CSI: Miami
CSI: Miami

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These Brazen Women Get What They Deserve

We see a few more camera's-eye views of the Babes on the Beach girls -- and it amazes me that these girls simply accept a t-shirt and not, say, a royalty check for what they're doing on-camera. Then again, given the probable mental capacity of a would-be Babe on the Beach, the idea of someone else getting large sums of money for the dissemination of their images is probably too complex for them to comprehend sober, much less as drunk as they undoubtedly are when these guys go trolling with their cameras. We then see the beach, where Speedle is doggedly digging. He hits pay dirt, metaphorically speaking, when he finds a Michigan ID for a Rachel Moon.

Speedle has evidently hied to the lab, where he's handing the ID to a lab tech and explaining, "That's her picture. The birthdate says 1979, but there's no way she's 24 years old." The tech explains, "If it's a fake, it's a good one. There are no glue lines, no bumps. Lamination thickness is dead on." And this is where I show my age and reveal that when I first got my driver's license in Virginia, it was a two-parter in a little plastic envelope; the first part had your photo and signature, and the second part had your license information. This way, when you switched from your learner's permit to your license, all they had to do was swap out a piece of paper. And when you turned 21, you went from getting a profile photo to a full-on frontal photo. Therefore, by the time I got to college, it was not uncommon to walk into my newspaper office around spring break and see people scanning in assorted pictures and license parts to create fakes. Ah, the good old days, when faking license information was easy! Anyway, Speedle asks, "Whatever happened to just stealing your older sister's ID?" The tech replies, "These days, you don't have to. A college kid with a scanner and a high-res printer can rip these things out." He then puts the ID under the sooper-dooper forensic ID debunker thingy and comments on the quality work: inclusion of the state seal, UV ink, a security layer of "invisible" text. However, the forger missed the third layer of the laminate, so they're able to peel off the other layers and discover that the ID belongs to someone else named Rachel Moon.

CSI: Miami

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