CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

UNFRIENDLY SKIES is one of my favorite episodes; in fact, it's the episode that got me into CSI to begin with. I loved the reenactment at the end, particularly Warrick and Nick's bickering and how everyone's role fit them. I also liked Grissom's "all of the above" metaphor, and the team's debate in the final scene really made me think. Personally, even though Grissom made a good point, I'm siding with Catherine. I don't have a kid, but if I did, his or her health and safety would be first in my mind. Barring that, though, I'm not sure how I would react in that situation, but I would like to think that I'd maybe try to find a solution that wasn't so final before resorting to the "other guy or me" situation. All in all, I'd rate it nine-and-a-half first-class passengers out of ten. ;)

The CSI team must figure out how a man died mid flight and all the suspects are the witnesses. There is also some character development when the team is forced to evaluate how they would react if placed in the same situation. It makes you think about what you would do if someone on your flight began to act bizarre, and what the consequences could be. I liked how Grissom did not respond with a sure response placing himself in the same situation, stating that if the other passengers had asked if he was ok, or approached the man differently, the passenger would not have died.

This was an interesting episode. There were so many suspects with there own version of what happened on the plan. After investigating the suspects, it was still hard to determine what exactly had happened. I probably would have reacted the same way if I was on a plane and I felt as if my life was in danger. I don't think i would have tried to kill him though. That would have had to be the last resort. I felt bad for the guy at the end though because was actually sick, but you cant be acting crazy on a plane and think nobody will retaliate.

OK this episode was pretty good. This guy was ganged up on and killed on a plane because they thought he wa trying to kill them all. I loved the scene where sara told grissom that she was part of the mile high club. The whole site your sorce scene was really really cute. I loved how catherine had to "attract them with honey" it was funny. I loved the ending of this episode where they were talking about weather they could do what the passengers on the plane did and Catherine and warrick said they could. And when they asked grissom he said that no one would have died if they would have just asked the guy if he was ok.

This episode, regardless of how many times I see it on DVD, stands out as one of the top 25 in my book. The script is well written, keeping the viewer guessing as to what exactly happened. There was comical relief interplayed in some of the scenes making it a very well rounded episode. The two most riveting scenes was when the team re-enacted the crime with each taking on a role as one of the possible suspects. Though the comedy of who would be who was entertaining to watch, the figuring out of what happened to the victim was very insightful and well done. With each based on evidence gathered and interviews attained, the CSI team was able to piece together the actual events. The viewer is able to see it play out thru great flashback of the actual passengers. One of the best scenes is when Sara pointed out to the team that the man if he died at the door of the plane dies at the door and not 5 feet away. This made it a crime and not self defense as indicated by the passengers. The other scene was at the very end when each member of the team spoke of what they would do if they were in that situation. But Grissom being Grissom pointed out when he was asked what he would do, stated what was never pondered by the others. And that was if only someone intervened on the part of the victim and identify thru his many symptoms the cause for his change in mentation,action, this whole episode could have been avoided. The GSR in this episode was also extremely funny and sweet with both Sara and Grissom exchanging information concerning the "mile high club". The scene was well done and tasteful. It was entertaining seeing each one show some reluctance in providing their own information on the subject and high intrigue of the others. All in all this is one of the best in this incredible show.

this episode was both seriouse and comical between the uneccessary beaten of the passenger by not one but multiple passengers and for what he did nothing wrong but have a nervous breakdown on the plane no one was in any real danger if they would have listened to him when he was giving subtle hints he was ill and helped him out maybe his death could have been prevented as for the comical side there were a few sara and gil's usual sexual/comical flirts in the bathroom and warrick and nick's married couple scene were nick called warrick buttercup and warrick saying he had to covr nick's but as usual and gil walking into the office asking catherine for her shoes her getting mad cause of the pple not helping her out and gil saying she was the pple person

but it was sad in the end the pple walk cause there is no real evidence maybejustice really is blind

This episode has a great story for the CSI’S I like anything to do with airplanes and the episode crime happened on one the CSI’S look into a crime that happened to first class passenger on a plane going to Las Vegas how the set the episode is good with a good balance of plane and interviews with first class passenger of the flight the ending is a partly well done ending not shocking enough but still a good ending my over all rating of this episode is 10 out of 10 the end of the review of Unfriendly Skies THE END.

