Manhunt - Recap

An escaped convict is on the loose in Miami. Frank and Walter scope out
the pictures and order copies. Traffic is stopped and vehicles are
searched before being allowed to leave the area. H goes on a bus to
check the passengers. He pulls his gun on one of them, a serial rapist
who is brought back into custody. The other guy is Memmo Fiero. He
murdered Marisol, who was H's wife and Delko's sister. That makes this
personal to CSI.

Memmo is walking down a dock. There's a couple on a boat about to make
love. That's the boat he decides to get on. Doug indicates to Daisy to
be quiet, and puts her in the closet. Memmo starts shaking everything
out of the bags, and finds a small pistol, loaded. He sees by the
belongings that there is a woman. Doug tells him that the woman is
joining him later. He suggests that Memmo think before he acts; he won't
get far. Memmo takes Doug outside, beats him, binds him and throws him
in the lake, tied to the anchor. He then drives away in a small boat.

As Doug's body is taken from the water, H radios in that the getaway
boat is headed for Virginia Key. Calleigh questions Daisy, who tears off
her necklace, thinking it cost Doug his life. Calleigh shows her a
picture of Fiero. He's the one. She says he was sadistic, he took joy in
what he was doing.

Calleigh and Eric are headed for the cleaners that Fiero's girlfriend
works at. It's less than a mile from where he ditched the boat. His
girlfriend, Yvonne, claims she has no idea he escaped, and he's made no
effort to contact her. She says she works 24/7. When Calleigh asks to
see her cell phone, she pulls it out and a set of earrings fall out.
She's defiant about showing there have been no missed calls. Calleigh
asks her about the earrings, and Yvonne says they were a gift. Calleigh
tells her that she has the matching necklace, and they were stolen from
a woman on a boat that very morning. Fiero has already killed since his
release. Eric tells her to stop playing games. She finally comes clean.
He was just there an hour ago, and insisted on giving her the jewelry.
She tells them he can't find out she talked to them, or he will kill her.

Eric tells her she's already in trouble for possession of stolen
property, and aiding and abetting an escaped criminal. Eric insists she
tell them where Memmo said he was going, but Yvonne says he wouldn't
say; he didn't tell her anything. She lost custody of her daughter when
they investigated her in connection with Memmo.

Memmo is at Dade Memorial Hospital asking people when they started
working there. He kills two women for giving the wrong answer. The right
answer was apparently last week. A cop shoots and misses, and Memmo
returns fire, downing the officer. Memmo then relieves him of his weapon
and gear before leaving. H gets the radio call and heads for the
hospital. He and Eric start searching the grounds for Fiero. The laundry
bins come up empty. They find his prison garb under one of the trucks,
and note that he must have left driving a similar truck. He is in
possession of the officer's weapon and dispatch radio.

He didn't take a truck, though. He's in the bottom of a garbage truck.

The hospital worker who was spared wants to know why. H tells her he's
not sure, yet. She told him "When did you start working here?" was the
question that got two women killed.

Walter and H are talking when H gets a call from a civilian on their
frequency. Aaron Taber tells H he wants to be arrested for not doing his
job. When H asks him what job he didn't do, he says he doesn't want to
die. H says Memmo, are you there. Memmo takes the radio and tells
Horatio they have unfinished business. He says he loves the sound of a
man with a broken heart. It's been five years since Memmo killed
Marisol. H tells Memmo he's going to kill him for that. When they find
Aaron, he's dead. Walter sends Eric Aaron's background. He's a
caseworker that places children with families. This takes them back to
Yvonne, and how she lost custody of her daughter, Elsa, over Memmo. They
tell her that Aaron was killed by Memmo in his own driveway. She's been
trying to protect herself, but H says maybe it's time she started
protecting someone else.

She told him that their daughter had to go to the hospital because of
him, all of this, everything is all his fault. If she hadn't been in
foster care, she wouldn't have been hurt. Yvonne couldn't even be there
for her.

