CSI finale spoiler: Nick Stokes shot, lives, Ray Langston left to die

May 20, 2010 by Beatweek

Spoiler alert: don’t keep reading unless you want to know the results of tonight’s CSI’s season finale…

Okay, still here? The hour was slow in developing in its first half, with most of its first thirty minutes centered around questioning a predictably cryptic jailed serial killer with information about Dr. Jekyll, the investigation of an old abandoned restaurant, and Jim Brass’ anger at the fact that the killer was brought into CSI at all. After giving the killer bribes ranging from a steak dinner to a stripper (we’re not making that up), the episode still didn’t go anywhere until a package arrived which was (not really) sent from Ray Langston’s (Laurence Fishburne) long deceased father. The contents of the package suggested that Dr. Jekyll had as much of an obsession with Dr, Langston as Langston had with him, and allowed the team to begin connecting dots which showed that Jekyll’s various victims did all have more in common than their identities might have originally suggested.

Three quarters of the way through the episode, Dr. Jekyll is revealed to be a restaurant worker who’d never previously been on the show, and after shooting a police officer dead, Jekyll puts a shotgun bullet in the chest of CSI Nick Stokes. The fact that Nick was visibly wearing a vest at the time foreshadowed the fact that he survived, but viewers did get to spend a commercial break wondering if perhaps the show’s writers were even more kill-happy than we had previously been led to believe. Bizarrely, Langston then made more effort to attend to Jekyll’s father than the Stokes, while the jailed killer toys with the dim witted cop who’s left to watch him. But Langston did distract Jekyll long enough that Stokes managed to get ahold of a gun and take Jekyll out. Stokes survives. So does Jekyll’s father, who had no knowledge of what his son had been up to. Brass and Langston make up. End of plotline.

Except Nate Haskell, the jailed serial killer, improbably gets ahold of Langston, injures him badly, and leaves him lying next to the jail cell. Commence cliffhanger. See you in the fall.

Give CSI credit for not trying to pretend that its former characters don’t exist, as the best line of the night was when the jailed serial killer asked what happened to Gil Grissom, referring to him as the bearded unsettled fellow and pretending not to be able to pronounce his name. The second best line of the night also came from the jailed killer, as he finally pointed out what some fans have likely been asking themselves all season: wasn’t Mr. Hyde the killer, and not Mr. Jekyll?

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Spress97

Unless this is the final CSI Vagas Ray(Lawrence Fishbourne) will live due to the police man guarding the prisoner, but there was a lot of blood. Unless Gill Grissom is coming back and Ray was just a fill in for William Petersen to have a break. You never know!!!!!!!