CSI: NY

THE BEGINNING:

Loved the bit with the suit trying to catch the ferry. And he misses it. But then he checks down and sees a body floating, and omg it's a girl in a mermaid outfit. Love how Lindsay has started saying puns too. Stella is on a case again already?



THE CASES:

The first case is the one with the mermaid girl who is found drowned. We first see Danny in the river and all I could think of is "ew he shouldn’t be swimming in that water." I love the reference to the Mermaid Parade. Mac is great because of that. We can see Lindsay with the girl and she is definitely affected by this girl's death. Most likely because her story reminds her of hers. Country girl comes out to the city, not knowing what she is in for. Maybe the part with the dad isn't the same, but it's definitely affected her. You can especially tell that the girl's dad upsets Lindsay. And she definitely fell for his story with how she would call. I couldn't help but feel sorry for the girl with her, "tell daddy I love him."

I had to say when they had the guy in interrogation Lindsay was rather feisty. And you could tell Danny noticed. And later we know he told Mac about it since he was upset about it. What's the saddest about this one is that the guy just randomly did it. He didn't even know her. He had no reason WHY he killed her. There was no connection. And of course Lindsay can't stand it and she follows him to jail because of it. Then the second case is the one with the man who has two wives. I love the expressions of everyone when the second wife comes to the scene. When we see the vic again, I thought ew since the guy shot in the eye. The viewer can note that Stella still looks shaken. I love how the wife, first one, mentions how they are Trinogomous. Yet they do all the "normal stuff"

I did feel as if this case was kind of a "duh" case. I mean it was obvious from the start the wife did it. Beware a woman's scorn and all that. I mean seriously. No wife, especially a newlywed, is okay with another girl honing in on her guy. No way she's felt it's too old already.

The only interesting bit of this case was the whole girlfriend who killed a previous boyfriend because he would've killed her. It's sad to see how much Frankie affected her as when Mac provokes her, you can tell Stella remembers Frankie. You can see she was insulted with how he treated her. And you know that before Frankie, she wouldn't have been like that. While I do feel bad for Stella, I love that Mac provoked her. He got her to slap him and so she would have to go in for assaulting an officer. It's kind of dramatic that she doesn't think Stella believes her. But Stella knows. She knows. And the other small interesting bit was the someone watching. But we still knew that the wife did it. I mean, really.



FAVORITE SCENES:

I loved the bit with the wheat field and how Danny responds to her sarcastic tease with "what's there to see? It's just wheat." Mwahhahahah. He is so cute.



It was cute to see the whole reins bit with Sid and how she says, "you think Danny calls me Montana because I am a 49ers fan?" And Sid says no he's got a crush on you. I love her expression; she seems kind of embarrassed and flattered.



Also loved the scene with Sid commenting about threesomes. And I loved how Hawkes just had this whole expression, as if he was thinking: "TMI!" And then we have Hawkes with Mac in the apartment commenting on how he expected to see something like Robo Spanker, and Mac is all, TMI now.



I loved Mac studying the rape and Adam saying he'll catch him. I love ADAM! He is so cute. You can tell though he is still nervous around Mac. He has been for several episodes. The cutie.



EXTRA BITS:

I love Lindsay. I think Anna Belknap is a wonderful actress. But I mean really. Her whole, WHY scene was a bit much. I didn't see the need for it. A bit like the whole scene with Nick and his inmate. It wasn't necessary.



Pratt complaining about surveillance, which makes me wonder, what is going on. It makes me think Aiden is up to something. She is wily.



OVERALL:

This was an excellent episode, despite the obvious case. I think the funny bits made up for everything. Most definitely. I like the continuing of the Pratt story. He is such a jerk.

It's one of my favourite season 2 chapters!!



Case 1: I really liked that they let us know a little more about Lindsay...I loved the morgue scene with Sid telling Lindsay that Danny had a crush on her....really cute moment!! As well as the wheatfields-skyscrappers moment! The case is quite touching for Lindsay and the victim coming from Montana made it even more personal. I liked the determination she had when she said that is time to get Vachner and get some answers... Really cute that Danny asked Mac to check on her...



Case 2: the threesome...I loved all the smart comments and funny moments we get out of it! I really liked Hawkes in this chapter...

