CSI: EXCOLO Episode 3:01: Some Will Win, Some Will Lose

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LAST SEASON on CSI: Excolo:

JOHNNY walking home and finding LILY on his doorstep.
JOHNNY: Evenin', Ma'am. Somethin' I can help you with?
FAST CUT to JOHNNY carrying her to bed.
CUT TO The Diabolique.
LILY: I just found out today. They're both boys, congratulations Mr. Shairan, and the oven ... the mother is just fine, thanks for the concern.
AL: Cry me a fucking river. Nothing I do is ever enough for you, is it, Lily?
LILY: It was. But not lately. That's the problem.
CUT TO WANDA returning to her apartment. CLOSE UP of her shocked face as she sees BENEDICT.
BENEDICT: Hello darling. I missed you.
PAN DOWN to see Wanda looking down in horror at Benedict's corpse, a knife in her hand.
CUT TO the Miskatonic Cafe.
TEZ: Johnny's involved - with Lily Shairan. Romantically. I'm so sorry.
DANIKA: Would be kinda nice if the guys I - if the guys I like stopped dating my relatives.
CUT TO car colliding with Danika, sound of sirens. FAST CUT TO Tez slamming JOHNNY up against the wall of the hospital.
CUT TO AL's apartment.
AL: Zuabi. He knows about us. But he has not told anyone. He is afraid there is a leak in the department. Quite rightly.The evidence he has can be destroyed.
TEZ: Think the term for that's 'accessory to murder'. Where do you need me when?
CUT TO LUCIEN's apartment.
DORIAN: If you could fight something and then it doesn't matter because... It will happen. It will.
DORIAN strikes LUCIEN over the head with a bottle.
CUT TO GLASS walking out of the WHITECHAPEL alone.
CUT TO LEAH shooting at SAYID and SYL in the bakery. FAST CUT TO hospital.
SAYID (on phone): I'm at St Mary's. Syl's been shot. Oh, and so've I, but that's not important. Go to my office and get the Maryk Graeb file.
CUT TO Johnny at Sayid's apartment. He hears a sound and turns -


OPENING CREDITS

Shot of a pair of handcuffs; pull back to see SYL cuffing a perp and walking to a car with HERMIA; HERMIA being served a drink by VALMONT; close up of drink pans out to show DIABOLIQUE, FAITH and DAISY carrying trays, pans across to WANDA and NU onstage; close shot of the red glitter on Nu's dress morphs into a bloodstain that pulls back to show a crime scene, AL coolly putting a handgun in his jacket; close up of body pulls back to show GLASS and SIMON examining it in the morgue; close up of scalpel turns into DORIAN holding a blade; LUCIEN with MIAO on his arm cuts to AL and LILY in evening wear; camera pan across to reporters in crowd, close up of TESS with notepad; notepad turns into papers handed to SAYID by SILENCE; KATE in court room, faced with ISIDORE; close up of officer's badge pans out into a shot of JOHNNY in uniform; LEAH loading a pistol; DANIKA with TEZ in the Miskatonic; final power shot, as in seasons 1 and 2, of cops walking out through precinct doors.

Afternoon of Christmas Day. Journey's Don't Stop Believing is playing over a montage:

Just a small town girl, livin' in a lonely world
She took the midnight train goin' anywhere
[SYL lying in her hospital bed, HERMIA sitting watching her]
Just a city boy, born and raised in south Detroit
He took the midnight train goin' anywhere
[VALMONT in his apartment, an open file in his lap]
A singer in a smokey room
A smell of wine and cheap perfume
[WANDA checking out of the hotel where she met WESTIN]
For a smile they can share the night
It goes on and on and on and on
[AL in his police cell, stroking the ring TEZ gave him]
Strangers waiting, up and down the boulevard
Their shadows searching in the night
[TEZ in AL's apartment, his expression unreadable]
Streetlight people, living just to find emotion
Hiding, somewhere in the night

SAYID reaches out and turns off his car stereo.

Fucking terrible song.

I rub my face. I'm running on empty and I don't know what the fuck I'm doing. Shairan was arrested this morning, so that's something. I've got so much to do and not much time to do it in. I haven't been home since yesterday. The precinct were kind enough to lend me an office, since my own got firebombed. I've been trying to make sense of the mess of paperwork we saved from there. Johnny hasn't checked in yet. I'll need to check up on him soon. I need to go and see Syl. I need... some sleep. My arm fucking hurts. Instead I go to the Miskatonic, which as far as I can see is never closed, get the largest coffee I can, and swallow a handful of aspirin. I'll make it through this day if it kills me.