I have purchased the DVD season sets for CSI recently, and find the show to be a well written series. When I saw unfriendly skies, I thought it deserved to be reviewed. A classical episode to CSI, the intro was riveting, and with a limited number of possible suspects (all the people in first calss), it aloud the audience to play more of a guessing game as to what happened, and gave me a real sense of a typical sherlock murder mystery plot. It still managed to trick us though, when veering away from that typical mystery plot, the revalation showed that it was, in fact, all of the passangers made me really appreciate its somewhat of original take on an overused genre. The sequence of how they recreated the murder sequence was well played out with the manicans, and offered a little humor to show. One of the real "award winning" parts of this episode was the teams recap on the events. They asked each other what they would have done in a life risking situation such as this, what I thought was a ending of a look into human nature and those adrenaline moments of fear, we were closed with a lesson selflessness attitude. "if someone were to have thought of the guy and instead of themselves, asked what was wrong, if he was okay, maybe he would be alive right now". that ending quote was a classical phylisophical moment that I have grown to love about this series. To conclude, a nice addition to the show, and a fine example of why I watch this series, UNFRIENDLY SKIES gets a 9.2/10.

This was one of the first episodes of CSI I ever watched & I suppose I owe a great deal of my adoration for the show to this episode.



Basically, a man is deprived of his ability to think rationally by an illness he is not aware of. The other passengers on the plane are just as confused as he is, but when their lives are in danger, all of them are willing to take drastic measures.



What really got me about this episode was the closing scene. All the passengers were released due to lack of evidence. This actually struck me as shocking because prior to viewing the show, I had always badmouthed series such as CSI by saying that the shows are unrealistic. "Justice always prevails in Hollywood", I would say to my friends. This episode proves that it does not. Granted, this was a special case, but there are others in which the real killer is never found and that's what keeps me watching.



The last scene had the CSI team sitting in the break room over a few cups of coffee, discussing whether or not they'd be willing to kill another human being in order to protect their own lives. This is where that quote in my summary comes into play. As CSI by CSI puts themselves into the passengers' shoes, Gil comes in & says coolly that no one has thought about the victim yet. [INSERT QUOTE FROM ABOVE]



Yes, this was definitely a good episode.

This is one of the best CSI episodes I've watched. This was an episode that lays out all the difficulties in drawing conclusions that you can think of. Witnesses say one thing, which physical evidence does not substantiate, leading to a dramatic reenactment of what probably happened. The conclusion was stunning, but even more heart-wrenching is the discussion among the CSIs at the end of the show. Who is willing to kills, who is not? 2 votes for, 1 against, and 1 on the fence. Gil, expected to be the tie breaker, closes the episode very eloquently: Who is speaking for the vicitim? Why did he have to die? Why did no one ask him what was going on, if he needed help? Instead, they reacted and killed. They killed a sick man who was unable to control his actions. Gil Grissom, as always, has a wonderful humanistic side to him. For someone so rooted in science, he is also a very good person.

Great episode, overall. Very impressed on the way that the team came together (for no reason though) but showed that they COULD work as a team when on a big case. LOVED the scene in between Grissom and Sara, when taking a swab of a certain type of "protein" in the bathrrom, VERY cute! I sensed a bit of jealousy...or was that just me?



Loved once again the re-enactment of the whole thing in between the passengers and the victim, liked the whole re-enactment, played with perfection.



Best part of the episode comes when they are discussing about would they ever kill someone if they were to be in the exact situation. I truly loved how Grissom reponded, he was being his normal over seeing self. Liked this whole last conversation piece...

GRISSOM: It's not about that. You all have different opinions but you've taken the same point of view. You've put yourself in the shoes of the passengers, but nobody's put themselves in the shoes of the victim. That's the point.



SARA: I'm sorry. What are you saying?



GRISSOM: Nobody stopped to ask Candlewell if he was all right. They just assumed, because he was kicking the back of Nate's seat, that he was a jerk -- because he was pushing his call button that he was bothering the Flight Attendant -- because he was trying to get into the lavatory he was making a scene -- because he was going back and forth up and down the aisles, he was posing a threat.



CATHERINE: He was a threat.



GRISSOM: No. He turned into a threat. It didn't have to be that way. People make assumptions. That's the problem. You just did. And I think these passengers made the wrong assumption and now this guy's dead.



