Pool Shark - Recap

Everybody is partying hearty in a casino’s hotel pool. Part of the pool
is adjacent to an aquarium full of sharks, etc. A fin is seen in the
pool, by a blond who can’t get anyone’s attention because the party is
so loud. When the shark takes a young woman’s arm off, there’s a mad
scramble to vacate the pool.

The Captain tells Catherine this is his first shark call. The victim’s
name is Desiree Maguire, 28. She’s a cocktail waitress at the Golden
Nugget. Katherine wonders how they’re going to get the shark out of
there, so they can get their victim out as well. Dr. Holloway informs
her that a saltwater tiger shark in a fresh water pool is a lethal
combination. They’ll have her out in a few minutes.

The casino owner completely insults Katherine by repeatedly calling her
“Sam’s Little Girl”. She tells him get behind the tape, this is an
active crime scene, and she wouldn’t even let the sheriff in it. Nick
says that’s Earnest Boozell, huh. And Katherine says “The biggest shark
in Vegas.”

Catherine and Sarah are questioning Dr. Holloway. Every sentence he
utters is preceded by “Mr. Boozell wants you to know.” The tiger sharks
are behind 8” of plexiglass, and uses a completely different plumbing
system than the pool. They then talk to Mr. Boozell. He is as rude and
arrogant as he was earlier. Sarah takes over the interaction and tells
him yes, his manifest did check out but now they need access to his
surveillance. All of it.

Sarah tells Nick that there’s a blind spot on the pool cams, and they go
check it out. They find a partial joint near the pool in the blind spot.

Wendy is running tests on the blunt when David walks in. He wants to
pick up where they left off. She says now’s not good, but they should
definitely talk later.

Langston shows up for the autopsy on the shark victim. Robbins finds a
shark tooth with no blood on it. He then says that there was no blood
flowing through the tissue. Langston says she bled out in the pool - and
how can both things be true?

The Captain and Nick tell Boozell’s promotor that his fingerprints on
the blunt put him in the blind spot where the shark was probably placed
in the pool. He says he’s grateful for his job, since he’s done time;
why would he blow that. He used to work for Macklin, the casino across
the way. Nick realizes that Macklin has an aquarium, sharks, and a day
club that would benefit from Boozell’s bad luck. Instead of clearing
Drops, it makes him look more guilty - that he would take money from
Macklin to look the other way.

Boozell wonders why Drops would bite the hand that feeds him. He gave
him the promoting job right after Macklin threw him out. He says no pun
intended, but it sounds like you’re fishing. Catherine rejoins that
maybe she is testing the waters, trying to get a little background.
Katherine, as a Vegas insider, knows the whole story behind the
Macklin/Boozell rivalry. Boozell puts the pieces together and announces
he’s going to kill Macklin. Catherine offers him a bit of free advice:
never say that in front of a cop.

Langston is trying to put the pieces together with regards to the shark
attack victim. It appears that she was dead before the shark ever took a
bite, but she still would have had to bleed out, and she didn’t. They
look further, and flip her over. They find an injection point in the
middle of her back, and a bit of coral color from the raft she was
floating on. Apparently she was injected, it drew blood, and the shark
went right for her. This explains why Desiree was singled out. The shark
is only guilty of biting a dead woman, and her killer is still out there.

Henry greets Dr. Ray, tells him it’s good to have him back. Got a COD on
the shark victim, heroin overdose on a first-time user.

Nick tells Dr. Ray, as they are watching the video footage, that from
the time she got on the raft and until she was attacked, there are no
clear shots of Desiree. She’s wearing a lot of jewelry when she gets on
the raft - so where is it? Langston thinks since the shark probably
thrashed her around a bit, maybe her jewelry is at the bottom of the pool.

Henry and David are talking about Wendy. Hodges is asking questions, but
Henry says they’re just friends. Hodges says “friends with benefits?”
but Henry doesn’t know what that means. He leaves as Wendy arrives for
her talk with Hodges. She looks very tense and uncomfortable. He asks if
this is the talk later bit, and she says yes. Is it about Henry? No. She
says it’s about “you and me”. She tells him she got a new job. In
Portland. It’s pretty much her dream job, but of course this means the
end for them. He finds out that Henry and Catherine knew before he did.
Wendy bursts into tears and hugs him, saying good-bye. She leaves.

