10.08 | Lover's Lane

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Lover's Lane

Episode Number: 10.08 | #214

Season 10

Original Air Date: November 19, 2009

Writer(s): Dustin Lee Abraham

Director(s): Andrew Bernstein

Synopsis: The CSI's investigate a murder at a bowling alley after a critical piece of evidence is revealed during a bowling tournament.

Guest Stars:

Larry Mitchell (Officer Mitchell)
Devon Gummersall (Kyle "X" Chatts)
Marcus Giammatti (Chevy Cigs)
Ashley Jones (Shea Lammet)
Blake Shields (Ronald Tobin)
Scott McNairy (Vitas Long)
Elizabeth Lambert (Carla York)
Jos Viramontes (Public Defender)
Jennifer Crystal Foley (Jennifer Delaney)
Michael VIllani (Color Announcer)
J.T. Jackson (Play by Play Announcer)
Annabella Salvati (Eva)

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Episode Summary

Kyle "X" Chatts and Chevy Cigs are bowling in a tournament, head to head. Cigs reaches for his ball for the next frame and instead finds a disembodied head. Greg and Sara arrive to take photos and Brass informs them that the head once belonged to Ronald Tobin, who worked at the counter. His girlfriend is on the premises, she also works at the bowling lane. Greg and Sara head to behind the scenes to look for the body. Greg only finds a bowling bag with blood in it. Nick arrives at the scene and Greg explains how the head got from the back to the ball return area. Greg also realizes there may be a camera inside of the pin staging area. Nick heads out front to look for the victim's car. He finds a body sleeping in the car...Vitas claims to be a friend of Ronald's and he's homeless. Vitas said that Ron got him a job at the bowling supply company.

Meanwhile, Ray arrives in a prison to find a inmate hanging. Her defense attorney claims that the victim, Carla, claimed she was innocent. He explains that Carla had no GSR on her hands, although she did have shooting experience. The victim's sister Hannah was there and had called 911. Hannah was not a suspect because a movie stub proved she was out of the house. The only other person who was in the home was their 11 month old daughter. The jury took five hours to make a conviction and that she was dead five hours after that. Ray looks over the photos of the hanging scene and the original crime scene.

Caroline arrives in the autopsy room for the head autopsy. A head saw or a box saw was responsible and the decapitation was post mortem. Lung tissue was found in the nose, possibly due to a gun shot. Sara talks with Shea, the girlfriend, and confirms that Ron knew Vitas. Earlier in the day Ron was working and he didn't have any enemies to speak of. Ron had been a wannabe pro bowler, and he had beat the "X" man at a pick up game. Sara processes the fingerprints and finds out that the "X" man has a rap sheet. Brass speaks with him and tells him that his bowling bag was the one that had blood in it. He claims that the bag was stolen the first day of the competition. Brass shows him tweets that prove that "X" and Ron had a match. (Is Twitter now usable in a court of law?) "X" admits he was mad, but not able to be in two places at once.

Ray processes evidence from the old case to figure out why Carla killed herself. He got the same entry wound path from two different angles. Because the bullet was a hollow-point, he explains to a mystified Hodges, it will be effected by the windshield that the bullet went through. Greg shows Nick the pin-setter cameras and the killer's hands. However, there is another shot from the night before of Vitas behind the lanes. They visit Vitas at his place of work and Brass hauls him off. Nick and Catherine find the murder weapon - a saw - and follow a trail of blood outside to a pool of blood that has been cleaned up. They find the bullet in the wall of the garage. They follow the trail of wood splinters to a crate that has the body inside. Brass questions Vitas, who is high. Vitas claims that he was behind the lanes to knock over pins for Ron the night he was going up against "X" but that he didn't kill Ron.

Ray and Hodges go on location to find the bullet's true path. The shot came from the backyard and they find GSR on the brick near the house. They realize that the sister committed the murder. Ray questions Hannah, who has custody of the couple's daughter. He tells her they know she killed him and that the framing was accidental. Ray convinces her to spare the trouble and turn herself in now. She says that the original victim, the husband, had three other children with other women and was a scumbag. She says that whoever killed the victim did the daughter a favor - she doesn't admit it. The daughter is taken into child services and Hannah is taken away.

