S08E14. The End Of An Era, Part I…
Night in the city and Sofia Hagen is in her apartment and her friend, Lola Kleidel (Florencia Torrente) is trying to convince her to join her but Sofia says that she's not READY to go out even when Lola tells her that "it's been two months already" and that she's safe…
Lola decides to leave, alone, to the night to a nightclub called "KUBIK" with some friends when, at some point, she's intercepted by a man that asks her to join her to a night THAT SHE WILL NEVER FORGET…
Night in the city and, on an alley, the police is cornering the area while Dra. Peters analyze a body… its Lola!!!
Det. Serinda Seeley arrives with Det. Xavier Morgan and, seen the "fleur-de-lis" tattoo on Lola's right ankle it's obvious… "The Gentleman" is back!!!
(Opening Credits)
The CSI: BA Team join to talk about the situation and Reggie Purdue arrives saying that they have bigger problems besides the case itself and shows to the team an article from the "CLARIN NEWSPAPER" were the whole case is been described… someone is talking to the local newspapers and that is spreading fear among the citizens…
Bruce arrives and Reggie updates him on Lola's murder and Det. Danko realize that she saw Lola once and she remembers her from somewhere else and she remembers… Lola was with Sofia Hagen, the only victim that survived the attack of "The Gentleman"
Reggie and Bruce imagine a clear message: Lola was murdered to give a message… Sofia is in danger because, if she can remember more details, she could expose "The Gentleman"
Reggie smiles and everyone look at him and he reveals to be reading the article from "The Gentleman" and he's laughing because the newspapers took the theory about that "The Gentleman" could have a female accomplish that "is playing at his same level" and decide to call the duo as "The Pair"
Bruce says that, once, they believed that it wasn't actually ONE killer but a couple like "Bonnie & Clyde" and Det. Seeley orders Det. Riggs to use the Strike Force to protect Sofia
Reggie and Bruce analyze all the "wall of the gentleman" details trying to figure out a way to connect something and to have an actual ID of the guy in question while the CSI: BA Team investigate on their own
They start with Lola's body so Dra. Danvers analyze the body finding, with Dr. Gibbons, a drug that cause an effect on the victims making them very docile and easy to be controlled "like puppets"
Because of the nature of the drug Reggie and Bruce theorize that "The Gentleman" must be a doctor or someone close to medicine to elaborate such a complex formula (He's not a pharmacy thief because the reports of missing medicaments should show up somewhere) so they are almost clueless but, suddenly, Dr. Gibbons detects a peculiar smell on Lola's hair and, making analysis, it is determined to be a hotel perfume used by a hotel's cleaning staff every time they clean a room and every perfume is unique from the Hotel's own environment…
Sofia is transferred to a safe house guarded by the Strike Force and Det. Riggs while the rest of the team track the Hotel were the perfume belongs to and they come across the "HILTON HOTEL" in the Madero Port Area
Dets. Seeley, Morgan and Danko arrive to the hotel with the Technicians, led by Dra. Peters, and they ask about Lola showing a photo of her but the staff says nothing so Det. Danko notice something more effective… the surveillance cameras on the halls
The cameras are transferred to the Tech & Surveillance Room so Collin Fisher can analyze the tapes while, in the safe house, Det. Riggs is checking the premises and sees nothing suspicious and he sees an "ARGENTINE WATERS" van stops in the corner and two employees open the sewer to check the sewer line (he ignores the situation)
Det. Morgan stops his to arrive to the safe house and he crosses paths with the "ARGENTINE WATERS" employee almost hitting him while hes walking to the safe house so they have a mutual "sorry… my bad" and Morgan continues walking to the safe house
Inside Tech & Surveillance, Collin Fisher finds Lola in one of the tapes and, with Det. Danko and Seeley, he sees the tape were Lola shows up with a man and then a woman so, having those faces, Seeley calls Morgan
Meanwhile Sofia drinks some water from the kitchen and, suddenly, she starts to feels dizzy and, suddenly, the lights go out inside the safe house
Riggs is talking to Morgan in the car when Seeley calls and sends Morgan the pictures of the man and the woman from the Hotel surveillance camera to his cell phone and, when Morgan sees the man's face, he says "Oh my God… it's the guy from "ARGENTINE WATERS" I almost hit before…"!!!!
