CSI: NY Discussion Points for Episode “Hostage”

Just as in the other two CSI franchise season finales, CSI: NY delivered a killer cliffhanger, loaded with questions. At least in CSI: NY, none of the best loved characters died.

• Who is Douglas Anderson, or “Joe”, or whatever his name really is?
• Is the gunman really operating under duress? Is someone really forcing him to do this? The ending tried to lead us to conclude that that was a lie. Was it?
• Will we find out that the bank manager was in on it, somehow? That’s a stretch, perhaps, but the writers really led us through some weird twists, up to this point.
• Where are the real (or other) bad guys?
• Is it possible that Douglas really is being forced, and that he acted in the end just to try to make it all work out?
• Is Douglas the actual mastermind, and he’s just that deranged an genius? That’s a weird lot to go through, as a ruse, isn’t it?