[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for CSI: Vegas Season 2 Episode 16, “We All Fall Down.”]
As the promos teased, the silver ink case (introduced on the finish of Season 1) is over on CSI: Vegas … for now, no less than.
The door is left open for the present to choose it up once more sooner or later — it’s already been renewed for Season 3, in spite of everything — however for now, the CSIs tracked down and stopped Ron’s try to fatally poison a whole psychiatric hospital. And whereas he did poison Sonya (Sara Amini) through a hidden pocket within the newest sufferer’s physique, she’s going to get well.
CSI: Vegas showrunner Jason Tracey and the episode’s co-writer Craig O’Neill focus on ending this arc and if it’s really over.
Talk about crafting your entire thriller and constructing to this ending. When you launched the silver ink case final season, how a lot do you know then?
Jason Tracey: Craig and I knew lots as a result of we’ve been writing collectively for nearly 20 years, and we had a characteristic spec that we had been engaged on and we by no means fairly completed referred to as Human, and it posited a whole lot of what this arc has to do with. When we obtained to the tip of final season, and I didn’t actually have a cliffhanger in thoughts, Craig and I spoke and mentioned, what if we dropped within the first scene of that script that we by no means fairly completed? We all the time beloved that storyline, and we unfold it out as an arc for Season 2. Loads of the wheels and the character of what the dangerous man’s plan was had been baked into the cake from 17 years in the past. It was good to jot down from a spot of realizing the tip earlier than you start.
What does Sonya’s restoration appear to be? How a lot will we see of it?
Tracey: Craig, you understand much more about thallium poisoning now at this level than I do. [Laughs]
Craig O’Neill: Thallium poisoning is sort of devastating, truly, and there are a whole lot of neurological points that she might be coping with on the way in which again to restoration, which is why we introduced in Dr. Hudson, who will fill in, however our intention is to have a number of individuals down within the morgue. We will gradual Sonya again in, and she or he could also be at a type of diminished capability at first. But yeah, thallium poisoning is fairly critical, and there was truly an actual case that we based mostly it off of the place numerous relations had been poisoned in Coca-Cola bottles and three of them died, one among them survived, however it’s actual nasty stuff. So it can take a while to get her again as much as full capability.
Tracey: And now we have to as a result of Sara is such a implausible expertise and an amazing individual, and we look ahead to working along with her once more.
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Did you ever think about having anybody else be the one poisoned? Sure, it is smart it was Sonya, however I’m positive you might’ve provide you with a approach to put another person within the hospital.
Tracey: For the severity and the stakes of the season to rise to that stage — we’re all the time acutely aware of not desirous to be like a surgeon present the place all they do is function on one another. You can’t be the sufferer and the focus of the hazard fairly often on CSI. It’s primarily about going out and discovering justice for different victims, however this felt like the suitable place within the season. This is a harmful discipline, prison justice, and sometimes, you place your self in hurt’s method, and it felt like a strike on our own residence set, on the morgue the place you assume you’re ensconced and protected from the risks of the world, was the suitable approach to give this arc its due.
Why have Ron concentrate on Allie (Mandeep Dhillon)?
O’Neill: We seen Ron as the final word dangerous man who type of believed that he was the neatest man in each room. As we did a bunch of analysis into serial killers, one of many issues that saved popping up was they had been very high-functioning human beings, and a few of them had been extremely clever. We simply beloved the concept of a man who thought he was the neatest man on the planet, the neatest man in each room, and he centered on Allie as a result of he felt like the 2 of them shared that kinship.
He mentions that she was let into Harvard not as soon as however twice and that he felt she was very good. And he was somebody who used large phrases to puff up his personal ego about his intelligence, although he did have a really excessive IQ, and I feel that’s why he keyed in on her as a result of in a sea of very good CSIs — and we consider all of our CSIs are very good — he checked out her and noticed her as a kindred spirit and thought, “if anyone is going to understand what I’m trying to do, it’s someone whose intellectual capacity is something that can rival my own.”
Tracey: He’s obtained form of a fetish for credentials, and no person’s obtained higher credentials than Allie.
Is the silver ink arc fully wrapped?
Tracey: It’s wrapped for now. It’s a toxic concept. Thallium is just one poison that’s in that episode. The concepts that the dangerous man’s giving voice to are additionally fairly toxic. We reserve the appropriate to dip our toe again into that water. There’s no present plan to take action, so yeah, for now, I feel the e book is closed, however there are mysteries left floating round. The notion that no person’s ever actually fairly cracked his code and what he was writing about does go away us an attention-grabbing backboard of potential future enjoyable with that story.
Is there something from the silver ink arc you needed to scrap?
Tracey: We busted out our previous manila folders of notes on the unique characteristic script, and one of many issues that had been enjoyable to search out was at the moment, we had 17 totally different serial killers in that script. They had been all named for individuals in our fantasy soccer league, so a whole lot of them didn’t get the correct remedy, and I do apologize to these guys. [Laughs]
O’Neill: We, on the finish of placing the reel collectively for the unique film, had one individual escape, and it was written beneath their image, “off to Human 2.” So who is aware of? Because one of many good issues we arrange with that is that you just don’t know the way many individuals had been put in, and are there others that obtained a card and didn’t get activated and ran away? So who is aware of? “Never close doors” is the factor now we have discovered from this course of. So who is aware of, possibly any person comes again with a silver card in some unspecified time in the future sooner or later.
Tracey: Craig mentioned it. We strive to not shut doorways once we don’t should. That’s form of our credo.
CSI: Vegas, Thursdays, 10/9c, CBS