Original air date: November 12, 2008 Talk about this episode! Sign in or sign up and click EasyEdit to add to this page

Episode recap: After finding a man bludgeoned to death in the cellar on an empty lot, the team is surprised to discover that the original crime scene is a house on a barge floating down the East River. The victim owned a house relocation company that was moving the house from Staten Island to the Upper East Side. Following autopsy, a torn card stock in the victim's hand leads the CSI's into the world of SecretsU: a website where people send homemade artistic postcards of their darkest secrets for all to see. To catch the killer the CSI's must determine if someone killed the victim to keep their secret from going public or if the victim had a secret of his own that he was killed over.

The crimes:

Victim(s): Kevin McBride

Suspect(s): Rita Mannete, Tanor Somerrset

Witness(es):

Whodunit: Annie McBride

From the field:

• bullet casing
• large carrot
  

From the morgue:

• crumpled up piece of paper in McBride's hand
  

From the lab:

• carrot as a "veggie pipe" used to smoke marijuana
• THC, not GSR, in the shell casing
• DNA off the carrot
  

Turning point in the investigation: Lindsay gets a break when she discovers the QR code on the card leads to a website where people mail their deepest darkest secrets. The CSI's discover the rest of the cards in between the floorboards of the house, and discover when put together it reads: "I'll tell her if you don't."

Familiar locations in NY:

• Empire State Building
• Chrysler Building
  

Personnel issues:

• Flack finds out that his sister Samantha is an alcoholic.
• We see a first kiss between Flack and Det. Angell
• Stella receives a phone call and a package as a warning to drop the investigation regarding the Rat Fisherman in episode 505: Cost of Living

Guest stars:

• Mirelly Taylor as Rita Mannete
• Casey LaBow as Ella McBride
• Marguerite McIntyre as Annie McBride
• Bradley Dodds as Bill the Bartender
• Jake Muxworthy as Tanor Sommerset
• Christopher Halsted as Kevin McBride
  

Best episode quotes:

Hawkes: Based on this skull fracture here, C.O.D. is more than likely blunt force trauma.
Flack: What did he get hit with-- a blender? (Hawkes gives him a look.) I'm just saying.
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Flack: This is Kevin McBride. (Mac compares the victim's driver's license to what's left of his face.) Yea I know, it's not much of a resemblance.
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Mac: It's not my secret to tell.
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Mac: So let me get this straight.People take the time to put down their darkest secrets and then they send them to someone they don't even know. Two questions: why and... why?
Lindsay: They say confession is good for the soul?

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