Some hikers in the desert see some debris from the sky and it's all hush hush as it's from a nearby airforce base, cue FBI (Litha Johnson) on the scene. When DB (Ted Danson) and Finn (Elisabeth Shue) arrive they have a war of words with them over whose CS it is and Finn has the last word by saying their bodies trumps their X-Files convention, but not before DB exposes them to some long winded rule over jurisdiction, he never though that'd work!
DB: "you know if you keep insisting you're gonna be in violation of NRS197.190, interfering with public officers in the discharge of their official duties."
Finn: "In other words, our body trumps your X-Files Convention."
DB was called in when a local police officer thought he saw something akin to some mass graves. The grave is dug up and there's a DB in one of them belonging to Janet who was part of the case in Seattle which Finn worked on and was fired from. Okay not fired per se but resigned, as she likes to put it. She takes the necklace from her neck and finds it matches exactly the same one Janet was wearing when she disappeared.
Finn now knows she was not only right about Tom Cooley (Dylan Walsh) being the killer but he is also a serial killer. She wants to rush through the exam of Janet by Doc (Robert David Hall) and he tells her she's not in charge here. Also she wants Greg (Eric Szmanda) to put a rush on the DNA to which he reminds her he's no longer in DNA but they're a team here so he'll help. When the results are in Greg tells DB Finn was just here but he tracks her GPS to Seattle and Greg asks if he's keeping tabs on them all. DB calls Mike (Brian Van Holt).
Hodges (Wallace Langham) and Morgan (Elisabeth Harnois) working together, oh come on someone must be trying to tell us and them something here, sift through the soil which was also transported from Seattle. Morgan finds a man's ring which Hodges surmizes could belong to the killer since all the Vics were female. The ring reads Hardison High Cchool class of 1987. In the yearbook online Hodges finds Cooley was class president of that year.
Finn is pulled over by Mike whom we find out is her ex and she's rearing at the bit to bring come closure to Janet's mother. Giving us a flashback to Finn talking with her mother (Lili Birdsell) in the past. Mike shows Finn Cooley's ranch which has been developed and so any evidence which was there no longer exists, no wonder he had the DB's shipped to Vegas. Thing is why pick Vegas of all places, especially since that's exactly where Finn ended up, if she hadn't well the case would still be open. That was convenient for all concerned, but mostly to give us the backstory on Finn and why she left Seattle, with DB reminding her last time she went after Cooley she not only lost her job but the Seattle PD was also sued. Mike reminds her she won't need to tell Dr Warren since the press beat her to it.
They find the ring belongs to an Eric Louie (Eric Steinberg) as Finn calls claiming to be Captain Robinson and asking if any high school rings have been missing, Mike reminding her to ask if anyone's asked for a replacement. Then he tells her did she really expect this to be so easy and have Cooley's name come up. He is a fellow officer and he recalls he gave the ring to his girlfriend, Marla (Sarah Joy Brown) who is now sis wife. She says she lost the ring and she used to go to parties, just as Eric did, they were wild days. She dated Cooley's friend, Max Liston a few times. Both Mike and Finn realize she's hiding something.
Liston turns out to be the contractor Cooley hired to develop his land. Finn calls DB with the news and also tells him he was later found dead after being paid all that money. He was paid to move the DBs. Officer Mitchell (Larry Mitchell) tells Brass (Paul Guilfoyle) to watch the news where Cooley makes himself out to be the Vic, of how he went out with Janet before she was killed and how that turned his life upside down. They find that Cooley used a date rape drug on the girls. Finn watches the conference and gets mad, with Mike telling her to put the cup down, cos obviously she was going to throw it at the TV. He knows her so well!
Nick (George Eads) gets through red tape to find the land became Federal which means it can never be developed so the bodies would never be found and it once belonged to Cooley's family who were also hotshots in Seattle. Finn meets Cooley in his hotelroom and has a drink. He's arrogant and claims how she can still not get his prints. She taunts him about how she's blonde, just his type, 5' 4" but he would have sex in the car cos he couldn't wait to kill them, but he couldn't get it up. Making him angry. Finn turns up at the lab just as DB gets word that Cooley has hanged himself.
DB passes a man and boy talking about how the soda machine ate his dollar. Brass won't let Finn enter the CS since she was seen leaving here and also seen by a waiter banging on the door with a gun in a uniform. He wants a statement from him. DB tells Brass you don't need to be high up to strangle yourself since he was hung from a door. Doc finds he was drunk and had an unhealthy liver due to drinking, also wants Finn out of his autopsy until she's been cleared. She's adamant it was murder. Since he was so narcissistic on TV then why would he kill himself.
Finn return to talk to Marla and she tells how she was with Cooley, Liston and Pearson (Scott Lowell) and she passed out. When she came too she was in a grave and Pearson (now Cooley's lawyer) was pouring dirt onto her. She went home and never told anyone. Cooley raped her and Finn adds she was drugged. Returning to the hotelroom with Greg, DB knows Pearson had time to kill Cooley. He couldn't use his keycard to get into the room and recalls the boy and his soda machine. Greg tells him he can get a soda from another machine but he removes the magnet which Pearson placed behind the machine, that's why his keycard wouldn't work. If he had put it behind the ice machine he would have gotten away with it. Even though both doors were locked from the inside Pearson used the magnet to gain entry and leave the same way. Not such a clever lawyer after all.
Brass says it will be better for him if he tells them the names of the remaining Vics which he does. Once again we get Finn rearing to go as she repeats her actions all over again and goes off in a huff to Seattle and without even getting permission or telling anyone, being headstrong and taking it upon herself to inform Janet's mother when the evidence hasn't even been processed. Those aren't the actions of a CSI, yes you can be passionate about your work and many of the CSIs such as Sara, Nick have all done that in the past, really go out to obtain justice for the Vics but she just goes overboard. There's not much DB can or does do to reel her in.
She's not the only one who feels for their Vics and her actions could have proved detrimental to everyone else, as Hodges said when he refused to answer her phone straightaway, he's not going down with her, as did Brass when he was instrumental in keeping her away from the CS and so was Doc. Okay she has a bad relationship with her ex and for all her moaning about failed marriage when she first arrived last season, didn't look like she hates him much. Especially when she decided she wanted to stick around and have ex sex with him, cos they miss each other.
Nick and insects yet again, showing he's clearly taken on Grissom's mantel now pinning the insects to the board and then joking how one breakthrough find should given him a payrise. Sara was missing and none of the others had much to do as this was a Finn episode. At least we've got that background story of hers dealt with now and it wasn't that much of a surprise since it was mentioned many times over how she went after the suspect, Cooley and wanted his prints for evidence, even asking him for the glass now when she's alone in his room with him. Cooley comes out and asks her how she knows he won't kill her and that's what makes it more thrilling for her. He still thinks he was in the clear.
Finn: "two years, two jobs, one marriage, but I got him."
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