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(3/22/06 4:52 pm)
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identity crisis --s2
The anniversary of the anonymous murders has come round again and yet another victim is found shot in a bathtub, this time in a warehouse outside of Las Vegas’ jurisdiction. Grissom and Catherine are called to the scene because Grissom is addressed by name on the tape. We quickly find out that Catherine knows when Grissom’s birthday is and that his birthday is next in sequence for the killer. The team arrives, Catherine briefs them on the details (including Grissom’s birthday connection) then sends them on their way. The first new evidence is found in the tub (a hair fiber). The victim’s car is found and towed back to CSI. Nick and Archie work the tape and figure out when it was made based on the song playing. Nick searches the car and comes up with a parking ticket from the summer months. A search of records revealed the man’s occupation involved travel. A search of the other victims revealed that all had received tickets from the same officer in the same city. Grissom and Catherine go to investigate, ending up in the courtroom of Judge Mason. Grissom immediately recognizes the man as Millander and asks the court officer to arrest him. Mason orders him to sit down or be held in contempt of court. Grissom refuses and ends up being held in a cell for the remainder of the day.
Mason comes down after the cases letting Grissom know he’s been released and inviting him to dinner. Catherine comes in shortly after to pick him up. Grissom uses her mentholatum to fume for Mason’s prints, sending the prints back with Catherine for processing. During dinner with the Mason’s Catherine calls to inform Grissom that the prints they lifted match Judge Mason.
Overall an excellent episode. Highlights include Catherine’s snooping in Mrs. Mason’s house and Sara’s figuring out that Mason/Millander was once a she. The best moment though is that this is one suspect who Grissom is never able to catch as Millander commits suicide at the end. The three episode story arc is not resolved in typical CSI fashion because of this.
The final installment in the three episode story arc involving Paul Millander begins with a driver picking up a hitchhiker (Millander) and then turning up dead in a tub in a warehouse out of Vegas’ jurisdiction. Grissom and Catherine are called to the scene because Grissom is addressed on the “suicide” tape. We learn that Grissom’s birthday is the same day as all the previous victims and that his birth year is next in sequence for the killer. This time the killer is purposely leaving evidence behind. He leaves an ancient hair fiber with the victim. He leaves his prints on the bars of the jail for Grissom to run. Millander is both confident in his ability to outwit Grissom and ready to reveal himself. The team slowly connects the dots, researching Millander’s past to find his mother and analyzing the DNA in the hair fiber. Unfortunately the hair fiber belongs to a woman. However, Catherine manages to lift a fiber from old clothing at Millander’s mother’s house and takes a stack of baseball cards with a print on them. This combination of evidence shows Millander/Mason/Paula Millander are the same person. However it is Sara who figures out that Paul Millander was once Paula. Millander is arrested and brought to trial. He chooses to represent himself causing his case to be the last on the docket that day. He uses this delay to escape from prison using a fake ID badge made from Grissom’s ID. Catherine catches up with Grissom as he is leaving the lab and points out an irregularity in the tapes of the victims causing Grissom to leave the lab running. He rushes to Mrs. Millander’s house only to find she has been stabbed. He then walks to the bathroom to find Millander in the tub with a suicide tape. Millander did manage to outwit him, choosing death over being convicted of his crimes.
It is an interesting episode and neatly wraps up the Millander story arc. It is revealed that Millander chose to become a man because he did not feel tough enough as a woman to have saved his father. The scene where Millander reveals his secrets is amazing. He states that he is comfortable telling Grissom about his past. When Grissom asks for his DNA Millander takes the swab and collects it himself, handing the sample back to Grissom. The whole scene has a strange sexual undertone as if Paula is actually the one controlling things instead of Paul.
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