CSI: NY - Episode 4.08: “Buzzkill” Recap & Discussion Points
CSI: NY episode 4.08, Buzzkill, was a pretty interesting episode, I thought. Just when we thought we had seen what had happened, another twist was thrown in. Again, I had to watch this one online, so it’s a brief recap, but I have some discussion points for this one too.
First we saw Stella shun the advances of the man who is trying to win her heart with all the gifts. Then, we saw a totally crazy crime happen. At first, it looked like someone had taken a gun and had fired into a billboard performance. It later turned out to be a guy across the street who was using a tennis ball throwing machine to fire tennis balls at the group. But that didn’t explain the dead girl in the giant martini glass.
We also saw a woman who had been a shooting victim at an armed robbery being rushed to the hospital with a bullet in her head, a “boyfriend” holding her hand and Danny riding along to try to get information. The boyfriend turned out to be one of the crminals, posing as her boyfriend in order to try to be sure she didn’t survive to identify anyone.
Then the crime took another turn as the attending doctor’s brother, another doctor, was kidnapped and would be killed if she survived.
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Back to the martini swimmer. As the story unfolded, the team fuond out that the dead model had been selling heroin laced lollipops and had gotten bruised by a customer who couldn’t pay. But that didn’t kill her. Then, the tennis balls were fired at her, but that didn’t kill her either. The tennis balls had knocked a live wire into the liquid in the martini glass and she had electrical burns all over her body. But that didn’t kill her. It turned out that the beach ball she had been tossing around was punctured and filled with a tiny, yet deadly form of jellyfish that had stung her. Yes, that was finally what had killed her.
Let’s face it. The girl was gonna bite the big one that evening, somehow, it just happened to be a jellyfish. Wow! What bad luck!
Thanks to the CSIs, the woman who had injected the jellyfish into the ball was arrested. Turns out she had meant for it to kill her boss. The model was the unintended victim.
And also, the team was able to track down the robbery perps and arrest them in time to save the kidnapped doctor.
Here are some discussion points for us to comment about:
- The nutso who fired the tennis balls said that he was driven to drink after a long period of sobriety by the billboard performers. (I think he must have been on the edge, or why would that have driven him to do anything, except call the police and complain?)
- Should he have been charged with firing the tennis balls even though he didn’t fatally hurt anyone?
- Should the performing martini people been allowed to make so much noise near where people lived?
- How quickly did you pick up on the fake boyfriend in the ambulance? I thought there was something hinky with him right away, didn’t you?
- I personally love when the initial cause of death is wrong and it changes several times during the episode, like the boxer at the cathouse in CSI: Vegas last season. It really makes the show a fun ride. What do you think?
- And here’s the big question: How many of you single women out here would have told the gift-guy that’s pursuing Stella to take a hike? Is she superhuman, or what? I have to admit, he would have had me at the second, maybe even the first gift. What about you?
- Should she give in and let herself get close to him? Or do you think there’s something suspect in his relentless pursuit?
- And finally, since I like martinis, where does one find a martini glass that size? ;-)
Let’s get a discussion going. Leave a comment to share your thoughts! I want to hear what you think!
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