Loving the women that fandom hates, day two
I'm a little late with this, but it took me a little longer to compile then I'd expected.
Here's Dead Certain, the first episode where we meet Cassie... from Cassie's point of view.
Dead Certain is the episode where we first meet Cassie Welles. It’s her first day as the new Chief of Forensics in the Cascade PD, and what does she get but an intriguing mystery - a dead man, who seemingly fell onto a woman’s car from the Cascade Narrows Bridge. A suicide? A homicide?
Cassie heads out and beats the detectives to the scene. She examines the body - his pockets are empty - and talks to a road crew repairing the bridge. She also gets a sample of the mud from his shoes, which is mixed with some kind of carpet fiber. Then she meets Ellison and Brown, the two detectives that come out to the scene, and Blair Sandburg, who seems to be some kind of associate of Ellison’s. It seems pretty clear to her that the victim was thrown off the bridge, but Ellison doesn’t share her certainty. He does raise some pretty good questions, though.
She decides to sit in on the autopsy, and isn’t surprised to see Ellison there as well. Sandburg looks pretty green though; he doesn’t seem to be used to this. Dr. Wolf tells them that the victim displays massive trauma, as if he was beaten badly prior to being thrown off the bridge. He can’t even make a visual ID, the guy’s face is so badly damaged.
After the autopsy, she tries to talk to Ellison about the case, but he seems to be a little intimidated by her. She has some ideas about the victim - he had Italian shoes, and a French label on his belt - but Ellison seems nervous, and he’s making this all about turf and who does what, instead of just trying to get the job done and solve the case. Fine - if Ellison doesn’t want to work together, she’ll just solve the case on her own.
She gets information from Dr. Wolf about the measurements of the guy’s skull, and runs the data through this new program she’s got that does facial reconstruction. She’s so excited about the result that she goes to Captain Banks’ office to show him. Ellison and Sandburg are there, too. Ellison doesn’t seem that impressed, but Sandburg appreciates what she’s doing. Although she’s not sure why he’s talking about early hominids - that’s a strange area of knowledge for someone working in a police department.
Later, she gets the analysis of the mud on the bottom of the victim’s shoes. Turns out the mud has high traces of iron and copper, which is unusual for Cascade. A little research shows her that there’s an area east of Lake Quincy, in the Watumsa Basin, where the soil fits the profile. There’s not much around there, but she does find a small town, Pinecrest. She writes up the results and gives them to Captain Banks, then heads for Pinecrest.
Once in town, she goes to talk to the sheriff and shows her the reconstruction she did. But Ellison and Sandburg show up, and they’ve identified the victim - a French national named Jean Duval. It also sounds like he was dropped out of a plane, which accounts for the physical damage. The sheriff says he doesn’t look familiar, but promises to ask around.
She can tell that Ellison’s in a snit when they leave, and he lights into her for coming all the way out here. She just wanted to help, but clearly he isn’t interested in sharing any of the work, so she walks off. She’s so upset that she has to use her inhaler. Ellison comes after her and tries to explain herself, but he’s just telling her all the things she’s already heard before - she can’t be a detective, she doesn’t have the physical stamina, etc, ad nauseum.
Only before he can really get going, Ellison notices some guy on the sidewalk, and before she can blink he’s running after the guy and tackling him. The two of them fight, but in the course of it the guy ends up impaling himself on a garden trowel.
Sandburg doesn’t want to go look at the body, so Ellison takes her, which is gratifying after the attitude she’s been getting from him. He still doesn’t think she belongs there, though. He won’t let her introduce herself as a detective to Dr. Morrow, the coroner. But that doesn’t matter - she gets to use her digital camera to take some pictures of the body. Ellison notes that the guy has had his fingerprints removed, and he’s had facial reconstructive surgery. He also is able to tell that he had a prison tattoo removed, which really amazes her. She’s got a pretty sensitive sense of touch and she can’t feel much of anything, much less make the shape out.
