I don’t care what all those naysayers are, well, saying: I love Dr. Ray Langston. Especially when he’s teamed up with Nick Stokes. The duo are very much like a modern-day Sherlock Holmes and Watson. Though it’s true the CSI guys both use science to get to the bottom of things, there is comfortable wit and humour about them. You know they will solve the crime, and they’ll have a few chuckles along the way.
George Eads languished for too long in the background when William Petersen was stomping around the set as top dog; now he’s been given a big bone by CSI’s writers, and he’s chomping on that sucker and savouring every little morsel.
The two were at it again last night in “Neverland,” in which a 14-year-old boy turned up dead of a massive head wound. Storylines about dead kids always tug at my heartstrings, and this was no different, especially when it appeared that he may have been the victim of a budding pedophile. Not so, although pieces of trunk fibres in his hair indicated that the body had been moved from another location.
Turns out the location was police property, the city’s lock-up for evidence. The boy had secreted himself into the back of a sofa splashed with blood which was found by police and wheeled into the lockup. The boy died when he was surprised by the cop on duty and fell off a ladder. Worried he’d get into trouble, the cop snuck the body out to his car, put him in the trunk, dumped him in another location and called 911.
Why was the boy in the lockup in the first place, and rifling through evidence? CSI’s writers took us on a journey that included a murderer who was still in prison for killing his wife (and casting doubt on his guilt in the process), and a tale of two kids dabbling in booze and pot and then coming to a third friend (the dead boy for help).
“Neverland” caused me to pause and think about what I would have done for my buddies when I was 14. Though we all grew apart when we left high school at the time, I would have done anything for them. Well, not everything. I wouldn’t have stolen or killed for the guys, but they were pretty cool all the same. We snuck booze and cigarettes, rode our bikes around and catcalled at girls. I would have been devastated if anything had happened to any of them back when we were 14, just like the two guys were when they found out their best bud had died trying to help them.
CSI airs Thursdays at 8 p.m. ET on CTV and 9 p.m. ET on CBS.
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