CSI "Immortality" Final Episode Review

                                                 
Time to draw the final curtain on a show that most of us would've grown old with, but one that set the bar for forensics and criminalistics the world over.  SO the 'old' gang was back, except for Nick (George Eads) seems they didn't want him back just cos he left at the end of Season 15.  Okay I'm assuming that's why, maybe he didn't want to return, but he could've had a small part, like perhaps bailing Grissom (William Petersen) out of his little predicament when he was arrested for allegedly shark poaching and for trespassing on the poacher's boat.  Cos correct me if I'm wrong, but Nicky was in San Diego, yes! The show wasn't the without him!

The action starts when a man enters Catherine's (Marg Helgenberger) casino, the Eclipse and is wired with a bomb.  He asks the teller for change of a penny and then he proceeds to press the button. Clearly he was getting orders from someone else as he put his finger to the earpiece.  The team arrive and DB (Ted Danson) tells Sara (Jorga Fox) that she can take lead since she's going for the directorship when he leaves.  Which wasn't really spelled out that clearly or at all.  Catherine's also been called and so she arrives but Sara wants her to stay out of it cos there's an obvious conflict of interest.   Brass (Paul Guilfoyle) is also working at the casino now.  Catherine speaks with Romina (Alexandra Barreto) who was with the bomber moments before and he asked her to accompany him to the window when he found out she she has children, or so it appears.  She tells Catherine her daughters' names, Maria and Helena and then dies.

                                     
Sara speaks with the bomber's widow, Aisha Karmima  - when in doubt for names, always go for the most obvious with Aisha! (Yasmine Aker) who happens to be Muslim and wears a Hijab.  She tells Sara how she came to America to escape being stoned for being a woman and for no reason at all.  That she met him and they fell in love, so he converted.  However she doesn't see him as a terrorist, but rather her husband.  Also that he was a gambling addict and things got worse when his therapist quit.  Sara apologizes for offending her, she didn't mean to, but she knows full well the sort of abuse women suffer the world over, irrespective of religion.

Ecklie (Mark Vann) wants Grissom on the case cos Morgan (Elisabeth Harnois) found a gold box flying out from the bomber's jacket in the security footage and she asks Greg (Eric Szmanda) and Hodges (Wallace Langham) if anyone found it.  Greg said he saw it and Hodges shows her the false pocket sewn into his jacket which is where the box was kept.  The box has the initial 'LHK' which belong to Lady Heather (Melinda Clarke).  Sure any old excuse to bring her back.  Sara tells Ecklie she and Greg can handle it, they've dealt with her before, but he insists Grissom could get more results from her.  She reluctantly gives him Grissom's number.  Harbour Patrolman Scinta (Michael Beach) is told to release Grissom and he now sails the oceans in search of poachers and is into conservation big time.

Grissom passes a new girl in forensics who's just got made Grade 1 and he doesn't recognize her.  She mentions chocolate coloured grasshoppers and this was referring to the Pilot and Holly Gribbs, also a newbie who was killed at a CS.  Apparently turns out she's Lyndsey (Katie Stevens) Catherine's daughter and Catherine later asks him to help her out in the lab with analyzing the suitcase that's later left outside and she brings it in.  When they think it was a bomb.  Grissom's more content with drawing whales though. That's what he's into now and you have to ask if she didn't tell him who Lyndsey was, would Grissom have really bothered to help anyone else.  Probably not.

A woman at a school play leaves her seat and heads towards the stage.  She has a bomb strapped to her and stands in front of the stage.  Finally a man gets her out of the way and see the bomb, you mean no one saw that flashing red light where she was sitting.  She hesitates and says she'll burn in hell for what she's going to do.  The bomb disposal expert, Anthony Hurst (Jason Gerhardt) is sent in and he tries to talk her down and to disarm the bomb, but he's not able to tell if the voice on the other end is male or female.  Instead she says time's up and detonates.  No one is able to find Heather, as Grissom and Sara head to her house.  They haven't said a word at all in the car and she says they're both professionals and can act that way.  Grissom thought he was talking to her.  The door's open and inside they find blood on the floor.

The blood doesn't match Heather and it's male.  Grissom finds her and brings her in and she asks if she's a suspect.  Sara, Morgan, Catherine and DB question her and Grissom tells them to go easy on her.  She provokes Sara as she tells her Grissom has been defending her, taking what he taught them about following the evidence and turning that around and thinks she's being framed and Sara has to leave the room when she accuses her of being jealous.  Catherine tells her not to show her emotions to Heather cos she's a woman and if she knows Sara still loves Grissom and so will Heather.  Who insists she isn't the mastermind behind the bombings and isn't controlling them.  Grissom works out the gold box and the pin also found is a key to Heather's red room in the dungeon.  (Apparently Grissom's safe word was 'stop'.)  Funny scene when Greg explains to DB who Heather is and how she knew Grissom, not in a sexual way, but intellectual.   Greg's awkward moment.

