CSI: Vegas (2021) s02e08 Episode Script

Previously on CSI: Vegas
- Something brought you back.
- Grace Huang.
Rock star in my program.
She left work one night,
and no one's seen her since.
When Catherine asked around
at the casino, they fired her.
- Where'd she go?
- Is there really not a camera
covering the area between those angles?
I don't know what you
think happened to this girl,
but I want to help.
It has to be Grace's grave.
They moved her body.
Is that tortoiseshell?
Last I checked, there weren't
many tortoises roaming around
that far north in the desert.
Someone gave that to Grace,
day before she went missing.
Mikel Koslov.
- You know him?
- He hoped on his private jet yesterday.
He's hiding in Belarus.
She knew something he
was trying to keep quiet.
Something that got her killed.
Hello, Mikel.
- Bye, ladies.
- What is this?
- Who are you?
- My name is Catherine Willows.
I work for CSI in Las Vegas.
I'm here about Grace Huang.
I was not even in your
country when it happened.
When she was murdered.
I don't know anything about it.
That, I don't believe.
I don't care what you believe.
Your laws do not apply here.
Yeah, you're right.
But that works in my favor, too.
The FBI might not
appreciate that I'm using
their file to blackmail you.
Ooh, there is a lot in there, Mikel.
You've been embezzling from
half the criminals in Belarus.
I don't know what
If some of those folks find out,
you'll be lucky if you get to keep
all your fingers.
What do you want?
Get dressed.
We're going to Vegas.
You have a date with
the district attorney.
So, this missing friend
of yours, Grace Huang,
you have no proof of foul play?
Nothing concrete,
but that could change
today, or so I'm told.
Mr. Koslov here has an alibi for
the day of Grace's disappearance.
He couldn't have killed her, but
I know who did, where they
put the body, I know all of it.
Ms. Huang was murdered?
My client is prepared to offer testimony
once certain guaranties are made.
That he will not be prosecuted
as an accessory, or
I want immunity, for everything.
Everything? What does that mean?
Grace was a server at
a private poker room,
where she met Mikel and
some other entrepreneurs.
I suspect that she learned
something there that got her killed.
I don't know what.
My client does, and I can assure you,
it will be of great
interest to your office.
I don't have the authority
to grant blanket immunity
based on your assessment of
whatever this testimony might be.
These people I deal
with very dangerous.
I cannot talk before
immunity, before protection.
Well, then, I'm afraid
we're at an impasse,
because I can't grant you
the protection you need
if you don't play ball, sir.
Mister
Who brought this water?
This is Catherine Willows,
C114, send an ambulance.
- Clark County D.A.'s office.
- Breathe.
- Try to breathe.
- Immediately.
Ma'am, please back up.
- Mikel.
- I need to get him to the hospital.
Mikel, look at me. Who killed Grace?
My client cannot. Please.
Please, we can work out
a deal if he makes it.
- Ms. Ms Ms. Willows.
- There's no reason why he cannot tell me
- why my friend
- Ms. Ms. Willows, please.
My client can't talk.
Someone poisoned the man.
He's talking. Today.
I'll meet you in the lobby!
Where's Mikel?
He-he punched me. He got off on two.
He made a run for it.
He's just gone?
He knows who killed my daughter.
Why wouldn't he just tell you?
Mikel didn't trust the D.A.
He didn't think that
we could protect him
from his associates if he talks.
Ms. Huang, we have an APB out on him.
My team here at CSI is up to speed.
And if he is dumb enough
to pop up at the Eclipse,
your friend there is
gonna let us know, right?
Yes. Jodi's keeping an eye out.
I-I brought some photos.
Some of Grace's things.
I thought it might help somehow.
I just
I need to do something.
Thank you.
When Grace didn't call
after my bypass surgery
I was so hurt.
But I should've known
something was wrong.
I should've reported it.
It's not your fault.
When Grace disappeared,
I asked everyone where
she went, and nobody knew.
Your daughter is the reason I'm here,
and I'm not gonna stop
until this is over.
