Season 13 opens with the continuation of the two-part story with DB (Ted Danson) from Homecoming, still on the hunt for his missing granddaughter, Katie (Mia Hayes). He opens his safe and takes out his gun, something his wife, Barbara (Peri Gilpin) thought she'd never see him do again. DB: "Neither did I." Finn (Elisabeth Shue) gets a text about Ecklie (Marc Vann) and makes a call to DB and thinks Crenshaw (Billy Magnussen) is up to something but she goes along with him hoping to get some whereabouts on Katie. The CSIs arrive at the CS and Sara (Jorga Fox) leaves messages for Nick (George Eads) who's nowhere to be seen, or reached.
DB insists on conducting evidence gathering even if Sara tells him it won't hold up in court, which is the furthermost thing from his mind. Sara found some trace outside, some sort of plaster and finds the same inside. As well as an LVPD torch under Katie's window. Ecklie is rushed to hospital and Morgan (Elisabeth Harnois) sits outside waiting for news. Greg (Eric Szmanda) arrives and she asks David (David Berman) to get back to work. DB picks up the note on Katie's bed reading "KARMA." Which is what Ecklie said last episode about McKeen's son being killed. He got his family and now McKeen (Connor O'Farrell) will get DB's family too in return. DB only wants Brass's men on the case since there's a cop involved and there will be more dirty cops on the payroll.
Finn is taken to a club by Crenshaw and he takes her phone after she says she was in touch with Moreno (Enrique Murciano) and leaves the guns in the glovebox. Obviously he's going to have another concealed weapon and can pick one up from anywhere. Finn is bored and he leads her to a backroom and pulls a gun on her, taking her to Katie where she's being held by crooked cop Kimball (Peter Onorati).
A call is made to DB providing him with proof of life which makes him even more determined to kill McKeen. Kimball wants DB to talk with McKeen after Brass already paid him a visit, he's in holding. McKeen wants the $2 million which Gilmore (Craig Sheffer) had his wife steal from McKeen's drug dealers. That's why she was shot. Only no one can find Gilmore. DB's got 24 hours or Katie dies. Not likely McKeen will hold up his end of the bargain anyway. He's after payback and revenge.
Two cops find Nick drinking and he throws a beer bottle against the wall. They take him in, thought he was asking for a beating, ha. Finn is left alone with Katie, reassuring her everything will be fine. She opens up an air vent and gets her to climb in before Crenshaw returns and she's beaten up by him, but not before putting up a fight of her own. Obviously sleazy Crenshaw wanted something more than that from her. Sara is called by Nick and finds him in a cell. He quit but she tells him he can quit tomorrow, not tonight. He sobered up pretty quickly to get to work.
Greg says they found the abandoned car used in Ecklie's shooting and the rifle inside belonged to a cop. They need the pellets from the hospital and Hodges (Wallace Langham) volunteers to collect them, just cos he wanted to see Morgan. She tells him about how when she was little she wanted him shot and now that's happened and then kisses Hodges. Well nothing will come of that of course. They find a lead to a new sex club opened in the area, after analysis of the note doesn't reveal anything. DB wants Sara to break the paper down and see where it was manufactured. Nick and Sara find sex ads on the reverse of the letters and Greg narrows down the ink that was used, dating back to 2008. Thus giving them the location of the defunct factory. SO Finn is still giving as good as Crenshaw and is about to be shot by him when Moreno shoots him. Hey the cavalry arriving just in time.
She's distraught that Katie is nowhere to be found even after a lengthy search and DB is angry that she let her alone like that, but she should get checked out at the hospital. The trace Sara found shows animal hair inside which is analyzed as bovine hair. Henry (Jon Wellner) comments on Nick's appearance when he returns to work. Whilst DB has problems with his family especially Maya (Brooke Niven) who doesn't want him protecting her or lying to her anymore, as he did in Seattle about the campus killings. She slaps him and there's nothing he can do.
DB is having flashes about identifying Katie's DB on the table and also about shooting McKeen in his cell and he really can't control his anger. As his mind plays tricks on him, though it's understandable he would be that way. He wants Doc Robbins ( and everyone else to get to work and find him some real evidence but Nick refuses to leave. Instead he tells him Gilmore's phone is still on and he knows where he is. They find him and he tells them he paid McKeen the money already. Suddenly a shot is fired and he's killed. Brass is angry as Gilmore was a material witness in the police corruption investigation and DB and Nick led McKeen right to him, since McKeen didn't know where he was and wanted Gilmore dead all along.
Doc finds traces of a fungus in Crenshaw's lungs responsible for Valley fever and the search area is still too wide, seems like anything they come up with seems too little for DB and in the end it's really him who figures out the puzzle leading them to Katie, re the animal hair.
Greg finds the bullet used on Gilmore belonged to a former cop and Finn finds DB on Katie's bed where he figures out she's still alive. Otherwise Crenshaw would have killed them both after they delivered proof of life. Then sees in Kimball's file that he has children of his own and a daughter the same age as Katie thus he wouldn't hurt her. He also realizes that the trace in the plaster dated back to World War II when they built houses using animal hair to hold the materials together. Nick had always maintained they were looking for a dairy farm or something along those lines and they narrow down the area where such houses were built. One such house belongs to the former cop's wife. Here they find him dead along with two other cops but no sign of Katie, except for blood. Finally they see scuff marks in front of a dresser and DB finds Katie behind it. The man told her to hide.
Outside Kimball is cornered and claims he's not a rat and is about to shoot himself when Brass shoots him first. DB brings Katie home and sees another image where he hears Barbara saying she can't do this anymore, after she looks at CS photos on his desk. Nick and Sara have an argument over his quitting and she tells him, "words have consequences," she didn't verbally quit. She left a note for Grissom and walked out. Greg breaks up their fight by saying they're family and don't treat each other like this. Yeah they do. Oh and Ecklie pulls through.
Just to mention Moreno was working with Crenshaw all that time and he didn't realize he was dirty. Not that that's any sort of criticism against him but it's kind of like his stepfather, Sam Vega last season being into what he was. Enrique Murciano didn't have much to do in his two scenes which is a bit of a waste of both actor and character.
Liked the way Brass paid a visit to McKeen after putting Mitchell (Larry Mitchell) on the door outside and threatened him if anything happened to Katie, "I got people too." You can see the number of years he's spent with the PD putting him in good stead to throw his weight around and especially with someone as despicable as former undersheriff McKeen.
DB really showed his emotions this episode and was put through the wringer by practically everyone concerned. At least he got one over on McKeen by transferring him to a federal facility where he'll spend the rest of his days in isolation. Oh and the $2 million was donated to the Crime Lab in McKeen's family's name. SO much for his kind of Karma! A lot of friction around the lab too with Nick and Sara and she just doesn't want to see him quit even if he tells her it's not up to her. She took a year out to clear her head and came back, but he doesn't want to hear it.
Greg being thoughtful and bringing Morgan a change of clothes at the hospital was just so Greg! Showing her he's there for her, not that she really acknowledges him or anything. Hoping something more is said about those Seattle campus murders since it seems to be another big part of DB's life in Seattle, they can't just mention it and not bring it up again. Overall it's a typical CSI episode where the evidence finally does its job and reaches a happy conclusion for DB and his family. Hopefully we'll get back to seeing our CSIs on screen for longer in episodes to come.
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