CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Even without all that "science besides" all crime solving that characterizes the show it had been a fantastic episode.

It was nice to see how was Catherine as a young girl (and I have to say that she was quite hot).

It was also very good to see that game played between the "legend" and the reality.

To sum up, it was not the best episode of the show, but it was very interesting and good to watch.

I didn't saw it for the first time but I'm happy because I had the opportunity to watch it later.

Keep things going like this writers, please ;)

Checked the score of the episode and read most of the reviews here before I watched this episode. Since the score was not higher than 9 and many people wrote that it's not as good as the other episodes, I didn't have much of expectation for this one. But, anyway I watched it and got to love it. If you like the episodes in which smart and meticulous killer(s) appear, I bet you will like this one too.



The past between Catherine and the killer, Mickey Dunn, 30 years ago was interesting to see. (Especially, it seems like there is a close resemblance between the young girl ,who played 16-year-old Catherine, and real Catherine now.)

I just watched this for the first time, on DVD, and have read all the reviews. 1. So far no one seems to have noticed that the young Mickey Dylan had brown eyes, and the older one, played by Roger Daltrey, had blue eyes! I thought it unusual they didn't catch that detail, since the directors and such usually are pretty attentive to detail. 2. Like some others, I also wondered why it took them so long to find out it was one guy disguised as 3. They usually go by fingerprints. 3. I did like the connection between Mickey and Catherine 30 years ago, and how important it was for her to find out her father protected her. They did a great job casting the girl who played the younger Catherine.

I liked this episode because it went back in time. I also like that it was kinda like a myth but people say that they saw his comming out of the lake. I also thought it was cool because Catherine had had a run in with the guy before and he was there to. I thought this was a more funny episode than most but i still liked it because i got a laugh out of it so that was a good part. I liked how they investaged it but then kin of found him and interagated him to see why he did it. I also thought it was cool how they talked about how they shot a cop and put him in it.

The team must investigate a case that happened several years ago when the car of a mob boss is retrieved from a lake. When three other murders occur with each victim having a copy of the same picture stuck in their mouth, the team figures that they must be somehow connected. Turns out the killer was the mob boss Mickey Dunn, who disguised himself each time wearing masks. This episode was really good for the costume/make up department. Catherine learns that Sam cared for her since she was really young and that Sam warned Mickey to stay away from her.

I rarely enjoy the stories themselves on these kinds of shows, if the story isn't personal for a main character it doesn't really catch my attention. It got a little personal for Catherine, my least favorite character (to say the least), so it didn't do it for me. The plot was pretty obvious and very predictable from the get go, and the make-up thing ... it would be virtually impossible for a trained CSI ... hell it would be impossible for any human being with normal eye sight not to notice the masks!!



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The story was about a legendary mobster who went missing in the 70's and all the urban myths surrounding his disappearance. There's some kind of vendetta between him and some low-lives from back in the day and now after the doctors tell him he has only a couple of weeks to live he starts killing them one by one. Of course, rumors about a killer ghost break out after finding the mobster's car, before finding out that he was actually alive all these years.



Didn't pay attention to details really, I'm more interested in the scientific methods and main character development than the story itself, anyhow, he gets caught, he has an MI while in custody, he's admitted to a hospital, "fixed", and he stands to spend the rest of his life in jail; Catherine broke the news to him.



An average episode.

This was an excellent installment of "CSI." A story about the old days of the mob turns into revenge killings with a well-known face behind them.



Roger Daltry of "The Who" was fantastic in this episode as a mobster legend supposedly coming back from the dead. His constant changing of personas was able to keep both the audience and the CSIs guessing as to who was responsible for offing the victims.



This episode was very well-written as it was able to take the viewer from the present back to the past of the old (1950s) Las Vegas. I happen to like stories about the mob as well as the old flashbacks "CSI" sometimes employs.



Frank Sinatra's "That's Life" playing at the end of the episode wrapped up the episode nicely. This is a must-see for all fans of "CSI," which shows why it is still the best of the three "CSIs" currently on TV.

