- Hodges and Wendy pose as CSIs to impress a group of "Crime Cadets" and get some help in solving a crime, and Hodges becomes jealous when Henry asks Wendy out. Meanwhile, Nick and Greg solve a bacteria outbreak at the police station.
- Bright questions and answers from "crime cadets" Guillermo Seidel and Melvin Dodge inspire peacock-proud 'forensic instructors' David Hodges and Wendy to present them a real, yet unsolved case. Nick works out for real how half the precinct got infected. Henry becomes the butt of cruel pranks after Wendy agrees to go out with him.—KGF Vissers
- Hodges is assigned to supervise the work of crime cadets that wants to be CSI investigators. He invites the youths Katy Cypress and her friend Guillermo to join him in the investigation of a mysterious open case. He poses of CSI and when Wendy arrives in the laboratory, she also poses of CSI. Meanwhile Henry invites Wendy to have dinner with him and immediately after, his life becomes hell on earth with several pranks. Nick investigates why several police officers have been intoxicated in a police station.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- "CSI" - "Field Mice" - April 16, 2010
It's an episode on the lighter side tonight with teen CSIs and a round of food poisoning at the station.
It's night in Vegas and Nick is dropping Hodges off at a crime scene. Hodges worries that he's not ready for this yet. Nick says he has to be and scoots him out of the car. Hodges enters a grisly high school shooting scene. Students and teachers lay in pools of blood. That is until one student sits up and starts laughing. Another student, taking crime scene photos admonishes him. As does Hodges. It turns out this a staged scene for the "crime cadets" program, high school students interested in law enforcement
Two students in particular, Katy and Guillermo are sick of this kid stuff and would love to get their hands on a real crime. Hodges, seeing their eagerness and a kindred spirit in the nerdy Guillermo, who studies fungi and spores, decides to bring them back to the lab and let them loose on an unsolved case from a few months back.
The case involved the discovery of a naked dead woman, completely untouched and unburned in the middle of a totally burned out apartment complex.
In Hodges version of events he pretends that he and Wendy were at the scene, making themselves out to be brilliant, pithy, conquering CSI heroes, Brass a tippling cynic and Ray a valiant, brilliant, hilarious trace technician. When David presents his evidence to the kids he makes Robbins out to be a maniacal, lazy, glory hound.
Working from what is clear from the evidence, including that the unidentified female victim was already dead before the fire, the kids try out several theories. They work out that the fire was not arson as suspected but the accidental result of an absent-minded/smell-impaired utility technician leaving off the gas cap and an igniting furnace. They also puzzle out that the cause of death was accidental overdose. While Wendy and Hodges are impressed, the kids never quite figure out the mystery of the girl being untouched in the fire.
Which is okay because neither did the CSI's. It turns out that the burned out apartment complex was deemed structurally unsound and the gang had to suspend it's investigation into the woman's death. Luckily for Wendy, Hodges and the kids though, the building is safe again so they take a field trip.
While sifting through the ruins Guillermo confronts Hodges, busting him for lying about being a CSI. Hodges admits it and then Guillermo makes an eloquent case about how the work of analysts like DNA-susser outer Wendy and Trace superhero Hodges are as critical to the criminal justice system as the field agents. To prove this point one of the student's and the fingerprint gal discovers the dead woman's passport and a pair of jeans with a fluid stain.
Upon examination they find some DNA, exclude the victim's, and call in the other apartment complex dwellers to gather their DNA. One particularly sweaty guy is pulled aside by Brass. In interrogation the story comes to light: a young man in the complex hit it off with the young woman, they partied, she combined the wrong meds, when he woke up she was dead. He panicked and stuffed her in a box full of packing peanuts thinking he would dump it somewhere but when he came home after work and saw the building destroyed by fire he thought he had gotten lucky.
Katy, who watches the confession, is awed by the whole system and can't wait to be a part of it. When Brass comes out she compliments him on pulling his life together, presumably through rehab. Brass is not amused.
While all of this was going on, lab tech Henry decided to ask Wendy out on a date. First, he followed protocol and asked Hodges if it was okay. Hodges is obviously taken aback due to his own deep crush on Wendy but he gives his okay. Henry asks her out and she says yes. He then falls victim to a series of pranks: a malfunctioning piece of equipment, a sabotaged radiator hose, a locker full of glue to which he gets his hands and face stuck that seem designed by Hodges to make him cancel the date. It turns out, however, that the culprit is Wendy who has been waiting patiently for the man she really wants - Hodges- to make a move. Henry ultimately cancels the date but asks for a raincheck. Wendy says yes, but then tell Hodges it will never happen. She turns to walk away and then turns back and kisses him.
In the B story Nick and Greg have their hands full when a bunch of cops simultaneously come down with a nasty sickness that involves vomiting. After processing all of the food they ate, poor Henry, it turns out that the culprit is a box of tainted pastries that was deliberately given to one of the men by his angry ex-girlfriend who also happens to be a nurse at the hospital where they're being treated.
Fun Fact: The teleplay for tonight's lab tech hero/sick cops story was written by Wendy - Liz Vassey- and Hodges - Wallace Langham).
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