She takes Ellison and Sandburg to her van and shows them all the equipment she’s got in there. She’s worked hard on it, and she’s really proud of what it can do. Jim has to take a call, but she uploads her pictures of the body and makes some adjustments to show what the guy looked like before the surgery. Sandburg is impressed; he tells Ellison to come and look. She offers to send the picture around to some of the local prisons, to see if they can figure out who the guy really is. Ellison agrees to let her stay and help them.
Jim and Blair go to follow up a lead about the plane, but she stays in her van, sending the picture out. She finally gets a hit - the guy was a convict named Ray Loomis, who was paroled from Duellmont Penitentiary in January. His crime was being part of an organ transplant scheme; the ringleader was a guy named Vern Delanian. Ellison and Sandburg come by and ask her to look up information about Bob Leland, who runs a crop dusting service outside of town, and she tells them what she’s found. Leland is forgotten, for the moment; Ellison asks her to pull up a picture of Delanian, and she does - and they’re all amazed to see that it’s the coroner, Steven Morrow.
They go back to the sheriff’s office to get Morrow’s fingerprints, but to her surprise, they don’t match Delanian’s. The case is really getting interesting, but then Ellison decides it’s time for her to go home. Of course - now that they’re getting to the fun part, he wants go solo. He thinks she needs protecting - he doesn’t realize that she can take care of herself. She’s got a gun and she used to practice on the shooting range back in San Francisco. But rather than argue with him, she just leaves.
On the way out of town, she sees the turn-off for Leland’s airstrip, and decides to look into it herself. The hangar has blacked-out windows, which is weird. She breaks in and looks around, then sees a door. Behind that is an area that’s completely set up for surgery, with an operating table and a tray of surgical instruments.
She hears a car coming, and leaves the hangar, staying close to the building so she can see what’s happening without being noticed. A truck pulls up and two men get out. A plane comes in for a landing and another man gets out - she recognizes him as Luc Resnais, the wanted terrorist. He hands over a bag full of money to Morrow, and Morrow hands him an envelope. They all go inside, and she starts to back away - only to find she’s been caught by one of the guys, who’s holding a gun on her.
He takes her to the hangar and ties her hands with duct tape. Morrow tells him to burn the place down after they’re done. She’s nervous, but she does get Morrow to tell her what happened to Duval - he had contracted for surgery as part of his undercover operation on Resnais, but when Morrow and company found out he was an Interpol agent, they planned to throw him out of their plane and into the ocean. But, in the plane, he struggled with one of the guys and fell out early.
Morrow goes in to do the surgery, leaving her with Leland. But after a while they hear cars pull up, and the state police announce their presence. Leland brings her into the surgery area and tells Morrow they have to go. Morrow and Leland grab her and make a run for the plane. Ellison is there, but Morrow threatens to kill her and he doesn’t shoot.
They all get on the plane and it starts to taxi. But after a few minutes, there’s a thump, and something happens to the rudder - the plane can only go in circles. She’s feeling a bit panicky and gets her inhaler out, when something occurs to her. In the commotion, Morrow and Leland don’t notice what she’s doing. She takes the end off her inhaler and sprays it into Morrow’s eyes, then grabs his gun and tells Leland to stop the plane, which he does. She gets out of the plane, still holding the gun on Leland and Morrow
Afterwards, both Ellison and Sandburg, separately, ask her out to dinner. She doesn’t want to be rude, but she can already see that there could be a problem. She thinks about it and comes up with a plan. She tells them both to meet her at one of Cascade’s nicest restaurants on Friday night.
She’s a little late, thanks to the traffic, but she thinks her plan has worked. She tells them the truth - she thinks they’re both terrific guys, but she doesn’t date people she works with. But she’d like to be friends, so she thought that they should all sit down together and talk it out.
They seem to take the news pretty well. But then she gets a call on her pager - it’s the lab. She excuses herself and tells them she’ll be right back.
