Exit Strategy

Season 7, Episode 22, Aired

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  • my fav.ep

    10
    "Perfect"
    One of my fav epa. Very good acting
    and I.thought it was sad they took olivia away from wes.They were happy together
  • Another Season Finale

    9.0
    "Superb"
    Seven Season and Team from New York is good condition. Great Season Finale, Mac is interesting character, goood as Horatio from CSI Miami. Is Mac to withdraw? We'll see next season. A series of very successful a lot of interesting stories. Still a high level of actions.
    Peter Fonda was a very good episode, flesh of the past with Mac. Shooting on the Lab is the great moment in season.
  • A very personal episode that doesn't quite manages to keep the attention of the viewer but offers some great insight on the show's main character.

    7.5
    "Good"
    CSI leads can't be very open characters, just like Horatio or Grissom, Mac has a silent mind but strong leadership. The episode opens quietly but strong with Mac looking death in the eye. Of course, this happens every other episode and will happen again later in the finale but the impact is has at this moment is refreshing and real. It leads Mac to solve his final cold case about a robbery. The case takes a quick turn for the worse when they discover a girl was kidnapped too. This is where it gets tough. Mac has the right motives to solve the case but for the better part of the next half hour we're bouncing from witness to witness from hiding place to hiding place without adding much to the main story. It's not until the end that the episode gets good again. Of course Mac manages to solve the case but not before he gets a gun pointed at his face again, this time by the girl. As the episode and the case draw to a close we get a wonderful closing montage that could serve well as a series finale. A nice personal touch in an otherwise distant show.
  • 7x22

    8.5
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    this is definitevely one of the most touching episodes created but the show ever, maybe after "4x11 child´s play" this episode gets the second places in terms of touching and emotional episodes.



    in my opinion, this episode had many interesting things but at the same time it had something I did not like so thats the reason why I´m not giving it a ten.



    one of the thing I loved here was the dark stile spread among the episode, specially in the begining scene, at the same time I loved all of the flashbacks where the girl is seeing being kidnnaped by those criminals, and of course I loved the ending scene, it was kindda sad knowing that this one could be the last one so it really got me stuck till the end, but at this point I have to say that I´m very happy by knowing that csi ny was renewed for an eight season :D



    despite all good thing this episode had, it was kindda slow so I can´t give it a ten, however it was good and deserves a good score



    P.D: I´m from venezuela, I´m not an expert writing in english, please forgive my mistakes
  • Nice of the producers not leave us hanging.

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    It was hinted that the show's future was uncertain so the producers decided not to end the show with a cliffhanger. Instead we were left with what would have been a good way to close the show. Mac solved his last unsolved case, which i find odd; when the show began Mac said that at one time he had 10 unsolved cases and that the number tripled even quadrupled, so we are to think that during these past 7 seasons Mac solved all of them, offscreen. I wonder why they never had an episode of him solving one of those cases. But I guess because of the uncertain future of the show, the producers felt it was best to end it that way. And also Mac was uncertain of his own future. And Danny made sergeant at the end. So when the show comes back, does that mean Danny will be Mac's superior? Or will Mac no longer be with the crime lab?

  • The seventh season ends with Mac determined more than ever to solve the last unsolved case on his desk following a brush with death during a drug bust.

    7.5
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    Since CBS has not yet made the decision whether or not to renew CSI: NY the producers of the show decided not to go with a cliffhanger for the end of the season. While that is a nice change of pace, I hope this episode of CSI: NY is not the last. I don't think the show has run its course yet. That aside, "Exit Strategy" is not a particularly memorable episode, but it is entertaining and my interest never wavered. If this does in fact turnout to be the end for CSI: NY, this episode ends the series well.

  • Could this be it?

    9.0
    "Superb"
    I have kept with CSI: NY through thick and through thin (and thinner with Season 6), but I can plainly say that if the show's final episode is "Exit Strategy", I shall be satisfied. It has been a fairly solid seven years in the big apple (mainly L.A. sound stages), and my memories with the show are numerous. So, the seventh season finale, Exit Strategy has Mac questioning his position at the crime lab after a near death experience. The whole episode also has a series finale thing going for it; before the usuals (Flack, Danny and Mac) are about to smash in a door we get a moment we have never seen before on CSI: NY - Mac kisses his cross necklace and Danny kisses the picture of his daughter. That one little moment at the beginning of the episode immediately turned my mind into thinking that this was "it". Another instance of a the series ending vibe I got was during the team's conference. (It is where Mac is spacing out, while the rest of the team discusses the day's events). While there has been scenes of the entire main cast sitting around discussing one specific case, we have never had a scene with the entire cast sitting at the discussion table simply going over the day's assignments. Something about that scene really struck me as 'new' and refreshing.



    As far as the story line goes, it is fairly strong. By the books the story may have been, but with the 'this is all over' undertones, the episode was carried a little further than what was to be expected.



    The last five minutes, should those minutes be CSI: NY's last, was as good as it was going to be. Flack is still bashing in doors and arresting people, Danny is now a Sergeant, Hawkes is still romantically involved with his love interest, Sid continues to autopsy, Jo keeps on working and while Mac's future may be undecided for now, we can all safely assume that his strut down a busy Manhattan street only led him to a satisfying future.



    If this is the end, I can say farewell to you, CSI: NY, you have given me seven entertaining years.
  • 722

    7.5
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    The episode opened up with a very exciting drug bust that saw Mac Taylor narrowly avoid death yet again. They could have gone in a variety of ways with this plot, they could have had the whole episode be devoted to this, but this turned out just to be the appetizer.



    The experience forced Mac to revisit his first case as head of the crime lab where he never caught two people on a robbery homicide who ran off with a little girl. The story was emotional and we saw a very drawn-out pursuit of these characters. It was a little farfetched how quickly he caught the two after they evaded him for a decade, but such was necessary to really drive this idea home. A good storyline that kind of felt like it could be from fellow CBS series Flashpoint.



    Nice season finale. Please don't let it be the end though CBS.
  • Mac works in the last unsolved case on his desk after a near death experience.

    9.5
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    Ok, I really liked it!:) The whole case was great, although I think it was a little too easy to find the girl after so many years, and I was really sad that they ended killing Wes when it was obvious that he had been a better parent for the 9 years Olivia was with him than the 4 years her mother had her...:roll: Of course she has changed now but...:roll: The whole recognision of a handwritting was quite unbelievable...:roll::roll:



    The whole team was in it... although Sid and Adam were barely there but still... I loved the DL moments!! Sargent Messer sounds awesome, btw!!:lol::) I'm proud of him!:D I'm not a huge Mac/Stella fan but I really missed her in this important moments of Mac's life, and I would have loved for the chapter to end with Mac buying a ticket to New Orleans...:)



    I would hate for it to be the last chapter ever of CSI:NY but if it is, it would have been a good one...:)
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