Catherine.
They found him.
Converted warehouse in Henderson.
You need a minute, or ?
Tell me what we have, Detective.
Well, given the timing,
I got to think the same people
who were worried about Grace talking
wanted to keep him quiet, too.
They made a hell of a mess doing it.
Yeah.
Turned some fake Van Goghs
into real Jackson Pollocks.
Wound is big.
From a large caliber.
Neighbor heard shots, called it in.
The killer fled when
first responders arrived.
Where's the second vic?
By the back door,
next to the antique printing press.
An antique what?
This guy's our homeowner. Anton Koslov.
Mikel's nephew. His sheet
is full of fun stuff.
Counterfeit, forgery, kiting checks,
you know, fraud city.
And, as you can see,
he worked from home.
Crazy, right?
Everything in here is fake.
I don't know about that.
The smell of death is pretty real.
I'm sorry, Catherine.
I know you were counting on him
to tell you who killed your friend.
Yeah. Well
now this crime scene's
just gonna have to tell us.
Catherine.
Catherine.
Catherine.
Hey, you all right?
Uh, yeah.
People who killed Grace didn't
want Mikel Koslov to talk?
Either that, or it's just
one hell of a coincidence.
Who's this fellow?
Collateral damage?
Mikel's nephew, Anton.
He had a little counterfeiting
operation here, as you can see.
- Nice place to lay low.
- Is there any chance
that he sold the wrong
fake to the wrong buyer?
More likely he got caught
up hiding the wrong fugitive.
Anton's widow just got here.
Go on, talk to her.
We'll process all this.
Looks like a Sotheby's exploded in here.
Never buy me jewelry, babe.
None of this is real.
I'm not seeing any real brass, either.
Yeah, haven't found any casings.
I'm pretty sure the perp was cleaning up
when he got interrupted by the cops.
Yeah.
Question is, what did he miss?
- GSR is negative.
- I told you. I would never.
Who would have? Did your
husband have any enemies?
No. My Anton was the sweetest man.
An artist.
He could do anything.
Paint, sculpt, sew.
Apparently, even put you in a Vermeer.
So, what were the two of you doing
in a house full of
counterfeit merchandise?
Uncle Mikel brought
knockoffs, jewelry, anything.
Anton could make it look so real.
He just did as he was told.
Neither of you had any idea
what he was involved in?
Come on, Katya.
This woman, Grace Huang,
do you recognize her?
No.
Not that I can recall.
Something Mikel was involved
in got her killed, too.
She was my friend.
- If you know anything
- I'm sorry,
but she isn't the only
one whose future was taken.
All I know is,
whoever did this was here for Mikel,
and they didn't care who else got hurt.
I hope you find them.
Whoa. Uh-oh.
This stuff will kill you.
Anton and Katya are
stocked up on health food.
I'm thinking Mikel brought
this crap to go off the grid.
He didn't even last till dinner.
So, killer didn't leave much.
I got cigarette ash and a .41 mag slug.
Hmm. That's not the most common caliber.
No, and there's something else.
Mikel got hit in the neck,
and it really sprayed these three,
you know, old-looking ones.
That one's a reproduction
of Lilies in a Jug.
Van Gogh.
Anton really was a talented forger.
I mean, it's incredible use of light.
Oh, Penny got me a coffee
table book last Christmas.
- That's lovely.
- Mm.
Take a look at the corner.
Looks like someone wiped at the blood.
Killer was trying to clean up.
With
that napkin.
There's some sort of dust on it.
He might have handled
it with his bare hand.
There could be DNA there,
and on the painting.
Well, the blood on the
painting is all Mikel's.
And some epithelial DNA from Anton.
Ugh, just that and some
common microbial DNA.
Micrococcus, staphylococcus
and pseudomonas stutzeri.
I mean, I don't see much of that.
I don't think I've even heard of it.
It's a bacteria that was first
isolated from human spinal fluid.
Our boy Mikel was shot
through the brainstem,
and his spinal fluid
probably splashed the canvas.
