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[staveDarsky]

The CSIs need to ace the case involving a rising tennis star. Meanwhile, the CSIs are surprised to hear Hodges is engaged to an Italian bombshell.

[merylinkid]

As much as I hate the Sara relationship angst, I need to hear about Hodges' love life even less. Trust me, ICE does not make a personal site visit for a green card unless there is a huge red flag (terrorism or the like). Just suspecting that someone might be marrying an american citizen for a green card is every day work for them, they wait for the applicant and citizen to come in and question them.

And why does this show have the person with the most messed up life be the one always giving relationship advice? Honestly, if Morgan came me advice on my life, I would look at her and tell her to fix her own life first. After I told her to STFU.

But what can we expect from this show where SuperShue is so gosh darn wonderful she is even good enough at tennis to volley with Chris Evert? While questioning her and not even getting out of breath?

Well thank goodness for Nick. He just went about gathering the evidence, following where it went and getting the missing brought in. All without drama or angst, or having to be told what to do by SuperShue. "We need to bring him in." "All ready did" you fucking moron, I do know how to do my job since I have been here a darn sight longer than you.

Sigh, remember when this show was about that? Gathering evidence, piecing together the story then getting the bad guy? I miss that show.

[sandyeggo622]

My pet peeve is when the CSI's interview any and all suspects that come in.....Thats what Brass is for, they should just stick to gathering evidence and processing it.

Henry, so cute when he was thinking about Wendy.

There used to be a time when this forum would have so many posts about any given epi.,seems like it's time to let the show go. On a side note, just been rewatching early CSI's..I miss that show.

[Arjumand]

So, this episode. I liked the tennis player backstory, though I thought it unlikely that the brother would have returned to kill her (and in fact, he didn't) - that would have been more like this season's Criminal Minds.

But then the Hodges crapfest came along, and ugh. It was just as bad as I thought it was going to be. All the dialogue seems to have been pulled from the Big Book of Writing Clichés.

Girlfriend's Italian was very close to native speaker fluent, just a couple of mispronunciations betrayed the fact that she's not actually Italian - in fact her Italian was too good, and didn't have any regional markers, so strike two for this storyline. Asshole producers wanted to make it even funnier, so let's make it that Hodges gets an Italian supermodel chasing him!! Excuse me sir, she's actually Romanian. Italian, Romanian, same thing, right?

Is she gonna die/be a criminal too, or does that only happen to Greg's girlfriends?

Like Hodges at this point wouldn't have plastered all the walls of his lab with pictures of his hot girlfriend. Yeah, right.

I actually didn't mind the usual Finn adulation, as it gave me a break from the soap opera cliche-fest that was the Hodges storyline. To be honest, I'm hoping it's some kind of con - Agent Smith? Really? Elisabetta's father owns a vineyard? Is she going to tell us how she stamped the grapes as a child? Give me a break. Hodges, for an intelligent man, at times you are really stupid. Next time, let the big head do the thinking, ok?

[merylinkid]

My pet peeve is when the CSI's interview any and all suspects that come in

And they immediately intervew the witness/suspect as soon as they find one little shred of evidence. Oh the rival's DNA is the racket let's go interview her. Oh fight with the husband, let's interview her. Oh she has a therapist let's interview her. Oh there's a missing brother, let's bring him in.

Remember in the old days they would process ALL the evidence and narrow the suspect list instead of haring off on rabbit trails? They had more than teeny piece of physical evidence before they assumed someone did it.

[Pepper the Cat]

How did Claudia remember last name and that Brent was her brother?

[Slade347]

If a top 20 or 30 tennis player had been murdered at a tennis tournament in real life that story would have been front page news all over the country (and possibly some other parts of the world) for weeks and months (as the trial of the even more famous tennis player came to fruition). There would have been media all over the place and Ecklie and the other big wigs in the department and the city would have been putting pressure on Brass and the CSIs to get results, and the famous tennis player who turned to be the murderer would have never made that tearful confession without a lawyer by her side. That it was treated as an almost run of the mill case of the week kind of bothered me.

But, hey, we found out Finn is a great tennis player so I guess it's all good.

[Hanahope]

Wow, Chris Everett looked great.

Trust me, ICE does not make a personal site visit for a green card unless there is a huge red flag (terrorism or the like). Just suspecting that someone might be marrying an american citizen for a green card is every day work for them, they wait for the applicant and citizen to come in and question them.

Also, ICE doesn't get involved until there's been an actual application for a green card and that doesn't happen until after there's been a marriage. Hodges fiancee either came into the country on a visitor's visa, in which case, there definitely wouldn't have been any immigration involvement until marriage, or she came in on a fiancee visa, in which case, there's already been some background investigation. Either way, you can't apply for a green card based on marriage until there has actually been a marriage.

[SVNBob]

Trust me, ICE does not make a personal site visit for a green card unless there is a huge red flag (terrorism or the like).

Recall that in-universe the LVPD has one of, if not the, biggest and most prestigious Crime Labs in the country. And that the LVPD is probably still reeling from corruption investigations from the beginning of the season, and Federal agencies may still not trust them like we saw earlier with the Witness Protection victim in the diner investigation. Because of all that, it may have sent up a flag on Hodges, but a yellow one instead of a red.

Yes, still realistically the visit would not have happened.

[catray]

Ugh, so did not need the Hodges-Italian bombshell drama. UGH. The fight in the hallway at the lab was just awkward and terrible. And will probably end up with Hodges looking like a complete idiot.

The most unbelievable thing for me about this episode? The fact that the stuffed bunny hadn't been cleaned ONCE since Claudia was found after being attack. Yeah, right. I can't believe her foster, then adoptive parents would have let her keep a dirty, blood-stained stuffed animal.

[misterbfd]

I just wanted to pop in and point out that Elisabetta was Catrinel Menghia, who is a native Romanian and was made quite popular in the Fiat Abarth TV commercials where she confronts a guy for looking at her (also in fluent Italian) and it turns out he's looking at a car and not a gorgeous woman.

[Kel Varnsen]

If a top 20 or 30 tennis player had been murdered at a tennis tournament in real life that story would have been front page news all over the country (and possibly some other parts of the world) for weeks and months (as the trial of the even more famous tennis player came to fruition). There would have been media all over the place and Ecklie and the other big wigs in the department and the city would have been putting pressure on Brass and the CSIs to get results, and the famous tennis player who turned to be the murderer would have never made that tearful confession without a lawyer by her side. That it was treated as an almost run of the mill case of the week kind of bothered me.

That didn't make a lot of sense. Then again from the beginning I figured something was weird since they said at the beginning that the match they were showing was something like the #2 ranked player vs #12. Yet they were playing on a tiny little court. I know a little bit about tennis, but enough to know that if it was that big a match up it would be happening in a huge stadium.

But, hey, we found out Finn is a great tennis player so I guess it's all good.

That made me laugh. I read Andre Agassi's book a few years ago, and the way he talked about how he trained as a child, all I could think about was that if Finn was making the decision to go pro at 15 it was way too late.