Sleepless in Miami - Recap

A man named Jason Reger finds himself having strange hallucinations, as well as slipping in and out of consciousness. He goes between his bathroom and the everglades. He sees himself dismembering and burying the body parts of a male victim who at first appears to be himself, but turns out to be someone else. Horatio, Natalia and Ryan find Jason in the everglades after Jason himself called 911 to report the murder (though he does not realize or remember that he actually called them himself). They remind him that he called in the murder, saying it was himself.

Natalia, ever the skeptic, begins to grill Jason. She believes that he is working a “dream defense”, and that he is trying to claim that he was asleep and dreaming, so that there is no way he could have known that he killed the man, which would make him not guilty by reason of temporary insanity. The reason she rationalizes this, as well as the reason she instantly does not buy his story, is because something very similar happened to her personally when she was attacked, which is an ongoing storyline originating from a previous time much further back, perhaps even before the timeline of the show.

When they finally get to the house to look for any evidence, they put forward the idea that Jason fell in the tub exactly where the body was, where all the blood was, where the main crime scene is designated. They immediately instruct officers to dust for prints and to take photos of the scene. There is a plastic fish they find in the drain, which turns out to be a “psychic trick” used for romance purposes. They decide that it is the “business card” of a practicing psychic named Elena Manus, who they now must track down and interview.

The body is later identified in the database as that of a man named Brandon Garrett. It comes out that he was to be the ex husband of Stacy Garrett, who the detectives find after learning of his last place of employment. They speak to Stacy, the co-owner of the Black Opal spa where he had worked before he died. Horatio then finds himself under the sneaking suspicion that Stacy might actually have put a hit out on Brandon, the man who was soon to be her ex husband. This is because of her product line of treatments for women for the home.

Natalia then is assigned to go undercover to meet with the psychic to see if she might have had something to do with the hit, which is the current line of thinking. During their session, Elena, as a clever part of her shtick, goes and lights a candle to “realign her aura”, then begins to turn on some creepy music, and then she begins to chant. Ryan and Horatio are covertly listening in from a van not too far away. They soon quickly realize that the chanting and the music is actually on a constant loop and that something very suspicious is happening or has happened to Natalia. They realize that have to act quickly so that they can find her before something terrible happens, if it has not happened already.

When they track her by global positioning satellite, they discover her in an abandoned warehouse, where they realize she is having hallucinations. This is the lab according to Natalia’s state of hallucinations, and firing her service weapon, which they successfully take away from her. Turns out, the smoke from the candle contained a drug that causes hallucinations. This is the same candle that was lit to put Jason under hallucination. We learn that Stacy wanted Brandon dead for financial gain and hired Elena to alter his energy so he would die. Elena, who is ousted as being a fraud, panics in the middle of her session with Brandon when he suddenly drops dead to the floor. She becomes suddenly terrified as she starts to think that maybe she actually killed him by somehow sucking the life out of him. What really happened was that he had been poisoned by Peter, who is the lover of Stacy and the therapist working at the spa.

Brandon is found incapacitated, he was hit with a deadly neurotoxin that is now in his body. The neurotoxin was determined to have derived from a cone snail housed in a tremendous aquarium at the salon. The reality of this situation is that Elena had actually drugged Jason and then she fed him instructions to get rid of the body of Brandon. Peter makes a quick attempt to get away, but he dies in the middle of the chase while running from the cops. Elena is charged with the murder, and Stacy gets to walk, she is a free woman. Horatio replaces the gun clip from the gun manned by Natalia, which therefore eliminates any evidence that she ever fired at Horatio and Ryan while under hallucination. They do not wish to implicate her because she is a good, valuable detective, and because it is the right thing to do, as she was under conditions of intense strain when she pulled the trigger.

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