Richard J. Lewis Movies
- 2004
The man who has just won 400,000 dollars at one of Sam Braun's casinos has a foolproof "system": he cheats. Later on, the man is found murdered, along with his accomplice. Inasmuch as Braun (Scott Wilson) is a prime suspect, Grissom (William L. Petersen) takes Sam's biological daughter Catherine (Marg Helgenberger) off the case -- as if that would stop her from trying to get Sam off the hook. More friction occurs within the CSI staff when Nick (George Eads) beats out Sara (Jorja Fox) for a promotion. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 2004
Grissom (William L. Petersen) has trouble maintaining a professional distance while investigating the murder of a woman. It seems that the victim bore a startling resemblance to Grissom's CSI colleague Sara Sidle (Jorja Fox). As Grissom doggedly tracks down clues in the woman's murder, a disturbing question arises: is he working so hard just because he's good at his job or does he care more about Sara than he is willing to admit? It was not for nothing that this intense episode was originally rated TV-14-SV. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 2003
Three people are killed in a car bombing outside a Vegas casino. One of the victims was the driver, who turns out to be a federal air marshal. Under pressure from the higher-ups to solve the case, Sheriff Atwater (Xander Berkeley) runs with the prevailing theory that the bombing was an act of terrorism -- but CSI chief Grissom (William L. Petersen) isn't about to hoist the red flag just yet. Meanwhile, Sara (Jorja Fox) and Warrick (Gary Dourdan) investigate the murder of a woman whose husband is a popular Vegas singer. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 2003
CSI's fourth season gets off to a lively start with this concluding episode of a two-part story. While the CSI team investigates a double murder, two more bodies turn up. It may be a serial killing -- and worse, a police officer might be involved. The case becomes even more complex when the two likeliest suspects are also murdered. Meanwhile, Catherine (Marg Helgenberger) tries to cope with the murder trial of her casino-owner father, Sam Braun, as she joins Sara (Jorja Fox) in probing the bizarre demise of a college football fan. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 2003
There's some rather unusual "road kill" along a lonely stretch of Nevada highway: the body of a man dressed in a huge raccoon costume. The man had been shot before his body was struck by a car -- and now the car's driver is also dead. As Grissom (William L. Petersen) and Catherine (Marg Helgenberger) investigate, the trail of clues leads to a kinky cult of fur fetishists. And somewhere across town, another corpses is found -- this one literally "on ice." ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 2003
CSI launches its fourth season with a two-part story involving a serial killer, a murder trial, a possible coverup, and profound personal crises. In part one, a woman is found in a casino hotel room, her throat cut. Her husband is later found dead in this car. Then another couple, with whom the first victims had been acquainted, turn up murdered. As the CSI team investigates, Nick (George Eads) makes a professional blunder that may allow the perpetrator -- or perpetrators -- to go free. On top of all this, a Vegas judge (John Doman) seems strangely reluctant to issue warrants for the likeliest suspects. And the murder trial of Sam Braun (Scott Wilson), biological father of CSI member Catherine Willows (Marg Helgenberger), drags on. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 2003
The murders of a nightclub guest and a man working out in his own apartment had one thing in common: both victims were employees of professional dominatrix Lady Heather (Melinda Clarke). Grissom (William L. Petersen) reluctantly undertakes the murder investigation, knowing all too well that Lady Heather is the one person who can really get under his skin and force him to confront his own hidden demons. Elsewhere, Catherine (Marg Helgenberger) loses her professional detachment when her ex-husband Eddie disappears and her daughter Lindsay is nearly drowned after a car accident. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 2003
Hank Peddigrew (Christopher Wiehl), the paramedic boyfriend of the CSI's Sara Sidle (Jorja Fox), is among those injured when an old woman (Sandra Gimpel) crashes her Jaguar into a bar-restaurant during a crowded "happy hour." Was it a random accident, or a deliberately mapped-out murder? As she investigates, Sara is unnerved when she finds out why Hank was at the bar in the first place. Meanwhile, Grissom (William L. Petersen) and Nick (George Eads) probe the death of a woman who succumbed to a gas leak in her home. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 2003
