Patrick (Simon Baker) and Cho (Tim Kang) arrive at university housing where the officer tells them about a student who was found with a knife in his back, in a shallow pool. But Cho tells Patrick about Lisbon and how she's leaving for Washington. Cho heard it from other people, that she's leaving in a day. Patrick is surprised to hear that and can't stop asking about her. Inside he looks around and asks the people if they have a pack of cards. As he asks who found the DB. Also spotting some money on the floor. He tells them they all did it. Barry (Josiah Blount) was being strangled by him cos they played cards and he was winning, but they couldn't have paid him since they didn't have any money. That's why he's wearing a turtle neck jumper. Vince (James Austin Kerr) got punched cos she was trying to pull him off Barry and Kiley (Kara Royster) put make up on him to hide the marks. Colt (Skylar Brown) knifed him to stop him from throttling Barry and the one in the hat put him in the pool cos his shoes are still wet, thus concluding they all did it. So he tells Cho they're leaving, he's got stuff to do.
Patrick gets back and sits down with his cup of tea. Lisbon (Robin Tunney) thinks he'll say something to her but he doesn't, he just wants her to be happy. Abbott (Rockmond Dunbar) walks in saying they've got a note from a cold case. A woman named De Jorio was killed and it seems the killer has written a note. He will start killing again. This means that all leave and transfers have been cancelled, including Lisbon, so she has to stay. The original case was in Miami so they'll get a chance to go. You know what, from Patty's smirk, knew he wrote the letter cos he wanted Lisbon to stick around longer, was it to gather courage, or just to have her here a while longer. Patrick adding they get to go to Miami one last time and work one last case together.
Finally Patty does what he should have done weeks ago and set up a rouse to keep her from going, or at last really cos she expected that from him a while ago, but he kept her on edge, thinking he really won't stop her. Well it had to be him, who else would come up with a convoluted code like that. Certainly not the real killer. Also where on earth did Patrick dig up that cold case? Abbot talks with Patrick in his that office and he says he's fine with Lisbon leaving.
Patrick hires a convertible as Cho drives off in his SVU. They talk with the Vic's husband Don (Vincent Spano) and his third wife, Megan (Nicole Cannon) as well as his lawyer, Ted (Jason Brooks). Don was suspected first time round and he is angry they've come back again. Ted reads the note but they don't know who it is. He suspects Wes (George Finn) the neighbour cos he was stalking her. Christie (Haley Hudson) his daughter says it wasn't him cos she was certain he was nice. She doesn't like her father much and is rude to Megan.
They pay a visit to Wes who confesses he used to watch out for Christie cos he loved her, but she was 15 and he was 18 so they couldn't exactly be together. No one believed him and the killing ruined his life. They leave and Patrick suggests they go for a walk on the beach, one last time. Lisbon wearing her flip flops, as we call them here, was funny. He tells her she won't see sail boats and pelicans in Washington. Taking a look at the note again, he reads it out and this time Lisbon gets a brainwave. The Dewy refers to the Dewey decimal system and she looks up the name of a bird, a blue bird and comes up with the Island on the Keys. Last time Patty walked on a beach was with Fischer this season! Ha. But with Lisbon it just looked so perfect.
They check in and the woman tells them they'll need to dress for dinner. When Lisbon walks into her room, she's in awe at the room and the three dresses on her bed. She can't resist calling Patrick and thanking him, but it's too much. Oh great Patty you couldn't even change for dinner, ha. Let's hope he gets a new outfit next season, ha. Since he's with Lisbon now, he won't need to wear those socks she gave him anymore! He then picks up the phone again expecting it to be Lisbon again, loved the way his hello just kind of drifted away.
Cho and Fischer (Emily Swallow) went to speak with, the wife's business partner, Monica (Victoria Smurfit). She says they were close and she carried on the interior design business but it wasn't the same without her. Mentioning also that she was having an affair. These two were suspicious weren't they, I mean they don't even introduce who the woman, Tanya (DeWanda Wise) is with her.
Abbott and Cho also arrive at the resort, as Cho filled Lisbon in on her having an affair. They sit down to dinner and Patrick waits for Lisbon. She wore the pink, knew she would, it's more her style in dresses than the other two, well the white one was too short and the green one had sleeves. Her dresses are usually sleeveless. She asks the receptionist if she could have a bathrobe and she lets slip that he already has one in his room since when he booked the rooms two weeks ago. Thought she'd miss that but our Lisbon never misses a thing! She walks on over and asks him how he knew they'd be getting a note from the killer two weeks before. He admits he wrote it hoping he would draw the killer out. She throws a glass of water over him and walks off. Said a few eps ago that Patty hasn't been treated in that way for a while and here Lisbon is the one who throws water at him. Maybe it kind of woke him up, cos he went after her. Twice!
