CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

It was good episode but I don't like the of separation the CSI team.

I think they need to be together but if in some episode they will be reunited so I think that after all that idea of the separation of the CSI team is actually really good and creative.

The execs timed this one just perfect: Don't make it the 100th ep because it'll kill the mood...Air it Thanksgiving Thursday and "nobody" will watch it, therefore prompting less complaints all at once...

Riiiiight...I saw it the day it aired and fought my damnedest not to complain too much...

Not only was the case boring, but it was entirely predictable...as was the split-up of the team...in the eps leading up to this one the teams pretty much foreshadowed how they would end up...at first I thought the writers made a bad move splitting the team up...as we all believed the teamings would become redundant and uninteresting...yet, senseless as they may be, these writers are clever...coming up with "excuses" to have the swing shift and night shift work intertwining cases...I'm not buyin' it!

I don't like this episode because it changes EVERYTHING and that's not cool. I want to see Grissom and Catherine work together, they're like a married couple and then the writers just decided to divorce them?! No!! I want the team together minus that Sophia woman, she doesn't really move the storyline. It's heartbreaking to watch.

This episode marks a dramatic change for our favorite CSIs, and Ecklie finally gets some revenge for Grissom\'s involvement in a 1st season case that Ecklie botched and nearly resulted in the wrong man going to jail.



A 3rd Watch shift has been created and Catherine Willows, Warrick Brown and Nick Stokes have been assigned to it, while Greg Sanders, Sofia from the day shift and Sara Sidle now make up the graveyard shift. Ecklie\'s politicking and pursuit of Grissom is relentless and Grissom and his team end up paying the price.



An important lesson here: all evidence is important and needs to be investigated. However, some of the bags that are used to preserve evidence could compromise it, as we saw with the fingerprint of the actual murderer.



My only complaint with this episode is the B-plot they make Sara and Greg investigate that only serves as time filler. This ep could be done without it, that\'s for sure.



Watch out Ecklie: you\'re gonna get bunged up the yin-yang the next time you screw up!!!

This was an episode which caused me to cry. They changed the teams. I didn't think it would ever happen especially mid season. It might've been for the best especially since after Grave Danger Grissom demanded he get his team back. I thought it was wonderful. On the splitting up no one would have predicted it which made it such a hit! It was the turn that the show needed to define the line between the spin offs and original. By the end of the episode everyone hated Eckley Catherine finally got her own team, and Greg became the newest CSI!!!

Hmm... Nana Visitor only got one scene. That really sucked. She's a talented actress and she got one lously short interview. Oh well... (don't know why I have this Nana Visitor craze lately).



The plot was a little shaky. I really don't feel like anything happened other than the teams being split up. Boy, do I hate Conrad Ecklie. I just want to bash his head up against a brick wall. The character is portrayed very well.



Is it really possible for a fingerprint to take that long to develop? That was a pretty crazy idea. Ah, the wonderful world of forensics. All in all, not one of the best, but it was a good outing for the series.