Directed by Jerry Levine
Written by Anthony E. Zuiker, Ann Donahue, Carol Mendelsohn, & John Dove
"Civilized Lies" is the 12th episode of Season 9 and the 192nd overall. It originally aired January 11, 2013.
An off-duty police officer is mugged and killed outside the check-cashing place where he's moonlighting. The team pull out all the stops in getting to the bottom of the case.
Tropes for the episode:
- Due to the Dead: At the end of the episode, Danny & Lindsay visit the cop's home as the family is holding a wake.
- Good Cop/Bad Cop: Flack and Mac unintentionally do this with a suspect, who lampshades the trope:[Mac angrily storms out of the interrogation room.]Suspect: Oh, are you gonna play good cop now?Flack: To tell you the truth, I don't quite know what to do. [gestures toward window] *He's* usually the good cop.
- Latex Perfection: Three perps use identical masks...of the face of an ex-con one of them had previously shared a cell with. This throws the investigators off for a while, until they track down the ex-con and determine *he* had nothing to do with the current case.
- Malevolent Masked Men: The perps wearing the matching full-face masks are the ones who attack the off-duty officer.
- So Proud of You: Just before getting shot, the officer is on the phone with his son, who's attending the Police Academy, and tells him how proud he is of him. At the hospital, the young man tells Lindsay and Jo that if his dad doesn't make it, at least he knew that. The cop dies in the OR, and at the end of the episode, Danny and Lindsay give the son his father's badge to wear once he graduates.Lindsay: I'd say "make him proud," but you already did.
- Throw-Away Guns: One of the perps tosses his gun as he's running from Jo and Lindsay, turns a corner and runs smack into Danny.
- Title Drop: Mac, as they all congratulate themselves upon getting the perps to crack, "Thank goodness for civilized lies."
