CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Finally an episode I could get into in this season! Since Grissom left the season has gone downhill, and not just because William Petersen isn't there any more (although that is a large chunk of it). No, in my opinion the problem has been that almost every episode has been entirely Laurence Fishburne orientated. I don't mind the guy, but where is Catherine? Where is Nick? Where is Greg? Well finally in this episode we get to see them all! Nick and Riley investigate the case of the skydiving incident, Langston does unfortunately investigate the case of the man in the desert (how is he investigating cases on his own already?! It took Greg ages to become qualified enough for that!) and then Catherine and Greg investigate two dead guys by a pool.



I'd still like to see more Catherine, Nick and Greg, but after the previous Langston-orientated episodes, this was good to see. My faith is somewhat restored.

In this episode of CSI, the following happens. We open this episode with some skydivers, well skydiving. One of them has a camera attached to them, and so we see firsthand what happens to him when his shot doesn't open properly. We also see the aftermath, such as the ambulance arriving and when the CSI's turn up to investigate. The team also deal with a man whose body is discovered in the dessert. When Nick investigates the equipment the jumper used, he finds that it has been tampered with. Soon the team have a 3rd case, of 2 men found dead in their house. Soon the officer at the scene collapses and has a heart attack, and then the wife is also rushed to the hospital. The team soon learn that a toxin was dropped over the backyard, and that has caused the heart attacks and led to the 2 deaths. Soon, following the evidence, we see that Nick's jumper case and Catherine's case (the toxin's one) are both related and connected to each other. Soon the jumper comes to and so Jim goes to question him and his business partner. The jumper was the one who dropped the toxin in the backyard, after he was told too by the man who had him at gun point. Although he was flying the plane, the man with the gun actually dropped the toxin. Then the jumper admits that he tampered with his own kit. And so they give Jim the name of the man who dropped the toxin. One of the men arrested is the bodyguard of one of the victims, in the backyard. At the end of the episode we learn how the man in the dessert died. A tortoise was dropped from the clutches of a bird, and it killed him instantly when it hit him on the head.

Ah.. that was clever - so many different things, separate cases and they all had connection or something common in the end.



I most say I liked the camera work and the way it was plotted - so it had all the potential but in the end it felt just like another CSI.. so..



I think the most shocking thing about this episode was how the things are connected, how they all came together and Langston's talks and his lines in the end about his case, about the results and about things falling from sky..



So.. good but still avarage episode in the end..

This episode is a definite improvement over "Mascara." However, I feel that it could have been better. The two bimbos that skydived were totally unnecessary to the episode (A step backwards for former "L Word" star Erin Daniels I would say.). Comic relief is not needed here. The story about the death of the Holy Man was also kind of silly. The episode did focus primarily on the best storyline of the episode, but that should have been the only storyline. One positive note is how the stories ended. I think they all came to a very plausible conclusion. Average.

I thought this episode was very interesting, and alot better than last weeks' ep! To me this ep had more of a feel of an episode from an earlier season, which is great! I loved that this ep was not Ray centered. I loved seeing more of Catherine, it seemed in the last few eps she had disappeared.-The only thing I didn't like about that was we didn't see her till the second half of the ep, but that is ok I guess. I was interested in the cases-all of them, which is something I have not been able to say as of late! I also loved how the two cases tied together. Another thing I loved about this ep was that it was very funny in a lot of parts! Overall a great ep!

I found the script as well as the cases involved on the confusing side and the pieces weren't pieced together until the last few minutes. I found the case of "holy steven" a filler and skydivers out in left field and the introduction of a possible third case half way through. It was pulled together neatly but by then I was already done. I loved Langston pulling the skydiving and the poisening case together boring his teammates and finding closure to his own case. But I loved Catherine's theme of things falling from the sky it does make you wonder what's next.