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When a little boy is thought to be kidnapped, the usual efforts are employed. The kicker is a huge power outage due to a lightning storm. What is already a very difficult case with a tight deadline must be investigated without most of the resources, especially fingerprint recognition software. Codis and other "ises," as one person says. We have a father with a horrible reputation who claims innocence but isn't forthcoming with information.

When the five-year-old Harper Riordan is kidnapped, his father calls the police and Russell and Finn arrive at the crime scene in a stormy night. His babysitter, Shelby Buress, is also missing. The CSIs find blood spatter on the bed sheets and on the ceiling in Harper's bedroom and a fingerprint on the bed. Out of the blue, the power goes out since three generating stations have been blown out by the storm. Nick and Sara follow a trail of blood drops and they find Shelby dead. The CSIs are aware that the life of Harper is in danger and they have a few hours to resolve the case. But all the equipment depends on the power and Russell asks the team to investigate in the old school, when the state-of-art technology as not available.

"CSI Unplugged" is another good episode of "CSI', with another original story. The plot has many suspects that might be the Harper's abductor and a twist in the end when the identity is finally disclosed. The show is also an opportunity how the cases where investigated a few years before the advance of technology. Every senior professional of technological area has passed through these modifications in his or her career. My vote is six.

Title (Brazil): "CSI Unplugged"