"CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" Meet Market (2007)

User Rating:

7.7/10   

Director:

Paris Barclay

Writers:

Anthony E. Zuiker (creator)
Dustin Abraham (written by)

TV Series:

"CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" (2000)

Original Air Date:

1 February 2007 (Season 7, Episode 14)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Plot:

The discovery of a badly burned corpse uncovers a plot to illegally harvest bones and tissues, and the death of a middle-aged wife appears to be connected to her relationship with a high-priced male companion.

Plot Keywords:

Investigation | Crime Lab | Police | Evidence | Crime Scene

Cast

William Petersen	...	Gil Grissom
Marg Helgenberger	...	Catherine Willows
Gary Dourdan	...	Warrick Brown
George Eads	...	Nick Stokes
Jorja Fox	...	Sara Sidle
Eric Szmanda	...	Greg Sanders
Robert David Hall	...	Dr. Al Robbins
Louise Lombard	...	Sofia Curtis
Paul Guilfoyle	...	Captain Jim Brass
Liev Schreiber	...	Michael Keppler
Wallace Langham	...	David Hodges
Gordon Clapp	...	Salvatore Heinz
Liz Vassey	...	Wendy Simms
Robin Thomas	...	Bill Dorton
Douglas Sills	...	Ty Miloni

Runtime:

44 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Company:

Jerry Bruckheimer Television

Quotes:

Cotton Candy: [carefully lays down some hundred-dollar bills that she says will confirm her alibi]
Catherine Willows: And what would you like us to do with those?
Cotton Candy: You're CSI! You can take a print off of there, easy. Duh!

Movie Connections:

References Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)

Keep Those Umbrellas Handy, Even If It Doesn't Rain

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

An umbrella used as a fake bone in a man's body?

Yup, that's part of yet another bizarre opening scene. CSI is tremendous at doing that. Here, Medical Examiner "Doc Robbins" has a dead man who has pipes for bones and an umbrella for another bone. (I guess he ran out of pipes.) The body also has been completely stapled up. It appears most of his body parts, including his bones, are missing.

That's all part of a mortuary/body parts scam, which is one of the stories here.

The second story involves a married lady found dead in her dwelling. She had been seeing a younger man in a "relationship" escort service. That's not the normal "escort service:" this is one without any sex, just a relationship. The ending to this story is a shocker.

Much of the middle segment of this episode is just so-so but it really picks up with some interesting revelations in the last dozen minutes. The man who harvests the illegal body parts is played by veteran Gordon Clapp, a very good actor who received notoriety as "Det. Greg Medavoy" in "NYPD Blue."

Finally, in the end, we have another mystery. Apparently, "Keppler" has some ghosts in his past. I assume, with series star "Grissom" coming back in another two weeks, that this personal problem of Keppler's will be dealt with next week.