Won't Get Fueled Again

Party goers all dressed in white are at the beach having a good time drinking and dancing. The fun is ruined by an unexpected guest. A screaming man engulfed in flames enters the outdoor party room, flailing his arms as he desperately tries to reach the water. The heat is too much and he succumbs to the fire as he crashes down into the sand. Read our recap and review of this episode.

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The Miami CSI team is called in to find out who this man is and what lead to his fate. Detective Horatio Caine and Frank Tripp arrive to investigate and question the crowd including the man who was in charge of the party, Paul Sanders. The detectives find that nobody knew who the victim was.

The newest member of the team, Tara Price is eager on her first day on the job. She finds that he was burned with an accelerator from the inside as well as from the outside of his body.

Following a trail of hydrocarbons detected by a hand held machine, Detectives Calleigh Duquesne and Eric Delko find the point of origin which turns out to be in the middle of a parking lot next to the party. At this point, they find a puddle of liquid and a burnt up bundle of fabric.

This fabric is taken back to the lab and is determined to be part of a uniform with a nametag. A contrasting agent and CT scanner is used to analyze the nametag and they find that it belongs to a Sam Waldon, who works for the Select Exec Valet Service.

Detective Calleigh arrives at the Select Exec and questions an employee working the valet stand. It turns out that the young man they are speaking to is Sam Waldon, who is very much alive. Sam explains that his uniform with his nametag was stolen the day of the party. Calleigh leaves, but tells Sam to expect to be called in for further questions.

Back at the lab, the team finds that the man had third degree burns in his esophagus. A technique called cryogenic grinding, where a sample is frozen then magnetically pulverized, is used on the man's teeth to take a sample of the victim's DNA.

The DNA is used to determined the man to be Dan Granger, who was a student with a record of theft.

The team goes to the university and meet with Johnny Young, Dan's roommate, who is unloading a truck load of gas. Horatio gets Young to fess up to a gas syphoning scam that he ran with Dan. Young recalls their plan to steal a valet uniform and take gas from cars in the parking lot. During the job, he remembers seeing a black Escalade take off soon after Dan caught on fire. The detectives bring in Dan for further questioning.

Upon further analysis of the accelerant that killed the man, they find that it is a high octane gasoline containing an additive that only a few gas stations use. The team goes to an Arago station and question an attendant who remembers a black Escalade pulling up with a trailer.

The team asks for camera footage, but the attendant says that the camera was down. The team notices that the station's main holding tank cover has been tampered with, then later find that the tank is down 1500 gallons.

The team discover that the attendant was distracted by a woman who traded sex for a tank full of gas. During the time while the attendant was occupied, the team determine that the thieves must have taken the gas.

The detectives recover a condom that was used during the attendant's intercourse and find that the woman's DNA belongs to a Andrea Rinell, who has a record of prostitution. She is called in and says that she was not instructed to have sex with the attendant by anyone. Horatio does not believe her, but allows her to leave the station.

Using camera footage from a nearby bank, the team is able to determine the license plate number of the Escalade. The plate is a fake, but a search begins anyway and Detective Calleigh spots the truck on the street. She gives chase only to lose sight for a moment. She catches up to the vehicle to only find that it has been abandoned and lit on fire.

After the Escalade is doused and safe, the team finds a fingernail in the glove compartment. After performing a DNA test, they find that it belonged to Johnny Young.

Young is brought back to the station and admits searching through the Escalade when it was parked in front of the beach party. He says that his fingernail fell off when he was digging in the glove compartment, due to a condition caused by over exposure to gasoline. He also admits to taking a bag full of passports that he thought he could sell later.

The team recover the passports from Young's dorm room and find that they all belong to woman originally from South America. They are all connected by the same address.

The team get to this address with guns drawn and find it abandoned, except for some belongings and Andrea Rinell.

Rinell tells Horatio that she and a group of girls are held against their will. She explains they are forced to do things they don't want to and if they refuse their families back home will be killed.

Among the belongings is a cell phone that has been rewired to become a 300 volt stun gun. The team believes that it is the murder weapon and find the fingerprint of Sam Lofton, the valet parker.

Sam is brought back in and admits to stealing gas and killing Dan Granger after finding him stealing his passport collection. He refuses, however, to give up the names of who he is working for.

The team finds the trailer used to take the gas from the station. In the trailer they find the Escalade's real license plate. They run the numbers through the DMV and find that it belongs to Paul Sanders, the man who threw the party from the beginning of the episode.

The team assembles and arrests Paul as he is attempting to load a group of women into a truck.

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BeeThoughts

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This episode really felt like it was on rails. It felt like the answers will be given to me and I am here just for the ride. I want to be able to see the clues and possibly piece it together myself. I felt like this episode did not allow this to happen. Anyways, with the main subject being on the gas and the value of view being worth stealing, I thought maybe the team would reconsider driving around in Hummers. This episode also reminded me of the episode of Always Sunny where the boys become door to door gasoline salesmen. That episode, like almost every Almost Sunny episode, was hilarious.

- Kristofer M.

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