"CSI: NY" A Daze of Wine and Roaches (2007)

User Rating:

7.4/10   

Director:

Oz Scott

Writers:

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

TV Series:

"CSI: NY" (2004)

Original Air Date:

21 March 2007 (Season 3, Episode 19)

Genre:

Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Plot:

At a French Revolution themed fund raiser at the UN, specifically at the French consulate, Mac, Stella...

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
Carmen Argenziano	...	Insp. Stanton Gerrard
Shailene Woodley	...	Evie Pierpont
James Black	...	Luther Vandeross
Ross Gibby	...	Jackson Pillock
Rey Valentin	...	Julian Feeney (as Reynaldo Valentin)
Eli Goodman	...	Greg Sanford
Christopher Maleki	...	Gavin Bridge

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

CBS Paramount Network Television

Trivia:

The title is a takeoff of the film 'Days of Wine and Roses (1962)', directed by Blake Edwards, and starring Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: When Sheldon Hawkes examines the body that is still in the Guillotine you can see her eye lids slightly moving when illuminated.

Quotes:

Detective Danny Messer: [Shocked] You killed him for a cockroach?

Soundtrack:

Give It To Me

A Plug For Carmen Giovinazzo As 'Danny Messer'

This third season hasn't been consistent like the first two but what I do like, consistently, is the character "Danny Messer." He's always entertaining, realistically New York and a likable, normal "average Joe." Carmen Giovinanno does a great job with that role every week. Sometimes it's just the looks on his face but whatever he does and says comes off very realistic.

Whatever. There are two crimes in this episode: one is a poisoning at a fund-raising French reception at the UN and other involves a young chef murdered in the wine cellar of a restaurant. A corkscrew is found in his chest. The latter case was more interesting, I thought, especially after a live cockroach comes crawling out of the mouth of the victim and the insect has very expensive gems on its body. Yeah.....all you can do is shake your head in amazement. What's next on this show?

Would-be lovers Danny and Lindsay take that case while the team of Mac, Stella, Hawkes and Flack try to figure out how this woman got poisoned at the party. The interesting part was in the beginning of the show when the ill-feeling lady was put in guillotine for "show." However, the blade didn't kill her: poisoned candy did. It turns out to be a case involving an ultra-rich 15-year-old and the people responsible for her care. It looks like either one of those people, or the kid, is guilty. This turns out to be a complicated matter.

The other case - with the "roachbroach," which is worth over $100,000 - bugged me too much to discuss. Gee, now I sound like the people in this show. That's the kind of "ouch" lines in here, all the time now. I didn't find the ending of this case that satisfying, either.

P.S. Is Danny making any progress trying to get Lyndsay to be his girl? Well, it's still working on it.....but you can progress!