Coup de Grace

Gil Grissom always used the "follow evidence" as the reason for his success. Keep emotion out, don't jump to conclusions, and be aware of your prejudices. This episode involves the shooting of a black police officer near a hamburger joint. The officer who shot him is a veteran and it is suspected that he did a coup de grace, where the man was down, there was a delay, and he fired a third shot into him. It doesn't help the case the the shooter is racist and his comments are caught by his microphone. But all the things I've mentioned come into play when people are brought in who should not have been. Some of the CSI's have done some conclusion jumping. It's a pretty tight episode.

Didn't realize how much this show is all about the thin blue line copaganda.

After the murder of a black man in the parking lot of a fast-food restaurant by Officer Danny Finn, he reports to Brass that the man was shooting with his gun and he fired three rounds to subdue the suspect. However, the witnesses tell to the police that it was an execution and Officer Finn is racist. Soon the victim is identified as LVPD-Sergeant Scott Johnson, and the records show that he had a beef with Officer Finn in the past. The evidences collected in the crime scene do not support most of Officer Finn's testimony. Meanwhile, Sara volunteers to investigate the murder of a young boy near an abandoned school with Det. Moreno and David Phillips and she realizes that his death is around the gunshot in the nearby parking lot.

"Coup de Grace" is a great episode of "CSI", with a simple storyline but with complex resolution. It is great to see that incidental tampering of the crime scene may conduct the investigators to wrong conclusion. The tragic plot concludes in the end that there is no bad man in the case. My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): "Coup de Grace"