CSI Crossover, Part 2: CSI: NY
Ok, I'm calm enough now to actually write my review now, and this one won't be a moment-by-moment chatter.
First off, I saw the crash coming as soon as they started the whole car, truck, car, truck, back and forth thing. And the idjit in the car was not just talking on the phone and then trying to pick it up, he was also drunk. Second obvious thing was that the creeper who took the girl from Miami got shot.
Also, I got totally pissed when Danny was in the truck cab processing. He was squatting, and twisting around, and generally doing things you wouldn't expect him to be able to do when he had a paralysing back injury not too long ago. Oh, and it was all sans cane. Which he wasn't using until about halfway through the episode. At the beginning of the episode he is completely without the cane, and he's got it at the end of the episode. And he still needs a haircut. Badly.
Ok. So now we've established that the truck driver has been carrying a lot of girls from all over the country, and this time it was one live and one dead. The dead girl, found in a 50 gallon drum had lost her liver for a transplant in NY, and died as a result of no longer having a liver. So the lab has this long list of girls who have been transported, used as surrogates, prostitues, killed, sold, harvested, etc. And cue Ray Langston. Also, the suspect-turned-victim is pregnant, and fighting. Or as much as she can when she's drugged and bound.
The look on Adam's face when he tells Mac about the other girls was nervous and sad and a little angry.
Ok, so Langston heads up to NY, and I agree with
jetpack_angelabout the bad choice of words on his part. Mac and Ray meet with a con for some info on this human trafficing ring. Once they have their info, Ray walks off to, ostensibly, make a call to the missing girl's mother. He and Mac have a serious conversation about family and how hard it is to tell parents that their child is dead/missing. I thought the bit about the war vets/war dead was touching, considering the episode did air on memorial day, but that part of the conversation seemed rather forced and stilted to me.
Flack goes to the hospital where they find out the liver was sent, and he makes the decision to let the doctor transplant the organ into the patient, and waits to make the arrest. He and Hawkes in the interrogation with the *good doctor* was pretty intense, and Hill Harper did an absolutely amazing job with that scene. I liked when he started quoting the Hippocratic Oath at him. Primum non nocere. Flack's face when he realized that the doctor was accepting organs without knowing if the donor was willing/naturally dead was great. Disgust and contempt.
Flack and Hawkes on the chase was interesting, and again I agree that Hawkes has been CSI for 5 years, and still doesn't carry, whereas Langston has been CSI for basically a year, and he's carrying and has already shot and killed someone.
And the big finale of the episode, the chase through the junkyard. Going well until the trucker shows up, and shoots the SWAT guy in the head. Mac, Flack and Langston come running out of the trailer, and Flack is the one who stays behind to make sure the SWAT guy is ok. Langston, the DOCTOR jumps on a freaking motorbike, I refuse to call it a motorcycle, the engine was too pitiful to be anything more than a motorbike, and goes racing after the perp. And we don't hear about the SWAT guy. What? He got shot IN THE HEAD!! At least have him in a background shot sitting in the back of an ambulance or something. **growls**
Oh, and the whole thing with the sample library, is really starting to piss me off. I mean, really, it's cool to start with, but do they have to show it actually fetching and dropping the samples the CSIs/Techs request from it? Big fancy piece of equipment that is new and the lab didn't have money to keep Adam last season? **growls more**
I have more ranting I could do, Danny, Don's wardrobe not being back to normal, etc. etc. but I'm pretty sure I've covered most if not all of them in other posts. Or, if I haven't, I will.
In other news, I got the H1N1 flu mist yesterday, and now I've been having a mild reaction to it. Headache, the cold but hot feeling I get when I've got a fever, nausea, body aches, dizzyness. Generally feeling not too great.
First off, I saw the crash coming as soon as they started the whole car, truck, car, truck, back and forth thing. And the idjit in the car was not just talking on the phone and then trying to pick it up, he was also drunk. Second obvious thing was that the creeper who took the girl from Miami got shot.
Also, I got totally pissed when Danny was in the truck cab processing. He was squatting, and twisting around, and generally doing things you wouldn't expect him to be able to do when he had a paralysing back injury not too long ago. Oh, and it was all sans cane. Which he wasn't using until about halfway through the episode. At the beginning of the episode he is completely without the cane, and he's got it at the end of the episode. And he still needs a haircut. Badly.
Ok. So now we've established that the truck driver has been carrying a lot of girls from all over the country, and this time it was one live and one dead. The dead girl, found in a 50 gallon drum had lost her liver for a transplant in NY, and died as a result of no longer having a liver. So the lab has this long list of girls who have been transported, used as surrogates, prostitues, killed, sold, harvested, etc. And cue Ray Langston. Also, the suspect-turned-victim is pregnant, and fighting. Or as much as she can when she's drugged and bound.
The look on Adam's face when he tells Mac about the other girls was nervous and sad and a little angry.
Ok, so Langston heads up to NY, and I agree with
jetpack_angelabout the bad choice of words on his part. Mac and Ray meet with a con for some info on this human trafficing ring. Once they have their info, Ray walks off to, ostensibly, make a call to the missing girl's mother. He and Mac have a serious conversation about family and how hard it is to tell parents that their child is dead/missing. I thought the bit about the war vets/war dead was touching, considering the episode did air on memorial day, but that part of the conversation seemed rather forced and stilted to me.
Flack goes to the hospital where they find out the liver was sent, and he makes the decision to let the doctor transplant the organ into the patient, and waits to make the arrest. He and Hawkes in the interrogation with the *good doctor* was pretty intense, and Hill Harper did an absolutely amazing job with that scene. I liked when he started quoting the Hippocratic Oath at him. Primum non nocere. Flack's face when he realized that the doctor was accepting organs without knowing if the donor was willing/naturally dead was great. Disgust and contempt.
Flack and Hawkes on the chase was interesting, and again I agree that Hawkes has been CSI for 5 years, and still doesn't carry, whereas Langston has been CSI for basically a year, and he's carrying and has already shot and killed someone.
And the big finale of the episode, the chase through the junkyard. Going well until the trucker shows up, and shoots the SWAT guy in the head. Mac, Flack and Langston come running out of the trailer, and Flack is the one who stays behind to make sure the SWAT guy is ok. Langston, the DOCTOR jumps on a freaking motorbike, I refuse to call it a motorcycle, the engine was too pitiful to be anything more than a motorbike, and goes racing after the perp. And we don't hear about the SWAT guy. What? He got shot IN THE HEAD!! At least have him in a background shot sitting in the back of an ambulance or something. **growls**
Oh, and the whole thing with the sample library, is really starting to piss me off. I mean, really, it's cool to start with, but do they have to show it actually fetching and dropping the samples the CSIs/Techs request from it? Big fancy piece of equipment that is new and the lab didn't have money to keep Adam last season? **growls more**
I have more ranting I could do, Danny, Don's wardrobe not being back to normal, etc. etc. but I'm pretty sure I've covered most if not all of them in other posts. Or, if I haven't, I will.
In other news, I got the H1N1 flu mist yesterday, and now I've been having a mild reaction to it. Headache, the cold but hot feeling I get when I've got a fever, nausea, body aches, dizzyness. Generally feeling not too great.