Coup De Grace

Coup De Grace was a classic CSI episode that pits family member against family member with a daring plot full of twists. Questioning ethics and character in a one hour he-said she-said CSI fest. The theme of the episode was focused on how pride eats away any dignity one has in their own reputation.

The Crime: Outside of a White House Burger A cop Officer Flinn shot another officer Scott Johnson. By the time CSI arrived there was a crowd of the locals outside of a gate screaming murder and racism. The atmosphere was tense as the Flinn defended his actions and his racist past was brought to light. Initial thought was that Officer Flinn had performed a Coup De Grace or a shot while Johnson was down basically the taboo of the cop world. Thus the case went back and forth with tampered casing location, a racist slur caught on microphone and a shocking suicide. All the while viewers second guessed themselves through the twists and turns. Ultimately Officer Flinn had some genuinely bad eye sight causing the mixup. While Officer Johnson was shooting at a gang member who had just killed a young boy who got mixed up in the wrong stuff. There wasnt a single person who didnt look at this case as racist injustice and it just goes to show what a hot button topic racism truly is.

The Characters: It was interesting to see how all the CSIs divided among the ethics. Even more interesting was that Ray was not only the one that made the most case breaking points. Just goes to show that racial profiling is an old ignorant art. Ray didnt have hatred coursing through veins towards Officer Flinn. Brass who stood up for the cop snapped when he heard the racist sentence on the recording. Everyone else just seemed to have a professionalistic hatred. Until the pivotal last three minutes so did I. This CSI was a character study about the complexities of racism and how quick assumptions alienate people.

Favorite Parts:

Hodges: "Oh wise one" need i say more?

Ray on Flinn's death: "I was the last one he looked in the eyes" he was so chill this episode when every one else seemed to be on edge hateful.

Curing Cases, Constructs and Co-workers

House can always deliver the ethical, fast paced and time relevant episodes. Especially lately the cases have been deep and thought provoking with of course breif moments of old team reminescence. Take the odd behavioral issue humor of house, deep cases and side character stories mix it all together and the result is House.

Medical Mystery: This week an oil billionaire's son can not be diagnosed by 17 doctors hired on the mans dime in his own home. Upon doing a little research for superb doctors, popular opinion is that House can cure anyone under any cirumstances. However after a series of failed tests result in earth shaking seizures the billionaire completely puts the psychological burden on his life style. In a tearful desperate attempt said man gives all of his money up (after an un-curable diagnosis is given) without so much as a second thought except for the one from his lower business guy. In pure House style the real diagnosis that is curable comes at 8:56 and all is well for the dysfunctional family who is now broke without a care in the world. Was it really the rich self-centered life style turnaround that cured the little kid?

The Characters: After Chase murders through a diabolical medical mix-up the new marriage between him and Cameron becomes very frayed. Chase was extremely close to breaking down after high cholestorol almost him to jail but he remained suprisingly aussie cool most of the time. However he is an extremely bad liar and the truth is written all over his face to Cameron who misses the couples late night burning up the bedsheets activity.
Thirteen caused the episodes most confusing he-said, she-said moments when her flight to some country to no doubt find an amazonian woman/male were cut short due to email hacking. Was it Wilson, House or Foreman the past flame? Well it went back and forth with each party exchanging odd subtexty words and such. By the end of the episode needless to say she no doubt boarded that fated plane. Does that mean she won't come back? Probably not the House writers are appealing to their pubescent boy demographic with keeping her around as the bisexual barbie with occasional no brainer lines.

House Best Scenes!

The kids eyeball when he has a seizure: Just look at his right eye again and it like turns big and gross and weird.

House what the hell moment: House finding out about the Dubala case and his response lacking Houseiness.

Father and Son: Awww in the end everything works out yeah right but a refreshing ending

Working Stiffs

Episode Overview: For anyone who hasnt seen the movie Office space a low budget cult hit then CSI probably just seemed like the workplace from hell crime story. However anyone that has seen it caught all of the small details that my brother and I saw. The theme of this weeks episode was the loyalty and complexities of the workplace.

The Crime: A workplace loser Pauli Krill who never gets the girl or the appreciation for his work devised a scheme to steal from the Casino Tangiers. After his supposed just for fun plan was discovered by his narcassistic coworker all hell breaks loose. As the perfect plan drives Pauli to quit the entire scheme he violently beats the narcassistic coworker to a bloody pulp. Working stiffs truly went into the killers head with the flashbacks that made us semi-sympthetic for Pauli. Who didnt dislike the cute geeky guy who was a womanizing manipulator?

The Characters: In this episode and other episodes in general this season there is some more clues to Ray's seemingly confusing life outside of the crime lab. The only one on the team to be clueing in to all the weird things he says is Nick. There is certainly more to Ray than we know and Nick is trying to peice it together.

Brass was without his cool cop demeanor this week and he came off as rude towards Belinda the female suspect. In front of Pauli he disclosed personal information of her sleeping with the geek and was quite cold in sharing the news of his death.

This was a good episode for Hodges. The obvious attempts to impress Ray are hilariously awkward as is the cheesy forensic web show he has seemingly created. Needless to say we need him or how would those procedures be described in such a lucid and entertaining way?

Favorite Parts of Working Stiffs:
Office Space References: TPS reports!!!
Dream Escape Sequence: Perfect music, directing and very thought provoking
Iphone a**hole joke: Hey theres an app for that! poking fun at obnoxious geeky iphone users
Hodges: Every scene with him I love you could say Im a fanatical fan of the awkward hilarity
More info on Ray: Interesting character developments
Extras this week: Newman from Seinfeld looking way older
Procedure Stuff: Interesting science processes