CSI: Miami (TV Series) Triple Threat (2007) User Reviews

A Very Clever Twist Or Two Or Three

[ccthemovieman-1 · 9/10 · 12 December 2007]

At a fund-raiser for a children's hospital, the husband of the husband-wife team running the charity affair is shot and falls from his balcony on to a big ice statue where he's impaled. The bullet would have killed anyway, not falling on the ice, but it gives the writers a chance to use a few poor puns before the dramatic "Who" song opening.

Suspects include everyone at the party, which means a lot of people and particularly the owner of the murder weapon, the gun being left at the crime scene. Of course the weapon "was stolen" a few years ago, says the playboy-suspect. Do you notice how many times the first suspect always says the murder weapon was stolen? "Hey, it's not mine," we hear over and over again each episode. Also, these guns are never reported stolen, either.

The episode turns out to have a very, very interesting twist. The headline to the episode, "Triple Threat," hints at what that twist involves, as we see a surprise twin sister and then, a third sister! Actress Leslie Bibb plays all three sisters:Beth, Cayla and Ashley

Those women think they put something over on their husband but an even better twist develops on them. Good stuff and clever writing.

Great episode involving the complexities of crimes committed by people with identical DNA

[ruthkoontz · 12 September 2008]

This is a great episode addressing the difficulties but not the impossibilities of prosecuting crimes committed by persons with identical DNA (and appearances). Its of special interest to me because I have identical twin sons (who are part of a set of triplets) and a friend's mother was murdered by an identical twin prior to tech advancements and that person literally got away with murder.

I did note one blooper in the episode... as the triplets were being escorted out of CSI at the end of the episode, they focused the camera on the third girl, while one of the others was getting into the vehicle in the background, with her back to the camera. The other girl had her hands interlaced behind her back to suggest being handcuffed, but there are no cuffs on her wrists.

WHAT AN UNEVENTFUL EPISODE, RIGHT ANN DONAHUE?

[corraled-05690 · 10/10 · 9 July 2020]

Where do I begin? Had this show not had the 3 morons at the head of the franchise-Ann Donahue, Carol Mendolsohn & Anthony Zuiker, an imaginative, inventive, creative episode like this would have gotten the attention it deserved on DVD. But it had a 4th name attached, that name being Jerry Bruckheimer, a man who simply does not have the same affinity for his tv shows that he does for his movies. He absolutely sucks on the small screen, and this episode is testimony to what failures all 4 are.

The woman at the heart of the episode was an admitted virgin, Leslie Bibb confessed she had never even seen an ep of any CSI series prior to being cast in the title role of Beth & Cayla Selby & Ashley Whitford. Each sister had her own quirks, and Bibb played it to the hilt. For a woman brand new to the franchise in all forms, she rocked it Colin Ferguson also played up the dual roles of real estate developer Dominic Whitford and his media double Greg Ramsey.

There were so many twists & turns, this episode kept you guessing, and had the show not been produced by those 4 losers, this episode would have gotten Its own special feature as well as commentary. The fact the very opposite is true makes this episode more evidence of the systemic failure of the producers. At no time on DVD on any season/series did producers make an attempt to invest in their fans. No, in typical CSI franchise fashion, this episode is treated like filler. Where was the commentary from Leslie Bibb? She played 3 identical characters but had to give each their own identity.

This episode also touches on the aftermath of Delko getting shot in the earlier return of South American drug kingpin Clavo Cruz, a storyline that, what is less than scratching the surface? Another great episode in the franchise that had every right to the spotlight but never got it because Jerry Bruckheimer, Ann Donahue, Carol Mendolsohn & Anthony Zuiker suck at their jobs. Even the lightest in action episode of BREAKING BAD would get commentary, and from multiple players. Had Jerry Bruckheimer, Ann Donahue, Carol Mendolsohn & Anthony Zuiker been a functioning group of producers who actually gave a crap about their fans, there would have been a feature on the DVD running at least 20 minutes, and there also would been commentary from Leslie Bibb, David Caruso, Colin Ferguson, Emily Procter & Adam Rodriguez as well as writers Corey Miller & Sunil Nayar and director Scott Lautanen. Another glimmering example of producers letting their fans down season after season after season after season. Thanks for nothing, producers, thanks for absolutely nothing. If you were curious as to how much you consistently sucked at your jobs, pop in FIREFLY, Joss Whedon's shortest series and in stark contrast to you losers, has libraries of content & commentary. Every season of every CSI series-content poor, commentary best described as threadbare.