Catherine arrives to question Macklin. He says that if he had a shark
missing, he’d be the first to know. She retorts yes, but would you tell
me. Macklin says he wouldn’t put it past Boozell to put a shark in his
own pool, and point the finger at Macklin. He invites Catherine to lunch
- shark. She passes, saying that’s one of the biggest reasons sharks are
becoming extinct.

Henry and Hodges are cleaning the pool where the attack took place.
Hodges asks how long Henry knew Wendy was leaving. Henry says she asked
his opinion a couple of months ago, and he thought it was a great
opportunity. Hodges accuses him of shoving her out the door. Things
start getting heated when Henry informs Hodges that he’s the one that
couldn’t close. He couldn’t take her home because he LIVES at home.
Hodges attempts to drown him, and while Henry is down there,he finds the
syringe/murder weapon. Nick gets a print off of it, and asks Henry to
run it through tox, to make sure it’s the same needle used on Desiree.

He gets a match on the fingerprint, one Anya Sanchez. She tries to bribe
the guys with the jewelry she’s stolen. Nick tells her it’s not that
easy, and she says it could be. They show her a shot of Desiree before
she was stripped of all her jewelry and tell her she should recognize
her, since she appears to be in possession of all of her jewelry. Anya
says it’s no big, just robbery. She’ll post bail and take a couple of
days off work. She had no idea that the heroin injection was a fatal
overdose, and she is in deep serious.

Catherine and Nick discuss where this leaves them. Anya did kill
Desiree, but that had nothing to do with who put a shark in Boozell’s pool.

Dr. Holloway is in the autopsy room with Al and Dr. Ray. He says the
shark is a young one, maybe 5-6 years old. She would have lived another
30 years if she hadn’t been exposed to the pool’s filtration system.
They open the shark and remove Desiree’s arm. She is from the wild, off
the Florida Keys. He has no idea how she came to be in Vegas. After he
leaves, they find pieces of freshly cut fish in her belly, and Al
declares Holloway a liar. Dr. Ray discovers there’s a sanded patch on
the shark’s fin, and he figures that if you can remove a VIN from a car,
why not an ID from a shark.

He uses a picture and the computer to recover the id on the shark;
GC1003. The first two letters indicate genus and species, then the year
purchased, then the third time a shark was purchased for that particular
aquarium. There is a very short list of what casinos have sharks, and
Catherine already knows who she wants to talk to first.

Macklin says the shark in question had a tapeworm, and was eating him
out of house and home. It costs $15,000 per fish to feed her, and she
was eating them like potato chips. She was even eating baby sharks. He
had Dr. Holloway come and cart her away. Macklin tells Catherine to get
that disposal with a fin off his property or he’ll turn it into a buffet
special. Boozell barges into the room, yelling at Macklin. Catherine
calls for their attention and announces that the interview is over, and
they will be escorted out.

Nick and Sarah find Dr. Holloway floating in the aquarium, dead. At the
autopsy, Al tells Nick that it could be carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide,
cyanide; dealer’s choice, pal. Nick takes Holloway’s oxygen tank for
testing. Hodges is very depressed over the loss of Wendy, Nick tells him
to buck up and get to work. He gets results; somebody put car exhaust in
the tank. So the question becomes, who had more to gain by putting
Macklin’s shark in Boozell’s pool? Hodges says he can narrow it down a
bit. They’re looking for a pre-70’s vintage car. Boozell’s Aston-Martin
is a perfect match. He says he didn’t do it. Last night he and Macklin
broke bread together at Carne’s, and Macklin asked if they could bury
the hatchet. Boozell told him, consider it squashed. He gives Catherine
his word, he didn’t do it.

Catherine remembers her dad telling her that just because you say it’s
squashed, doesn’t mean it’s squashed.

Catherine and Sarah go to Carne’s. They find a hose that smells like
exhaust. They ask the valet if he saw anything and he says no, but he
looks abashed when Catherine announces it looks like they have
themselves an eye witness (in the form of an ATM camera).

Macklin is being questioned. Catherine informs him that the valet gave
him up, and his attorney advises him to give no comment. Al puts the
whole story together, and Macklin remains silent. Apparently, killing
Holloway was a last ditch effort to frame Boozell, using the exhaust
from his Aston-Martin.

Boozell says he’s just like Catherine’s dad. So is she, but only
passionate and hardworking. She’s not driven by the money like Boozell
is. He asks her if it’s squashed, and she says she doesn’t swim with s

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