This episode had a little lighter mood to it. In the beginning with the zinger line right before the credits, all Danny had to do while he said something like "... he came in dead last" was to take off his glasses and put them back on, and he'd have been channeling Horatio Caine.
But there were some great little laugh lines in the episode to make up for that. I got a kick out of Flack telling about the boys who came in thinking that the football some friends threw through the window killed the guy... "So, I locked 'em up just for fun." :lol:
And maybe it's just because I've gone to Phoenix for my job when it was winter, but I loved the little interaction between Danny and Adam...
"Stop shivering like a girl, Adam. It's not even that cold out here."
"I'm from Phoenix. 85 degrees is considered freezing."
"Cupcake."
I thought the murdered man and the missing "kidnap victim" was a good story line with a lot of twists to it. When they first found the duct tape and all, I did turn to my husband and say "maybe it was just kinky consensual sex" but I was really mostly joking and didn't think that would be it. It made for a very interesting story line, though. The supposed kidnap victim, Elizabeth whats-her-name and her ex turned out to be disturbingly creepy at the end. She got turned on by the fact that he would kill for her, and even though he'd been caught in murder and was surely heading to prison, he still thought that knowing she still loved him made that murder worthwhile.
Unfortunately snowflake as incriminating evidence was way too hard to swallow. I know they base most of their science on real science, but come on! Unless the weather instrumentation was right on that very corner, there's no way they could pinpoint that. Heck, you can look at your own city on
www.wunderground.com and look at the "personal weather stations" link and see that there's often a couple degrees variation within a few mile radius. Not to mention how they'd determine when it landed, why it hadn't melted, etc... I'm not a fan of "and then a miracle occurs" solutions, and though they don't happen too often on CSI shows that seems to be the card they played this time.
The other story line was a little peculiar, but good with the stolen grocery cart. I liked the character development bits between Danny and Sheldon as they worked the case, especially with Danny inviting Sheldon to his mother's house Sunday so he can try real mozerella.
And after the general badness of the scenes in Silent Night, I was a little relieved to see that there wasn't mention of Lindsay's traumatic experience in this one.