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ET’s Henry Thomas guest stars as a convicted killer from Catherine’s first case as a baby CSI. I’ve tried to work a “phone home” joke into this recap but it just wasn’t working. I’ll at least be calling him Elliott throughout, mostly because I can’t be bothered to remember his character’s name.
Episode Summary
Elliott, in prison for 18 years for murdering an old man during a home robbery, wants a new trial on the grounds that his lawyer kind of sucked. It’s granted, so Catherine has to re-visit her first solo case. She explains the details to the team: Elliott was convicted based on a fingerprint found on the rock that smashed the old man’s window and a shoeprint that matched Elliott’s size but not any of his shoes. When she lays it all out, even Catherine has to admit that the evidence sounds lame. But that’s what worked 18 years ago.
Ever since Grissom left CSI has ceased being must-see television for me. However, I would shift my devotion in a heartbeat to a CSI: Lab Techs spin-off. One episode focusing on the lab rats each season is simply not enough.
Episode Summary
The geeks have gathered at WhatIfItCon but one exhibitor isn’t having a good time. Jonathan Danson, who was there to unveil his reboot of the classic and beloved Star Astro Trek Quest is found murdered.
Soon the red shirts herrings start piling up. His co-producer, who gets all the rights with Danson dead, has a motive. It’s doubly so when the CSIs learn that Danson was sleeping with her and recording it, along with a bevy of other geek girls at each convention where he appeared. Danson also infuriated and alienated (hee) a lot of congoers with his bleak, dystopian take on the unabashedly campy Astro Quest. Then there’s the bartender who had an altercation with Danson after Danson harrassed a female congoer.
This week CSI is back on track after the hideous aberration that was last week’s episode. The team investigates three cases, two of which converge. As for the third, it’s got an ending straight out of a Greek tragedy comedy.
Episode Summary
Nick and Riley investigate the case of a man, Pierre, who was almost killed when his parachute failed to deploy while he was skydiving. They determine the chute was tampered with but after questioning Pierre’s female companions and business partner, Max, they come up with no sure suspect.
This week’s CSI was its 200th episode and William Friedkin returned to direct it. Would it celebrate nine years of history and focus on the cast members who have been with the show since the beginning? Or would it be even worse than the other Friedkin-directed episode, “Cockroaches,” a faux-artistic, interminable mess that was driven by a character who’s only been around for ten episode?
If you picked door number two, give yourself a cookie! And have a good cry.
Episode Summary
After being chased by a man in a mask through the alleys of Las Vegas for what seems like a million years, a pretty blonde young woman is murdered. We learn that her name is Sylvia and she was a former grad student of Langston’s. Sylvia was doing her masters thesis on serial killers who got away with it and it looks like her research took her too close to one of those serial killers.
Yesterday CSI star Marg Helgenberger, 50, filed for divorce from Alan Rosenberg, 58, her husband of 19 years. Rosenberg, also an actor, is currently the president of the Screen Actors Guild. The two met in 1984 and married in 1989. They separated in December 2008. They have one son, who is 18 years old.
Helgenberger cites irreconcilable differences in her filing. She is asking for spousal support and petitioning the court to deny him the same. I don’t know …
