I'm still enjoying this in a way I've never been able to enjoy the CSI shows.

A Torre da Carne -- without babelfishing, that sounds like it means (or, at least, is intended to mean) "A Flood of Meat," which is such an accurate description of a churrascaria that I almost laughed out loud. I went to one for my birthday last year, ate until I could barely move, and still didn't come close to sampling everything they serve. This particular restaurant was very inexpensive as such places go (I paid a total of about $75 for two people, including tax and tip), and the salad bar alone was worth it (two words: veal carpaccio), but as my wife and I don't eat as much as we used to (for various reasons), we don't know if we can ever eat our money's worth again.

If Gryphon and Sara didn't have atypical physiologies, I'd wonder how they would expect to get up to anything physical after that kind of meal.

Also, really really dug the Bentley. Even if I am someday somehow staggeringly wealthy, I doubt I'll ever lay out for one, but I do like the cars.

Also, Catherine Willows as a GL? That's... it's not that it's at all unusual for UF, but it's a mental image my brain refuses to render. I just can't conjure up a satisfying image of Marg Helgenberger with such a look. Suppose I'll have to wait to see the next episode.

And I assume the reference to losing a CSI four years prior is an allusion to a UF version of the events of the original show's first story arc?

At least you came up with a reason for Horatio Caine's glasses thing. The only time I've seen any of him was when my father watched the crossover that started CSI: Miami and bits and pieces of the show when it's been on the TV at the break room at my workplace, and my impression of his entire catalogue of mannerisms is this:

Stand with hands on hips.
Remove one hand from hip to move sunglasses from face to pocket to punctuate a line of dialogue.
Immediately return hand to hip.
Make the only eye contact for the entire conversation, then return to gazing into space or at wall or something.
Remove hand from hip to replace glasses on face.
Immediately return hand to hip.

Anyway, I'll be around to read the third one when it shows up.

- Sean
"All tribal myths are true, for a given value of 'true.'"
-- Terry Pratchett, from _The Last Continent_