Monday, September 13, 2010
Played by CSI Head Researcher David Berman, David first appears as a well-qualified but junior coroner, assisting with Dr. Al Robbins' work in the morgue. He slips easily into idol-worship, seeking to please his boss and the CSI team, especially supervisor Gil Grissom. Despite this, he is as handy with a comeback as any of his colleagues, and even stands his ground with lab manager Conrad Ecklie when pushed too far.
David is apparently a practicing Jew, based upon his comments that "Every Phillips boy gets a lifetime subscription to "Hux" (a fictional mens' magazine) for his Bar Mitzvah". His father is a colonel at Nellis Air Force Base.
In the early seasons, David is treated as something of a mascot by the CSI team. CSI Sara Sidle gently turns down his clumsy attempt at flirting, but gives him a "C for cute". Whether or not he takes her advice to toughen up, he comes to enjoy the appreciation and respect of his colleagues over the years. His immediate boss, Al Robbins, clearly treats him as more of an equal as the years go by. Nick dubs him "SuperDave", or just "Super" after Davis saves the life of a still-living autopsy subject, while Grissom refers to him as "our excellent assistant coroner and baseball trivia expert."
While seemingly inured to the grotesqueries of death, David is a strongly emotional person, occasionally commenting on the sadness of a crime. He is often seen treating the subjects on his table with tenderness beyond mere respect, especially the young. He is deeply devoted to his colleagues both as workmates and as friends he enjoys helping. He literally tears up at Grissom's farewell: "There's bugs every where, David. ... I will miss you, though."
David engagement and marriage provide for a running gag over the seasons. We never meet David's partner, but he speaks of her with open adoration. From his first retort to Nick's teasing him to get a girlfriend, ("Actually, I'm engaged...?"), his relationship seems to progress quickly and happily. Although his future parents-in-law are less than taken with his career, he describes his girlfriend as someone he can talk to about his work: "She loves this stuff. Why do you think I'm marrying her?". The CSI's seem to realize that their young David is growing up, and their behaviour towards him changes. Catherine and Sara take time to ask him about his wedding plans, and Al occasionally dispenses advice from one married man to another.
Later seasons show David as a happily married man, still nerdy, but without the glasses and extra cuddle factor about the waist, confident in his job - and occasionally slipping out hints about just how happily married he is.
Warrick Brown was a CSI Level 3 in the Las Vegas Police Department Crime Lab. Born in Las Vegas, he was raised by his grandmother, whom he credits with keeping him grounded during his turbulent adolescence. He is a complex character, with idealism and compassion, humble despite his strong intellect and investigative talents, but with personal demons that threaten to wreck his life and damage the reputation of his team.Warrick has an addiction to gambling. Before, and while, working for the LVPD, he ran book for various high-level worthies in Las Vegas. He is a card-counter: a poker-player with the ability to memorize long series' of plays in order to mentally calculate his odds of winning. Like all counters, he keeps this skill a secret. Card-counters, once found out, are generally banned from poker tables.
In addition to the financial and psychological problems gambling causes him, Warrick also runs afoul of the law on several occasions. In the series' first episode, he places a bet for a judge, and loses a large sum of money. In order to make up the debt, he leaves rookie CSI Holly Gribbs alone at a scene while he places another bet. Holly is killed; Warrick is brought under investigation, and the judge claims that he will "own" Warrick for a long time.
Warrick is mentored and sometimes covered for by his direct supervisor, Gil Grissom. Grissom considers Warrick, an highly talented CSI, to be his natural successor, and seems to consider Warrick's problems to be resolvable. He guides Warrick through various legal and political mazes to help clear his name and keep his career on track, in a pattern that repeats several times over the years.
Warrick shares a gentle but unresolved flirtatious relationship with his co-worker, CSI Catherine Willows. Although their chemistry is obvious, Warrick eventually marries his recent girlfriend Tina, seeking stability in his life. Their marriage lasts only two years, and the final season shows the old sparks coming to life between Warrick and Catherine.
During the final stressful months of Warrick's marriage, he becomes dependent on prescription medications - sleeping pills as well as stimulants. His behaviour becomes even more erratic, and after he misses a call-out and becomes personally involved with an investigation of a crime-boss, his friend and fellow CSI Nick Stokes confronts him on his dependency. Warrick appears to listen, but later goes on a drinking spree with devastating consequences.
His long-running and increasingly dangerous investigation of Gedda, a Godfather-type kingpin of the old order, gives Warrick a renewed focus, but ultimately proves fatal. It is revealed in later episodes that Warrick has a son, Eli, and was in the process of trying to get custody of his child when he was accused of murdering Gedda. In a Psych evaluation DVD from Child Services, Warrick refers to Gil as a father figure.
The CSI team, including visiting Sara Sidle, hundreds of uniformed officers, his ex-wife Tina and son Eli all attended Warrick's funeral at First Baptist Church, where Grissom gave his eulogy.
- Shock Waves - Season Premiere - September 23rd, 2010
- Pool Shark - September 30, 2010
- Blood Moon - October 7, 2010
- Sqweegel - October 14, 2010
- House of Hoarders - October 21, 2010
- Cold Blooded - October 28, 2010
- Bump and Grind - November 4th, 2010
- Fracked - November 11th, 2010
- Wild Life - November 18th, 2010
- 418/427 - December 9th, 2010
- Man Up - January 6th, 2011
- A kiss before frying - January 20th, 2011
- The Two Mrs Grissoms - February 3rd, 2011
- All that Cremains - February 10, 2011
- Targets of Obesession - February 17, 2011
- Turn On, Tune In, Drop Dead - February 24, 2011
- The List - March 03, 2011
- Hitting for the Cycle - March 31, 2011
- Unleased - April 07, 2011
- Father of the Bride - April 28, 2011
- Cello and Goodbye - May 5th, 2011
- In a Dark, Dark House - May 12th, 2011
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