CSI: NY (TV Series) Nine Thirteen (2013) User Reviews

Good episode

[LoveIsAStateOfMind · 8/10 · 29 December 2015]

Who stole Hawkes' hair? Come on out and confess.

Jo/Hot Stalker. He was seriously hot. This was an okay storyline. It was better before we got to the 'waking up from transplant surgery and seeing your sister's face' bit and then, even worse, when she asked to listen to his heart beat. A part of me wanted to throw up. Still, as Jo story lines go, it was interesting and sweet.

EDNA again. Still waiting for someone to explain this thing to me! The case was okay but nothing special. Not entirely sure why all the slow-motion was necessary when they arrested the perp at the bus terminal. And why would she make a shank in prison, smuggle it out and kill with it when she could have bought a knife as soon as she was out or make another shank on the outside? Ah, Danny/Lindsay <3. This would have been so much better if I hadn't known going in. However, from the very first Sid/Lindsay scene I would probably have started to have my suspicions.

Mac/Lindsay scene was hilarious! Mac made a bet with Christina?!?! Erm, not sure how I feel about that. It just doesn't seem very Mac-like, especially before it was all out in the open. What if Lindsay didn't tell Danny the same day and somehow it all got back to Danny before she had a chance to tell him. And the last scene! Hee. The Mac/Lindsay hug mirroring the time before. The look on Lindsay's face "Was there a BET?!?!?!". Anyway, I guess this sort of exorcises the demons from the first pregnancy a bit for me. This is how it should have always gone down, not the awfulness of the first time around

One of my all-time favorite episodes.....

[tarwaterthomas · 10/10 · 16 April 2024]

.....because Danny Messer (Carmine Giovinazzo) and his much better half Lindsay Monroe Messer (Anna Belknap) are about to experience another life-changing milestone in their incredible marriage. But first they, along with their favorite boss man Mac Taylor (Gary Sinise), lovable pathologist Sid Hammerback (Robert Joy), and fellow investigators Sheldon Hawkes (Harper Hill) and Adam Ross (A. J. Buckley) investigate the horrendous murder of a pickpocket who had fallen from Building 913's front balcony and landed on top of a taxicab. It's murder because this pickpocket was dressed like the late tycoon Arnold WENTWORTH who committed suicide way back in 1929 after Wall Street fell and he lost all his millions. Also taking part in the investigation are those two lovable NYPD detectives Don Flack (Eddie Cahill) and his partner Jamie Lovato (Natalie Martinez), and they are partners off-duty. About time Flack had some loving in his life. One of the suspects is out-of-town visitor Calvin George (Robert Baker), who had been ripped off by the late pickpocket. While that's going on, Jo Danville (Sela Ward) meets up with a young hucklebuck from Alabama named Grant Holliston (Johann Urb) who has her sister's heart beating in him; the poor guy had a debilitating heart condition until he underwent open-heart surgery and Jo's sister Leanne who had died in a car accident (thanks to a drunk driver) was listed as an organ donor. Danny and Adam return to the apartment building in question, and determine from the arterial spray that the killer was nearly the same height as the victim. It develops that Grant Hollister teaches physics at a university, so that means he's making a good living. And he just wanted to thank Jo in person. While back at the CSI laboratory, Lindsay is acting rather weirdly. Mac calls his lady love Christine Whitney to tell her she owes him ten bucks. Sheldon informs Mac that the murder weapon was a crudely-made shank made from a plastic coffee-cup lid. It suggests that the killer had done time behind bars and is out for revenge. Uh oh. And a recovered newspaper reveals that a convict named Macy Sullivan (Laura Vandervoort) had been jailed two years earlier and had since been paroled, and the name of the murdered pickpocket was Alex Henley (Moneer Yaquibi). Macy tries to flee the Big Apple, going so far as to change her hair style, but is busted by Don and Jamie at a downtown bus station. And the life-changing news for Danny and Lindsey is that a second baby is on the way! Their daughter Lucy is going to be a big sister! Lindsey had been throwing up twice, and taken four home pregnancy tests and all have been positive. Great ending to a great episode. I only wish CBS had not pulled the plug on a great show. What were they thinking?

