Horatio (David Caruso) and Natalia (Eva la Rue) survey the CS but it's unclear as to where the bullet could have come from as there are no high rises nearby. Natalia talks with the Vic's girlfriend, Amanda (Malese Jow) who met him for breakfast everyday. They had an unusual relationship and he was suffering from cancer.
Ryan (Jonathan Togo) Walter (Omar Benson) and Calleigh (Emily Protector) analyze the CS. Walter and Ryan are impressed by the voice commands and use it to open the TV, where a football match is in play. they are about to watch a key moment in the game, when Calleigh switches it off. Like she's never done anything like that before. Walter wants her to turn to it on and she'll only do so cos he notices something connected to the case. Walter finds an object on the TV, a bug. Whoever planted it was sloppy as they left a fingerprint.
The print is traced back to CEO of the company, Jerry Wilkinson (Michael O'Neill) who was monitoring everything Matthew said cos he was affected by the medication and was no longer lucid. Natalia and Tripp (Rex Linn) think he had a lot to lose. Matthew was receiving texts and these are traced to a protester's phone, Heidi Taylor (Amy Gumenick). She denies sending them but is questioned anyway.
Ryan is stopped by Walter as he takes a gift to Sam (Taylor Cole) and welter thinks it's great news she's become a detective. Ryan got her a charm bracelet with a shape of Texas charm, as she's from there and Walter rightly knows he's got a crush on her. But he doesn't give it to her as he sees Delko (Adam Rodriguez) talking to her. Instead Ryan decides to call the lawyer and ask about Matthew's will. He later returns to Matthew's place with Delko. There's no will in the safe, but Delko does find a hair. Sam IDs this hair as human, from the body and is a lanugo hair. Natalia recalls Amanda is thin and so could be anorexic. Dave (Wes Ramsey) finds Heidi's phone was hacked into using a Trojan virus and so she didn't send the texts.
Amanda tells Natalia of Matthew's paranoia and he thought people were listening to him. He told her to take the will, which she did an put it in a safe deposit box. The will contains a new clause, incorporating Matthew's former business partner, Raj (Sendhil A Ramamurthy)as a beneficiary. He tells them he doesn't want money and was never interested in it but hh didn't kill Matthew. Also saying Matthew asked him to include the clause using his typewriter as he didn't trust the lawyers. That wouldn't make the will valid, what about witnesses and signatories, not to mention the clause stood out like a sore thumb.
ME Tom (Christian Clemenson) removes bullet fragments from Matthew's brain and he finds a microchip. Calleigh removes more fragments and analyzes them to reveal the existence of a smart bullet. One that is capable of changing direction in mid air. Matthew had the money to manufacture this but so did Raj. Calleigh manages to reconstruct the bullet and finds Matthew's company logo on it. Jerry admits they had made prototypes of the gun, but only two. Matthew researched this after his brother died in Iraq from friendly fire. He wanted to ensure no other American suffered the same fate. But they were conveniently stolen 48 hours ago. Their private security is investigating. At the same time, Tripp receives word of a robbery in progress at a bank.
Delko asks Sam to tag along and once they arrive, the robbers use the guns to shoot at the police. Sam runs during the gunplay to the other side which gets Delko's goat. The robber falls down dead. Tripp thinks Horatio fired (what in yet another one of his famous gun battles in which he gets away with everything). Horatio says it wasn't him. The gun backfired. The prototypes show they weren't used to kill Matthew. Thus there was a third gun, which Jerry didn't know about or didn't tell them about.
Walter and Calleigh are able to trace the bullet's trajectory after Calleigh explains why the gun backfired, as the bullet changed direction in the chamber. They come up with two possible addresses where the gun could have been fired from and Walter recognizes the one of the addresses of one, it's Raj's place. Delko and Ryan search and Delko notices the opening in the ceiling, where the dummy has hidden the gun. Thought he would have gotten rid of the evidence by now. He tells them Matthew wanted him to shoot him and that's why he changed the will, he paid him for it. Raj changed his mind about the money when he saw how well Matthew had done. The gun didn't work but Jerry wanted to put it into production. Matthew wanted to prove him wrong and this was the only way he could. So he had Raj shoot him. People would now take notice.
Horatio and Tripp stop Jerry en route to a sale of the gun. He was selling the military faulty weapons. Raj also hacked into Heidi's phone cos of Matthew who had sent her a form letter. Ryan notices the logo contains a magnetic strip and Calleigh tells him he's been watching too many spy films. Then changes her mind and says he could be right, since banks use magnetic stripes on credit cards. Oh the strip in the logo was a fantasy but a smart bullet isn't. Matthew knew no one would believe him and that's why he staged his shooting.
Ryan is about to give Sam the bracelet but Delko mentions he doesn't know how to say sorry after losing it with her. Ryan gives him the bracelet and they recall how they both went for Natalia when she first arrived. Ryan tells him it's not like that and Delko takes the bracelet. Yes Delko is still meant to have feelings for Calleigh. Delko gives Sam the bracelet with Ryan watching but then Ryan disappears and doesn't notice Delko and Sam both look at him. Thus Delko told her it was from Ryan.
Natalia mentions the late Steve Jobs, as soon as they arrive at the CS saying Matthew is even bigger than him. Which came out standing a tad distasteful. Especially in relation to the way Matthew died and how he masterminded it, even if it was to reveal Jerry's deal.
Walter smelling a whiff of Ryan's cologne and he claims it'd hide the from the smell at the CS. Another funny scene between the two. Dave is back this ep but that won't last long since the show was cancelled, as we all know. Showing his enthusiasm for the gadgets and the smartphone. Delko throwing his weight around as far as Sam doing the wrong thing was concerned, even if she says she was following protocol. It's not something she should have done and it wasn't Delko's place to reprimand her either. As for the issue of trust, they haven't been out in the field long enough for any trust to develop between them yet.
Ryan may have a crush on Sam but Natalia clearly does not. She still has issues with her especially when her thoughts of congrats to her becoming a detective become more of rivalry when Sam suggest she would like to interview Amanda. Natalia quickly shot that idea down (no pun) by saying she already spoke with Amanda and has developed a rapport with her.
The final scene has Horatio talking with Kyle as Matthew's secret message is discovered by Dave. One where he speaks of sacrifice and everyone gathers together to listen. Matthew: "We make choices everyday. Some we're conscious of, others we're not. These choices they affect others and not just ourselves. And not always on good ways. For that I am truly sorry. But we must all follow our own path no matter where it leads. I hope I can be forgiven for my mistakes. I'm not perfect but then again none of us are. [That line was intended for Horatio!] These choices they're up to all of you now and I pray you make them with the same ethic I've tried to live by. In the end I guess all that matters is that you try to leave this place a little better than when you got here. The time is now."
A message most people would do well to listen to but can't help thinking most of the end part was aimed at Horatio. He's tried to live by an ethic but now that has sadly changed since season 9, especially, for the worse.
The song this is read to is Forgiveness by Patty Griffin.
CSI:Miami is always the one to come up with new ideas and weapons out of the three shows. It did so in the past with the machine guns in ep 6.11 Guerillas in the Mist, which had the ability to vapourize its Vic's. But to be fair, CSI came up with their own deadly guns in the episode 12.9 Zippered. With 143 stolen/missing guns, military contractors ad all the rest of it.
Sendhil A Ramamurthy and Leonard Roberts were both in Heroes and Malese Jow was witchy Anna in The Vampire Diaries.
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