CSI NY Episode #401 — “Can You Hear Me Now?”

[rat­ings]
For a syn­op­sis and review of this episode please read here.

OK. So I finally con­vinced my wife to watched another DVR’ed episode of CSI New York. Unfortunately we hap­pened to hit on one that seemed to be a “Part 2″ in two dif­fer­ent ways. It seems it was the sea­son opener for Season 4, as well as a related to a pre­vi­ous episode that hap­pened 1 year ear­lier — an unsolved homicide.

The episode itself pro­gressed like most CSI shows do. There wasn’t any crazy endan­gered species DNA break-through in this episode, so maybe that’s the excep­tion in CSI NY — I don’t know. My wife though made the com­ment that things always seem to fall into place very con­ve­niently for CSI NY. I agreed, but I don’t see where that was any dif­fer­ent than any other CSI fran­chise, or episode. The easy way cases progress is one of those things that drive peo­ple who actu­ally do this for a liv­ing crazy — along with the incred­i­bly fast turn around times, and the absolute top of the line equip­ment that is always lay­ing around just wait­ing to be used and never backlogged.

There was some inter­est­ing spe­cial effects as Mac was fig­ur­ing out the blood spat­ter pat­tern. I thought it was well done.

Really the only thing that made me laugh in this episode was at the very end, when the armed sus­pect was being chased by police, the CSI shot him in the leg, instead of center-mass. I don’t know what they teach New York City cops, but most offi­cers I know will shoot to kill an armed sus­pect who isn’t fol­low­ing ver­bal instruc­tions — as well they should, pub­lic (as well as their own) safety and all. But when I saw the shoot­ing take place, and where he was wounded I laughed out loud because I couldn’t get Danny Glover from Lethal Weapon 1 out of my head*:

Roger Murtaugh: See how easy that was? Boom, still alive. Now we ques­tion him. You know why we ques­tion him? Because I got him in the leg. I didn’t shoot him full of holes or try to jump off a build­ing with him.

Martin Riggs: Hey, that’s not fair. The build­ing guy lived.

*Movie quote from here.