INT – Bedroom – Our hero and leading lady lay in post coital contemplation

Girl: <Big rant about the glass ceiling, followed by>… and that’s when I realised what I really needed to get ahead was a dick
Big Steve: Well, I don’t think I’d like you so much with a dick. Especially if it was bigger than mine.
Girl: I don’t think that’s possible.

I believe they call it ‘creative control’.

Trailer:

Note that Ronnie smashed his old cue at the start of this tournament, because he’s Ronnie, so was actually playing with a cue he’d had for about a week. Madness.

Most of all though, the episode featured plenty of mild titillation, aided no small part by Elizabeth Berkley’s wonderful recurring roles. I have created a small pictorial to demonstrate this:

What’s most impresive is that every time I think this is the stupidest possible plot they managed to top it.

Almost every scene in this masterpiece was incredible, but I think the best summary is the clip from the end of the episode that features:

1. Matrix style computer animation
2. Further technology in H’s ClimateChangeMobile
3. The ridiculous super gun which was being inplausibly used as a stealthy assasin weapon at the start of the episode
4. The fact HoCaine is immune to explosions
5. A helluva one liner

1) Absolutely nonsensical murder

The murderer was a high school girl trying to execute her rival with a bow and arrow. Her target was a swimmer and eCelebrity, and the plan was to stand in some bushes to the side of a pool during a race, and archery the hell out her as she dived into the water. For this race, the intended target had the outside lane, on the opposite side of the pool to the aforementioned bushes. Now clearly our budding murderess has never seen competitive swimming, as one characteristic I’ve noted is they tend to dive in at about the same time. How, through every other swimmer, she intended to hit I don’t know, but as it was the point was rendered mute when the swimmer girl hesitated, the shot missed everyone else, and a boyfriend got it in the chest instead.

2) Horatio taking it to the bad guys.

H exploited the power of the internets to bring a would-be assassin to a warehouse, having previously tricked him into stealing a gun (secretly loaded with blanks) out of the HoCaineMobile. The ginger one then proceeded to allow the guy to shoot him, safe in the knowledge that the magazine couldn’t have possibly been changed, and that his surname wasn’t Lee.

3) Boa-Vista’s deep understanding of proper procedure vis-a-vis gloves and murder weapons

Leatherman seemed to all over this episode, their popular multitools getting some fine display work by Calleigh and Eric. Tech wise, while still having a desultory haul of monitors compared to the LCD loving CSI:NY, they have acquired a made up Microsoft table like touch device, which automatically grabbed lists of bad guys from a parole office’s blackberry. For Stu – I did look for two good images, but I couldn’t find a nice match, and I’m too lazy to cap it by hand. I was hoping to find a suitable animated gif on the interwebs, but only came up with this:

Word to the telegraph for their review incidentally, referring to CSI: Ginger as ‘The glossiest and most consistently bonkers of the CSI franchise’. That said, they do let the side down a bit by calling the opener “nutty”. It’ll be wacky and kooky next, and perhaps, dear god, even madcap.