"CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" Living Legend (2006)

Director:

Martha Coolidge

Writers:

Anthony E. Zuiker (creator)
Douglas Petrie (teleplay)

TV Series:

"CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" (2000)

Original Air Date:

23 November 2006 (Season 7, Episode 9)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Plot:

The team searches for a link between a current string of murders in Las Vegas and a notorious mob boss who disappeared in the 1970s.

Plot Keywords:

Mask | Revenge | Mafia | Investigation | Crime Lab

Cast

William Petersen	...	Gil Grissom
Marg Helgenberger	...	Catherine Willows
Gary Dourdan	...	Warrick Brown
George Eads	...	Nick Stokes
Jorja Fox	...	Sara Sidle
Eric Szmanda	...	Greg Sanders
Robert David Hall	...	Dr. Al Robbins
Louise Lombard	...	Sofia Curtis
Paul Guilfoyle	...	Captain Jim Brass
Wallace Langham	...	David Hodges
Roger Daltrey	...	Mickey Dunn
Barbara Bain	...	Mrs. Iris Paul
Brian Goodman	...	Derek Paul
Louis Giambalvo	...	Ken Billings
Rik Young	...	Young Mickey Dunn

Runtime:

41 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Company:

Jerry Bruckheimer Television

Trivia:

Roger Daltrey guest stars, and a white-board in the bar reads "Who's Next?", the title of one of The Who's more famous albums.

Goofs:

Continuity: David, the Assistant Medical Examiner, is looking at the driver's license of Ken Billings, the wheelchair-bound victim who was pushed in front of a vehicle and Billings's birth date is 2/17/1944. David is looking right at this license and says his birth date is 11/9/1952.

Quotes:

Captain Jim Brass: Well atleast the driver was sober, I can't say the same about the boatload of high school kids he was driving around town. Listen to the wonderful statements I got, "We go errrr dude goes ahhhh we go bam dude goes wahhh"

Movie Connections:

References Jaws (1975)

Art imitating art. Badly.

Yes, there is no denying it. This episode is enormously disappointing. I don't mean to offend anyone, but I'm genuinely surprised to see such glowing reviews of this episode. I happen to be one of the few people who have seen every single episode of CSI up to this point, and when I saw this one just a few minutes ago I was so struck by how bad it is that I almost couldn't believe what I was seeing.

It's not that the episode is bad entertainment, it's just that by this point, after six and a half years of watching the show and getting to know the characters so well, it's so strange to see them stumbling around clueless in what has to be their most obvious case ever.

While you can't predict the exact ending from the first scene, the fact that all of the CSIs were looking at these pictures of "different" killers in cheap, dime-store Halloween make-up and never guessing that it might be the same person was ridiculous in the extreme. The leaps of logic that we've seen them all make in the past make no sense when they fail to see something so blatantly obvious right under their noses.

And what about the names from horror movies? They keep getting names of witnesses like Mike Meyers and F. Krueger and Pamela Voorhees. I don't know why this was thrown into the show. No one gets it until they get F. Krueger, then the CSIs sit around wondering about that last one until one of them mentions that Pamela was the killer in the original Friday. He even remembered that it was the question Drew Barrymore got wrong in Scream. Wow, great puzzle. It took them entire SECONDS to figure it out!

I've noticed that season 7 took a huge leap for the better as far as interesting and unique episodes, but make no mistake, this is not one of them...