There's no shortage of suspects when much-hated standup comic Dougie Max (Jeffrey Ross) dies during his act after drinking what appears to be tainted water. The plot thickens for CSI investigators Catherine (Marg Helgenberger) and Grissom (William L. Petersen) when a 15-year-old is poisoned to death by the same water in a convenience store. And Brass (Paul Guilfoyle) orders the re-opening of a case when the husband of Shelley Stark, who ostensibly died accidentally, is seen throwing his money around in the company of a flashy young woman. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 2002
Grissom (William L. Petersen) and Catherine (Marg Helgenberger) investigate when a wealthy couple, Calvin and Monica Newman, are found murdered outside the expensive Las Vegas house that they had hoped to sell. Suspicion falls on someone very close to the couple, as well as another person who at first seemed startled by the discovery of the bodies. Meanwhile, Sara (Jorja Fox) looks into the grisly death of teenage cheerleader Amanda Kirk, whose cannibalized body was found on a high school soccer field. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 2002
Did middleweight boxing champ Laroi Steele die accidentally from the beating administered in the ring by his hated rival Javier Molina (Greg Serano)? Or was this accident actually premeditated murder? Grissom (William L. Petersen) leans decidedly toward the latter option. Meanwhile, Catherine (Marg Helgenberger) investigates the shooting of an L.A. gang member, while Nick (George Eads) looks into a violent jewelry-store heist. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 2002
While investigating the death of a grotesquely disfigured man who might or might not have been pushed off a six-story building, Grissom (William L. Petersen) begins experiencing hearing problems. It soon develops that Grissom is suffering from hereditary otosclerosis, which may eventually lead to total deafness. Elsewhere, Catherine (Marg Helgenberger) investigates the point-blank shooting of a man in the parking lot of the bar which he frequented. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Dooley and Jerry Lee are at it again. The day after Dooley (James Belushi) retires as a detective from the police force, he finds himself -- and his faithful canine companion Jerry Lee -- chasing high-tech burglars who have stolen a valuable prototype computer chip. Trouble is, Jerry Lee has eaten one of the chips, and the other three won't work without it. Meanwhile, Dooley is convinced to breed Jerry Lee and winds up with a crush on the female dog's owner (Barbara Tyson), however, a mysterious and beautiful client looking for her missing boyfriend has breeding ideas about Dooley of her own. Once again, Dooley needs Jerry Lee to rescue him from danger and straighten out his love life. ~ Buzz McClain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jim Belushi
- 2002
The talents of the CSI team are stretched to the limit when the unidentified and partially decomposed body of a woman is found stuffed in a shopping cart just off the Vegas freeway. It is clear that the woman's face was deliberately and methodically disfigured -- in fact, she may have been thrust into a rotating fan while still alive. Clues vital to the proceedings include a handbag, a collection of fashion magazines, and several coded messages. This is definitely one case that Grissom (William L. Petersen) and his colleagues are not going to let go unresolved. "The Hunger Artist" was the final episode of CSI's second season. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 2002
An octogenarian woman, living in squalor surrounded by cats, is found stabbed to death in her decaying house. Grissom (Gil Gerard) and Catherine (Marg Helgenberger) have quite an aromatic time investigating this particular homicide. Meanwhile, two other CSI members, Nick (George Eads) and Sara (Jorja Fox), examine the evidence in a car bombing that may have been pulled off to cover up an earlier killing. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 2002
Nine of the 23 passengers in a bus traveling from L.A. to Las Vegas are killed in a crash. As he lies dying, the bus driver offers evidence indicating that the bus was sabotaged. Led by Grissom (William L. Petersen), the CSI team sifts through the wreckage of a sports car that was following the bus at high speed -- then shift their attention to locating one of the passengers, a recent parolee who has apparently vanished from the face of the earth. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 2002
A kidnapper delivers a gruesome "souvenir" to the squad to show that he means business. Acting on the kidnapper's orders, Catherine (Marg Helgenberger) must accompany Roy Logan (Tom Irwin) as he delivers the one-million-dollar ransom to a prearranged location. If anything goes wrong, Logan's mistress will be instantly killed. But is this particular case merely what it appears to be on the surface, or is something else afoot? ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 2001
The body of a woman who worked as a book restorer for a historical society is found in the metal cage used to protect rare volumes. In their efforts to determine if the death was from natural causes or murder, Grissom (William L. Petersen) and Nick (George Eads) receive unexpected assistance from the woman's autistic co-worker. And Catherine (Marg Helgenberger) and Sara (Jorja Fox) investigate the fatal crash between a train and an SUV, a tragedy that might have been the outgrowth of road rage. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 2001
