A woman is held captive by Jared, the Gig Harbour Killer, and he tells her to run cos he can try to hit her with a crowbar as long as he likes. It's Maya (Brooke Nevin) and she runs towards the door and sees Paul Winthrop (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) behind it, then wakes up. She was having a nightmare about him and she speaks with DB (Ted Danson) over the phone. She's going back to Seattle and is leaving tonight. A police patrol watches her. He says he'll drive her but she reminds him he's got that meeting with Ecklie. So he'll send Crawford (Alimi Ballard) instead. Daniel (Mark Valley) sits outside and listens to her conversation. Then makes a call saying it's happening tonight.
Paul visits Jared (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) as he's been exonerated of all charges and so they can work together, Jared will get what he always wanted. Of course it's obvious that's going to be Maya. Paul is talking on the TV and vows to make everyone pay in lawsuits, DB tells Sara (Jorga Fox) and Finn (Elisabeth Shue) he's expecting to be served very soon. Then Finn realizes that Maya being here was bait and Sara thought she was just visiting. DB reluctantly tells them she agreed to do it and it was "for the greater good." Sara also mentions that Hodges (Wallace Langham) is working on the strings and may have a breakthrough, calling it "music to his ears." Crawford mentions picking up Maya at seven and also that she was always under protective custody.
Morgan (Elisabeth Harnois) hears a violin being murdered (no pun) and Hodges is playing one. He is onto replicating how the Gig Harbour Killer made the strings and has used cat gut. Explaining cat gut isn't really cat gut but from sheep or goat. She's happy he hasn't used real human tissue but she hasn't seen Henry around. (No that's cos he probably would've been off with Sara if she hadn't come in for her two obligatory scenes this ep. Ha) He found a match to a woman who made strings and that's Rebecca Lowell, the same woman who was shot by Finn, when she came after Greg. Morgan takes Hodges with her to her house and they smell a rotting corpse. Morgan clears the house and finds a DB on the bed but they don't know who she is. Hodges looks at the clippings on the wall and comments on how the Gig Killer likes to read about himself. Morgan also notices some ants and looks inside the freezer, finding body parts.
The officers watching Maya get a call about an officer down and take the call, requesting back-up. Obviously that was a diversion and this gives Daniel the chance to move in and take Maya to the airport, telling her he knows DB. It'd be easier for her if she saw a friendly face. She goes off with him and you know this was planned, cos she wouldn't just get into the car like that. David (David Berman) tells Morgan there's no ID on the DB, but the body parts match the missing Vics, Emily and Pamela. Morgan tells Finn they found Daniel's prints all over the house and so he was Paul's partner. Maya realizes how DB would talk about Fnn all the time, but didn't mention him and that he drives past the exit for the airport.
DB tells Ecklie his house is a CS and that the units are following Maya, she's wearing a wire and she agreed to do this. Nick (George Eads) and Greg (Eric Szmanda) also follow. She wanted to do this to end the nightmare and put it behind her. Finn doesn't think that Daniel is behind this and heads to Rebecca's house for herself. Here she stumbles across Hodges in the dark, cos Morgan left him to collect evidence, should she have done that without back-up present. Anyone could've come back there. He tells her he works in the dark, cos his mentor, Grissom, told him to think like the killer. She prefers worklights. He comments on the creaky floorboards and she notices scuff marks from a table that Hodges didn't move.
Under the board she finds a chest full of money and a flashdrive. Also how Daniel's prints weren't found on the clippings, or the table. Hodges thinks he lounged around and then got into serial killer mode and wore gloves. Morgan works on the body parts and the larvae she found and David tells her that the DB was Rebecca's sister. She finds blowfly larvae and beetle eggs which are enemies so they wouldn't be in the same place at the same time. She suspects the parts were frozen several times over and moved around, so she'll try to find the killer's habitat based on the larvae. Nick and Greg follow Daniel as he heads into an ally and makes a call. Maya finds the time to speak with her father and tells him she loves him. He then drives away and leads them to a warehouse, which apparently only has one exit and entrance.
