Unfriendly Chat - Recap

A girl wearing a shirt and panties creates some electronic music on her
computer, and dances on videocam. She jumps from two young teen-age
girls watching, to an asian male, to Adam Ross, in the lab. He types
hello, and she types back, continuing to smile and dance. Adam catching
sight of Mac going past his office and getting on the elevator, and
alt-tabs out of the dancer screen, then back in. He tells her his name,
and she says if she told him her name, she’d have to kill him. As she is
saying that, she is garroted. While she is thrashing to try to stay
alive, she kicks down her computer. The last thing he sees is her laying
on the floor.

Adam runs down the stairs, calling Mac’s name. He’s hoping to catch him
when the elevator lands, and before he leaves the building. He’s too
late. He calls Mac on the cell phone. Mac returns, and he tells him that
he was on lookingatyou.com, and they open up a live text and video feed
between two random computers. He describes the attacker, as wearing a
mask, medium build, dark clothing and gloves, with a cord to choke the
victim with. He tried to record the feed but it was too late.

Jo’s on the phone with her 18 y/o. She says to use duct tape to get the
younger sibling to stay in bed, and there’s pizza in the fridge. Jo and
Mac ask Adam if he is certain that what he saw was real, and he said
yes. Mac says they have their work cut out for them, and Don says no
kidding. We don’t know who our killer is, we don’t know who our victim
is. Jo says our crime scene could be anywhere in the world.

Sheldon says he’s locked in on a dozen different data bases, and all he
needs Adam to do is start talking. However, he feels like he can’t
remember any details. Jo tells him that is not uncommon. When the brain
experiences trauma, sometimes it locks up. But not to worry, because she
always carries a spare set of keys. She smiles reassuringly at him. Jo
asks him about his first kiss. How old he was, what was her name. 5th
grade, Julie, she lived across the street from him. He won her a stuffed
dog from the county fair and she kissed him in thanks. He described
Julie at Jo’s behest, and the girl in the video immediately thereafter.
Jo tells Sheldon she used memory triggers to dig in from the other side.
They combined her olive skin with her light french accent and said maybe
she was from Morocco. Sheldon asks Adam if he remembers anything from
her place.

Jo does it again, takes memories from the past to trigger present
memories. He remembers seeing a cloud in the lower left-hand corner of a
flat panel TV screen, and it had the number 58 in it. By ruling out
wrong time zones, they find that that’s a newscast in NYC. Adam
remembers seeing a woman’s stone face out the window of the victim, and
that puts her in precisely one building that’s high enough to see the
face out the window.

Adam, Don, Mac and Jo enter the apartment and find the dead woman on the
floor. Adam identifies her as the woman on the video. Messer processes
the crime scene. Mac tries to get Adam to open up but he says there’s
nothing to say, and goes to wait in the car.

Don says that the victim’s name is Sass Dumonde, 20 years old and moved
here from Paris on a music scholarship to Chelsea. Jo says that
everything about her speaks of an open, free spirit. Mac says that could
mean she may not make the smartest choices about who she spent her time
with. She had no roommate and was a model tenant that the landlord never
had a problem with.

Jo goes and knocks on the car window and tells Adam he’s being
ridiculous. He deals with death every day and he needs to man up. He
says he saw Sass alive, she’s not just another dead body to him. He
promptly realizes that Jo tricked him into spilling his guts. She picked
up on what he said about getting Nexted. They realize that this means
somebody else out there could have seen what happened next.

Lindsay is at the crime scene, discussing the case with Messer. They
notice that the victim's laptop is missing. She checks the door and says
there are no obvious signs of breaking and entering. Messer says this is
an old building. Lindsay’s guess is that Sass had her music up too loud
and that’s why she didn’t hear the murderer enter her apartment.

Jo contacted the lookingatyou website, and they agreed to post Sass’
picture every few connections. The hope is that whoever connected to her
after Adam will have seen something to help them solve the case.

Lindsay is examining the wax-like substance that Messer scraped from the
floor. She gets a match on a sliver of wood that was found at the scene.

Sheldon is trying hard to track Sass’ laptop ip address, but because it
runs through a corporate pool, it changes every time a user logs on. The
pool is owned by a private server on Dragon Financial. Adam wants to
hack Sass’ computer, but the answer is no.

All of Lindsay’s efforts lead them to Professor William Aldicott. The
headphones which contain the materials she examined cost $6,000 a pair.
The professor says his were stolen. They did get the serial number to
track them back to him. They accused him of killing her, using the cord
from the headphones. The professor declared himself the victim. He
claims Sass turned in a fluffy piece of composition,and then had the
audacity to claim he stole the melody for his own doctoral thesis.
Lindsay asked if he did so. He said he didn’t, but he should have filed
his own complaint after she sent her boyfriend after him. He claims he
was attacked, they took the headphones and left.

