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Earlier this week, CSI: Vegas‘s second season came to an end, and with it – the shocking reveal that Matt Lauria‘s Josh Folsom is in a huge amount of trouble.
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In the season finale, Josh was shaken and very set on revenge after learning that his mother had been killed after a drug run.
In order to avenge her death and find the killer, he busted out Trey (Daniel Di Tomasso) from jail and together, they did some undercover work separate from the CSI team.
In the end, the man who they’d been interrogating ended being the man who also killed Josh’s mom. It’s not known at this time if Josh did kill him, but somehow, he ended up in a dumpster, dead.
Speaking with TV Insider, Matt opened up about Josh’s decisions and how this is going to affect season 3.
“I think it was deliberately penned with that ambiguity infused in there,” he says when asked about if Josh could actually have killed the guy. “I’m eager to learn what people surmise about all of that…it’s definitely open to interpretation.”
Matt added that he was in shock about the episode.
“Whatever event has happened, it is deeply disturbing. Also there has been a sort of adrenalized mission over the last 48, 72 hours, and so it’s a dump,” he shared. “You find me at the beginning, at that site before I even know that my mom has passed away, looking for something, looking for something that maybe was substantive from my past, something that was comforting, something that is familiar, and then finding myself back there again at the end with that sort of adrenaline dump.”
So does Matt really think Josh would go that far to get justice for his mom?
“Absolutely,” he stated. “…My whole life is this measured approach, self-mastery, and choosing an entirely different path from what was probably laid out for me or very likely I would walk down. I think that that measured part and that self-mastery part of Josh is the one who devised the blood gimmick, but then something breaks and something snaps. You’re suddenly looking in the face of your mother’s murderer. So yeah, I think anything is possible.”
As for what that means for Josh in season 3, Matt says he’ll “fighting for my job.”
“There’s got to be some kind of investigation into what happened. A lot, I think, will be revealed,” he adds. “I hope that I get to do some scenes behind some glass, you know what I mean? In jail, that would be a blast.”
You can stream CSI: Vegas on Paramount+ now.