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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Everyone on the team is visibly broken up, almost paralyzed. Grissom tells Conrad that the team wants to handle the case. Grissom insists on riding with Warrick’s body. At the station, Dr. Robbins tells Grissom that he’s asked the day-shift ME to handle Warrick. As shocked team members try to deal, Grissom solemnly heads to the lab, and removes his bloody shirt, and hands it to Hodges.

Nick finds a .25 shell on the ground near the sidewalk. Willows finds a .25 auto pistol on the floor of the car and a casing right next to it. “Leave the gun, take the cannoli”, Nick says, indicating also that it looks like a hit. With the front passenger window down and one shell casing inside, Willow figures that the gunman stuck the gun right into the car and fired. Gunshot residue on the headliner says she must be right. Nick asks why the passenger window was open.

Brass briefs the squad and tells the team that Warrick is their only case, and that Daniel Pritchard is the suspect. They have roadblocks up, and a list of known associates.

Grissom enters his office to find Sara, who flew in as soon as she heard. He tells how hard he tried to hold Warrick, feeling his life going; hoping he could hold him tight enough, he’d make it.

Sara: He loved you.
Grissom: I loved him.

McKeen visits Brass, wanting to get “something off [his] chest”. He wants Brass to know that he knows he was wrong about Warrick killing Getta.

Sanders and Sara gather clothes in Warrick’s apartment. They find his home not totally “moved in” looking. They also discover a letter from Warrick’s attorney, as well as a psych evaluation ordered by the judge, relating to a case to regain custody of his son. Warrick’s son!

A serial number on the .25 pistol’s grip reveal that the .25 was from a case that Pritchard worked. The judge had ordered it destroyed. Apparently, it wasn’t. Someone took it from evidence storage.

Nick finds knuckle prints on the passenger window. The stereo was turned down uncharacteristically low. So, someone knocked on Warrick’s window, and he wouldn’t have opened for Pritchard. Nick realizes it must be McKeen. He’s the one who was in the alley, and the only one who saw anything, or could have made anything up.

Sara and Grissom watch the video of Warrick’s psych evaluation. It’s yet another very touching dialog, with Warrick describing how one person taught him how to love, and care, and how to be a role model. [Get the tissues out, already!]

The team heads back to the alley, and reenacts the crime. As Grissom walks through the steps that McKeen claims to have taken. He runs to the alley, when he hears the gunshot. He realizes, though, that loud music was coming from a door in the alley. They simulate the music at volume, and Grissom cannot hear the gunshots over the sound.

Grissom and Brass talk about McKeen. Why did McKeen say that he heard the shots, when he could not have? Why did he put Pritchard in the alley?.

Brass tells Grissom about his early days in Vegas, when Jeff McKeen was a detective, who invited him and the other new guys up to his cabin. The cabin was a little too nice for a detective’s pay. Brass said he’d seen things like that in Jersey, where guys “took more than they gave.” They knew how to avoid making too much of a display and raising suspicions. McKeen checked Brass out, and told him how great Vegas was, and how things could be good for his career. Brass let him know, though, that he wasn’t for sale. That was the last barbecue he was ever invited to.

Grissom recounts that Warrick said that Getta’s mole must be high up on the food chain. They figure that the time between McKeen’s probably seeing the video of Warrick’s interview about Getta, and the time of Warrick’s death was too short to set up Pritchard, unless McKeen knew exactly where Pritchard was. Otherwise, if he was found elsewhere, he’d have an alibi.

McKeen meets Pritchard in a hotel room. McKeen tells him that he “killed Brown on the way out.” He says the murder weapon was also from one of Pritchard’s cases. When McKeen draws Pritchard’s weapon on him, Pritchard lets him know that killing him there would be messy. He then asks if that are going to Mexico or not.

Conrad warns the team that it will be difficult to investigate McKeen. They decide they need physical evidence against him.

There are no prints on the murder weapon, including the magazine, but Mandy checks the prints on a shell casing. She says they’ve never gotten prints off a cartridge as small as a .25. The partial print on one of the shells is around 4mm, just enough for a comparison. It doesn’t match Pritchard. Willows, though, asks Mandy to step out. She then compares the prints to those of McKeen. The print matches his thumb.

After getting a warrant for McKeen, the team determines that there are three calls on his phone from the same number. It turns out to be the Whisky Bend Hotel.

