Re: Gil <3 Cath #22: PureJoy - What Would He Do W/O H
Alrighty then - Grave Danger it is. And, might I add, how refreshing it is to have a new writer/director in here who actually FOLLOWS the show and knows all about the characters and their backstories, and the "little" things that USED to make the show as good as it had been.
* --Officer Moron--
Walks away because he needs "fresh air"? It's an outside parking lot for goodness sake. Just turn to the side & breathe. No need to walk all the way back to the car across the way. I guess their point was to make it look like the officer was involved in the kidnapping. How come they never questioned that officer, other than Brass at the beginning?
* --the arrival--
Cath & Gil being so professional, even though you know their stomachs are churning and you can see how hard they're trying to keep their composure about it. They process the scene calmly and rationally.
* --Trigger--
Gil actually wrote to Roy Rogers!! Awwwww. The honorary certificate of Trigger was cute.
* --Dukes of Hazzard--
You knew by this point that this wasn't your normal CSI. QT has Hodges & Greg playing the Dukes board game?!
HODGES: Oh, and by the way, uh ... this is just the work me. You haven't had the full David Hodges experience.
GREG: I think I'm having it right now.
* --Ecklie/Archie--
ARCHIE: Aw, come on, you can't unfund me now. I ... I'm committed to presenting the paper at SWAFS next month.
CONRAD: If it means that much to you, pay your own way. Show a little dedication to your discipline.
ARCHIE: Oh, yeah. Tragically, my banking account isn't as dedicated as I am.
CONRAD: One word: Plastic.
ARCHIE: Wait. How 'bout you kick me a little overtime under the table, huh?
CONRAD: Over my dead body. Have you been to Grissom's office? You think the City of Las Vegas pays for his etymology library, his insect collection, his shrunken head collection? No. Take initiative. People notice.
For me, this scene was fun to watch, because you never see Ecklie interacting with normally anyone other than the main cast members.
* --guy talk in the locker room--
WARRICK: I'm calming Tina down. Tell her everything is fine. She drives off and I walk away. I called Tina later on and I tell her, uh, you know, if she got any problem with me being a cop, she needs to get over it, 'cause now
I'm packing.
NICK: Yeah. Yeah. What'd you do on Sunday?
WARRICK: Scoured the hotel looking for these punks.
This is the type of cute non-case related stuff that I really have missed for a long time.
* --flip for it--
CATH: Oh, my two favorite guys. So, I've got an assault at Stripperama and a trash run at Flamingo and Koval. I'm too busy to play favorites, so duke it out.
NICK: Duke it out?.....(to Warrick) Boy! Better flip a coin. I'll hurt you.
WARRICK: Yeah, you better flip that coin.
NICK: Call it in the air.
WARRICK: Heads.
WARRICK: Have fun at the trash run.
NICK: You know, I'd do two out of three, but you got a gambling problem...... No, hey, you know what? You keep this. It's bad luck.
I'm glad QT had Cath let the boys decide who goes where. Can you imagine the guilt Cath would feel if she had specifically sent Nick to that scene. At least here, it's the flip of a coin. I know Warrick feels responsible, but in Cath's case, it could have been so much more guilt.
* --back to the dumpster--
CATH: Dumpster's clean....(gets out of the dumpster)... No apparent blood or body parts.
GRISSOM: Take a look at this.....This seems contrived to me. The blood pool is too perfect. There's no splatter. Like somebody placed these entrails.
CATH: A lure. To grab Nick.... David, get this stuff to the doc.
DAVID: Look, I'm ... I'm really sorry I didn't get here sooner. Maybe if I had ...
CATH: We're going to get him back, David.
CONRAD: Gil, Catherine. I want you to know, as far as I'm concerned, lab's only got one case tonight. Same for the rest of the department.
GRISSOM: Thanks, Conrad.
Awwwww. See, I knew Ecklie was still a sensitive guy! Also interesting to see how everyone seems to want to take responsibility (David's comment)
* --not what we were looking for--
ROBBINS: Well, there are a lot of intestines here, but no appendix, which made sense when I saw this. A cecum.
