CSI Files
Captain
Synopsis:
Picking up where "Who and What" left off, Grissom and Malone track serial killer Terry Lee Wicker and his son, Kobe, to Hillsdale, Arizona, where he stole a car and Malone calls his team in New York in on the case. He and Grissom return to the school Kobe was enrolled in and learn from one of the teachers that Kobe's mother, Gina visited the school with Terry hours before school ended. Kobe told his best friend, Angelina, that Terry was planning to take him camping in Tucson, Arizona. Malone flies to Tucson where he finds the car Terry stole abandoned and a skeleton buried nearby. Martin Fitzgerald calls Malone to tell him that Terry and Kobe flew to New York, so Jack heads back. He's surprised to return to the FBI office and learn Grissom has arrived as well with the evidence from Arizona. While Grissom sets up shop in their lab, Terry's sister Sylvia tells Samantha Spade she hasn't seen Terry in six years but that he calls periodically. The last time she saw him, he brought her some jewelry but left when she said he couldn't stay with her. Grissom runs the dental records of the missing boy, Jason Tyler, against the body from Arizona and confirms to Jack that he's got a match. Though he can't find any cause of death, Grissom intends to run a 3-D algorithm to determine what was around the boy's neck when he died.
When a giftcard that was given to Kobe by Gina is swiped in Astoria, the team rushes there only to find Terry and Gina's old apartment broken into and a man's dead body there. A tape of Terry with Kobe as a baby is in the VCR. Lipstick on a glass leads the team to suspect a woman was with them. Vivian Johnson and Martin question Terry's former psychiatrist who tells them Terry confessed to killing his brother over a medallion as a child. Malone and Rosalyn Sanchez track down the woman with Terry and Kobe in the apartment--a prostitute who tells them Terry called her to comfort Kobe and get him to stop crying. Before she fled the apartment, she noticed Toyota keys on the counter. The team gets a call about man who was just cut by a man matching Terry's description. Thomas Michna tells Danny Taylor and Martin that he wanted to move his truck into a space the Toyota was occupying and he talked briefly to Kobe who seemed to be in distress. Kobe ran when Terry came back and Terry cut Thomas before running off after the boy.
The team gets Sylvia to let them tap her phone and when Terry calls they attempt to trace his location. When Sylvia finds she can't keep talking, Malone takes the phone and tells Terry they'll charge Sylvia with being an accessory to murder if he doesn't turn himself in and give them Kobe. Terry agrees and Malone, with an FBI team, meets him at a train yard, but Terry doesn't have his son with him. He says he let Kobe go before he could hurt him. Before Malone can stop him, he shoots himself. The team launches a search for Kobe and locates the boy in a train car near where he ran from Terry. Kobe is reunited with his aunt and Malone is left with the sad task of telling Jason Tyler's parents that their son is dead.
Analysis:
If the second half of the CSI/Without a Trace crossover was a bit more exciting than the concluding installment, it's because 'who?' and 'what?' are more interesting questions than 'where?' and the 'why?', the latter of which was pretty apparent once we learned that Kobe was Terry's son at the end of first episode. "Where and Why" is mostly a chase, but the most mysterious questions--Who is the killer? What are his motives?--were already answered in the first installment. The chase is interesting and with Kobe's life at stake, it's still an exciting story, but the first half was just a bit more thrilling.
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Picking up where "Who and What" left off, Grissom and Malone track serial killer Terry Lee Wicker and his son, Kobe, to Hillsdale, Arizona, where he stole a car and Malone calls his team in New York in on the case. He and Grissom return to the school Kobe was enrolled in and learn from one of the teachers that Kobe's mother, Gina visited the school with Terry hours before school ended. Kobe told his best friend, Angelina, that Terry was planning to take him camping in Tucson, Arizona. Malone flies to Tucson where he finds the car Terry stole abandoned and a skeleton buried nearby. Martin Fitzgerald calls Malone to tell him that Terry and Kobe flew to New York, so Jack heads back. He's surprised to return to the FBI office and learn Grissom has arrived as well with the evidence from Arizona. While Grissom sets up shop in their lab, Terry's sister Sylvia tells Samantha Spade she hasn't seen Terry in six years but that he calls periodically. The last time she saw him, he brought her some jewelry but left when she said he couldn't stay with her. Grissom runs the dental records of the missing boy, Jason Tyler, against the body from Arizona and confirms to Jack that he's got a match. Though he can't find any cause of death, Grissom intends to run a 3-D algorithm to determine what was around the boy's neck when he died.
When a giftcard that was given to Kobe by Gina is swiped in Astoria, the team rushes there only to find Terry and Gina's old apartment broken into and a man's dead body there. A tape of Terry with Kobe as a baby is in the VCR. Lipstick on a glass leads the team to suspect a woman was with them. Vivian Johnson and Martin question Terry's former psychiatrist who tells them Terry confessed to killing his brother over a medallion as a child. Malone and Rosalyn Sanchez track down the woman with Terry and Kobe in the apartment--a prostitute who tells them Terry called her to comfort Kobe and get him to stop crying. Before she fled the apartment, she noticed Toyota keys on the counter. The team gets a call about man who was just cut by a man matching Terry's description. Thomas Michna tells Danny Taylor and Martin that he wanted to move his truck into a space the Toyota was occupying and he talked briefly to Kobe who seemed to be in distress. Kobe ran when Terry came back and Terry cut Thomas before running off after the boy.
The team gets Sylvia to let them tap her phone and when Terry calls they attempt to trace his location. When Sylvia finds she can't keep talking, Malone takes the phone and tells Terry they'll charge Sylvia with being an accessory to murder if he doesn't turn himself in and give them Kobe. Terry agrees and Malone, with an FBI team, meets him at a train yard, but Terry doesn't have his son with him. He says he let Kobe go before he could hurt him. Before Malone can stop him, he shoots himself. The team launches a search for Kobe and locates the boy in a train car near where he ran from Terry. Kobe is reunited with his aunt and Malone is left with the sad task of telling Jason Tyler's parents that their son is dead.
Analysis:
If the second half of the CSI/Without a Trace crossover was a bit more exciting than the concluding installment, it's because 'who?' and 'what?' are more interesting questions than 'where?' and the 'why?', the latter of which was pretty apparent once we learned that Kobe was Terry's son at the end of first episode. "Where and Why" is mostly a chase, but the most mysterious questions--Who is the killer? What are his motives?--were already answered in the first installment. The chase is interesting and with Kobe's life at stake, it's still an exciting story, but the first half was just a bit more thrilling.
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