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[staveDarsky]

When a K-9 is blamed for the death of his partner, the CSI team discovers there’s more to the case. Meanwhile, Finlay and Morgan investigate the death of a high-profile divorce lawyer with a lot of enemies.

[LA Don]

...aaaand they've got George Eads doing scenes where he's having a conversation with a dog... I can only imagine his conversation with his agent. And I suspect George wasn't too happy either.

[mertensia]

Well at least they didn't telegraph who the killers were unlike the Rave episode.

Nick was cute with the dog.

Can we have an episode with really minimal Fin?

[merylinkid]

Finn wasn't too bad this episode. She kept the "in your face" stuff to a minimum and just worked the case.

Are they showing the episodes out of order? Because two weeks ago, after she kissed Hodges, he was her best friend. Now things are "awkward" between them. Finn did bug there. Who her colleagues are dating or not dating is not of her damn business. Just because she engages in inappropriate PDA at the workplace does not mean everyone else should.

Awww, Nick has a girlfriend. Offscreen so we don't have relationship angst. I liked this show much better when it was about the cool ways science solves cases. Not about everyone's personal relationship to the case or their life.

Oh and nice Texas boy Nick is a Cowboys fan. Awesome (not the team they stink with Romo at QB).

Edited by merylinkid, Nov 1, 2012 @ 7:13 AM.

[ShowBlaster]

Even after Stokes is told that the dog understands French, he still proceeds to talk to him in English. Kind of like how stupid people scream at deaf people, thinking if they talk louder, the deaf person will hear him.

[Diane M]

Since Nick obviously doesn't speak French, maybe he thought the tone of his voice would help him communicate with Sam. Beautiful dog.

Edited by Diane M, Nov 1, 2012 @ 11:26 AM.

[ShowBlaster]

I guess, but he could've at least let out a few "bon!" or "bon garçon!" or at least make some type of effort...you know, spend a day with the dog's trainer and learn more than one phrase. I don't know. It kind of bugged me. He's kind of a meathead sometimes. Now, poor "Sam" has to live with this dullard. LOL

Edited by ShowBlaster, Nov 1, 2012 @ 11:34 AM.

[MichelynB]

Perhaps I can shed some light on the language issue. I have a family member who is the canine officer for his department and he has a lovely dog who receives his commands in Dutch. However, in all other aspects of his life, he hears and responds to English. The reason for the commands being in a foreign language is so the "bad guys" do not understand what you are saying to the dog and also that the dog only obeys instructions he hears in the language he is trained in. But, he lives at home and hears (and responds)to English quite well. These dogs have a wonderful understanding of when they are "working" and when they are off duty. So, Nick is not a meathead or a dullard in my opinion and I was very glad that the storyline had him adopting Sam.

[MrPissyPuppy]

The dog who played Sam is the one who should talk to his agent about not getting the dog role on Person of Interest! That dog has much better scripts and a recurring character. Hee.

Enjoyed the dog story even if it was way too Lassie 2012.

[ShowBlaster]

Perhaps I can shed some light on the language issue. I have a family member who is the canine officer for his department and he has a lovely dog who receives his commands in Dutch. However, in all other aspects of his life, he hears and responds to English. The reason for the commands being in a foreign language is so the "bad guys" do not understand what you are saying to the dog and also that the dog only obeys instructions he hears in the language he is trained in. But, he lives at home and hears (and responds)to English quite well. These dogs have a wonderful understanding of when they are "working" and when they are off duty. So, Nick is not a meathead or a dullard in my opinion and I was very glad that the storyline had him adopting Sam.

Thanks for that, but I still want Nick to be a dullard. I'm committed, like those silly "shippers."

[catray]

Liked Brass recalling the cannibal cheerleader case was a nice touch.

Enjoyed Nick with Sam-- I do think it's silly that they had the K9 trainer tell Nick the dog understood French... and then never spoke French. Ugh. It's just dumb. At least Nick did use the French at the end. Sam was great, though!

Finn and Morgan together could have been terribly irritating, but it wasn't too bad. I liked Finn teasing Morgan about kissing Hodges.

