4x14 Playing With Matches - CSI: New York Episode Guide

CSI: New York

- Episode 04x14

Episode: 04x14
Title: Playing With Matches
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 414
First Aired: Feb. 06, 2008

Summary: What seems to be like a freak accident involving a drowning victim in a self-cleaning restroom turns into foul play.

Dr. Sid Hammerback	played by Robert Joy
Detective Jessica Angell	played by Emmanuelle Vaugier
Kendall Novack	played by Bess Wohl
Vinnie Parson	played by Aaron Behr
John Szabo	played by Christopher Bello
Mercury	played by Jason Chambers (II)
Concrete Cowgirl	played by Nicole Marie Lenz
Sandra Polk	played by Nicole Marie Lenz
Seth Riggin	played by Reid Scott

	Season 4 / Episode 14: - Playing With Matches Detective Don Flack: [Referring to the public toilet a woman drowned in] [to Mac] Put it this way: If a dishwasher and a Port-a-Potti were to ever mix it up, this thing would be their offspring.
	Season 4 / Episode 14: - Playing With Matches Detective Danny Messer: [about the murder weapon] Meat thermometer? Who stabs somebody with a meat thermometer? Dr. Sid Hammerback: Cannibal?

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In the teaser, a man dressed as an astronaut is found dead. Before the cut to the opening music, Mac Taylor ('Gary Sinese') 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 (I)) and mission commander Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks) in Ron Howard's Apollo 13 (1995). Sinese played grounded CSM pilot Ken Mattingly in that film.