At first, all evidence points to suicide when a construction worker plummets 12 stories to his death. Grissom (William L. Petersen), however, flies in the face of conventional wisdom when he surmises that the victim was murdered -- a verdict staunchly opposed by Sheriff Mobley (Glenn Morshower). Meanwhile, Nick (George Eads) and Catherine (Marg Helgenberger) investigate the death of a teenaged epileptic who was undergoing an unorthodox form of therapy with a female psychologist. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 2001
Sara (Jorja Fox) forms an attachment with a young woman who miraculously survived a rape and shooting in a mall parking lot. Meanwhile, Warrick (Gary Dourdan) and Catherine (Marg Helgenberger) are entrusted with the evidence for a murder trial that was collected by a CSI agent who abruptly quit. Making the job more difficult is Catherine's contentious ex-husband, Eddie (Timothy Carhart). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 2000
A college fraternity pledging ends in tragedy when a rejected student apparently commits suicide. Nick (George Eads) and Sara (Jorja Fox) discover that the case is not as open-and-shut as it seems. And while looking into the discovery of a woman's body -- with one leg missing -- Grissom (William L. Petersen) and Catherine (Marg Helgenberger) conclude that either the victim's husband or her boyfriend might have had a hand in her death. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1995
The normally docile Diefenbaker is impounded after biting an animal control officer. Can it be that the hard-of-healing wolf is reverting to the wild? Fraser (Paul Gross) hopes not, lest he be forced to destroy his pet. It turns out that the source of Diefenbaker's bad behavior is a pack of stray mutts known around the neighborhood as the Wild Bunch--not to mention a crooked dog catcher who is part of a sinister human conspiracy. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Paul Gross, David Marciano, (more)
- 1995
Ray (David Marciano) leaves Chicago to accompany Fraser (Paul Gross) to the latter's Canadian home turf, there to rebuild the cabin Fraser inherited from his late father. Unfortunately, the pilot hired to fly them to the Great White North is really a convicted felon, who bails out of the plane in mid-air. After the two lawmen crash-landing in the wilderness, a blinded, crippled Fraser must rely upon city-bred Ray for survival--all the while conducting a search for the missing "pilot", who plans kill his pursuers before they catch up with him. Comedian Red Green shows up as an airport controller. Originally telecast in Canada as the opener of Due South's second season, this episode debuted in the US on January 5, 1996. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Paul Gross, David Marciano, (more)
- 1995
When Canadian mountie Fraser (Paul Gross) and American cop Ray (Raymond Vecchio) are assigned to protect their respective country's diplomats at a NAFTA convention, Fraser manages to run afoul of his Mexican counterpart, government agent Anita Cortez (Maria Therese Rangel). One mishap leads to another, and before long Fraser is reduced to addressing invitations for the convention under the supervision of several 12-year-olds. Even so, Fraser and Anita manage to forget their differences long enough to go after a suspected assassin. Take a look at the names of the three "Special Agents" in the supporting cast--sound familiar? First broadcast on American television, this episode made its US debut on February 16, 1996. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Paul Gross, David Marciano, (more)
- 1994
- NR
A Canadian production shot along the British Columbia coast, this is the story of a washed-up rock star who finds redemption. It was adapted for the screen by Paul Quarrington from his own award-winning novel. Desmond Howl (Maury Chaykin) is a faded music superstar who now lives a hermit's life in an out-of-the-way oceanside mansion. Living off residuals from previous hits, Howl spends all his time and energy in his state-of-the-art home recording studio trying to compose whale music. He hopes to write a symphonic piece, using the whales' own sounds, that will have the power to summon the marine mammals from the depths. Howl is haunted by hallucinations and nightmares involving his brother Paul, who recently died, apparently by his own hand. Howl also has to deal with his ex-wife, who meddles in his affairs. He manages to shut out these interferences until a young runaway arrives at his doorstep. Claire Lowe (Cyndy Preston) gradually captures the jaded musician's heart with her need for caring, and their relationship becomes a metaphor for the tender music Howl is trying to create. ~ Michael Betzold, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Maury Chaykin, Cyndy Preston, (more)
