Happily Never After (9 Jan. 2008)

A notorious hotel owner known for her meanness is found dead under an ice sculpture, and the clues to the death of a second woman who fell to her death onto a school bus can be found in the book "Peter Pan."

Director:

Marshall Adams

Writers:

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

Stars:

Gary Sinise, Melina Kanakaredes, Carmine Giovinazzo

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
Gary Sinise	...	Mac Taylor
Melina Kanakaredes	...	Stella Bonasera
Carmine Giovinazzo	...	Danny Messer
Anna Belknap	...	Lindsay Monroe
Hill Harper	...	Sheldon Hawkes
Eddie Cahill	...	Don Flack
A.J. Buckley	...	Adam Ross
Robert Joy	...	Dr. Sid Hammerback
Emmanuelle Vaugier	...	Detective Jessica Angell
Matt Battaglia	...	Dr. Harrison Green
Katie Carr	...	Tina O'Donovan
Robert Cicchini	...	Felix Hall
Joshua LeBar	...	Michael Wright
Cole Williams	...	Bryce Aldecott
Ahna O'Reilly	...	Halie

Storyline

A notorious hotel owner known for her meanness is found dead under an ice sculpture, and the clues to the death of a second woman who fell to her death onto a school bus can be found in the book "Peter Pan."

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Plot Keywords:

ice sculpture | liquid nitrogen | dead woman with eyes open | frozen body | dead woman | 

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Genres:

Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

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Details

Release Date:

9 January 2008 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

CBS Paramount Network Television

Did You Know?

Trivia

The name of the hotel is an homage to the "Wizard of Oz". The hotel's name is Dorothea and the owner is from Kansas, same as Dorothy in the book. Also the terrier OTTO is an anagram of ToTo and is also the same breed dog.

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Goofs

Mac determines that 'Wendy' fell 35 feet to the top of the bus. Danny says that they should be looking for a 3 story building (which is where they find the crime scene). This doesn't account for the additional height of the bus which would add an additional 10-15 feet pushing the crime scene up to the 4th or 5th floor.

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Quotes

Dr. Sheldon Hawkes: So the killer got Fiona.
Detective Lindsay Monroe: And her little dog too.

User Reviews

Dastardly Dames & Captain Hook

There are two stories in this episode and the second one definitely was the more interesting of the two crimes.

The first involved some snobby hotel owner nobody in the city liked, to the point where (and this would never happen) people applauded at the crime scene when they learned this dastardly dame was dead! It looked an ice sculpture house and fallen on her and crushed her, but that wasn't the case. These crimes are rarely what they look like, as you know if you are a regular CSI viewer.

The second story involves a woman who is killed by a hook ripping her sides out and causing her to bleed to death. Her death didn't look like that at first because she was found sandwiched between a bus and a car after an accident. She had been on top of the bus and slid off during the accident. She got there because "Peter Pan" threw her out a third story kindergarten class window.

Can you tell how strange the CSI stories have become by the descriptions above? Oh, well, most of the time they are interesting.

Don't try to guess who the killers are because in this episode, both cases have the killer not even introduced until the final minutes! Thus, there is no possible way CSI viewers can figure out these crimes out.