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Admissions

Episode Number: 89    Season Num: 4    First Aired: Wednesday April 30, 2008    Prod Code: 418
When a guidance counselor is murdered at a private school, the mayor orders Mac and his team to drop everything to find out what happened. Mac is frustrated because he can't devote the man hours or the personnel to finding the "Taxi Cab Killer".

Cast and Crew

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Writer: Zachary Reiter
Director: Rob Bailey
Star: Gary Sinise (Detective Mack "Mac" Taylor),  Melina Kanakaredes (Detective Stella Bonasera),  Carmine Giovinazzo (Danny Messer),  Anna Belknap (Lindsay Monroe),  Hill Harper (Dr. Sheldon Hawkes),  Eddie Cahill (Detective Donald "Don" Flack, Jr.)
Recurring Role: Carmen Argenziano (Inspector Gerrard),  Robert Joy (Dr. Sid Hammerback),  A.J. Buckley (Adam Ross)
Guest Star: Kelen Coleman (Natalie Gerrard),  Gideon Emery (Christopher Vackner),  Arye Gross (Wallace/Frank),  Paul Hodge (Jesse/Hank),  Paul Keeley (Robert Greggs),  Emily Happe (Sarah Bell),  Kelly Heaton (Amanda),  Monica Herman (Laura Davis),  Zack Hopkins (Blake Marshall),  Todd Julian (Jason Francis),  Daniel Samonas (Clark Patterson)

Notes

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This episode featured the song Party People performed by Nelly featuring Fergie from the album Brass Knuckles. (edit)
This episode featured the song Don't Sweat the Technique performed by Eric B. & Rakim from the 1992 album of the same name. (edit)
Original International Air dates:
UK May 10, 2008 on Ch5.
Denmark: June 2, 2008 on Kanal 5
Venezuela on June 12, 2008 on AXN
Spain: July 8, 2008 on AXN
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Aka The Price of Admission (edit)

Quotes

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Hawkes: Phosphoric acid, sulfuric acid, hydrochloric acid... He couldn't have kept the keys in the English room?
Danny: Which one of those do you think melted this guy's face off? (edit)
Hank Bedford: Smart enough to maintain a 3.45 GPA in the city's best prep school. Hell, I hadn't given a crap when I was actually in high school. I could have gotten on to be the successful lawyer type.
Lindsay: Instead you went on to become the successful scumbag rapist type.
Hank Bedford: To-MAY-To, To-MA-To... Still, you have to admire the ingenuity.
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Lindsay: Nice office for a guidance counsellor. What exactly are we looking for ?
Mac: Reasons for Mr. Gregs to start drinking.
Lindsay: Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth... This place is a machine for churning out Ivy-League students.
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Adam (imitating the thief with the gun in the pic he's analyzing): I want some Skittles, gimme a pack of menthols and them Ho-Ho's over there. Owww, I'd love me some Ho-Ho's. And I want all your money !
Stella : Adam, Adam !
Adam: Oh hi, I was just... (edit)
Lindsay: I think I'm gonna be sick.
Mac: Is that Natalie's dress ?
Lindsay: Yep, she kept it in a plastic bag in the back of her closet. We collected semen samples. There were two donors, just like she said.
Mac: Call the DA, get a warrant for Jessie Carver's DNA.
Lindsay: We don't need to. He's already in the system. One of the donors is a guy named Frank Moore aka Wallace Carver.
Mac: He's not Jessie's father.
Lindsay: He's a convicted sex offender. He was released 4 years ago, never registered, he fell off the map.
Mac: And the other donor is Jessie Carver.
Lindsay: Except, he's not Jessie Carver.
Mac: Hank Bedford. 1999: sexual assault, 2001: sexual assault...
Lindsay: Check out the date of birth.
Mac: March 18, 1976.
Lindsay: He's 32 years old, Mac.
Mac: He was posing as a 17-year-old student to prey on highschool girls. (edit)

Trivia

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Photo Synth allows anyone to look at photes from any angle and then turn into 3-D images. (edit)
The complete chemical equation Hawkes was writing should have been: SiO2(s) + 4HF(aq) SiF4(g) + 2H2O(l) (edit)
GOOF: The guidance counselor's watch face always showed 10:21. The loan shark took the watch and reduced the owed amount by $3000 for a broken Rolex Oyster Perpetual watch. (edit)

Allusions

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Adam (imitating the thief with the gun in the pic he's analyzing): I want some Skittles...
This scene is reminiscent of the scene in the movie Bad Boys when, with guns drawn, Will Smith and Martin Lawrence's characters demand a pack of Tropical Fruit Bubblicious. And some Skittles. (edit)
(perusing photos on a monitor)
Adam: What are we looking for?
Mac: Not what, who.
Adam: Okay. Who are we looking for?
Mac: Someone who might not be there.
Adam: Is this some sort of Abbott & Costello routine, because if it is, I got dibs on Costello.

The Abbott & Costello routine alluded to by Adam was the famous baseball comedy sketch of Who's on First? (edit)
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9.9
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Admissions
"Series classic"
One of the best episodes of the season.
Continue » Posted May 22, 2008 12:19 pm PST

seikhoqueen
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9.4
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"Well written"
An excellent case driven episode!
Continue » Posted May 4, 2008 10:16 pm PST
9.3
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"Exciting"
A respected guidance counselor at a very prominent prep school, where the children of New York City's elite attend, is brutally murdered at a dance that he is chaperoning. The investigation soon takes a very dark and unexpected turn.
Continue » Posted May 4, 2008 2:20 pm PST

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7.2
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"Not my favorite storyline"
I wasn't a huge fan of this episode...
Continue » Posted May 2, 2008 4:51 pm PST

carly-hope
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9.6
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"Exactly why I watch this series"
it was scary...
Continue » Posted May 2, 2008 9:58 am PST
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