[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for the CSI: Vegas series finale “Tunnel Vision.”]
CSI: Vegas wraps its three-season run by closing out one case and introducing a new one.
The robotics case is closed after Max (Paula Newsome) is abducted—to make synthetic DNA for foreign intelligence—and Chris (Jay Lee) ends up in the hospital due to his exposure to a nerve agent. The good news: Max is rescued (her own doing, and with help from the others). But then the final moments tease a new serial killer in Las Vegas, one who has been killing in the shadows.
Below, Newsometakes us inside the finale
Talk about your reaction to the cancellation and how it’s been looking back at playing Max sincePaula Newsome: First of all, it was a surprise. I’m not going to lie. We had such amazing ratings and people were really in love with the show. Business is what business is sometimes, and sometimes, the ball doesn’t bounce your way. Looking back on Max, I’ll tell you, I love Max. I’ve got a crush on Max. I really like her. I like how smart she is. I like how strong she is. I like her warmth, you know what I mean? And I like that she’s the head of a lab, but I also like that she’s a DNA specialist. And I also love that she travels in a skin that we weren’t used to seeing at the head of a lab on network television shows. And I’m very grateful for that opportunity. I’m very grateful to play her.
A lot happens for Max in this finale, but I love how she uses everything she knows as a CSI along the way.
We’re used to seeing her a little more buttoned up, hair all coiffed and beautiful looking. I got to be in the underbelly of some stuff down in the bowels—Did you know that Las Vegas had bowels in it that, like tunnels and stuff like that?
Not to this extent.
I had heard about it, vaguely kind of a whisper of it, but it’s a thing. And being able to be down there with Faran Tahir, who’s an amazing actor, we’re partners doing this whole thing. And to be able to go to the underbelly of Las Vegas and do some really kind of scary stuff was really fun.
What do you think was harder for her: dealing with everything she did or dealing with all that while not knowing what had happened to Chris? Because the last time she saw him, he knocked that canister away
She had her people take care of her. He did that not knowing what was going to happen to him. He was very close to that canister. And I think Max was just in such a place of just being able to survive. We get to that fight-flight-freeze place where it’s just like, do what you have to do to survive. And it’s an amazing episode to see Max just fighting to survive.
One of my favorite relationships throughout this series has been Max and Josh’s (Matt Lauria). And to say that was complicated this season is an understatement. He thought that she didn’t take him to the lab because she still didn’t trust him. But was that completely true? Trust is a weird word. He did some stuff to the man who was responsible for his mother’s death, right? That’s a lot. We are used to investigating those people. So yeah, trust was a big part of it. Not knowing whether he’s going to go off again. It’s like that family member that you love, but that you’ve got stuff that comes up with him
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