Turn, Turn, Turn (5 Mar. 2009)

Nick volunteers on his birthday to take a case involving a 16-year-old girl found dead in the parking lot of a seedy hotel, because he got to know the girl while investigating other cases at the hotel over the last year.

Director:

Richard J. Lewis

Writers:

Anthony E. Zuiker (creator), Tom Mularz

Stars:

Laurence Fishburne, Marg Helgenberger, George Eads

Cast

Episode credited cast:
Laurence Fishburne	...	Dr. Raymond Langston
Marg Helgenberger	...	Catherine Willows
George Eads	...	Nick Stokes
Paul Guilfoyle	...	Captain Jim Brass
Eric Szmanda	...	Greg Sanders
Robert David Hall	...	Dr. Al Robbins
David Berman	...	David Phillips
Wallace Langham	...	David Hodges
Liz Vassey	...	Wendy Simms
Lauren Lee Smith	...	Riley Adams
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Geoffrey Blake	...	Mark Jones
Kirk Bovill	...	Dale Durney
Alex Carter	...	Detective Vartann
Andrew Craghan	...	Trey Gallo
John D'Aquino	...	Gavin Fenish

Storyline

Nick forgets about his 'CSI birthday party' when he hears of the murder of Haley, the daughter (16) of dodgy outskirts motel owners Mark and Nicole Jones. Nick was there months earlier for other cases, including two men at floor and attic level of the same room. But the link is with the murder of Bree Lindale, whose complex relationships with the Jones and the local hockey team, especially attorney Gavin Fenish's drug-dealing son Zach, was not unraveled timely. Nor were the Jones's family secrets, connecting them to ex-con Frank Carrow's ex Tanya, who apparently committed suicide in the motel.

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Plot Keywords:

motel | birthday | birthday party | party | death of teenage girl | 

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

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Details

Release Date:

5 March 2009 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

CBS Paramount Network Television

Did You Know?

Goofs

Nick first gets to the Park Pines Motel and kneels by Haley's dead body. He then hears her voice asking "What happened?" Nick stands up and turns around, where the first transition occurs, changing the time period to a 365 days before. In the background, the Rio Hotel and Stratosphere are shown. The address for the Rio is 3700 West Flamingo Road. The address for the Stratosphere is 2000 Las Vegas Boulevard South. These two hotels are on opposite sides of the Las Vegas Strip, about 10-15 minutes apart.

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Quotes

Greg Sanders: [Nick is in the room next door to where the dead body is when Greg finds him] You, uh, do know the crime scene's in the next room. I always look for the yellow tape.

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Connections

References CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: A La Cart (2007)

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Soundtracks

"You're Not Sorry"
(uncredited)
Original CSI Remix
Written by Taylor Swift
Performed by Taylor Swift

User Reviews

Pleasantly Surprised...

Before seeing this episode, basically all I knew about Taylor Swift had more to do with the Kanye debacle than anything else. I'm not a particular fan of her music, her videos or much anything else she's done, in spite of the Mack-truckload of awards she won last year. And when I first heard about this episode, I glumly thought, "Oh, GAWD! More 'stunt casting' to draw in the tweener audience. Just PEACHY."

But you know what? Not only did Taylor NOT suck in this role, she was actually pretty damn good, as a girl whose unfortunate destiny is already set in stone before Nick Stokes even knew of her existence. She gets to show some range as a character with more than just a "Polyanna" side, and you do feel for her when the awful and inevitable happens.

Good thing for Taylor that she leaves a great impression, because the "closer" here is not her, but George Eads. Nick hasn't really had a chance to show his more "sensitive" side since the trauma he went through about two seasons back, in that unforgettable Quentin Tarantino two-parter. The entire CSI team has to build up emotional calluses in order to do an effective job, but for each one of them, there is still that one case that comes along that reminds them that they still have feelings - they're still human, not super-human. And this one definitely brings home another wake-up call for Nick. REALLY good episode.