P. stutzeri's also found
in soil, canal water,
cordgrass rhizome.
- Beau, how long have you been here?
- Um, a while.
Been testing the napkin. All I found is
Mikel's DNA, unfortunately.
But now I'm gonna test the dust on it.
You a cigar man?
Uh, I've had two puffs my whole life.
When my daughter was born, and then
when my other daughter was born.
How sweet and old-timey of you.
Our, uh, killer's a cigar man.
You ran the ash that Folsom
found on top of the blood?
Tobacco takes up trace metal
from the soil where it grows.
I ran the concentration results
against a brand database,
and, bing, bong, bing, I got a hit.
Villa Clara Cigarillos.
I think our killer is
partial to tiny Cuban cigars.
Pretty popular brand, right?
I think my only two puffs
were on a Villa Clara.
Let me take a turn with this baby, huh?
We struck gold.
- Tell me.
- No, literally.
The-the dust on the napkin
is flecked with gold.
Okay, but Anton was a counterfeiter.
He probably used gold leaf
- in his nicer fakes, yeah?
- Possibly.
But this dust contains traces
of quartz silica and alunite.
This-this is ore.
So the killer and/or his napkin
was hanging out near a gold mine?
That's a lot of gold in them thar hills.
This is all they sent
up from the morgue?
- Mikel didn't have a phone on him?
- Yeah, he did.
I gave it to Chris. Uh,
he's gonna get into it
along with the 50 burner
phones his nephew had.
Man even had fake phones.
Looks like they had some
funky locks in Belarus, huh?
It's like I can feel Grace's killer
getting farther away every second.
We're gonna solve this, okay?
I just keep thinking about time.
All the time that Jen Huang
won't get back with her daughter.
All the time that I've lost with mine.
She's been texting you back, right?
Yeah, sometimes.
I don't know, Max. When this is over,
one way or another, and
my work at CSI is done,
I just have to make the most of my time
and make things right with Lindsey.
- Rick Aziz.
- Who's that?
Rick is the COO of the Eclipse.
One of the board members
who got me kicked out
when I started looking for Grace.
- And his card's in the wallet of a dead man.
- Huh.
Did you know Nevada is responsible
for 76% of U.S. gold production?
Over 30 active mines.
Uh, uh, the killer used a
Chet's Gas & Goods napkin
to wipe blood off of
one of the forgeries.
It had gold on it.
Turns out that's not
that rare, but Chet's Gas,
that's the real rare element.
Okay, so I'm not following you.
Chet's Gas used to be a
pretty good-sized chain.
But now they're failing.
And there's only one location that
shares an exit with a gold mine.
So you think the killer went
there before he paid Mikel a visit.
- Yep.
- It's the best lead we have.
If the killer was there, I'm going, too.
Whoa. Beau was wrong.
Chet's Gas ain't just
doing poorly, it's abandoned.
So much for surveillance footage.
Well
the napkin must have
come from the mini mart.
I'll start dusting the door.
I'll check for tracks.
Hey, Folsom.
I think Mikel's been here.
Really? How do you know?
The lock. It's the same brand
as the key we found in Mikel's pocket.
So Mikel's killer used the napkin
to wipe the blood off the painting.
But the killer didn't bring
the napkin into Anton's house.
Mikel did.
We've been tracking
Mikel, not his killer.
Right after Mikel ghosted me,
he came here.
Oh!
Hey. What you got?
This little guy kept
her company, I think.
Oh, it's a cochineal.
All over the desert.
They keep my prickly pears company, too.
Almost ruined my landscaping last year.
I still can't explain
this shard of tortoiseshell
we found in the desert.
I thought maybe Grace had
a hair clip or glasses or
You know, if Grace didn't
bring that to her grave,
then maybe her killer did.
Whoever that is.
Yeah. You know, I've been thinking.
So Mikel said that he
knew where Grace was.
He did not say that he
had a key to her crypt.
Mikel didn't kill her.
I think her killers were
spooked by my investigation,
and asked Mikel to help move
her body from the desert.
