CSI: NY “Do Not Pass Go” Season 7 Episode 6 – A mother and father are led on a wild goose chase to find their son, who has been missing for days. An ominous set of voice mails leads them to the roof of a building where they find a severely decomposed corpse in a car. Thinking it is their son they are understandably devastated and the CSI team are called to investigate.
The body was just disgusting. And I say that with full admiration for the make-up and special effects team and, of course, the sound engineers for those icky bone-crunching fleshy noises. Unfortunately the writing team did not bring the same standard to the episode. The voice mail shtick, whilst admirably original, was quite lame. Also, in the post CSI-era, everyone knows that destroying evidence is just silly, so why would the son’s mother destroy evidence? Why would she listen to the voice mail without alerting the police?
Meeting Jo’s daughter was a welcome addition, though the way she was used, to show Jo’s ‘noble’ side was a little weird. I thought it was quite annoying that she spilled the entire life story of her daughter to Mac in about two minutes, but sweet and well written that she said that when her son gave her life meaning, her daughter made her life complete. Of course there was no reason why she should not, but I felt unsettled by the sheer amount of information she gave. Is it just me or does Sela Ward’s Jo slip in and out of a weird southern accent? I have also never noticed this before, but when she was searching for the restaurant stamps, she reminds me of Kyra Sedgewick’s Brenda Johnson character from The Closer: quirky, intelligent, food obsessed, southern accent. I may be wrong, but I definitely felt the Brenda vibe.
Would you really torturously kill someone without being 100% certain that they were guilty? If Jo could get a confession out of the murderer with little more than a ‘I know it was you’ then why couldn’t she, with poison, get a confession out of her victims? When they finally find the son, days after he has been poisoned, he is still alive. Really? I could not believe it. I know there are instances when humans do incredible, science defying feats, like the mother lifting a car off her child, but this felt totally bogus. It was a ridiculous ending to a ridiculous episode.
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