CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (TV Series) Abra Cadaver (2002) User Reviews

Manhunter

[BigBrownBear · 9/10 · 10 August 2008]

This was really an exciting CSI that I have seen today on French Television (we are in 2008!). Replying to my predecessor I think that it was not an "accident" or random selection that William Peterson and Tom Noonan gathered on this CSI but more an homage. The role of Zephyr was as mysterious as the role of Francis Dollarhyde on Manhunter was. And the ending scene when Zephyr regurgitates the key to open the knuckles is clearly a link to Manhunter. Pure enjoyment!!

Unfortunately in the beginning, when the so called voluntarily lady was chosen it was more than evident that there was something wrong. The fact that the lady was never shown face to the camera made me suspicious and I was not wrong. But anyway revealing so many tricks was certainly not a pleasure for lots of professional magicians.....

Hocus Pocus

[Hitchcoc · 8/10 · 14 January 2021]

There are two characters of interest in this episode. The first is a magician who, after doing a trick, can't find the volunteer whom he made disappear. The second is the lead singer of a rock group who appears to have killed himself. Each of them is a shady character in a position of power. The focus is on those connected to these people rather than the character himself. There are some cool twists.

The Magician and the Rock 'n' Roll Star

[claudio_carvalho · 7/10 · 17 November 2022]

While performing the Chamber of Doom illusion, the magician Zephyr invites a volunteer from the audience that disappears from the chamber, but never appears again. The CSI team investigates the case, interviewing Zephyr, his assistant Punky Dillinger and the magician Toby Arcane that loathes him. Meanwhile, Catherine an Nick the death of the singer and leader of a rock' n' roll band Gus Kenyon that was free of the heroin addiction, but apparently died of overdose. Soon they learn that his death was staged to seem that he died of O. D. Now they have suspects to interview.

"Abra Cadaver" is another good episode of "CSI", with the sophisticated story of a decadent magician and the death of a rock' n' roll star. The plot of the death of Gus is simpler and Catherine uses her observation expertize to solve the case. My vote is five.

Title (Brazil): "Abra Cadaver"

Interesting rematch

[jj-258 · 19 March 2006]

I'm not sure if anyone else caught this but it was the second match-up for William Petersen and Tom Noonan as good guy/bad guy. They originally faced off against each other in Manhunter, the first (and in my opinion superior) version of Thomas Harris' Red Dragon. I was unable to tell if they made any reference to Manhunter in the show but it appeared not. There was not even any usage of the music that I could tell. Does anyone know if they had Grissom go up against a Willem Defoe character reprising To Live and Die in LA in any of the subsequent episodes? That would be a CSI to see. My other question would be did this episode get cast as a result of the previous work of Petersen and Noonan together or was it just the result of random casting?