[Lilybee]

Sam was played by the best guest actor on this show ever.

[Arjumand]

...aaaand they've got George Eads doing scenes where he's having a conversation with a dog... I can only imagine his conversation with his agent. And I suspect George wasn't too happy either.

I find it extremely suspicious that first Greg and now Nick have offstage girlfriends (Greg's is even dead! Awesome! Now he's traumatised and we won't even have to think of yelling NO HOMO very loudly until next season!).

There's been a steady amount of rumours to the fact that the network won't let George Eads come out (last year's "marriage" is already over). IMO it's a case of George refusing to have a hetero relationship onscreen if they won't let him come out in real life. Maybe they then turned around and went: "Ok, meet Sam. You have a lot of scenes with him. And he gets to lick your face."

After the way they treated the cast in 2004, and how they just dropped Gary Dourdan, making sure that he could never come back to the show, I wouldn't put it past them.

As regards the episode . . . I don't know, is there a word that conveys a shrug? I actually skipped over the resolution to the Finn and Morgan storyline, not because of them, they were actually working well together. I just hated the 'delusional old lady with a crush' thing. Oh, those old ladies. Don't they know they're invisible once they hit 55, and should crawl into a coffin already? Oh, the ladies, and their old-lipstick-using ways. I mean, I don't know of any lipsticks I have that went over the ten year mark, and I certainly don't have any left from the 80s, when I was a teenager. But what do I know, I'm over 40. I should probably be sewing my shroud.

The dog was cute, and I'm a sucker for cute animals that don't die, so I liked that part. I actually had tears in my eyes when Sam went and lay down in the morgue . . . oh shut up, it was sad.

Bring back Sam!

Edited by Arjumand, Nov 2, 2012 @ 3:10 AM.

[Diane M]

On her Facebook page she talks about being with a guy named John for four months and she's been pregnant for four months. Also, she and George are now divorced.

[Texas Gal]

Nick + dog = adorable. Otherwise, zzzz....

Oh, and Kyle Richards. And then again, zzz....

[maculae]

The dog was cute and Nick's interaction with Sam was all kinds of "aww". The character of Finn is still grating to me. I suddenly realize why I stopped watching the show in the first place. I need a new procrastination/midterms are coming show, 5 good minutes out of 40 and 1 good episode out of 5 (the diner one) just isn't cutting it.

It's kind of obvious that they're not showing Greg or Nick's relationships on screen because DB's family is the "on-screen CSI personal life outside of CSI" thing. There's also the onscreen personal stuff of Morgan and her dad, Morgan and Hodges, what is coming off to me as a weird DB and Finn thing. Basically if you're an established actor ala Ted Danson, The Shue your characters personal life takes priority over the supporting characters. That and if you are the new young actor/character on a show and they want to introduce you like whoa. Let's not forget the occasional GSR reference that pops up (because I'm a freaken troglodyte and like old school CSI pairings that I grew up with). Because CBS probably never wants to deal with chocolate covered bugs, balloons and tens of thousands of letters ever again. Basically, if they focused on EVERYONES relationships, the show would have no room for cases. As it is, there's already cast bloat.

[PictureItSicily]

Not to veer too far off topic, but his wife goes by her maiden name, that FB page might not be hers. New page, no posts or info but her "divorce" and "new relationship"? hmmmmmmmmm.

On topic, man does Finn grate! I was really hoping they would dial that back over the summer hiatus. No such luck.

Nick and a dog...awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

[ShowBlaster]

Less Finn and DB. More Nick and Sara. Kill off or fire/transfer/put into a coma/"disappear" Hodges or reduce his role. Always found him irritating. At least when Greg did his job, he was/is an endearing character.

IMO, the series' best episode was "A Bullet Runs Through It." They really blew it by not making Louise Lombard a permanent cast member. Sofia Curtis was a great character. Elisabeth Harnois' Morgan Brody is a shell of Sofia Curtis.

I also thought the episode "For Warrick" was fantastic.