This was a fun show with some great acting, some funny moments and some of the cheesiest scenes of the season. It started out with those silly moments with the bad news station graphics and the barely audible Mexican guy claiming to have found the car of legendary Las Vegas mob boss, Mickey Dunn. And after the guy in the wheelchair got pushed into the street, Brass calls it a "homicide related road pizza" and Grissom chimes in with "who ordered it?" Cheesy!! But Brass killed me reading back the statements of the drunk people in the car, "dude goes bam...we go ahhhh." (Side note: One of the great things about CSI was always the line said right before the opening tune kicks in. In past seasons they were almost always quite amusing or quite cynical from Grissom's perspective. This season, they've been really boring for the most part and this one was just dumb. I really used to love those lines for some reason and I wish they would start getting better again.)



A really cool moment was when the photographer was in the morgue and Dr. Robbins kicked his butt all over the place. The doc can sing and he can kick ass — this is my kind of dude. The way the killings happened was a little predictable. Once you saw the picture show up on the first dead guy, you knew the others were going to bite it too and the pictures would show up on them as well. But it played out in an entertaining way. It turns out Mickey Dunn never died the night he disappeared. But he's found out that the bullet he has in him has shifted and he's got one week to live. So he decides to play his own little game and wack all the people that tried to kill him back in the day because he'll die without going to jail. He makes himself into a karaoke drunk, a black woman and one of the guys he just murdered and leads the cops on a crazy chase to get him. The greatest part about all of this is when he pulls off the last face to reveal himself as the legend. When he was being interrogated and said the bones couldn't show that "when I smashed his face in, I enjoyed it" that was the scene I'm going to expect to be shown before he wins the award for this great cameo. How great was it too, that Catherine played her own little game with him, by not telling him until the full story came out that the doctors had removed the bullet. Excellent work. Finally, Cat found out her dad protected her from some underage activity with Dunn decades earlier. Since we rarely hear anything good about the late Sam Braun, that was interesting. However, I don't even want to address how she was "hot and ready" for Mickey at only 16 years old.

Thirty years after an infamous mob boss disappears, leaving nothing but an urban myth, his signature Cadillac is pulled out of a lake. A photo of the victims of a current murder spree is found in the car. How are they connected?



Roger Daltrey finally makes a guest appearance in CSI as the eponemous Mickey D., having leant his voice to the theme songs for all three series, and what a performance he gives. The team is stuck with few leads and plenty of mysteries as more and more of Mickey D.'s old employees are bumped off by a series of completely different (and untracable) people. The cause is wrapped up in motivations that stem from back in The Day of Old Vegas. Living Legend is a masterpiece of television story-telling, on a par with Tarintino's Grave Dangers. Less of the forensics for this episode, more of the drama and the mystery. Magnificent change of pace.

I very much enjoyed this episode just becasue of its spookiness. The entire "ghost factor" really appealed to me and how most of the characters were obsesing of the factor. the ending was just as shoking as I had expected it to be and the song "That's life" really fit well with Mickey.

I didn't like this episode at first: it's pretty silly and dumb that no one of the team realizes that the singer, the black lady, the fisherman and other characters are ALL played by the same person...come on, it was clear that he was wearing a mask, couldn't they check fingerprints and figure it out? meh, Grissom studying pics of murderers and using the computer to find similarities between faces was quite exagerate and useless...

What I really liked was the plot, the history of vengeance by Mickey Dunn, the legend of ghost rider cop, the flashback by Catherine who met the gangster when she was young and avoided death thanks to his father...well, that's what makes this episode worth a watch to me.

Not much fantasy was put in this episode. It was predictable that the killer was Mickey. And the killers with masks-come on. When I saw the black lady it was boring to wait who will find out that they are the same person. And why Nick had so little screen time.

There is a goof: after Gil gets the phone call from Brass about the man complaining about the goast trying to kill him. Before the next csene when Brass comes to the house the Las Vegas scenery is running backwards, you can see the cars going in reverse.

I would say an average episode not up to the CSI standard.

So it was nice to see Cath standing up for Sam. She had gone through so many emotions with him: love, hate, despise, needing, fatherly love, sadness. It was nice to see that yes their relationship sucked but she took it for what he was and now that he is gone, she seems to be following the don’t speak ill of the dead. I didn’t like that Sara had like two lines in this episode…that was upsetting. And the cameo with Roger – how great was that. Being from Vegas I like the old mob stories that make this city so cool so it was nice to see CSI incorporating another. The episodes this season just rock!!

