Catherine Willows has the worst judgement in men. You can't blame Catherine for wanting some human contact and comfort; after all, she isn't Grissom. After being rebuffed by Warrick and Nick, Catherine stops by a bar for a quick drink and . . .. Unfortunately the man who picks her up is a bit too rough and Catherine has a scuffle trying to get into her car alone. Later that night, the same man becomes a subject in the murder of two women. During the interrogation, the suspect recognizes Catherine and later when Catherine arrives home, she finds the suspect there engaged in a conversation with Catherine's mother and daughter. Unnerved, Catherine is determined to find the evidence needed to put the guy away. At work, Catherine is somewhat shunned by Grissom and Eckle. Catherine does find the evidence but is it taking her where she wants to go. Perhaps Catherine needs a life without men.
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She Just Wants to Have Fun
Hitchcoc4 February 2021
Catherine goes to a bar after a tough shift. While there she begins to hook up with a guy, but he comes on strong in the parking lot and she defends herself. When two women who were also in that bar at some time are dead from a similar weapon, Catherine is convinced it's her guy. Both she and Sara sometimes make bad judgments and lose their objectivity. Maybe a bit sexist? Anyway, I enjoyed the twists and turns of this episode.
The Matchbook
claudio_carvalho21 January 2023
After a tough day at the work, Catherine invites Warrick and Nick to drink in a bar. She goes alone and meets Adam Novak, a stranger that fives his phone number in a matchbook. He offers to go to her car with her, they kiss each other and Adam turns brutal when she does not want to have sex with him. She hits her head on the door of the car and goes home. While sleeping, Catherine gets a call from Grissom and heads to the crime scene, where Alice Granger is found dead with a shot in her head. When Det. Vartann find her car nearby the bar where Catherine was, she goes with him to investigate. When she finds a matchbook in the belongings of Alice with a phone number, she heads home to find Adam's matchbook, but it has been thrown in the garbage. Their further investigation indicates that her ex-boyfriend, Jeff Simon, might be the killer, but he had a strong alibi. Catherine tries to tell to Grissom about her possible involvement in the case, but he does not give much attention to her. But when a second victim is found with the same M. O., they realize that the killer might be the same.
"Weeping Willows" is another great episode of "CSI", centered in Catherine Willows this time. Her situation towards the case is very difficult, but the team succeeds to fin the killer. Grissom, as usual, is the great technician and awful supervisor that does not give the necessary attention to Catherine. My vote is eight.
Title (Brazil): "Weeping Willows"
"Weeping Willows" is another great episode of "CSI", centered in Catherine Willows this time. Her situation towards the case is very difficult, but the team succeeds to fin the killer. Grissom, as usual, is the great technician and awful supervisor that does not give the necessary attention to Catherine. My vote is eight.
Title (Brazil): "Weeping Willows"
Everyone was done wrong
xbatgirl-3002928 July 2023
Warning: Spoilers
When I first rewatched this episode, it thought it was just, ok but as I started thinking about it, it really began to tick me off. I think pretty much everyone ended up poorly written.
First of all, I never thought the CSI writers in general had any clue as to how shift work works. Was there a 12 hour day shift and 12 hr nights? Was it 3 eights? It only ever seemed like there was one team who worked 24/7. At the beginning of this season, they made a big point that Grissom was supervisor of days and Catherine was of nights. But already they're all back to working together, with Grissom as boss. No one ever seems to get more than one day off at a time. They all could end up working in the day or night depending on what the episode needs. No one else works there on other shifts besides our core team. It's super confusing.
This episode was especially bad about this as Catherine seemingly got finished with a shift in the evening (?), so she went out for a drink. Yet in the wee morning hours, she's called back in. This makes no sense but it happens over and over on this show.
Second, the writers always seemed to have a major issue with a mother like Catherine having a full time job. Her daughter is a massive brat whose one character trait is resenting that her mother works. This isn't 1962. Kids know mothers work. They can deal.
This may be the first episode where we see Catherine's mother helps out. Yet that's never enough for spoiled Lindsey. As we see in the future, spoilers, adult Lindsey hates her mother and the one reason we ever get for this is that she had a job. Horrors! Maybe the writers had mommy issues?
