CSI - Recap & Review - If I Had A Hammer

CSI
If I Had A Hammer

Original Air Date: April 23, 2009

Nicola – Associate Staff Writer
nicola@thetwocentscorp.com

Jeremy Kent is innocent. That’s how he tells it, anyway. He goes before a court to say that nearly twenty years before he was convicted of a murder he didn’t commit, almost entirely because of the testimony of his cellmate who was instructed to do so by their mutual lawyer. The court agrees that he never got a fair trial, and therefore they’re giving him his chance now.

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CSI - Recap & Review - A Space Oddity

CSI
A Space Oddity

Original Air Date: April 16, 2009

Nicola – Associate Staff Writer
nicola@thetwocentscorp.com


Ahh, nothing like a good nerdcon. This doesn’t bring back memories for me at all. And who is better to represent this episode than CSI’s dorkiest labtech, Hodges! He’s at a convention for Astro Quest, a strangely familiar looking sci-fi show. And who should he meet there but Wendy! It seems that she too is a Quester. They share a few tender dork moments before a shriek interrupts their flirting. An exhibitor is dead, and it doesn’t seem likely that aliens had anything to do with it.

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Eleventh Hour - Recap & Review - Medea

Eleventh Hour
Medea

Original Air Date: Apr 2, 2009

Nicola – Associate Staff Writer
nicola@thetwocentscorp.com


It seems that Jacob is quite impressive. Impressive enough to be at FBI Deputy Director Ray Wynne’s house, in a tux, getting ready to go out and give a speech. Or he was going to give a speech, until shots are fired from the upper floor of Wynne’s house, where his wife is. Holding her hostage is Sophia Lyons, a lab tech who used to work for Wynne until she was put in a state mental institution. She claims that Wynne stole her baby, that she was having an affair with him, got pregnant, and then he took the baby to hush her up, claiming that she actually lost it and it was the child of an ex-boyfriend who left her suddenly. Rachel manages to subdue Sophia before anyone gets hurt, and they send her back to the state institution. Not before she shows Jacob an implant that she supposedly pulled out of her arm that day.

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CSI - Recap & Review - Mascara

CSI
Mascara

Original Air Date: Mar 2, 2009

Nicola – Associate Staff Writer
nicola@thetwocentscorp.com


It’s a rough day at Lucha Libre, and not just for the fighters. A young woman is weaving drunkenly through the crowds at the side of the ring, and she doesn’t look very happy about being intoxicated. In fact, she looks just a bit nervous. She stumbles out of the arena and onto the street, trying to hail a cab or an ambulance, but no one stops for her. She’s on her own… or is she? It seems that a masked luchador is in pursuit, and it isn’t too long before he catches up to her and kills her.

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CSI - Recap & Review - No Way Out

CSI
“No Way Out”

Original Air Date: Mar 12, 2009

Nicola – Associate Staff Writer
nicola@thetwocentscorp.com

This week's CSI opens with what looks like the showdown of the episode, rather than the dead bodies. The team is patrolling through what looks like a derelict old restaurant kitchen, looking for someone. Someone finds them, however, and Greg is taken hostage. Luckily it's a training exercise and Greg is a-ok.

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Eleventh Hour - Recap & Review - Olfactus

Eleventh Hour
"Olfactus"

Original Air Date: March 12th, 2009

Nicola – Associate Staff Writer
nicola@thetwocentscorp.com

Manhattan - The red carpet is in full swing, with plenty of drooling photographers and other weirdos. One photographer seems into one of the models, Hailey Vaughn, for more than just her looks - her scent seems to send him into a frenzy. He starts to attack her when her agent, Robert Beltram, steps in to protect her. The photographer stabs him in the neck for his troubles. Meanwhile, on the catwalk, a bouncer seems to smell the same alluring odor and hops up onto the catwalk to attack one of the models. He snaps her spine and kills her.

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Eleventh Hour - Recap & Review - Electro

Eleventh Hour
"Electro"

Original Air Date: Feb 29th, 2009

Nicola – Associate Staff Writer
nicola@thetwocentscorp.com

It is a dark and stormy night in western Massachusetts. Charlie, AKA that creepy guy that every office has to have, walks Denise outside to her car. As he’s backing away, a bolt of lightening hits him. Denise gets out of her car to see if he’s okay (he is) and gets hit herself. She’s not so okay.

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Eleventh Hour - Recap & Review - Minamata

Eleventh Hour
"Minamata"

Original Air Date: Feb 19, 2009

Nicola – Associate Staff Writer
nicola@thetwocentscorp.com

Milwaukee, WI. Some idiot is driving like a maniac and the cops and news are tailing him pretty closely. That is, until he stops rather abruptly when he slams into another car. The reporter in the helicopter is having issues with the reporting due to the fact that he suddenly can't see. His chopper goes spiraling out of control and he crashes just after the feed to TV is cut.

Wait, did I miss something? Sudden blindness? Am I watching House?

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CSI - Recap & Review - Miscarriage of Justice

CSI
“Miscarriage of Justice”

Original Air Date: Feb 19th, 2009

Nicola – Associate Staff Writer
Nicola@thetwocentscorp.com

It's court day for Ray, and as he sits up front, telling the tale of Congressman Edward Griffin's supposed murder of Amber Jones, a stripper involved with the congressman, a shot is fired outside the courtroom. When Catherine and Ray head out to see what the commotion is, they find that a man has shot himself in the head just outside the door. This man was the congressman's chief of staff, Dominic Humphries, and he shot himself with the same type of gun used in Griffin's supposed crime.

The plot thickens!

