CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Finally -- an old school CSI. Yes, we miss Grissom and Warrick and Sara but the new team is starting to gel. Langston and Nick are intersting. I bet they're going to butt heads next season. Two Alpha Males. Riley and Greg are funny together. David's first autopsy was adorable. And Dr. Robbins rocks! Funny and intriguing stories. Plus, whoa -- on the tattoo parlor scene and tongue forking. Gross but cool. Loved Greg with the diet club girls, too. And Vartann should be used more, he's great.

Definitely one of the best episodes of the season. This episode reminded me why I have been a fan of "CSI" since the beginning. All the elements that make this show great are present here. A very well written script, terrific acting, turns and twists that keep you guessing and a plausible conclusion. What also makes this episode work is seeing a slight diversion from the norm. This is the first time we have seen Nick in a supervisory role and he did quite well. Seeing Robert David Hall out in the field was also a welcome change. Great episode.

I found the two cases within this episode as different as night and day. I liked seeing Dr. Robbins facing a challenging in regards to the "undetermined" deaths. I LOVED seeing the kinship between Robbins and Langston grow even more. Nick being put into the position of acting supervisor was interesting to see play out with confronted with a new angle. I figured out early that Dr. Shaw was being set up but it was interesting to see by who and why. However, Kayla Nooten's death over a competition over essentially amounts to numbers on a scale, I found just beneath the franchise.

Ok.. I most say I liked the approach of this episode - doc has some unsolved cases and he thinks about investigating it by himself and so he and Cathrine go to little solo what ends up.. mm.. I was really scared when she was attacked and they had really amazing camera work... the whole movement, craziness.. what we later learned was rabies. So, I most say I liked the concept of the episode.. the way the case they had was quite interesting.. those multiply suspects and the way doc and Langston taking the trip to Reno.. great episode in my opinion.

In this episode of CSI, the following happens. We open with a 3rd victim within a matter of weeks; we have all died from unknown toxins. So Doc calls in a favour with Catherine and so she agrees to investigate the crime scene with him. He gets a phone call and so she goes in on her own. As she goes in, the woman who is there attacks her. Doc tries to rush (but les face it, he is getting older). Luckily Catherine manages to grab her gun and just as she is about to pull the trigger, the woman collapses. Doc says that the woman on the floor is dead and notices that Catherine is bleeding, but as she says, it's better than being the other way round. The team is then called in to work the case, and Catherine is taken to the hospital. When the victim's Mrs Kelly's, tox is run it comes back clean. So far she is the 4th person who Doc has done on autopsy on that has no cause of death. Whilst most of the team work on the Kelly case, Riley and Sanders work on a case, where a woman was attacked on a street and is now in the hospital. We soon learn that her name is Kayla, and that she was at a friend's house before she was attacked. But soon she gets worse and Kayla dies. So she becomes David's first solo autopsy case. Soon Doc realises what all of the victims died of, they all died of rabies. He soon realises that Catherine has been bitten and so she is informed and that the only supply of the vacation is in Atlanta. So she is taken to the hospital and Nick is put as acting Supervisor. The team soon learn that Kayla was killed by her two best friends, after they had an argument. A pork chop bone was thrown at her and it cut her artery which killed her. But the girls are informed that Kayla was still alive when they kicked her, and she bleed out and that was how she died. We soon learn that a woman died from rabies, after a transplant. Soon Nick and the team learn that the victim's husband and her mother have been passing the rabies virus on to other people, especially those who were selling drugs. The owner of the tattoo parlour is the ME who performed the autopsy on their daughter/wife and ruled it so that the state couldn't be sued by them for wrongful death.