Here's Dead Certain, the first episode where we meet Cassie... from Cassie's point of view.
Dead Certain is the episode where we first meet Cassie Welles. It’s her first day as the new Chief of Forensics in the Cascade PD, and what does she get but an intriguing mystery - a dead man, who seemingly fell onto a woman’s car from the Cascade Narrows Bridge. A suicide? A homicide?
Cassie heads out and beats the detectives to the scene. She examines the body - his pockets are empty - and talks to a road crew repairing the bridge. She also gets a sample of the mud from his shoes, which is mixed with some kind of carpet fiber. Then she meets Ellison and Brown, the two detectives that come out to the scene, and Blair Sandburg, who seems to be some kind of associate of Ellison’s. It seems pretty clear to her that the victim was thrown off the bridge, but Ellison doesn’t share her certainty. He does raise some pretty good questions, though.
She decides to sit in on the autopsy, and isn’t surprised to see Ellison there as well. Sandburg looks pretty green though; he doesn’t seem to be used to this. Dr. Wolf tells them that the victim displays massive trauma, as if he was beaten badly prior to being thrown off the bridge. He can’t even make a visual ID, the guy’s face is so badly damaged.
After the autopsy, she tries to talk to Ellison about the case, but he seems to be a little intimidated by her. She has some ideas about the victim - he had Italian shoes, and a French label on his belt - but Ellison seems nervous, and he’s making this all about turf and who does what, instead of just trying to get the job done and solve the case. Fine - if Ellison doesn’t want to work together, she’ll just solve the case on her own.
She gets information from Dr. Wolf about the measurements of the guy’s skull, and runs the data through this new program she’s got that does facial reconstruction. She’s so excited about the result that she goes to Captain Banks’ office to show him. Ellison and Sandburg are there, too. Ellison doesn’t seem that impressed, but Sandburg appreciates what she’s doing. Although she’s not sure why he’s talking about early hominids - that’s a strange area of knowledge for someone working in a police department.
Later, she gets the analysis of the mud on the bottom of the victim’s shoes. Turns out the mud has high traces of iron and copper, which is unusual for Cascade. A little research shows her that there’s an area east of Lake Quincy, in the Watumsa Basin, where the soil fits the profile. There’s not much around there, but she does find a small town, Pinecrest. She writes up the results and gives them to Captain Banks, then heads for Pinecrest.
Once in town, she goes to talk to the sheriff and shows her the reconstruction she did. But Ellison and Sandburg show up, and they’ve identified the victim - a French national named Jean Duval. It also sounds like he was dropped out of a plane, which accounts for the physical damage. The sheriff says he doesn’t look familiar, but promises to ask around.
She can tell that Ellison’s in a snit when they leave, and he lights into her for coming all the way out here. She just wanted to help, but clearly he isn’t interested in sharing any of the work, so she walks off. She’s so upset that she has to use her inhaler. Ellison comes after her and tries to explain herself, but he’s just telling her all the things she’s already heard before - she can’t be a detective, she doesn’t have the physical stamina, etc, ad nauseum.
Only before he can really get going, Ellison notices some guy on the sidewalk, and before she can blink he’s running after the guy and tackling him. The two of them fight, but in the course of it the guy ends up impaling himself on a garden trowel.
Sandburg doesn’t want to go look at the body, so Ellison takes her, which is gratifying after the attitude she’s been getting from him. He still doesn’t think she belongs there, though. He won’t let her introduce herself as a detective to Dr. Morrow, the coroner. But that doesn’t matter - she gets to use her digital camera to take some pictures of the body. Ellison notes that the guy has had his fingerprints removed, and he’s had facial reconstructive surgery. He also is able to tell that he had a prison tattoo removed, which really amazes her. She’s got a pretty sensitive sense of touch and she can’t feel much of anything, much less make the shape out.
