The episode opens with Ryan (Jonathan Togo) regaining consciousness after what appears to be a fight. He struggles to move. He appears to have a flashback to everyone at the bar with Delko (Adam Rodriguez) mentioning how tough it's going to be to get the State's Attorney and Walter (Omar Miller) is also there, along with Natalia (Eva La Rue) who blames everything on Sam (Taylor Cole) she still isn't convinced that Sam is entirely innocent (and neither was I.) Sam overhears her conversation and Natalia tells her she's said her piece. Sam calls her a 'bitch', ooh steady on, think the shoe will be on the other foot, literally by episode's end! and leaves after Ryan does the same. Sam warns him against going after Josh (Ryan McPartlin). Well that was only cos she was somehow involved.
Ryan notices Josh lying on the floor but he is dead. Then pulls a small object out of his own hand, before calling Horatio (David Caruso) for help. At the lab, Natalia is frustrated that Ryan was only there cos of Sam and Delko processes him and notices a burn on his hand. Ryan got that when he ran into the lamp, he says. Then Ryan was knocked out. Horatio notices blood trace on Ryan's jacket. Ryan attempts to convince Horatio he didn't do it. Suppose Horatio had doubts about him, well that was rich coming from Horatio after everything he's been up to this season and last. He was being judgemental about Ryan and the evidence wasn't even in yet. Natalia can't bear to watch Ryan being treated in this way and mentions the one person who could testify against Sam messing with the evidence is dead and leaves.
Walter processes the CS along with ME Tom (Christian Clemenson)nwho examines the DB, Josh was hit with a bottle. Walter also notices blood spatter on a pillar in the apartment and ME Tom tells him to string it, which he refuses, that's Calleigh's (Emily Proctor) job. Calleigh is having her interview with the adoption people about adopting Austin (Ty Panitz) and his sister. They ask about her work and the phone rings. She has to get to work and asks for a reschedule.
Calleigh strings the CS and finds the blood spatter on the floor is there as the killer swung the bottle away after hitting him. Notice in the flashback of Josh getting hit with the bottle, the assailant is shown masked and dressed in black, normally CSI:Miami used to show articles of clothing similar to what the actual killer was wearing. Here they didn't show Sam's orange blouse. That would have been too easy. Horatio arrives with Ryan's jacket in an evidence bag and finds there's a void between the blood spatter on the floor, showing Ryan was lying there and was already unconscious when Josh was killed.
Ryan is cleared and joins Walter at the CS. Walter tells him next time he wants to go rogue, he should give a brother a call for back up. Ryan is grateful Walter had his back. They don't find Josh's phone and Ryan calls the number, it vibrates and Walter notices it react like a transmitter. Ryan checks the landline which is bugged. Dave (Wes Ramsey) checks the bug and finds it belongs to them. A CSI checked it out. Horatio confronts Sam who tells him she planted the bug and left. She wanted to get Josh and take him down. Horatio removes her from the case and in his anger he throws the equipment off the bench. Horatio later has a plaster on his right wrist, probably a result of this reaction.
Ryan thinks Vogel (Malcolm McDowell) bugged his phone. Horatio calls him and he says the bug was concealed without a warrant so he can't use the results of it, which was Josh on the phone to Vogel. Calleigh tells Delko she thinks she'll lose the children to another couple there and he tells her not to worry, they'll choose her. Thought they'd talk about themselves there but alas no. Delko gets a hit on a conversation between Vogel and Josh, it's an illegal wire tap and so can't use it. Vogel tells them Josh wasn't one of his direct clients.
Sam is frustrated too and Ryan asks her if she can tell him anything about Josh as she's been dating him for two years. He wants to help her and believes in her. That was just his crush talking. She recalls he had a boat she never went on and they argued over it. Natalia and Tripp (Rex Linn) check the boat out but shots are fired before they get to it. Natalia shoots the shooter and inside she finds drugs. Ryan and Delko check the drugs, which is meth and their composition leads to an Eddie Coster (Jamie Harris) who was one of Vogels' clients and never convicted.
