Internal Combustion 02/5/10

Woohoo! first article!!! Every Friday the day after CSI, my very own CSI review will be the article because I'm still trying to perfect the review style post. 1 down 59 to go.

CSI was full of exhaustingly bright racing cars and dead teenagers. The racing scenes show how sometimes teens are the most disastrous muscle heads in the world.

The Case: When a senior Trevor Beck at the local highschool drops dead while in the hallway, the death leads to an uncovering of illegal racing. In the beginning Doc Robbins performs the autopsy even before we get to see the way the victim. Based on the results he found after cracking the victim's skull an enlarged brain showed signs of head trauma. This rich good looking kid had a car, cranked with an electric motor and shiny enough to be a mirror. Then all of the big racing youth came into light incuding Miyamoto (sounds like a computer) was one of the prime suspects, who was royally pissed that his girl was keeping Trevor's passenger seat warm. This cheerleader, Cindy had not been seen since his mysterious colapse death. Then out of nowhere she appears tangled on a lone tree in the desert. Her legs hideously broken because of a recent high speed car collision. Then it was the hunt for the unknown yellow paint that had seemingly scrapped the victims car. This led the CSI's to Miyamoto again as the guy who lost his girl and his dignity to Trevor. However it was then discovered that Renita (best friend to Cindy) had convinced her best friend to steal Trevor's car and meet her out in the desert. Renota's car was a smoking red and yellow flame racer mobile. Recently on the racing schedule it was shown that Trevor a first time racer had beaten Renota at her and her guardian Gus's own game. Later when challenged to a car rematch the guardian had been driving the car that had killed Renota and Trevor only died from a measly case of whiplash.

The Characters: Ray langston had very limited screentime in this particular episode. However there was definately more Greg and even some Archie! With the two dead teens there almost seemed to be two cases. Greg had a clever little anecdote involving Papa Olaf the notorious relative of his involving him at age twelve and a flashy red car. Nick mainly was being serious in this episode and didnt even take to his story :(. Makes me wonder if something is going on with him. Sara defended nature to Nick in a really cute nearly hippie way. This episode was just a really big car episode with some character interaction sprinkled in. There was even some breif barely flirting Wedges moments. While investigating the flamey car, Wendy defended the secret wonderfulness of high school girls to Hodges. Apparently he chats to twilight fans online?! Which is funny because it shut him up right away...I hate to say it but Girl's Rule. Archie was his suave cool self (which is awesome because when was the last time we saw him?). He even made a dig at Hodges claiming he has the gift of looking busy when he isnt actually at all. Very funny lab rat banter. Finally during the ending sequence Catherine and Nick had a cute little race in the LVPD parking garage. Very funny CSI banter. Overall Character interaction was only seen in breif little snippets in this episode.

Favorite Parts of the Episode:

Beginning Sequence: Definately different. A narration of the injuries while the victim appears still walking to the audience.

Brain Swelling: Gross to the max.Greg's Story: For a twelve year old he was a very good driver.

Car shots: Very neat to look at even though I'm not a gear head.

Wedges: Very cute and Go Wendy for putting Hodges in his place.

Miyamoto: Best. Name. Ever.

Cheerleader's Broken Legs: It looked like her ankles were in her calves. super gross.

Catherine and Nick Race: Perfect way to end the episode.