The DB was a lawyer and Sara (Jorga Fox) and Morgan (Elisabeth Harnois) process the law office only to find it's been thoroughly cleaned. The 'team' seem to have done a miraculous job in getting in and out in record time. Morgan sprays with luminol and finds the presence of blood, so they didn't do such a thorough job on close inspection. Sara also finds this and luminols the outline of the DB where he fell out of the closet. Note shoddy patch up job on the door.
Catherine (Marg Helgenberger) hears the lawyer's name, Malcolm (Kevin Dobson) being mentioned and immediately thinks of her friend, Laura (Annabeth Gish). He was the lawyer she recommended to her in the episode Zippered. She fears for her life as Laura knew a secret about her husband Mark (Titus Welliver). Laura is missing. Brass (Paul Guilfoyle) can't find any trace of her.
Nick and Greg (Eric Szmanda) engage in an experiment involving chicken and the beetles polish it off in record time. On closer inspection, Nick finds the beetles physiology has been dramatically altered, it's reproductive organs are replaced. Nick and Greg also manage to polish off the chicken too, though they're not allowed to eat in the lab. What DB doesn't know won't hurt. Nick takes his findings to Catherine. The beetles are super beetles and this is another field Ceressus was involved in. They have been bio-engineered.
Mark is brought in for questioning and feigns concern for Laura and then leaves again. Catherine's mother, Lily (Anita Gillette) arrives with a card for Catherine which was mailed to her and she finds it's signed by 'David Campbell,' Laura's father. Sara finds a memory card inside and clearly Catherine didn't notice the card was a musical card and it didn't play any music. The card has photos of the couple on holiday, obviously it had to have been more than that! There's also a recent photo of Laura in front of a house which Catherine recalls belongs to Laura's cousin.
At the house, they find the DBs of the couple and Catherine recalls the hiding place under the floorboards. Laura is found alive and tells of hearing a man's voice with an accent. Why was Laura sitting outside in plain sight when she was a target not a few hours ago. The raincoat man (Jack Dimich) sits and watches and could have finished her off then and there. At Hodges' (Wallace Langham) say so, he notices the fish in the photo has no shadow, Archie (Archie Kao) finds info stored on the card.
The info contains transactions to Switzerland. CFO of Ceressus is brought in, Arthur Martens (Mark Aiken) and he finally confesses to knowing the man in the raincoat, a hired mercenary, but he hasn't operated on US soil, until now. He gives up Mark.
DB brings in Agents Pratt (Matt Lauria) and McQuaid (Grant Show) of the FBI again and McQuaid is assigned protection duty on Laura. At the hospital, Catherine walks past the rest of the FBI agents and amongst them is the same woman from the beginning, part of the assassination team.
As the team go over surveillance footage they work out how the team managed to clean up the office and then notice the raincoat man. He was obvious a mile off, don't know why he wasn't already on their radar. On the footage is also the same woman whom Catherine recalls was at the hospital. She's too late as she and DB arrive at the scene of the carnage where Laura and McQuaid were killed. SO far the DBs are only identified cos of his badge and her ring. Maybe it's far fetched but writing this before watching the second ep, I was thinking perhaps it's not really them. I mean what about Catherine's burgeoning attraction and relationship with McQuaid and what about her dwindling one with Vartann (Alex Carter). Catherine loses her cool with Pratt asking how he could let this happen. DB sends her home.
Later Catherine sends an e-mail to DB containing her letter of resignation. Vartann drops her off at home but she doesn't invite him in, not much passes between them in terms of conversation for two who were meant to have been one-time lovers. Once inside Catherine puts down her gun, bad idea since you know what's coming next. Bullets fly and she manages to knock out the lamp and reach her gun, shooting her way out. Once outside she stands in front of an approaching car, who turns out to be DB to the rescue, bullets rain and she is shot. I thought Vartann would have had a niggling feeling or would have driven by to check on her but no such luck.
Vartann notices the closeness of Catherine and McQuaid and has to ask about him. Yet once again can Catherine really be so unlucky in love, even though she wanted to keep everything professional for the duration of the case at least. Small scenes for Greg and Morgan this ep as it clearly belonged to Catherine. She owned the drama, the highs and lows in the second part of the three episode arc marking her departure from the show and a veritable milestone in the show's history.
Loved the scene between Greg and Nick and the chicken but eeww, Nick was handling those beetles and he ate with the same gloves on.
This ep also continued from Zippered and will conclude in a third episode arc. Catherine's mother was last seen in The Case of the Cross Dressing Carp. At least this episode was a great one in terms of CSI shows since they have been inconsistent this season. The action was kept moving along and was in marked contrast to Gil Grissom's (William Petersen's) departure from the show.
Nick: "It's amazing. They picked it clean in less than an hour."
Greg: "Yeah. They eat even faster than you." Nick has been shown enjoying his food in several episodes, especially the breakfasts the team used to have together in many a CSI episode. A thing of the past?
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