CATH: Dog entrails.
ROBBINS: Yeah.
CATH: That's not going to help.
ROBBINS: I'm sorry. Catherine ... has Nick's family been informed?
CATH: No, that would be my job.
It's still about trying to keep things professional, as they all still know what has to be done.
* --roundtable discussion--
WARRICK: The Expedition truck left the area around 11:15. Definitely in a hurry. Took a right off Koval onto Tropicana, crossed Las Vegas Boulevard onto 215 east. And then it drove off the grid.
GRISSOM: At least we have a general direction.
SARA: Great, so Nick could be anywhere from Green Valley to Seven Hills to Arizona.
GREG: Assuming he was in that truck.
CATH: Well, according to Hodges, the white fibers on Nick's vest were cotton with traces of ether ...
SARA: Ether?
CATH: Yeah.
SARA: That's old school.
WARRICK: Yeah, stuff is volatile. Flammable. Outside of meth cooks, no one uses it anymore.
GRISSOM: People use what they know.
CATH: All right, so, where are we on possible suspects?
GREG: So far, none of Nick's active or recent cases stands out. And his old stalker's still bend bars.
SARA: Maybe it's a random act.
CATH: Well, that's possible. Because whoever staged the crime scene couldn't have known that Nick was going to respond.
WARRICK: Yeah, it was just bad luck he did.
I always love these discussion scenes. It reminds me of a family at the dinner table discussing what they did during the day.
* --Hodges to the rescue?--
GRISSOM: What are you doing, Hodges?
HODGES: Guy comes in here with a package with no return address.
DELIVERY MAN: You're violating my rights! I want a lawyer!
CATH: Shut up.
HODGES: Way the guy was pawing that envelope, I figure I better get it away from him before he wipes off all the trace.
GRISSOM: What trace?
HODGES: It's about Nick.
(Gil turns to Catherine)
GRISSOM: Let me do this.
Awwwww. Cath gets the best line in all of that!!! I like how Gil asks to test the package and there's no fight from Catherine. they all know how serious this is, and they're all on the same team this time.
* --Playing "the turtles"--
CATH: Son of a bitch. He's screwing with us.
It's a scene where you almost want to laugh when that song comes on. It's like "what the heck are they doing playing a song". Ok, now it's come to the point where I can't watch this scene anymore without disolving into fits of giggles remembering the video of them busting out into dances. That will be forever imbedded into my memory.
* --the reactions--
Watching the faces of everyone as they see, through the computer screen, that Nick is in the box. It's heartbreaking.
* --Ecklie back to being all business--
CONRAD: Everybody, I have some bad news. Uh, a little while ago, I spoke with the mayor directly. The City of Las Vegas is not going to finance a ransom. It's-it's against department policy to negotiate with terrorists. No
exceptions.
Did they really expect he was going to say something different?
* -- mom & dad meet mom & dad--
CATH: Judge Stokes, Mrs. Stokes, Gil Grissom.
GRISSOM: Your honor. Mrs. Stokes. I'm, uh, sorry that we're meeting under these circumstances.
JUDGE BILL STOKES: Have you been able to make contact with the animals who took my son?
CATH: No, we haven't yet, but ... they should be contacting us in roughly four hours.
JILLIAN STOKES: We were able to rustle up $20,000 cash. Our bank's prepared to wire another $100,000. Now, we can sell the cars. We can hock the ranch ... we can make the number, but it's gonna take at least another day.
GRISSOM: Judge Stokes ...
JILLIAN STOKES: Can we give them ... the money we have now, try to buy more time?
GRISSOM: I don't think that will help.
JUDGE BILL STOKES: There's got to be something we can do.
CATH: You've already done it by coming here, by showing your support ...
JILLIAN STOKES: We're not here to show support. We're here to get Nick home.
GRISSOM: We're not sure who has your son ... or why.
JUDGE STOKES: Well ... what the hell do you know?
GRISSOM: Very little.
JUDGE BILL STOKES: Let's just cut to the gist. What proof do you have that my boy's still alive?