Inside the safe house the Strike Force members are armed but, one by one, are disarmed by unknown figures wearing "Hollow Masks" and, when they are all dead, the male assailant grabs Sofia from the floor and they kidnap her…
Riggs and Morgan arrive to the safe house but, before they can get inside, the safe house explodes!!!
Morgan sees, dizzy and stunt by the blast, the "ARGENTINE WATERS" company van speeds away…
With absolutely no time to loose the CSI: BA Team works against time to find "The Pair" ("The Gentleman" & "The Lady") before Sofia becomes the next victim so Reggie & Bruce practically start a "trip into…" the assassins mind deep inside the complexity of their understanding to crack the puzzle and "understand" them, in a certain way, so they can find a clue
Meanwhile the pictures of the man and the woman in the video tape along with Lola are identified as Paul Grayson & Ellen Grayson a rich couple that went "missing" in 1989 (The year when Reggie and Bruce started the investigation…)
There are absolutely no records of them after 1989 like if they had been "swallowed by the earth" so they need to do something more drastic…
Inside some sort of dungeon Sofia is cuffed (hand behind her back), gagged and she's blindfolded but she hears the sound of steps coming from above and, suddenly, a woman shows up (Her face is covered by a "hollow mask") and she speaks to her on a way to scare her more and more physiologically
The next day the "CLARIN NEWSPAPER" place "The Pair" faces on front page and the CSI: BA Team hopes that someone recognize them in the pictures and call them back but, as usual, some calls are useless tips from people that only want the reward applied for anyone that can give the police tips about them
Reggie and Bruce continue working and Reggie confesses that, when he retired, "The Gentleman" case was the only case he never solved (That case was the stick on his record) and that he hopes that, one day, he can "clean" that stick out of it and Bruce says that they will solve the case… at any cost…
Bruce receives a call from King, now seven weeks pregnant, that she's not feeling ok (pregnancy sickness) so Bruce leaves Reggie alone to "take care" of his future offspring and, alone, Reggie realize something…
A phone call is recorded about a guy that knows were "The Pair" is and, amazingly, the guy doesn't even want the reward so, been the only one that said that, the Strike Force arrive to the location while, alone, Reggie arrives to an old building near the Port Area and, getting inside, he sees a hugh "fleur-de-lis" emblem carved on one of the walls and, getting inside the reception, we realize that the building itself its an old church
A shoot is heard… the Strike Force gets inside the location but it seems abandoned and very old until Det. Riggs realize yelling "Everyone don't move!!" and one of the Strike Team members steps on a trap-door that activates… a bomb… BOOM!!!!
The paramedics arrive along with the police and Riggs is hurt, but fine, three Strike Force members died and Bruce is on the scene after leaving King in the Hospital for observation when, suddenly, his cell phone rings and the call seems to be from Reggie's cell phone…
None speaks when he attend the call excepts that he hears, in the background, a heavy breathing and he asks the team to track the phone call immediately…
They arrive to the abandoned church were the remaining Strike Force team secure the area finding "what-looks-like" a lair and, in the old altar, Dets. Seeley and Bruce find Reggie, badly hurt, dying
Bruce notice that Reggie has a "fleur-de-lis" card symbol on his right hand and, on his final breaths, Reggie grabs Bruce and asks him "to solve it…"
THE END
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RECURRING CHARACTERS:
-Bruce Chase (Luciano Castro)
-Karla King (Eugenia Tobal)
-Reginald "Reggie" Purdue (Clarke Peters) :(
-Sofia Hagen (Maria Eugenia Suarez)
-The Gentleman/Paul Grayson (Pablo Echarri)
-The Lady/Ellen Grayson (A.J. Cook)
-Dr. Matthew Gibbons (Juan Gil Navarro)
-Tech Specialist Collin Fisher (Joel Moore)
NEXT EPISODE: The End Of An Era, Part II…
The end is here…
After Eight Season CSI: BA says goodbye with the final showdown between "The Pair" (The Gentleman & The Lady) and the CSI: BA Team…
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