Flight Risk (16 Mar. 2009)

A flight attendant is found dead after a flight in the baggage claim area, and the suspects include jealous coworkers, a drug-smuggling Federal Air Marshal, and a pilot cheating on his wife.

Director:

Joe Chappelle

Writers:

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

Stars:

David Caruso, Emily Procter, Adam Rodriguez

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
David Caruso	...	Lieutenant Horatio Caine
Emily Procter	...	Calleigh Duquesne
Adam Rodriguez	...	Eric Delko
Jonathan Togo	...	Ryan Wolfe
Rex Linn	...	Detective Frank Tripp
Eva La Rue	...	Natalia Boa Vista (as Eva LaRue)
Megalyn Echikunwoke	...	Dr. Tara Price
Jaimie Alexander	...	Jenna York
Seth Gilliam	...	Aaron Nolan
Sarah Buxton	...	Carolyn Morrow
Evan Ellingson	...	Kyle Harmon
Nathan Baesel	...	Marvin Duffy
Tom Parker	...	Grant Lawson
Boti Bliss	...	Maxine Valera
Wes Ramsey	...	Dave Benton

Storyline

Flight attendant Suzanne Grady's bloody corpse rolls off the luggage conveyor belt at Miami airport, in a leaking suitcase. Kyle is doing great again in her autopsy. She had a steamy affair with the adulterous pilot and raised great envy with low-paid coworkers. She signaled a passenger for smoking in the lavatory, who turns out to be a soft stalker. The air marshal denies having seen the corpse being removed passed his seat. Several people aboard were mixed in drug smuggle.

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Plot Keywords:

flight attendant | infidelity | contraband | jealousy | adolescent | 

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Genres:

Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

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Details

Language:

English

Release Date:

16 March 2009 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Jerry Bruckheimer Television, CBS Paramount Network Television

Technical Specs

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Goofs

(at around 48 mins) When Natalie and Ryan examine the plane and find the hatch leading to the "private refuge", the underside of the hatch is gray. When they go up into the room, the bottom of the hatch is white.

User Reviews

Cabin(s) In The Sky

You have to give it to the CSI writers - they sure come up with some original openings....things one would never (and hopefully) see in real life. In this episode, we have a bloody corpse coming down the baggage conveyor belt onto the baggage carousel at the airport! The dead body is one of the stewardesses on the flight from San Diego.

Suspects include a guy sneaking a cigarette on the flight (which is illegal now), a federal air marshal, a co-pilot, a baggage man, another stewardess or two. It might even be a case of accidental death.

CSI will take all these possibilities with us as they try to figure out this puzzler. Almost all the suspects, of course, have "attitudes" or are immoral in some shape or form, as usual.

By the way, are there really "private refuges" on these big planes? Just asking.