Re: Gil <3 Cath #22: PureJoy - What Would He Do Without He
Same here E. I'm not a Marg/Billy shipper. I can't see the two of them playing other characters as a couple. Sometimes, that really doesn't work. Only in a few instances that I can think of where it works. Some of my favorites: Mel Gibson/Rene Russo, John Wayne/Maureen O'Hara, John Ritter/Katey Sagal. Marg/Alan is good, but I don't really like when he plays a bad guy (but he does it quite well).
5x08 Ch-Ch-Changes:
* --CG in the teaser--
CATH: Not much traffic. Makes it a lot easier to run someone off the road ... (quietly)... and slash their throat.
GRISSOM: She was slashed south of the border, as well.
CATHERINE: Women in convertibles are low-hanging fruit.
GRISSOM: -- And it was a top-down night.
Dang! I like it better when Cath gets the last word in during their conversations!!!
* --a hold over from CF?--
DAVID: That's a nice ring. It's at least four carats. (sees Catherine's look) We've been shopping. Lots of surgical procedures here: Artificial breasts, cheek implants ... collagen lips ... you'd be surprised how many women I get on this table with fake parts.
CATH: Plastic lasts longer.
* --CG/Doc reviewing Doc's findings in autopsy--
It's interesting to note that they don't get flustered when talking about that type of sexual stuff between the three of them.
* --The scene E was talking about--
GRISSOM: Aborigines say they dance naked to make the gods happy.
CATH: The gods would be happy in Vegas.
GRISSOM: Did you ever see any transsexuals when you danced?
CATH: Gil, only civilians confuse strippers and showgirls. You can't cheat the full monty.
- - -
CATHERINE: Hello, ladies.
SHOWGIRL: Hi, honey.
CATHERINE: I'm Catherine Willows. This is Gil Grissom. We're with the crime lab. Do any of you know if Wendy Garner worked last night?
PINK: No, she had the day off. But she should be working tonight. And she is late. That's not like her.
PURPLE: Why, did something happen to Wendy?
CATH: Unfortunately, she was found dead last night.
PINK: It was all those hormones she was taking, wasn't it?
PURPLE: Shut up. What do you know?
GRISSOM: Do you know that Wendy was a, uh ... ?
PURPLE: Trannie? All the best showgirls are.
PINK: Yeah, and it don't matter if they're packin' a lop job or a gaff.
GRISSOM: Okay, lop job I get. What's a gaff?
MIMOSA: It's like a jockstrap, only it hides what it's supposed to strap.
PURPLE: We all get work done. Who cares if it's up north or down south? Pretty's pretty.
CATH: So do you know where she got her work done?
PURPLE: You want the best, you go to Dr. Mercer.
I like how Cath just feels at home backstage. It also reminds me that since her mom was a showgirl, I'm guessing Cath was backstage quite often during that time too.
* --finding ugliness in the storage garage--
(that scene was the grossest I've seen yet on CSI)
CATH: Yeah?
NICK: What do you think went on here?
CATH: Someone outsourced their health care to the wrong provider.
Interesting that Nick still turns to Cath for answers - just like in CF
* --imagine the cramps--
ROBBINS: Piano wires. They're used to mobilize the lower part of the abdominal skin and anchor the neo-vagina, so it can heal in place.
CATH: I can only imagine those cramps.
ROBBINS: The surgeon stuffs the portal with a cylinder wrapped in gauze to hold its shape while it heals, and sutures it.
CATH: And how long does milady have to wear a wire?
ROBBINS: Well, after five days, the vagina is un-sutured, and the wires are removed. Scarring indicates multiple surgeries. She appears to have gone in for repair due to infection.
CATH: I take it that wasn't supposed to happen.
ROBBINS: Maybe someone wasn't taking their hormones.
CATH: Or they were taking some bad Mexican bootlegs. Now, that is more than a five o'clock shadow.
ROBBINS: It's a myth that hair grows after death. What happens is, the skin contracts, revealing whiskers.
* --they all know who--
NICK: We know the name of the butcher.
CATH/WARRICK/SARA: (together) Benway.
GRISSOM: Okay. What do you know about him, and do we have an address?
This is cute, because the two groups have done their separate parts of the case, and you see how they've come up with the same conclusion. It just reinstates that there's more than one way to come up with the same answer. Even in forensic science.
* --Gil/Mimosa--
I loved the ending where Gil tells Mimosa what happened. Again you see Gil being sympathetic to those who are different.