Has anybody noticed CBS's penchant last week for referring to Alfred Hitchock's Psycho film?
On Wednesday night's Criminal Minds, that was the whole plot twist of the episode. Robert Knepper is kidnaping, mutilating, and murdering girls to try and recaptured the beauty of his mother, faded film star May, played by Sally Kirkland. There is a lot of give-and-take dialogue between Knepper's character, named "Rhett," and May.
When the police show up, Rhett and May surrender to the FBI and squad cars outside. The sequence is shot from many alternating points-of-view. One of these POVs is Rhett and May descending the front steps of their brownstone, like Gloria Swanson ready for her close-up.
It's only in one of these POVs that we get the clue that Mummy is -- er, a mummy. Yep, May has been a silent partner all along while Rhett committed the murders.
Shrieking violins, anyone?
Now, on Friday, November 12, we saw a CSI:New York epsiode called "Scared Stiff." A death in Central Park leads the investigators on a merrie chase which leads them to a closed-down funeral parlor. As they wander through the basement where the processing rooms are, Detective Don Flack (Eddie Cahill) makes a comment like, "If we find a little-old-lady body in a black dress in a rocking chair, it's every man for himself."
Do you suppose this is a simple coincidence? If, on Sunday night's CSI:Miami, Horatio visits "Norman's Baits Shop," it's every man for himself!
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