Season nine of CSI has arrived carrying a mystery in the first episode. But it made this season’s opening as more interesting. So my wait paid back well. You know what? This season has opened with bagging in 23 million viewers for this particular episode and the ratings are surprisingly high. The single episode has got rating of 13.7. Well, CSI is used to the high ratings. A winning habit you can say!
The things go fast in this episode. It begins with the radio news of a police officer being shot in an alleyway. When Grissom reaches the spot, he’s shocked. This is Officer Warrick Brown, severely wounded, slouched over his car wheel. Unfortunately he dies in the arms of Grissom, while trying to disclose his killer. The rest of the team arrives and everybody looks at dead Warrick with teary eyes.
The investigation starts with the eye witness, Undersheriff Jeff McKeen. He tells he heard a shot and saw a man rushing from Warrick’s vehicle into another car and suspects Officer Daniel Prichard, the mole in the department. Later investigations indicate that there was a loud music when Warrick was shot. Nick finds prints on the passenger side window of Warrick’s car, which point that somebody knocked on the window of the car. Nick believes that Warrick won’t roll down the window for his killer and obviously it is some known person. The bullet shell found from the car is from a destroyed handgun from a robbery case, when Prichard was the officer.
The team reaches the conclusion that McKeen is fabricating a story. Now the team goes for funeral preparations of Warrick at his place. There they find papers regarding custody battle of Warrick’s son, which he kept hidden from the entire team.
When team goes in search of McKeen, they find that Prichard and McKeen have planned the whole thing together. During this rat chase, Prichard dies due to car accident. While injured McKeen survives, who gets arrested by the team and reveals his guilt.
Cool episode, an eyewitness is the actual culprit. I’ve watched it twice and it’s still not enough.
