Bully for You, Season 2 #4

High school bully is shot in school bathroom. And Nick and Sara are sent to the desert to retrieve a body found in a large duffel.

GREG:
Tells Sara she smells like death. “But a real man wouldn’t mind.” Sadly, Greg looks about 16 years old with his flat hair, particularly compared to hunky Ken Doll EMT.

REST OF TEAM:

• Sara & Nick rappel out of helicopter. I’ve done cliff faces, but not a helicopter – having something solid to bounce your feet off of made whole thing easier. Me thinks this way would be much more like falling. And EMT on the ground is quite impressed – at least with Sara. “Flirting over a DB,” Nick finds it amusing.
• Catherine bullies the custodian for cleaning up graffiti on the locker. And then when she sees him in the hall later, he quickly tells her he hasn’t been cleaning. Hee.
• Warrick asks Grissom what he was in high school – jock or brain. Response – a ghost. Others were (self-described): Nick was dependable. Sara was a science nerd. Warrick, short with big feet and thick glasses.
• Tess Harper as school counselor. She’s in one of my favorite movies of all time, Tender Mercies.
• Kid from high school shooting stabbed 6 months before he was shot, would have been fatal if his internal organs were in the right place.
• Decomp smell running motif for Sara. Hank, the cute EMT, stops by to ask her to dinner, but can’t take the smell and bolts. And her colleagues keep telling her she smells, but no one says it Nick or SuperDave. Last shot of her is in the shower with a bunch of lemons, taking Grissom’s advice to get rid of the smell.

Grissom’s Lesson of the week: Scent triggers memory more acutely than any of the other senses.