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This week, CSI answered an age-old question: How many politicians does it take to kill a stripper? The answer is, more than you'd think!
[These spoilers hold up in court.]
The victim: Amber Jones, a "dancer" -- okay, stripper -- who moonlighted as Congressman Edward Griffin's mistress.
The evidence: We actually begin at trial eight weeks after the murder. Jones' body was found in the trunk of her car at the Orpheus casino, and evidence (primarily, a shared strain of chlamydia) tied her to the congressman. Unfortunately, the best evidence -- the murder weapon -- couldn't be found. Don't worry, it's being delivered. Griffin's chief of staff, Dominic Humphreys, gets as far as the courtroom door before blowing his brains out with the congressman's Beretta.
We return post-panic, with Nick, Ray and Dave processing the scene. Allow me to say the, well, chunkiness of Humphreys' brain matter made me put down a piece of cheese that had been previously heading contentedly toward my mouth. Nick finds both the bullet and a blood-soaked suicide note.
Sure enough, the gun is Griffin's, and the bullet matches those in Amber's corpse. The suicide note, though, implicates Humphreys. Whodunnit? Hey, there's a piece of fabric in the Beretta's slide! Too bad it matches nothing in either Griffin's or Humphreys' closet. It does, though, give Griffin's wife time to act all creepy and draw attention to herself.
Meanwhile, Ray notices Amber's daughter is sick; turns out she's being poisoned with boric acid. A bit of Amber's tissue shows she was being poisoned, too, but at a much lower dose. No surprise, a package of energy drink in the house had been tampered with, and though Amber didn't have time to drink much, her daughter did. The juice was from a local pharmacy; Amber had prescriptions from same pharmacy dated to the day before her death.
And hey, go figure, Humphreys picked up not only Amber's prescriptions -- wow, does being a congressman's pet dancer have its perks -- but also energy drink and roach poison. May as well exhume Amber!
Good thing, too, because the embalming process has made a shoeprint appear on Amber's chest. A woman's shoeprint. Dum-dum-DUMMM!
So, yeah, Griffin was having the affair, but wanted Amber out of the picture, so he had Humphreys try to poison her. That plan was cut short by the real killer, though Humphreys did have to clean up after. A jury has already found Griffin guilty at this point, but Brass promises they'll present the new evidence that clears him. Sort of. He did want Amber dead, but his cunning plan was interrupted with a rather more immediate one. 
The (eventual) killer: The congressman's wife. She didn't take kindly to Amber's chlamydia causing her to miscarry.
Trivia: Miguel Ferrer is totally slimy as a defense lawyer. Ray drinks a martini with a lemon twist. Also, his saying "Orpheus" makes me know kung fu. And what's with Riley's hints toward a violent childhood?
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Didn't see the show - don't watch much after Grissom left and fell lamely back into Sarah's arms -- but I digress --- but was there no tie in between the stripper and Katherine? Is Katherine no longer on the show as well? Since she had the best chemistry with Grissom (and a lesser extent, Warrick), has the cast purge caused her to be minimized?
Tenor, right now most of the attention is on Ray and Nick, with a bit less going to Riley and Greg. Catherine has definitely faded into the background, though I suspect we'll see a return to the ensemble plots when the storyline about Ray's learning the ropes has ended.
Please,please, please we need to see more of Nick and Greg. There is nothing wrong with Langston, but I want the ensemble cast back. I get it, Fishburne is apparently the lead actor now, but I see no fairness in leaving out the rest of the cast.
How much time has p***ed since Grissom left? Why was Langston seemingly in charge of the case he was testifying for last night? He's only a level one. Catherine,Nick and Greg would all be possible heads of the case since they're his superiors. Enough with Langston! I want Nick and Greg to get more screentime. I like Laurence Fishburne don't get me wrong, but I don't find it very fair to George, Eric and Marg to have him take up most of the time onscreen when they've been there all along.
Andy, It seems to me that the writers have already decided that Ray has learned the ropes, because the episode was Ray centered. Ok episode but it would have been better if Nick and Greg had been the ones to testify in court.
It feels as though Fishburne is just collecting a paycheck. His character is far too one-note. It's as though he's reading his lines from a teleprompter. I'd prefer that the ongoing cast be "promoted" (perhaps the emphasis shifting from episode to episode) rather than having this dull new guy.
Having a hard time getting into the 'new' CSI. I thought this episode pretty boring, actually. The crime and the victims, not too believable. Why would the wife kill the mistress and give the husband a p***? Why in the world would the first victim go the suicide extreme? The team dynamic seems forced and way too tame. Give me some interesting conflict. Count me as one who greatly misses Grissom and Sara and Warrick.
Boring, boring, boring. And why do they keep upping the ick factor? After the scene with the contents of the guy's head strewn across the courthouse floor, I changed the channel. Being gross for no good reason might bring on the 12-year-old boys, but for the rest of us, there's better things to watch at 9/8 p.m. on a Thursday night. CSI ended as a series for me about four episodes ago. Y'all enjoy.
Why in the world would the first victim go the suicide extreme? The team dynamic seems forced and way too tame. Give me some interesting conflict. Count me as one who greatly misses Grissom and Sara and Warrick.