CSIMascara
Original Air Date: Mar 2, 2009
Nicola – Associate Staff Writer
nicola@thetwocentscorp.com
It’s a rough day at Lucha Libre, and not just for the fighters. A young woman is weaving drunkenly through the crowds at the side of the ring, and she doesn’t look very happy about being intoxicated. In fact, she looks just a bit nervous. She stumbles out of the arena and onto the street, trying to hail a cab or an ambulance, but no one stops for her. She’s on her own… or is she? It seems that a masked luchador is in pursuit, and it isn’t too long before he catches up to her and kills her.
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It’s a rough day at Lucha Libre, and not just for the fighters. A young woman is weaving drunkenly through the crowds at the side of the ring, and she doesn’t look very happy about being intoxicated. In fact, she looks just a bit nervous. She stumbles out of the arena and onto the street, trying to hail a cab or an ambulance, but no one stops for her. She’s on her own… or is she? It seems that a masked luchador is in pursuit, and it isn’t too long before he catches up to her and kills her.
ReplyDeleteEnter the CSIs. She hasn’t been identified yet, but Ray takes one look at her and declares her Sylvia Mallick – one of his old students. One he was fairly close to, if the flashbacks are any indication.
Doc Robbins declares the death a result of spinal shock. When examining the body, Ray finds a piece of leather clamped in Sylvia’s hand. Very old leather, it seems. Deciding to investigate further into her life, Ray goes to her office on campus, where all her research for her thesis will be. He finds a copy of his book and in it a crime scene photo of the body of a young woman.
It’s from a serial case that happened about eleven years ago and was never solved. Women were murdered, all young Hispanic women, all with severed vertebrae. It seems that Sylvia was investigating the case and got too close to the killer.
Examining the old case files, it seems that tutura was used to subdue the vics. It was also used on Sylvia. Nick and Brass go to check out known tutura dealers to see what they have to say. Instead, they walk in on some sort of voodoo ritual – chanting and people in fits and trances. Well, that’s a demonstration of how tutura works…
Ray and Greg examine video footage of the path that Sylvia took the night she died. They trace her back to the luchador club and go to interview some of the fighters there. It turns out most of the fighters have a history of violence – doesn’t make things look good for any of them. From what they say, it sounds like Sylvia was poking around, asking them a lot of questions.
Now that they know her whereabouts, they have a better idea of what the leather is from. Ray manages to match it up to one of the luchador’s masks. It belongs to Phantasma, but the DNA on the mask doesn’t. The DNA belongs to the fight’s emcee, who seems a bit suspicious already. The Phantasma confronts the emcee and gets shot for his efforts. Brass and Ray go after him and manage to catch him, though he then says that Ogun, God of Violence, made him commit all the murders.
200th episode guys, really? Is that the best you can do? In my opinion, if you’re going to even draw attention to the fact that it’s a big milestone like 200th episode, you’ve got to bring it. You’ve got to make the episode worth the title you’ve assigned it. I was expecting some sort of retrospective, some sort of call back to the good old days with the old cast. Instead we got an episode dedicated to the new guy, and a not very good one at that. He was supposed to care about this girl but we only got snippets of that. This was an unsolved murder from eleven years ago! Surely that’s something to get excited about! But it wasn’t. It really wasn’t. I’m not alone in thinking this one was flat, am I?