Revenge Is Best Served Cold

Season 3, Episode 1, Aired
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Catherine and Nick investigate street racing after one of the drivers is found dead out in the desert at an abandoned airstrip. Back in town, Grissom and his crew look into the death of a poker player who suffered a violent convulsion in the middle of a high-stakes game with three others. As always, things aren't what they seem.moreless
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  • Revenge sounds good, but does it make you feel good?

    8.5
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    By OnePerCentClub, Dec 29, 2010 Report Abuse
    Grissom's case was interesting specially with the cause of death. A piece of lead accumulated over years of eating chocolate is bizarre, but is it possible? Even when Sara has been a CSI for 3 years now, she looks and sounds like a trainee, even asking more questions than Greg, who's only a lab technician. Not only in this episode but in probably the first half of the season. I guess her attitude didn't help a lot in her first years.

    Nick seems to progress more quickly than Sara and Catherine is a good teacher. Unfortunately here they had to deal with what seems to be normal people with cold hearts.moreless

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  • This episode was interesting

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    By ipodfanatic000, Feb 29, 2008 Report Abuse
    This isn't one of my favorite episodes but I love it when they give the characters something fun to do, it's awesome. I love Catherine's reaction when she was racing Nick to try and prove what really happened to the vic. Nick laughing to himself and Catherine throwing her hands up yelling Thank You and Good Night. That was entertaining to me. And I loved the fact that Carmine Giovinazzo who plays Danny Messer in CSI NY was in this episode now I wish that when they have a a character on one show and he ends up playing a lead character on a spin off they should give some background on him that has to do with what he did in Las Vegas years before he was in New York, say he was on a vacation, and just decided to do street racing. Yeah Carmine was in season 3, which CSI NY didnt start until about a year after this episode, but when your watching a rerun of CSI, and see one of the detectives from CSI NY on the episode it catches your attention. These are all suppose to coincide with each other.moreless

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    By CTUBauer24, May 20, 2007 Report Abuse
    Nick and Catherine look in to a murder of a street racer while everyone else looks in to what happened to a poker player during A hight stakes poker game over a good episode out of the two stories of the episode I like the race car story a little bet better whit no reason I think we get to see how different Catherine and Grissom are in the episode which I notice a little is she liked driving the car and Grissom enjoyed be in the lab and would not want to race a car over all a good episode with to good cases my rating for the episode is 8.9 out of 10moreless

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  • A reasonable episode.

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    By seani1984, Mar 12, 2007 Report Abuse
    Although I personally enjoyed this episode, I was hoping for a bit more. Its the first in a new series, but nothing seems to have changed from the last series. No character development, no cliffhangers, just another installment that follows the same formula that it always has. Two unusual deaths, two lying suspects and as always the evidence leads us to the truth. Though I did enjoy the glimpse behind the scenes at the casino. The cast do a reasonable job and there's nothing especially bad about the episode, its just after three seasons you'd hope for something more, something different.moreless

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  • Season 3 starts off with a bang!

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    By aussieforgood, May 15, 2006 Report Abuse
    A great way to start season 3 off.

    This epsisode was probably one of the best in this season. The cases were interesting and fun and we get to find out an interesting fact about Grissom, he played poker in college to finance his first body farm! I'm finding it hard to imagine him playing poker.

    Was that jealousy I spotted at the beginning of the epsiode when Hank asked Warrick to say hi to Sara? Grissom's head turned so fast as he glanced back at Hank after he heard him say that, he probably couldn't believe his ears.

    Greg was too funny with the whole Tupac thing & flirting with Sara who seemed to enjoy it. Both scenes were cute.

    Cath seemed to be flirting with Nick too, and the race was one of my favorite scenes in the epsiode.moreless

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    • Goof: Stokes tells "Michelangelo" he is looking for a blue Honda, blue rims, blue tint. The picture Michelangelo shows Stokes and Willows is an Acura RSX, not a blue Honda. Edit
    • Goof: In the final flashback in Nick and Catherine's case, after Tony confesses, you can see the ramp used to flip the car. Edit
    • Goof: At this point in the episode, the team realizes that they aren't chasing eyedrops anymore, but lead. They are watching a surveillance tape from the casino. Grissom says, "Okay it's the last hand. I'm Doyle. I've been sitting in this chair for the last 13 hours (he really loves the game huh?)." At this point the waitress shows up on the tape. Herein lies the goof. Grissom said it was the last hand. If you remember from the beginning of the episode, the waitress comes in, serves the drinks to the loudmouth kid, who tips her, then she goes to Doyle and serves his drink FROM HIS RIGHT. In the video tape of that hand, you see the waitress come in and serve him his drink FROM THE LEFT. Then she glances at the loudmouth kid, and the episode goes on. Edit

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    • Tony: So I went to a couple of events and hooked into the world. I found out within one hour who killed her. Nick: So, let me get this straight. You decide to become one of them. You buy a car with your mother's death benefit toss your hat in the ring and wait for your shot. Catherine: Revenge is best served cold. Edit
    • Catherine: Well, the only void is in the driver's seat. Means it was occupied by our victim, Jace Felder. So he was shot in the head, left to right. Spatter on the passenger door is from the exit wound. Nick: Well, what about the rest of this blood? It's everywhere. Catherine: He was shot while the car was in motion? Bled out while the car was rolling? I want to meet this killer. Edit
    • Catherine: And you only lay down treads when your wheels aren't rolling smoothly. Panic braking? Sudden boost of acceleration? Race? Nick: I think so, yeah. Catherine: Drag racing? Nick: Or street racing. There's a reason it's illegal. Catherine: Yeah. Kids end up dead. Edit

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    • Sara: I got chocolate. Warrick: What color is it? Sara: Green ... You know what they say about the green ones. Green M&M's have long been the subject of myth as they are considered, by some, to have magical aphrodisiac powers. As to whether or not this is true is, of course, subject to interpretation. The myth was fueled in the late seventies and early eighties, as rock and roll performers , such as Van Halen, requested bowls of Green M&M's backstage. The color green as long been considered a symbol for fertility. Edit
    • Catherine: From what I hear, Jace Felder was ... Mario Andretti. Mario Andretti is an Italian American racing driver, and one of the most successful Americans in the history of auto racing. Edit
    • Robbins: You know why Steve Wynn hired Bobby Baldwin to run The Nugget, then The Mirage, The Bellagio? He was a great poker player, Great Thinker. Stephen Wynn is a casino resort developer. He is credited with spearheading the dramatic resurgence and expansion of Las Vegas, Nevada in the 1990s. Bobby Baldwin is a professional poker player, and casino executive. In 1982 he became a consultant for the Golden Nugget casino, and in 1984 was named the president. He was selected to head The Mirage in 1987 and was named as the president of the Bellagio hotel and casino in 1998. In 1999-2000 he was also the Chief Financial Officer of Mirage Resorts under Steve Wynn; in 2000, upon the merger of Mirage Resorts and MGM Grand, he became the Chief Executive Officer of the Mirage Resorts subsidiary of MGM Mirage. Edit

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