"CSI: NY" Hung Out to Dry (2006)

Director:

Anthony Hemingway

Writers:

Anthony E. Zuiker (creator) &
Ann Donahue (creator) ...

TV Series:

"CSI: NY" (2004)

Original Air Date:

11 October 2006 (Season 3, Episode 4)

Genre:

Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Plot:

A series of cryptic messages embedded within t-shirt designs may help Mac figure out whom a serial killer's next targets may be. And one of the targets may be a CSI. |

Plot Keywords:

New York | New York City | Crime Scene | Investigation | Detective

Cast

Gary Sinise	...	Detective Mac Taylor
Melina Kanakaredes	...	Detective Stella Bonasera
Carmine Giovinazzo	...	Detective Danny Messer
Anna Belknap	...	Detective Lindsay Monroe
Hill Harper	...	Dr. Sheldon Hawkes
Eddie Cahill	...	Detective Don Flack
Robert Joy	...	Dr. Sid Hammerback
Chris Engen	...	John Hayes
Johnathan Tchaikovsky	...	Ethan Tierney
Edward Furlong	...	Shane Casey
Justin Brannock	...	Blake Zahn
Stacie Davis	...	Olivia Madison (as Stacie Nichole Davis)
Kit Paquin	...	Alyssa Ryan
Dean J. West	...	Josh Knolls (as Dean West)
James Velarde	...	Ian Casey - Age 10

Color:

Color

Company:

CBS Paramount Network Television

Trivia:

Don Flack: "Richard Simmons back there took a break from Jazz-ercising." Richard Simmons is a fitness guru who promotes weight-loss programs, most famously through a line of aerobics video and television programs. He is known for his flamboyant personality and sense of style.

Goofs:

Continuity: In the opening scene, the letters on the front of the sorority house are Sigma Theta Delta. In a subsequent scene, the letters are Kappa Sigma Delta.

Quotes:

Det. Don Flack: They came up here to do the nasty. Instead, they found the nasty.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "CSI: NY: Raising Shane (#3.11)" (2006)

Soundtrack:

U and Dat

One Of The Wild-And-Crazier Episodes Of This Series

This is a pretty gruesome episode. It's as if the writer keep trying to "push the envelope" with more and more bizarre stories. Frankly, I nice, tough, straight-forward crime story is all I ask. I'm long past 21 so I don't need to see all the kinky sex from the drunken 20-30 age group that has been featured more than normal on this show this season. I expect that from CSI-Miami, and don't mind it, but I don't want here. The New York spin off has always been more about the crime, which I why I like this show the best of the three CSIs. I hope this isn't the direction it's going (aiming only entirely for young viewers), but it appears to be.

Nonetheless, I have to admit the two victims were shown had my jaw dropping. A decapitated girl hanging from a chandelier and later, a guy with railroad spikes hammered through his eyes into a tree? Wait - there's more.....the victim also has peacock eyes painted all over his upper body!

All the clues to solve the case are in encrypted tee-shirts that the killer is making, shirts with Greek mythology messages and numerology.

With all of this, you can see why this is the only story on this episode; there are no secondary stories. All the members of the crew are on it. This would have made a super season- opener.gt

Notes: Edward Furlong, who gained fame at an early age as "John Connor," the punk teen son of "Sarah Connor" in "Terminator 2," guest stars. It's hard to imagine he's 30 years old now. His resume shows he's been employed since "Terminator 2," but in nothing I've seen, so it was interesting to see him again.

On the personal front, "Danny" is shot down by "Lyndsay," who gives the typical female "I'm not ready for any kind of relationship" speech to him. He takes it well, and the scene is short. So far, this CSI spin off has very little soap opera contest, which is one reason why I like it.