"CSI: NY" Like Water for Murder (2008)

Director:

Anthony Hemingway

Writer:

Sam Humphrey (writer)

TV Series:

"CSI: NY" (2004)

Original Air Date:

16 April 2008 (Season 4, Episode 17)

Genre:

Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Plot:

The bodies of two female real estate agents are found on a beach. When the m.o. ties the murders to a third murder from months earlier, CSI goes on a hunt to find the killer before he strikes again.

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
Kyle Gallner	...	Reed Garrett
Todd Cahoon	...	Matt Cooper
Kristen Dalton	...	Quinn Shelby
Theo Alexander	...	Charles Kohl (as Theodore Zoumpoulidis)
Kelly Bellini	...	Chrissy Watson
Esther Marie	...	P.J. Davis
Breanne Racano	...	Jessica Hughes
Sigmund Watkins	...	Tim Campbell

Company:

CBS Paramount Network Television

Quotes:

Reed Garrett: [Yelling to mac from a crowd] Hey Mac! Mac!
Detective Stella Bonasera: [to Mac] Looks like you got company, I'll see you inside.
Reed Garrett: [Yelling to Mac] Two woman, same kind of jobs, Is this a serial killer?
Detective Mac Taylor: [Telling the guards] He's okay.
Detective Mac Taylor: [to Reed] Reed, i thought you were working the city desk for the paper.
Reed Garrett: [to Mac] Nope, not anymore.
Reed Garrett: [to Mac] I got my own blog now.
Reed Garrett: [to Mac] New York 24-7 News.
Detective Mac Taylor: [to Reed] Don't you wanna get your facts straight before you sensationalize a story?
Reed Garrett: [to Mac] I thought that's what i was doing.
[...]

Movie Connections:

References Jaws (1975)

Letters, Numbers, A Shark and Dead Bodies

This turned to be a two-part story, which surprised me because it did not appear to be headed that way . It looked like the standard story as the CSI moved in on the real killer with about five minutes left in the show.

Credibility was stretched more than normal in this story but it was still a very good episode because it had some very interesting elements, such as "Quinn Shelby," a huge Tiger shark, the continuing romantic saga and Danny and Lyndsay and a killer on the loose who has no motive (as it turns out) other than he likes to kill.

Shelby is an interesting character, someone from the past who competed (and lost, obviously) for Mac's job and you carried a torch for our hero. She is played by the attractive Kristen Dalton.

The killer, among other things, has scratched some sort of letters and numbers on the victims, which begin to pop up in more places.