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Friday 29 May 2015

CSI 15.18 "The End Game" Review

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The Gig Harbour Killer returns and gets a tattoo of himself whilst hanging out with two women.  He then cuts off his finger and becomes his brother Jared.  Finn (Elisabeth Shue) returns home to find a package from her mother and opens it to reveal a statue of the twins Castor and Pollux, as well as a bottle with a finger inside.  She doesn't realize when she sees the statute that it's actually a connection to Paul Winthrop (Mark Paul Gossellaar).  She must have a short memory.  He calls telling her "this is the beginning of the end."  Kind of poignant there in some ways, especially considering that's what it turned out to be for this show!  She takes it to have it analyzed.  Oh the penny finally dropped. Nick (George Eads) talks to DB (Ted Danson) and notices he's grown a beard within a week, which his wife doesn't like.  As Nick has shaved his.  Ahh, so we can see Nick clean shaven (or rather George) before he leaves, just as he was all those years ago back in 2000.  That seems an age ago.  He mentions the Sand Diego lab director and the job to him and Nick thinks DB's trying to get rid of him, but he doesn't want to leave and is having second thoughts, but DB thinks he'll get the promotion and should take it.  Finn interrupts and listen to what they were talking about.

Sara (Jorga Fox) tells Nick that the tracking number didn't lead them anywhere and he asks for some advice, her guessing it's about San Diego as he's having some reservations about leaving.  She reminds him what Grissom would say, to go "where you can do the most good."

Henry (Jon Wellner) has analyzed the blood on the statue and on the finger and finds the finger belongs to Paul, but also that the blood doesn't belong to him but it's female and since it's all over the statue it's most likely the murder weapon.  The finger was also in saline and another unknown substance.  Greg (Eric Szmanda) watches Hodges (Wallace Langham) with tattoos on his arm and he says he hasn't got a tat but it's a sleeve which will show him what tattoos would look like.  The unknown substance he says is tattoo ink and the artist must have used it for Jared's tattoos.  The artist moved to Vegas and has an ex-wife who has a twin sister.   Greg realizes it could be their blood.

Sara and Greg go to the lost rented by Amelia and her sister but it's a CS which has already been staged and prepped.  Though it's not quite finished in terms of being very different to the others. Such as the Gemini signs aren't hidden in the strings this time.  As well as being a rope with some sort of yellow transfer/trace.  There are still the strings made from human tissue and blood on the floor.  Sara picks up the recorder and he leaves them a message which is for DB and how those who separated him from Jarad will pay.  As Greg uses the new machine from the lab which shows them how old the blood stains are.  The blood is quite fresh thus the murders took place at least twelve hours ago. Hodges tells Sara the rope is dogbane and is used in gardening and the trace was pollen from a cactus.

Finn mentions that Daniel Shaw (Mark Valley) is asking for a deal as he has some information to share about the Killer.  When she arrives to see him, he sends his lawyer packing cos he doesn't want a deal but just wants to tell her everything.  He tells her about their father and how he was investigating a lead that the accomplice wasn't necessarily Jared.  Also mentioning Brother Larson (Eric Roberts) whom we saw in the episode of CSI 13.22 Skin In The Game and 14.1 The Devil and DB Russell.  Anyway the preacher pimp we could call him.  He can talk him to him if she lets him out for 48 hours.  We see Larson convincing a prostitute to carry on with her 'job' but she wants to leave the game.  Also asking her for an envelope.  He sees Daniel and he says he needs information from him, he used to work for him so he has info on him.  Finn shows up. He doesn't want to talk but tells them about the twins father and how he used to find him girls. Talking about the apple not falling from the tree at all.  he tells them he doesn't harm the girls and that his accomplice is most likely Paul's father, Collin (Barry Bostwick).

Coincidentally he just happens to be in San Diego and Finn says she knows a guy as it turns out that Colin is into plants.  Nick heads over there first and it seems the CSIs there know they may be working for him soon.  CSI Ellis (Brandon Bell) tells him about there being a guesthouse where they suspect Paul has been hanging out.   As Daniel and Finn arrive.  Nick checks out the guesthouse and find meds and bloody bandages.  There's also a chest freezer which has two DBs inside of it.  Finn shows Colin the search warrant and he has nothing to say.  He's arrested when they find the DBs.  As they leave Finn is called by Paul. He shoots Colin and then also at her when Daniel dives in front to save her.  No Finn put your phone away first before you tell them about the sniper!   The rifle is found in a spot where he was hiding out to take the shot and Nick analyzes it for Paul's prints.  Daniel doesn't make it and Finn tells this to DB.  Who tells her to head home, well that's silly, he will  be after her wouldn't he.  Didn't she need some police protection and so the lab would've been safer for her.

Doc (Robert David Hall) finds the DBs had blunt force trauma and such a multitude of fractures that David (David Berman) couldn't count all of them.  The sisters also engaged in rough sex.  Morgan (Elisabeth Harnois) shows DB footage from Collin's greenhouse where he's visited by Larson and they argue.  She tells DB there's a way to hear what they were saying, as she and Sara went on the Net and found a site where she can hear what was said through the plant's vibrations.  Colin tells him he's had enough of his blackmailing and Paul might try and find his daughter, May and kill her. Larson is with DB as he tells him he found out may was missing at 15.  Larson says she ran to a convent and gave birth to twins and she's their mother, Sister Alice that Finn spoke to.  DB replies Larson is the twins' father and they found this though DNA.  She was one of his girls but he actually had an affair with her and made her pregnant.  So Logan is their father.  Finn goes home and breaks the news of her father's death to Daniel's daughter, Amy. She's then confronted by Paul.

Sara thinks DB may be the next target and he will pick up Finn and head to Seattle with her.  DB is confronted by Paul who has Finn and he wants him to read the CS.  He says she's not dead cos there's not enough blood and no blood spatter and wants to know where she is.  Paul replies the desert.

Sara finds Morgan and says that Finn and DB aren't answering their phones and she heads over there, telling Morgan to bring Greg with her.  They enter the apartment and Mitch (Larry Mitchell) shoots Paul before he can fire at them.  With DB telling them to stop cos they don't know where Finn is. Sara tells them to search for Paul's car and Morgan finds one which was stolen.  Opening it up, they find Finn inside and Greg tries to resuscitate her.

Nick gets ready to leave and DB puts Finn's badge into an envelope.  She's in a com and they don't know if she'll come out of it.  Obviously if there had been another season then she'd have made a miraculous discovery, more's the pity.  He got the job and he's going.  Sara reminding him they'll be meeting for drinks and Nick says he'll buy the first round.  Greg tells him he can buy all the drinks cos he's got a higher salary.  Nick loves and respects them both.  As he leaves we get flashbacks to his past cases over the years and how young he looked at the beginning!  Ha.  Had to get that one in. SO he came along way as he looks at the solved board of crimes and moves one from Warrick's column.

As Sara said to him, reminding him of what Grissom would say, "you go where you can do the most good."  Well he would've been missed in the show and it wouldn't have been the same without him, but I can add that to all the cast now too, cos they won't be back for a season 16.  Barring Finn of course, cos I never really liked her.  It had to end sometime but we started with CSI and we ended with CSI as it outlasted the other spin-offs.  It couldn't have gone on forever and as I said it wouldn't have lasted that long since CSI Cyber is now on air!  Apparently it seems there's only room for one such show on the network.

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