CSI: NY (TV Series) Dead Reckoning (2009) User Reviews

Based on a true story

[BigRichAU · 8/10 · 5 November 2009]

This episode rang a bell while I was watching it and when I googled it, I realised why. The idea is based on a true story that was reporting in the media in March 2009.

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1888126,00.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7966641.stm

As a story for this show, I think it worked really well. It really makes you think, though, about the assumptions the CSIs have to make about the way they work and the equipment they use. Although the threads of evidence they cling to are so fragile in one sense, they can still pull the investigators way off track with relative ease. When they also have to contend with a legal system that could seize on a screwup like this to cast doubt on all their evidence, the pressure becomes even clearer.

A Tough One To Figure

[ccthemovieman-1 · 8/10 · 10 May 2011]

This was almost impossible for the viewer to figure out and a longshot even for the CSI people.....but anything is possible on these shows, so near the end "Mac" makes a wild guess about something and his hunch turns out to be true.

It solves a big mystery but doesn't solve the cases, if that makes any sense. (I don't want to give too much away.) I can say this - and it doesn't spoil anything - the killers in this episode are females, which is unusual because they don't usually get into violent crimes (although that seems to be slowly changing).

Big-screen actress Mia Kirschner is very interesting as the first alleged killer, "Deborah Carter," the one we see right off the bat and who goes to the police to confess to stabbing to death her husband. It turns out the guy was married to another woman - in the same apartment complex! Yeah, there are a lot of twists, turns and just plain mysteries in this episode....not easy to make sense but interesting to watch.

It turns out - as another reviewer here states - this case was based on a real-story about a "phantom killer" in Germany and the tainted swabs (watch the episode and you'll know what I mean about "(cotton) swabs." On the human interest-angle front, Danny makes big progress in his rehab and Don continues to have problems since the death of co-worker and fiancé "Jessica Angel."