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Got Murder?

Episode Number: 58    Season Num: 3    First Aired: Thursday January 16, 2003    Prod Code: 312
Some bird watchers find a raven with a human eyeball in its mouth. This eventually leads our CSIs to a divorced man and his 2 children but not much else. Warrick and Grissom look into the circumstances of David's unusual and first autopsy. This takes them to a car dealership where the man worked.

Cast and Crew

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Writer: Sarah Goldfinger
Director: Kenneth Fink
Star: William Petersen (Gil Grissom),  Marg Helgenberger (Catherine Willows),  Gary Dourdan (Warrick Brown),  George Eads (Nick Stokes),  Paul Guilfoyle (Captain Jim Brass),  Jorja Fox (Sara Sidle (episode 2+)),  Eric Szmanda (Greg Sanders (episode 47+, recurring previously)),  Robert David Hall (Dr. Al Robbins (episode 47+, recurring previously))
Recurring Role: David Berman (David Phillips),  Terry Bozeman (Mr. Lewis)
Guest Star: Rebecca Boyd (Kelly Easton),  Candace Edwards (Medical Examiner),  Marc Lynn (Clyde Hinton),  David Starzyk (Fred Stearns),  Jules Sylvester (Jake),  Joel McKinnon Miller (Ornithologist #1),  Colton James (Chalie Easton),  Doan Ly (Jessie),  Evan Rachel Wood (Nora Easton),  Joe Ochman (Ornithologist #2),  Allison Smith (Nancy Linden),  Joey Slotnick (Marty Gibson),  Michael O'Keefe (Mr. Easton)

Notes

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Music:
Papa Loves Mambo - Perry Como
Half Life - Sneaker Pimps (edit)
Sarah Goldfinger, the writer of this episode, got the story from her experience purchasing a car at the time. She noted in an interview that the car salesmen were "ruthless and brutal." (edit)

Quotes

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Sara: Cans are on private property, it's not trash day, how did you get consent?
Catherine: I talked to the president of the owner's association.
Nick: What'd you threaten her with?
Catherine: A return visit. (edit)
Catherine: Heard you got to be superhero today.
Doc Robbins: I consider myself a superhero every day. (edit)
Sara (at a garbage dump): You know the average Nevadan generates more waste more than three times waste than the average American?
Nick: Yeah, well that's tourist trash.
Sara: Thirteen million pounds per day. I went to the recycling forum in march.
Catherine: The landfill manager says this is the active cell. Spotter says cell lift moves forward 20 feet a day. That puts the active cell right ...
pretty much in front of us.
Nick: Man! You find the best evidence in the nastiest places.
Catherine: You are what you throw away.
Sara: It's like peeling an onion into peoples' lives.
Catherine: Well, this onion is our time line so peel back accordingly. (edit)
(About Marty, the car dealer)
Warrick: He's a charmer...
Grissom (laughs): Yeah, a regular Ricky Roma. (edit)
Clyde: Look, everyone tries to get an edge in this business. I use jokes.
Warrick (hangs up the phone): Fred Sterns just passed away. Again.
Grissom: Dead guy. Not funny. (edit)

Trivia

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Even though the birders say that the bird is a Raven. The sound people used a mix of Raven and Crow calls. I think they used more of a crow sound. The bird call sounded a bit too high and a bit too harsh to be that of a Raven. Raven's make a deep, croaky 'rrronk' sound and none of their other calls match what the bird is making in the intro. It's closer to a Crow call. (edit)
Nora's false pregnancy condition is an actual condition called psychocyeis. As Catherine described, it causes pregnancy symptoms to occur without conception. For more information, visit here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_pregnancy (edit)
Catherine takes apart a raven's nest, she takes out a baby toy and puts it aside, she then shows the nest to Grissom, and the toy is back in the nest. (edit)

Allusions

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Sara: Norah's in love with her father in an Elektra kind of way.

There is no "kind of." The Elektra complex is the female equivilent of the Odeipus complex, both named by Freud. Girls with the Elektra complex want to murder their mother and marry their father. (edit)
Grissom: Once upon a midnight dreary...

Grissom recites lines from Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven." (edit)
Grissom: He's a regular Ricky Roma...

Grissom is referring to the fast-talking realtor Ricky Roma, from the David Mamet play "Glengarry Glen Ross". (edit)
Title: Got Murder?

The title is from the widely known "Got Milk?" commercials. (edit)
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