I seem to start every single one of these updates with a reference to the CSIs’ love lives, and essentially this one is just the same: Catherine and Greg have got exciting new haircuts, Grissom enjoys the feel of a young body in his arms, and Sara and David are flirting… AGAIN.
First things first, however, and the A-case (the one that opens the episode) is jeopardised by the WRATH OF MOTHER NATURE when a serious downpour sets in just as the CSIs arrive at the crime scene. Luckily there’s a handy eyewitness around to let them know exactly what went down.
Huh. He seems pretty SWEATY AND GUILTY. Guess that's just the rain...
Deceived by his blue eyes and delicate cheekbones, the team launch a hunt for the killer which takes them, via a third victim (who provides Grissom with a frisson of physical excitement, as her corpse falls out of a stolen car)…
Caught you!
Grissom: Well, I haven’t felt that in a while.
Brass: What’s that?
Grissom: The element of surprise. (OR, A YOUNG WOMAN’S NUBILE FLESH)
THRILLED TO THE CORE
… to her flat, where Nick does some hilarious hacking…
Worried that Grissom, rejected by Terri, is transferring his affections
PPP sez... "Did we really log into her online banking with the username 'Jessica' and the password 'money'? Good thing people here in 2001 don't know how the internet works!"
… then through an incredible 3-way realisationface…
Oho! Aha! Ihi!
… and the inevitable crime scene re-enaction…
Where's Catherine with the Polaroid camera when you need her?
… to a bit of climactic laser-pointing from Grissom…
"You'll note that for the genuine Petersen Pout the lips have to remain together, though slightly projected from the face"
… and finally RIGHT BACK TO WHERE THEY STARTED.
GUILTIEST. CPR. EVER.
PPP sez... "Doh!"
Meanwhile, Greg is working the Hoxton fin
Fran from Travis: the thinking chemist's style icon
and Catherine, with a schmancy new haircut of her own
Going all-out with the glitzy clip
is bickering/flirting with the district engineer, as she investigates a building which has inexplicably collapsed.
Hate the bickering...
... LURVE THE FLIRTIN'
Even more, lurve the hard hat. WORK IT, sister!
As I already implied in my tantalising opener, Catherine isn’t the only one flirting, as Sara and David exchange amused
Amused
/longing
Longing
looks across the body of Grissom’s surprising victim. It seems to put Sara in a good mood, anyway, as she gives this random, helpful but chubbly knife expert
Knife to see you, to see you...
the biggest smile I have ever seen her produce! Hurrah for a Sidle full of delight!
Radiant like the frickin' sun
Still, for all that Sara, Catherine and Greg are looking their best this episode (I’ll be charitable and say nothing about Grissom) (oops, too late), we all know whose arms I’d rather be in.
Come on, people. It wouldn't be right for me to finish an update with a picture of anyone else.
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