*I would have enjoyed the B case with the Cold Case crossover more if we hadn't just wrapped an entire two months of Stella!Drama. As such, I felt that it would have made better sense for it to be someone else who had ties to the 10-year-old murder. Not Danny, of course, because we already did that storyline with him (oh, yeah, NY already did that storyline - way to be original, TPTB - although bringing in the guy from Cold Case was a nice touch). Not Lindsay, because that would have made no sense. Not Mac, for the same reasons as Stella. You know what would have been nice? Flack. Flack's DNA found at a 10-year-old crime scene. Why? Because sometimes I forget Flack is even on the show, as little as they have him.
*Speaking of the cold case, it's nice to see that the employees at the NY Crime Lab aren't held to the same standards as each other. In 220, when Danny was the only suspect in a 15-year-old murder, he had to turn in his badge and his gun and was placed on modified duty. He couldn't even help on the case he was working on, which had absolutely nothing to do with the case in which he was a suspect. However, last night Stella was the only suspect in a 10-year-old possible homicide, and she not only didn't have to be placed on modified duty, she got to help investigate the crime she was suspected for! How the hell does that make any sort of sense?
*I totally didn't buy Mac's anger. That isn't to say I didn't believe it - Gary's a phenomenal actor, and he's really good at being pissed off - I just mean that Mac being angry was stupid. He's supposed to be smart and have common sense. He has to look at this objectively: he was the only other person on a rooftop when a handcuffed suspect fell 20 stories to his death. The NYPD would be stupid not to investigate. Instead, he rants about how it's all a political thing, with them caving to media pressure. Um, Mac, are you feeling okay? Are you the same Mac who fired Aiden last season because she broke the seal on evidence but didn't actually do anything?
Let's take a look at Greg on CSI, shall we? He had to face a coroner's inquest because of what happened, and the department still supported him - he had a lawyer and everything. So just because they're investigating Mac doesn't mean they don't believe him, although they're certainly making it seem that way, thereby turning Mac into a martyr. Excuse me while I vomit.
*Did anyone else catch the blatant product placement with Adam and his new Sprint phone last night? Is Sprint sponsoring the walk-on role contest or something? Because that was just tacky. Also, why did it have to be Adam? Last time I checked, he wasn't a CSI. Why couldn't Hawkes call Lindsay and ask for the still photos?
*On the subject of Adam, why is he still getting so much screen time? And why is he contributing so much to the cases? He is a lab tech. NY already did their "character changes careers" when Hawkes moved from the morgue to the lab. In fact, they've now done it on every CSI. They don't need to do it again, although they certainly seem to be heading towards that. Adam annoys me, as most of you know, but I would be able to tolerate - even like - him if he weren't in the episodes so much. I liked him fine in S2. Although if they did put him in the credits, he probably would get his screen time reduced. I mean, look at Lindsay, Hawkes, and Flack.
*Although I will say that Adam looked cute jamming to his headphones.
*It was nice to see Lindsay back this week. (Next week must be the other on-location shoot, which means we'll see very little of her.) Anna looked amazing. You would never guess that she just had a baby a few months ago. Seriously, she looks phenomenal. And I'm glad to see that Lindsay has returned to her pre-303 self. I didn't like moody, angsty Lindsay (mostly because for much of the season, we didn't have an excuse for it). I like this Lindsay, who's witty and perky, making breaks in the case like the sharp cookie she is.
*Not as much Danny as I would have liked (the whole episode could be nothing but Danny, and I'd still say "More Danny!") but he did look very yummy last night. I think he gets hotter every week. I also enjoyed his loyalty to Stella (even though it was Stella) when Valenz was firing questions at her. Danny is a fiercely loyal character, and Stella is a friend, so naturally he would rush to her defense.
I also liked that when he found that piece of information, he called Valenz, and not Stella. If he had called Stella, I would have been like, "Whoa, HOLD it!" But he didn't. And those two actually worked well together.
*The angel case was...interesting...although I was kind of like, "WTF?" at the end. Was the guy so drunk he actually thought he could fly, or is that whole updrafts thing possible? I was an English major, so I have no idea.
*Dear Stella: TWEEZE YOUR EYEBROWS!
*What is it with TPTB and 10 years? Lindsay survived a crime 10 years ago... Stella graduated from police academy 10 years ago... And is Stella having graduated 10 years ago believable? Because Danny's been at the lab at least 6 years, and I always imagine Stella being quite a bit older than him (okay, maybe 5 or 6 years older, because Danny's at least 30). I just always imagined that Stella had been a cop for longer than that.
*I have to say something on the lack of D/L. Given what we know about the finale, there has to be something before then. You can't go for weeks with absolutely no interaction and then toss something like that at us. It's not believable. It's also not believable that these two dating coworkers never see each other. The NY Crime Lab can apparently only afford one lab tech, so wouldn't it be plausible for, say, Danny to be leaving with his results while Lindsay is coming for hers, and they say hi in passing?
I say this every week, but I don't need for there to be much. A little scene, just to acknowledge that, yes, they do know each other, fancy that. They don't even have to be onscreen together. One of them mentioning the other's name will be plenty for my little shipper brain to overanalyze. I just don't think it's smart to have two people quite obviously dating, but only acknowledge it every so often. We often go weeks without them seeing each other and then BOOM! Huge episodes like 318. It doesn't make sense.
