C.S.I.: Crime Scene InvestigationOne to Go
Original Air Date – Jan 15, 2009
Tara – TwoCents Staff Writer
tara@thetwocentscorp.com
Grissom is gone! Grissom is gone! CSI will never be the same. Yes, it finally happened, something we've been waiting for since...well...before Christmas. Grissom takes his leave. Oh, and they catch yet another serial killer.
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C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigation
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Original Air Date – Jan 15, 2009
Tara – TwoCents Staff Writer
tara@thetwocentscorp.com
Grissom is gone! Grissom is gone! CSI will never be the same. Yes, it finally happened, something we've been waiting for since...well...before Christmas. Grissom takes his leave. Oh, and they catch yet another serial killer.
Unfortunately, my cable was out for the first 15 minutes of the show, so if I missed something, my apologies. The episode started for me with the team reviewing Haskell's interview with Langston's class. The tenor of that student's questions leads them to Tom Donover—one of the students. They head to Donover's apartment, but according to his wife, he's gone camping. That seems likely.
And indeed, it isn't. We're treated to flashes of Donover torturing his victim, Maureen, at an unknown location. I'm not going to describe it (because yuck), but suffice to say, he's definitely not camping, and he's using Haskell's advice about controlling victims. Ew.
Brass takes Donover's wife in for further questioning and the team searches their apartment. Greg finds a shoe that matches the shoe print they found.
Meanwhile, Langston and Grissom are mapping the locations of the victims. They note that the men were dumped in a wide variety of places, with little in the way of a pattern, but Grissom thinks that Haskell may have dumped them on his way to somewhere else. Looking at the map, they see that all the men were dumped on the way to Lake Meade. Hodges is able to narrow down the location, because of the moss found on Donover's shoes; it only grows on the north side of Lake Meade.
Back at Donover's house, Nick finds a bunch of VCR tapes in the attic. He remembers that Tolliver had a box for videotapes, but that it was empty. He takes them back to the lab. Donover's wife recognizes Tolliver as an old friend of her husband's.
Catherine has found a bottle of salvinia divorium. After a call to Henry, she realizes that this was the substance used to incapacitate the victims. She dusts the bottle and comes up with a drug dealer's prints. Unfortunately, while trying to apprehend the drug dealer, the police run him over with a car. Not very helpful.
The video tapes show Joel Steiner and his fiance after the concert with Tolliver and Donover and the fiance being tortured by Haskell. Langston hypothesizes that the house on the tapes could be powerful for Donover, so he's likely in the same place.
Grissom wants to send stills of the house to real estate agents in the area to see if they can recognize the house. Langston thinks it's a waste of time and wants to ask Nate Haskell himself. Langston tries to fake-out Haskell, but Haskell sees right through him. Poor Langston.
Grissom meanwhile is using astronomy and topography to figure out the location. They use the location of the moon in the pictures to find the house. It's good timing too. The police arrive just as Donover is going to shoot his victim. Instead, the police shoot him in the head.
Grissom goes to see an upset Langston, who figures that he should have spotted Donover. Grissom tells him that people lie and he can only rely on the evidence. How very House of him. Grissom offers him a job at the lab. Langston says he'll think about it.
Finally, we're left with Grissom's last walk down the CSI hallway, where he sees all his former team at work. He smiles as he walks by. All of them are oblivious to his presence except for Catherine who looks up and winks. Okay, I may have gotten a little choked up during that walk.
The next we see of Grissom, he's wandering around the jungles of Costa Rica looking for Sara! She looks stunned—what he didn't call first?—but kisses him anyway. Aw. Okay, I admit that I was crying just a little bit at that point.
And we're out. CSI without William Peterson. Will it work? Will you miss him? Can Laurence Fishburne fill his shoes? Can anyone? Leave your TwoCents below.
CSI will not be the same without Grissom. Nobody can fill his shoes.
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