"CSI: NY" Open and Shut (2006)

User Rating:

7.5/10   

Director:

Joe Ann Fogle

Writers:

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

TV Series:

"CSI: NY" (2004)

Original Air Date:

25 October 2006 (Season 3, Episode 6)

Genre:

Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Plot:

A hotel concierge falls to her death in the hotel atrium, and a woman says she shot the man who beat her husband to death with a hammer in self-defense. |

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
A.J. Buckley	...	Adam Ross
Dedee Pfeiffer	...	Grace Thomason
Lindy Booth	...	Tess Larson
Jill Latiano	...	Mandi Foster
Hal Ozsan	...	Tony DeLuca
Angela Sarafyan	...	Sara Jackson
Greg Wrangler	...	Daniel Thomason
Keith Stone	...	Todd

Color:

Color

Company:

CBS Paramount Network Television

Trivia:

The model's story of throwing an iPod at her assistant's head sounds like a play on real-life supermodel Naomi Campbell, who was arrested for throwing a cell phone at the head of one of her employees.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: Sara Jackson's body was found on the sculpture in middle of the atrium, at least 6 feet from the wall. Since she was hanging from her killer's arm by the railing, she should have fallen straight down and missed the sculpture.

Quotes:

Detective Stella Bonasera: [to Grace Thomason] Framing a man with known mental problems, very imaginative. But then, you're a therapist. You'd know who to pick.

Soundtrack:

Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?

Things Get More Than Catty In This Entertaining One

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

I don't want to give too many things away but I am glad to see the writers aren't totally politically-correct in here where only males (usually Caucasions) can commit all the nasty crimes. It's usually the case, but not always.

Melina Kanakaredes as "Stella" plays a major role in this episode as she heads one of the cases, a case in which she can "identify." She gets a little emotional, as she admits, and I'm surprised she was given the case by her boss "Mac" (Gary Sinise) but she does fine with it, especially when she figures it out.

That crime scene in her case, involving a husband-and-wife and third party, oddly enough, is very close in time and proximity to the first crime scene which is the main one featured on this episode. Over and over and over they show a young girl dangling from a balcony and then falling to her death. They overplay that scene but the case is intriguing enough as we see beautiful-but-shallow characters in the world of professional modeling. (CSI shows usually feature "beautiful-but-shallow" people, especially in the Miami spin off.)

This episode is entertaining, which is all we ask.