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CSI: NY: The Past, Present and Murder

 

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9.0 Superb
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Air Date

Wednesday April 15, 2009

Production Code

521

Episode Summary

Mac and the team are called in to investigate after a man falls twenty stories out of Dunbrook's office window. Complicating matters is the body has disappeared and the evidence ties into a past case.

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    6 Fair

    The team was trying to solve a murder of a victim that was thrown from 20 stories building, which happened to be Dunbrook - the media's king - 's office. It tuned out that the case is connected to the Flash-drive case from an earlier episode. hide show

    The episode was rather disappointing. The story line has been built for quite sometime, now, and to have it concluded like this, I'm disappointed. There are too many things that did not add-up, in my opinion.

    What kind of office that have a bio-mechanical security system, which glass windows is so easily break? I mean, maybe i'm wrong, but, a man with a medium built like Agen Walsh, breaking a glass window of a highly secured building, simply by being thrown by another medium built man, seems a bit impossible. And, no body saw or hear anything. NY is a very interesting place to live, then.

    Why are Mac and Dunbrook acted that way to each other? It seemed like the two of them has a really bitter past. And to consider their interaction at 'Party is over', that kind of reaction seemed to be too much. And this make Mac not following the evidence now, but rather, his 'gut'. That's just plain weird.

    Why risk your own son to do all the dirty work, when you have all the money in the world to hire a pro to do it? For Dunbrook Senior to have his own son do the dirty work, and for Dunbrook Junior to agree on that, i expected them to be smarter.

    The two FBI (former?) agent risk their life to get that bloody flash-drive, 'simply' to get their name cleared? How important was that? Johnson got rid of Walsh body, lashed out his finger print, and then dump him in a place where it'll be easy to find? I thought an FBI agent will be cleverer than that. Didn't he knows that the crime lab people will be able to id him without the finger print. And, what makes whoever the FBI agent is, hands Mac the 'truth'? What about Johnson's death? What (or is it a 'who'?) caused it?

    Sinclair suddenly get the warrant, after telling Mac that they do not have enough. Isn't that strange? And this politically driven man, sat down with Mac to try nail the politically benefitting guy. His character is confusing.

    Even the way the team work is a bit careless than usual. Knowing that it is a (what do you call the subway's air escape again) through which any evidence could've probably fallen into the subway railway, why did the team did not search there? As for the flash-drive, what happen? Lost forever?

    Now, will any of the questions i have be answered. I highly doubt it...

    What will be slightly enjoyable, are the look in Stella face when the polar bear appeared, Sheldon's "Polar bear in New York? Global Warming is getting worse" line, and of course, Mac's reply to Dunbrook when the latter said tried to shoo him...

    I'm still a fan of the show, though. I just hope, future episodes will be better.

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    8.5 Great

    Craig T Nelson is unbelievable! hide show

    Craig T Nelson usually plays good guys like on Coach and the District. But he really is a great nemesis for Mac. As the team try to realize, that the FBI agents that questioned Mac over the hardriver. Were both fired and killed over it. Nelson's character wants to shut up the agents. While the Anne Steele hardrive would play a big part, in the case. Really the now dead feds shouldn't had, gone after Mac. As Mac was innocent of all wrongdoing. It also doesn't say that the feds how, they got fired over it. But in the end, that didn't matter. As it cost them more than their jobs. It cost them their lives.

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    Flashdrive is back.... hide show

    A man falls from Dunbrook's office, and although he must be dead there's no body. The team works together to discover what happened. I liked that all the team worked together. I would have really liked to see Lindsay and Adam and even Angell working in the case but they weren't there. Quite a dark case, Stella and Danny brought the funny moments although it was a really serious chapter anyways... Mac and Sinclair working together was great! Hawkes is the smartest man on earth again. I missed Flack's oneliners...
    At the end the flashdrive is missing again, 2 FBI agents died in vain and Dunbrook is out of jail although his son's been arrested... And we are gonna get another chapter about the flashdrive...:roll:

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    This episode was alryt cud of been better. hide show

    This episode was ok. This Ann Steele case is getting on my nerves. They should of just found the flash drive when they realised it was missing. Danny made me laugh as per usual with is daft but funny comments. Mac made me laugh wiv what he sed to dunbroke about the window. To be honest i would of been tons happier to see the flash stick in the safe rather than the gun. I just hope they are gonna hurry up and solve this case. I loved the smacked moments, to be honest i love all happy smacked moments.

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    A man falls out of a window, and then disappears. hide show

    After last week's episode featured American Idol's Katharine McPhee CSI: NY brought forth another big name guest star in Coach's Craig T. Nelson. Fortunately for us it was also another great episode of one of television's most underrated cop shows. This was a compelling story from the get-go that launched several twists and turns and although we suspected the man to be bad from the get-go, having the son get arrested was a good twist to build up toward next week. But this week had me on the edge of my seat with the shooting and the recreated fight scene.

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  • Goof: When Hawkes shows Stella the two teeth he found at the crime scene, he states that there is an incisor and a bicuspid (premolar). When the camera zooms in, there is an incisor and a lower first molar in the container. []
  • Goof: Why was another method of DNA retrieval not used on the victim? Even if the man had no fingerprints, he had tons of hair, bodily fluids and teeth left so facial reconstruction was not necessary. []
  • A flashback to episode 510 The Triangle can be seen during this episode. []
  • Original International Air Dates:
    Turkey: June 8, 2009 on CNBC-e.
    Spain: June 9, 2009 on AXN.
    Czech Republic: July 22, 2009 on AXN.
    Brazil: June 25, 2009 on AXN.
    Sweden: October 12, 2009 on Kanal 5.
    The Netherlands: November 2, 2009 on RTL4.
    Norway: November 4, 2009 on TVNorge.
    Germany: February 8, 2010 on Vox. []
  • Music featured:
    I Need to Know by Marc Anthony.
    It's time by Michael Bublé.
    Nosaj Thing by Fog.
    Negative C by Chump. []
  • Thad Luckinbill, who plays Connor Dunbrook, has also appeared in the C.S.I. episode Bang-Bang.

    Ian Anthony Dale, who plays Agent Ellis Park, also appears in the CSI: Miami episode Kill Clause.

    Nicholas G. Warnock, who plays Reporter #2, also appears in the CSI: Miami episode Count Me Out. []
More Notes
  • Dunbrook: A man falls 20 stories, walks away. Boy, that'd make a good headline, sell a lot of newspapers.
    Mac:'Media Mogul Pushes Him' might sell more. []
  • (The biometric lock smells like strawberry)
    Danny: (To Dunbrook) You eat anything on the way in? Toast? Fruit? Caviar on a jelly doughnut, maybe?
    Dunbrook: No. []
  • Danny: Well, we got a biometric lock that smells like strawberries. I don't know, maybe Dunbrook pissed off a pastry chef? []
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Allusions

  • Mac: This guy thinks he's untouchable.

    The Untouchables (1987) is a film in which several "good guys" hunt down Al Capone and his band who thrive on the corruption of the American system. Chief Sinclair and Agent Park also reflect the actions of The Untouchables as they come forward and help Mac. []
  • Mac: There's more than one way to hook a fish. They got Al Capone on tax evasion.

    Alphonse Gabriel "Al" Capone (1899-1947), was an American gangster of Italian descent who made a living through crime and smuggling during the Prohibition of the 1920s and 1930s. []
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