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The second part of the CSI Trilogy saw us move from the sunny orange glow of Miami (both the weather and the girls lying on the beach) to the grittier, slightly more realistic heights of NYC.
Despite being the baby of the franchise, CSI: New York has garnered much respect among fans for its actors and its storylines, not shying away from sensitive material – such as references to 9/11 – but always incorporating them with subtlety. It doesn’t hurt that New York’s leading CSI, Mac Taylor, is played by Gary Sinise, an actor who had already carved out a well-respected career in films such as Apollo 13 and Forrest Gump before signing onto the show.
New York has always had some of the franchise’s more bizarre storylines, exposing the hidden hobbies and desires of modern society; only last week the CSIs attended a ‘sploshing party’ as part of their investigation (it involves experiencing food in a sensual way – let your imagination run with that). But aside from this New York has also been able to take on the bigger action sequences, and we were launched headfirst into this with Part 2’s first scene. A lorry driver crashed into a drunk driver, and then skipped town with his cargo – a young girl trapped in a 21st century slave trade – in tow.
Pretty soon the New York crew are on the old webcam to Ray Langston, still in Miami wrapping up the last case. In no time at all (seriously, no time at all) he’s joined them in New York, with the obligatory close-up of the handshake between Mac and Ray signifying the joining together of two forensic powers. But it’s not all cheese, as it can be in CSI: Miami; later in the episode, Mac and Ray share a touching moment where they reminisce about their past encounters with war. One feels like the characters in New York have more of a history, instead of appearing out of the ether like Horatio Caine.
Unlike Langston’s partnership with Horatio in Miami, where staring meaningfully was probably their most strenuous activity, in New York Ray got the chance to stretch his legs and rekindle the Morpheus vibe. In a chase sequence only CSI: New York could do, Langston and Mac pursued a suspect on the run in a scrap yard. Langston, cool as you like, jumped on the nearest motorbike and made it look like he was just out for a ride, while Mac took on the trickier task of running across car bonnets. Needless to say, the suspect was caught.
CSI: New York is not bereft of technology either. Making regular appearances these days is EDNA, the sample library which looks like something out of a dystopian sci-fi, and people in the lab can never relay information to one another without a mini-computer-slate/giant-palm-pilot in their hand (do those things even exist?) But behind it all is good, old-fashioned police work; passions always run a little higher in New York’s interrogation room, and this episode was no different as Detective Don Flack (Eddie Cahill) and Dr. Hawkes (Hill Harper) engaged in a little moral duel with a doctor selling organs on the black market.
We ended with a sneak preview of the final part, as Ray returns to Vegas (home of the original, and best, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation) determined to find the missing girl alive. If CSI’s previous ‘event’ episodes are anything to go by, it should be an explosive finale.
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