At the hotel, they find out that McKeen had paid cash for a room. The team finds the hotel room empty, but with ice in a glass and wet towel. So, they had just missed them.

McKeen and Pritchard are in the car on their way to Mexico.

The team finds Pritchard’s prints in the hotel room. Brass calls McKeen’s cell, and they’re able to determine his location. As the team and police close in on them, the bleep on the map indicating McKeen and Pritchard’s location stops suddenly.

They figure they either ditched the phone, or they stopped. They come upon a fresh break in the guard rail, and spot the car at the bottom of the embankment.

In the car is a .357 Magnum; and Pritchard, dead from a broken neck. McKeen is gone, but there’s a trail of blood into the woods. Nick follows the trail. Nick turns off his radio and pulls his sidearm, as someone calls him over the air. He finds McKeen, lying on the ground, bleeding heavily from his injuries, including a gunshot wound. Nick trains his pistol at McKeen. He tells Nick that Warrick had a big mouth. He fights with his desire to finish off McKeen, especially when he dares him. We hear a shot, but Nick “missed”.

Brass comes over and begins to Mirandize him.

At Warrick’s funeral, Grissom walks up and delivers the eulogy. “I’m sorry for your loss”, as they’re trained to tell victims’ family members, doesn’t offer much. He praises Warrick for his courage and tenacity, and his willingness to risk his life for what he believes in…and for holding on to those values right up through the day that he died.

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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.

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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

The news and rumors are flying about on Horatio, and what is going to happen to him. David Caruso quickly gave us a little relief in his video “interview”. So, we at least know that he’s doing this to go after Saris. The mechanism of his plan is definitely not apparent yet, though. Ryan and Julia may have both helped Horatio execute his execution.

Writer Corey Miller told TV Guide that “Ryan Wolfe may be playing both sides.” This isn’t incredibly clear. That implies that he’s helping Horatio and helping the “bad guys”, or, rather, that he’s just helping himself by making both sides think that he’s helping just them. It could very easily mean, though, that he “helped” the bad guys “kill” Horatio, but he’s really doing it to help Horatio look dead. Ryan has been down the dark side before, but Horatio helped him get his job back. So, this may be part of his enduring gratitude to Horatio.

Mac

Mac is stuck in a car, with some apparently incredibly intelligent criminal, who knows a lot about ballistics, has access to crazy new weapons technology, and is a great actor. Now, what the heck does “Joe” want, and where is he taking Mac? Executive producer Pam Veasey told TV Guide that “Joe” is “quite a worthy adversary for Mac and the team.” Apparently, the early part of the season will have the team playing a cat and mouse game with “Joe”. They’ll have to figure out where “on the eastern seaboard” Mac is.

Check out the latest issue of TV Guide for more from the writers and producers. Stay tuned. We’re going to keep digging for more information. If there’s GSR, we’ll find it.

What do you think is going to happen in all three Episode 1’s?

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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.

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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.

Hodges tells the IAB that he overheard Warrick speaking aggravatedly on the phone, just an hour before the incident. Warrick tells the IAB that he went to Gedda’s, but blacked out. The evidence, though, seems stacked against Warrick.

Grissom finds voids in the blood splatter pattern on Warrick’s shirt. The pattern indicates that he must have been only about three feet away from Gedda, but the voids imply that someone may have been holding Warrick up from behind during the shooting. It’s not conclusive, but may support Warrick’s innocence.

Evidence at the scene doesn’t seem to support another suspect. Grissom finds that the ligature marks on Gedda’s wrists are wider than Warrick’s cuffs. Suspecting a police officer is acting as a mole for Gedda, they look at the records for officer involvement on the scenes. Daniel Pritchard’s prints showed up on the mortuary, but he hadn’t signed in there. His prints also show up on the casket. They check his locker. His cuffs are missing, but his cuff key shows traces of blood.

Grissom assures Warrick that he was framed by a cop working for Gedda, and that the DA is dropping the charges. His actions, working outside of department guidelines, and investigating on his own, require action. Grissom tells him that he recommended that Warrick be suspended and demoted, but not terminated.

Warrick treats the team to dinner. Warrick leaves, and gets into his car. Undersheriff McKeen knocks on Warrick’s car window. He asks for his reassurance that he’s going to give up hunting bad guys on his own. McKeen then shoots Warrick, repeatedly, in the neck. [OMG!!!]

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