On CSI: Vegas Season 1 Episode 9, “Waiting in the Wings,” Allie’s true feelings about her boyfriend are somewhat revealed, and David Hodges digs himself into a hole that I’m not sure he can get out of.

What should be an arguably strong episode, seeing as it’s the penultimate of the season, and renewal has yet to come through, “Waiting in the Wings” lacks the focus David Hodges deserves.

Angel is the Centerfold… of Las Vegas Magazine

In our not-so-typical case of the week, a woman with surgically implanted wings and a man with surgically implanted horns are burned to death.

Cool. Very normal for Las Vegas.

Realizing that the surgeon is the killer because he loved the victim makes sense, but we’ve seen it before. Many times. What we don’t often see is Munchausen by Proxy.

Surgeon of the year Dr. Cho has been giving Tori, our victim, sugar pills. Much to my surprise, sugar pills are not, in fact, SugarBearHair pills, but are placebos.

The more you know, right?

It’s in this case that Allie and Folsom are wrapped up in that we hit our C plot: Allie’s boyfriend.

“Waiting in the Wings” – Pictured L-R: Mel Rodriguez as Hugo Ramirez, Matt Lauria as Josh Folsom, and Mandeep Dhillon as Allie Rajan Photo: Robert Voets/CBS ©2021 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Microscope-Crossed Lovers

It’s clear, through direct dialogue and Josh’s ever lingering gazes, that Josh cares romantically about Allie. Allie sometimes flirts back, sometimes smiles a little softer for Josh, but she’s made it clear that she has a boyfriend she lives with.

“Waiting in the Wings” allows Allie to pause and think of her relationship as something other than neverending, which should be great news for Allie/Josh shippers such as myself, but it comes off quite dull.

There’s an imbalance between Allie and Josh that doesn’t right itself at the end of this episode as it normally does, and it’s unclear why that imbalance is there.

It hasn’t even been a full season and their will-they-won’t-they romance has become tiring, almost irritating, to watch.

The writers have an opportunity to show a relationship that’s the right place, right time, wrong people, and I think they should run with it.

Hugo is the one to tell Allie to break up with her boyfriend, because Josh would never do that, which is fair, but maybe something Josh should’ve said himself.

Just because he isn’t telling her directly to break up with her crappy boyfriend doesn’t mean that he shouldn’t have at least a tad bit of input.

He’s still her friend, and she clearly values his opinion.

Welcome to the Main Event

David Hodges, notorious CSI, and not-liar faces off indirectly with Anson Wix, a civil attorney, known liar, and fraud.

Max goes to great lengths to get each piece of the puzzle to match up pro-Hodges, which should be simple since he is innocent, but like our guy Martin Kline, poor Guillermo ends up dead.

Hodges, who apparently has not shown up to court even once on time, is again late to his own trial. The super fun thing about this is that he’s been gone for hours and nobody knew?

He was wearing an ankle monitor.

I don’t know a single thing about how ankle monitors work, but you would think you can pin locations from those, right? So why did we need to sort through the video Hodges posted online to find out where he took his monitor off and recorded that video?

Weird.

They also make it out as if Hodges has been gone for a while, long enough to get out of any type of perimeter they set up, so why weren’t they notified that the ankle monitor had been snapped before then?

I’ll indulge CSI: Vegas this time because you have to suspend some disbelief in a TV show, but stay on your game, writers! These kinds of holes are how Wix got his entire case set up.

Stray Thoughts:

Why in God’s name did Allie bring those crime scene photos to dinner with her boyfriend and then open them at the table? Girl.
They’ve once again added someone new in introducing someone who kidnapped Hodges, and jeez, is anyone else losing track here?
It is very funny to me that the state apparently thinks that not only was Hodges falsifying evidence for years, but he was doing so by having a meth lab? Yeah, totally not noticeable at all in eleven years.

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CSI: Vegas airs Wednesday at 10/9c on CBS.

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