.....because this is straight out of a horror movie, and in my humble opinion it should have been fleshed out into a two-hour episode with enough room for the requisite commercials. There's a frantic 911 call which leads head investigator Mac Taylor (Gary Sinise), his favorite colleagues Stella Bonasera (Melina Kanakaredes) and Sheldon Hawkes (Harper Hill), and NYPD detective Don Flack (Eddie Cahill) to a uptown penthouse that turns out to be a booby-trapped creation, and it had been closed off since around 1920. Our heroes find the corpse of Richard Lawson (Josh Wood) who had apparently been baked to death! This penthouse had been constructed by a wacked-out weirdo inventor who had been ripped off by an avaricious financier. And all this after our heroes find a corpse that has to be around ninety years old with a lot of holes in his chest, and the causation is a spring-loaded multi-bladed knife! Don Flack and Danny Messer (Carmine Giovinazzo) give Mac and Stella a heads-up that there's water leaking on the floor below, so they have to return to the Penthouse Of Horrors because it has its own water supply and there's a nice young lady named Paula Davis (Tarah Paige) who's in deadly danger of drowning! Somehow she got in there! Which means Mac, Stella, Don, and Danny have to figure out how to get Paula out of the water trap because she's slipping into hypothermia and is about to drown! It turns out that manipulating a grandfather clock works in rescuing Paula as all that water flows into the penthouse bedroom like a river. A real wowser of an episode, and a good thing I caught it. At 2:00 in the morning. Go figure.
Review of Death House
