......starts off with that lovable crime scene head investigator Mac Taylor (Gary Sinise) on a flight to Washington D. C. to render a vitally-needed testimony, and while chatting up a seat mate who happens to have invented a hairpiece guaranteed not to come off he spots a few flight attendants who are unusually excited. Frightened, even. It turns out there's a dead body of an air marshal who's lying there in the bathroom near the cockpit with a sliced carotid artery! It turns out that he's an escaped criminal named Anton Greenway (Ben Youcef)! The real air marshal named Roger Stockwell (Randy Hall) was shot and killed with a Desert Eagle sidearm, as later determined by CSI guy Danny Messer (Carmine Giovinazzo) and police detective Don Flack (Eddie Cahill). In the meantime, the DC-bound flight has returned to John F. Kennedy International Airport and the passengers are understandably perturbed. They are situated in the aircraft hangar and will have to be released in 24 hours, unless Mac can find the killer. One of the passengers, James Turner (Scott Connors) by name, is a bigamist. He has a family in DC, and the other in the Big Apple. No wonder he's bent out of shape. Sheldon Hawkes (Hill Harper) and Stella Bonasera (Melina Kanakaredes) take part in the investigation, and as Adam Ross (A. J. Buckley) has been begging for some more time in the field he's ordered to swamp out the aircraft's toilet holding tank at the behest of Mac himself. Adam will recover the, uh, evidence later on. And according to that lovable coroner Sid Hammerback (Robert Joy), the late Anton Greenway had renewed his membership in the Mile-Club before he was murdered. Greenway murdered Stockwell before stealing the latter's identity. He had planned on hijacking the aircraft and forcing the flight crew to fly towards an abandoned landing strip near Montreal, in Quebec, Canada with $250,000 stolen currency, but was murdered before the hijacking could take place. So who murdered Greenway and stopped the hijacking? That's what Stella Bonasera and Lindsay Monroe (Anna Belknap) would want to know. And so would Mac, because there's still a planeload of suspects. And it turns out that Greenway's partner was a former DEA agent named Terrence Davis (Nelly), and so Don Flack and Danny Messer pay a visit to Davis' nightclub. He used to be an importer/exporter one time. His Desert Eagle is missing. Davis is in big trouble. Oops. But he has a solid alibi. And he's forced to become a confidential informant by Detective Flack. And since the 24 hours are up, the Homeland Security crew had no choice but to release the passengers. But the murder weapon turns out to be a set of brass wings, belonging to flight attendant Susan Montgomery (Michaela McManus). She killed Anton Greenway to prevent him from hijacking the plane. She had been helping Greenway, only she fell out with him after having murdered the air marshal named Roger Stockwell, and she planned on stealing the cash. A real wowser of an episode. I just had to review it, you know.
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He was a rocket scientist
neverenoughgold2 August 2022
In the early scenes of this episode, a passenger says to Mac, "What are you, a rocket scientist?" Well, in the film Apollo 13 Gary Sinese played Ken Mattingly, one of the original Apollo 13 pilots. Prevented from flying to the Moon because he contracted a virus, Mattingly played a large role in helping the crew solve the problem of power conservation during re-entry, so indeed he was a rocket scientist.
Sinise Shines In Excellent Episode
ccthemovieman-124 January 2011
Warning: Spoilers
SPOILERS This was a very interesting episode with no nonsense, which is why I like CSI New York best of all the three CSI programs. That usually isn't a lot of soap opera material; just a straight crime story. At least.....usually.
That's the case here as Mac is flying to Washington, D.C., and discovers somebody had their throat slashed in the lavatory and bled to death. The man was an air marshal and his gun is missing, which adds to the tension in this show. The first half of this episode is very tense.
The second half of it is the detective work, after the plane is turned around lands back in New York. A twist occurs early when the murdered man turns out not be a marshal, but an escaped criminal.
The question is: who on the plane is a murderer? We find out there were a number of things going on, with a surprise ending. All in all, lots of good stuff in here. Gary Sinise is outstanding and I like how "Mac" handled himself in that emergency plane situation.
That's the case here as Mac is flying to Washington, D.C., and discovers somebody had their throat slashed in the lavatory and bled to death. The man was an air marshal and his gun is missing, which adds to the tension in this show. The first half of this episode is very tense.
The second half of it is the detective work, after the plane is turned around lands back in New York. A twist occurs early when the murdered man turns out not be a marshal, but an escaped criminal.
The question is: who on the plane is a murderer? We find out there were a number of things going on, with a surprise ending. All in all, lots of good stuff in here. Gary Sinise is outstanding and I like how "Mac" handled himself in that emergency plane situation.
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