Natalia and Walter are asking questions at the agency Aaron worked at
for six years. They tell the manager about Memmo Fiero, the man who
killed Aaron, and ask where Elsa is living. Walter gets the information
on Elsa's location and calls it in. Natalia discusses Elsa's injury and
what happened that day. The women who sent his daughter to a different
hospital ten miles away are the ones that Memmo shot and killed. The one
he let live wasn't working at the hospital at that time. Walter says
based on that logic, Elsa was burned on her foster mom's watch,
therefore she is likely the next target.

H and Ryan arrive at Elsa's home. The mom has been shot in the leg, and
Elsa is gone. She's been gone for two days; never came home from school.
Memmo didn't get a chance to take her. He calls H in a rage, he wants
Elsa found now. H says they can concentrate on finding her if Memmo
turns himself in. He refuses.

Eric, Walter and Ryan discuss the case, and why the foster mother never
reported her missing. They examine the home for clues. The bedroom
window in Elsa's room shows evidence of an attempted break-in. They go
on to look for further signs or clues of what may have happened. They
come up empty with the exception of a few little pieces of paper.
They're grasping at straws to figure out what the two little pieces of
paper are about. They actually come up with Golden Sun Drycleaners as
where the paper came from. And that's where Yvonne works.

When Calleigh confronts her, she admits to having been in the house. She
claims to not know why she was there. She just wanted to be near her
somehow, after she was injured. She sat on her bed, held and smelled her
pillow ... she felt better for a minute there. They're going to keep
Yvonne in protective custody while they find Memmo. Yvonne left behind a
little glass teddy bear, and Elsa found it.

Ryan ran a report on the foster mom. She had a 9 y/o in her care two
years ago, and he was hospitalized. Calleigh thinks the whole 'find us
families' agency is hinky. She asks Ryan to go over the employee roster,
see if anybody has a clue where Elsa might be. He and Natalia go over
the papers at the agency. Ryan comes up with a recommendation that Elsa
be removed, and the foster mom lose her foster status, but the request
was denied by Kenneth McGuire. Natalia remembers that McGuire said he
knew nothing about that case.

As they are going over the files, a black sedan driven by McGuire goes
past the agency, with Elsa in the backseat. Natalia finds a number
attached to a file, and calls it. She reaches the voice mail of Joanne
Connors, Elsa's foster mom. They tell the receptionist that the agency
is under police investigation, and demand to speak to McGuire
immediately. She tries again, but he's still not answering. While he
ignores the ringing phone, he tells Elsa she's going to a very nice
family. Ryan asks the receptionist if he has GPS or navigation, and she
says yes.

H is following the vehicle, tracking it as a potential kidnapping
suspect. Memmo is out on foot. He still has the police band radio and
knows where his daughter is. He steals a cab to join in the chase. H
cuts off McGuire and orders him to toss the keys out the window and
raise his hands high. He was selling Elsa to a rich family beyond the gates.

Memmo arrives, and H and Eric put three bullets through the windshield.
Memmo gets out and grabs McGuire, threatening to kill him if he doesn't
see his daughter. H is saying "Not a chance" as Elsa runs and hides
behind H. He orders her to go back to the car. She peeks from behind H,
and Memmo calls her sweetie, and asks if she remembers him. She hides
behind H again. He tells her she's gotten so big, and this is probably
the last time she'll see him. He mouths the words "I love you".

Eric says he's going to take Memmo down, while Elsa begs for her
father's life. H orders Eric to let him go, and tells Memmo that today
is about his daughter, but tomorrow will be about him. Eric calls in
that Memmo Fiero is armed, and has a hostage. Elsa breaks down crying on
Horatio. She is reunited with her mother. She thought her mom gave her
up because she didn't love her anymore. H wishes them luck as they leave
together. He remembers the death of his wife, Marisol. The taxi is
found, McGuire is dead inside and Fiero is gone.


Share this article with your friends