elmyraemilie (elmyraemilie) wrote in csi_lv_slash, @ 2007-12-13 22:56:00 |
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8X10--Lie Down with Dogs recap (xpost from LJ's oh_no_nicky)
Geez. Not for the animal lover on your Christmas list. But lots of action from the whole team, including Wendy.
1) This was a character-heavy show, and that was good. We saw a little bit of just about everyone (no Archie or Bobby, but they're less and less frequently seen these days), and a lot of Nick--se habla Espanol!Nick, even. He was really at his sympathetic best, working his mojo on all and sundry. Wearing the vest. Yes.
2) Also, Detective Vega was on the scene, which was good to see. I do like that character; he's one of my favorite recurrings.
3) Doc has a sekrit life as a lounge singer; personally, I hope he doesn't quit his night job, but it was an interesting bit of personal info on him. We really know quite a bit about Doc: married, two daughters (two? I think that's right), likes cats, drinks tea, went through an all-organic phase, loves his rock-and-roll.
4) They're giving Warrick a hard time in the interview room, but being a good CSI, he lays out the timeline and gets himself cleared. He's still not back to being himself, though; he's got a reall hard-on for Gedda, and he skates on thin ice all through the episode, trying to make everyone see Gedda the way he sees him. Gedda, meanwhile, has paid Jim Brass a visit, in order to be a "good citizen." Yep. Nobody believes that, but Brass catches on, and goes to Grissom to speculate that there's a mole in the department (and to bitch Gil out for not taking Warrick home himself--go, Jim). Mole or not, Brass wants Gil to rein Warrick in.
I'm really enjoying this season's Brass. He's a little more overtly hard-assed, but at the same time a little less two-dimensional. They broke him out a little bit with the Ellie stories, but here he's being himself without another character to mirror him. It's just a good Brass year so far.
5) Is it me, or is Hodges stalking Wendy? He crashed her date, apparently. That is worthy of a little more than the irritated glare she gives him. Hodges, Hodges--I want you to be a good weird guy, but you keep veering back toward creepy. Knock it off. Kthx.
6) A hit on a dog DNA database--which shows up on a Google and is not a convenience for the writers, apparently--leads them to the melodiously named Gino Aquino, whose wife/girlfriend wants Nick to take his shoes off in her clean house. Evidence of dogs, but no dogs in sight. Gino is a smartass, and his wife is a real sweetie, too. Meanwhile, the vic's husband, Mr. Rodriguez (didn't get the first name) is on TV offering a reward for his wife's killer. Is it just me and the husband, or is the first sign of complicity in a murder the offering of a public reward? As soon as he did it, we both said, "He's in on it. Didn't do it, but knows all about it."
7) Nick and Catherine search the kennel where Aquino's dog was housed; it's death row for dogs, apparently, and the kennel owner isn't much of an animal lover. The kid at the front desk? Now there's a soft heart. I thought, "How could someone who likes dogs work in a place like that?" Not very well, apparently. But the kennel owner, Card, is hauled off in cuffs when the vic's hair shows up on an evil looking apparatus that's used to breed fighting dogs.
8) If I had any shred of neutrality toward dogfights and the culture surrounding them, it would be gone by now. Clearly, the writers (and the producers, or at least one particular Executive Producer) were making a point about the vicious, cruel, hideous nature of that particular activity. The dogfight scene was disgusting, no matter how tidied up it might have been for TV, and all the behaviors and paraphernalia that play behind the scenes of a fight are almost worse. [/end rantlet]
9) I was noticing early on that the vic was seldom shown in an attractive light, either literally, by being lit well, or figuratively, by her general appearance. She looked tough as nails, for a philanthropist. As it turns out, she was bankrolling the dogfights. Lovely. Daddy trained his little girl right, according to the kennel owner. Now she was busy bilking gang-bangers out of dogfighting cash. Hard, mean and most unwise. Not an attractive vic. (Which is something about CSI that appeals to me. The victim is not always an innocent, or even always sympathetic. They make it clear that crime is crime, no matter the victim.)
10) Nick's really unhappy with the whole thing. Greg is the one to find the last shred of evidence--a fingerprint on the key to the drugs locker where the euthanasia cocktail was stored. It belongs to Nice Kid Tommy, who has something of a history, and is working as an informant. Now it's time for the Nick-fu. He sympathizes with the kid (and I think he really does--he looked as though he'd gladly wreck everyone who had anything to do with the dogfighting, given a decent alibi), and there goes Tommy, tears shining on his cheeks, explaining that the bitch got what she deserved. Poor Tommy. I'm with Nick--I hope he gets off light.
11) And speaking of good alibis, Warrick's car yields prints--the homeless guy, Dorsey, who lives in the alley behind the Pigalle strip club. Warrick thinks he was set up. Gil goes out to tally up the junkies sleeping under the bridge, and finds the victim's cell phone and purse in Dorsey's blankets.
12) Nick is still not comfortable with his case, and says so to Catherine. A phone call from Tommy to Mr. Rodriguez the night his wife died seals the deal; Vega and Nick go to see Rodriguez, who pretty much says, "He called, told me to stop her, and I chose not to." Nothing for the law to do there, I suppose, as no direct threat had been made. If Rodriguez loved his wife (and how could you love someone who took pleasure in watching animals kill each other?) he sure had a funny way of showing it.
13) Meanwhile, Dorsey is in the interview room with Gil and Jim. The action here rings much more true than last week's did. Dorsey says he stole the vic's purse, and is horrified to see the photo of her corpse. Warrick busts into the room, and Gil suspends him for two weeks--rightly so. But as we finish up at the Department, we see someone making a call, and Gedda, in the middle of a nice close shave on his barber chair, pick up the phone. Brass is right, and so is Warrick--there's someone in the department who's in Gedda's pocket. Hmmmm.
14) It was a good ep, though I found some of the scenes with the dogs disturbing. I watch this all the time--people with limbs missing, eyes missing, burned, dragged, stabbed, shot, electrocuted, asphyxiated and on and on don't make me blink an eye--but those dogs and what was done to them left me a little nauseated. However, the way they handled the Warrick arc against the dog case was well-done, I thought. We can only hope for more soon.
No new ep next week. Ah, well.