Heather gives up her list of clients and she closed her practice after her grand daughter was run over and killed.  There are 13 suspects and Sara narrows down the list since the DNA was male.  Heather further narrows it down to 5 suspects since some of them have died.  Sara takes DNA swabs from them and my most obvious suspect was the one who made no bones about being Heather's first client, Dalton Betton (Doug Hutchison).  Had to be him, why else would he brag about being the first. However none of their DNA matches the blood.  Grissom asks Henry (Jon Wellner) how much he weighs, around 160lbs, cos he's going to blow him up, so out in the desert he attaches a bomb to a dummy and then they see the blast pattern is the same as the one in the casino.  He also knows that only part of the C4 was used and they wonder where the rest of it could be.  Henry looked rather shocked!

Lyndsey wheels in a suitcase from outside as it has Grissom's name on the tag thinking he left his luggage behind.  That really didn't look like the type of suitcase he'd be using.  Catherine shouts "bomb."  However turns out there's a DB inside.  Doc (Robert David Hall) analyzes the body and finds what David (David Berman) calls a micro SD card.  Then they have him say what SD stands for, as if no one would know.  On there they see a message from the bomber who's tried to disguise himself with a digital pattern.  DB decides to undo the pixels on the image and see if he can get the ID.  He manages to get an ear and then he notices the picture also has a whorl of a fingerprint and he attempts to match it.

He processes the suitcase with Lyndsey, teaching her rhyming poems and she notices the 'X' sticker on the case, which spells out co ordinates to a warehouse, where Gissom heads to with Mitch (Larry Mitchell)  and prefers to go in alone.  Here he finds a cadaver.  Doc tells him it's a synthetic one so doctors don't have to use real dead bodies, but both he and Grissom prefer the real ones.  Doc manages to get stung on his hand and Grissom manages to catch the bee.  It's a queen bee which has been deserted by its colony.  Sara wants to help him and they head out to Mount Charleston.
Here they paint the bees different colours and see if they come back home from different sections of the mountain and test the for the presence of the human.  DB gets a match and Catherine says he's one of the client's Sara interviewed.  As Grissom also finally gets a match on the location from the bee coloured red.

Catherine heads to his apartment building as Grissom heads to the cabin.  In the car park, they find the car alarms going off in five cars.  Catherine pops the boot and finds a bomb inside set to go off in five minutes.  Greg and Morgan find the same in the other cars.  Catherine says they're wired simultaneously and they have to diffuse them at the same time.  They can't wait for the bomb squad as the apartment's also heavily populated.  She tells this to Grissom too.  The suspect, client number 1, Dalton, which didn't come as a shock at all comes out strapped to a bomb and says either they will die or his friends will die.  He has cancer and as Grissom explains if he had stem cell surgery his DNA would be altered and it'd be like being two different people.  He's angry that Grissom came along and took Heather's heart.  He tells him she never loved him and Heather was never intimate with her clients.  Thus Sara learns nothing happened between him and Heather, which kind of reassures her, but then Grissom wasn't her client.  Catherine tells them they need to cut the red wire but Morgan gets nervous and drops the clippers.  Catherine managing to shout out, "I love you" as they're all in this together.  Managing to cut the wires they diffuse the bomb and Morgan is a nervous wreck, needing to be hugged by Greg and Catherine.

Grissom knows about being in control but Dalton doesn't have any power and he manages to take the trigger from him.  Seems he was a coward after all and could only get those people to kill themselves.
The other funny line here was with Grissom in his first scene, when he talks about the shark fins and "jumping the shark."  Which really CSI never did!  Also pondering the name DB when he's about to be introduced to him and saying that his brains have been replaced by mushrooms.  Catherine breaking the news of their mother's death to the girls and then possibly going to look after them, as she tells DB if Sara decides against the directorship, she'd like to take it over and come home.  Cos it's Vegas and Lyndsey's here too.  Sara gets the directorship and Grissom is happy for her.  She tells him it's all changed, she didn't want to stay in Vegas but has and he didn't want to leave but did.  Not much of a goodbye there from them.

Grissom tapes Heather's final statement  and he tells her how Sara's been everything to him, including his friend and how she helped him with his crosswords.  Yet they two of them couldn't talk about their feelings when they were right there together. We know why.  Lyndsey comes in with Heather's tape and tells her she saw the interrogation and Sara should watch the end.  That was shortlived, no sooner had Sara sat behind that desk, that she leaves it.  Guessing Catherine got the job then, but why didn't we see what happened with Morgan and Greg.  Would've liked to have seem more of Greg since he's been there a long time too and he had very little to do here.  He'll hang around at the lab of course, but it would'be been good to see him featured more.

Db leaves and he takes Finn's belongings with him, saying wherever he goes, she goes, as he heads east this time.  This was the only time she was mentioned, but she was recovering from the last season no doubt.  You know I didn't even notice she wasn't in the opening credits.  The show was more baout the original cast though and I didn't much like her character anyway.

Thus it ends, as Sara and Grissom sail off into the sunset together.  Glad they did finally get them together since Sara went through plenty after their divorce and it wasn't something she really wanted. Also that she can now see that not all marriages and partnerships have to be like her mother and father's.  The end of an era!