Coster is brought in and tells them he made a deal and the police took his drugs. He doesn't have any of them so he hasn't made a profit on them. Delko goes to the adoption agency and tells them about Calleigh and working with her for ten years. It was actually less than ten, not forgetting he wasn't around full time in season 8 and wasn't working at Miami-Dade per se. Ryan and Walter check the drugs in evidence and Ryan notices the bag move. He tells Walter to check it out but he declines. Ryan tests the drugs which don't test positive for meth. He says it's flour, so someone replaced the drugs. The flour has weevils in it. Josh probably replaced the drugs. Walter goes for the file and finds Sam checked the drugs in.
Sam goes AWOL and can't be found. Coster has her hostage inn a car along with Vogel. A chase ensues and Sam drives the car over the edge of the road. She's injured, as is Vogel and she tells Ryan she broke her ankle. He takes her shoes and finds a piece of glass wedged on the bottom. See shoe on other foot. Analyzing the glass, it matches the bottle and also the chard he removed from his hand. Sam was there on the night of the killing.
He visits her in hospital and tells her his findings. She warned him to stay away and turned up when Ryan was unconscious. She hit Josh with the bottle and left. Ryan is angry she left him there and repeats it a few times. Yeah she could have called it in. As a CSI she was useless, why didn't she check her shoes and herself for any evidence and she wore the same shoes! Not to mention she had the same clothes on. Ryan defended her and she just left him.
Calleigh's adoption is approved and she sends a photo to Delko and calls him, again we don't see them getting back together but it's open for them to do this somewhere down the line. She thanks him for speaking on her behalf. He joins the others at the bar who funnily lament and joke about Ryan not having any luck with women. ME Tom is also there, which was a nice touch since he's part of the team now. He shows them a photo of a woman, Lulu he met online in a science chat room and they're all a bit jealous of him. So after all that we find he has a girl and none of the others do. Also Natalia doesn't have a man in her life either.
Natalia tells Ryan he'll do okay as he's good looking and nice and he replies he'll take her on the table right now! Natalia suggests the Hummer and they all laugh. So there's no longer any chemistry between the two, as you'll recall both Ryan and Delko also wanted Natalia earlier on when she arrived at the lab. Ryan says he's got hair, no offence to Tripp and they all joke. Horatio arrives to join them for a drink and Delko won the bet saying he would turn up. Then tells Ryan he won't be alone as they're a family, much the same thing he said about Calleigh to the adoption agency. Horatio will have a drink if Ryan's buying.
So seems Horatio et al were left to carry on fighting crime, even after all of Horatio's indiscretions. A shame they didn't have time for Rick Stetler to turn up as the one behind this and working with Vogel to bring down the lab and Horatio. That would have been an interesting touch. Always wanted to see something like that. Makes me wonder if Rick had Vogel for an attorney would he have gotten off too, ha.
So ends CSI:Miami, think they could have done better as a final episode and Calleigh hardly did anything, just strung the CS. She was more concerned with the adoption and she wasn't in the final scene with the others. It's amazing that Horatio would even suspect Ryan was involved especially since he's been in that position more than once and was always cleared or had an explanation for his actions. Surely after everything Horatio has done to suspects he couldn't really think that Ryan would do something illegal.
Glad Horatio did tell Sam to leave as she was compromising the lab, that was the best thing he did all season! Never liked Sam and always suspected she was a bit of a loose cannon. Natalia also felt the same and her reasons for not liking her were justified in the end. Walter didn't have much to say about her particularly since he was the one who knew her better than the others. They worked together on the nightshift. Which seemed to have been forgotten or not alluded to.
Seems Ryan didn't get the girl after all, he should have got his bracelet back at least!
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Did i hear ryan say something about himself not having a family and that the team r the only family he's got left? Or did i just imagine it o_o?
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