CSI:NY Episode review and picscam 06x12
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So the opening establishes a real scumbag and he’s on trial for murder. Hmm, I wonder which CSI will interrupt and stop the trial?
Oh look, it’s Stella. I honestly thought it was going to be Mac but it looks like this will be a Stella episode. She’s calling for the scumbag’s release.
I love Stella but there are times when I flashback to when she was willing to risk an operation that would in all likelihood kill a horse, just to retrieve a bullet from it. In one way it’s admirable that she won’t let anything stand between her and her job, on the other-hand she has a tendency to commit herself to one option without looking at the alternatives. I’m sure she could have phrased it another way, or asked to speak to the judge quietly. I mean, I know it was just done for effect so they could launch into the credits but stuff like that doesn’t intrigue me, it just feels like they're trying too hard.
Lol. NOW she’s talking to the judge in private.
I’m glad they cut off before we could hear Stella’s response to the judge’s question, ‘would [she] be able to handle the consequences of letting a killer out onto the streets?’ because I would have lost all respect for her if she answered yes.
Instead of answering, it jumps to a rewind effect that always makes me nauseous.
24 Hours Earlier
Oh, I am digging Flack’s leather jacket. And for some reason I’m suddenly digging his hands, how have I never noticed his hands before?
Uhoh, I see red shirt. We’ve never seen him before but he knows Stella and Mac, he’s a lawyer, same lawyer 24 hours later. This is not going to end well for him. Just like it didn’t for Bra’tac
Mac is smiling a whole lot more now. Good for him.
Wait, I’m no lawyer but are they saying the murder was just committed and 24 hours later they were about to sentence the guy for it? Surely it takes longer than that to put a case together as well as getting the forensic evidence needed. I know CSI has a history of cutting out all the boring stuff and speeding things up but surely 24 hours is bordering on the ridiculous!
Hehehe, I’m loving the Damon/demon/conjuring up dialogue between Flack and Stella. Don may not be a scientist but his smarts are evident through his quick tongue.
Hehehe, Hawkes is so cool with the way he kinda flips that bottle of er... chemical spray used to detect footprints. None in the bedroom, one print in the bathroom. Kinda helps that it was bloody.
When did Danny and Lindsay get here? It’s unusual to have all the gang working on one crime scene.
Poor Danny hurt his back bending down trying to open a drawer. They’re being really inconsistent with his injury. I know back injuries can flare up at the most random of times but it really is random with Danny.
Lindsay steamed for prints at the scene which I guess will help speed up the trial. A random lighter. That doesn’t look odd at all (!)
The print on the lighter leads them to Brad from “How I Met Your Mother”, so that’s what happened to him, except now he’s called Rob.
So Mac questions the guy
Wow, Mac knows everybody. Including the woman Brad, erm, Rob is having an affair with. Ah, that’s how, she’s red-shirt’s wife. (Mac flashes back to him, in case the audience didn’t get it)
Suddenly it makes sense. The lawyer, Craig, is framing his wife’s lover for the murder.
They’ve got the scumbag suspect anyway, due to an eyewitness and the footprint.
And Flack knows scumbag’s name. Nice teamwork. I love Danny’s little ‘he quick or what?’
I know it’s pertinent to the case but suddenly Mac’s office feels like a gossip area with Mac and Stella discussing the woman cheating on Craig.
Adam and computer. I’m gonna work that into a CSI:NY drinking game but I can’t decide whether to down a shot when Adam is seen with a computer or down a shot when Adam is seen without a computer. Adam/technology = OTP
Lol, Mac tapping the top of the computer to make Adam snap out of his trance. Bless Adam.
Oh, and the spelling to the chemical Hawkes was spraying is “Leucomalachite Green.” A lot easier to say than it is to spell but worth knowing to add to my technobabble dictionary.
They’ve got forensic proof the lighter was planted. And then just to really rub it in, Mac flashes back to the SAME flash back of redshirt used before.
Fade to black, some high speed camera movement and then we’re back to the present day knowing why Stella stopped the trial. I still don’t know why she asked for scumbag’s release.
Stella arrests redshirt Craig, who she’s known for sixteen years and never mentioned before, and then interviews him.
So now they’ve got to find more evidence to put scumbag away. I know they’ll do it, because I don’t think CSI:NY would let the killer walk. They’re not gonna make Stella face the consequences of her actions.
