For Warrick (9 Oct. 2008)

CSIs past and present come together at the news of Warrick's death. But will Warrick's real killer successfully frame another police officer for his murder?

Director:

Richard J. Lewis

Writers:

Anthony E. Zuiker (creator), Allen MacDonald (teleplay),

Stars:

William Petersen, Marg Helgenberger, Gary Dourdan

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
William Petersen	...	Gil Grissom
Marg Helgenberger	...	Catherine Willows
Gary Dourdan	...	Warrick Brown
George Eads	...	Nick Stokes
Eric Szmanda	...	Greg Sanders
Robert David Hall	...	Dr. Al Robbins
Wallace Langham	...	David Hodges
Paul Guilfoyle	...	Captain Jim Brass
Liz Vassey	...	Wendy Simms
David Berman	...	David Phillips
Jorja Fox	...	Sara Sidle
Conor O'Farrell	...	Undersheriff Jeffrey McKeen
Marc Vann	...	Conrad Ecklie
David Gianopoulos	...	Daniel Pritchard
Archie Kao	...	Archie Johnson

Storyline

Undersheriff Jeffrey McKeen has shot Warwick and uses false evidence to set up known dirty cop Daniel Pritchard. The team in mourning soon finds McKeen's testimony doesn't fit the facts. Conrad Ecklie demands conclusive proof before any action is undertaken. Meanwhile McKeen helps Pritchard flee to Mexico, but with a hidden agenda.

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Plot Keywords:

ritual | police officer shot | fight | escape | police officer killed | 

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

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Certificate:

TV-14

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

9 October 2008 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Jerry Bruckheimer Television, CBS Paramount Network Television

Technical Specs

Runtime:

45 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Goofs

When Mandy is printing the bullet from the gun and right before Catherine asks her to leave her lab, a strand of her hair goes from being tucked behind her ear to not being tucked behind her ear in between shots.

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Quotes

Captain Jim Brass: Nick, what was that shot?
Nick Stokes: Miss.

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Connections

References The Godfather (1972)

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Soundtracks

"It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday"
(uncredited)
Performed by Boyz II Men

User Reviews

Anticlimactic

SPOILERS

At 8.8, this is one of the highest-rated episodes of the entire series, but I have to disagree. My problems with it are as follows:

1. We have a bona fide villain in the department and this should have taken more episodes to solve. As it was, with McKeen's incompetence it was just too easy, so there wasn't any tension.

2. The chase was ridiculous. The cars are following, only a few dozen feet behind the fugitive, but when the fugitive car crashes, nobody sees it. Oh yeah, there's a helicopter right on his tail, too. And a car can't crash through a guard rail that way, running parallel to it, it would just bounce off, or the car would just skid or roll rather than plow through. After the crash, the seriously injured McKeen somehow, and for some reason that escapes me, drags himself a good distance away (he has the time for this, despite the other cars having been a couple of seconds behind). Only Nick follows the bloody trail. We get the usual confession (one of the cheap devices too often used in this and other shows), and with taunting by McKeen, Nick shoots the fugitive! Of course, he deliberately missed...

So, where we could have had some real tension, the writers resorted to the implausible artifice in point 2. I simply can't see how an episode with such cheap devices can be rated so highly. Maybe the viewers did it out of loyalty to the Warrick character, but I felt the character's death merited a better episode than this.