"CSI: NY" Obsession (2007)

User Rating:

7.2/10   

Director:

Jeffrey G. Hunt

Writers:

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

TV Series:

"CSI: NY" (2004)

Original Air Date:

17 January 2007 (Season 3, Episode 13)

Genre:

Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Plot:

A competitor is murdered during an "idiot run" shopping cart race in Central Park, and CSI suspects that a man found dead in a brownstone may have been murdered by a missing woman that he may have been holding hostage. |

Plot Keywords:

Dominatrix | Investigation | Ex Marine | Blood | Science

Cast

Gary Sinise	...	Detective Mac Taylor
Melina Kanakaredes	...	Detective Stella Bonasera
Carmine Giovinazzo	...	Detective Danny Messer
Anna Belknap	...	Detective Lindsay Monroe
Hill Harper	...	Dr. Sheldon Hawkes
Eddie Cahill	...	Detective Don Flack
Robert Joy	...	Dr. Sid Hammerback
Ryan McPartlin	...	Terry Rockwell
Emmanuelle Vaugier	...	Det. Jennifer Angell
A.J. Buckley	...	Adam Ross
Chad Morgan	...	Liz Grayson
Whitney Able	...	Rita Steinway
Griff Furst	...	Artemis Hunt
Alayna Corrick	...	Carla Kent
Brad Pennington	...	Morgan

Color:

Color

Company:

CBS Paramount Network Television

Trivia:

Originally scheduled to air on 10 January 2007, this episode was pre-empted by a public service announcement.

Quotes:

Detective Don Flack: The kids who found him claimed that their friend's football may have killed the man.
[Stella and Mac both give him a look]
Detective Don Flack: I locked 'em up just for fun.

Kinky Kidnapping & 'Idiot Runs'

These opening segments are getting more and more weird, and they don't have to be. We don't need to be shocked every time. This TV show is a good one, anyway. We don't need near-naked men in shopping carts in winter, followed by women in Playboy-bunny type gear, etc. But, I guess the idea to grab everyone's attention right off the bat with something bizarre.

That's actually the second opening scene, the first having some kids playing football in the snow with an errant pass going through someone's window. When one of the kids looks into the window, he sees a dead guy and thinks the football killed him. The kids all scatter. Just another day in the life of the CSI-New York workers!

This latter case (man found in apartment) is the most interesting case of the two and gets the two head honchos of the CSI team: Mac and Stella. It appears, after the ME report, that the man found might be part of a kidnapping gone bad and that there still two people out there somewhere: another kidnapper and the victim.

The other case involves the type of people CSI shows seem to like: arrogant, young, drunks and sex pervert types who could care less that someone was murdered. That was just too sordid yet it was interesting how they solved the case, the key being the shopping cart.

The "kidnapping" is a good mystery with a lot of twists and turns. Sadly, the last twist turned out be yet another sordid sex story.