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RSS'CSI': Leader of the Pack (vroom vroom)
Tonight on "CSI," Jack, an undercover cop in the "Vegas Blasters" gang, was killed in an alleged bar fight. Were his multiple stab wounds part of the fight? Or a targeted hit because he was a cop? Ray Langston is on the case... on a motorcycle. Vroom, vroom!
The cop in question had a partner in undercover, Tonya. They got in pretty deep with the gang (as is often the case with undercover cops), doing meth and also killing a hooker and raping the corpse (as one does), but when the gang got a phone call at a bar about Jack being a cop, they stabbed him. 24 times, according to Doc Robbins. That's one more than Julius Caesar, according to Langston. It's what I call "overkill." It's what I call "psychotic."
Jack's wife in real life, Rita, takes his death particularly hard because he had been spiraling downwards toward that for months and she had been begging his captain to take him out of undercover work. Also, turns out Rita and Brass had an affair. Also, Rita is played by Ally Walker. Loved her on "Profiler."
As the team starts to put the pieces together, undercover Tonya is blown up in her car in the bar's parking lot. But the bar has been locked down since the murder, so they figure she was actually targeted before Jack. They also put it together that none other than Rita called the bar and, in her drunken ramblings, revealed to the bartender that he was a cop. The bartender, as the leader of the gang, told the guys and the stabbing began.
Langston rides his hog to look for the ditched murder weapons. My boyfriend goes, "Is that [bleep]ing Morpheus?" Hee. He (Ray, not my boyfriend) finds a backpack full of bloody knives. Creepy. The CSI team does a good ol' fashioned reenactment in the bar for us. It cuts between the Scooby Gang and the actual death. All the stabbing is pretty brutal to watch, not gonna lie. Jack sustained 23 stab wounds before the final one to his left temple did him in.
In the end, the bartender, the bikers who actually did the stabbing (I'm assuming) and Rita are held responsible for Jack's death. Brass watches Rita being marched off to jail and then has a nice ending scene, drinking scotch with Catherine.
Finally I get a good episode! After Taylor Swift and some silly killer luchadores, I finally get a good one! I liked Langston in this one and anything featuring a lot of Brass is okay in my book. I think he's great. What did you all think of tonight?
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I too like Ally Walker back since Profiler. I think she is a pretty lady, but can she get a role from somebody that allows her to smile. I mean come on...really
That was a very good episode last night.
Loved this episode. As the wife of a motorcyclist, I was glad to see Langston all suited up with proper riding gear (full face helmet, gloves, riding jacket, etc.) OK, off my soapbox :-)
I think Langston was riding a sportbike, not a hog. It definitely had a sportbike sound to it.
Now, back to the episode. Really like how the team is gelling together, although the new girl (what's her name again?) doesn't really do all that much for me. She's just sort of "filler CSI", I think.
The promos for next week look quite intriguing!
Philo, in my recap, before I pared it down some, I actually had a sentence that read, "Greg and New Girl figure out Jack left bloody hand prints on the floor as he tried to get away."
She's just... there.
Also, I didn't mean "hog" literally. I don't know a damn thing about motorcycles. : )
Yeh the 'new girl' makes an impression like a piece of toast. Total bland filler. They need to find a replacement.
No replacement necessary for the new girl. They should just do what they should have done a year ago, elevate Liz V***ey. Her character Wendy fits in nicely and she really did have a kind of mentor-pupil relationship with Grissom.
I completely agree, Ted. I love Liz V***ey, dating back to that silly Lawrence Bros show. I enjoy her chemistry with Hodges, too.
Reilly needed more of a storyline this year. She does belong there, the showrunners are the ones that caused her character not to have a personality, helped by almost all the post Grissom episodes being focused on Langston. I like Liz V***ey's Wendy too, but Lauren Lee Smith is the supporting actress of the show and deserves the screentime to show it.
I didn't enjoy last night's episode very much. I want to see more of Nick, Greg, and Reilly. If Langston is such a genius (He learned his job in a couple weeks) why not give him his own show. One week they can show his show the next week they can show Horatio. TPTB have truly tested my intelligence, and frankly, this does not make me happy. I would be perfectly happy to watch CSI with the cast that remained after we lost Sara, Warrick, and Grissom. Whoever made the decision to ignore Reilly's character development made a huge mistake.
Good Lord Trupen! Give Langston a break. We all miss Grissom very much. And in (real)TV time, it's been more than two weeks since he's been on the job. Also, remember although a novice as a CSI, he knows alot about crime.