Poor Cho is oblivious to what's happening and Abbott has to spell it out to him. Abbott ordering some wine. Patrick tells her he's sorry and he wanted her to stay a while longer. She asks him why he would do that cos he's just so selfish and lies and uses people, like digging up the corpse of a woman. He's truly sorry but she doesn't want to know. Getting into a taxi she calls Pike (Pedro Pascal) and accepts his proposal but she doesn't listen to him speak still hoping Patrick will come after her. Hey Pike din't seem happy did he, it was just accepting that she finally agreed and that was it. Didn't even sound too excited about it!! Also loved the way Patty was telling her that she's going off with a man she's only known a little while, then about marriage and how it doesn't really last. Though she knew he was trying to put her off.
Whilst Patrick helps himself to the minibar and just wallows. The quiet moment is shattered when Ted bursts through the door with a gun. He was having an affair with her and wanted her to leave her husband. Patrick offers him a drink, cos clearly he wasn't the killer. No, it was...okay won't spoil it just yet. Then as Patrick throws him a bottle, Wes walks in with a gun and he wants to kill whoever ruined his life too, like Ted did. They sit and wallow and talks about loving her and losing her which is close to Patty's heart also, cos he's lost Lisbon.
Finally, the real killers walk in, again obvious it was them, Monica and Tanya, cos they didn't really look very convincing with their answers. Patrick tells them he's FBI and gives them his badge, cos we know he'll need it later. They were embezzling money and Patrick says they have no proof of what they were doing, so they can still leave. He uses his phone behind his back to text Abbott and Cho, 'SOZ'. Cho finally gets he means 'SOS'. Patrick is caught in the middle with guns and he tells Wes not to shoot. Which he does and is injured in his arm and Tanya is shot too. He tells Abbott and Cho they were the killers are and he rushes off needing to use Abbott's car. Hey drinking and driving there! Sirens blaring he arrives when she's already boarded and she turns around one final time hoping he'll be there. Oh you know he will, seeing as she read his letters over for two years without him around!
He can't get to her cos he doesn't have his badge, so he jumps the fence, shoddy security there then! Getting on the plane, he confesses to Lisbon that he's everything, he lies and cheats and makes things up but he can't see waking up and not seeing her there everyday. "I love you." At last, he says it but she replies it's too late. As he's lead away from the plane, he still shouts it. She apologizes for the embarrassing spectacle, the woman tells her that there are women who envy her. Yes ain't that the truth!! Abbott has to help Patrick and Lisbon walks in. Oh in the midst of all that, forgot to mention Patty hurt his ankle when he jumped the fence, you know he doesn't get that physical! Ha. She remarks he got himself into another pickle again. She tells him to say it again and he asks if they're talking about the pickle and he does. She asks him if he means it and then adds she feels that way too and Pike will understand. So the big finale; that kiss!! Well proving he sure means it. Would have been nice for Lisbon to say the same too!
So if that was series end, it would have gone out on a high, but we still would have missed the show. At least we know it's coming back, still don't know how many eps, but I'm sure we can be satisfied with that ending if we weren't to see them again. It just seemed so natural for them to be together again and knowing how the ep would end wasn't really kept secret, but it would have added more impact if it came as a surprise and if the ending had been kept under wraps. But Simon's acting in that plane scene was amazing, very believable and real, once again putting so much emotion into confessing his feelings which he found so hard to do, even admitting he knows what it's like to love someone and lose them. Oh massive tear shedding here.
Now wonder if his ring will come off next season? Have to also add that Cho was so funny, not realizing how these two were struggling with their feelings for one another and how Abbott picked up on it ages ago and him not even knowing them for very long!! Genius. Abbott turned out to be a bit of a dark horse and a good guy from that stern introduction of his character.
Patrick: "I have forgotten how to act like a normal human being, And I play games and I lie and I trick people to avoid the truth of how I feel. And the idea of letting anyone else close to me is - is terrifying, for obvious reasons. But the truth Teresa, is that I can't imagine waking up knowing that I won't see you. The truth is...I love you...you can't imagine how good that feels to say it out loud but it scares me and it is the truth. It is the truth of what I feel." Wow! Encore!
Bruno Heller wrote the finale to be "a suitable big, happy, romantic, send-off for the series if that's what happens - but it also opens a new chapter if that is not the case." Loved every minute and at least he had that in mind and we would have got the marvellous conclusion we all know Lisbon and Patty should have had and deserved and more importantly we would have finished up on a happy note and got some closure to an excellent series!
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