I amend that last statement, Stella does have to face the victim’s mother but I still maintain that these consequences are only short term, and more to the point, Stella has to believe they’re only short term and I know they’re gonna catch the killer again.
I’m surprised Danny doesn’t put out his back putting on that device.
Okay, I really shouldn’t laugh when they bring up Manhattanhenge, I know they’re aiming for continuity but Danny somersaulted out of the way of a car! I know they mentioned he hurt his back in that episode but last episode he was COMPLETELY fine and in episode 7 he was crouching down in a van no problem at all. Also, I don’t like how Lindsay sounds angry at him for saying something, and not concerned. And yay for mentioning Lucy, I bet she would love to have Danny home and Danny would make a great Dad but I can’t imagine him staying at home, Danny needs to keep moving, it’s part of his character, which is why I think they could have explored the psychological effects of him being wheelchair bound for a lot longer than they did.
I never understood bail, seems like such an unfair system, the rich can go free whilst the poor have to stay. And in TV all criminals are rich.
So Sara, Redshirt’s wife wants to talk to Stella in private, so they do so in her glass office. How private is that?
Apparently the lawyer isn’t all that innocent, imagine that. Someone Stella has known for sixteen years (Mac possibly too) may actually be a cruel criminal, if you take the wife’s words for it. This really puts faith in our CSI’s judge of character.
Rob is missing!
Lindsay and Stella find evidence to suggest Craig murdered Rob. So Mac and Stella have been friends with a potential murderer and never suspected a thing. I guess it’s a case of Beware the Honest Ones
Yay, Hawkes is back on the case, processing a car. I’m gonna assume it’s the lawyer’s.
Yep, and Hawkes finally gets a destination thanks to the GPS which he had to run a fancy data retrieval programme on before it showed up (the Doc is now a computer Doc too) and roadsalt from the tires.
But the times suggest someone else was driving Craig’s car. I’m thinking the redshirt was framed, probably by his wife. This is CSI:NY, everybody is trying to frame everybody.
So Mac and Stella go to the place and Stella finds blood.
Back at HQ (and can they teleport or something, do they apparate to get back so quick?) and Hawkes tells her the DNA is not human.
Strike one.
Acupuncture. Not for those afraid of needles. *shudder*
Is that a tattoo on Danny’s back? Also, where is the scar from the gunshot wound? Because the gunshot wound is why he’s there, you’d think they’d make it more noticeable. Is that tattoo one like Jim Brass got, above the wound with the date he got it? So many questions.
My first thought when Danny was rifling through his locker was that he was addicted to painkillers but nope, his wallet has been taken. Why do these things always happen to Danny? Rikki taking his gun, for example. I am sick of Danny being the screw-up in this show.
Ah, one question has been answered and it only took six seasons. The dog tags Danny always wears belong to his grandfather, it’s a nice tidbit to know and I’ll be able to work it into Danny’s backstory. It’s good to finally know.
Awww, I think that scene proved how Danny constantly moves and when he punched the locker at the end, I just wanted to hug him and assure him everything would be okay. I wonder why Lindsay didn’t urge him to report it. I really don’t see this ending well.
Back to the case and the blood Stella found is actually canine. Rob had a dog which was also missing from his apartment, (flashback to Stella seeing a dog bowl which I swear we never saw first time, we wouldn’t want the viewers to be ahead of the CSIs now, would we?)
And Danny’s back at the office too. My head is spinning.
So the killer plans to withdraw all his cash, kill the eyewitness then skip the country. I am really tempted to say ‘Nice Job Breaking It Hero’, but I know they’ll fix it before the episode is out.
Look at the TV. He’s behind you. Convenient reflection there. Oh, and it was Lindsay posing as the eyewitness. That old chestnut.
There’s still a minute left and I’m fairly sure the episode is over. Stella has done her best to prove Craig killed Rob but I’m still not convinced.
Oh yeah, scumbag gets convicted.
Like we always knew he would. Stella is forgiven and even thanked by the victim’s mother, and gets a nod from the judge. How nice for her. I bet if Danny made the same call it would have turned out bad, the poor boy doesn’t even have to do anything and he still screws up.
:_-C
between this episode and the Danny angst vid I made: Your Mistake by Sister Hazel I really hope things get better for Danny, but I doubt it. Poor Danny.