WARRICK: Well, if that's your stance how could it have been prevented?



GRISSOM: If just one person had stopped and taken the time to look at the guy to listen to him, to figure out what was wrong with him it might not have happened. It took five people to kill him. It would have only taken one person to save his life.



Now what a view to have on what truly happened. I thought this was one of the best Grissom "explaining" episodes to date.

It's a good episode. Sure. But the reason I am not giving it a big nine, aside from the fact that every CSI reviewer gives every episode a nine, is because in the end, the 45 minutes of watching amounted to nothing.



It's amazing how much the few minutes in which Grissom and his team find out who the killer is, and the cops cuff him and take him away, can leave such a big hole behind when it's not there. I get the story. I get why the people didn't get arrested. And like I said, I enjoyed the episode. But a few wise words from Grissom just don't seem like a suitable ending for me. I watch CSI to see bad guys lose, to see bad guys go away for life. I find comfort in the thought that the only friend that murderer is ever going to have is his cellmate the 600lbs weighing Bubba.



Bring me some closure!

This episode was one of the best of series one because you get to watch how the team all work together so closely on one case and how each of them have their own little antics which is neccessary for the whole group. One of the best moments on this episode is when Grissom and Sara are in the toilet looking for blood etc but instead they mind semen. It is a funny moment with the whole site my source thing between Sara and Gil. Also another funny moment is just little bits with Grissom saying to Catherine your the people person and her quick remark well you tell them that. All in all was a grea episode and at the end while they are all discussing whether they could have killed someone Grissom comes in and sums up the whole episode by saying it took many people to kill the victim but it would've only taken one person to save him. A classic Grissom moment!!!

I must say, that after what happened on the 11th september 2001, I was rather reluctant about taking planes again. That is also why i kind of hesitated to watch \\\"unfriendly skies\\\".

But as soon as it had started, I understood it was worth it.

You can hardly find a funnier episode than this one. first, catherine talks to the air hostess who tells her about awkward stuff people can do in a plane.

There is also a funny scene when catherine, who\\\'s eating a bag of chips, hands it to grissom when she has to ask the passengers to remove their shoes.

I also really enjoyed the recreation of the flight. Sara makes the flight attendant, catherine made the single mom (what an imagination grissom had !), Brass the angry business man, Nick and warrick Max and marlene Valdez ( Nick who\\\'s got the CSI level three seniority has the right to be the guy). Grissom is the computer geek, supposedly because there is only this character left. He starts to sit but the seat dropps automatically. The dummies were pretty cool too, and all the CSI members moving in the plane, with flash backs punctuating their explanations was great.

At the end, we find out that everybody killed the guy,after having feared for their life. it\\\'s quite interesting to see that every CSI differs, each of them has their own opinion about whether what the passengers did is a crime or not. I think it\\\'s made on purpose to confuse the viewers who themself, hesitate. For me, the guy deserved it, he was such an ass ! I still liked the sentence at the end \\\"it took five people to kill him, it would have only taken one person to save his life\\\".

Now, what definitely made me love this episode, and become a particular Sara sidle fan, was the \\\"cite your source scene\\\"; I didn\\\'t expect it at all, and saw in this episode that Sara was not as stuck-up as she seemed. It\\\'s the kind of passage i watch over and over, and the only epiosde I watched nine times.

The introduction to my fanatism.

Not one of my favorite episodes but its entertaining. My favorite part of the episode is at the end when each of the CSIs are asking each other what they would do if they had been in the same situation. The team is cut down the middle about how they would handle the situation and so they ask Grissom. Grissom says that he can't answer the question because they aren't looking at it from the victim's point of view. Grissom says that it took many people to kill the victim but it would've only taken one person to save him.

A man is killed on a plane in first class & it's up to the CSI's to find out if it was murder or not. They have 12 hours to present their case before the Feds take over.



The renactment was one of the best parts of the episode whith Nick & Warrick playing the married couple.



My favorite though was the ending, when the team were discussing if they would ever commit murder or not, and when they ask Grissom he makes them realise that they were thinking exactly the same way the passengers were, when instead they should have been thinking of the victim and how they could have helped him.

