CSI: NY » Season 4 » Playing with Matches (Episode)

format_quote Detective Danny Messer: (about the murder weapon) Meat thermometer? Who stabs somebody with a meat thermometer?
Dr. Sid Hammerback: Cannibal?

format_quote Detective Danny Messer: Why'd you run when I badged you?
Mercury: (as if it's obvious) Street racing is illegal.
(Danny laughs)
Detective Jessica Angell: Thanks for the tip. Turn around.

format_quote Detective Don Flack: (Referring to the public toilet a woman drowned in) Put it this way: If a dishwasher and a Port-a-Potti were to ever mix it up, this thing would be their offspring.

stars  Aaron Behr, who plays Vinnie Parson, also appears in the CSI: Miami episode Wolfe in Sheep's Clothing. Christopher Bello, who plays John Szabo, also appears in the CSI: Miami episode Caged.

stars  When Danny and Det. Angell ask the luge racer Mercury why he ran when they presented their badges, his answer was that street racing is illegal. Emmanuelle Vaugier, who played Det. Angell, also starred in the street racing video game Need for Speed: Carbon (2006).

stars  In the teaser, a man dressed as an astronaut is found dead. Before the cut to the title sequence, Mac Taylor (Gary Sinise) intones, "Houston, we have a problem." This is the famous misquote ("Houston, we've had a problem") spoken by CSM pilot Jack Swigert (Kevin Bacon) and mission commander Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks) in Ron Howard's Apollo 13 (1995). Sinise played grounded CSM pilot Ken Mattingly in that film.