Overall, I would have to give this episode an 8. Maybe an 8.5. It wasn't the best episode, but it was certainly entertaining, and it showed lots and lots of Mac in trouble, which I must admit I love. TPTB seem to want to make up for the snooze-a-thons they had during the rest of the season.moreless
Mac believes he can fight the Internal Affairs investigation that is about to be started against him because of what happened to Clay Dobson. Can Mac explain what happened to the suspect he was chasing and will it be good enough for him to keep his job? Also Stella could lose her job as a CSI after a cold case is somehow connected to her.moreless
 Anna Belknap |
Lindsay Monroe |
 Carmine Giovinazzo |
Danny Messer |
 Eddie Cahill |
Detective Donald "Don" Flack, Jr. |
 Gary Sinise |
Detective Mack "Mac" Taylor |
 Hill Harper |
Dr. Sheldon Hawkes |
 Melina Kanakaredes |
Detective Stella Bonasera |
 Danny Pino |
Scotty Valens |
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 Joey Lawrence |
Clay Dobson |
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 Baelyn Neff |
Jessica Simms |
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 A.J. Buckley |
Adam Ross |
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 Mykelti Williamson |
Chief of Detectives Brigham Sinclair |
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 Robert Joy |
Dr. Sid Hammerback |
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TRIVIA (6)
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During the fight scene that takes place in the projectionist's booth at the end of the episode, the sound track in the background is that from Mission to Mars which also starred Gary Sinise.
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We learn that Mac was hired under Mayor Giuliani (that is to say between 1994 and 2001).
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Goof: We learn that Stella graduated the police academy in 1997. However, in 1x03 American Dreamers Stella mentions to Mac that she was working narcotics in 1994.
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Goof: We learn that Stella was in foster care. However, in 1x15 Til Death Do We Part she tells Connor Mulcahy that she grew up in an orphanage until she was 18.
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The song Adam is playing on his cellphone, though it can't really be heard, is Hold My Light by PJ Olsson.
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We learn that Stella was raised in a foster home.
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(Lindsay walks into the lab and finds Sheldon and Adam writing some stuff on the glass board.)
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Flack: Y'know Mac... the uh, the Department decides to go through with their internal investigation, I'm gonna have to answer questions. All I know is what you told me when I got up to the top.
Mac: Like I told the DA, I did not toss Clay Dobson off that roof. This investigation is nothing but a big, political show.
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Mac: I was just wondering. When you were making all those arrests, locking up bad guys, were you imagining a day when you'd be so busy kissing the Chief of Detectives' ass you wouldn't remember what it was like to be a cop?
Capt. Gerrard: You son of a bitch. I don't deserve that. You know I'm here because
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Flack: No ID on the vic. Could be a Michael or Gabriel. They say it's tough to make it in Manhattan; heaven must be brutal.
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Stella: (to Victoria Page/Erin Yates) Sometimes you don't choose your own hell. It's chosen for you. And you do what you need to survive.
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Stella: Today, I'm here because you're the only sister I've ever had. Blood sisters, forever and ever.
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Mac: The only crime here was Toby Finch's misguided ambition.
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Danny: But what did you say?
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Scotty Valens: Ok Stella, you're driving. The way you like it (Chuckles), so lead on.
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Dobson: (to Mac) If I'm going, I'm taking you with me.
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Mac: Good thing you saved me for last, because I'll give you a fight you'll never forget.
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Danny: Stella, look at me. What's haunting you?
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(Looking at the "fallen angel")
Mac: If he didn't fall from some sort of parachute or aircraft . . .
Flack: There's always heaven.
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John Patrick Amedori, who plays T.J. Lindmark, also appears in the CSI: Miami episode Count Me Out.
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Brenna Radding, who plays an eight year old Stella, will retake the same role two seasons afterwards in 5x24 Grounds for Deception.
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Spanish episode title: Caso Abierto, meaning Open Case.
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In this episode, Gary Sinise reunites with Forrest Gump co-star Mykelti Williamson. In the movie, Sinise played Lt. Dan while Williamson played Pvt. Benjamin Buford, better known as Bubba.
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Greece: Wednesday November 14, 2007 on SKAI.
New Zealand: 27 June 2007 on TV3.
Turkey: Monday, July 23, 2007 on CNBC-e.
Norway: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 on TVNorge.
Spain: Tuesday August 7, 2007 on AXN Spain.
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Danny Pino is credited as Special Appearance by.
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This episode is a cross-over with Cold Case.
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Flack: We're still checking missing persons... and Nostradamus.
Michel de Nostredame (1503 – 1566), was a reputed seer who published a collection of prophecies that have since become famous world-wide for -supposedly- predicting numerous major world events.
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Flack: No ID on the vic... could be a Michael or Gabriel.
These are angels mentioned several times in The Bible, (for example, Jude 1.9 or Thessalonians 4:16).
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Mac: Who called it in?
Flack: Father Brooks...a little shaken up...fallen angel thing.In Christianity, fallen angels are angels that have been banished from Heaven because they disobeyed God in some way. Thus Father Brooks being shaken up over a fallen angel in his church.
Also, Gary Sinise starred in the 2003 Hallmark movie Fallen Angel.
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Sid: It seems young Icarus flew too close to tech heaven.
Sid repeatedly refers to the victim as Icarus. In Greek mythology, Daedalus and his son, Icarus , were imprisoned in Crete by King Minos, for whom he built the Labyrinth. Daedalus built wings for them out of wax and feathers so they could fly away. He warned Icarus not to fly too high because the wax would melt, and not to fly too low because the feathers would get wet and heavy. Icarus, however, got carried by the exhilaration of flight; he flew too close to the sun, his wings melted, and he fell into the ocean and drowned.
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