Plot

Dr. Langston sets out on a vigilante mission after Nate Haskell goes to Los Angeles and kidnaps his ex-wife and kills her husband.

LAPD detective Daniel Sosa grudgingly hosts Langston's 'Nate experts' task force in his city, but truly appreciates and accommodates their input in evaluating a series of murders fitting Haskel's MO. The team learns he didn't have plastic surgery after all. Langston is dragged along, against his better judgment, in Nate's trap with his ex wife as bait after her new groom is butchered.—KGF Vissers

In Los Angeles, Phil and Gloria invite Nate Haskell and Tina Vincent to visit them at home. Out of the blue, the serial-killer kills Phil. On the next morning, his body is found in a dumpster and due to the modus operandi, Scientific Investigation Division (SID) agent Morgan Brody contacts LVPD to investigate a possible connection to the Haskell's case. Catherine and Langston travel to LA and Langston immediately recognizes Phil. They head to his apartment, but do not find Gloria; only lots of gore and broken furniture and decoration. Catherine dismisses Langston from the investigation and calls Sara to join her. But Lanston does not fly back to Las Vegas and stays in Los Angeles. He buys an untraceable gun and a laptop in a shop to hunt down Nate Haskell. Soon he finds Tina Vincent and argues her where Haskell is. When Tina's body is found by LAPD, Langston becomes the prime suspect.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

"CSI" - "Cello and Goodbye" - May 5, 2011

Nate is having dinner with Ray's ex-wife Gloria in L.A. and her new husband Phil and his "wife." Gloria and Phil have welcomed their "new neighbors" unwittingly. Nate poisons their drinks. (We cut to Ray who is sleeping restlessly back in Vegas.) Haskell smashes in Phil's head with a bottle. (Ray awakens and showers). We cut to blood pouring down a shower drain but it's Nate Haskell's, or whose ever blood is all over him. He screams. Catherine calls Ray and says the cops have found a John Doe in L.A. that looks like Haskell's work.

Ray and Catherine head to Hollywood and meet up with an LAPD detective named Sosa and the female SID person Brody who called them and gave them the heads up. The body is in a dumpster and has been eaten at extensively by rats. When the body is turned Ray recognizes that it's Phll.

The cops go to Phil and Gloria's house, which is destroyed and covered in blood. Catherine tells Ray she doesn't think he should be there. When he sees all the blood he gets woozy. Then he sees a box, from Haskell to him, a postcard and a gift box, inside is Gloria's engagement ring and a copy of "Gloria In Excelsis Deo" sheet music.

With help from Greg back in Vegas surveillance video shows Haskell and his latest "bride" Tina Vincent driving away from the scene in Phil and Gloria's car.

Ray and Catherine survey the scene and Catherine tries to reassure him but Ray thinks she's already dead. He opts out of the investigation and Catherine says she'll call Sara.

On the way back to the airport Ray has flashes of remembrances of interviewing Haskell in prison. He has the cop pull over at an L.A. bar, saying he wants a drink before flying back to Vegas. He downs a shot and calls and leaves a message for someone, he says the person is the only person he can talk to and will truly understand what he "has to do" since the only person he has ever loved is dead. We see Robbins playing a tape of the message for Nick cross cut with Ray, after at least one more shot, exiting the bar from the back away from the eyes of the patrol car waiting for him.

Sara and Catherine are running the crime scene. Catherine notes that SID Brody seems familiar. Sara and Brody discuss high velocity blood spatter. Brody hears something and notices flies and realizes they corrupted the blood spatter. They surmise that Gloria was alive when Haskell took her and made the scene look even worse to make Ray feel bad.

Sosa locates some evidence and reports to Catherine that Ray ditched his escort and wonders if he's unstable and/or armed. We cut to Ray buying a gun, with no serial number, in a pawn shop, and a laptop. He also takes a postcard like the one Haskell left him of the Willoughby Observatory.

Catherine calls in Nick for help to find Ray who tells her about the phone message.

Social networking sites show that Phil and Gloria met Haskell at a benefit concert. Haskell was calling himself Willoughby J. Willoughby. Greg informs him that the real WJW was a famous L.A. benefactor who shot his wife, long dead. They theorize that Haskell wanted Ray to come out and play.