This episode really did an excellent job of highlighting Anna's acting abilities. Lindsay has always been a strong & independent character but in this episode we see some cracks as well as some secrets. I really liked Lindsay's scene with Sid, sharing information about the the blisters on Sarah's hands. Giving us some insight to her background. Her strong conviction of wanting or needing to know why James Vackner killed Sarah is almost tangible. Her two final scenes, the one with Mac & Vackner were great. The one with Mac shows her vulnerability but with Vackner she's strong and angry. Now the whole Tri-monigimus relationship was just plan weird. Interesting but weird. Commitment ceremony? Pinch-hitter...needing all of this within a few months of the relationship, it's just weird. The scene with 3 sinks, hers, hers & his towels was funny as well as the scene with Mac & Hawkes searching the apartment. The one scene I did appreciate was Stella empathizing in knowing what the people you loved can be capable of.

I enjoyed this episode even if the cases weren\'t all that original. The \"A\" case , about a threesome marriage, wasn\'t all that interesting but it allowed the storyline of Stella\'s ordeal to continue from the previous week. The case was interesting if only for the comment that Hammerback, the ME, made to Hawkes, about having a threesome when he was younger. The \"B\" case, while somewhat silly, allowed the audience to see how CSI\'s, in this case, Lindsay, sometimes get emotionally attached to a case. It was interesting to see Lindsay wanting more answers from a killer that showed no remorse or even motive for the murder. It was a good episode, even if the cases themselves were not all that good. The cast made this episode good.

Okay, so we have a case where we see a guy of a trinogamous marriage dead and we have another case where a girl dressed up as a mermaid was found dead in the sea.



First, we see Stella returning with minor injuries on her face. I can still see that she was traumatised over the incident which happened between Frankie and her.



Then we have Lindsay. Lindsay seems to be depressed over the girl's death because they were both originated from the same place. And this was when i started thinking, maybe this girl's death might be connected to the Lindsay's past. It's hard to tell now, but as the episodes go on, i hope her past would somehow reveal.

There was charecter developement hear. Breif, but still confirmed what people like me have been thinking for monthes: Lindsay: You think Danny calls me Montana because I'm a 49er's fan?

Sid Hammerback: He calls you that because he has a crush on you



Lindsay, you can't tell me you seriously didn't know Danny has a crush on you? It's been so obvious, why else would he call you Montana? Lindsay's determination to get the killer and answers showed she was more than just a new girl from Montana. The story about the commited thresome was interesting to play on but the fact that she had killed her boyfriend seemed like a way to make Stella replay killing her boyfriend but didn't really add much to the story. (Not that I didn't appreiciate a bit of continuity.)

I found it interesting to watch Lindsay tried to solve the case of how a mermaid in might have died and kept question why. Mack later tells Lindsay that sometimes you don't ever get to find out what happened in some cases.



Lindsay even goes to see the person who killed Sarah only to find that she won't get the answer she wants.

The storylines were average, but I think the real point was to draw parallels between the victims, and the lives of the two female leads. It could have been done a little more subtly, but I’ve seen worse, and this worked. We got a tiny bit more background on Lindsay, the thing is though, it left me with more questions, not that that is a bad thing. Definitely left me curious and wanting to know more. The scene with the victim’s father was great, very touching. I am not sure that I liked the jail scene at the end though. I like this character, don’t make her go all wiggy over a case, we got that already with Aiden.



What this show had that I Loved:



1. More casual interaction amongst all the characters, banter between them. This is good and something that has been lacking.

2. Mac’s funny reactions to his case

3. Mac getting slapped -- ouch

4. Continuance in story lines -- Stella had a black eye AND flashbacks, now if we could just find out about Louie … haven’t heard about him since Run Silent Run Deep.

5. Robospanker -- belongs under #4, but deserves a line of its own

6. New York skyline

7. Danny’s proud little grin to Flack as he followed a determined Lindsay.

8. Danny’s face as he just watched the final box coming off the conveyer belt and crash to the floor -- subtle, but funny.



I think the scene-stealer award goes to Hammerback. I will be very disappointed if he isn’t in the credits next season. I loved his scene with Hawkes, that was classic. And of course there was also his astute observation to Lindsay regarding Danny. Yes, I liked it …

The trinogamous marriage case was certainly interesting. It reminded me of one of the research papers I did back then. Anyway, it's like what Mac said - jealousy is the oldest motive in the book. I wasn't expecting the legit wife to be the suspect, and I must admit I was a little disappointed with it, but all in all, it was an okay treatment of the case.



The next case with the dead mermaid really focused on Lindsay. We were given a glimpse of who she is; now we know that she thinks every crime has a motive, and when something is done senselessly, she has difficulty accepting it. When she found out the victim was from Montana, she became a woman with a mission and did everything she could to catch the murderer and get some answers. They managed to get the killer, but when he wouldn't give a reason, Lindsay grew frustrated. The smile she had when Sid asked about the victim's hands were a kind of nostalgic amusement. Anna Belknap managed to portray Lindsay very effectively, and I think this was one of her better performances.



