Synopsis  

The staff and patrons of Frank’s Diner are found dead, not long after the stalker of the waitress, Edie, is scared off by the cops. The only survivor is the owner’s brother (Vincent), who locked himself in the walk in freezer. Sara, Nick and Greg happen upon the scene, coming by for a meal.

The cops who had seen the stalker, Ronald Basderic, admit they did nothing, since he was gone by the time he went outside. Of the dead, only two weren’t regulars or employees. Finn finds something odd in the blood trails, in that three bodies were clearly moved and staged after being shot.

Basderic shows up in the morgue, asking for Edie, and Doc Robbins has David call Sara for the paperwork. Sara bursts in with a gun and an armed officer, matching a footprint on the scene of the crime to Basderic’s shoe. Basderic claims he had left when the cops looked at him, walked around the block, and when he came back, everyone was dead. He went in to check on Edie, but as she was dead, left.

One of the victims, Alex Brenner, was in WitSec, and had agreed to testify against some ‘very bad people.’ The US Marshals feel that the men might have killed seven innocents to get to Brenner. Brenner was sitting with a man named Robert Rios, who was not a victim per se, as his stomach contents were nothing that Frank’s Diner serves, and he had evidence of having worn both a gun and a ski mask.

The guns are found, stashed in the newspaper machine, with Basderic’s prints on the paper. The prints are coincidence, however. The real killer is Vincent, who shot his brother because Owen wouldn’t agree to franchise the diner. He had hired Rios to do a fake robbery, killing only Owen, but when Owen pulled the mask off and shot everyone, Vincent had to move the bodies and finish off Edie.

Review  

Ronald Basderic was terrorizing Edie Graham, the waitress, for six months. Sara tried to help her get a restraining order.

Sara chases the rabbit trail of Basderic, assuming he had to have stalked someone before. Greg helps her out and finds that Basderic, who claims to hate guns, had shot a man in ‘self defense’ and was awarded $200k by the judge for it. Sara hates him for it, and for stalking Edie.

Notes  

• Sara still reacts strongly to women in abusive situations.
• Sara chases rabbits, spending time hunting down Basderic, even though he’s not the killer.

Quotes  

Sara: You’re done, you son of a bitch.

Basderic You see. You were wrong. I didn’t hurt her. I couldn’t. I loved her.
Sara: You loved her? Are you kidding me? You terrorized her. You kept her awake at night. You made her afraid to walk down the street. And you want to know what else your twisted love did? It killed her, Ronald. Edie was supposed to be off work at 4:00. She should have been gone when the shooting happened, it she was afraid to walk home because she was afraid that you were out there. It’s because of you that she stayed, and now she’s dead.

Gallery  

Images ©CBS (2012) - CSI: Crime Scene Investigation from the episode 'Code Blue Plate Special'.