"If I Had A Hammer…" Discussion *SPOILERS*

I know, I think Brass should have his own advice column! Ann Landers has nothing on him..

 

THIS IS CSI, the show I love, fantastic episode the best one since 'One To Go' maybe better, Cath as her old self she was great:bolian:suspensful, intriguing, riveting, from the beginning till the end. and the whole team so supporting her in this old case. Boy has the little kid from "ET" grown up, [Henry Thomas] and a master manipulator, he was also great, good acting., All the team workng on the fingerprints, the hammer in the tree, the shoe print, Ray did good on that one. We even got Icky Ecklie.. How Nick came up with evidence, on the fingerprints, the piece of glass with old blood. thank's to Wendy. Hodges always the I'm so important, but he's good with the evidence and kissing up to Cath, at least she appreciated that. Question, do they really save evidence from a 20 yr. crime, and where on earth to they store it? Archie and Greg with the new hi-tech audio sounds. Brass as always knew it was him. I was doubting it, till the old girlfriend showed up, and we really saw what happend to the old man.. sad.. I loved this episode CSI at it's best~ thanks writers:thumbsup:

 

Yeah, I think we saw back in felonious monk, where Catherine checks out the evidence of Stephanie's murder, that Ecklie had finally signed off to destroy the evidence of the case as the convicted (presumed) killer was dead. I think they need to hang onto all of the evidence until that happens.

We've seen a few times where the CSIs go into the big evidence storage places to get new stuff (remember Nick with the dead mice in the boxes?)

 

I thought it was pretty good, I liked that it was Catherine-centric. It was also kinda cool to see how technology has advanced.

 

I couldn't believe it was the cute little boy from ET! I knew I recognized the name from somewhere, and was surprised when I found out it was him.


I enjoyed this episode, because we saw them working together as a team on one case, rather than them being split into pairs.

 

This is what I'm talking about!!! Loved It!!!! Catherine was just awesome to watch. I loved how she kept her ground when Kent was talking to her in the beginning. She really showed how confident and strong Cath is. I thought some of the ways the evidence was collected was a little farfetched like the year book having a picture of the car that showed the license plate, or the hammer on the tree and being able to collect the print, but if it was based on a real case then that's really cool!!! Overall great episode :thumbsup: A+

 

Hammer in tree

I thought the ep was decent, but there was a big hole in the ideology IMO. If they found the hammer 20yrs later, how could she possibly have missed it the first(and second time- as she said she looked the following day as well). Greg said the tree had grown ~10ft so it wasn't even close to being at/over the roof as it was in the episode. The hammer was also shown to have been quite external(ie the claw bit in the tree so the rest of the hammer would have been quite exposed). I find it hard to believe she would have missed the hammer because it certainly would have been much easier to find. Other than that I liked the episode.

I also found the husbands response pretty surprising. If he was a decent lawyer he would never have walked out on her like he did.

 

Re: Hammer in tree

As she mentioned, she searched the neighbor's "yard" (meaning the ground), but never thought to "look up". She was suspecting that the weapon was thrown in the yard, so assumed it was probably on the ground. It was only when she was with Ray that she remembered Grissom's advice that "people never think to look up", then they searched the roof and tree.

think back to Brass' comment to him: Are you the husband or the lawyer right now? His walking out was basically saying that his mind was totally involved in being her jealous/hurt husband at that time, and not her lawyer.

 

Plus, it wasn't until Ray did that little jumping motion (when he was trying to explain the shoe impressions) that she put the idea of jumping/look up together. So, it was actually Ray that brought Grissom's words to her mind.