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Score: 9.2 Superb 323 votes

Ending Happy

Episode Number: 162    Season Num: 7    First Aired: Thursday April 26, 2007    Prod Code: 721
When a has-been boxer is killed, the CSIs must establish which of several life-threatening acts actually killed him.

Cast and Crew

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Writer: Evan Dunsky
Director: Kenneth Fink
Star: Jorja Fox (Sara Sidle (episode 2+)),  Marg Helgenberger (Catherine Willows),  Paul Guilfoyle (Captain Jim Brass),  Robert David Hall (Dr. Al Robbins (episode 47+, recurring previously)),  William Petersen (Gil Grissom),  George Eads (Nick Stokes),  Gary Dourdan (Warrick Brown),  Eric Szmanda (Greg Sanders (episode 47+, recurring previously))
Recurring Role: David Berman (David Phillips),  Wallace Langham (David Hodges)
Guest Star: Peter Stormare (George Babinkian),  Kurt Fuller (Sheriff Ned Bastille),  Marnette Patterson (Aimee),  Vince Vieluf (Connor Foster),  Wendy Makkena (Doris Babinkian),  Luis Antonio Ramos (Happy),  Terry T. Bookhart (Lulu),  James Whitmore (Milton),  Ashley Johnson (Dreama Little),  Audrey Siegel (Tiff)

Notes

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International Airdates:
Denmark: May 25, 2007 on Kanal 5
Finland: June 18, 2008 on MTV3 (edit)
Featured Music:
Dead Funny by Archie Bronson Outfit
In Two, The Weakly by Yppah
New Song by The Who
(edit)
Although credited, Louise Lombard does not appear in this episode. (edit)

Quotes

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Catherine: Smashed with a crowbar, shot by a crossbow, poisoned by shrimp, and now bitten by a snake. (edit)
Brass (about a suspect singing in interrigation): Do I look like Paula Abdul to you? (edit)
Nick: Hey, Catherine called and said that we might not be lookin' for a bullet no more.
Sara: Did she happen to say what we are looking for?
Nick: Not a bullet. (edit)
Sara (looking in the pool's filter): Beer caps, candy wrappers, cigarette butts, used condoms. This is one pool that I'm not feeling a pressing need to take a dip in.
Nick: Me netiher. (edit)
Greg: You know, I kind of feel bad for these girls.
Hodges: Don't feel too bad. They have health benefits, good pay. The women get regular check-ups. The industry is well-regulated. As opposed to picking a hooker up off the street. Does she have a disease? Multiple diseases? Is she crazy? Is she gonna roll you? Where do you go? Do you do it in your car, behind a building, down a dark alley? So you drive around, scared out of your mind, finally get the nerve up, pick one you like, call her over, she gets in. Next thing you know, you're down on the pavement, cuffed, because she's an undercover cop, but luckily you were three months shy of your eighteenth birthday so when you call your mom to come get you, it doesn't go on my permanent record.
Greg (momentarily speechless): ... Okay. (edit)

Trivia

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Luis Antonio Ramos was also in Season 3, Episode 22 he played Jesus Cardenas. (edit)
Goof: The "arrows" which were shot are clearly arrows. Arrows are shot from bows. The shooter is clearly using a crossbow, however. The similar objects shot by crossbows are bolts, or quarrels, and are shorter and generally much thicker through the shaft, partly to take the extra stress of the force used by a crossbow. They also would not have made a narrow hole through the throat as a result of this. (edit)
The actress in the role of Dreama Little (Ashley Johnson) appeared in "What women want" a movie (2000) starring Mel Gibson, as his adolescent daughter.

And she played Chrissy ,the last daughter in "growing pains" (edit)
The actor who plays the role of George Babinkian (Peter Stormare) is the same who played John Abruzzi on the TV show Prison Break. (edit)

Allusions

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Happy's death has many parallels with that of Rasputin. Happy is shot, hit with a crow bar, suffers an allergic reaction, poisoned then ends up in the swimming pool. Rasputin was poisoned, beaten, shot then thrown in a river. He also had an allergy to sugar, but it isn't known if that contributed to his death.

He also had an enormous sexual appetite, and was rumoured to have a relationship with the wife of the Tsar. Similarities again with Happy's use of the cat house and Binky's wife. (edit)
Ned: Couldn't get him on the horn. Probably out in some barn, up to his elbows in a cow’s vagina.

Sometimes it's necessary to reach in and shift the body of a calf to assist the birthing process. You can picture the rest... (edit)
American Idol:

When the suspect sings a song to Brass, he asks her, "Do I look like Paula Abdul to you?"

This is a reference to "American Idol," a TV show in which three judges, one of which is Paula Abdul, get sung to on a regular basis. (edit)
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Community Reviews (47)

 
10.0
Perfect
Ending Happy
"Cleverly plotted"
The CSI's drive out to a brothel to investigate the death of a former boxer. They learn that basically everyone hated him, and everyone tried to kill him... twice. The investigation gets even more complicated when Doc Robbins can't seem to pinpoint a COD.
Continue » Posted Jun 28, 2008 12:12 pm PST
10.0
Perfect
Ending Happy
"Exactly why I watch this series"
First, Lorenzo "Happy" Morales is injected with snake venom, then he gets anaphylactic shock from shrimp, THEN he gets shot by an arrow, THEN he gets hit on the head with a crowbar, THEN he finally dies when he falls into a swimming pool.
Continue » Posted Mar 3, 2008 7:54 am PST
9.7
Superb
Ending Happy
"Adventurous"
One of the best.
Continue » Posted Feb 9, 2008 2:31 pm PST

melgirl1778
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10.0
Perfect
Ending Happy
"Cleverly plotted"
One of the Best!
Continue » Posted Oct 31, 2007 11:55 am PST

falloffbbq
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10.0
Perfect
Ending Happy
"Silly"
The greatest CSI episode ever!
Continue » Posted Oct 28, 2007 7:58 pm PST
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