CSI: NY

We see a little in to Stella's background, not much just a peak. Mac & Stella initially only occasionally crossing paths, which was interesting in and of itself. But ulitmately they're cases are linked. Trina Halston a single pregnant dead woman, who worked at a Catholic church, this could be sticking. The scene with Paul in the interview room I thought was great action.Luke Sutton who was into computer gadgets and knew about illegal trading missing turning up dead, burned to death in his burned out car. Mac on the trail of the infamous "Charles". I loved the twist that "Charles" ends up being imaginative and the reasons or cause behind both Trina & Luke's deaths was mental illness and the want to stop the spread of it. Have I mentioned I love Hawkes as the ME. He has a great thought process and great instints, maybe he should start working in the field. LOL

I loved this episode. I thought the very beginning, with the traders showed precisely how crazy Wall Street is. And then it all being empty was just a shocking sight to see in the middle of the day. I loved the work with the robot. And it seemed like it was moving so slow, and it was, but it all still happened in a minute. And had to. It was brilliant to see them do that sort of suspense. The church scene struck a chord with me. I thought it was a little too sentimental to see her in church, but it was a little okay and nice to be that sweet too.



I noticed they did this in the last ep or the ep before that, where they felt this need to do a sort of recap and go over with the whole situation. I must say while I find it a little insulting (because it feels like they are saying well people have the attention span of gnats) it does help in the very intensive cases, as this turned out to be. I loved how the two cases turned into one in this. I mean, we always see that happen in CSI but it hadn’t happened here yet.



We have the one case with the pregnant woman dead off of a church- but the death reads wrong- it doesn’t seem suicide. There’s no note, and it’s not leaving a message in the death itself. Then they find the merc who is found dead in his car. Immediately it goes to murder.

Both cases end up being more complicated than they thought! The dead merchant is actually a suicide of sorts. He kills himself because he’s a schizophrenic and that’s what the voice inside him says to do. He also kills the girl because he doesn’t want there to be another schizophrenic alive (the girl was pregnant with the brother of the man who killed her). Both brothers were schizophrenic, but it seems the one was handling it better than the other. I loved seeing the teamwork. How they each took separate things. Before that I couldn’t help but think, “Poor Stella, she has to work a case all alone!” It was nice to see them at things work on different things that they seemed to excel at.

Three Generations are enough is one of those episodes that makes you wonder how far should people be controlled. Whilst I don't doubt having a mental disorder is no picnic what right does society, or in this case reletives have in controlling the passing on of genes, especially those which would mean that the child would not fit into the specturm of 'social norm'. Whilst the story of three generations of mental problems is a harsh legacy that is no excuse to kill the innocent party, in this case the pregnant woman.



In this episode Mac seems somewhat emotionally detached as he does in most of the episodes. I don't know weather this is the way he is or just the way the character is.



Pretty good episode honestly.

Nice show. I'm glad to see that this series can pull off a connecting episode, where two cases work out to be just one. The cases were smart, challenging common perceptions and issues regarding both the Church and mental illness. The first scene was brilliant, as it played into both the feel of the show and the new fears of NYC.

It was nice, for once, to see a person suffering from schizophrenia treated as a person with a treatable problem, instead of just a barrier to solving a case. It was also a nice aspect of the episode that schizophrenia, and the common misconceptions and fears of schizophrenia, was part of the case, not just a sideline.