Thursday November 25, 2004
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Grissom is confronted with new evidence while on the stand of a murder trial of a restaurant owner.
The new evidence in the murder trial requires the reopening of the case and Eckley initiates an inquiry into Grissom and his team. The results of the inquiry lead to dramatic changes of the CSI team and the series.
Sarah and Greg investigate the death of a John Doe killed by a modified semi automatic weapon, which goes off accidentally in the lab.
So grissom is on the stand at trial when he notices something that he didnt notice befor Uh oh. It was a print and he coul tell just from looking at it that it wasnt the suspect that they had in jail. So they have to re open the case an after going through all of the evidence they find out that the killer was the guy that is on stands son. This episode was pretty good and i liked how they showed what the csi's do when they are confronted with new evidence that they didnt know was there befor.
It deserves a near perfect score because of the stunner it gives the audience. The story is kind of superfluous in many ways. hide show
A new fingerprint gives Grissom pause on the stand. He hadn't seen it before, because it hadn't been there, so he recuses himself.
He follows total protocol, but everyone's favourite baddie, Ecklie, decides he could bring the lab into disrepute - by examining evidence??? I wish they'd write a storyline that put Ecklie in a bad light, a la Nick and his one night stand. Boy would he need these guys then.
Ecklie manages to wrong foot and ambush the rest of the team into revealing a few of Grissom's shortcomings - nothing professionally damaging, but enough for him to decide to break up the team - great for the series in some ways but boy do you want to take at this guy's kneecaps with a bat. Again, the actor playing Ecklie is magnificent - he really makes you hate him, not that it's hard. And to top it all Catherine gets the swing shift instead of the day job - and he even effectively demotes his own team member, Sofia, because he doesn't get his own way. The guy is scum in a bucket!
The CSI storyline really takes a second place to the characters' own stories. It's nowhere near the best actual full on investigative story, but I don't think it's meant to be.
Cleverly plotted for character development, and maybe necessary to shake up the show a bit.
Finally i got why Sophia Curtis was Demoted. hide show
This was a great episode,as always. I have always liked Sophias character for Grissom. She's smart, beautiful, and with humor. In this episode she is investigating Gil's development in a recently re-opened case. She has to report to Ecklie the way Griss managed the case. At the end she says Gil didn't do anything wrong. Of course Ecklie was expecting the oposite and felt his right hand betrayed him, so she got assigned to the "Graveyard shift".
The way the new evidence appear and the new turn in this case was really cool. For a change the team have to reconsider their origial posotion for a new fingerprint found in an old evidence. Of course, they had to prove the way that fingerprit appeared. Even this was a great episode, i have to say i see the end comming.
Stupid Ecklie and hating the fact that Grissom is in fact better than he is at being a CSI. hide show
I love this episode. Well I didn't like the fact that the team ended up as swing and night shift but I did like the plot of the episode. Grissom screws up, it is as simple as that. They have to blame someone for it so they chose Grissom and his team as the scapegoat. At least because Grissom messed up first time they got a second chance to look at the evidence and find who actually did the killing.
Ecklie is far from my favorite character after this episode. He wanted to destroy Grissom but he didn't succeed. *Insert evil laugh here.* I don't think that the evil Spork should be transferred to nights but again Ecklie was taking revenge on the evil Spork for saying it wasn't Grissom's fault. At least the evil Spork said it wasn't Grissom fault...
Grissom has to reopen an investigation when a new fingerprint appears on a sealed piece of evidence, and Ecklie splits up the team. hide show
Grissom has to reopen an investigation when a new fingerprint appears on a sealed piece of evidence & Ecklie isn't happy about it. He tries to get as much dirt as possible on Grissom by interviewing each member of the CSI team but none of them have anything bad to say about him, and Sophia who is investigating Grissom for Ecklie doesn't come up with anything to prove that Grissom did anything wrong.
Ecklie the jerk splits up the team to get back at Grissom, he pours all his revenge on the rest of the team as well for sticking up for him.
He promotes Catherine to swing shift supervisor, instead of day shift which is what she originally applied for, because she defended Grissom, and he gives her Warrick & Nick.
He demotes Sophia because she didn't come to the conclusion he wanted in her investigation of Grissom, and puts her on his team along with Greg, who is still training & Sara who lied to Ecklie to protect Grissom.
Anyway, the best thing that came from the split is that my 3 favorite CSI's: Grissom, Sara & Greg are on the same team & weren't seperated.
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