This week on ‘CSI,’ the job bites back

That bites: Catherine decided to do Doc Robbins a favor and look in on Darla Kelly, the mother of a victim whose cause of death was undetermined. But Darla attacked her, choking her and biting her on the wrist. Catherine managed to break free and the woman collapsed on the floor and died.

A development to make your skin crawl: Darla, her son Brent, Leland Jacobs and Scotty Belinski were all dead, but Robbins wasn’t been able to find a cause of death for any of them. Robbins noticed that Scotty and Leland both had body modifications — ear gauges and even transdermal implants, in which steel beads are inserted partially below the skin, giving it a Braille-esque look. These led Ray and Nick to a tattoo parlor.

Once bitten, twice shy: At the parlor, Ray and Nick met “man-ceptionist” Eric Tobin and Dr. Jack Shaw, who also worked at a free clinic where Brent and Darla had both visited. At first they couldn’t find any obvious pathogens from the scene, but when Ray and Robbins examined Darla and Brent’s brain tissue, they discovered they both had rabies. One problem: Catherine had been bitten by Darla. She was quickly shipped off to Atlanta for a shot.

How convenient: Brass went to arrest Shaw, but as he did, Tobin passed out on the floor of the parlor. He had just had his nipples pierced by Shaw. Nurse Susan Schiff, from Shaw’s clinic, also showed up just in time with an incriminating bat saliva gland that had been used to make the rabies potion. But was it too good to be true?

Blues men: Robbins and Ray bonded over their love of blues music and even went on a road trip to determine if a man from three years prior had actually died from rabies. It just so happened that Jack Shaw was the coroner in Reno who’d done the medical exam — and mistakenly ruled it natural causes. They also found out that the victim, Sandra Williams, was the daughter of Susan Schiff and the wife of Eric Tobin. They’d framed Shaw to get revenge. “You don’t get to play God because your daughter died,” Nick told Susan.

Food fight: The night’s other body was Kayla Nootens, who’d been found under a truck with a stab wound to the neck. Kayla had been coming back from her diet club. She and two friends, Diana and Rhonda, were entering the GME (God Made ‘Em) bikini contest — meaning no fake boobs — and each hoped to win a trip to Maui. It turned out that the girls got into a food fight over the Maui trip and that Diana accidentally stabbed Kayla in the neck with a pork chop. They dragged her body out and shoved it under the truck, not realizing that she was still alive. She died after the CSIs took her to the hospital.

Solo success: Super Dave performed his first solo autopsy ever on Kayla. He was so nervous that he snapped at Riley when she entered the room. But his version of snapping was basically the same old mellow Dave voice. “My wife calls me a snapping alligator,” he told Riley.

Nicknames: Ray and Robbins made a fun team and were called “ebony and ivory” and “Smokey and the Bandit” during the show. Do I smell a spinoff?

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