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Set in the city that never sleeps, CSI: New York is
the latest spin-off from the hugely popular CSI series.
Following on from Vegas and Miami, this CSI
has a distinct New York City flavour and style. Dealing with
a city with a three hundred year history and eight million
residents is a whole different ball game...
The
second half of Season Two of CSI: New York contains
some cracking episodes and we get to revisit a few cases.
Danny's involvement with the Tanglewood boys comes under the
microscope again; Aiden Burn makes a few more appearances;
and the D.J. Pratt storyline is continued.
Almost
every episode in this box set is worth commenting on. Highlights
include:
Stuck
on You follows the investigation of two murders. The first
sees a model killed when someone shoots a bow and arrow at
the man she is making out with. The arrow pierces his body,
but kills her. The second murder is of a man who is found
in the street with his face covered in glue. The only slight
problem I had with this is that I couldn't understand why
the CSI team spent ages searching for the box and arrow. They
know it belongs to the guy who was shot, so why not ask him
where it is instead of searching his premises? It's not like
he has anything to hide.
Fare
Game sees the CSI team hot on the heels of a murderer
who is taking part in a New York wide hitman game. This sees
hundreds of people who each have been given a folder with
a picture of one of the other gamers inside it as well as
their phone number, address and work address. The idea is
that everyone has to track their prey and then "kill
them" with a water pistol shot or water bomb - they then
take their envelope and go after their victim's target prey.
The idea is that the last man "alive" is the winner.
Cool
Hunter is interesting in as much as it's one of those
episodes where nothing is as it seems and it takes some serious
luck on the part of the CSI team to piece everything together.
One of the more clever episodes in the show's run so far.
Necrophilia
Americana is quite a gory episode. When a colony of flesh
eating insects are let loose in a museum they end up eating
a woman's face away. But, was she already dead before they
attacked her? This also sees an interesting use of style which
revolves around a young boy and his comic book. The producers
opted to tell some of the story in the same visual format
as the comic book - which works really well.
Live
Or Let Die has an interesting b-plot. A woman is found
murdered in an alley way and several possible suspects are
tracked down. They all claim not to know her, but they've
spoken to her several times on the phone over the last month.
One of the suspects we know has met her as she had his business
card with both his and her fingerprints on it.
Super
Men sees the discovery of the body of a costumed vigilante.
As the CSI team starts to investigate they discover a number
of strange situations. These include the victim's clothes
and glasses left in a phone booth, the fact that his name
is Clark and even his death seems to be at the hands of Kryptonite!??!
Run
Silent, Run Deep sees Danny having to relive his shady
past when a body is discovered under a football field. All
indications are that the Tanglewood gang are involved again.
But when Mac discovers a piece of evidence that puts Danny
at the scene of the crime he is torn between convicting his
friend and proving his innocence.
All
Access is only really worth mentioning as there is a rather
meaty b-plot featuring Stella and her boyfriend. It's just
a shame that the writers didn't include more background on
their relationship in previous episodes. We only really get
to see them in the episode before this. It's very difficult
to feel anything for Stella's partner. If we'd had a bit more
screen exposure to their relationship I think that this episode
would have been a lot more shocking.
Heroes should really have been this season's finale
(I'm sure they could have worked the Flack storyline in somehow
- in fact, they could have easily incorporated the storyline
of Charge of This Post as both episodes deal with the
Marines) as it's such a well thought through episode. It brings
to a close an ongoing story arc and the two main stories are
both very moving - down to Mac's involvement with both subjects.
Oddly
enough there isn't a single audio commentary in this collection.
What we do get are the following featurettes: A New
Look From The 35th Floor: CSI NY Set Tour (8 and a
half mins exploration of the set); Top
Of The Heap: The Cast And Crew Look At Season 2 (10 mins
featurette); Heroes (7 mins Behind the Scenes
featurette on the episode Heroes); and Following The Finale
(6 mins).
At
the end of the day this is an almost faultless release - and
certainly one that will please CSI: New York fans.
 
Amber
Leigh
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