CSI 10/9/08

Warrick is dead. Didn't think they'd do it, but he's dead.

We all know that Under Sheriff McKeen did it, we saw it at the end of last season. When Grissom gets to the scene he finds McKeen there, McKeen claims to be a witness. He was going to the diner they had all been at to tell Warrick he could keep his job. You'll remember that Warrick had just been released from jail for killing the mob boss Gedda. He didn't actually do it, a beat cop named Pritchard had killed him, and framed Warrick.

Grissom held Warrick as he died. The team shows up one by one, Grissom tells Eckle that they will be the ones processing.

They quickly determine that Pritchard did not do it. Warrick's passenger window had been rolled down, Warrick would not have rolled down his window to speak with a guy who had just framed him for murder.

The team also determines that McKeen could not have heard a gunshot from where he claimed to be. There was a night club in the alley and their music was too loud. They determine that it must be McKeen. First witness is always first suspect.

Sarah had returned to Vegas when she heard the news, as she and lab boy were at Warrick's they find out that he had a son. We later learn his ex wife had a baby, a boy named Eli. Warrick had a video of his psychological submitted to determine who was the more fit parent. On it, he says even though his father and mother had died, he had a father figure, he never says but we can assume it is Grissom.

McKeen had been keeping Pritchard in some cheap hotel, and had gone to retrieve him. They left under the guise of McKeen helping Pritchard escape to Mexico. While enroute, Brass phones him to give him an update, and also to triangulate his cell signal. They find him and Stokes goes with Brass to nab McKeen and Pritchard.

Pritchard has figured out that he's going to die if he doesn't do something drastic, he ends up shooting McKeen while they are driving down the road, hoping he'll survive the crash, he doesn't.

Nick and Brass find the crash and Nick follows a blood trail into the woods. He finds McKeen with a major stomach wound. McKeen starts to tell Nick about how he shot Warrick, how he did it because Warrick was stupid, trying to get Nick to put him out of his own misery. Brass hears a gunshot and finds Nick standing over a motionless McKeen with a gun pointed at his head.

Nick tells Brass they need to get him a medivac. Brass asks "what was that shot?"

Nick says "A miss."

Yea! Nick for keeping him miserable, keeping him alive to live with himself. Also keeping him in a great deal of pain for the foreseeable future.

At Warrick's funeral, Grissom speaks. Says the words they are trained to offer, "I'm sorry for your loss," don't offer much. He says he'll miss him.