>Sorry all if stream of conciounes commentary is passe...

Actually, I rather miss it. We used to get a lot more of that kind of thing than we do now.

>Just how DOES Gil do that???

Here's the thing Greg never seems to bear in mind at times like this: The lab is full of windows. All the walls are transpex. Grissom can see him at almost all times. :)

>> "Two, three months, that's all I need," Gryphon assured him.
>> "I've already got a candidate in mind, I just have to figure out how
>> to pry him out of the cushy job he already has."
>
>Argh! More suspense...

Well, not really. I mean, we've seen the crime lab day shift supervisor in a story set a couple of months after this one (The Curse of the Big Train).

>If neccecary, he could have been sleeping and still
>switched back into full awake that fast.

Hell, he probably was asleep. First rule, after all: sleep when you can, because you can never be sure when your next opportunity will be. :)

>> Cameron smiled. "With no recommendation at all," she replied.
>> "With luck, I was here before they realized I'd left."
>
>Which, in its own way is actually a higher recommendation... that the
>EA wouldnt willingly let her go. It also says some bad things about
>the level of totalitarianism the EA has reached at this point, which
>is still prior to Infamy if I'm recalling dates correctly.

The Alliance started cracking down internally well before then (cf. Valiant Rose). After the abolishment of internal sub-states, one of the natural next orders of business would've been to start restricting the movements of essential personnel. Dr. Cameron herself wasn't really considered that essential, but she worked very closely for several years with someone who was, so that whole department was on the no-fly list.

>> "What do you, have her on a Miraculon drip?"
>> Cameron shook her head. "We thought about it, but about 10
>> percent of the Cheltari Salusian population has a severe allergy."
>
>Now hooooold on a second... Thinking back to the opening scene,
>Miraculon is depressingly toxic in high dosages. about a one in three
>at 5 times the dosage of a trauma patch, they said. Seems to me like
>a drip like that would be contra indicated unless you've got something
>like Geoff's Daodan to use it to power some directed healing.

It's all about the concentration. The point of intravenous Miraculon treatment isn't to deliver a higher concentration than the patches; it's to deliver a consistent flow over time, rather than the single spike a slap patch or rescue injector gives.

>And this brings up
>the question of if G knows the secret identities of the Titans.

With the exception of Robin, whose cover at this point wouldn't really be that hard to penetrate, the Titans don't have secret identities. Sure, Wally wears a mask as Flash, but only because it's a traditional part of the costume he inherited from Barry.

>Its not just a calibrated watch, its an I(PO)-Phone!
>but... does it play music?

Probably. Those things do everything.

>NA itself is just about
>in the center of the psudocontinent, not at the eastern edge

Nope, it's on the east coast.

>Now, are we talking early almost socially inept Gil, or the later,
>more mature Gil?

Even the latter version is not really equipped to handle questions like "So I've been toying with the idea of jumping the Chief. Good idea, bad idea?" Not that she phrased it that way, but. :)

>Maybe he's worried she'll get pulled from the lab and assigned to SA 7?

The Special Assignments are, for the most part, voluntary duties, so it's not so much a question of her getting "pulled" as deciding to make the jump herself. Not a decision she's gotten around to making as of the end of this episode, but the possibility is out there, and it's one of the things on Grissom's mind. See, IPO regulations are pretty specific about this kind of thing. You can't be an SA-rated agent and still work a job like the crime lab - there's too good a chance that you'll be involved in an SA incident and then end up working your own fight scene.

>> "Mmmm," Brass grunted. "Why do you guys never turn on the
>> lights? I mean, I know having a flashlight fetish is a prerequisite for
>> the job and all..."
>
>I've always wondered that too Jim.

Simple: Unless the lights are already on when the CSIs arrive, they have to stay off, at least for the initial survey. Turning them on would constitute an alteration to the crime scene.

>However, blaster type
>weapons should be common enough that any body armor issued to law
>enforcement really should incorporate some protection from them....

The light armor issued to personnel not expected to spend much time under fire (like the CSI field people) is rated for both ballistic and energy protection, but in any light armor, the ballistic side is always more effective. Hell, a White Legion stormtrooper's armor would probably not have stopped a point-blank blaster shot like that one, never mind the light conformal vests CSIs have access to.

It's also worth pointing out that, under the standard operating protocols, IPO criminalists are not expected to get shot at, and are not, in fact, required to wear armor. Nick does anyway because he's a boy scout. Nobody else on Grissom's shift even bothers with it most of the time.

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