Scenes that I really loved:



1. Danny and Lindsay's wheat field conversation at the beginning of the show.



2. The look on Lindsay's face when Sid told her that Danny had a crush on her was priceless.



3. The look on Hawkes' face when Sid started talking about his orgy experience was also priceless.



4. Lindsay talking to the suspect at the end of the show.



This is one episode I'd watch again.

NY after starting out very dark as well as people

Complaining how dark it was. Now is trying to show

A more softer and sensitive side of the cops! As they

Investigate one of the murders. With a woman in, get

This a mermaid suit. Lindsay shows a more emotional side of

Hers as the team is quickly beginning to warm up a bit!

Tonight's show opens with a man racing to catch a ferry, but he just misses it. As he gets to the dock, he notices a woman floating in the river. She's tangled in some seaweed and seems to resemble a mermaid.



We cut to a few hours later and find Danny Messer wearing a wet suit in the river. He's giving the order to a crane operator to haul the deceased woman out while Stella, Mac, and Lindsay look on from the pier/dock. Once the woman is set down on the pier, Lindsay begins photographing her for evidence. Stella receives a page from the department because there's another death for them to investigate. Mac and Stella leave Lindsay and Danny so that they can visit the other crime scene. Danny comes over and points to the cityscape, tall buildings and the river. He thinks it's much more impressive than the wheat fields Lindsay is used to seeing.



We join Mac and Stella at the other crime scene, outside of an apartment complex. A man is lying dead on his front porch, with a gunshot to his right eye. With that sort of precision, Mac thinks the killer must have been waiting for the main at the bottom of the stairs. Dr. Hawkes walks over and joins them. He's been interviewing neighbors, and it turns out the man, Mark Jeffries, was pretty much a model citizen... normal job, he helped old ladies with their packages, etc. Elle Jeffries then comes running into the scene. She's frantic to hear that her husband has been killed. The CSIs are unable to restrain her to keep her away from seeing her husband. Laura Jeffries then comes running in, also frantic about her husband being killed. Elle and Laura console one another, which pretty much puts an end to the theory that Mark Jeffries was a boy scout.



After the credits, we join Danny and Lindsay in the morgue with their deceased mermaid. She doesn't appear to have been in the water for very long and there is no evidence under her fingernails. Danny notices that she was strangled by someone's hands... the marks are clearly defined around her neck. Danny leaves to see if anyone filed a missing person's report, leaving Lindsay to continue process her body. Lindsay photographs the woman and notices bizarre scars and calluses on her hands. She proceeds to remove the mermaid costume from the woman's body and finds a $100 bill and a check folded and tucked inside her bra. Afterwards, Lindsay washes the victim down, removing a lot of the dirt and grime.



Over at the other crime scene, Mac interviews Elle Jeffries about their "committed threesome," while Stella interviews Laura Jeffries in another room of the apartment. They're not able to learn a whole lot, however.



Back at the morgue, Sid tells Lindsay that the woman was killed on dry and and she wasn't killed very far away from the East River, which is where they found her. She wasn't in the water very long, likely killed the previous night. He then points out the unique scaring and calluses on her hands. Lindsay saw them earlier when she examined her, and she knows what they are from... working with leather, making saddles. Lindsay used to do this when she was younger, so she knows all about it.



Elsewhere in the lab, Lindsay examines the check the woman had tucked away in her bra. Since the ink is no longer readable because of the water, Lindsay tries to extract any ink remnants and is able to come up with the name of the person who signed it, Paul White.



Shortly thereafter, Lindsay and Flack pay Mr. White a visit. He reveals the dead woman's name, Sara Butler. He had hired her to sing for his daughter's birthday and slumber party. Lindsay then asks him about the $100 bill Sara had in her bra. Paul White tells them it was because Sara's bag of clothes fell overboard and sank like a rock. He felt bad having already written the check, so he gave her an extra $100. He offered Sara her jacket for her walk home, but she told him it wasn't far. Flack then asks Paul where he keeps the company boat, which is where the party took place. He tells him it's docked off the Fulton pier.



Across town, we join Danny and Lindsay, who are processing the boat for any evidence they can come across. Nothing seems out of the ordinary until they get to Paul's bedroom. There is semen in the bed and a small piece of her mermaid costume is found in the bed as well. Danny thinks Paul may have hired Sara for more than just singing...