Like I've read in another review, I figured out REALLY quickly that the guy singing kareoke was hiding his identity behind a mask. I found myself rolling my eyes at the screen when the CSI group couldn't see the painfully obvious make up job. That was really the major problem with the episode. It was kind of like watching an episode again when you know the secret--when that happens, it takes away the thrill of figuring out whodunit.



My note to the makeup artists... the eyes. Yep, you can paint a face, put on fat cheeks, a beard, a hat... but the eyes give you away. A fact that Grissom exploited to figure out the secret. Glasses on a couple of the costumes might have thrown us off the trail for a while. The kareoke singer would have been a good choice for big ol' coke bottle glasses. Also, it would have been good for us to not see such close up shots of the singer at first--but have the team do close-up zooms with digital enhancement. What CSI has done so good in the past is to bring the audience closer and closer to the details as each episode unfolds.



Now I did like the little thing they did at the end with the bullet.. that was fun. I liked that Catherine got to look him straight in the face and tell him "You mean this bullet?" That was great!



The writing was fine, acting fine, story fine.. but figuring out the secret too quickly because of an obvious costume, well that kind of spoiled the fun for me.

I never watched CSI before (never blogged either) any way I caught this ep.because i have a huge crush on the Daltry and i must say i have great taste ... oh but i do. At 62 years old that man is FINE.and not so bad in the acting dept. either.The fact he was on this episode was the only reason I got a DVR.(well worth it) I typically enjoy comedy\'s but i enjoyed the csi i may even watch it again.

Excellent episode. I liked how the show touched basis on the crime underworld in Las Vegas. This story was very believable, as crime mobster ruled the city in the 1960s and early 70s. I also loved how Warrick and Catherine were trading stories about Mickey Dunn. Catherine really stood out in this episode. She made the transition from being a flirt to having the last laugh when she revealed to Mickey Dunn that his bullet was removed from his heart and that he would live after all, albeit in prison. I knew Mickey Dunn would end up being alive but I didn\'t realize that he survived a gunshot, and had his car and himself plunged in the water by his own henchmen. Mickey Dunn\'s makeup could have been a little better. He look like a person with too much flouride in his diet! But he was a mobster, not a spy, so he had to improvise. Overall, excellent episode and I can\'t wait for the next new episode.

Classic. A CSI classic.

I'm not sure if anyone else actually feels this way, but I've always felt that the best episodes of these kinds of shows are the ones that are totally unique to the city that it's set in. I mean, usually a murder is a murder, no matter where, but when you have a situation that can only happen in a specific city it really separates each CSI show from the others.

In this case, the whole crazy Las Vegas mob scene of the seventies really was the main character, which was fantastic. The way everyone had their own stories about Mickey Dunn really spoke to how big a deal that era was to anyone from Las Vegas.

Also, Catherine was amazing in this episode, as if she was totally having fun with it. And, I must say, that Marg Helgenberger looks fantastic. If she's had work done, it look great. If not, I hope I look that good when I'm 48.

Roger Daltrey did a great job on the show. A real role with a lot of lines. He's been a great actor for years,and he just pulled it out again. it really showed how great of an actor Roger is to be able to become all of those different personas! I'm so glad he was in almost all of the episode, not just a cameo. The Real Good Looking Boy line was funny.

I thought it was cool how the guy sorry I don't currently remember his name had like different mask thingy's for different characters. Sorry, my review hasn't been very specific so far. I thought it was a good episode to show for Thanksgiving and all. Intriguing and a lighter episode kind of thing. I liked that we learned that Catherine had had a standing date thing with the big mob guy and that the guy hadn't shown on account of a threat made by Sam Braun. Anyway, kind of a bummer that there was no GSR but hopefully we still have plenty more to come. Yeah, okay my review is kind of lame this time but I am like so tired right now and only thinking somewhat straight. Overall, I liked the episode, especially since it kept you guessing on who was the person killing these other people. I loved that Catherine waited until the end to tell that guy that he was going to live. Yeah, that's all my next review will be better.

