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On the day Grissom has to evaluate his team, a head is found in the trunk of a car. While Gil and Catherine work on the head, Sara and Nick investigate a body in the desert that's missing it's head. Warrick looks into a murder in juvenile detention in which his young friend James is the only witness. Add a recap »

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Writers:: Anthony E. Zuiker

Director:: Kenneth Fink

Stars:: Jorja Fox (Sara Sidle (episode 2+)); Paul Guilfoyle (Captain Jim Brass); George Eads (Nick Stokes); Gary Dourdan (Warrick Brown); Marg Helgenberger (Catherine Willows); William Petersen (Gil Grissom)

Recurring Role:: Robert David Hall (Dr. Al Robbins); Pamela Gidley (Teri Miller); Eric Szmanda (Greg Sanders); Skip O'Brien (Sgt. Ray O'Riley); Joseph Patrick Kelly (Officer Metcalf)

Guest Star:: Ingo Neuhaus (Trent Calloway); John Beasley (Charles Moore); Robb Derringer (Victor's Partner); Keri Lynn Pratt (Anna Leah); Laura Zoe Quist (Rookie); DeJuan Guy (Black Detainee); Kareen Grimes (Ronnie Connors); Shirley Jordan (Deputy); Fred E. Ellis (Maintenence Engineer); Shonda Farr (Lori); Sam Jones III (James Moore); Chet Grissom (Restaurant Manager); Lee Cherry (Stranger); Darren Kennedy (Victor DeSilva)

Plot hole: A head without a body is found early in the show. Then, a body that has been decapitated, skinned, and severed of hands and feet is found. The CSI team assume the two are related until the coroner states that the body isn't even human. He also mentions that he has no idea what kind of animal it is and they'll need to consult an anthropologist. Everyone is shocked to learn the body is that of a gorilla. The body is humanoid (2 arms, 2 legs). It is larger than human size. The only thing it can possibly be is a gorilla. It must be a primate for having a humanoid shape and must be a gorilla because that is the only primate larger than man. There was no need to bring in an anthropologist (which should have been a zoologist if they truly had NO idea what kind of animal it was). It should have been painfully obvious to the CSI team, who are experts in all fields, that the body was a gorilla. edit »
Grissom (to Nick): Repeat after me. Silk, silk, silk.
Nick: Silk, silk, silk.
Grissom: What do cows drink?

Nick responds "Milk", which Grissom points out is incorrect, that cows drink water. It could have been incorrect for another reason, however. The correct answer might have been, "What do cows drink", since Grissom asked Nick to repeat after him. edit »
Goof: In the scene where Warrick pulls the piece of cloth from the toilet bowl, the amount of water and dirt changes between shots. edit »
Goof: The volume of ashes Sara puts in the ground might be enough for an adult human (though it does not appear so), but certainly not a gorilla. edit »
Goof: When Grissom, Nick, and Brass are in Spur's Corral, Grissom looks at the sombrero and asks Brass if he still has the picture he got from DeSilva's house and Brass pulls it out of his coat pocket and hands it to Grissom. Here's the thing. Wouldn't that picture have been filed as evidence since it was collected from DeSilva's house? Why does Brass still have it? Why isn't it even in a bag of some sort? edit »

German episode title: "Kopflos", meaning "Headless". edit »
Music
Speak for You - SkinnerRat. edit »
Keri Lynn Pratt and Shonda Farr reprise their roles in the season six episode "Spellbound". edit »
The murder witness, James, originally was introduced in the episode "Crate 'n Burial" where he accidently hit a little girl and made friends with Warrick. edit »
Originally titled "Sleepy Hollow." edit »

Nick: If I'm not ready, be a man -- tell me I'm not ready.
Grissom: You're not ready.
Nick: You know why I took this job? Honestly? I wanted to pack heat, walk under the yellow tape, be the man ... but mostly, because I want you to think I'm a good CSI.
Grissom: And that's the reason I have to hold you back. Anybody who's great at anything, Nick, does it for their own approval not someone else's. edit »
Catherine: Well, well, what a switch. You actually beat us here.
Grissom: It's evaluation day. Where's Warrick?
Catherine: He's working spillover -- personal thing -- kid he knows who's in
trouble.
Grissom: Oh, that's right. He told me. I forgot.
Catherine: Well, maybe we should be evaluating you. edit »
(Grissom talking to Brass about torn photo)
Grissom: So bizarre human behavior, what you can't cut out of your mind, you can always cut out of your photo album. edit »
Nick: Peanuts? On the gas pedal?
Sara: It's one of those funny clues. Could mean nothing, could mean everything. edit »
(Grissom and Catherine are examining a head)
Catherine: Definitely a crime of passion.
Grissom: Do you think a woman could've done this?
Catherine: I could have. (Grissom glances at her, then back to the head)
Grissom: Scared of you... edit »

Nick (finding a hammer): Bob Vila.
Catherine (finding an axe): Paul Bunyan.

Two references to famous toolmen: Bob Vila is a famous TV handyman who sells a range of tools under his own brand. Paul Bunyan is a legendary, mythical lumberjack, supposedly such a giant that it took seventeen storks to carry him at birth. Legend also has it that he and his immense blue ox, Babe, created the Grand Canyon by dragging his axe behind them. edit »
(to Catherine and Brass in the interrogation room)
Anna: This guy was weird, like way weird. I was thinking he was going to pull a Silence of the Lambs on me and tell me to (makes face) put the lotion in the basket.

Silence of the Lambs, a movie from 1991 starring Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling, a young FBI agent is assigned to help find a missing woman and save her from a psychopathic killer with the help of another killer Dr. Hannibal Lector portrayed by Anthony Hopkins. edit »
Grissom: You're a riot, Alice.

Responding to a cutting joke from Catherine, Grissom quotes Ralph Kramden from "The Honeymooners". edit »
Bushmeat dot org

While Sara is researching the reasons that the gorilla they found may have been killed she mentions going to this website. This is a real website that addresses a real problem. edit »
Grissom: Ichabod was horror struck on perceiving that he was headless.

Grissom is alluding to Ichabod Crane from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irvin. This legend was most recently repopularized by the Johnny Depp movie Sleepy Hollow (1999). edit »

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God0sgirl
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Evaluation Day
The Bottom Line: "Average"
Evaluations are due. A gorilla corpse is found, prompting Sara to her own personal investigation. And a friend of Warrick is in trouble again. ...Continue »
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Evaluation Day
The Bottom Line: "Exactly why I watch this series"
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Evaluation Day
The Bottom Line: "Well written"
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