Cuckoo's Nest (18 Nov. 2009)

After a body falls from the 59th Street Bridge, the CSI team finds a compass near the body pointing east, and realizes it's the third victim of the Compass Killer. Meanwhile, detective Flack, still dealing with Angell's death, goes AWOL.

Director:

Jeffrey G. Hunt

Writers:

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

Stars:

Gary Sinise, Melina Kanakaredes, Carmine Giovinazzo

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
Gary Sinise	...	Mac Taylor
Melina Kanakaredes	...	Stella Bonasera
Carmine Giovinazzo	...	Danny Messer
Anna Belknap	...	Lindsay Monroe
Robert Joy	...	Dr. Sid Hammerback
A.J. Buckley	...	Adam Ross
Hill Harper	...	Sheldon Hawkes
Eddie Cahill	...	Don Flack
Nelly	...	Terrence Davis
Josie Davis	...	Calliope Eckhart
Kieran Campion	...	Kenneth Grant
Alex Cranmer	...	Bob Tanner
Austin Lysy	...	Thomas Gates
John Mese	...	Lt. William Sythe
Marguerite Moreau	...	Louise Dukes

Storyline

After a body falls from the 59th Street Bridge, the CSI team finds a compass near the body pointing east, and realizes it's the third victim of the Compass Killer. Meanwhile, detective Flack, still dealing with Angell's death, goes AWOL.

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Genres:

Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

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Details

Language:

English

Release Date:

18 November 2009 (USA)

Filming Locations:

CBS Studio Center - 4024 Radford Avenue, Studio City, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Jerry Bruckheimer Television, CBS Television Studios

Technical Specs

Runtime:

60 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Goofs

During the shooting scene on the party boat, the boat is in the Hudson River. We see lower Manhattan in the background. Seconds later a man falls from the 59th Street Bridge, which crosses the East River and lands on the boat.

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Quotes

[Danny walks into the crime lab, free of his cane]
Detective Stella Bonasera: Hey. On your own two feet and looking good, Messer.
Detective Danny Messer: Not bad, huh? First the wheelchair, now no more cane. Done.
Detective Stella Bonasera: Yeah. You know, that was one of the scariest moments, and I'll never forget it when you said you couldn't move your legs.
Detective Danny Messer: When I saw the blood on my hands, I mean, I thought that was it.
Detective Stella Bonasera: Yeah, well, it wasn't your time.
Detective Danny Messer: Yeah, let's go with that. So what's up with this thing this morning? I mean, this guy's on a boat full of people. ...
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User Reviews

Getting Really Close To The 'Compass Killer'

Well, we are back to the "Compass Killer," and we learn a lot more about him. So does the CSI team, which finally figures out who he is. The problem is how to find him....and they come agonizingly close! As a sidebar, we see "Don Flack" (Eddie Cahill) going AWOL for a day and the team trying to track him down. How Mac handles the situation is pretty good; we all should have bosses that firm-but-understanding and forgiving.

Anyway, the crime all begins with a homicide and an apparent suicide both happening at the same. (Only on CSI can you have someone committing a murder while a million-to-one occurrence at the exact scene of the crime and involves another death. This has a couple of times already on this season's show! Whatever, it makes for an interesting story.) The "suicide" is not that, of course, and it's the work of our mentally-deranged killer who pushes a guy off the 59th Street Bridge onto a boat in which a murder had just taken places seconds earlier.

By the way, I like it when CSI does these continuations with the same murderer driving everyone nuts. Apparently the public does, too, as there have been more of these in recent years on the CSI shows.

My guess is that the "Compass Killer" story will end next week.