CSI: New York--'Super Men'

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Synopsis:

A man dressed in a superhero costume runs by Tyrell Mann, a football player just picked for the first-round draft for an NFL team, giving an interview to the news media outside his hotel. In a matter of hours, both "Superman" and Tyrell are dead. Mac and Stella work the Superman case; Flack shows them a credit card issued to one Matthew Palmer found near the body, and they discover clothes and glasses in a nearby phone booth. Matthew Palmer turns out not to be their victim, but a man who the victim saved. Palmer was being robbed at an ATM by a hoodlum with a knife attacked when the brave young man came by and attacked the robber. The robber ran away and Superman pursued him. In the morgue, Dr. Hammerback goes over the young man's body and discovers several bullets and knife points beneath his skin, but he tells Mac and Stella they're from old injuries. He send blood off to tox and continues to look for the COD.

Danny and Lindsay take Tyrell's case. The up-and-coming football player lies on his stomach in his hotel room in a pool of his own blood. The only visible injury is a puncture wound to his neck, so the CSIs begin to search his hotel room. Danny discovers several footballs, some not even inflated, and also finds a bloody football championship ring, while Lindsay scans the bed with the ALS and notices signs of sexual activity on it, along with a few letters and numbers in lipstick. Dr. Marty Pino has determined Tyrell was killed by an air embolism--when he was stabbed in the neck, air was pushed into his veins, leading to his heart and killing him. Danny recalls the deflated balls and wonders if Tyrell may have been killed by the device used to inflate them. Pino also points out writing in lipstick on Tyrell's chest that was beneath the blood, as well as an old injury to Tyrell's knee that should have kept him out of the NFL. Danny pays Rodney Pruitt, Tyrell's personal physician, who Danny suspects was giving Tyrell painkillers to help him play despite the injury. Rodney admits to being well compensated for the work he did for Tyrell, but insists he had no reason to kill his meal ticket--and friend.

Back at the lab, Hawkes has recovered some glass from the clothes in the phone booth and DNA lab tech is shocked when he identifies Krypton in the glass. Hawkes tells Mac and Stella that he's found evidence of both anti-psychotics and anti-depressants in Superman's blood stream, and a prescription written out for Oxy from the prescription pad of one Dr. Burr in the alley where Superman's body was found, leading the CSI's to the New York Psychiatric Home, where Burr works. Burr claims the prescription isn't in his handwriting, and he recognizes Superman right away--the man's name was Clark Kranen, and he was a resident at the home. Clark had a developmental disorder, and Burr leads the CSIs to his room, where they find a police scanner, a broken florescent light (the likely source of the Krypton-laced glass) and envelopes with Clark's name on them and money inside. Vern Dox, an orderly at the home, tells Mac he and Clark were friends, and he gave Clark one of his Karate trophies. He says Clark has a brother, Steve, who lives in town but only visits once a month. Several other patients inquire after Clark, and are saddened but unsurprised to learn he's dead.

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Two things about the review:

1. I love you.
2. I hope the writers are reading this.

That is all.
 
Super Men -- great episode. The only dull moments were the Lindsey bits. It's not that I don't like her as much as the other characters ... she's just DULL. Plain and simple.

Again, Flackie-boy delivered the best scenes and lines of the episode, including another dorky wave and a chase scene. For some reason *dont shoot*, I feel so uncomfy seeing him in a chase scene. The shirt-tie combo ain't that bad either. And oh, did I mention that I love seeing Flack in the lab? Lol...

The ending sequence is bordering on cheese and unflattering. Mac getting that phonecall was dramatic enough. I know that they want to showcase the fact that there are unsung heroes out there like the NY's finest and ordinary people but that last bit was uncomfortable. Hahahaha.... Idk, maybe some of them aren't suitable for that kind of drama.

Is it just me or Danny doesn't look at Lindsey directly? The scene where they're talking about the relationship of the killer and Female #2 in the hallway, Danny's eyes were roaming around, down to the floor -- but not on Lindsey. The "Marry you" line was bland. It's like Lindsey doesn't know how to react -- if you're going to flirt, you have to do better than eye-rolling, sister. More and more, you feel the effort that the actors exert to execute the scene.
 
Lindsay is pretty dull. She just doesn't have the spark that the rest of them have, and it only became more apparent as the season went on. Danny doesn't look at Lindsay, and Carmine delivers the cheesy lines in a pretty flat voice. It's especially apparent because he's so dynamic and energized in other scenes. If they're going to go ahead with this romance, they're going to have to get Carmine to act a little more enthused. I don't blame him--the romance is pretty forced--but if it's going to work on screen, he's got to fake some enthusiasm.

The ending was totally and completely cheesy. The phone call would have been a perfect ending for the episode--it stressed the point without hitting us over the head with it. A little subtlty goes a long way. ;)
 
I was so laughing at the drama of Mac's phonecall. And Flack running -- I'm sorry, it was very uncomfortable. Watching Danny run - flash across the screen was okay.
 
I love the ending...but I missed the first part(I'll watch the replay...no matter what it takes...).....I was like ... 15 mins late ... Flack scene where he runs catching the the guy was funny (in the ending part)... I do agree with all of you that Lindsay......well...seems like she does not have a chemistry... My classmate and I was talking about it last night while watching it. She said that "Lindsay lacks force when she acts or what ever she does....I mean Calleigh was demure, but she's a chameleon, I still prefer Aiden." and I do agree with her....
 
Lindsey tries to act fierce but then she looks tame as a lamb. I mean, she can be fierce if she wants to, with conviction. Like in the case with the dancer Kia Rowe (sorry, bad with titles) -- she interrogated the perp (the one with the fake shiner) and she delivered.

But here, she was trying too hard.
 
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