They were probably hoping that
he'd disappear her permanently.
But he kept her as leverage.
Must have gone back to
check she was still there.
Okay.
Maybe Grace can tell
us who did this to her.
Steady, Sonya.
Gotcha.
Looks like a .41 magnum.
We pulled the same caliber
out of Anton Koslov.
And out of one of his paintings.
Same shooter?
Let's hope ballistics can tell us.
This is in rough shape.
She was shot twice.
I wish I had a cleaner bullet for you,
but the second one exited
Wait, there's something
in her esophagus.
What is this?
Is that a piece of paper?
Grace swallowed this before she died.
- It's notebook paper.
- She left us a clue.
She was a brave girl.
Yeah. Adipocere's a beast to clean.
Yep.
Drying it out is our best shot
at separating the congealed layers
without destroying the paper.
Then there's the matter
of reviving the faded ink.
There's this technique that I read about
used to read water-damaged
documents from shipwrecks.
I mean, I-I don't know
if it's gonna work.
It has to.
This poor girl knew she was gonna die,
and she was smart enough
to leave us a clue.
We can't let it go to waste.
These must be the burners
from Anton's stash house.
I haven't seen this many
flip phones since Year 8.
Well, I finally got a match.
Mikel's prints are all over this one.
And I bet he wasn't just playing Snake.
I've got a match, too.
Grace's bullet was almost
too corroded to compare,
but the striations are identical
to the ones on the stash house bullet.
So Grace and the Koslovs
were shot with the same gun?
Mm. Question is, who was the shooter?
No hits in NIBIN yet.
I might have someone we can ask.
Ten calls with this number
in the days leading up to Mikel's death.
An Eclipse extension. Rick Aziz.
Yes, I talked to Mikel Koslov plenty.
You know how important
those Eastern European whales
are to this casino, Catherine.
I have to make myself available.
Well, a 3:00 a.m. call
the day Mikel died,
I'd say that's more
than available, Mr. Aziz.
It's a tad suspicious, no?
Is that how you knew where to find him?
Oh, come on. Seriously?
I see that you're still a cigar smoker.
Do you mind if I take a
look I'd rather you not.
You own a registered handgun.
- Do you have it on you?
- Do you have a warrant?
Or a point, for that matter?
Yes, the point is we think you're
involved with Grace Huang's murder.
I had nothing to do with that.
I have no idea what happened.
Frank said you wanted to see me.
- Is this a bad time?
- No. This is the perfect time, Jodi.
Great.
You want to know why Mikel
was calling me so much?
He was angry.
Someone from the Eclipse told
you his whereabouts in Belarus.
An egregious violation
of client privacy.
And when I find out who
divulged that information,
they will be fired.
You know what, we're not here
to talk about privacy
protocols, we're here
- to talk about
- No. No, no, no, no.
We are done talking about
anything at all, actually.
Frank, would you be so kind
as to show these ladies out?
And if you have any
more questions for me,
you can speak to our attorneys.
Thank you so much for coming by.
It hasn't been a great day.
Mr. Finado might have
cost a friend her job,
so tell me you've got something good.
Uh, well, infrared luminescence
didn't revive much from the note itself.
But ESDA did uncover indentations from
Grace's writing on the page
above our piece of paper.
- Okay.
- Drumroll, please.
I think I found most
of the phone number.
This is my phone number, my landline.
I gave it to Grace the day
before she went missing. I
Are you sure infrared
luminescence didn't pan out?
Uh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Look. It's just a bunch of squiggles.
I'll be
It's a drawing.
Call Folsom and Allie.
What's going on?
We already processed every inch.
Grace drew this
painting in her notebook.
Then, right before she died,
she ripped it out and she swallowed it.
The original Lilies in a Jug
is hanging at the Eclipse.
What did Grace know?
Okay, well, it was the
first painting at the scene
that the killer started to clean.
Yeah. What's it all supposed to mean?
I mean, what is she trying to tell us?
Maybe the real one's about to be stolen
and this replica's supposed
to hang in its place.
