Fabulous detailing and a strong balance between the "crime of the week" and the ongoing issues of the team, here facing severe budget cuts that affect their ability to solve crimes and even threaten their employment makes this a special segment of the series.
Tastefully but forcefully grabbing the viewer is the intro: each team member being videotaped at the crime scene walking us through the awful picture of three family members lying on the floor in their blood, viciously stabbed to death. Surviving son played by Kyle Gallner is found cowering in the attic, clearly the prime suspect of murdering his sister and parents. It's up toKyra to get the goods on him.
She's terrific, starting with her dramatic ("acting class worthy") reenactment for the kid how his parents were being killed, when he claims to have slept through the mayhem. She's brilliant at tearing down the kid's story, but in the process the crime begins to look far more complicated than at first appeared to be.
Wonderful ensemble acting for this whodunit, but Kyra delivers the rock-solid, in character brilliance to make it a classic.
Tastefully but forcefully grabbing the viewer is the intro: each team member being videotaped at the crime scene walking us through the awful picture of three family members lying on the floor in their blood, viciously stabbed to death. Surviving son played by Kyle Gallner is found cowering in the attic, clearly the prime suspect of murdering his sister and parents. It's up toKyra to get the goods on him.
She's terrific, starting with her dramatic ("acting class worthy") reenactment for the kid how his parents were being killed, when he claims to have slept through the mayhem. She's brilliant at tearing down the kid's story, but in the process the crime begins to look far more complicated than at first appeared to be.
Wonderful ensemble acting for this whodunit, but Kyra delivers the rock-solid, in character brilliance to make it a classic.