CSI:Vegas Episode 8.06 Recap "Who and What" — Part II

If you didn’t see the initial post for this two-part series you can pick up at the beginning here.

We pick-up the the case with the beginning the final hour on the “Without A Trace” time slot. He’s on a Greyhound type bus with the boy. He asks the bus driver to let him and his son off because he’s not feeling well and they need to find a doctor.

Gil and Jack show up in Hillside, Arizona where a car was stolen. Gil finds a wrapper for “Drift Off” over-the-counter sleep medication in the car lot. Grissom goes back to Vegas to process Gina’s car for more evidence and clues, while Jack and his team investigate more history of Wicker by tracking down his sister that used to work maintenance in a railroad yard.

Gina showed up at her son’s, Coby, school with Wicker. A teacher ended up letting Wicker come into the school and see his art work. I’d have a fit if a teacher did something like that with my son or daughter at school. While he’s talking to the boy, he lets him know that he’s his father and that he ran out on Coby and his mom. He tells the boy he’s talking the three of them camping. Jack finds out from one of Coby’s friends that they were heading to Tucson. Jack ends up finding a skeleton buried in a shallow grave in Tucson.

In Tucson, he flew back to New York City. The FBI team are waiting in their offices for Wicker’s sister to show up. While they’re waiting, Gil shows up in the lobby with some of the evidence. The body they found had some evidence that he’s still working on and they set him up in the “basement” of the FBI offices in their labs.

The last time his sister had seen him was about 6 years ago. She was dating a guy that had two kids and she told Wicker he couldn’t stay there because they didn’t have room. The other reason was that if he left after two weeks with no warning the kids wouldn’t know what to think about it. Gil confirms that the body Jack found in Tucson was the body of Jason Taylor from New York City 6 years earlier.

With that news, Jack seems to have taken it really hard. I wonder what the connection is between this specific case and Jack. Gil found a gift card in the back of Gina’s car, the FBI team tracked it down and it was recently swiped in Astoria, New York, where Wicker used to live in 1996. When they go to his old house they find a dead body in the closet, the current occupant. In the house they also find a cup with a lipstick print on it.

The counselor that was working with him is getting interviewed by the FBI team. He shares with them that he was working with him with some anger issues. He was in trouble with his job and required to go in counseling. He found out in his session that he may have killed his brother when he was young. The counselor feared that the reason Terry Wicker was sharing it was because he was afraid he might end up hurting Gina and his son. Gina’s already dead.

Wicker called a hooker and had her come in to make the boy stop crying. She didn’t like the idea of helping but Wicker got angry, smacked her and told her to make a sandwich for the kid. The kid saw him kill the occupant of the house and that’s why he was crying. The kid figured out that Wicker was probably going to kill the hooker. The boy told Wicker he knew he couldn’t do anything and that he should let the lady go and they could sit on the couch and watch the video again. It was a video of Wicker with his newborn boy.

A painter started talking to the boy on the street and asked him when his “dad” was going to move his car so he could move his truck. Coby told the painter he wasn’t his dad. The guy then asked if he needed help and then Wicker showed up. Coby tried to make a run for it, Wicker sliced the painter’s arm up.

The FBI team shows Wicker’s sister pictures of ladies in various cities with jewelry; jewelry that Terry had given his sister. Jack uses his sister to try and locate Terry. His sister starts crying and can’t do it. Jack Malone has to interrupt and threaten Terry by saying his got enough evidence to convict his sister for possession of stolen property and being an accessory to murder.

Jack meets Wicker in a train yard. Wicker says he let the boy go after he finally caught him when he ran away. Wicker and Jack are talking. He says he doesn’t have anything to do now. Wicker tells Jack to tell his sister he’s sorry, then pulls out a gun and shoots himself in the side of the head. They find the boy in a railyard in a train car sleeping. With the boy’s mom dead, Wicker’s sister arrives and we get the impression that she’ll adopt him and take care of the boy.

Gil and Jack drive up to a house. It’s the location of the original murder when Jason Taylor was taken. Jack said when he first arrived he couldn’t believe anything bad would happen in this neighborhood. Jack asks Gil if he ever thinks about hanging it up and quitting. It seems Jack’s also had enough of his life. He’s showing up at the parent’s house to let them know they’ve recovered their son’s body. What a tough job.