Back to the lab, Sid pulls the bullet out of Mark Jeffries' eye and hands it to Dr. Hawkes. They both find it odd that the bullet is so deformed. It wasn't embedded into Mark's brain and didn't hit any other bone. Sid starts discussing his own sexual past involving threesomes and Dr. Hawkes doesn't feel like listening, so he leaves after finding out there's a trace amount of something on Mark's fingers.



Stella pays Dr. Hawkes a visit to find out more about the bullet from Mark's eye. They conclude it came from a .32 automatic, so they know what to look for now. One problem still remains, however, the severe deformation of the bullet. The only explanation is the bullet hit something before it hit Mark.



In the interrogation room, we find Flack questioning Paul White about the semen and piece of Sara's costume found in his bed on the boat. He's less than cooperative at first, but he eventually admits to having sex on the boat with someone, but not Sara. It was one of the parents of the children who were with his daughter. He begs Flack not to tell his wife about it. Paul tells him the only way the piece from Sara's costume could have gotten there is when he allowed her to change in there; he swears he didn't touch Sara.



Elsewhere in the lab, Mac tells Stella that their group of three wasn't always a threesome. Mark married Elle before he married Laura. Laura has a bit of a rap sheet. A few years ago, she killed her boyfriend in self defense and wasn't prosecuted. During this, Stella has a flashback to when she shot Frankie in the chest in self defense.



Arriving at the Elle and Laura's apartment, Stella and Mac meet Kevin Davis, a friend of the Jeffries family. They ask him if it's true that he and Elle were having breakfast the other morning, and Kevin says it's true. Laura then comes out and tells the detectives that they were just about to leave, but Kevin tells her it's okay, they can catch up later. He kisses her and leaves. The CSIs ask Laura about their relationship, specifically about the fact that Mark and Elle were married for a year before she met them. They think that she may have pressured Mark to get a divorce and that maybe he didn't treat her like he treated Elle, his lawful wife. When Mac asks her if they can test her hands for GSR, Laura tells him he's out of his mind and starts to leave. Mac and Stella pressure her to let them test her for GSR. When that doesn't quite work, Mac brings up the fact that she shot her boyfriend, not a happy subject for Laura. She slaps Mac across the face, so Stella places her under arrest for assaulting an officer, thus allowing them to test her for GSR.



At the station, Stella processes Laura's hands for GSR and it comes up positive. During which, Stella and Laura talk about relationships. Killing a boyfriend in self defense is something both of these women have in common.



Back at the lab, Jack Butler, Sara's father, comes in to see her body. He talks to Lindsay and gives her a brief history about their relationship. Jack was upset when Sara wanted to leave and go to NYC. He forbid her to come home when she left. He's clearly regretting his attitude and behavior now.



Lindsay and Danny process Sara's mermaid costume. Lindsay finds one a string with no sequins left on it, but it doesn't make sense because there was only one sequin found on the bed. If they find the other sequins, they'll know where Sara was murdered.



We cut to a park, full of officers and taped off with police tape in grids. Lindsay, Danny, and Flack walk the park, marking locations of evidence. They find additional sequins, a hair clip, and evidence of a struggle near a tree.



Back at the lab, Lindsay processes the hair clip and finds a piece of hair and a fingerprint. The print matches a James Vackner. He's got a violent criminal history, and it seems to only be getting worse.



Danny and Lindsay pay James Vackner a visit at his job. He's stacking boxes of something fragile in a room below ground when they find him. He admits to touching the hair clip, but he says it was lying in the grass, but Lindsay and Danny believe he's being less than honest because the hair clip didn't just have a fingerprint, but a palm print. When James drops a box of the fragile contents, he kicks the box, causing dirt and tree bark to fall out of the sole of his boot. When James leaves, Lindsay collects the debris and puts it into an envelope to process later.



Back at the lab, Danny and Lindsay process the debris they collected.



Elsewhere, Stella tells Mac that she found GSr on Laura's hands, but it was in an odd place, on the bottom of her hands, along her pinkie, not the normal place. Mac tells her to assemble a .32 and go to the firing range and see if she can come up with an explanation. Mac is then visited by a counsellor who's angry about one of his clients being mistreated. He's filing a complaint with the department because his client has been charged twice and is being charged a third time. This has nothing to do with the cases featured in tonight's episode, by the way.



At the firing range, Stella is about to fire a .32 to come up with an explanation for the odd place for the GSR. At first, she hesitates because of the memory of the last time she fired a gun. She gets up the nerve to fire the weapon in a normal hand position and does the same with the weapon held to the side. She's unable to explain the GSR on Laura's hands with her test firing and feels feels disappointed.



