At the end of last season Angell was shot and killed as kidnappers grabbed Robert Dunbrook’s son from police custody on the way to the court house where he was to testify against his father. Flack kills an unarmed, but very bad, man. Dunbrook tells Mac to “be safe” and we’re left with the entire team being shot at with a machine gun by some unknown gunman inside a car while they’re in the bar toasting their fallen comrade.
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We’ve been waiting almost five months, but now we finally get to see exactly what happened. Who made it? Who did it? Who was the gunman? Will anything happen to Flack?
I should warn anyone who has not been able to watch this episode yet that there will be major spoilers and if you don’t want this episode ruined for you, turn away now. I mean it. I’m going to spoil everything. I will make things up and pretend that they’re spoilers just to trick you. Still here? Alright, let’s continue.
Assessing the Damage
The episode opens exactly where the last one left off previously; with bullets flying in the bar, people ducking for cover and glass breaking everything. We see Mac pull his gun and glance to the side to notice a pool of blood slowly growing larger.
After The Who plays mini a concert and some companies try to sell me laundry detergent, we’re greeted with Mac staring at a board, in the present, at list of suspects. We see a montage of what all the other team members are doing. We find out later that it’s been 3 weeks since the bar shooting.
Mac glances at Danny’s ID & Badge lying on the table. Moments later we see a wheelchair and as the camera pans up, it’s Danny. Oh, Danny… Why do so many bad things happen to you? They’re on a floor in the police building that’s being remodeled meeting with a female who wants to provide them information, but wants protection for her brother, Jake. How is he connected? She backs away without providing them information. She’s scared. As she turns to leave, a gunman appears in the elevator and proceeds to shoot and kill her. Mac runs after the gunman while Danny lounges out of his wheelchair in an attempt to find her. A sad ending. On the other hand, if they can ID her (CSI talk) then they can always ask her brother questions.
Flack’s on a leave of absence, but with a new lead, he’s brought back in on the case. He seems to be ahead of Mac and already review video tape of “the perp” entering the building which ended in the possible informant’s death the previous night.
The shooting seems to have really affected Danny. Obviously, it would anyone, but we all know how things to get Danny. There does seem to be a light at the end of the tunnel though, because it doesn’t appear that he’ll be in the wheelchair forever. They have left it open so that he could logically make a full recovery. While Danny first announced it was 60% chance of walking again, it turns out it’s only 10%, but 10% in TV is all the percentage he needs.
Mac seems affected by what happened as much as anyone else, if not more so. He’s taking it as a personal slight towards him and I pity the fool (Mr. T voice) that has put Mac in such a mood.
A New Lead
After an announcement of a similar shooting with the same MO as the bar shooting, they find bullet casings at the scene that match the ones collected at the informant shooting. While on the scene, the shooters hack into the Time Square billboard and replace it with text that says, “Pay us and we’ll stop!” Hmm… with a note like that, it makes me think of the kidnappers from last season, but it can’t be.
We have a new clean up tech, Hayden Becall (Sarah Carter), sticking her head in and helping out with some missed evidence. I’m happy with this addition, even if it is limited, as I really enjoyed her in the canceled legal drama, Shark. She finds a bloody print in the elevator because of some really nerdy things that are too nerdy for me to remember.
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4 Comments
I didnt watch it.
I watched Criminal Minds and thoroughly enjoyed it.
The Adam/Stella pairing went just as I thought it would.
thats one of the reasons I no longer watch the show.
Its too predictable.
Killing Flack instead of Angell in the finale and killing Danny in the premiere ,THOSE would have been risks .
Bite your tounge Gary. If they ever killed off Flack or Danny, I would for sure stop watching. Anyone else is fair game, but those two are the best.
I did like this episode though. The potiental personal stories that you can see developing for the characters are great – Flack spirling out of control (all those women, you know something is up), Danny fighting to recover, Stella getting jealous when that new girl and Adam hook up (it’ll happen). Can’t wait!
I agree with Sara, Flack and Danny are the best characters of the show. They can’t kill them off or Mack, even though they never give Mack a chance to grow as a character. (It’s too bad because Gary Sense is a great actor) This episode was a huge disappointment. I was really hyped for it with everything they had set up for the season finally but it just let me down. It seems like whenever something titers on the edge of being epic with this show they kill it. And what was up with the overuse of musical montage filler? I hate it when they use it even once in their show but this time it seemed way more than usual, like they didn’t have enough story to fill an hour. This show has potential, but its hitting over their sixth season, someone in the writing/directing category needs to be replaced. Oh well, CSI Las Vegas once again redeems all other CSI’s. Their promos for their season starter sent chills down my spine, can’t wait! (Perhaps they’ll kill off Sara for good, yes?)
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