Oh my goodness! All of the similarities are so striking between the two couples.
* --Cath gathers her courage--
She stares at the monitor, watching Nick in the box, and gathering her courage. You know EXACTLY where she's going. You know EXACTLY what's on her mind here. Love the scene where she walks through the lab to the front door. Bravo to Marg on a great scene - and to QT for knowing her character as well as he does.
* --Ecklie is standing up for his guys--
UNDERSHERIFF MCKEEN: Tell me you found him so I can tell the sheriff when his plane lands.
CONRAD: I wish I could. Listen, I've been looking over my budget. There are a number of things we can do within the lab itself to raise the ransom.
UNDERSHERIFF MCKEEN: There's no way -- not even a situation like this -- that's going to make the sheriff cut back on services to our taxpayers.
CONRAD: We wouldn't have to. I'm proposing we eliminate all overtime on lab work except for priority cases, stop hiring based on attrition, reassign existing personnel based on peak staffing needs. Over the next fiscal year,
that should clear at least a million.
UNDERSHERIFF MCKEEN: Assuming any of those measures actually saves money, which isn't really the issue here, is it?
CONRAD: I'll take the heat.
UNDERSHERIFF MCKEEN: You want to do something for your people? Get 'em ready for a funeral.
jackass! Conrad, I love ya even more now!!
* --begging Daddy part 1--
CATH: Sam?
FRANK: (as Ed Sullivan) Oh, miss, I like my coffee with cream and sugar, and I want you to give the r-r-really big check to really big Sam over here.
CATH: Sam, I need to talk to you.
SHOWGIRL: He's already got someone to talk to, ma'am.
CATH: Zip it, sweetheart. Sam ...
SAM: Everyone, I'd like for you to meet my daughter, Catherine.
FRANK: (as Ed Sullivan) Well, you can cancel the coffee.
SAM: Excuse us for a minute, all right?
TONY: Certainly.
Love watching Frank Gorshin here. His last performance before he passed away. I used to watch "Batman" all the time as a kid, and always loved to hate him in that show.
Also loved how Cath didn't want to take any crap from any of them. Even if they were celebrities. She certainly put the showgirl in her place. I believe this is the first time Sam publicly acknowledged that Cath was his daughter. I'm not sure if she really wanted people to know, but Sam gave her no choice this time.
* --begging Daddy part 2--
CATH: One of my guys is in trouble. He's been kidnapped. I need a million dollars in cash. Large bills. And I need it now.
SAM: Let me guess, Mugs. The department won't pay the ransom.
CATH: No.
SAM: Why should I?
CATH: Considering the problems that you've had with the law, you could use some good publicity.
SAM: Do I look like a man that needs publicity? If you're coming to me like a cop with a tin cup in your hand, the answer is no.
CATH: I'm not here as a cop.
SAM: Then ask me like you were my daughter.
Damn QT for cutting the scene off there!!! I WANNA KNOW what she said dammit!!!
* --deep thoughts--
CATH: I got the money.
GRISSOM: From where?
CATH: Where do you think?
GRISSOM: Catherine, if the press finds out about this, it'll look like Sam Braun bribed the lab.
CATH: He's a casino owner. A leader of industry. Never convicted of any crime. And right now, I don't care about the integrity of the lab at the moment. I care about Nick.
GRISSOM: Yeah, well, so do I, but nonetheless ...
CATH: Well, you're sitting here like Jack Handy with your
deep thoughts, staring at a coffee cup. You got a better plan, I'm all ears.
GRISSOM: All right. But I make the drop. You're hands off.
CATH: That's my money.
GRISSOM: You can't be seen anywhere near this money. It was given to the lab anonymously. Agreed?
CATH: Agreed.
Did Gil even need to ask "where"? Good grief, man. Wake up. Where else do you think Cath could get her hands on that kind of money. The "deep thoughts" line brought me to fits of giggles. That was just SO QT.
Sorry, I have to quit here for now. This is getting way too long already, we're only half done, and I've gotta go to work. I'll continue in a little while.
