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Crushed
Season 8
Episode Number: 169
Season Episode: 7
Originally aired: Friday November 11, 2011
Writer:
Kim Clements
Director: Duane Clark
Show Stars: Sela Ward (Josephine (Jo) Danville), Gary Sinise (Detective Mack ”Mac”
Taylor), Carmine Giovinazzo (Danny Messer), Anna Belknap (Lindsay
Monroe Messer), Robert Joy (Dr. Sid Hammerback), A.J. Buckley
(Adam Ross), Hill Harper (Dr. Sheldon Hawkes), Eddie Cahill (Detective
Donald ”Don” Flack, Jr.)
Guest Stars: Jason Wiles (John Curtis), Shanley Caswell (Rachel Weber), Valentina
de Angelis (Libby Drake), Blaise Embry (Jake Bennett), Olivia Crocicchia
(Kate Weber), Beau Garrett (Ali Rand), Juliet Brett (Erin Watson),
Dominic Colón (Mickey Nash)
Summary: When news of a high school house party goes viral, resulting in overcrowding,
a collapsed porch and a teenage girl’s death, the CSIs must
use social media to uncover the truth about how she died. Meanwhile,
Jo’s final case at the FBI returns to haunt her.
It’s looking like her innocent high school party is getting less innocent as people fill her house.
Texts go out and the number of people filling her house goes up exponentially. Every corner of
every floor ’jumpin.’ From the front door to the wooden balcony. Kids drinking too much, dancing
too much, total chaos as the party go-ers have no regard for the house that they inhabit. A couch
carried to the balcony door; passed from person to person until finally it’s thrown off of the edge
and into the yard. Too much weight for the wood to endure. It begins to ’creak,’ as it ’cracks’
and breaks, plummeting towards the ground; carrying the mass of people to the earth with it.
It crashes under them and they lie broken in the grass. Writhing and moaning in pain. Libby
Drake lies dead amongst them beneath the rubble. That morning at the scene Jo asks Don what
happened; ’Starts out as a group of high school juniors getting a buzz on. Party goes viral, jumps
to 700 in under 2 hours.’ Dr. Hammerback kneels over Libby. Jo is taking pictures of her. She
is bloodied and dirty, wearing a gold heart necklace. Her greenish blue eyes stare blankly into
the sky. Her cheek and forehead lacerated and most of her body covered in broken pieces of the
deck that once protruded from the house above. Dr. Hammerback looks into her eyes and sees
that she had been asphyxiated believing that the weight of the balcony compressed her body.
She would have been unable to breath with the weight on top of her. Jo mentions that there were
more than 50 people on the deck when it collapsed, plus a marble table. Danny is investigating
more of the wreckage he finds an 8 imprinted on something and examines it. It looks like a
fingerprint with an 8 in the middle/side of it. The pieces of wood are taken to the lab, to try to
determine why it broke under the people. Sheldon and Lindsey begin by seeing how much weight
the wood would have been able to support before breaking. They find that the wood would have
held all of the people but the addition of the marble table was too much. The person that brought
out the marble table ’could be guilty of manslaughter.’
Libby’s boyfriend Jake tells Don; ’It sounded like an earthquake.’ ’I was just praying that
Libby wasn’t on the deck.’ Don walks away and tells Danny that nobody knows anything or they
aren’t willing to give up the people responsible. Don takes his print and goes to the hospital. He
begins looking over some of the victims he comes to a boy unconscious in his bed. A girl sitting
in the bed next to him, her leg sprained from the accident. She tells Danny that the boy’s name
is Stephen. As the nurse is checking Stephen, Danny looks at Stephen’s hand. There is a welt on
it in the shape of the number ’8.’ Danny asks the girl if she had known anybody ’else’ that had
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