Silent NightA teenager is shot while protecting her infant sister, and Mac must rely on the victim’s hearing-impaired family for vital clues to the killer’s identity.
Cast: Gary Sinise, Melina Kanakaredes, Carmine Giovinazzo, Anna Belknap, Hill Harper, Eddie Cahill Director(s): Rob Bailey Executive Producer(s): Jerry Bruckheimer, Carol Mendelsohn, Ann Donahue, Anthony Zuiker, Danny Cannon, Andrew Lipsitz
Original Air Date: Dec 13, 2006
RECAP
This was a fairly good episode. The plotlines for the murders weren’t too intriguing though, not really sure why. It seems like many of the series have been having murders where everything was an accident. I guess if that were imitating real life it would be a good thing. Are most murders accidents? I’m not sure.
The first murder was of an figure skater who was killed by an inventor of some snazzy paint that could change color. Flecks of the paint were found on the dead skater and they eventually traced the murder back to him. He had figured out some physics properties to help the skater nail a routine she was working on incessantly and was distracting the inventor in his office across town. He tried to show her, argument insues, skater gets gored by a lacing hook. Accident, end of story and end of prosperous life for inventor. I was more interested in the cool paint than the plotline of this one.
This episode had a couple of guest appearances. The first one is the amazing actress, Marlee Matlin. She is a deaf actress, and is so good at playing a dramatic part. In this episode Marlee’s daughter (also deaf) was killed by the father of their baby, played by Vince Vieluf (also deaf), who didn’t want his daughter being raised as a deaf girl. Once Vince entered the story though, I couldn’t take the show seriously anymore.
If you don’t know who Vince Vieluf is, he played Seth Green’s brother in the movie Rat Race. In the movie he has his tongue pierced and that makes him talk really funny. It’s quite hilarious, and potentially the best scenes in the movie are of him and Seth. The only problem is, since he’s playing a deaf character in this episode, he’s talking just like he did in Rat Race. I totally couldn’t concentrate on the story at all anymore. I just kept laughing. Bad casting call. Great talent! Bad match, at least for anyone that saw Rat Race.
We did learn some interesting bit of back story on Lindsay Monroe, played by Anna Belknap. She was involved in some kind of crime as a teenager and all of her friends were killed around her. Not sure what the scoop is on that, but some really interesting history to play out and find out more about in future shows.
Saturday, December 16, 2006
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