Lindsay asks why he didn’t file a complaint. He didn’t want to mess with
tenure. He didn’t catch her boyfriend’s name, so he can’t help them
there. He says he’s no fan of Sass, but he wouldn’t have killed her.

Jo and Messer are working in the lab, trying to get more information on
the killer, or the location of the laptop. Mac’s going over images in
his office, but nothing gets him anywhere. He clicks on the lookingatyou
site, and starts going through people. A kid asks him what makes
fireflies glow, and Mac answers him. The kid asks another question, and
Mac tells him to do his own homework, and terminates the site.

Jo walks in and says she got fingerprints that don’t belong to the
victim. Lindsay comes in next, saying that a dad who has a protective
mechanism on his daughter’s computer has her as being onsite at the time
of the murder. They pull up what he has, and it’s a close-up of the
murderer’s eyes. He sees the camera, and shuts it off.

Sheldon is going to work with visual enhancements and see if he can turn
up more than the eyes.

The partial print Jo lifted belongs to a local thug named Torrey Powell.
He’s brought in for questioning, and says he didn’t kill Sass. His
prints were on three stolen iPads in her apartment, and on the
professor’s headphones, AND he had a key to her apartment on his
keychain. Jo informs him that the headphone cord was used to strangle
her. He claims he’s innocent, but with priors for theft and assault,
they don’t believe him. He said they stopped seeing each other awhile
back. He is informed that the prints on the stolen iPads were fresh. He
said he swung through last week for a little action, but she turned him
down.

Jo picks up on his OCD symptom of swallowing. She tells him that he
needs to be honest so that he’ll stop having the reaction. He admits
that he remembers what make the car was he stole the last iPad from; it
was a BMW, silver sedan. After he leaves, Don and Jo discuss whether the
silver beamer might have belonged to someone at Dragon Financial. Jo
says the one thing they’re missing thus far is a motive.

Sheldon uses digital enhancement to try to create the perp’s face from
only his eyes. What he comes up with is neither the professor, nor the
boyfriend. Jo is using the computer to check out lookingatyou, and winds
up chatting with a soldier whose wife and children are already asleep.
He says he’s always wanted to see NYC, so she takes her laptop and shows
him the skyline. He says it’s a whole lot better than sand.

Adam is remembering meeting Sass. He hacks Sass’ computer, even after
being told not to. Jo comes into his office, knowing what he’s up to,
because an old friend of hers called from the FBI. Dragon Financial is
under investigation, and it was a courtesy call to get Adam out of
there, rather than bust him. He asks her if she is going to bust him,
and she sets him straight on why she came to CSI. He apologizes, and
explains that he shared the final moments of Sass Dumonde’s life, and
maybe even fell in love a little. Three minutes later it was over. Jo
says she hopes he realizes that none of what he’s doing now will bring
her back. She sends him home.

The owner of the BMW was Christopher Garcia. He’s an IT manager with
four years at Dragon Financial. He mentioned the loss of a bag and some
personal items, but not the laptop. Don shows Mac a picture of Mr.
Garcia and he looks like the picture Sheldon generated. They are going
to go pay him a visit. His office has nobody in it, but there is a
laptop with Adam’s face frozen in shock on the screen. A piece of
notepaper next to it has Adam’s information written on it.

Mac calls Adam, and he takes the call. He assumes that Jo told Mac, and
he apologizes. Mac asks where he is now, and he says on the rooftop,
about to head to his car. A silver sedan comes rapidly around the
corner. He jumps out of harm’s way as it accelerates directly at him,
landing in the trash. The sedan’s brake lights come on as Mac is yelling
his name. They go to lights and sirens and make a mad dash to Adam.
Garcia gets out of his car, looking for the body with a gun in his hand.
Adam and Garcia come to blows and are still fighting when Mac arrives.

Garcia reclaims his gun and is about to shoot Adam when he sees Mac’s
car come flying around the corner, and he turns and fires at it. Mac
uses that moment to knock Garcia down with a blow to the neck. He says
“Nice chatting with ya” as Garcia is placed under arrest.

Jo explains to Sheldon that Garcia was doing some illegal business, and
it was all tracked on his laptop. When it got stolen, he panicked.
Finally manged to track it down to Sass, and took it back - along with
her life.

Lindsay and Danny are discussing how much Sass accomplished with her
laptop, creating and sharing her music.

Adam is getting chewed out by Mac. He was given a three-day suspension.
Messer and Sheldon try to tease him, but he can’t hear them. Jo and Mac
meet up on lookingatyou, so they discuss the case. Then they next each
other.

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