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Eleventh Hour - Recap & Review - Pinocchio

Eleventh Hour
"Pinocchio"

Original Air Date: Feb 12, 2009

Nicola – TwoCents Staff Writer
nicola@thetwocents.com

Hidalgo, TX – a truck speeds across a barren landscape with a cop car in high pursuit. When the cops finally catch up and open the back of the truck they find illegal aliens making for America. And…

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CSI - Recap & Review - Deep Fried And Minty Fresh

CSI
“Deep Fried and Minty Fresh”

Original Air Date: Feb 12, 2009

Nicola – TwoCents Reviewer
Nicola@thetwocentscorp.com


Looking for a drive-thru for a midnight snack? Better steer clear of Choozy’s Chicken, because they’re obviously not open past nightfall. The only people left at the restaurant seem to be a worker closing up the till and a bunch of hoodlums in ski masks hell-bent on driving the chicken statue through the front window. Not the best late-night clientele.

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Eleventh Hour - Recap & Review - Eternal

Eleventh Hour
"Eternal"

Original Air Date: Jan 29, 2009

Nicola – TwoCents Staff Writer
nicola@thetwocentscorp.com

Monticello Hills Country Club in La Jolla looks like heaven on earth for "real" housewives and golfers. At least until a car crashes into heaven, or more specifically heaven's pool.

The housewives are in a flutter as a women swims from the car in the pool, crying for someone to save her husband. A scantily-clad cabana boy dive to his rescue, but it's too late for Lowell.

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Eleventh Hour - Recap & Review - Miracle

Eleventh Hour
"Miracle"

Original Air Date: Jan 22, 2009

Nicola – TwoCents Staff Writer
nicola@thetwocentscorp.com

As a Washingtonian, the first scene of Eleventh Hour this week seems oddly familiar. A terrible downpour leaves a father and son with no choice but to head for the hills. And so Daniel Harris and his son Nick flee, and as they drive to safety we learn of young Nicky’s cancer. A cancer that’s not to last much longer, as when they park they discover a magic spring, and upon drinking from it, Nicky’s cancer is gone.

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NCIS - Recap & Review - Broken Bird

NCIS
“Broken Bird”

Original Air Date: Jan 13th, 2009

Nicola – TwoCents Reviewer
Nicola@thetwocentscorp.com

Another quiet, happy day in NCISland, complete with witty banter and Gibbs entering like a raincloud to tell the crew about the next naval officer's death. This time it's petty officer Kevin Lim, stabbed to death in the middle of the street. A friend says she's sure it was Cheryl, his until-recently fiancé. An eye-witness says that there was a woman who ran by with bloody hands. Ziva, Gibbs, and McGee track her down and leave Ducky and Jimmy with the body.

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NCIS - Recap & Review - Caged

NCIS
Caged

Original Air Date: 6 Jan 2009

Nicola - TheTwoCents Reviewer
nicola@thetwocentscorp.com


There are no cheerleaders in the navy, right? That’s why the “murder” at the beginning of this episode looks a little misleading. Instead of a violent crime, what we’re actually witnessing is the filming of a low-budget slasher film, a film that becomes a little too real when the actress playing the cheerleader falls into a half buried tomb and meets her newest coworker – a skeleton with multiple stab wounds, no middle fingers, and a naval uniform.

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NCIS - Recap & Review - Silent Night

NCIS
"Silent Night"

Original Air Date: Dec 16th, 2008


Nicola - TheTwoCents Reviewer
nicola@thetwocentscorp.com

‘Tis the season for red and green. However, when a delivery man arrives with a wreath at the house of the Taylors, he sees a little more red than he bargained for. Through the window he spies the bodies of the old couple, the husband Avery in a pool of blood. He also sees a not-so-dead face peering back at him.

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Eleventh Hour - Recap & Review - "Flesh"

Eleventh Hour
Flesh

Original Air Date: 11 Dec 2008

Nicola - TheTwoCents Reviewer
nicola@thetwocentscorp.com


Spring break, whoohoo! Even in winter Dayton Beach, FL is hopping. Life is one endless pool party for college students on break. Until a couple of them have to leave the party early. Lenny and his friend Greg collapse almost simultaneously, and an ambulance runs them to the hospital. However, Lenny and Greg don’t make it to the hospital. They flatline, and the paramedics have no luck reviving them.

The mystery of the... uh... dead people. Good luck with that one, Jacob.

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Eleventh Hour - Recap & Review - Titans”

Eleventh Hour
Titans

Original Air Date: 4 Dec 2008

Nicola – TwoCents Staff Writer
Nicola@thetwocentscorp.com

It's Eleventh Hour – The Musical! Only not really. A gospel choir spreads their joy and love on a plane while a couple of young people spread their love, er, on the emergency room exit. After they are finished with their dalliance, they return to the choir. But for the girl, that return is short lived, because she falls to the ground and begins seizing. A short while later, she's dead.

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Eleventh Hour - Recap & Review - "Surge"

Eleventh Hour
Surge

Original Air Date: Nov 20th, 2008

Nicola - TheTwoCents Reviewer
nicola@thetwocentscorp.com

Doesn’t everyone feel like a monkey in a maze sometime? Well, Sasha is a literal monkey, involved in a series of experiments by Dr. Bruce Nesic. Everything is fine and hunky-dory until Nesic turns his back. The next time he looks, his lab has been destroyed by a murderous rampage! Was it Sasha?

Rage infected monkeys, anyone?

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CSI - Recap & Review - Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda

CSI
“Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda”

Original Air Date: Nov 20th, 2008

Nicola – TwoCents Reviewer
Nicola@thetwocentscorp.com

Sometimes life and death intersect. When paramedics respond to neighbor's complaints of gunshots, they find a mother and daughter, Janelle & Nora Rowe, shot after coming home with takeout. Nora, the daughter, is still alive, and the paramedics trash the crime scene to save the girl. Unfortunate for the CSIs, but sometimes they owe the living more than the dead.

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