So, you processed
this. What did you find?
Mikel's DNA, Anton's DNA.
A bunch of common household bacteria.
And you removed the frame?
Yeah, we
We checked everywhere.
Hand me that magnifier.
Doesn't it look like
the painting is faded
everywhere except where
the frame had been?
I mean, how would Anton's
replica fade so quickly?
I think I know.
Not all the bacteria
we found was common.
That bacterial DNA on the
canvas, pseudomonas stutzeri.
Yeah, from Mikel's spinal
Yeah, but what if it's not that?
P. stutzeriis found
in other places, too.
Soil, canal water
And fine art.
"P. stutzeriis also used to bio-clean
very expensive, very old pieces of art."
Okay, this isn't a replica.
Lilies in a Jug isn't about
to be stolen from the Eclipse.
It already was.
We've been swabbing all
over a real Van Gogh.
You think Lilies in a Jug is
a forgery? That's impossible.
This is the most
secure gallery in Vegas.
I make sure of that.
I think the FBI's gonna
be the judge of that.
They're sending a pro to
run some tests on Lilies.
This one and the one covered
in Mikel Koslov's blood.
In fact, all this art is
gonna have to be shipped
- to Quantico for analysis.
- The Feds?
Catherine, I know you're not
on the Eclipse board anymore
Thanks to you.
But you are still a shareholder.
Can we Can we just stop and
think about the optics here?
The federal government
investigating our casino?
Our bottom line will
Well, maybe you should have
thought about that before
you helped Mikel and his pals to run
whatever scheme you got
- going on here
- Hold, hold on Hold on a second.
You think that I'm involved
in some forgery conspiracy,
or whatever you think this is?
Three people are dead,
including your whale Mikel,
and your employee Grace Huang.
She got shot right
after swallowing a sketch
of that same forged painting.
So you tell me, Rick.
Your boss isn't giving
me any answers, Frank.
Maybe your cameras can.
Okay, we need to see every entrance
that Mikel could have
used to swap the paintings.
- Wait, wait. What's that?
- Utility room I checked against casino blueprints.
- No camera, no footage. No
- Hey, look at this.
When Catherine got the video files
- from the day that Grace
disappeared - Mm-hmm.
we didn't get this angle.
We need to see all the
footage from September 12.
Let's look at that parking lot angle.
I thought it was strange that there was
no camera covering that area.
Hey, Chris, camera 104
in full screen, please.
It was deleted.
Someone didn't want us to see Grace
getting into the SUV,
or who was driving it.
Wait, look at this.
This was eight minutes
before Grace was taken.
That's Frank.
He's head of security at the Eclipse.
What is he smoking?
My money says it's a Villa Clara.
Mm. And my money says that
gun is loaded with a .41 mag.
I can't believe I am working
with the Dr. Phyllis Dupont.
I love my job.
Can't say I've ever
met anyone so excited
to work with a Van Gogh scholar.
Ma'am, you're like
the queen of Quantico.
I mean, there are books about the work
you've done with the FBI.
I read about a museum
heist in Cleveland.
The way that you used
military-grade infrared
to detect the original
sketches under paint
It's genius.
Brought a little shortwave
infrared for this, too.
So let's see what we have here.
There's no question it's real.
It makes me sick. A masterpiece
desecrated by blood and viscera.
Cleanup will be a challenge.
But what you're saying is the
Lilies in a Jug from the Eclipse
A forgery in the original frame.
Did you find any
tortoiseshell in the frame?
Many turn-of-the-century frames
were inlaid with tortoise shell,
but I didn't find any here.
I did, however, find this
polyethylene terephthalate fiber.
Polyester. Van Gogh died
80 years before disco.
So Anton made a mistake.
Yes. But in every other respect,
Anton Koslov was simply masterful.
He even made paint
authentic to Van Gogh's time.
Like this cobalt blue.
Mr. Koslov sintered cobalt oxide
with aluminum oxide at 1,200 Celsius.