An episode that starts well, but ultimately fails and again confirms that (N)CSI shows are just vapid stories.

[meritcoba · 2/10 · 22 November 2015]

I have always wanted to figure out where the popularity of CSI and its NCSI variant with their host of sequels and spin offs comes from. Each episode I have watched up till now shows itself to be a vapid story were the investigation merely turns around having one of the cast stumble over a piece of evidence near the end that definitely points towards the killer, making all the previous detective work pointless.

Usually it goes along the lines of: we haven't found anything to pin on him, except for this. Or something like: that T-bird from 1950 has pink spray paint that was only sold in 1998 by a left footed blind guy up in high street. Only five were every made and thus.. If sheer accident doesn't bring a solution, some pull-it-out-of-your behind-piece of evidence does the trick. The last plot twist is having one of the officers talk in a threatening manner to the suspect or reluctant witness, which make them collapse before the mental pressure and say stupid things or even confess on the spot.

And usually the killer happily confesses in the end when confronted by the 'evidence'. for you know, making it all stick in court would be a little hard because any evidence would have been thrown out even before it was submitted. Ah well.. who cares. Most of the NCSI shows seem to have given up anyway and now forgo detective work by turning into soaps.

This episode under review almost seems to warrant the popularity and high marks of the show, were it not for the absolute nonsense ending.

A young unknown man falls to his death on a yellow cab from a famous building. The subsequent investigation is a marvel to be hold, and it is. Unlike NCIS who use it to show off pretty people or idiotic people doing stuff to stuff,we get at least the feeling that some hard investigation is being done by the CSI members. Oddly enough, somewhat halfway into the episode two members of the team decide to investigate the scene of the murder which was apparently not taped off, and neither was the building where the guy dropped dead from. Contamination of the crime scene is a concept that has yet to become important at CSI.

The young man turns out to be a pickpocket, which is established fact based on the jewelry and phones he has in his coat. Not an illogical conclusion were it not for the fact he might also have been an illegal seller or a fence. But this is how these shows works basically. In the real world it might be a possibility, in the world of a CSI show it is a fact.

Baffling enough, you see the CSI members never talk to the uniforms. In fact the local beat cop only shows up as a background filler so that the stars of the show are the CSI members who fumble around ignoring any information from their fellow officers.

They investigate this and they investigate that and then near the end they are stuck, so one of them members comes up with the idea that one of the phones might be from the dead guy himself. Which is brilliant deduction that could only be learned after years of experience and only by some pretty smart people, like the pretty people from the CSI team. Nope nobody else would have thought of that one.

But this deus et machina isn't the only rabbit that gets pulled out of the hat. In addition they also conclude that the knife that is used to kill him is made by using means that you can get anywhere but are used in a prison because there you cannot get fire, which points to the killer having been a convict for all convicts make their knives in prison. Hence they now have to connect our known dead guy to a convict.

Well, a piece of paper gives the date of the year the convict was put in prison so we got that fact established.

But how do they figure out who she is?

Well, one of the cops that has previous interviewed another suspect walks past a room where the other cops are reviewing all possible suspects and he just spots her from the pictures scrolling past because he has seen her on a security video among other guests entering the building.

But the worst however is the psychology that is behind the murder. Apparently a girl, innocent of the crime she was convicted for, because the dead guy had her framed for it, goes into prison, learns to make a knife, comes out of prison and murders him out of revenge.

What the heck??

Do people who are victims without any proved psychological aptitude to become killers in evidence, turn into killers just because that is what the desire for revenge and prison does to them? Not only does it apparently inspire people to kill but also gives them the means to do so.. What is this? Someone's hidden political agenda to demonstrate that prisons are bad places that breed criminals, killers even?

An idiotic episode to say the least. I give it a two for the story about the heart, but that has nothing to do with CSI. It could have told in any social drama.