Finally! A return to the show we know and love! Thoughts on this episode:
Fantastic opening scene; set up the whole episode so nicely. It also established the characters of the victims so that it packed a bit more of a punch than usual. LOVED the interaction between Nick, Greg and Sara as they pulled up. It was so nice to see that moment between the original team, CSI seriously needs more of these (shout out to Greg not carrying a gun!
). Also liked the emotion from Brass, we really haven’t seen enough from him in the last few episodes.
Finn’s ‘give me an hour with the scene’ was so precious, drama queen and irritating.
I am liking her less and less with every episode. Although we did get a nice irritated look from Nick and a smart but controlled comment from Greg; that tells me that they don’t consider Super-Finn so super. Catherine never needed everyone to leave her crime scene so that she could concentrate. I think if Finn needs silence to work it shows that she sucks at her job and should be FIRED.
Greg in the freezer; priceless! Especially when Morgan later questioned how Vincent got locked in the freezer and Greg gave an awkward ‘it happens easier than you think’ reply.
Nice interaction between DB and Ecklie; shows the mutual respect between them both. And I’m delighted to see that Morgan and Ecklie have started to work on their relationship. Oh and DB, FYI, Finn has nothing handled; see above and FIRE her!
Doc Robbins response when the stalker showed up was so cool. I wanted to applaud him. Also, the guy playing the stalker was nicely creepy but an obvious red herring. But I very much liked how Sara interacted with him; it was a nice nod to the early days of the show and how her character used to get so emotionally involved sometimes.
Brass’ phone call with the sheriff when he guessed the answer was staring at him in his office and then he hung up on her? Then proceeded to rip her a new one? Classic Brass and one of my favourite scenes in the episode.
I didn’t see the end coming. That scene between Nick and Vincent was very powerful, nicely played by George Eads. He’s always been very good at the emotional scenes. The scene with Sara and Ronald also packed a punch; that Edie shouldn’t have been there for the shooting but stayed because of Ronald was very poignant.
Irritated that we still had to get a family moment with DB and the wife. DB, I love ya buddy but I don’t CARE that you’re having marital troubles. I’ve seen quite enough of your family in previous episodes and from what I’ve seen of other fans, so have they. Time to dial down the family visits and phone calls by several decibels. Oh, and good work to Finn?
What the hell did she do except get stumped!!! The big work in the end was done by Nick!
Overall, a very solid episode reminiscent of the early days of the show. Plenty of showcasing of all characters (not enough of Greg but then, I’m only saying that as a Greg fan!
) and a strong, interesting plot that focused on the case and the science. I really didn’t like the new changing between scenes they were using in this episode, it felt very jarring and not as smooth as older episodes. But I know they’ve just gone digital so maybe that’ll improve.
