CSI: NY Season 5 Episode 16

Spoof: At the end of the scene when Danny and Adam are deciding how to get into the vulture's nests to collect evidence, Danny (Carmine Giovinazzo) looks directly into the camera.

Lindsay: Sorry gotta pull rank, Adam.

Unless CSIs are considered of higher rank than scientists, Lindsay is not of higher rank than Adam. Adam is the only one with a post graduate science degree (as learnt in relation with Stella's HIV storyline), making him a way higher qualified scientist than any of the CSIs, who have basic science training besides their police academy degree.

However, Lindsay has been a CSI longer, which would give her seniority over Adam.

Goof: In the scene where Stella and Mac talk about Ella at his office, Stella's sleeves shifted places between shots.

This episode makes a lot of allusions to comic superheroes (Flash, Green Lantern, Robin and the Batcave). The use of frozen frames during the chase sequence seem to be a comic vignettes themselves.

Mac: You've known me too long.
Stella: Don't you forget it.

This is the second time Stella uses the same remark to Mac this season. First time was in 5x06 Enough after she orchestrated the team saving Adam's job.

Danny mentions that he is two months away from fatherhood, making Lindsay 7 months along. 5x01 Veritas occurred in spring, being a continuation of season 4 finale 4x21 Hostage. Then 5x13 Rush to Judgement hinted at Christmas time, making several months go by in few episodes. The current episode caught up with Anna's real pregnancy.

Dr. Catherine Rydell, by means of her "happiness surrogate" business, is trading having sex with men for money. Would that equal prostitution and be illegal even though hidden behind a psychology degree?

Mac is the third character to borrow Danny's "Boom" after Flack and Lindsay.

Goof: Turkey vultures are only found in northern USA during the summer, even though this episode is set in winter/early spring.

Goof: Vultures eat as much as they can on the spot, and they hardly ever bring anything to their nests, let alone big pieces as entire human organs.

The translation of the Greek bit that Stella speaks at the beginning of the episode would be: "That damn thing ruined my coffee".

Goof: Mac checks out the Nanny cam with bare hands. In the next take of the same scene, he has latex gloves on.

Goof: Adam is watching a video that shows and describes turkey buzzard's heads as being bald and red like a turkey's head and he tells Danny they are protected which explains them being tagged. All the live "vultures" seen during the episode have black feathered heads with short necks and don't look anything like the turkey vulture seen on Adam's computer. The vultures on the roof are black vultures.

While it is true that the vultures in the video Adam is watching are *not* the birds they are seeking, it is true that the birds on the rooftop are turkey vultures. Immature turkey vultures do indeed have the feathering all the way up their necks to their head (they lose these feathers later), and do not display a red head as the adults do; that coloration comes in later. You can also see the lower sections of their wings, when spread, are lighter than the upper section (a good sign of a turkey vulture) and the tail is longer than the Black Vulture's tail, and tapered. If you Google Image search for 'young turkey vulture' you will see that the birds on the rooftop really are what Adam said they were.

That said, the last bird seen on the rooftop near Danny could very well be a Greater Yellow-Headed Vulture, as he does display the yellow sides on his face; the others, however, do not.

Goof: None of the vultures shown in this episode are Turkey Vultures. The 'live' ones are Greater Yellow-headed Vultures. The ones in the video, Adam is watching, are African White-backed Vultures.