This title seemed catchy enough especially considering the subject matter, the so-called copy cat killer, but that he was copying the CSIs and was processing the CS and mapping out areas for the CSIs already, thus the 'CSI Effect.' If you recall when CSI first started there were many articles about how the show affected the number of people wanting to become CSIs and study forensics and criminalistics. I even mentioned a part about it in my CSI:NY book, yes cos the introduction and early part was about all three CSI shows.
Finn (Elisabeth Shue) is locked in her car and a bomb is about to go off, a distorted voice asks DB (Ted Danson) "Who am I?" and he doesn't reply. Though it should have been him asking, "Who are you?" Ha. The timer on the bomb changes from one hour to a minute and we get to:
3 Days Earlier
which finds Finn in the car with a former detective Daniel Shaw (Mark Valley) who is now a PI. He's here investigating the disappearance of a college student named Emily and he doesn't tell Finn yet that his partner, Kerri also a PI now is missing whilst working the same case. Though he didn't expect to stumble on the Gig Harbour Killer. Now you should have recalled that name going back all the way to S12.1 73 Seconds and with the arrival of DB as head of the lab. As Sara (Jorja Fox) congratulates him on catching the Gig Harbour Killer
DB, Finn, Daniel and Kerri all worked on the serial killer case back in Seattle and he even stalked DB's daughter, Maya, to the point where she had to have protection for herself and her family. The Gig Harbour Killer actually tuned out to be Jared Briscoe (Mark-Paul Gosselaar). He murdered five college students, All blondes and DB found him when the evidence pointed to a boat where he found more evidence relating to the killer. Jared even turns up and fights with DB. Here he also found photos of himself, Finn, Maya.
Jared was sentenced to death row after being convicted but after four years and five failed appeal attempts later he is still there. He wouldn't give up any of the whereabouts of three of his Vics. Nick (George Eads) and Sara (Jorga Fox) process the current CS where Emily was supposedly meant to have been found and Nick thinks that DB processed the scene already, as well as stringing the blood spatter. Even if Nick was late, DB didn't do it, it was already done and there was no DB either, but a fish gaff was found at the CS. Being the murder weapon.
DB also tells Nick that this appears to be the work of a copycat killer since Jared is still in prison. DB wants to interview Jared in person and has a requested a transfer to Vegas. Ecklie (Marc Vann) is furious about this cos DB has pull, he went behind his back and asked for this. Since it's also a reflection on the department. DB needs to do this even if it looks like he has a personal motive behind it.
As Nick processes the CS for a second time, for their own evidence, Sara does remark that everything was done as if a real CS had been over the scene, as well as there being green and orange CS stringing done. That looked good, always liked that in the show, though they don't use that much anymore, it's mostly laser stringing if they do that. It was cool, until we find out that Hodges (Wallace Langham) finds the string was made from human tissue. What was even more cool was Nick wanting to use the lab's 3D mapping system which Ecklie invested in to take 3D photos of the CS, basically like a helicopter and giving a 360 degree picture of the entire CS.
The DNA also belongs to Emily who went missing five weeks ago from Seattle, as said that was why Daniel was here. Though Finn doesn't want to share much with him especially since she tells him he wasn't that good in the back of the car. Finn's signature trademark she leaves behind wherever she's been, no really, is there anyone she hasn't been with or chased after. Daniel and Kerri were hired by Emily's parents to find her, he couldn't get hold of her, so he took a trip to Vegas for himself. Her last known address was at a coffeshop and looking at the photo from the footage, she's seen with a man wearing a hat. Finn notices that he runs his hand under the table which means there should be some DNA left behind. Greg (Eric Szmanda) has the task of doing the honours and finds there is DNA from a middle finger. As Morgan (Elisabeth Harnois) comments, as have so many before them, he's giving them the finger.
The print belongs to Jared Briscoe. When DB talks with him, he tells him he lost his finger in prison, someone bit it off and he swallowed it, he didn't get it back, so maybe someone sold it. Obviously you know where this is going from the start since DNA evidence from twins is the only viable way in which this DNA could've turned up there. DB also tells him Emily and Kerri are both missing. DB has to question whether Jared is the real killer, but Jared confessed he was. Or that he was probably a psycho.
Kerri's car has been found and Sara tells Finn and Daniel that it was cleaned. There was however, some dots on the window which look like spatter, but weren't as it's an unusual pattern. Obviously it was a constellation of some sort, which is what I said, it wouldn't be a random pattern. Files relating to the Gig Harbour Killer and Kerri's diary are also found. Where she was pinpointing things to the killer. Kerri had a meeting with Mark Turner(Rob Nagle) and when Finn and Daniel question him, he states he's the counsel for Jared and was hired by his brother Paul Winthrop. Then we get the age old story about twins being set to separate homes, one comes good and the other doesn't. Finn shows him the photo from the coffeeshop and he used his middle finger to position it on the table. Giving Finn an easy feeling that something isn't right here.
She tells this to DB but is given the same word of warning from Ecklie. That they're making this too personal. In the flashback from 2009 in Seattle, we see that Finn is the one who shot Jared, and he says he should finish it off. Finn telling him she's got his back. She tells them now she should've finished him off and Ecklie warns her about telling that to anyone else. Finn also thinks Jared had an accomplice. DB doubts whether Jared even masterminded the killings.
The DNA results on the human string belongs to the three Vics who were never found. Greg finds the blood spatter on the ceiling of the car belongs to the constellation Gemini, Pollux and Castor and Nick says he found the same thing in the blood spatter. There were two other signatures in the blood that looked strange. They too were of Gemini. Also the green strings from the CS also formed the same Gemini constellation. This leads to the location of where Emily's DB was meant to be and the same company also owned a chemical plant. Here the killer has already dug up three mass graves and exhumed the DBs. Belonging to the Vics. One of them wears a college ring and David (David Berman) finds some evidence in the mouth of one of the Vics where she bit the killer. As well as hair.
Nick runs the DNA and we don't find out who it's a match to, until we return to Finn in the car. DB is called again and this time he answers the killer's question, saying he knows he's the Gig Harbour Killer. Finn is released and Ecklie once again admonishes DB for saying that, since he's opened up a can of worms now. If he's right, he may have sent an innocent man to Death Row and he needs to solve this case. DB says he knows that and he'll have to deal with it, but we know he's not wrong and that both of them were involved. With Paul looking that bit more of a psychopath and actually fitting the picture of this criminal mastermind.
Cue to the end of the ep with the song playing and Paul and Jared walking together to be interviewed. As well as the CSIs putting together the puzzle. Also why didn't they analyze the fingerprint when Paul touched the photo, that was an obvious clue, especially since they may have identical DNA, but they wouldn't have the same prints. That was overlooked by Finn, who always drops the ball whenever she has some flirtation with some man or another. Why does she always have to be the one in trouble and she wasn't utilized for her blood spatter expertise here either. Hasn't done much of that lately as I said in my previous reviews, that after all is her forte.
So the show goes back to another serial killer storyline this season, but I have yet to see if they will actually match the brilliance of the Miniature Serial Killer storyline, as this opens up a new arc of the season. Also it harks back to the early season of CSI when Grissom was dealing with Paul Millander and he left similar clues for him, such as the obviously 'faked' hand/print.
The end song was Come With Me Now by Kongos. Also funny did you see when Greg pulled up the results of Jared's DNA, someone made a booboo and listed his Hair as Caucasian and his race as Brown. Oh please! ha. Mark Valley was also in 1.13 Boom ep of CSI.
So as George is leaving the show at the end of the season, make the most of him now!
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