CSI: New York Season 7 Episode 1 "The 34th Floor"

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This is not the first time I’ve seen an episode of CSI: New York. I’ve seen several from the cable channel AXN. But this will be the first time I’m going to follow a current season of the show. From the few episodes I’ve seen from past seasons, I thought CSI: New York was worth following. It’s definitely better than CSI: Miami, which I don’t watch anymore, even the re-runs. The first thing I noticed on the first episode was that Detective Stella was gone! I thought the character got killed in a previous episode, but there’s a scene where Lindsay was reading a letter from Stella, and it says she was now assigned in New Jersey. I think. I searched the web and found out the actress who played Stella (Melina Kanakaredes) left the show. I was sad about it, I thought her chemistry with Gary Sinise was awesome, and I liked her! She was replaced with top caliber actress Sela Ward, who I only know of from movies. CBS seem to be getting a lot of these top movie actors and hiring them as regular casts on their shows. It probably started with Gary Sinise as the lead here in CSI: New York. Then they got Lawrence Fishburne for CSI (the Las Vegas version). Will they get a new one for Miami as well? The show starts with (from what I read on the Internet after watching the show) the culmination of last season’s finale, which would be a very tense cliffhanger! A serial killer called Shane Casey enters Danny and Lindsay’s apartment and took their baby hostage. Lindsay was a good shooter though and shot Casey dead (while he was still clutching the baby!) 5 months later, she receives a medal for her courage. Or for shooting a bad man dead. Throughout the episode we see her struggle with the fact that she has killed a person. With the help of her friends in her job, she was able to cope with it. The case was about a dead body found inside the CSI premises itself. Detective Jo Danville, played by Sela, found the body herself after she entered an empty CSI office (it was empty because everyone was at the medal-awarding ceremony). She wasn’t pissed off about it though. I probably would have. We then go see them in their usual crime-solving ways. Jo appears to be a great logical thinker and problem solver, able to come up with details about the victim as if she has psychic powers. She was from the FBI, she said, so maybe she learned it from there. She’s like a female Sherlock Holmes. She doesn’t appear bossy either, and even has a sense of humor. I like her so far. Other than the shooting at the beginning of the episode, the case seem to be “normal”. And I am comparing it to other CSI episodes. Season premieres tend to be flashy and “explosive” in the literal sense and I didn’t get that feeling in the premiere.