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Thursday, May 15, 2008 --- 112 days ago http://blogs.courant.com/roger_catlin_tv_eye/2008/05/how-warrick-goes.html
| The fact of the "CSI" finale was that they had to get rid of Gary Dourdan.
The actor had already been arrested and charged with drug possession. It had already been announced that he wouldn't be back on the show.
So when in the finale Thursday that Dourdan's character Warrick Brown was in the middle of the grisly hit on a Vegas mobster, it looked like that would be the end of him.
But in hopes of providing a twist on a solution everyone saw coming, his former colleagues, led by William Petersen's Grissom found that he was framed by another cop, Daniel Prichard, who had been in cahoots with the mob. Still, Warrick's unauthorized intervention in the case earns him a demotion and suspension.
With five minutes left in the show, and a celebratory dinner winding down, you know there was time for yet another twist. Undersheriff McKeen approaches Dourdan's character Warrick in the parking lot, congratulates him on his tenacity and then just shoots him in the head.
A sort of shock, yes. But kind of expected too. And certainly not the promised "most shocking episode of 'CSI' ever" as was promised.
The undersheriff will still be there come next season, but they'll probably operate fine without Warrick.
Still, his demise was the second black cast member to go down in a "CSI" show this month. Khandi Alexander's medical examiner on "CSI: Miami," Alexx Woods, bowed out of that show May 5. Like Dourdan,she had been with her ... |
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