Horatio (David Caruso) wants the club locked down and Walter (Omar Miller) tries to get the people gathered to question them. Calleigh (Emily Procter) and Delko (Adam Rodriguez) question the waiter and he tells them about her walking out again. Calleigh makes an appointment on her phone for two O'clock and Delko overhears her. The DB came from the bathroom where Calleigh notices a purse in the trash. Now who'd throw a purse away? Her name was Denise (Jessica Garvey) and Delko tells Calleigh about overhearing her phone conversation. She's not becoming a PI.
ME Tom narrows down the poisons, they could be dealing with Sarine and Calleigh thinks if she ingested it, then there must be something in her bag. Delko gets a positive reaction from her eye drops. Calleigh positing that if she put those in her eyes, it would be enough to immediately shut down her system. Anyone nearby could have been affected. Walter and Delko talk with the valet (Lawerence Adimora) who tells them he noticed a woman needing a taxi and she was sick outside. She paid him $100. He still has the note and Delko finds it has traces of Sarine. He's not affected though. Walter calls the taxi company and gets an address where she was dropped off.
Tripp and Sam (Taylor Cole) check out the deserted warehouse and Tripp gets beaten by a woman. She attempts to hide the canister. Finally Sam catches up to her. She's an assassin and put the poison in Denise's eyedrops in the bathroom, but she turned around too quickly and she injected herself with a bit accidentally. She won't tell them who hired her.
Natalia (Eva La Rue) and Delko check out Denise's apartment, which is a mess. She has papers everywhere and was writing a story for the Miami Herald, which Delko finds amusing. It was an expose. There are a lot of take out containers in the room, so she had company and Natalia finds some trace on a dress on the floor. Natalia returns the key to the landlord and leaves Delko with the evidence which he leaves on the ground outside unattended and heads for the shouting he hears. A man and woman fight and the woman hits Delko. Well obviously they were a diversion as anyone knows since he left the box behind. Calleigh attends to Delko's face and she tells him she wants to adopt Austin and his sister. He thinks she'll make a good mother and then they talk about their own relationship which is on and off again. So they don't have any stability.
The DNA is matched to Councilman Randall Stafford (Richard Burgi). Horatio sees him at a press conference and loudly says he's involved in Denise's murder. He was having an affair with her as she was working on his profile for the paper. He won't say anything else without his lawyer. Who arrives in the form of Darin Vogel (Malcolm McDowell). Accompanied by Gaby (Danielle Bisutti) she was lawyer for Esteban Navarro. Delko is questioned on where he put the evidence when the couple were arguing and he says it was unattended. Something the judge will deem inadmissible.
Natalia goes over Denise's notes, written in shorthand and finds Denise was writing about the city council. She was getting info from Stafford. There's one part about Stafford approving paving for an area involving Cassell and Ruiz. Cassell was accused of murder but wasn't convicted. Natalia has the street dug up and they find 5 bullet casings and blood. Er, why not just remove the casings after the shooting.
Sam and Ryan (Jonathan Togo) examine the casings and take photos of them. ASA Josh Avery (Ryan McPartlin) is also at the lab as he'll be prosecuting the case. Cassell (Troy Kittles) asks for his lawyer, cue Vogel and he points out the bullet casings were for a 9 mm but there's one for a .45 there as well. So someone switched bullet casings. Of course it could only only be Avery, but is Sam involved too. If she's not then she and Ryan can get together like he wants ha. Okay digression over.
Walter ad Delko analyze the clients Vogel represented and find they were all acquitted or freed on lack of evidence and that he was blackmailing his clients into helping him. Delko notices the man who had the fight with the woman was also one of his clients. Horatio tells Stafford about Vogel and he needs his testimony, however he's concerned for his family.
Vogel gets Gaby to take the fall for the blackmail and Natalia and Horatio ask her if she knows what it's really like in prison. Vogel also accuses Sam of messing up at a press conference and thus all the cases in which she examined the evidence will be overturned, meaning Esteban will also be freed. Avery meanwhile shares a drink with Vogel. Sam fears she's lost everything but not if Ryan can help it.
CSI:Miami was certainly trying to go out on a high note bringing in Malcolm McDowell again to reprise his role of attorney Vogel. The same one Horatio crossed swords with on Jesse's (Eddie Cibrian) behalf in season 8.16 LA. Here a murderer could be freed due to an event from Jesse's past. Jesse was cleared here when they came up against Vogel so it seems unbelievable that they'd be stymied here when he makes an appearance in Miami and seems to outwit their every move. Nevins also told Horatio that Jesse would be tainting and and all the evidence he handles in the Miami lab and that she would reject everything he handles as he is compromising Horatio's lab. Horatio replied he'll have to clean his name then. Similar to Sam here, only it's Ryan who will bat for her and get into strife over it.
Malcolm McDowell loves playing these sorts of roles, as he plays something similar as Brett in The Mentalist. Anyone would have worked out Avery was on the payroll especially since he wasn't very forceful or strong during the Esteban trial.
All of Sam's cases being overturned and reviewed reminds me of CSI:NY 3.8 Consequences episode where Mac went ahead and arrested Det Dean Truby against Flack's wishes, knowing his arrest would have consequences and all of his cases would be looked at, including criminals going free as a result.
Also looks like Delko ad Calleigh may get together and Sam and Ryan too, in the final episode. Richard Burgi loves playing his philandering roles.
Vogel telling Horatio he loves Miami.
Horatio: "Don't get too comfortable."
Vogel: "You know I love Miami...can you recommend any good restaurants?"
Horatio: "You heard what I said."
Vogel:" Oh come on you're such a grouch. Cheer up.... have nice day...not you." To Delko, that was funny. It's a bit late for Horatio to cheer up after what he's been through, but more importantly after all he's done and how he's changed, not for the better either.
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