Catherine, Nick, Sara and Greg go over the evidence. Vitas and "X" were both in front of the lanes and Vitas didn't have time to place the head and get back up to the front. They decide to test it out to see how fast it could be done. Greg drops a fake head and then runs to the front. It took 13 seconds. Back at the lab, Sara and Nick look at the footage of the event. Vitas was there the entire time....but Ron's girlfriend Shea was moving from the backside of the lanes. Sara questions Shea about her running, she said it was because she was going to get her birth control pills. Catherine presents her with her handbag which has been slashed. She said that Chevy Cigs gave it to her and that they fell in love.

Chevy Cigs is questions by Brass. In his apartment, there are bullets similar to the one that killed Ron. Cigs had broken up with Thea because of Ron, and he says that Shea stole the bullets and did it herself.s Catherine and Sara process Chevy's clothes and bowling ball because his story doesn't add up. The blood in the bowling ball came from the victim...they realize he was involved and must have left blood under his nails. The police come to collect Chevy just as he's about to throw the winning ball in the match. He throws it and wins the match, but gets hauled off the prison. Sara goes back to talk to Shea. Shea says that Ron forced her to lure Chevy to the bowling ball warehouse. Chevy shot Ron and then carted him into the box. Chevy left and Shea decided she was fed up and wanted to give Chevy something he wouldn't forget. She remains optimistic that Chevy will get out before her since it was self defense, and hopes they'll be together.

The episode ends with the team bowling together.

Plot of Primary Crime

CSIs Working the Case:

Catherine Willows
Nick Stokes
Greg Sanders
Sara Sidle

Crime Scene: a bowling alley

Body Count: 1

Victim: Ron Tobin	Sex: Male
Age: mid-30s	Occupation: bowling alley worker

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COD: gunshot wound to the chest

TOD:

Autopsy Report: (ie. bruises on upper left arm) lung tissue in the nose

A/V Evidence:

Ballistic Evidence:

DNA Evidence: victim's blood in a bowling ball

Fingerprint Evidence: challenger's fingerprints on the bowling bag

Toxicology Evidence:

Trace Evidence:

Questionable Document Evidence:

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Suspect: Vitas	Sex: Male
Age: late 20s/early 30s	Relationship with victim(s): friend

Evidence Against Suspect: Victim killed at his place of business

Killer: Chevy Cigs/Shea Lammet	Sex: Male/Female
Age: unknown	Relationship with victim(s): acquaintance/girlfriend

Motive: Chevy killed Ron in self defence, Shea cut off his head to mess with Chevy

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Plot of Secondary Crime

CSIs Working the Case:

Dr. Ray Langston

Crime Scene: prison

Body Count: 1

Victim: Carla York	Sex: Female
Age: late 20s/early 30s	Occupation: unknown

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COD: hanging

TOD: five hours after sentencing

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| Great Moments (Gruesome, Romantic, Funny etc.)

- Finding the body with the bugs all over it.

- Greg's awesome geekiness about bowling, and his dice ball

- The whole team bowling at the end

| Great Quotes

- Sara: A ball without a bag, head without a body, at least we know what we're looking for.

- "X man": I'm a bowler, I'm not Criss Angel.

- Hodges: Was this a day-shift case? Those lazy incompetent bastards!

- Brass: I'm challenging notorious BIG can't you tell?

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| Great Acting Moments

- Cathy's sister Hannah explaining why she did it, without really saying she did it.

- Sara's disbelief at Shea's statements.

- The team bowling together.

| Rate the Episode

4 stars

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| Questions/Plot Danglers

- Will the whole "Ray's dad" thing come into play sometime? He sure does mention him a lot.

-Who won the bowling game? Nick or Greg?

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Videos

CBS PROMO	CBS Clip: Just in time for the head-topsy
CBS Clip: Bag without a ball, head without a body	CBS Clip: Infestation
CBS Clip: The entire CSI team take a night off to let loose and go bowling.	CBS Clip: She comes clean to Sara about how she and Chevy were involved in the murder.

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You can chat about this episode before/during and after it airs! It looks like a great Nick episode!
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Nov 27 2009, 3:36 PM EST by Moochiecat2009

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You can chat about this episode before/during and after it airs! It looks like a great Nick episode!

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ok so im soooooo stoked for this episode

Nov 6 2009, 5:05 PM EST by kahvitz

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im soooo stoked you could call me nick. but two things: riley isnt on the team any more and shes posted as an investigator another i bet the team goes bowling at the end of the episode. lucky! i cant go bowling anymore cuz my bf broke his hand and thats wut we do as a couple :(

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