"CSI: NY" Playing with Matches (2008)

Director:

Christine Moore

Writers:

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

TV Series:

"CSI: NY" (2004)

Original Air Date:

6 February 2008 (Season 4, Episode 14)

Genre:

Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Plot:

A badly-burned corpse turns out to belong to an underground street luge racer, and the DNA of a man already in prison is found on a dead body discovered in a new high-tech public toilet. |

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
Emmanuelle Vaugier	...	Detective Jessica Angell
Bess Wohl	...	Kendall Novack
Aaron Behr	...	Vinnie Parson
Christopher Bello	...	John Szabo
Jason Chambers	...	Mercury
Nicole Marie Lenz	...	Concrete Cowgirl / Sandra Polk (as Nicole Lenz)
Reid Scott	...	Seth Riggin
Kevin Flores	...	Declan Hollister

Company:

CBS Paramount Network Television

Trivia:

In the teaser, a man dressed as an astronaut is found dead. Before the cut to the opening music, Mac Taylor ('Gary Sinese') intones, "Houston, we have a problem." This is the famous misquote ("Houston, we've had a problem") spoken by CSM pilot Jack Swigert (Kevin Bacon) and mission commander Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks) in Ron Howard's Apollo 13 (1995). Sinese played grounded CSM pilot Ken Mattingly in that film.

Quotes:

Detective Don Flack: [Referring to the public toilet a woman drowned in] Put it this way: If a dishwasher and a Port-a-Potti were to ever mix it up, this thing would be their offspring.

Soundtrack:

Good Day

Fire & Water

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

A man dressed like an astronaut from the Alan Shephard days is found dead after his burning body smashed into a vehicle while traveling 80 miles per hour! What is that all about? Well, it's about "street luges," and setting speed records on them while also catching on fire, with a couple of zealous races.

The second story also has a strange angle. Some new public state-of-the-art port-o-potty available in the city gives up a dead woman after a lady had deposited her coins in the slot and tried to enter. When she opened the door, gallons of water, and a dead female, came pouring out into the street. The woman had cuts all over her arms but the medical examiner said the cause of death was drowning. How did all that water can in there and why wouldn't she have opened the door and left? This is another bizarre case, made even stranger when DNA from a prisoner still in jail, is underneath the victim's fingernails.

One of these cases turns out to be just an accident while another is a murder.