CSI NY Episode #420 — “Taxi”

[rat­ings]
Incredible. Another great ani­mal foren­sics show. So last week it was incred­i­bly rare bird feces that broke the case, and this week it was some­one eat­ing white throated mon­key meat, which lead to a case of mon­key pox, and even­tu­ally a con­fes­sion to the mur­der of a police officer.

But the best part of NY this week was Mac doing a Mario impres­sion from the old Donkey Kong video game. There he was leap­ing up the stairs, while the Cabbie Killer was throw­ing bar­rels (kegs) down on him. The ONLY way this episode could have been bet­ter was if Mac had grabbed a huge wooden mal­let and busted the bar­rel up.

My wife pointed out what makes NY dif­fer­ent then the other CSI fla­vors. That being the huge log­i­cal leaps they make in solv­ing the crime. Now I started being a Batman reader right around the death of Robin 2 (Jason Todd), so when Mac man­aged to pull the loca­tion of the the killer’s “office” out of Reed’s blog mes­sages it didn’t bother me. But when they man­aged to piece together where Charon lived, based on Reed’s obser­va­tions while in the trunk of the car, cou­pled with the candy corn fac­tory smell, a gravel road, a bill­board, and a shame­less plug for Google Earth, it’s like they don’t even try to write this show for an intel­li­gent audience.

I have to keep watch­ing CSI NY, just to see how much and how often they insult the intel­li­gence of their audience.