The case this week is pretty basic. It was fun to see Catherine play against type with her real life husband. Yes, she could have made Grissom sit still to discuss how she met the suspect in the bar instead of being so whimpy about it. (Remember how in the beginning of the season Catherine was going to "run a tighter ship" as supervisor than Grissom? The writers didn't.) Maybe she could have gone directly to her former buddy, Ecclie, if Gil was busy. I also don't get how she was told to recuse herself, yet that never actually happened and no one batted an eye. The B plot with the contaminated swabs was just dumb and a waste of time.
Then, at the end, Grissom gets away with telling her she shouldn't have a personal life? The whole thing is written to shame her for meeting a guy in a bar. There's a judgment made that simply meeting someone then kissing him before saying good night was a major character flaw and "what did she expect for being a tease?" Or "what did she expect for being in a bar alone?" And as on most shows, the characters have no friends outside of the people they know at work.
If you think about it, the lawyer is also shamed for going out to meet women. He's not lonely and looking for a relationship. He's a creepy, almost rapist who deserves to be a set up for murder and perfect suspect.
Most jobs also require you to get 8-12 hours off before calling you back in, but that didn't happen here. Instead Catherine got shamed further for having a drink in her off hours, when she got called in with no warning. And somehow Grissom is the virtuous one for not having a personal life?
The entire episode was super contrived and pretty chauvinistic to boot.
First of all, I never thought the CSI writers in general had any clue as to how shift work works. Was there a 12 hour day shift and 12 hr nights? Was it 3 eights? It only ever seemed like there was one team who worked 24/7. At the beginning of this season, they made a big point that Grissom was supervisor of days and Catherine was of nights. But already they're all back to working together, with Grissom as boss. No one ever seems to get more than one day off at a time. They all could end up working in the day or night depending on what the episode needs. No one else works there on other shifts besides our core team. It's super confusing.
This episode was especially bad about this as Catherine seemingly got finished with a shift in the evening (?), so she went out for a drink. Yet in the wee morning hours, she's called back in. This makes no sense but it happens over and over on this show.
Second, the writers always seemed to have a major issue with a mother like Catherine having a full time job. Her daughter is a massive brat whose one character trait is resenting that her mother works. This isn't 1962. Kids know mothers work. They can deal.
This may be the first episode where we see Catherine's mother helps out. Yet that's never enough for spoiled Lindsey. As we see in the future, spoilers, adult Lindsey hates her mother and the one reason we ever get for this is that she had a job. Horrors! Maybe the writers had mommy issues?
The case this week is pretty basic. It was fun to see Catherine play against type with her real life husband. Yes, she could have made Grissom sit still to discuss how she met the suspect in the bar instead of being so whimpy about it. (Remember how in the beginning of the season Catherine was going to "run a tighter ship" as supervisor than Grissom? The writers didn't.) Maybe she could have gone directly to her former buddy, Ecclie, if Gil was busy. I also don't get how she was told to recuse herself, yet that never actually happened and no one batted an eye. The B plot with the contaminated swabs was just dumb and a waste of time.
Then, at the end, Grissom gets away with telling her she shouldn't have a personal life? The whole thing is written to shame her for meeting a guy in a bar. There's a judgment made that simply meeting someone then kissing him before saying good night was a major character flaw and "what did she expect for being a tease?" Or "what did she expect for being in a bar alone?" And as on most shows, the characters have no friends outside of the people they know at work.
If you think about it, the lawyer is also shamed for going out to meet women. He's not lonely and looking for a relationship. He's a creepy, almost rapist who deserves to be a set up for murder and perfect suspect.
Most jobs also require you to get 8-12 hours off before calling you back in, but that didn't happen here. Instead Catherine got shamed further for having a drink in her off hours, when she got called in with no warning. And somehow Grissom is the virtuous one for not having a personal life?
The entire episode was super contrived and pretty chauvinistic to boot.
They are just recycling old ideas
interestingstuff13 February 2022
We are in season 5 and it's been 2 seasons since writers of this show ran out of ideas, so they decided to recycle old ideas and pretty much write the same episode over and over with super slight changes. From here on, if you've seen one episode, you've seen them all.
This is another one of those recycled episodes where they bring back old ideas because they are clearly out of new ideas by now since they've used all the good ideas 2+ seasons ago.
This is another one of those recycled episodes where they bring back old ideas because they are clearly out of new ideas by now since they've used all the good ideas 2+ seasons ago.
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