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Bad Beat

Episode Number: 31    Season Num: 2    First Aired: Wednesday November 16, 2005    Prod Code: 208
Mac and Stella investigate a murder of a host of a high stakes poker game after a player was caught cheating and kicked out of the game. While Danny and Hawkes follow the clues that'll lead them to solve the death of a weather girl.

Cast and Crew

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Writer: Zachary Reiter
Director: Duane Clark
Star: Eddie Cahill (Detective Donald "Don" Flack, Jr.),  Anna Belknap (Lindsay Monroe),  Gary Sinise (Detective Mack "Mac" Taylor),  Carmine Giovinazzo (Danny Messer),  Hill Harper (Dr. Sheldon Hawkes),  Melina Kanakaredes (Detective Stella Bonasera)
Recurring Role: Robert Joy (Dr. Sid Hammerback)
Guest Star: Walker Haynes (Unknown - uncredited),  Lochlyn Munro (Ethan Fallon),  Heather McComb (Heather Davison),  Troy Blendell (Leonard Curson),  Adam Nelson (James Moore),  Dan Milder (Mike Hanson),  Melinda Page Hamilton (Tara/Kayla),  Erica Jones (Moore's Daughter),  Jake O'Flaherty (Curtis Walker),  Gwen Holloway (Helen),  Agim Kaba (Eddie Brunson),  A.J. Buckley (Adam Ross),  John Colella (Robert Dulcet),  Tony Daly (Joel Ivey),  Michael Gilio (Kelly Lindgren),  Oliver Macready (Scott)

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Music: Do You Want To by Franz Ferdinand (edit)

Quotes

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(Don begins breaking cigars).
Robert: Do you have any idea how much that costs?
Flack: Now, nothing. (edit)
Flack: Evening!
Woman: Are you serious? Do you know what time it is?
Flack: I'm sorry to disturbe you ma'am, but I was wondering....
Woman: I asked you a question.
Flack: Do I know what time it is? Yes ma'am. It's 3am.
Woman: You people are crazy. I ought to sue for harassment.
(Woman slams the door closed).
Flack: You have a good night now. (edit)
Flack: You play poker?
Stella: Occasionally. You have a problem with that?
Flack: Yeah. You're physically incapable of keeping a straight face.
Stella: Really?
Flack: Now Mac, there's a man with a poker face. Who knows what he's thinking? (edit)
(Lindsay looks for evidence in a dumpster)
Lindsay: This new girl stuff has got to stop.
Mac: Better than sifting through tiger dung.
Lindsay: Funny. (edit)
Mac: (seeing a bloody hole in the wall) Looks like you guys cracked open more than your piggy bank. (edit)

Trivia

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Goof: When Danny was looking in the drawer, and found the evidence… he put the glove over the evidence and gave it to Hawkes which at that time he didn’t have any gloves on. But the next scene he had one glove on. (edit)
When Danny meets Hawkes at the crime scene in Central Park, you can tell it's supposed to be Strawberry Fields. However, you can tell it's not the actual place in the park because the Imagine mosaic on the ground is different, similar, but strikingly different. (edit)
Goof: When Hawkes is looking for evidence in the park, his gloves keep disappearing and reappearing. (edit)
The four poker players at the original game are named after professional poker players Gus HANSON, Phil IVEY, Doyle (or his son Todd) BRUNSON, and Erick LINDGREN. (edit)

Allusions

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During the scene where Detective Flack is interrogating a suspect he tells the suspect that pretty soon he (Flack) will be able to go home and watch "Letterman. CSI:NY airs on CBS. Detective Flack is obviously referring to Late Show with David Letterman which has been a staple at CBS since 1993. (edit)
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Community Reviews (10)

 
8.5
Great
Bad Beat
"Fine example"
Puzzles are great to figure out.
Continue » Posted Jul 18, 2007 1:52 pm PST
9.7
Superb
Bad Beat
"Fine example"
Great episode all in all. a must see.
Continue » Posted Jan 22, 2007 9:47 pm PST
9.5
Superb
Bad Beat
"Well written"
A poker game gone wrong and the weather forecast said that the weatherlady is gonna die.
Continue » Posted Dec 7, 2006 11:16 pm PST
8.9
Great
Bad Beat
"Not my favorite storyline"
Mac, Lindsay, Stella and Flack investigate the death of a poker player who was shot in the face, while Danny and Hawkes check out the sexcapades of a reporter who was found dead in the park.
Continue » Posted Apr 25, 2006 6:00 am PST
10.0
Perfect
Bad Beat
"Above average"
So cool this episode was so cool!! Really, I've been in total confusing for half an hour, didn't expect that it would end like this!!
Continue » Posted Apr 21, 2006 1:10 pm PST
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Episode: Bad Beat
Season Number: 2
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