S14.E21: Kitty

[arjumand]

The CSIs investigate the cyber-related murder of a prominent casino-owner's wife and receive help from the FBIs Cyber Crime Division.

 

 

Even before I did a little research about this episode, I thought Fee Fi Fo Fum, I smell the blood of a Backdoor Pilot aka, RUN! Don't look back! Now that Shue has been so "successful" on CSI, Arquette's trying her luck with tv! Will she be as annoying as our beloved Finn? Ask again later.

 

I actually didn't mind the rest, though Brass seems to be losing it, Greg was blink and you'll miss it, and Hodges was ritually humiliated- actually, I don't think I liked it that much.

 

Did Arquette actually say that a man wouldn't be professional about investigating porn? Huh? Though I admit, I was working on a tricky Candy Crush level at the same time.

 

Oh, CSI. Why can't I quit you.

[merylinkid]

This was it I am done.   Really DB?   Let's put an innocent person with small children at risk by putting her out there.    Because apparently he forgot when his grandchild was KIDNAPPED.   Even the DB we met in his very first episode would not have done that.   I hate when they do character assassination just for the sake of the plot.

 

Then there was the computer crimes chick.   Who does everything from cyberstalking to financial crimes.   And is apparently the only one in the US.   A behaviorial psychologists no less so she can tell when someone she just met is lying.   But has no people skills whatsoever.   Whatever school gave her the degree should take it back.  She never tried to track down the real Kitty, just put her picture out there with no thought of how it might affect her?   Good thing Kitty cared enough to drive all the way from San Diego to Vegas to get it straightened out.   Clearly her husband also just believed her that it wasn't her.   No repercussions on her marriage at all.   

 

Which reminds me, the FBI never figured out it was blackmail behind the set up beofre this?   Never followed the money?   Yeah I love where my taxpayer dollars are going there.

 

Oh and all that talk she had with the bad guy in the house?   Completely inadmissible because she never read him his rights and he was clearly not going to be allowed to leave the building.

 

Just so much wrong with this episode.   

[arjumand]

Clearly her husband also just believed her that it wasn't her.   No repercussions on her marriage at all.

 

 

Good catch - it didn't register with me, but come to think of it, her husband's a Marine. Having watched Generation Kill, I can just imagine one or fifty Marines asking the guy, hey, how come your old lady's hooking on the internet?

 

Yeah, the whole 'use the civilian as bait' was pretty despicable, but CSI's been like that lately - remember the kid they got killed or at least, horribly acid-burned? Not a fuck was given that day. And so it's started to wash over me, and I react with a shrug.

I wish Eric Szmanda would get a better gig.

[Soopertater]

I did watch the "Kitty" ep.  It was better than I expected.  I still fail to see how they will create a series based on cyber crimes, when the CSI bread and butter has been murder.  Is someone gonna invent a way to kill through his keyboard?  Also, lots of Horatio-like posing.  And if it's anything like no-talent Caruso, I'm not on board.

[John Potts]

merylinkid the FBI never figured out it was blackmail behind the set up before this?   Never followed the money?   Yeah I love where my taxpayer dollars are going there.

 

They're too busy spending money on those fancy holographic computers with the implausible user interface to actually employ forensic accountants. Which might be truth in television - managers wanting to spend money on "sexy" impressive looking stuff rather than "boring" (but practical) bean counters.

[Linderhill]

I just read on TV Line that Arquette's character will be coming back for a couple of guest appearances.  Why, oh why would they do that to us?  Wasn't one wasted episode enough?

[John Potts]

Wow, it's amazing when CSI, which normally is so far in advance of technology, discovers the "latest" technology - I mean, web chat where you don't have to type! On a porn site so your hands are free to do... something else (haven't looked, but I'm sure there are several hundred sites offering exactly that).

 

As for Patricia Arquette - why exactly was she agonising about "baiting the hook" with that message when she could simply have asked the woman in question (she seemed pretty determined to get the guy anyway, it shouldn't take much persuasion)? And what the hell was she waiting for at the end? The guy was an armed intruder in a woman's house, that's got to be pretty damning and I doubt what he said afterward would be terribly useful in court, since it related to a years old case.

 

arjumand Did Arquette actually say that a man wouldn't be professional about investigating porn?

 

Not explicitly, but that was strongly implied. And then they had Finn wanting to "See how it ended"! Maybe it's not just men who can't concentrate on their work.