And this red carmine, made
from ground cochineal beetles,
combined with alum
and potassium tartrate,
then boiled, filtered, decanted
Cochineal beetles?
Grace had a cochineal
on the sole of her shoes.
It wasn't from the desert.
So you think that Grace stumbled
onto a forgery in progress?
It's why she sketched the painting.
It's what got her killed.
She caught onto their scheme.
And what, exactly, is their scheme?
Lilies in a Jug was purchased
by the Eclipse last year.
Before that, it was
owned by Orsha Limited.
A holding company controlled by one
of Mikel's drug dealing associates.
So Mikel didn't actually
steal the original Van Gogh.
He already had it, and he
sold a forgery to the Eclipse?
Rick Aziz okayed the sale.
I think he knew he was buying a forgery.
The subjective pricing of art
makes it perfect for money laundering.
Casinos are used to getting dirty money
into circulation all the time.
You add phony art into the mix?
Money laundering on steroids.
Let's say a Belarusian gangster
makes cash selling drugs.
That's dirty money that he
can't just deposit in the bank
without a paper trail; he'll get caught.
He needs clean cash.
The Eclipse wants his
business, so they help him.
They buy a piece of fine art
from him at a huge markup.
They let him gamble the
profits at high-limit tables
and claim his dirty
drug money as winnings.
And our Belarusian
gangster ends his night
with clean money in the bank.
But to make the deal
that much sweeter
The art sale goes on the books,
but the art never
actually changes hands.
Rick commissions a forgery
for the Eclipse gallery,
the whale gets to keep the original,
and Rick gets to keep
a cut of the money.
So Mikel needed a place
to launder his money,
and Rick was happy to help.
This scheme could be much
bigger than just one painting.
I'm going to need to
check every major artwork
the Eclipse has acquired.
It's possible that
several of these whales
have availed themselves
of this service.
Rick Aziz caters to the whales.
He has influence over the Eclipse board.
- He's pulling all the strings.
- Maybe.
But he got somebody
else to pull the trigger.
So I can have my smokes back?
No, Frank, you can't.
Trace metal in those match the ash
found on top of Mikel Koslov's blood.
And the bullet that killed
him matches your gun's rifling.
And the bullet that killed Grace Huang.
Three murders, Frank.
Bet you get the needle.
Unless you tell us who you
were taking orders from.
Who called you on your
smoke break, Frank?
Who told you to take Grace out
to the desert and murder her?
Was it Rick Aziz?
I want a lawyer.
All our physical
evidence points to Frank,
but he's just a lackey.
But you found the man that killed Grace.
Do you know what this is
going to mean to her mom?
It's just not enough.
I don't want to leave CSI like this.
Not when Rick Aziz is still out there.
Not when there are still questions.
Rick's gonna answer them himself.
Ma'am, Mr. Aziz is in a meeting.
Not anymore.
Jodi. Rick fired me, Catherine.
Because I told you Mikel was in Belarus.
Security was waiting
for me when I came in.
- I can't believe this.
- Jodi, I'm so sorry.
I
Once this is over, I'll
help you get your job back.
I am not interested in your help.
You've done so much for me, for Grace.
I'm going to make this
right. I'm going
I can't explain this
shard of tortoiseshell
we found in the desert.
You're going to what?
I'm going to finish this.
There's no doubt in my mind
this bit of tortoiseshell
that was in Grace's grave
was from Jodi's compact.
I never considered the possibility
that she was spinning me.
She kept her enemies closer.
It was never Rick.
Jodi knew Mikel.
Jodi had access to the
whales at the Eclipse.
She was the one who
commissioned the forgeries.
Until Grace saw something.
But you know, a chipped
compact is not gonna be enough.
She'll spin that, too.
She knew they needed to move the body
because I asked for
the security footage.
She knew that I was onto Mikel
because I told her I was
gonna follow him to Belarus.
You know what she doesn't know?
She doesn't know what
you're gonna do next.
- And what's that?
- The only reason why you came back
was to solve this.