I thought they gave Roger Daltrey a good material to work with in the episode. He was very convincing as the mobster Mickey Dunn. Although I thought they could've done better with his masks, I realized is television and they have to work through the time and the budget constraints. And the masks did remind me so much of Mission Impossible.

Marg did an amazing performance as well, she went from flirty to mocking at the end scene with such ease and gusto. This episode reminded me of the earlier seasons where the episodes were peppered with witty one-liners and punchlines. Doc decking the paparazzi, Brass whipping up his "Im not a ghostbuster line", and Warrick being all so giddy over an urban legend made this episode enjoyable to watch.

Within the first five minutes of the episode starting, I called exactly what was going to happen almost exactly, which would normally ruin an episode, but even though I knew what was going on, it was still fun to watch Roger act as all the various characters.



The spotlight was by far more set on Roger Daltrey as there was very, very little actual CSIing going on, but that's forgivable as it was just a fun episode to sit back and watch.



I enjoyed the semi-humorous storyline with the 1970's flashbacks, and it was a nice, flashy change of pace for the show.

Lord, where do I begin. I LOVED the golden Cadillac. I'm a Cadillac fanatic. A 2006 Caddy DeVille is my dream car. I'm also a 60's and 70's Vegas history buff too. Roger Daltrey is a rock n' roll god, I love The Who, I own all their albums. Daltrey give a great preformence in this episode. I loved the look on Mickey's face when Catherine told him that the doctors dig that bullet out of him. Mickey knew Sam Braun back in the day. Sam warned Mickey that if "he touched Catherine, I'll rip you into bits". At the end Mickey was flabbergasted when Catherine told him the doctors got the bullet out.

Can I just say that Saeson 7 rocks!!



In the karaoke bar - the minute I saw the singer I was like "Why is he wearing a fake nose?" Sorry CSI makeup department. So, I very quickley figured out that Mickey Dunn was still alive and was killing off people - for some reason. I think they could have come up with a better reason, but it was still great. I liked how the seemingly unrelated cases of finding the gold cadillac and the body inside, the wheelchair hit by the car, and the john killed in the hotel all got tied together. I always like it when the separate crimes end up being one case. Random thoughts - the whole seventies flashback was cool. Catherine at 16, almost getting together with Mickey if it wasn't for Sam, the "Ghost Rider" story, the king of Vegas - it was all woven together very well. And we now know for sure that Sam died. Touche to Catherine for waiting until the last moment to tell Mickey that they got the bullet out and he was going to love a long life. I loved the line about Mob doctors - silly Mickey - did he not get a second opinion? The use of the names of horror movie monsters/killers was neat. I can see Cath watching all those movies with Lindsay and trying not to ruin the death scenes by pointing out the inconsistencies.

Where to begin.



- The obviousness of the make-up



- I'm sorry, those guys are all geeks about something..it really is hard to believe that they didn't catch on to the name thing. Even if it had just been a joke about Mike Myers for the first murder....something to show that the entire Las Vegas crime team does not live in a cultural vacuum.



- The non-identicfication of the body in the car? C'mon? It was just **assumed** that it was Mickey Dunn. They never mentioned the lack of teeth in the body, I guess, because someone in production finally wised up and realized that a body without teeth in his own car would be weird. They'd actually have to, oh I don't know, do some ***actual forensic investigation*** in this ep.



- Wow! The cop goes missing the same night that the mobster does and they **assume**(again) that it was a bad cop and not even consider the possibility that he was the body?



A couple of plusses..



Great casting on the young Catherine, some of the best I've seen...Cold Case could take a few lessons.



It's really cool to know that since I was a tetracycline baby, my bones are going to glow when I die.



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I thought that this episode of just of the charts. I love it when they bring in the history of Vegas, and how things used to done. I thought the history lesson was just fantastic. I thought it was great that Catherine found out that Sam had known that she was his daughter way back then, and was watching over her so closely. It also let the audience in on the fact, in case someone had missed it, that Catherine, although smart, makes bad choices when it comes to men.

