Personal concerns come to the fore in these 12 episodes more prominently than ever before (a contrast to the show's original single-minded focus on the cases). Here, Sara Sidle's paramedic boyfriend unwittingly reveals a guilty secret when he is involved in a devastating car accident ("Crash & Burn"); Warwick witnesses his boyhood mentor falling apart when the older man's daughter is killed in a drive-by shooting ("Random Acts of Violence"); Catherine Willows' daughter and ex-husband are caught up in more violence and mayhem; and Grissom finally has to admit that his hearing problem can no longer be ignored. A welcome development is the expansion of the CSI unit and the introduction of some new, albeit secondary, team members. Guest stars include Elizabeth Berkely ("Lady Heather's Box") and Bobcat Goldthwait ("Last Laugh"). The show remains unrivalled for slick, fast-paced entertainment. On the DVD: CSI, Series 3 Part 2 is a three-disc set with a handful of minor extra features. It has two frankly rather uninspiring episode commentaries featuring the directors, scriptwriters and other crew. Better are the two small featurettes--"Making It Real" and "The Writer's Room"--that shed more light on the making of the show. --Mark Walker DVD Technical Information:
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The second half of CSI's third season serves up generous amounts of the bizarre and depraved for our voyeuristic viewing pleasure: a man driving with a wooden spike in his head, ultra-violent Robot Wars, decomposing bodies in toxic waste drums and violent death during foam-soaked debauchery all add up to a typical night's work for the Las Vegas crime lab. Standout episodes include the 90-minute special, "Lady Heather's Box", in which Grissom renews his acquaintance with the sultry bordello madam and her world of S&M. But is the delightful dominatrix the murderer? In "Night at the Movies" the plot hinges on a reworking of a Hitchcock classic and in "Play with Fire" an explosion in the lab has disastrous consequences for the team.
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CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION 3.2 comprises 12 episodes from the third season of the forensic science drama. In this highly successful TV series, Detective Gil Grissom (William Petersen) leads the Las Vegas Police Department's night shift Crime Scene Investigations Unit, one of the top-ranked crime labs in the country. Grissom, along with his partner Catherine Willows (Marg Helgenberger), takes on a series of cases which would be untouchable by other labs, in a city with a constant influx of visitors and a series of increasingly baffling crimes. Includes the special extended episode "Lady Heather's Box" seeing the return of the philosophical S & M madam Lady Heather.
Viva las Vegas! (CSI that is!)
Review date: 2005-03-14 Rating: 10 out of 10
This second part of Season three is very much the same as Season 3 Part One. It's still got great acting, stories et al (see my review of Part One) but the storylines are more involved with the characters as well. A lot of stuff happens to the characters in this block of episodes - Catherine experiences a loss, Grissom gets involved with a woman, Greg gets blown up (nearly) and Sara's dream man isn't all what he seems. To top it all off the last couple of episodes are really picking up pace with an explosion in the crime lab and Gil's hearing causing trouble for him. The last episode ends on a cliffhanger and I ended up sat open mouthed at how they could leave it like that!
Again this DVD is thin on the ground with extras but what there is is decent enough, I just wish they could put more things in.
But this programme is amazing and it makes you wish they would hurry up and release Season 4.
CSI is quite simply in a class of its own. The show manages to develop the characters without getting away from the fact that people watch the show for all the gore, intricacies of Crime Lab work and painstaking detail that it has built up.
The second half of Season is notable for a superb extra-long episode, Lady Heather's Box, where Grissom meets up with the S&M queen with whom he shares a remarkable mutual attraction.
Extras include a brilliant documentary about CSI shots - those great pieces of interior filming that make you feel as if you're going inside someone's body - and means you get to see some of the wonderfully talented backstage crew.
Sure, the tempo of the shows changes at times, but that's what makes it as compelling as it is. If you always know what sort of thing is coming, then it quickly becomes boring. That's exactly what makes CSI such unbeatable entertainment.
Ive been hooked from series 1 & as each series keeps getting better & better, this is no exception! William Peterson as Gil Grissom is fantastic as r the whole cast. The storylines r fast & catchy, keeping u guessing along wiv the team until thay find out the truth via the evidence. Like Gil says during the 1st series 'Look at what cannot lie - the evidence!'
I cant w8 4 series 4 to b made!