Now, I don't know how,
but I'm not gonna bet
against Catherine Willows.
And you don't have to do it alone.
Are you serious?
Yo, guys. You have to see this.
Turns out the parking lot angle
wasn't the only one Frank deleted.
That's the utility room
behind the Van Gogh exhibit.
- It doesn't look very deleted.
- Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah.
Three, two, one.
- Huh.
- Whoa.
- That's from the day Grace disappeared?
- Sure is.
Something happened in that room.
Something Jodi wanted Frank to hide.
Whatever it was, maybe it's still there.
This red carmine made from
ground cochineal beetles.
Oh, what did you see, Grace?
Tortoiseshell.
I don't understand why
you're doing this Catherine.
You got Frank. This is already over.
Grace saw you.
I never met the girl, Catherine.
Did Mikel tell you where they met?
At poker.
She was serving drinks.
That's probably where Grace heard
him bragging about his Van Gogh.
The one she knew from the Eclipse.
To Mikel, Grace was invisible.
He saw a cocktail waitress,
not my most promising student.
Grace went looking for answers.
But she didn't expect to find you.
And you didn't expect her, either.
You improvised.
You hid Anton's forgery.
A synthetic fiber from the
drop cloth snagged the paint.
The anachronism of polyester
on a 130-year-old painting
wasn't Anton's mistake, it was yours.
You knew Grace had seen too much
so you called Frank.
And you watched as he buried her.
You're delusional.
When you covered the forgery,
some of Anton's paint
stuck to the drop cloth.
Along with a few of your
epithelial cells; your DNA.
It doesn't matter what you say anymore.
The evidence says it all. You're done.
We can't all inherit casinos, Catherine.
So that gives you the
right to kill another woman
struggling to make it?
No matter how good I was,
I got passed over again and again.
I had to create my own opportunities,
just like your father did.
My father got a lot of things wrong.
But you came out ahead, so
who cares who else
gets left behind, right?
Grace was trying to
climb the ladder herself.
You think I wanted this?
The Eclipse was making more
than enough money buying art.
The whales were happy
with their returns.
It was all a victimless crime
until she started asking questions.
I want you to remember
that in federal prison.
You're going to die there
because Grace brought you down.
I just finished what she started.
Let's go.
Stand for me, please.
Hands behind your back.
Thank you, Max.
Thank you for having
me back in your lab.
For everything.
Are you sure about this?
I think I just need time
to figure out what's next.
The trip with Lindsey, I hope.
And I could go back to the Eclipse.
I know. Rick has asked
me to return to the board,
show the Feds that they're cleaning up.
It just seems like
the right thing to do.
Okay, I-I'm not claiming
to know what's best for you.
I just hope you'll keep going
with your forensics program.
- Okay?
- Yeah.
Maybe.
It is a big, bad world.
Hey, Max
Oh, sorry. Just got a call about
a scene south of Spring Valley.
Will you be gone when we get back?
I'll still be around.
Us Vegas kids can never shake
this town. You know that.
It's been an honor learning
from you, Ms. Willows.
Thank you.
Your daughter deserved so much better.
I'm so sorry.
I got Grace her job at the Eclipse.
I taught her to never let a mystery lie,
and to always ask questions.
No, you didn't.
My girl was born that way.
Always questions.
About bedtime, about new foods.
About something a teacher said.
She'd always look at me
and say, "I have questions.
I have questions. I have questions."
My daughter Lindsey, she was always
a very curious little girl, too.
Then you know,
raising a child like
that can be challenging.
As Grace got older, she started asking
harder questions, and
Questions other people
were scared to ask.
I think that's why she loved
your forensic program so much.
Finally, answers.
She was a natural.
I wish she could have
followed in your footsteps,
gone further.
You're the only one who
cared enough to ask questions.
To fight for the truth.
Thank you, Catherine.
Yeah, yeah, you can tell 'em
how much I appreciate it, Rick,
but the Eclipse, it's just not home.
We got a lot of blood,
signs of a struggle,
but no body yet.
So what do you say?
I have questions.