Sara, Nick and Brass (Paul Guilfoyle) then arrive at the scene of DB's (Ted Danson) abandoned and shot out car. As well as finding their phones, which Nick has the brainwave to call. They left them behind so they couldn't be tracked. DB's wife calls his phone and Brass says this call is his and the CS is theirs. Nick is contacted by Doc Robbins (Robert David Hall) he was meant to meet him at a CS. Doc then gets a text about the 'DB in Room 12.' Good name for DB, came in handy here! Doc manages to stitch up Catherine's wounds using a curling iron to cauterize the wound. Luckily the gunshot was a through and through and she was helped by her friend, Kitty (Tangie Ambrose). Catherine wants a "bullet to bite on." DB wants Doc to get a message to Brass to "bring us in." When Doc leaves the Raincoat man (jack Dimich) stands outside and watches him leave. Surprised he wasn't spotted standing out like a sore thumb.
FBI agent Pratt (Matt Lauria) is angry he wasn't called in sooner. Brass comments someone ends up dead when the FBI are called in. Pratt is pulling rank, even over Ecklie (Marc Vann). Mark (Titus Welliver) wants to see his wife's DB. Greg (Eric Szmanda) and Morgan (Elisabeth Harnois) process the CS at Catherine's house and find a blood trail which leads to a bloodpool, where a car drove though it. More blood leads to the embankment where a DB is found. The same as the others, this one is also already shredded to the bone by the super beetles.
At Catherine's, Nick and Sara process inside to find everything has been cleaned up. Note shoddy patch up job again. There's a bullet in the wall, a .40 calibre, which Sara comments was used by the shooter at the farmhouse. The cleaning crew also missed the blood under the rug so they may be able to get DNA.
Mark only wants to speak with Ecklie and Brass. When Brass arrives after Doc gives him the message, both DB and Catherine are gone. The window is open so they made a quick exit. Kitty called DB to warn him and they drive away in Jackory's (James Black) car. DB gives her a 'get out of jail free' card. Then gets a phone to call his wife.
Catherine takes them to a strip club and asks for Teddy Jnr (Rod Rowland) using the name 'Goldilocks' for herself. Nick tells Doc Catherine's still out there. Doc finds the recovered DB was shot four times with 5.7s; the same rounds used by the hitmen. Nick comments on using the 'coup de grace' to finish him off. This being the title of a previous ep, one which is very close to the hearts of many fans of Enrique Murciano. Hey come to think of it, wonder if there was some subliminal reason Nick mentioned this? Preparing us for 12.20 Altered States. Ha.
Nick adds "for pros been making a lot of mistakes." Well that's cos it's not them. DB also gets a gun for Catherine as well as the phone, as she's "Annie Oakley." Catherine tells DB how she used to crave attention and met a man, a detective, Jimmy, who used to talk about his cases and ask her opinion. All detectives are named Jimmy for some reason, there's Jim Brass also. Which got her started on the forensics trail. DB calls his wife.
The rest of the CSIs ponder the case and Greg comments how the assassins were more hit than miss. They were both efficient and then Nick adds they left behind sloppy CS too. Then missed Catherine when she was being shot at. Nick asks why there were inconsistencies? Sara believes they were intentional. Nick believes the evidence was made to point to Mark and Sara thinks it's intentional. Of course Laura (Annabeth Gish) was behind it. SO I was right about McQuaid and Laura being alive, thus the emphasis on the badge and the ring with the burnt out corpses last ep!
DB comments on needing a cover story, thus her resignation and how Catherine's rage would be directed at Mark and they would use her back-up gun on him. Sorry but why is her back up gun in the front room and not somewhere else. DB says she needs to "come in out of the cold." Like something straight out of a spy movie. He wants Teddy to call the coroner to collect two stiffs and bring bodybags. Catherine tells Sara she's not resigning and the letter was a fake, her computer was hacked. Catherine doesn't know what she wants, thought it was a man. Lindsay's left home and Laura is her friend. Sara would prefer to go with Okham's Razor (the simple hypothesis making the fewest assumption is correct) the simple answer is right in front of her. Laura had the info on Mark, portrayed him as a an abusive husband. DB also says she would be the one to benefit.
Henry (Jon Wellner) examined exemplars from Laura's condo and her DNA matched. Catherine suggests they compare her clothes from the hospital. The match comes up to the hitwoman. One assassin shot by someone she trusted. Thus McQuaid is alive too. He updated the FBI database himself and the second DB from the car belonged to the hitman, Kruger. Pratt can't believe McQuaid was dirty. Ecklie thought it was Pratt. Which doesn't make him feel better. He worked with McQuaid and he said he was leaving, also had a weakness for beautiful women.
DB suggests a banking connection to contact the hit team and use them to set up Laura. Pratt and Catherine meet and tell Mark about Laura and he wants to handle it himself as they knew he would. Raincoat man is arrested when he tries to kill Laura. He gives up mark and also tells them McQuaid is already with them, obviously the DB they found near Catherine's. His ex-wife provided them with DNA and he was the one who carried the .40 gun. He was hit in the back with 5.7s and was trying to save her. Pratt offers Catherine a job with the FBI and she asks if he's asking her out on a date, ha. McQuaid saw someone with integrity in her, how he used to be.
Laura thinks she can get one over on Catherine and knows her. Since Catherine would go for the boy who needed her and Laura would go for the one who could give her things, so how'd that work out for her? As Catherine says she won't be out in the world anymore. Also she misjudged her and Laura should have known how things would work out in the end.
She calls a family meeting and says her farewell speech: "a great team...respect all of you...changes initially hurt me but ultimately ended up being a great thing." Catherine talks to Nicky again, cos he's her fave isn't he. She was "wrong when I said it's been a long 19 years - gone way too fast...They're all family and this is the hardest decision" she's ever made. Which sets Nick off again! Ahh, he's always the one with the tears which doesn't make him weak, just very emotional. Besides they were close friends and she always calls him Nicky, as do I.
Nick: "We all just love you Catherine....you'll always be here with us." Catherine eats with Morgan to talk about the rush of solving a case which is fleeting like life. This is all Morgan has. She should hang on tight and Catherine says her father would agree. So that marked the end of an era for CSI as another original cast remember leaves. Thought Catherine's swansong would be a little more than this. It just seemed a little hurried. Also what happened to Vartaan, (Alex Carter) she didn't even say goodbye to him and imagine not having him in this episode to say her goodbyes to. He wasn't even around to bring Catherine in or help her, which seems pointless since they were meant to have shared a lot even if it wasn't lasting.
Hey I wonder if George actually really cried in that scene? If you're thinking you've seen that final scene before, it reminded me of the one with Catherine and Holly Gribbs in the Pilot, where she takes Holly aside after a robbery at a shop and convinces her to stay with the job and that she won't regret it. Well she didn't regret it in some ways since she was shot at a CS. Mind you the same thing happened to Catherine this ep, being shot, only she recovered albeit at miraculous speed - even if it was a though and through, she lost a lot of blood.
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