CSI: Vegas - Episode9.01 For Warrick
Air Date: October 09, 2008

The season begins with Grissom finding Warrick bleeding and shot in the alley. In the heart-rending way you’d expect, Warrick dies as Grissom holds him, greiving over the loss of his dear friend.

McKeen tells Brass that he came to the diner to tell Warrick that he could keep his job. He says he heard shots, and ran toward the alley where he found Warrick, bleeding in his car. He said he also saw a white male running down the alley. He said the man got into a car, and he remembered part of the plate number. Brass recognizes the car he described as Pritchard’s vehicle.
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Fan favorite among the crew in CSI: Vegas, Gary Dourdan has agreed to appear on Season Two of VH1’s reality series, Celebrity Rehab, according to The National Enquirer. If you, by chance, love VH1 Reality, or, at least Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew, this is good news. For CSI fans, this may just sound awkward. It’s difficult to say. One, they are still just rumors. Two, Dr. Drew is a talented practitioner, and the first season’s exhibition of the trials of rehab arguably made a positive impact on a sizeable swath of American youth.

Dourdan was arrested in April after police found drugs in his car. The CSI favorite agreed to a plea bargain requiring him to pay a $4,500 fine and to complete a 16-class drug program. I’m not sure Celebrity Rehab counts, but who cares?

True or not, let’s hope that the series will have the power to save a few lives. That would make it worth it.

Warrick, Horatio, and Mac. What next?
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The season finales for all three CSI series really left us hanging. Vegas left Warrick in his car, in the alley, and Undersheriff McKeen walking away. Miami left Horatio lying on an airport apron. His ex, his son, and Ryan all remain some distance away, perhaps, but all possibly, suspiciously linked to Horatio’s situation. Then, CSI: New York has Mac driving in a car with “Joe”, the apparent mastermind of some, as of yet, confusingly complicated crime.

No one’s talking much, yet, but some of the creative staff of the three shows spoke with TV Guide for this week’s issue. Lynn talked about Warrick, in a previous post.

Horatio

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This was a very intense episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Warrick. Grissom. McKeen. Hodges. Organized Crime. CSIs arrested.

• Why didn’t Warrick suspect something bad, when Gedda called him?
• Did McKeen seem a bit twitchy, early in the episode?
• Was assigning the investigation to the day shift necessary protocol?
• After Grissom’s splatter pattern discovery, and the cuffs, did it seem like the DA changed his mind to drop the charges a little too quickly, given his misgivings just a couple scenes earlier?
• What else is McKeen up to, that he needed to get Warrick out of the way?
• In the second to last scene, did it seem like the waitress gave Warrick a funny look as she disappeared into the back?
• Is it possible that the waitress took out some trash, and may have witnessed McKeen at Warrick’s car?

What did you think of For Gedda? Discuss your thoughts on the episode in the comments.

8.17 For Gedda
Air Date: May 15, 2008.

At a funeral, the pall bearers seem to be faltering under the weight of the casket. The bottom gives out, and two bodies fall to the ground. The team arrives. The second, “surprise” body hasn’t been dead long –24 hours.

Brass talks to the mortician, who won’t say anything. He grabs a pad, and writes “lawyer”. Brass returns –on the pad- “you’re under arrest”.

In the morgue, Warrick recognizes the mystery body. He looks a bit freaked out, as well. The body is that of Lenny Harper. He was a cop, who “retired” at age 33, sporting a long list of complaints from his department tenure. He was most recently working as a private investigator.

The team goes to Harper’s office. It’s a bit too clean. Keys in a drawer lead Nick and Grissom to a car that has, likewise, been meticulously cleaned.

As Warrick is thinking about recent run-ins with bookies, he receives a phone call that aggravates him. He says he’ll “be there”.

On Harper’s computer, they find audio recordings of interviews and calls with clients. They listen to one that sounds like Gedda saying that he was going to “bury that guy Lenny”. Nick tells Grissom that Warrick hired Lenny to investigate Gedda, since he couldn’t do it himself.

Warrick calls Grissom from the Galley. He says he doesn’t know how he got there, that he just woke up there. He has a handgun in his free hand. Police storm in and arrest Warrick. Grissom shows up on the scene. Warrick is in cuffs, and Gedda is a bloody mess, slumped over dead in his chair, with Warrick’s cuffs on his wrists. Warrick says he doesn’t remember anything. The officer in the room tells Grissom that a nearby merchant heard shots. The officer answered the call, and found no one else in the building. Brass tells Warrick not to say a word, until he gets to the station.
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