Line #14 Recap/CSINYS09E16


1	Directed by Creator/ChristineMoore
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3	Written by Creator/AnthonyEZuiker, Creator/AnnDonahue, Creator/CarolMendelsohn & Creator/AdamTargum
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5	"'''Blood Actually'''" is the 16th episode of Season 9. It is the 196th overall and originally aired February 15, 2013.
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7	Valentine's Day. [[RuleOfThree Three crime scenes. Three dead men. Three different motives.]] One busy team. Meanwhile, everyone's making and/or changing their plans for the evening.
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9	!Tropes for the episode:
10	* AsHimself: Music/JoshGroban sings and plays piano in the venue Christine chooses for her and Mac's date.
11	* ClingyJealousGirl: The wife of an overweight man thinks younger, prettier women are lusting after him and kills him to prevent him from leaving her for one whom she'd never even laid eyes on. Turns out the woman is just a travel agent (who is helping the husband plan a romantic getaway for him and the wife) and looks to be in her 50's.
12	* DanceOfRomance: Mac & Christine slow dance to "Happy in My Heartache" as the episode ends.
13	* FormerlyFat: Sheldon reveals to Danny that he used to be severely overweight and shows him an old picture of himself at over 200 lbs that he carries around as a reminder. Danny wants to keep it, Sheldon wisely refuses to let him.
14	* GrievousBottleyHarm: One of the victims is hit over the head with a champagne bottle.
15	* HighHeelHurt: Near the end of the episode, Don has prepared a surprise dinner date for Jamie on the roof of a high-rise, but he makes her climb up all the way instead of taking the elevator. Part way up, she pulls off her high-heeled shoes and carries them the rest of the way.
16	-->'''Jamie''': These heels are too sexy for a stinky stairwell.
17	* InterruptedIntimacy: After they both finally get home from work, Danny and Lindsay get interrupted by their crying daughter while they're snuggling on the couch getting ready to be intimate.
18	* LoveMakesYouCrazy: One guy's wife is so insanely jealous that she imagines other women lusting after her overweight husband, then kills him because she thinks he's cheating on her because he put a password on his phone and starts leaving the room to take calls. Suspicious, yes, but murdering the guy over it?!
19	* MedicationTampering: A diabetic victim's insulin is swapped out for sugar water.
20	* MistakenForCheating: The husband suspected of cheating is actually trying to secretly plan a dream vacation to surprise his wife on their fifth wedding anniversary.
21	* OnscreenChapterTitles: In the only instance in the entire series, each case is given a title separate from the episode itself. They are shown onscreen as each begins: "Love for Sale," "Love Is Blind," and "In the Name of Love."
22	* RelationshipLabelingProblems: Detectives Flack and Lovato have been flirting with each other almost all season. He pretends to have forgotten about Valentine's Day, but invites her up to a high-rise rooftop to surprise her with a fancy dinner for two.
23	-->'''Jamie:''' What are we doing, Flack?
24	-->'''Don:''' What do you mean? What does it matter what we call it?
25	* ShoutOut: The format is a set of three short stories, shouting out ''Film/LoveActually'' and ''Film/ValentinesDay.''
26	* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: The diabetic receives a box labeled sugar-free candy which had been swapped out for the regular kind. He eats the whole box.
27	* ThreeShorts: The stories of the three victims are told in sequence, complete with title cards (although the team's personal situations are interspersed throughout).
28	* UglyGuyHotWife: The couple in one of the cases is a balding, overweight guy and his pretty, petite wife.
29	* ValentinesDayEpisode: Obviously, it even aired the day after the actual holiday. The three canon couples all have romantic moments. Adam also leaves for a date with Michelle, and Ellie breaks her date to spend the evening with Jo.
30	* ValentinesDayViolence: The episode shows the team splitting up in three to solve three cases on Valentine's Day. All have a degree of ironic love themes ultimately culminating in violence, best illustrated by "In the Name of Love." An apparent Ugly Guy / Hot Wife combination turns out to have been a murder by the wife, who became obsessed with the thought that her husband was cheating on her -- because he put a passcode on his phone. He had actually been planning for a trip for them to take together.

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