User Reviews

In this episode Lady Heather (we know from past episodes) is found wounded in an old western tourist-town and refuses to name her attacker. Sara finally gets to meet Lady H in the hospital. Even tho lots of viewer comments have been made that Sara is "upset" about Grissom/Lady Heather relationship, I see her as being very curious. Catherine has yacked on and on about the chemistry between Gil Grissom and Heather and it makes Sara uncomfortable, but not angry. The scene in the hospital shows Sara as being very kind and polite then Grissom walks in and he's the one who has the "Oh, S**t" look on his face. He gets to work on the case, even spending the night at Heather's house where he is found by Brass and Catherine. There is a curious twist to the outcome and we get to see Joe Penny as a bad guy. Grissom helps Heather see her granddaughter and all ends well. (Off-camera--Except he still has to go home to Sara! And maybe this is the last we will ever see of Lady Heather as she gets to play with her granddaughter.)

What happened: There is a crime scene with a victim that is a dominatrix who we find out later to be Lady Heather herself, she had been strangled but survived the attack. You can see Gil's concern as soon as he finds out. Lady Heather failed to tell the hospital about being diabetic she goes in to shock... fast forwarding we find out Lady Heather has a grand daughter who is 3 or 4 named Allison we find out Heather sold her Business and gave nearly 1 million dollars to Allison after being denied visitation rights. Gil starts to suspect something Lady Heather was trying to die at the crime scene it almost occurs again, but Gil foils that and talks to Allisons grandfather into letting Heather see her and after that all appears well. And thats that.

Why "Lady Heather" (Melinda Clarke) always is portrayed in a sympathetic light despite being a killer and a sex pervert, is a testimony to Hollywood and its mindset. Anyway, after an absence of a year and only one part over three years of CSI, she's back, this time the victim more than a "perp." I can't feel totally sympathetic, however, to a woman who willingly has a noose put around her neck! Even though "Gil" (William Petersen) has the hots for fellow CSI worker "Sara Sidle" (Jorja Fox), he still has a very soft heart for Heather. Sara has to deal with that, although Gil is just friends with the dominatrix now.

Clarke, who looks prettier now than when she was younger in this series, is almost strangled to death by a rope in this family-friendly western town, run by a scummy guy and his son as some sort of Old West-amusement area.

Unfortunately, it doesn't take a Sherlock Holmes to figure out who is behind the attempted murder of "Heather" and the death of the night security guard. That's because the only two guys seen in the town were the father and son! So, duh, obviously one of them is responsible for the violence in this made-up-for-fun town.

There is a happy ending with "Heather," though, and - who knows - she might even be a normal grandma type!

In a second crime story, a woman is killed, apparently hit in the head by the bumper of a cab, but there are no lower body bruises nor tire tracks on her. In other words, she wasn't standing and she wasn't lying on the ground. What happened turns out to be a strange event. I like how "Nick Stokes" (George Eads) handles this case and the speech he gives to a cab driver near the end.

In all, this is a decent episode, nothing super but okay. It leads us to - what I hope - is a great season finale, dealing with the "Miniature Killer."