'CSI' Gets Up-Close And Personal In 'I Like To Watch'

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In the newest episode of CSI, entitled "I Like To Watch," Las Vegas deals with another serial rapist who pretends to be a fireman to gain instant access to women's apartments.

It's nighttime, but nearly morning, in Vegas, and all the partygoers are starting to come home. In an upscale building, a 20-something party girl is getting out of a cab outside her apartment building, drunk, and having a little trouble walking. She makes it to the 11th floor and it takes her a little more than necessary to insert her key into the lock, and when she finally does the door next to hers opens. Christina Young stumbles out of her apartment, naked and frightened, and falls into the party girl's arms.

While the CSIs work the scene, Sofia visits Christina at the hospital. Christina doesn't remember anything, and it's now Sofia's job to tell the young woman she's been sexually assaulted. Christina is in disbelief, but one look at her wrists and ankles confirms Sofia's story. Her skin is bruised and raw, meaning she was bound. One thing is to live through a rape, another is to see the evidence of it and not be able to trigger the faintest memory of it.

In Christina's apartment, the CSIs find a bouquet of flowers in her trashcan, and one of the fingerprints on a petal comes back to Dwight Reynolds. Brass talks to Dwight, otherwise known as Christina's ex-boyfriend. Dwight explains he and Christina still hook up every now and then, and just the night before he was en route to her apartment with the flowers. But as he neared her door, Dwight could plainly hear Christina was with another man. He dumped the flowers outside the building and left. Brass informs Dwight Christina was being raped at the time, not enamored. Dwight grows devastated about the fact that he could've stopped the rape but didn't. His emotional state tells Brass Dwight couldn't have done this, it also tells him the rapper might have picked up the flowers and taken them inside Christina's apartment.

Back at the lab, the CSIs take Hodges an unknown yellow material and he identifies it as Triple Trim, a reflective stripe used exclusively in firemen's turnouts. Brass and Catherine visit one of the Las Vegas's fire stations. Capt. Bob Hendricks tells them he and his team answered the call from Christina's apartment building, and found someone had set up a three smoke bombs in three different floors, including Christina's. The captain is a little annoyed, because two weeks ago another fire, also involving smoke bombs, was started in another building in town, resulting in the death of a woman, but the CSIs from the day shift never came up with a suspect. Could the two fires be connected?

Brass asks the captain which one of his firemen was on the 11th floor, but the captain doesn't have that information available now. However, when Brass informs him a woman was raped on the 11th floor by a man wearing a firemen's uniform, the captain gets agitated. His guys wouldn't do something as horrible as that. Catherine asks him which of his firemen wears yellow reflective types; the captain replies none, the department's color is orange, not yellow. The captain is relieved but the CSIs are not – they're either looking for a man with a fake costume or a fireman who doesn't work in Las Vegas, and this man, providing the Captain's information regarding the two fires, could strike again.

While the CSIs investigate this case they also have to deal with an outside intrusion. The sheriff has given permission to a film crew to follow the CSIs and detectives around for a documentary, and the producer is very interested not only the forensic procedures, but the human side of the story as well – meaning he's not afraid to push the envelope to over-dramatize the story. He has also done his research regarding the personal lives of the CSIs and detectives, and while some of them are able to keep their emotions in stride, others find it impossible to remain calm in front of the cameras when confronted about recent events in their personal lives.

Please note that the above plot details have not been confirmed by CBS, Alliance Atlantis or Bruckheimer Films, and until such time you should treat this information as you would any other rumour. The above information comes from early script drafts and the details and the airing order of the episodes are liable to change before the episodes are shown.

"I Like To Watch" will most likely air during March of 2006 on CBS.

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