He plays classical music and tells her to listen. Also mentioning that the girl playing the violin was beautiful and he didn't deserve something so beautiful. DB also finds that Paul and his brother landed here four hours ago, so they must be meeting Daniel. DB realizes Maya isn't saying anything and he gets them to go in. When they arrive there's just a recording with Daniel talking. Maya's wire is left on the front seat. Outside Nick tells Greg to look around for clues and they find her wedding ring on the ground, as well as some chipped red paint from the car, showing they changed cars. The paint will help ID the make and model of the car. Finn finds Rebecca ran the escort service and has names of clients on the flashdrie, including judges, police and others. She also finds Daniel's name there too and finds he was a dirty cop. Paul's name is also on the list.
Finn sees DB in agony and Crawford tells her he's beating himself up over it too. Then mentions what Daniel said about the girl. Maya talks to Daniel in the car and he says he respects her father and she's just like him. She's resilient and says she won't run, but won't make it easy either. Morgan tells DB they'll find Maya just like they found her and her father never gave up on her. She found that the larvae may be infesting the area and she shes contacted the Land Management Bureau to ask if there have been any beetle infestations it he Vegas area. They return a message specifying an area, and that's where they think Daniel could be heading. They have units and eyes in the sky searching the area and find the abandoned car.
Finn processes the violin and gets some results. She tells DB that Daniel has a daughter and that Rebecca's sister, Wendy was her mother. She should've realized the violin was small, the size for a child. So Daniel took Maya to exchange her for his daughter, Amy. Daniel tells her to get out of the car and she tells him he's not a killer or someone who preys on woman. Inside Paul and Jared show up and Jared is ecstatic he'll get what he always wanted now. Paul tells Daniel to throw down his gun, but he wants to see Amy first. She hugs him and then he puts the gun down. But Paul should've known that even if he is a dirty cop, Daniel would still have a throw away, so he shoots him, then strangles Jared with the crowbar. Then again, Daniel should've known that Paul would be wearing a flak jacket! He shoots Daniel from behind and as he's about to finish him off, Maya attacks him with the crowbar.
She runs to get help and the police arrive. Inside Nick and Greg find that Jared's dead, but Paul's gone. As Nick calls for an ambulance. DB arrives and hugs Maya, as Crawford tells Amy it's going to be okay. Finn tells Daniel he shoud've come to her and he won't be able to see Amy, but he wants her kept out of the system and wants to make sure her grandmother in Texas looks after her. Sara tells DB that Nick and Greg followed a blood trail to a sewer and then to some wash, he's gotten away, but she also says DB's in the drivng seat cos he can plaster his face everywhere. DB also adds that like an animal he's dangerous when cornered.
The end was a bit formulaic and it was obvious that Daniel wouldn't have turned out to be a killer, especially since he was involved with Finn, and we have to always trust her instincts, don't we. I mean, I don't, but you have to for the purposes of the show. Also it was Finn who still believed in him and worked out he wasn't in it for the glory, money or the notoriety, but to get back his daughter, to whom he wasn't such a crash hot father. Guessing they also didn't want Mark Valley to play a killer in this either.
So Sara turns up at the end to give her usual piece of advice she does to everyone this season, Greg, Morgan and now DB, but he's adamant that Paul will go on the rampage still and this still doesn't mean Maya is out of the woods yet. Thinking she'll still be having her nightmares. But we got to see that she's not that different from DB and that he's taught her his CSI skills and has the ability to stay calm under pressure and adversity. Wonder how Nick would've fared with the insect larvae and eggs, but then guess they made this easier for Morgan to work out since he wasn't around in the lab. Was good to see Hodges get out of the lab and yes, Morgan was right, Henry wasn't around. Not just a throw away comment, but he really wasn't in the ep! Mind you, Doc wasn't around either. Oh well, until the next appearance of Paul.
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