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Playing With Matches
Season 4
Episode Number: 85
Season Episode: 14
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Wednesday February 6, 2008 on CBS
Bill Haynes
Christine Moore
Anna Belknap (Lindsay Monroe), Carmine Giovinazzo (Danny Messer),
Gary Sinise (Detective Mack ”Mac” Taylor), Melina Kanakaredes (Detective
Stella Bonasera), Eddie Cahill (Detective Donald ”Don” Flack,
Jr.), Hill Harper (Dr. Sheldon Hawkes)
Emmanuelle Vaugier (Det. Jennifer Angell), Bess Wohl (Kendall Novak),
A.J. Buckley (Adam Ross), Robert Joy (Sid)
Guest Stars: Jason Chambers (Mercury), Nicole Marie Lenz (Concrete Cowgirl/Sandra),
Reid Scott (Seth Riggins), Aaron Behr (Vinnie Parson),
Brad Graiff (Attorney), Christopher Bello (John Szabo)
Production Code: 85
Summary:
The team must figure out how a self-cleaning restroom leads to a
drowning. The team also investigates the death of a man who was
set on fire and flew into a fire truck.
A team of firefighters responding to a call are shocked when a burning man literally slams
into their truck. Sid determines the victim died from smoke inhalation when toxic fumes filled
his helmet, and a patch from the Mercury 3 shuttle and the victim’s odd trajectory make the
CSIs wonder if he did in fact fall from the sky. Sid also makes note of a meat thermometer found
by the victim and apparently used to stab him. Kendall Novack offers another theory when she
reassembles wood and ceramic debris from the scene and concludes that the victim was a luge
racer. Kendall shows Danny and Lindsay that the luge their victim was using was homemade,
but notes that his suit was state-of-the-art. Lindsay also notes the victim was covered in a variety
of accelerants, indicating he may have been doused and set on fire. Using their victim’s estimated
velocity at the time he hit the fire truck, Danny and Lindsay are able to determine he was riding
his board on 45th street between 6th and 8th. When they go to the location, Lindsay discovers a
dip in the road that may have caused their vic to fly off it and into the air. Lindsay finds a metal
wheel at the scene and Danny gets a call from Kendall: the patch was purchased off of eBay by
a user named ”Mercury.” Danny and Detective Angell track down a luge racing match and are
able to find Mercury, who identifies their victim as ”Demon,” aka Deckman Hollister. He admits
to participating in a brutal race with Demon and to stabbing him with a meat thermometer, but
denies killing his rival.
Lindsay is able to recover a logo on the metal wheel: Concrete Cowgirl. Concrete Cowgirl,
whose real name is Sandra Cook, is a professional luge racer with big company endorsements.
The suit she’s wearing in the picture on her website matches the one Deckman was wearing
when he died. Danny questions her and she tells him she sent Demon the suit after he broke
her official speed record. She raced down the same path Deckman took, hoping to match his
speed, but she toppled over before she reached his speed. She insists she didn’t kill him, saying
she’d never jeopardize her career. Danny and Lindsay return to the lab to recreate the conditions
for Deckman’s race, and Danny recalls it was raining lightly the night Deckman died. The CSIs
realize the rain would have brought up oils from the street, coating Deckman’s suit. When they
conclude that Deckman must have lost control and tried to stop the luge racer, they look at his
shoes and realize the steel beneath the sole ignited the fire–and sent Deckman to his accidental
death.
A woman’s dead body is literally washed out of a public toilet. Stella identifies her as Vanessa
Matlin, a twenty-three-year old social worker. Mac notices defensive wounds on her arms, and
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