This week the CSI team has a rare case. The victim is still alive.  It has been a long time since I have seen an episode of CSI with a live victim. It was quite refreshing. The crew has to pull out all stops to uncover the facts that will bring justice.  The Episode begins with the beating of a teenager in an alley.

Catherine and Nick (George Eads)  are called to the scene. Nick decides to follow the teenager to the hospital. Once there, Nick meets Mark, the boy’s brother, and learns his name is Tommy Baker. When Nick tries to process Tommy, he freaks out.  Back at the scene of the crime, Catherine talks to a prostitute that found him and gathers evidence.

Ray and Greg are called to an electronics store, where there was a fire.

The man in the fire was actually shot.  Wayne Smith was the victim. He owned the store. Greg found a bag full of jewelry. Greg also found the register empty and that Wayne had recorded the serial number of a twenty as bait for the thieves. Apparently, Wayne may have been running a financing business on the side. After investigation of the jewelry, Greg traces some of it to a stripper. They discover Wayne was dating a stripper and had stolen from some of the girls at the club.

Nick is on a desperate search to find Tommy after he ran from the hospital. Research reveals that Tommy may have been raped by his attacker. He feels ashamed and scared. Then it is revealed that Wayne was Tommy’s attacker. Wayne’s sister confesses that she killed her brother because he was over protective and abusive. Catherine finds out that Tommy and Wayne’s sister where dating. They were going to run away together. He was robbing the store for the money they needed. But when Wayne found out that she and Tommy had slept together, he went to the store for his gun. After Wayne attacked Tommy, the sister said she shot him. Tommy then tells police that he killed Wayne. Then Mark, Tommy’sbrother, said he killed Wayne. It’s madness. Everybody was covering for everybody.

Mark’s fingerprints were found on the matches that caught the store on fire, but he said he through the gun away. The gun was found in the register. A piece of an acrylic nail was found in the register and Greg realizes that Wayne’s girlfriend had fake nails. After all that, the girlfriend shot him when he attacked her. Mark came upon the body, thinking Tommy did it and burnt the place down.

This episode was a wild ride. This is the second episode in a row that two victims were connected. I still haven’t seen anything else about the intestinal bow tie guy. Where is he? Next week we will have a three show crossover. CSI: NY, CSI: Miami and CSI: Crime Scene Investigations will work together to catch one criminal.