Ray lives out his biker fantasy on ‘CSI’

Fight club: Joey Niagra died as a result of 24 stab wounds, not to mention being hit with a metal chain. He’d been in a biker bar with his girlfriend Rita and watched his pals Jackass and Hooper fight over spilled beer on the pool table. He’d greeted everyone in the bar with a hearty hello, especially bartender Rudy. But things were not quite as they seemed, Joey Niagra was actually undercover cop Jack Nettles. But who had dropped the dime on Nettles?

Fun with bikers: Wendy, Mandy and Hodges were tasked with collecting DNA samples, clothes, and fingerprints from the gang and their women. One guy’s hands were so greasy that Mandy couldn’t take prints. And when Wendy tried to get a DNA sample from Tanya she refused. Hodges told her to apologize and she head-butted him. “Chivalry is not dead,” Hodges said. “No, but its nose is bleeding,” Wendy said. To make matters worse, it turned out Tanya was an undercover cop, too. She was just trying to look tough in front of the others.

That’s some initiation: Before the CSIs realized that Joey was a cop, they connected him to the death of a hooker. He’d had sex with her after she’d been killed as some kind of an initiation ritual into the gang. His teeth showed that he’d also been doing copious amounts of meth. “What kind of a cop is a tweaking necrophiliac?” Brass asked.

Brass has a personal life? Nettles’ wife, Rita, was no stranger to Brass. The two dated while Nettles was undercover, and Brass didn’t even tell her that he was a cop. Rita told Ecklie and Brass that Nettles had turned into someone she didn’t know anymore, and that she’d been trying to get his captain to pull him off the undercover case. Ecklie tried to get Brass to recuse himself from the case, but he refused.

Living the fantasy: Ray has a thing for motorcycles. “First time I ever coveted physical evidence,” he said looking at the bikes. He copped one of his own to search for the missing knives that were used to kill Nettles. Nick couldn’t figure out why Ray needed a motorcycle to do it. “You want to catch a rat, you move like a rat,” Ray said. And he found a bag with all the knives.

Conflict of interest? Tanya had called 911 at 10:02 p.m. the night of Nettles’ murder because she’d seen the guys attack him, but who had tipped them off that he was a cop? The phone used was in the police department, and camera footage showed it was Rita.

Another one bites the dust: Tanya was released from jail and got into her car, which instantly blew up. It had been loaded with dynamite before Nettles was even killed. But how had the bikers known that Tanya was a cop, too? It turned out that when Rita called the bar, she wasn’t just alerting the bartender that Nettles was a cop; bartender Rudy also turned out to be the head of the gang, a guy named Scratch. The CSIs were easily able to prove that the bikers killed Nettles, but they couldn’t prove it was premeditated.

Solving Nettles’ case: The case Nettles had been working was to stop a shipment of cocaine. All the bikers were released from jail, homing devices were put on their bikes, and they were promptly all arrested, as was a rival gang at the scene, who were trying to steal the drugs. As for Tanya’s death, Scratch told Brass, “Don’t hate me, man. That bitch cop was easy to make.” Maybe, he’d just been watching old episodes of “The Profiler.”

Sharing his sorrows: At the end of the episode, Catherine brought Brass a bottle of scotch and asked him if he felt like talking. The sad-eyed cop took out a couple glasses and began to share his story, but just with Catherine, not with the viewers.

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