Dr. Hawkes and Mac stop by the Jeffries' apartment to see if they can find the weapon used to kill Mark Jeffries. They search the apartment and are unable to find the weapon. While searching the bedroom, Mac notices a folding chair is out of place, clearly not going along with the rest of the decor. He uses his UV light and finds semen on the carpet in front of it. He theorizes someone likes to watch while the threesome has sex.



Back at the lab, Stella tells Mac about the GSR results and he agrees that she got the GSR from secondary transfer. She remembers that when Laura slapped Mac, she touched his shirt with the back of her hands. Stella tests Mac's shirt and it comes back clean. This means she had to have gotten the GSR between being arrested and being tested.



To test a theory, Mac and Stella test the squad car Laura was driven away in. It comes back positive for GSR. The previous occupant was a man arrested for a shooting. The GSR on his hands was transferred to the backseat, since he was handcuffed. When Laura got in, she sat in the same place, also handcuffed, and the GSR transferred to her hands. Mac then receives a call from Dr. Hawkes, who tells him the semen on the carpet in the bedroom is from a different male, making this a foursome.



We join Stella and Mac interviewing Elle Jeffries in her apartment. She says it belongs to the "pinch hitter". He's only used when called upon and is allowed to masturbate if not called upon, which seems to be the case here. Elle confirms the identity of the pinch hitter, Kevin Davis.



Dr. Hawkes and Mac pay Kevin Davis a visit at the bank he works for. They want to ask him some questions, but they're not comfortable talking to him while he's armed. Kevin wears a .9mm on his hip. They talk about the foursome he's been a part of. He says he didn't kill Mark. Elle apparently approached Kevin about having a relationship with him, and he didn't exactly turn her down. The deal was no one was to know about their relationship, and Kevin agreed, thinking "why ruin a good thing?" Mac and Dr. Hawkes leave after giving him his gun back.



Flack and Danny compare notes about the death of Sara. Danny found oil on James Vackner's pants, matching the oil from the East River, placing him at the scene of the crime. Lindsay comes in and says the next step is to arrest James and find out why he did it. Danny and Flack follow Lindsay out the door.



In the interrogation room, Danny and Lindsay question James Vackner about the murder of Sara Butler. They show him the evidence they have against him, and James isn't in the talking mood. They believe he killed her in the park and dumped her in the river. Lindsay presses him for a reason for the murder, but she doesn't get an answer.



Elsewhere, Dr. Hawkes tells Mac that he examined the bullet from Mark Jeffries and found trace amounts of copper, meaning it was jacketed and it would make it a .9mm not a .32. The round likely lost its copper jacket when it passed through something and then hitting the victim.



Back at the apartment, Stella, Mac, and Dr. Hawkes are looking for the copper jacket. Hawkes finds blood and GSR on a column to the handrail, going up the set of stairs to the apartment. The victim's hand had trace amounts of newspaper ink. Mac theorizes the bullet passed through a morning newspaper, losing its copper jacket in the newspaper. Sure enough, Stella finds a newspaper nearby with the copper jacket inside and says "ripped from the headlines."



We join Elle being questioned by Mac and Stella in the interrogation room. The blood Dr. Hawkes found matches Elle. They believe she seduced Kevin Davis with the intent of stealing his gun to kill Mark and then returned it while they had breakfast together, without Kevin knowing it was gone. What was the reason for the murder? Mark always treated Elle as second best. He had sex with Laura first.



Mac drops by Lindsay's office to see how she's doing. She's looking at photos of Sara Butler on her computer. Danny had told Mac Lindsay was having a little difficulty with Sara's death, what with them both being country girls and all. He tries to convince her to try and put it behind her as it'll haunt her. He still loses sleep over some of his cases.



Not getting a reason for the murder of Sara Butler, Lindsay pays James Vackner a visit in prison, but he's still not willing to give her a reason, further upsetting her.



Mac is in his office, taping up photos of a woman killed. He's visited by one of the lab techs. They're trying to find out if DJ Pratt had something to do with other murders. The counsellor who visited Mac earlier is Pratt's attorney. Before the tech leaves, he assures Mac that they'll come up with the evidence that puts him away for good.



Tonight's episode was above average, but lacked the strong emotional acting that was in the previous few episodes. There was some emotion, however. Lindsay's reaction and subsequent frustration with not getting a reason for Sara Butler's murder was understandable. Also, we got to see Stella struggle a little with getting past killing Frankie, although I'm not sure how much of this we'll see in future episodes. I don't suspect we'll see much of it.