The episode had so much character development. We have to remember that although we know everything there is to know about the CSIs this was one of the first episodes so it was of particular interest. The episode had a couple of comic moments (from Catherine getting mad at the passengers to when Warrrick and Nick had to fight over "who wore the pants.")



It had a very serious ending, both in the fact that the killer was in the group and they attacked him even after they had prevented him from opening the airplane door. Grissom's comment at the end of the episode was the most moving of them all. How he would have put himself in the place of the victim, not in the place of the passengers said a lot about his character. Although the episode started off like a regular episode, it had one of the most powerful ending a CSI episode has ever had.

It is clear that the passengers in first-class, as well as some of the flight crew, are not telling the truth, but as Frank Pembleton said once, "Everybody lies." The key is to figure out why.



The survivors, because that is what they are, tell the story from their points of view. We get a picture of a loud, obnoxious jerk who freaked out for no apparent reason and was unfamiliar with common manners.



The reinactment our crimalists go through get the final pieces to fall into place, and the situation does indeed raise the question of what would the viewer do in that situation. It takes the Zen master of criminalists to refocus the story once again.



The question posed is from the survivors' point of view, but Grissom asks his crew and the audience to think of the man who likely died unnecessarily. Grissom, as ever, is a man who has learned to ask the not-thought-of question.



It can be as simple as not taking rudeness personally, yet when you have a rude person that acts like the previously healthy, but rude passengers, it's hard for flight personnel to push past the appearance and go with their gut feeling that one of their passengers has something wrong- be it a stomach ache, a bad business deal they just left, or an undiagnosed disease that is easily counteracted if noticed in time.



It is indeed, a thought-provoking episode and some of the finest, humane writing of the first season. Highly recommended.

This episode was very thought provoking on a number of levels. A man who was suffering from St. Louis encephalitis (unknown to him and the other passengers) was on an airplane in 1st class. While on the flight, his brain was swelling and he had a fever, which caused him to become agitated. He was kicking the back of the seat, pacing back and forth in the aisles, at one point got into a tussle with the other passengers, then tried to open the door while the plane was at 35,000 feet. Four other passengers who'd felt threatened engaged and subdued the man, inadvertently killing him.



Of course, none of this was known at the start of the episode. It was very clear that the flight attendant and the passengers who inadvertently killed the man were covering for eachother. And in truth, they all felt that their lives were in danger. It took a full reenactment for the CSI team to figure out what happened, as well as the results of the autopsy to figure out what was wrong with the man. The thing is, the Clark County Sheriff refused to press any charges because he knew that no jury would have convicted the 5 passengers for what they did.



This prompted an interesting discussion among some of the team: What would you do?



Sara Sidle said she wouldn't have tried to kill the guy even if her life were threatened. Warrick Brown said he would do it and not feel guilty about it. Nick was on the fence, saying he didn't know, it would depend upon how threatened he felt. Catherine Willows said if she felt her child was in danger (one of the passengers who stomped the guy into submission was a Woman MD with a 9 year old daughter on the plane wiht her) she'd kill him and not hesitate. Finally Sara asked Grissom what he'd do and his response was very thought provoking:



"I can't answer that because everyone here is putting themselves in the shoes of the passengers who felt threatened. Nobody is putting themselves into the shoes of THE VICTIM. Why didn't any of the passengers ask this man 'Is something wrong? Are you okay?' It took 5 poeple to murder this man, but it would have taken one person to figure out the man was sick and needed help."



This show was shot and aired about 10 months before 9/11. Even before then, there were plenty of incidents of people acting up on airplanes that would make passengers think "Hijacking" or "Terrorist", but given how things are now, how would we all respond to it?



It reminded me of the incident at Columbine. Everyone was going on about those who were shot dead during that attack. However, nobody in the media has dared ask the question "What was done to those kids who were the shooters that drove them to that point?" I can guarantee you that a number of the shooting victims had participated in bullying of the shooters--big tough jocks, their cheerleader girlfriends, "popular kids in the in-crowd", etc. The kids in the "Trenchcoat Mafia" couldn't strike back and get their dignity back by physically beating up the bullies because they would get killed, so they turned to guns as an equalizer.



I'm not making light of the tragedy, but what I am saying here is that too often times we think of things from the point of view of those who appear to be wronged, but don't consider the whole picture. Grissom's statements give the viewer A LOT to think about...