"19 Down..." Discussion *SPOILERS*

By the way, nobody mentioned (least I didn't see it) the line where Grissom says, "I've been thinking.." then he adds.."more than usual!" That cracked me up:lol: I thought that was one of the funniest lines from him I've heard in a long time. Still has his sense of humour!

I hope he takes Hank with him!

 

You know I missed that line, and I rewatched the episode twice. But just reading it is cracking me up.

 

I think 19 down refer both to the crossword puzzle and the Dick and Jane cases. Grissom threw away the puzzle because; he could not solve 19 down, too many mistakes in the others. Ian and Justin was the 9th couple to be killed. Ian had 9 post-mortem stab wounds on him. That makes 18 people killed.

At the end of the episode, they found a male victim with 10 stab wounds and no female victim was found – that makes 19 down. Most probably there was only one body because the Killer did not have an accomplice to help him as he was acting on his own.

P.S - what is Ship news? For i have more to analysis to write. So where can i post it. Sorry i am new still trying to figure out what is Shipping News and so on

 

Ship (aka Relationship - Gil/Sara, Gil/Cath, Nick/Sara, Cath/Warrick, etc) discussions can be done in the Shipper Central part of this forum.

 

ditto. my all time favorite is probably from Way To Go. 'What a waste' cracked me up.

i'm still not sure whether i'll continue to watch CSI after he leaves. i might watch until episode 200 and then i'm afraid i'll lose interest. i don't really fancy other crime dramas too much, and i feel like one of the big reasons i like CSI is the cast. now when it gets Baywatched i might stick to Forensic Files. if it proves to be still good though, forensically speaking, i might watch but not so religiously.

 

Im glad someone brought that up. I was trying to figure out what the title was refering to. Normally i'm good at figuring them out, but not this time.

As far as the comment about Grissom and his one-liners. I am definitely going to miss them. Mostly they were so corny, but so corny they were funny. I liked "Two and a Half Deaths," it was full of them. :lol:

 

Good point. I'm really curious about what will happen with the one-liners. They really do a lot to set the tone of the show. The difference between Grissom and Horatio's oneliners speaks volumes for the difference between the shows. I can't imagine Langston (or rather LF) pulling his off like Caruso, which, to me, is definitely a good thing.

Also, maybe someone addressed this earlier, but why didn't Grissom go undercover as an entymology professor? I really feel like a Grissom of earlier seasons would have done that. I kind of wonder if the fact that he says his profession is sociology is supposed to reveal something about the character's development. In S1, it felt like his identity was tied in a lot to his knowledge of bugs and similar things. Since then, he's become more of an expert on people. From a pragmatic standpoint, it certainly would have seemed easier for him to be an undercover entymologist, in case anyone got suspicious. If someone doubted his profession, he could use his wealth of insect-related knowledge to prove that he was who he said he was. I thought he did have a PhD in biology (probably with a concentration in entymology).

What do you guys think?

 

With the one-liners, over the years, I've noticed other characters have given them. Nick's done a couple and so has Catherine. Paul Guilfoyle would be classic at them.

 

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A rational explanation for not going as bugman is that Grissom is a bugman. Sure, he's not a professor of entomology, but maybe it would be too close to revealing personal information. So maybe that's why he picked a subject outside his actual area of expertise.