CSI: NY 8x11: Who's There?

Original Air Date: 13 January 2012

Storyline: A home invasion investigation becomes more complicated when the victim's family turns out to be less perfect than they originally seemed. Trivia: Sandra Hess, who plays Elizabeth Ferguson, also appears in the CSI episodes "Assume Nothing" and "All for Our Country". 

Vincent Ventresca, who plays Ron Ferguson, also appears in the CSI: Miami episode "Invasion". 
Heather Sossaman, who plays Megan Ferguson, also appears in the CSI episode "CSI Down" and in the CSI: Miami one "Death Pool 100". 
Robb Derringer, who plays Phillip Rogh, also appears in the CSI episode "Evaluation Day" and in the CSI: Miami one "Stalkerazzi". 
Kate Lang Johnson, who plays Eva Hutton, also appears in the CSI: Miami episodes "Rap Sheet" and "Bolt Action". 

Review: This is what I'm talking about! Despite this show's last two seasons not really rising up to my expectations (is anyone else missing Melina?), every once in a while, it reminds me why I preferred the New York based CSI over the other two. "Who's There?" managed to bring back the charm of the first seasons, despite not making enough use of my favorite characters (did Danny do anything other that the card trick, which, incidentally, I want to learn?).

The case - the murder of a real estate agent who got ambushed into his own house while having dinner with his wife - kept me guessing for the entire time, even though the killer was easy to identify from the beginning. But it was a wild ride, because what you thought you knew changed with every new piece of evidence discovered and so did my theories - from the wife planning the attack, to the wife poisoning the husband before the attack (when Sid couldn't find cause of death), to the husband maybe planning the attack which went completely wrong. I'm always excited when you don't really know what happened right from the start and there are various theories flying around.
The premise of the case was interesting enough, though it played on "the wife always does it" cliche. But since the answer wasn't really clear until the very end and not all the evidence against Elizabeth Ferguson was shown over the course of the installment (see the oil residue on her shirt), things were kept in the shadows for the entire hour.
I'm not going to complain about the under-use of Flack, Danny and Adam, instead here are the other things I loved and that made this episode so great: the opening scene, with the contrast between the apparent lull of the family dinner and the violence of the attack, giving the impression that it had all been planned by the wife; Danny's card trick and the online profile page Lindsay built for Mac; the car chase and the was Lindsay stopped Mark from getting away.CSI: NY 8x10: Clean Sweep Back to Season 8