This part picks up where the first part left off last season and we open with a funeral and crying, so we assume that either Morgan (Elisabeth Harnois) or Ellie (Teal Redmann) has parted ways. It wouldn't be Morgan of course since she's in the show anyway, so it could be Ellie, but then there are so many possibilities there's really no point in guessing.
3 Days Earlier
We see Morgan is still being held hostage and so is Ellie, with everyone lamenting on how they shouldn't have let her go undercover, especially Ecklie (Marc Vann) and Hodges (Wallace Langham) cos she's a CSI and it backfired bigtime on her and them. The main suspect is still Oliver Tate (Tim Matheson) though and Greg (Eric Szmanda) and Nick (George Eads) still in pursuit, stop the SUV which is like the one Morgan was in and find Jake (Luke Kleintank) inside. When her SUV is found, it's outside a storage facility and Greg just walks in without backup and disappears as Nick follows a blood trail. Inside one of the rooms is the DB of a blonde woman with her hair covering her face. Of course, it's not Morgan, oh stop teasing us, we already know she's not leaving.
Nick moves her hair to reveal she must have been another kidnap Vic, as he tells DB (Ted Danson). She was posed like the Divine Comedy illustration signifying anger. Greg and Nick process the CS and Nick asks Greg about the dimensions of the door, the boat couldn't have fit through in one complete go so it was assembled in two halves. Much like Gibbs' (Mark Harmon) boats in NCIS. Though we never got a definitive answer on how he got his out of his cellar, had a feeling he reassembles them. Anyhow they pull the boat apart to reveal more dowels, each one with yet another code, this time it contains 2's as well. Nick also asking the significance of the so called 'grim reaper' who Greg replies is Phlegyas, the Ferryman of Styx. Since the DB was found on the boat with a spear through her.
As Finn (Elisabeth Shue) processes Oliver's room, she finds hidden writing which says, 'warm, warmer, warmer, you're on fire' and she finds another dowel. She hears someone behind her and reaches for her gun, it's none other than John Merchiston (James Callis) the journo. He's got a flashdrive which was left at his hotel and inside they see a video message from Morgan. She asks them to choose which daughter they're going to get back. DB notices she keeps looking up, saying Morgan's intelligent just like Finn so why'd she do it. Adding she'd be leaving a message. She analyzes the recording and isolates the spikes from the sound to reveal Morgan looks up when there's a noise. Sounds like a jet and if they could find the flight plan corresponding with the noise, they could find the airfield. Of course this didn't pan out, which was a bit different and new for CSI, since no mention was made of this idea again.
Doc (Robert David Hall) and David (David Berman) examine the DB and he notices a message one her back, 'Barb Thee Thorns' but they have no idea what it means. Larson (Eric Roberts) tells them Oliver is setting him up for the fall cos he knows that Angela (Tangie Ambrose) used to be Oliver's favourite girl. Henry (Jon Wellner) finds the blood they found doesn't match any specific sex. Db wants him to reanalyze it and this time get Greg to help him. That was being insulting to Henry considering he is good at his job and it's what he does. Sara (Jorga Fox) returns from San Francisco and tells Greg she can't find a way to decipher the dowels. He tells they work by using a ternary code. The dowels are a decipher key to synthetic DNA which was found by Finn under the floorboards. Oliver's company should have a bio meter capable of reading it. They get a warrant for the company and find Oliver stored porn on there from the girls he used. But he didn't kill them, he was a watcher and got teenage boys to carry out his acts.
Angela calls saying she needs to speak with DB, but she only trusts him. When he arrives he finds her dead and posed as one of the illustrations. Oliver pulls a gun on DB and says that he didn't kill any of them but DB doesn't believe him. But he did kill Angela cos she deserves it as she betrayed him. He in turn accuses Larson of setting him up and when DB tells him about Larson being in custody, he realizes something is amiss and makes a run for it. DB follows sending out an alert but Oliver's car blows up. When the police arrive and CSIs collect his body parts, after a flippant remark from Brass (Paul Guilfoyle) that they'll be here for ages collecting the pieces, DB realizes that Oliver was an intended Vic, since he was the ninth circle, that of violence. Brass is called by Ellie and she wants him to choose, but he's sad cos he can't, which she already knew.
Morgan tries to speak with Ellie about her parents and how her relationship with Ecklie wasn't all that great either but she's not in the mood to listen. Realizing that her mother's here and how they're not her parents, he's not her father at least since her mother had an affair with some cop, which she found out about in New Jersey. Morgan tries to remove a spring from the bed. DB recalls Morgan's message and she speak about cutting the daughter in two and giving one each half, thinking of Cane and Abel and the Book of Soloman. DB knows Jake won't talk but he wants to confess. Nick confirms he found a partial print on the bomb trigger and it matches Jake's brother, Matt (Lucus Kerr). Larson intervenes and tries to find out where his brother is and how Larson helped him when he arrived here and knew what his father had done. DB shows him photos of Angela and he can't believe she's dead, thinking his brother wouldn't kill her cos of how Jake felt about her.
Matt brings back Ellie and Morgan calls him a coward hiding behind his mask. He takes it off and gets closer to her, so she attacks him. Getting Ellie to tie up his hands. Knew then that Ellie didn't tie him up and Morgan should've done it herself, cos they get out and Ellie tells her there's another girl inside. But if you'd been following closely, you'd have recalled that Morgan and Ellie were the last two Vics. Which Morgan didn't know. Matt gets Morgan and she attacks him and they fight. Ellie shoots him and then shoots Morgan in the back. Though we knew at that point Ellie's in on it, didn't realize she was a killer too, so that was a shock. They arrive and Ellie tells Brass Matt shot her and then she shot him.
Sara looks at the gun and sees that Ellie was the one who got off one bullet and Hodges tells her that Matt didn't have any GSR on his shirt. Sara calls DB but Brass as already left the hospital and heads for the hotel room. However he finds his wife, Nancy (Annabella Sciorra) in a pool of blood and Ellie with a gun. She shot her cos she knew about her and Matt and that Brass says he didn't really love her, after he tells her that Nancy was the only one who loved her. He's clearly distraught and saddened by her death.
So the funeral was for Nancy and should have seen that coming since she told Brass to stop seeing Ellie as six years old and if they get her back, to accept her for who she is now. Which he painfully had to do, accepting her as a killer. Also telling her to shoot him cos, "I'm already dead." Ellie, boy you're dumb, no really. She killed her mother cos she'd seen her with Matt but she forgot about his phone and the photos. Also Morgan would have recovered too. Crazy girl, she's so bitter and twisted. Mind you she could have gotten away with it instead of hanging around after she shot Morgan cos she'd just have disappeared into the wind like last time. He knows he would pick Morgan cos he just doesn't have those feelings for Ellie, at least not the adult Ellie. He is saddened cos Nancy was the only woman he did love, but Brass's poignant performance is indicative of his talent and ability to play Brass so convincingly, from his one liners to the more sad scenes. It's a shame that Paul won't be around in season 15 cos he really was an important and well loved cast member.
Merchiston asks DB about when there's no more voice in his head and it's all quiet if he will then find peace. "Or will it be a loss too great to bear?" Or something along those lines. he and DB kind of bonded too, though he and Finn were giving each other 'looks' when talking to DB and how they'll have to choose which daughter they want back. Of course the line of the ep had to be nick after they find Matt, "he's dead, Jim." Oh such a Star Trek homage!!
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