So, the episode of CSI:NY that just aired on Five (in the UK, it was on in October in the US) involved a Da Vinci Code-esque clue trail laid with t-shirts by a serial killer. Yeah, about as bizarre as CSI usually is.
But anyway, this t-shirt treasure hunt was linked to a website, kodecon.com, which, geek that I am, I promptly tried to access. Turns out it just shows a preview of next week’s episode. Fair enough. But, in the story, a character was shown complaining that these kodecon t-shirts were blatant copies of his own clothing-based murder mystery, edoclaundry.com.
edoc laundry is a real website, selling real t-shirts, part of a real puzzle game. Awesome. For a (relatively) small and new company like that to get the coverage of a huge TV series like CSI must have been quite something. They also created (and still sell) the kodecon t-shirts featured in the episode. Apparently Anthony Zuicker, the creator of CSI, saw them and thought they were “cool”:
“You show me a shirt that has a secret code in it, and that’s a ‘CSI’ episode made in heaven,” Zuiker said in a phone interview last week. “I thought, well, hey, let me bring in a small company and borrow their intellectual property to make our show cool.”
Meh, shipping to the UK is twice the cost of the t-shirt…
who is the killer ?