She takes Ellison and Sandburg to her van and shows them all the equipment she’s got in there. She’s worked hard on it, and she’s really proud of what it can do. Jim has to take a call, but she uploads her pictures of the body and makes some adjustments to show what the guy looked like before the surgery. Sandburg is impressed; he tells Ellison to come and look. She offers to send the picture around to some of the local prisons, to see if they can figure out who the guy really is. Ellison agrees to let her stay and help them.
Jim and Blair go to follow up a lead about the plane, but she stays in her van, sending the picture out. She finally gets a hit - the guy was a convict named Ray Loomis, who was paroled from Duellmont Penitentiary in January. His crime was being part of an organ transplant scheme; the ringleader was a guy named Vern Delanian. Ellison and Sandburg come by and ask her to look up information about Bob Leland, who runs a crop dusting service outside of town, and she tells them what she’s found. Leland is forgotten, for the moment; Ellison asks her to pull up a picture of Delanian, and she does - and they’re all amazed to see that it’s the coroner, Steven Morrow.
They go back to the sheriff’s office to get Morrow’s fingerprints, but to her surprise, they don’t match Delanian’s. The case is really getting interesting, but then Ellison decides it’s time for her to go home. Of course - now that they’re getting to the fun part, he wants go solo. He thinks she needs protecting - he doesn’t realize that she can take care of herself. She’s got a gun and she used to practice on the shooting range back in San Francisco. But rather than argue with him, she just leaves.
On the way out of town, she sees the turn-off for Leland’s airstrip, and decides to look into it herself. The hangar has blacked-out windows, which is weird. She breaks in and looks around, then sees a door. Behind that is an area that’s completely set up for surgery, with an operating table and a tray of surgical instruments.
She hears a car coming, and leaves the hangar, staying close to the building so she can see what’s happening without being noticed. A truck pulls up and two men get out. A plane comes in for a landing and another man gets out - she recognizes him as Luc Resnais, the wanted terrorist. He hands over a bag full of money to Morrow, and Morrow hands him an envelope. They all go inside, and she starts to back away - only to find she’s been caught by one of the guys, who’s holding a gun on her.
He takes her to the hangar and ties her hands with duct tape. Morrow tells him to burn the place down after they’re done. She’s nervous, but she does get Morrow to tell her what happened to Duval - he had contracted for surgery as part of his undercover operation on Resnais, but when Morrow and company found out he was an Interpol agent, they planned to throw him out of their plane and into the ocean. But, in the plane, he struggled with one of the guys and fell out early.
Morrow goes in to do the surgery, leaving her with Leland. But after a while they hear cars pull up, and the state police announce their presence. Leland brings her into the surgery area and tells Morrow they have to go. Morrow and Leland grab her and make a run for the plane. Ellison is there, but Morrow threatens to kill her and he doesn’t shoot.
They all get on the plane and it starts to taxi. But after a few minutes, there’s a thump, and something happens to the rudder - the plane can only go in circles. She’s feeling a bit panicky and gets her inhaler out, when something occurs to her. In the commotion, Morrow and Leland don’t notice what she’s doing. She takes the end off her inhaler and sprays it into Morrow’s eyes, then grabs his gun and tells Leland to stop the plane, which he does. She gets out of the plane, still holding the gun on Leland and Morrow
Afterwards, both Ellison and Sandburg, separately, ask her out to dinner. She doesn’t want to be rude, but she can already see that there could be a problem. She thinks about it and comes up with a plan. She tells them both to meet her at one of Cascade’s nicest restaurants on Friday night.
She’s a little late, thanks to the traffic, but she thinks her plan has worked. She tells them the truth - she thinks they’re both terrific guys, but she doesn’t date people she works with. But she’d like to be friends, so she thought that they should all sit down together and talk it out.
They seem to take the news pretty well. But then she gets a call on her pager - it’s the lab. She excuses herself and tells them she’ll be right back.