I watched this episode with my mom (another big CSI fan) and I have to say, it was kind of a letdown. During the opening teaser, when the guy was singing, I said to my mom "that guy's face doesn't look right, like he's wearing make-up or a fat suite or something." At that point, in the first minute I knew that that guy was going to be the killer and that he was wearing a mask. And the name? Come on, M. Myers? Have these CSI's ever seen a horror movie?

Unfortunately knowing that distracted me for most of the rest of the episode. Every time the cast would ask what the killers had in common I had to force myself not to yell at the TV "cause it's the same person, duh!" (since my mom didn't realise it and I didn't want to ruin the ep. for her). Finally 3/4 the way through Grissom figures it out (my mom turned to me at this point and said "hey you were right!"). That aside, even though I knew the killer was the same guy killing the others, I still didn't know who it was until the big reveal at the end. That was a nice touch. It was also great to hear that even though she didn't know it, Sam Braun had always been looking out for his daughter (and it seems that everyone in Vegas knew that Catherine was Sam's daughter except her). That scene was sweet. In the end, the good second half made up for a disappointing first half. My only other comment was where was Jorja Fox? She was only on screen for a few minutes both this week and last week. Sara is on of my favourite characters and I missed her.

I'm going to enumerate this since I'm too blah to write in essay.



1. Case-wise, it was okay. I like how they had all the evidence but couldn't figure out the identity of the perp until Grissom noticed the facial similarities on the two suspects and the fisherman. It must be really frustrating for them to have everything but got nothing.



2. Is it me, or did Catherine look extremely sexy in this episode?



3. The episode wasn't really exciting. But though nothing really happened, I liked the character interactions in this eppy. Warrick and Catherine exchanging ghost stories, Greg asking Hodges to help him with his "experiment", etc. It was light-hearted, despite the four murders in their hands.



4. Did that paparazzi really think he could outsmart and outrun Doc Robbins, the baddest badass ME in Las Vegas?



Good episode for the characters. :)

What can I say. Every week I tune in, and I haven't been disappointed yet. It doesn't change my enjoyment of a show when I guess the killer before the invesitgators.I guessed that Mickey wasn't dead within the first few minutes of the show, and this was only confirmed when Warrick mentioned the lone police officer who had seen his car. I was like, Ahh, Mickey killed the cop, and he's the one in the car. So I figured he was the killer, though I have to admit that though I knew the first and second killer were the same, I did not guess that Mickey was the first guy they questioned in disguise. When he killed that guy in front of his mother, I was flabergasted. Loved how they worked that. Also loved the glimpse of Catherine's early years. Ingenius how she pulled one over on Mickey. I think Roger Daltrey did a great job. Also have to say I loved, loved the D-Rob moment. Don't mess with D-Rob!!!!

I really didn't have high expections for this episode. Shows that have movie/tv/music stars are generally let downs. Except for the first episode of the season of CSI when Danny Bonnaduchi played a dead guy. He didn't say anything and didn't act, it was great. But as I was saying guest stars are let downs. And I was right on the money with this guy. They story wasn't very good. I knew how it would end by the second commercial break. I mean anyone could tell those faces the weren't real. Who would fall for that. Overall it wasn't a terrible or bad episode, just a ok one. I gave it a 6, this is a first time I gave a episode of CSI this bad of a score. Lets hope there are no more guest stars playing live people.

Beautiful. Wonderfully done. The video clips and pictures were great. Very accurate. Lol, I loved the way Warrick was struting towards the lake side with Catherine. Those pants were fricking hot!! Not very much of Nick inthis scene. I laughed when Warrick told the story of the Ghost Rider. then Catherine told him about how she almost slept with Mickey. OMG those eyelashes on that gurl were fricking awesome!



Kung Fu Robbins! lol, stupid paparazzi, thinking he can sneak past Doc Robbins 'cause he looks old and easy to knock down. Not our Doc Robbins! He showed him who's da man! Wow, special moment for Catherine when she found out that Sam Braun threatened to kill Mickey if he laid a hand on her. Then, the look on Mickey face when he finds out he's going to live to do his time AND when he gets to his cell, ain't no one gonna know who he is. :lol: