The final season opens, or should I say reignites, with an ice hockey game between the NYPD and the FDNY and there's clearly animosity between the players, as NYPD try to achieve a win. Mac (Gary Sinise) meets with his friend and Captain of the FDNY Curtis 'Smitty' Smith (Louis Herthum) and discuss old rivalries as well as Christine (Megan Dodds) and what Mac will buy him for dinner when they win. Danny (Carmine Giovinazzo) and Adam (AJ Buckley) have a few words as Adam's in goal and Flack (Eddie Cahill) interrupts them cos they need this goal, however Danny misses the shot, hitting the goal post instead. Was fun watching the three of them in action, but wasn't long enough!! FDNY win and a Danny and a firefighter brawl and everyone else gets in on it too. A call comes in about a fire and they arrive at the scene. Smitty enters one of the rooms and fire engulfs him.
At the funeral, Mac recalls six months ago and how Christine was there for him after he was shot, but he doesn't recall what happened at the time. Flack tells him he's at the CS and Leonard Brooks (Rob Morrow) is arrested. Leonard is an arsonist and has just been released and he tells Mac he didn't start this fire, why would he? He wants his cuffs removed and tells Mac he's addicted to fire but there's no chemical running through his body. He wants to help as an arson investigator cos he's got "an incentive to find out what happened." He says he's being framed. Mac shows him photos of the fire and how it used his MO of spreading wax paper and dryer paper in the hallway to spread the fire. Flack tells Jo (Sela Ward) how he started 10 fires but they only caught him at the last one. He's been inside for 15 years.
Mac and Flack take him back to the scene and he smells the ash from the fire and tells him about a metallic object being found there, but he won't tell them what it's used for since they'll use it against him. Leonard was only arrested cos he went back to help a Vic when he started the first fire. Flack doesn't believe Leonard is innocent but Mac gives him the benefit of the doubt. He won't tell them anything cos of Flack's attitude, but hey that's just Flack for you, ha. However Mac reminds him of his incentive. The metal was used as a time delay trigger. Mac: "Arrogance is often the criminal's Achilles Heel."
Flack: "Yeah great genius, that was a tough one. Can I lock his ass up now, please?" yet more great one liners, will miss those!
Mac recalls telling his doctor he's been having trouble with his memory. He knows what you can do with the phone but not what it is called and he can recall certain foods but not their names. He's suffering from Anomic aphasia. In time the memories can return or in the worst case won't. Mac wants this kept to himself.
Lindsay (groan) (Anna Belknap) always first on the scene!! tells Mac what was used to set the fire and when this is exposed to water,the fire is even more devastating. Water was used in the balloons and metal rivets were found on the walls, to secure a tripwire, thus Smitty set it off when he entered the building. The trap was set to kill a fireman.
Adam goes through the footage at the CS and hopes to see the arsonist there. Jo asks him how long he's been doing that and he replies four years. Jo notices one of the fireman is from the 233 which is based in Brooklyn, so he's not meant to be there. Adam gets a match on Marshall Hilson (Scott Subiono) who was charged with criminal impersonation. Adam recalls one of his friends was fraudulently accosted. Hilson tells Mac he can't do more than five years. He didn't start the fire, instead he set fire to an abandoned car and things got out of control. He was rejected from becoming a fireman. Flack tells Mac that Leonard's escaped.
There's a call about another fire and when Mac and Flack arrive a fireman is beating up on Leonard. Flack hauls him off and gets in a few punches of his own, just to ensure he didn't miss out at the match! Flack tells him he can't beat him up cos he thinks he may have done it. Mac has him arrested for assault. He tells Mac the sprinklers were on when they arrived otherwise someone else would have been killed. Mac finds the lock on the sprinkler was broken so Leonard must have turned it on. Maybe he had a conscience all along. There was a note in Leonard's pocket giving the address of the fire.
Leonard tells Mac someone put it through his door and he happened to know which building it was. Mac thinks he might not be working alone. The prints are analyzed from the sprinkler but only match Leonard. Hawkes (Hill Harper) tries to get prints from the gloves found at the scene and says they may get lucky since you have to put one glove on with your bare hand. Danny and Jo come up with nothing. Hated how Danny didn't have much to do here, once again Lindsay gets more screen time than any of the other CSIs!! Oh why?!! She finds a logo but can't match it yet. Danny says fire gel was used to spread the fire from one room to the next found in some tubing. There was also a sewing needle found where the fire was ignited. Hawkes finds prints and says they may have solved the case. They match Eva Mason (Mageina Tovah) she lives at a motel and that was the logo. The needle came from a sewing kit from the motel.
Eva visited Leonard in prison and was studying psychology. She interviewed him for her research on arsonists. They find lots of clipping relating to Leonard and his fires and Lindsay finds a sewing kit, did she have to give it a 180 degree turn just to undo the button on it! Huh. Jo finds Eva was watching Leonard on her laptop in his apartment and she's there now. She pulls a gun on him. Leonard tells her he doesn't remember her and she demands to know why he turned the sprinklers back on. He was trying to save her from his life cos he hates it and hated being in prison with animals. He notices the gas is on, and the bulb on the table and a syringe rigged to the fan. Then pulls out the rug from under her and jumps out the window. Eva can't get out of the apartment.
The look on Flack's face when he arrives at the scene with Mac, then finds Eva's DB. Leonard recalls how he bragged about the fires and Jo brings him what's left of his belongings. He thanks Mac for treating him like a human and Mac replies "that's what we do." He tells Leonard he can still be helped and not to go back there to that place in his mind. Leonard arrives at another place and watches the gas burn on the cooker. Mac gives Christine flowers thanking her for being there for him. He's booked a place for dinner but can't recall her favourite dish by name.
So one down and another 16 to go, though we've seen one episode as the CSI crossover. Couldn't watch this episode in the same way as the others knowing it's the last season. Gotta savour every moment cos we won't be seeing our fave CSIs together as a team anymore. So would have loved to have seen more of Flack, Danny and Adam on the ice and this was the last time we'll get to see Flack in a suit again!!
Let's hope all of the cast get equal screen time and it wasn't just all about Lindsay, though one episode will be when she meets her father again.
Anyway Rob Morrow was hardly recognizable here from his usual roles but enjoyed every moment of playing Leonard, not a bad guy per se here. We'll have to see what happens next episode as he makes another appearance. Mac has to deal with the aftermath of the shooting now and how it affects him personally. We're shown the scar on his back when he gets out of the shower and he still has to take pills. Gradually we'll see if he'll make a full recovery or not and whether he'll get his memories back.
Funny scene when one fireman insults Flack's sister and mother, Flack replies his sister died six months ago then adds she's still alive and he'll get punched for the next insult. Funny he mentions six months considering that's how long it's been since Mac has been out of hospital. Sid (Robert Joy) telling Lindsay Manhattan is better than Annie Hall. Though Lindsay has to get in on the act and trade her own insult when someone in the crowd yells, "Messer, you suck." Shouting he should come down here and say that. Agh, she does my head in! ha
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