Count Me Out (7 Dec. 2009)

The team finds the body of a dead census report taker in the trunk of a car, and the investigation takes a dangerous turn when it leads Wolfe and Boa Vista to a booby-trapped meth lab in an abandoned foreclosed home.

Director:

Marco Black

Writers:

Anthony E. Zuiker (creator), Ann Donahue (creator),

Stars:

David Caruso, Emily Procter, Jonathan Togo

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
David Caruso	...	Lieutenant Horatio Caine
Emily Procter	...	Calleigh Duquesne
Jonathan Togo	...	Ryan Wolfe
Rex Linn	...	Detective Frank Tripp
Eva La Rue	...	Natalia Boa Vista (as Eva LaRue)
Omar Benson Miller	...	Walter Simmons (as Omar Miller)
Eddie Cibrian	...	Jesse Cardoza
Christian Clemenson	...	Dr. Tom Loman
John Patrick Amedori	...	Kevin Hensler
Esteban Powell	...	Robert Sperling
Kathleen York	...	Paula Olsen
Sharon Pierre-Louis	...	Marie Gaudreau
Alexander Bedria	...	Carl Benson
Keith McDonald	...	CSI Tech #1
Mary Alyce Kania	...	CSI Tech #2

Storyline

Teenager Kevin Hensler is arrested driving like mad in the sports car of his passenger, who managed to escape: known drug dealer Carl Benson, whom he swears forced him at gunpoint. In the trunk is the corpse of census taker Christian Perez, who had no enemies and didn't die from his profuse head-wounds but from rat poison. Ryan and Natalia are nearly killed by a boobytrap in Kevin's broke father's former house, which turns out to be the drug lab where Kevin made meth for Benson. The boy tells about the dealer's other lab, where Jesse handles another bomb just before it would have killed him and Walter.

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Plot Keywords:

kidnapping | medical examination | fire | poison | explosion | 

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Genres:

Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

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Details

Language:

English

Release Date:

7 December 2009 (USA)

Filming Locations:

5485 E. Anaheim Rd, Long Beach, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Jerry Bruckheimer Television, CBS Television Studios

Technical Specs

Runtime:

60 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Quotes

Paula Olsen: Marie's not going anywhere.
Calleigh Duquesne: Ms. Olsen, we have evidence linking her to a murder.
Paula Olsen: That census guy? That-that's impossible. She's never left my sight.
Calleigh Duquesne: Okay, look. Are you going to bring her out, or do I need to go in there and get her?

User Reviews

This Episode Is 'The Bomb'

"Ryan Wolfe" and "Natalia Boa Vista" go investigate where a census taker was killed (after finding him in a trunk of a runaway car) and wind up getting blown up by a bomb in the house, a place that was used as a Meth lab.

There are two major characters in this episode, both young guys in the Meth-making business and one of them is a killer.

There are two minor characters, who happen to reside next door, a Haitian immigrant and the woman who is her boss. That woman - "Paula Olson," played by Kathleen York - is one of these people you see on this show here and there that is totally unbelievable. No woman would act and talk like this. It's ludicrous but at least she isn't a big part of this story.

At the end of the show, we see Natalia struggling with her hearing. That bomb blast, even though she won't admit, has damaged her. This could be a stretched-out storyline as I recall from the early days with "Gil Grisson" on CSI (Las Vegas).