CSI: Fight Night

Air Date

Thursday November 14, 2002

Production Code

307

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  9.8 Superb

  The team investigates homosides that take place duroing fight night including a dead boxer, a parking lot shooting and a jewelry hiest. hide show

  This is a perfect example of the genius of the concept of this show. It starts by showing a brutal boxing match that is one of the best I've seen filmed for a fictional program. Not only did it showcase the glitz and glamour of the sport but also the violence and danger behind it. Showing what happens to the face and body when it is excessively battered. The boxer was hit repeatedly until he fell down dead. At the same time a shooting took place and someone robbed a jewelry store. The show usually juggles multiple plot lines and in this edisode the strongest one is the boxing story which exlores and exploits all the aspects that go on in a boxing match from betting, fixing, promoting, and training, to the damage the sport can cause both physically and emotionally. And the depths people go through to win a match. The C.S.I. team has to prove whiether the death was caused by the fight or if it was murder. This episode builds a good case for making the sport illegal. Showing with trade mark illustrations the physical damage that this much infliction can cause. The next subplot was about "The Man" an arrogant clothing designer that used to be affiliated with a gang, and the team trying to prove his involvement with a murder that took place in the parking lot outside of the arena. I thought it was intresting how they showed the hazards of shooting a guns sideways. The only subplot that was disapointing was the jewelry hiest story which started out interesting but ended kind of mediocre. Even the character on the case thought so. But other then that this was one of best episodes of the season.

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  MikeSander Added Aug 17, 2005 All my reviews

• Guest Cast

  • Roma Maffia Adelle Cross
  • Greg Serano Javier Molina
  • Jennifer Aspen Mrs. Ramsey
  • Ron Canada Jerry Barone
  • Khalil Kain The Man
  • Marty Rackham Mack Ramsey
  • Ryan Cutrona Cut Man
  • Ricky Aiello Boxing Referee
  • Charley Rossman Officer Beltran
  • Rick Fitzgerald Randy James
  • Pete Cunningham Steele
  • Dawn Marie Church Jewelry Store Manager
  • Gary Carlos Cervantes Molina's Chief Trainer
  • Richard Biggs The Man's Lawyer

• Recurring Roles

  • Christopher Wiehl Hank
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• This is the first episode where Nick gets to work alone on a case. [edit]
• Goof: A large part of Nick's plotline revolves around the discovery that the couple's stolen ring has a fake diamond switched out for the real one. But the ring was left as collateral for a very expensive necklace for the woman to wear that night. There is no way that a jewelery store would accept a ring for collateral without appraising the ring's/stone's value first. And in that inspection, they would have discovered the switch and not accepted it. [edit]
• Sara's problem area in criminalistics is saliva. [edit]

• Music:
  Subway - Weekend Players
  Mr Tiddles - Sasha
  Basstrap - Overseer [edit]
• This is the first (and possibly only) time thus-far that the pre-title sequence opener was used to mislead the audience. If you listen carefully, the telltale music used to signify the transition between opener and opening sequence begins playing during Grissom's last few bits of dialog in the boxing-ring crime scene, but stops when he gets a page. No doubt that many viewers thought the show was going to start at this point, only to be surprised as the opener continued longer than usual, to show just how busy the team will be in the episode. [edit]
• In 2003, this episode won an Emmy for 'Outstanding Sound Editing for a Series'. [edit]

• Sara: You knew there was no way you could beat Steele in a fair fight.
  Warrick: The best way to punish a guy is to beat him to death in the ring in front of two million people on pay-per-view.
  Molina (smiling): That's boxing.
  Brass: No, that's murder. I'll see you in court. [edit]
• Lawyer: Laroi Steele's death was a tragedy not a murder.
  Brass: It became when your client injected mercury into his gloves.
  Sara: And your hands, Molina, literally, became lethal weapons. [edit]
• Warrick: There was this one case where a boxer put lead shot in his gloves to increase his punching power. And also ancient Greek and Roman pugilists used a glove weighted with metal, called a "cestus."
  Grissom You making a classical reference?
  Warrick: Yeah. I thought you'd like that. [edit]

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