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Fallen Idols

Episode Number: 158    Season Num: 7    First Aired: Thursday February 22, 2007    Prod Code: 717
Grissom and his team are discouraged when they find a pool of blood as they begin investigating the disappearance of a high school basketball star and his cheerleader girlfriend.Grissom's quip that the young lovers may have run off to Mexico is soon quashed by the discovery of drops of blood by Ryan's vacant parking spot at the school. After finding a letterman jacket and cheerleading sweater in the field house and a pool of Ryan's blood nearby, the team tries to determine what went awry.

Cast and Crew

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Writer: Marlane Gomard Meyer
Director: Chris Leitch
Star: William Petersen (Gil Grissom),  Robert David Hall (Dr. Al Robbins (episode 47+, recurring previously)),  Paul Guilfoyle (Captain Jim Brass),  George Eads (Nick Stokes),  Jorja Fox (Sara Sidle (episode 2+)),  Louise Lombard (Sofia Curtis (episode 142+, recurring previously)),  Marg Helgenberger (Catherine Willows),  Eric Szmanda (Greg Sanders (episode 47+, recurring previously)),  Gary Dourdan (Warrick Brown)
Recurring Role: Liz Vassey (Wendy Simms),  Larry Mitchell (Officer Mitchell),  Wallace Langham (David Hodges),  Archie Kao (Archie Johnson)
Guest Star: Bridget Ann White (Brenda Cooper),  Laura Harris (Diane Kentner),  Yaani King (Sheila Latham),  Matt Lanter (Ryan Lansco),  Lyndsy Fonseca (Megan Cooper),  Reiley McClendon (Charlie Kellerman),  Valarie Pettiford (Susan "Sue" Latham),  Timi Prulhiere (Linda Lansco),  Todd Allen (Eddie Lansco),  Matt Roth (Sam Cooper)

Notes

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International Airdates:
Denmark: March 9, 2007 on Kanal 5 (edit)
In reality, Nick wouldn't have touched the injured girl, as moving her head might have damaged her spine and probably killed her. (edit)
Music:
Good Enough by Evanescence
If That's Your Boyfriend He Wasn't Last Night by Me'Shell NdegéOcello
Lithium by Nirvana
The Best Deceptions by Dashboard Confessionals
The View-Dryburugh Style by The View
Word Up by Willis (edit)

Quotes

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Sam Cooper: Captain, please. Find my daughter before she does something stupid.
Linda Lansco: Stupid I can live with. I need to know they're okay. (edit)
Brass: I mean, I don't want to make this about me, but I need to know my office is not responsible.
Doc Robbins: Did you hit her over the head? (edit)
Warrick: What is this Grissom? Romeo and Juliet.
Grissom: Post-Mortem photography. Memento Mori. In the nineteenth century the photo of the dead loved one was a popular keepsake. Death remembered. One last look. (edit)
Grissom: Men are never as mysterious as women wish they were. (edit)
Sara: You rang?
Archie: Yes, found the owner of that cell phone.
Sara: Megan.
Archie: Nope. Sheila Latham.
Sara: What is Megan's best friend's cell phone doing in the front seat of her boyfriend's van?
Archie (singing): If that's your boyfriend, if that's your boyfriend...
Sara and Archie: He wasn't last night. (edit)

Trivia

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When Warrick takes the pill case from the hand of the professor of photography (dead) you can clearly see her thumb move. (edit)
The Bears, the home team in the basketball game, was wearing gold, and the visiting team was wearing white. This is a violation of basketball rules, since the home team is supposed to wear light colored uniforms, and the visitors are to wear dark ones. (edit)
The Friend Agenda Website that Warrick and Grissom log onto hosting Ryan Lansco's Profile is most likely a fictional version of Myspace. (edit)
Grissom imediately identifies the memory card recovered during the autopsy as being "from a camera". However, what they had was a general purpose memory card, which, in addition to cameras, can be used in phones, handhelds, computers and other electronic devices. There was no way to tell whether it was from a camera without reading its contents. Grissom usually doesn't make assumptions like that. (edit)

Allusions

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Nick: So what's with the ropes, Casanova?

Born in 1725, Giacomo Girolamo Casanova failed an attempt at life in the church, and went on to become a world famous lover. He died in 1798 of a urinary tract infection. (edit)
Nick: I wish I had selective amnesia. There's a lot in my past I'd like to forget.

This could be a reference to episode 2.03 Overload, when Nick admits to being abused by a last minute babysitter.

It could also be a reference to Grave Danger, in which he was buried alive.

It may also reference the episode Stalker, where he came face-to-face with a man who invaded his attic, monitored his every move, and even committed murder in order to "become" more like Nick. (edit)
Memento Mori: Grissom quotes this Latin phrase, citing the practice of photographing the dead as they are laid out as a memorial. However, he mistranslates it as meaning remember the dead. A more accurate translation is remember you are mortal.

The customs surrounding memento mori have varied over the years, being expressed in art, music, literature, and, more recently, photography and other contemporary art forms. The interpretation has also varied from celebrating life by living for the moment to living in perpetual fear of death.

Both Stargate SG-1 and X-Files have featured episodes titled Memento Mori. (edit)
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Hmmm, not quite sure about this one.
Continue » Posted Sep 9, 2007 2:39 pm PST
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"Fine example"
High school dramas with the basketball star and cheerleaders..
Continue » Posted Jul 13, 2007 8:29 pm PST
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A one of the those everyday, reality episodes.
Continue » Posted Mar 24, 2007 1:32 pm PST

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yay CSI rocks! this is exactly why I love it!
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"Out of character"
Two teenagers are missing. When the CSI team are called in blood evidence soon suggests that the situation is more serious than simply runaway children.
Continue » Posted Mar 3, 2007 10:03 am PST
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