Finally got around to watching the episode from start to finish without the chat room to distract me.
Still loved it!
Definitely an A+ this week, much better than last week. The bodies were very gross, and very convincing. My mother and I spent five minutes trying to figure out how they did the headless corpse at the beginning and made it look so real.
The characters were great this week, everyone had something to contribute. Flack was spot on, as everyone has already said. I adore that man. :lol:
Danny's facial expressions kill me sometimes. The screencaps from where they were talking to the guy with the shirts are hilarious. :lol:
Did my ears deceive me, or did Hammerback say he got drunk off his ass after his
first divorce?
How many times has our favorite creepy coroner been married then? :lol:
When they went to see the head under the rock, I had to giggle at the meter-maid mobile in the background. I believe I joked when the promos came out that it was Flack's new ride. *giggles at self* [/lameness] :lol:
I was starting to think Mac was channeling Reid from Criminal Minds when he was picking out words and everything in that one scene. :lol:
The Danny/Flack stuff was great, as everyone has already said. I mean, I'm going to love it anyway being a shipper, but even non-shippers had to love it.
That chase scene was hawt, and the scene in the car was great. I mean, we know Flack's the one who always drives (
), but that scene was played out beautifully. Danny and Shane were both looking out the windows, clearly lost in their own thoughts, and Flack was his usual calm and quiet self. I don't know if someone has already mentioned this (several threads on two different message boards are getting mixed up in my head :lol
, but I think Danny feels more comfortable talking about Louie around Don than he would around another member of the team. Maybe because Danny knows that Don won't push him to talk about how he's feeling, etc--he's just
there for him. A great scene, definitely.
I had my doubts about Ed Furlong playing Shane, but that didn't last. As people have already said, he did a fantastic job of portraying this character who you can sympathize with but still want off the streets.
One of my main nitpicks with the episode was the abrupt ending. Danny and Flack hand Shane off to the cops, and then suddenly Lindsay is telling Mac and Stella that Shane escaped.
How did he escape? When?
I wonder if they are going to immediately continue the storyline, or if they're planning on skipping some time and not even mentioning Shane again until they need to for the show? I'm sure we'll see more of Hawkes in danger, but you know he'll be ok in the end.
Several people have wondered if Danny or Flack will be targeted, but I'm not convinced. I mean, they showed a close-up of Danny giving his card to Shane, so that might be significant, but I'm not sure...In the end, I think it might be Danny who really throws himself into the task of finding out whether Shane's brother was guilty or not, and I could see him being the one to convince Shane to turn himself in or something...but I really don't think Shane will make it through the story arc alive (this is just speculation, of course, not spoilers).
Anyway, definitely an A+, and if the writers continue to crank out episodes like this, they could renew my faith in the series.
With intriguing storylines, complex killers, evidence that challenges the CSIs
and the viewers to put on their thinking caps, tight plots...that's definitely the CSI:NY I want to see.
