken, because they’re obviously not open past nightfall. The only people left at the restaurant seem to be a worker closing up the till and a bunch of hoodlums in ski masks hell-bent on driving the chicken statue through the front window. Not the best late-night clientele.
A little while later the CSIs are there to clean up the mess, but it’s not the mess of a demolished chicken. It’s a dead manager, Bob, lying dead on the oil-covered floor. His face is covered in fractures and bruises. It looks like he might have caught an employee living at the restaurant and paid the price. Riley spends some time looking for prints while Ray investigates the blood drops leading towards the body but the drag marks leading outside into the alley. He and Nick find an empty oil drum in the back alley belonging not to Choozy’s but to a Chinese restaurant.
Where is the woman who was closing the restaurant? We, omniscient viewers, no that not just Bob was closing that night. There should have been an employee by the name of Elizabeth Martin on call as well. Only $200 is missing from the drop safe, so it seems unlikely that she would have taken the money and run.
Catherine is heading up our other case, which is the death of Mrs. Tucker. Found handcuffed to her bed, dead, at first it isn’t evident how Mrs. Tucker would have died. Her husband is downstairs, passed out drunk. Evidently they were having monetary and marital troubles.
Back to Choozy’s, Bob’s death appears to be the result of trauma to the base of his skull. One suspect is Max, a former Choozy’s employee whose car mirror was found in the parking lot. When Nick and Ray go to investigate, though, they find that Max is only guilty of attempted chicken-theft. Back to the drawing board, so they bring in all the Choozy’s employees to print and swab them. Two are missing – Gary Comstock and Elizabeth. Perhaps it was Gary who was living out of the restaurant.
Evidence shows that Mrs. Tucker wasn’t sexually assaulted before death. She does, however, have an ulcer in her stomach. That and a bunch of minty blue stuff which turns out to be fluoride toothpaste – twelve ounces of it, which contains more than enough fluoride to kill a person. An overdose on toothpaste – that’s a new one for CSI. Funnily enough, there are two empty tubes of the stuff in the bathroom garbage can.
Some seemingly random evidence from Choozy’s: there is a handprint on the counter that is huge and doesn’t seem to match anyone. There is a blood drop on the manager’s office floor that turns out to be menstrual blood. After watching footage at the Chinese restaurant, they get the plate number off the van that has been stealing oil drums and follow it to some sort of commune for hippies. There they find Timothy, who has been stealing the food oil to make biodiesel. However, one of the drums is being used for more than that – it contains the body of Gary Comstock, who died from asphyxiating on hot oil. Also in the oil are Bob’s fried glasses and the $200 missing from the safe. Whoever made that handprint pushed Gary into the oil. After a bit more analyzing the print turns out to be Bob’s – just distorted and reversed. Elizabeth Martin turns up and says that Bob was molesting her in his office when Gary turned up. Looks like Bob killed Gary. So who killed Bob?
It’s determined that Bob probably just slipped on the greasy floor after he lost his glasses in the fryer and hit his head. The hazards of working at a fast food joint. Whoops!
As for Mrs. Tucker, though she tried very hard to make it look like her husband killed her, it turns out to be suicide. The toothpaste found in the garbage can does not match the toothpaste in her stomach, though Greg finds tubes in a neighbor’s garbage with Mrs. Tucker’s fingerprints. She blamed her husband for their ruin, though I am still not quite clear on why she went through the elaborate plot of killing herself with toothpaste.
Still. Writers of CSI: you get points for originality.
Toothpaste can kill you ... wild.
ReplyDeletePlease excuse me while I go yell at my children to never swallow toothpaste again.
I'm still not sure how I feel about Ray ~ I am so loving Riley though!! I would love to work a shift with her!