Ray heads to a famous WJW location, the Penwick Hotel, gun in hand and Tina sees him and runs. He grabs her from behind and says "you know why I'm here."

Nick arrives at the hotel, meets Sosa and Catherine. It is now apparently a crime scene. Tina Vincent is dead. Shot repeatedly and beaten, likely, for information. On the floor Nick finds tickets with "you never forget your first" written in blood on the back. Sosa wants his people to process the scene. Sosa theorizes maybe Ray did this. As Catherine and Nick are booted Brody catches up to them and sends him a text with the info from the ticket on it. Catherine figures out why Brody looks familiar: She's Conrad Eckley's daughter. She took her stepdad's name.

Brody shows the evidence from Tina's scene. The people in the room were Haskell, Tina, and Ray. Sosa points an angry finger at Ray whose blood is found at the scene. They can't be sure it's his DNA though since it's not in the system. Nick tracks him down and asks him what happened.

Ray explains that he chased Tina into the room, slapped her around a bit. But that was all, she gave him one of the tickets, told him Haskell wanted to have it and that it was written in Gloria's blood. He says he didn't do anything else to hurt her. Nick explains that Haskell did then when he returned. Ray realizes that Haskell is making him a fugitive, isolating him. Nick says they need to get back on the side of right.

Nick has Greg run the numbers on the raffle tickets and Hodges expresses his worries about Ray. The tickets came from the Santa Monica Pier. They were for the carousel: Ray's first date with Gloria was at a carousel in Baltimore. Info that Haskell must've tortured out of her. Ray goes into the carousel while Nick covers him. The carousel starts up and Ray sees Nate amidst the revolving horses. Haskell is disappointed when he sees Nick. Nick tries to shoot him but Haskell gets away. Ray runs after him, seemingly seeing him everywheer. Then NIck really does spot him and pulls his gun. A cop stops him, Nick tries to convince him that he's making a big mistake but drops his gun and is led away in cuffs. Ray spots Haskell who has his own. When a cop spots Ray he tries to disarm but Haskell shoots the cop. Haskell points out if Ray shoots him he might not find Gloria, who he says is still alive. Cops surround Ray and Haskell gets away.

Sosa reads Ray the riot act in interrogation. He tells Ray he has to talk to him or he has to go back to Vegas. He asks if he's being charged with a crime and Sosa walks out in disgust. Ray smiles a the camera, at Catherine and Sara in the other room. Sosa tells them he's not sending them home but he doesn't want anymore surprises. Catherine yells at Ray and Nick. She tells Ray to go back to Vegas. Nick tells Ray they'll get him.

Brody and Sara look at sand and paint chip evidence in an effort to find Haskell.

Ray arrives back in Vegas and is picked up by Robbins. Ray is locked out of his computer at work and coerces Hodges into logging in for him. They look up WJW. Greg is also drafted to help. WJW turned out to be a bigamist, the wife survived the shooting, which was witnessed by the other wife Audrey Thorpe and her son Arvin Thorpe. Greg figures out the building they're looking for. Ray also discovers a Nevada connection to the son. He distracts Hodges and looks on the computer for some info, calling up last week's case out at the Thorpe farm. With the help of some old yearbooks he deduces that Nate Haskell is actually Warner Thorpe, son of Arvin Thorpe, grandson of Audrey Thorpe.

Sosa, Sara, Catherine, and Nick head to the hospital where they think Haskell is holed up.

Hodges returns and realizes Langston is gone and looks at the evidence trail he left behind.

Ray goes to the old house and discovers a trail of the tickets with "you never forget your first" written on them.

We cross cut between the two investigation scenes.

Nick and Sosa come across a blood crime scene in the hospital. A patient, it would seem, is on a table hooked up to machines. They uncover it and it's a dummy with the sign "made you look" on it.

Ray follows the ticket trail at the house in Nevada. He discovers Arvin Thorpe, beaten and bloodied. He dies in Ray's presence. He calls for back-up. He finds Gloria, chained up in a nearby bedroom. As he's undoing her, Nate enters, with a gun and says "welcome home, Ray."

To be continued...