Fallen - Recap

The show starts with a bang, many different images flashing across the
screen. Calleigh is wounded, if not dead, and Delko is trying to carry
her to get some help. Caine is driving like a madman, trying to get to
the scene. Delko makes it to the elevators, but starts losing
consciousness. Caine gets off the elevator, gun drawn. There are bodies
everywhere. Caine shoots out a window, and most everybody starts
breathing again. Callie finally starts breathing again. Jesse is dead.
Natalia cannot believe it.

Dr. Loman starts the autopsy of Jesse. He tells Horatio that if he
hadn’t shot out the window when he did, the autopsy room would be full
right now. Cause of death is acute oxygen deprivation. Loman won’t know
how that happened until he gets a sample of the lung tissue. Caine asks
why Jesse died and none of the others. Loman says that when Jesse fell,
he hit his head and it’s possible he suffered a subdural hemorrhage.
Loman asks what he should do with Jesse’s things. Caine picks up his
badge and says he’ll take care of it.

It looks as though every piece of evidence they have against Starling
was compromised by the gas. Ryan says they still have the gun, but
Calleigh says it was never definitively linked to him.

While Starling is being cuffed, Frank says they don’t know how he got
his hands on the gas while he was behind bars, but they’re sure going to
find out. Starling says “impossible”. Caine shows up when Frank leaves
and tells Starling that the officer he killed is named Jesse Cardoza.
Starling knows that the gas destroyed all the evidence against him and
adds “you can’t prevent what happens next.”

Caine joins the lab team and tells them that with every past attack,
Starling left a clue that led to the next. Calleigh says they scoured
the lab and found nothing. Natalia approaches Melissa Walls to see if
she knows anything about how Starling introduced the gas into the CSI
facility. She asks Melissa to come downtown and talk about it, and
Melissa says it’s not a good time. Natalia tells her it’s about
Professor Starling, and she says she tries not to think about him, as he
ruined her career. Natalia tells her that he killed a cop today. The
knowledge doesn’t sway her, nor does knowing that the team thinks he’s
going to kill again. She gets in her car and drives away.

Nikki Vega is telling Calleigh that the note that says “They All Fall
Down” was written by an ink jet printer; they’re the only kind that use
wet ink. If they can get their hands on Starling’s printer, it would be
possible to match it to the note, based on markings.

Ryan is crawling through the vents, testing the air at the facility. He
keeps picking up traces of Halon from every single duct on the floor.
It’s a fire-suppressant that was banned in the 80’s. Because their
system is separate from the rest of the building, it was possible to
only attack the CSI floor. Caine and Delko are up on the roof, checking
the vent system. Caine finds a couple of loose screws, and they lift the
door off. The boxes inside say Freon, but Caine cuts into one and it
contains a Halon tank that was fed right into the air-conditioning system.

Starling is in a cage, not a cell. Full 360-degree visibility, and he’s
working on removing his handcuffs. When Caine shows him the Halon tank,
tagged for Dade University, Starling says “You don’t have my hands - oh,
would you look at that” as he holds up his cuffed left hand which has an
empty right cuff. Caine slams him into the bars. Starling says he’s
smarter than all of them put together, and when he’s done they’ll all be
dead. Caine says somebody will be dead, but it won’t be them. He tells
Frank to take him downstairs and throw him in solitary. As he’s leaving,
he tells Horatio that the clock is ticking.

Walter goes down to the autopsy lab and asks why nobody has cleaned this
officer’s face; the answer is he’s still being processed. Walter tells
Jesse he came to say good-bye. He remembers them playing hoops together.
He starts cleaning Jesse’s face while he tells him that he called his
mom, and she wants him back in California; H is going to make that
happen. He notices glass in Jesse’s temple and call Natalia. Walter
recognizes the glass he has placed under the microscope as tempered
glass. The piece of glass is from Starling’s camera, which has a broken
lens. Walter says this is what Jesse was working on.

There’s no memory card in the camera. Jesse gave it to Ben to process.
The server is down, so Ben can’t recover the deleted photos that Walter
wants him to.

Ryan and Eric are working on figuring out when the Halon gas was
introduced based on Jesse’s concentration of 6%. This could possibly
place Starling at the scene of the crime. After a great deal of math,
they come up with a 35 minute window. He was teaching a class at that
time, so the test would let Starling off the hook. Eric says not
necessarily. He believes this means Starling had an accomplice.

Caine and Eric go to question Melissa. She begs them not to come in, as
the door is rigged. They use the snake (small camera they can slide
under the door) to investigate the situation and hopefully bypass the
trap. While they are trying to get Melissa, Starling is being probed and
placed in a straitjacket. Caine walks on a ledge to get to the window
and through to Melissa. She has a weapon aimed at her head, and Caine
disables it. Eric gets a serial number from the weapon and runs it. It’s
registered to a janitor at Dade that idolizes Starling, Keith Garwood.
They literally chase him down as he attempts to evade CSI. Keith takes
them to the haz-mat area of Dade, and immediately notices that three of
the canisters are gone. He claims he doesn’t know where they went. Caine
steps up the questioning. He tells Keith that a police officer was
murdered, and that’s on him. Mandatory death sentence. He says he wants
his lawyer.

Calleigh is inspecting the bullet from Garwood’s gun, which is roughly
17 grams heavier than it should be. She opens it and finds it full of
sand. Garwood got duped, lucky for Melissa. Everybody has Starling under
observation, and Garwood is afraid Starling can see him and will know if
he talks. Nikki says that the paper did come from Starling’s printer.
She also says it almost looks like somebody spilled nail polish on the
page. Horatio uses a light that shows fluorescent writing,and finds that
there are several cryptic signs on the page. Natalia says it looks like
the cypher the zodiac killer used in San Francisco, and Caine agrees.

They discuss what cultures used hieroglyphics, and Mayan comes up.
Because of the “end of days” Mayan prophecy, they think this may be the
link to Starling. They start by checking his work but since the server
is still down, they have to investigate the old-fashioned way. Natalia
translates it as “Man Marks Earth with Ruin”, which is part of a poem by
Lord Byron. Caine puts the pieces together. When combined with
Starling’s “The clock is ticking” comment, he understands it to mean
there’s a bomb on Pier 25. Eric and Caine find the bomb, and Caine tries
to send Eric away. He refuses to leave. Caine starts disarming the bomb.
Starling asks what time it is, and Frank refuses to answer.

The bomb isn’t actually a bomb. It’s an escape attempt by Starling. A
van fires shots at the car carrying him, and he escapes in the
confusion. The team wonders why the bullets used in the escape were
real, and the one used on Melissa was a dud. Horatio says Melissa was
not meant to die.

The server is back up, so Walter can see those deleted photos from
Starling’s camera. Melissa and Starling are kissing. Garwood wasn’t the
accomplice, it was Melissa all along. They confront her with everything
they know, and she says it was all Bob Starling’s idea. They tell her
the jury won’t believe her. She claims Bob told her to set up the
janitor, and she had no idea he was setting her up as well. She says
she’ll give them Starling, and Caine laughs. He tells her it’s a good move.

Starling is on a boat when Melissa shows up. He tells her he knows she’s
wired, and yanks it. He then confesses, and it’s all on tape. That
wasn’t a real wire he pulled. Caine and Frank arrest him for the murder
of Jesse Cardoza.

Calleigh tells Jesse to have a safe trip. Walter plays hoops solo, until
the team shows up to play hoops with him. Calleigh won’t play, she’s
going to be the ref. H throws a successful free throw: for Jesse.

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