"CSI: NY" Buzzkill (2007)

User Rating:

7.5/10   

Director:

Jeffrey G. Hunt

Writers:

Anthony E. Zuiker (creator) &
Ann Donahue (creator) ...

TV Series:

"CSI: NY" (2004)

Original Air Date:

14 November 2007 (Season 4, Episode 8)

Genre:

Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Plot:

CSI investigates the death of a woman who was part of a live billboard on Times Square, and a shooting during a robbery where the victim's "boyfriend" may be part of the crew. |

Plot Keywords:

New York | New York City | Crime Scene | Investigation | Detective

Cast

Gary Sinise	...	Detective Mac Taylor
Melina Kanakaredes	...	Detective Stella Bonasera
Carmine Giovinazzo	...	Detective Danny Messer
Anna Belknap	...	Detective Lindsay Monroe
Hill Harper	...	Dr. Sheldon Hawkes
Eddie Cahill	...	Detective Don Flack
A.J. Buckley	...	Adam Ross
Robert Joy	...	Dr. Sid Hammerback
Emmanuelle Vaugier	...	Detective Jessica Angell
Kerr Smith	...	Drew Bedford
Marcus Ashley	...	Nick Conway
Erin Cottrell	...	Patty Nelson
Michael Mantell	...	Dr. Gavin Moore
David Clayton Rogers	...	Paul Larkin / Campbell (as David Rogers)
Scottie Thompson	...	Lia Ramsey

Filming Locations:

Times Square, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Company:

CBS Paramount Network Television

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: The flashback shows the tennis ball machine launching the balls upward at a 30 degree angle, yet Lindsay's laser points straight to the building.

Movie Connections:

References "Dexter" (2006)

Soundtrack:

Hunting for Witches

A Lot To Digest In A 40-Minute Story

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This episode was fair, not bad but nothing exceptional. In the last segment, it offered a little too much information too fast, which it makes tough to digest the story and get involved with it. It seemed like every 30 seconds there was new angle, a new twist. Making the above worse was the fact they had two stories so each one felt rushed. I know I was tired when I watched this particular show, but I'm sure I wasn't alone in feeling this way.

The first story started in typical CSI-Miam-type fashion with a beautiful girls gyrating to rock music and dressed in skimpy clothes in a spectacular background. In this case, one of the girls slid down a tube into a gigantic martini glass and began dancing. All of this was high atop the Manhattan's Time Square skyline in front of a billboard. Soon, something was shooting something at all the people and the girl fell into the water and was somehow electrocuted.

The second story was about a burglary gone bad with a woman being killed because she had identified the bandits, who had already shot someone else. Tension is added to the story later when the doctor trying to save the life of the girl gets threatening notes about his brother being kidnapped and harmed if the surgeon saves the girl's life. CSI members have to solve the case and rescue the kidnapped at the same time! Both of these stories wound, as I mentioned a bit too complicated, especially the one of the girl in the martini glass, who has so many wounds on her that "Sid," the medical examiner, keeps having to change his story on what he thinks killed the woman.

Note: This is another episode where we see "Det. Jennifer Angel," who is slowly getting a few more lines in episodes. She's played by Emmanuelle Vaugier, a pretty and sexy actress who reminds me a bit of Vanessa Ferlito, a regular (and a favorite of mine) in the first season of CSI-New York.