I'm not exactly a coffee drinker—I don't spend time going to Starbucks and the like, plunking a handful of dollars on a tall frap—so I'd probably dismiss that story about a woman whose cup of coffee became home to a human eyeball that fell from the sky as another one of those urban legends.  That was probably a pretty funny spin to the last new CSI: NY episode which aired weeks ago.   I can't remember how many weeks that was.  I had to rewatch the thing online.

I can't help but wonder about crime scenes, though.  Mac (Gary Sinise) and Stella (Melina Kanakaredes) were just having a (paper) cup each, talking about stuff, and the next thing they know, the very table they were sitting on became a crime scene.  An eyeball did fall out of the sky.  Although the splatter of coffee wasn't considered as evidence, well, you can't tinker with the table all of a sudden.  The eyeball had made its mark.

Apart from that, the rest of the episode was the usual.  Maybe they played up the idea of evidence being eaten away by vultures too much, because when they found the body ten minutes into the episode, I was thinking, that's it?

Not really.  But still.  It went by pretty fast it felt like nothing at all.

A few weeks later, we have another CSI: NY episode.   Now, we've seen the past few episodes play on the real-life pregnancy of Anna Belknap, and the on-screen development of Lindsay and Danny's (Carmine Giovinazzo) relationship relative to that kid in her womb.  Slowly, but surely, it happened, and we left them with a floating superhero story interrupted by evidence.   Tonight, they'll get married—albeit in a slightly clandestine manner; only Mac and Stella are there to see the event.  But I don't think it's a rushed thing.  We saw the belly grow.  Duh!

Also tonight, the team find themselves in an explosion scene: a bomb rips through a townhouse in Manhattan, ruining the structure and all the evidence they could use.  It's time to wrestle their creativity and make the most out of the fragments that they have, in order to track the bomber… well, that sounds a bit like the last episode, the run-with-the-evidence-before-it-goes tactic.  Even funnier, romances seem to be the thing with the CSI franchise, judging from past events in Miami… well, it's my cynicism.  CSI: NY returns with a new episode tonight from 10pm on CBS.   A few snaps from that episode are on the slideshow just below this bunch of words.




-Henrik Batallones, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
(Image courtesy of CBS)