Writer:	Naren Shankar, Sarah Goldfinger
Director:	Kenneth Fink
Star:	William Petersen (Gil Grissom),  Robert David Hall (Dr. Al Robbins (episode 47+, recurring previously)),  Paul Guilfoyle (Captain Jim Brass),  Marg Helgenberger (Catherine Willows),  Louise Lombard (Sofia Curtis (episode 142+, recurring previously)),  Jorja Fox (Sara Sidle (episode 2+)),  George Eads (Nick Stokes),  Gary Dourdan (Warrick Brown),  Eric Szmanda (Greg Sanders (episode 47+, recurring previously))
Recurring Role:	Liz Vassey (Wendy Simms),  David Berman (David Phillips),  Victoria Prescott (Judy Tremont),  Archie Kao (Archie Johnson),  Wallace Langham (David Hodges)
Guest Star:	Dayton Callie (Ernie Edward Dell),  Gina Hecht (Donna Wetzel),  Tessa Germaine (Little Girl),  Dustin Cyril Robles (World Send Guy),  Sean Bridgers (Art Schuster),  Tahmus Rounds (Manager),  Jessica Collins (II) (Natalie),  Brendan Fletcher (Lionel Dell),  Jay Johnson (Christopher Davis),  Meagen Fay (Rochelle Dorley),  Morgan Lily (Chloe)

International Air Dates:
Denmark: June 8, 2007 on Kanal 5
Australia: November 25, 2007 on Network 9
Saudi Arabia: January 19, 2008 on ShowSeries
Italy: May 28, 2008 on Italia 1 (edit) Jorja Fox (Sara) only appears in the first half of this episode. (edit) This episode marks the first time in the series a two part episode ends a season with the first episode. (edit) Featured Music:
I've Got A Pain In My Sawdust by Henry Edward Warner & Herman Avery Wade
Survivalism by Nine Inch Nails
Your Heart is an Empty Room by Death Cab for Cutie
Unbound by Robbie Robertson
This Womens Work by Kate Bush
Sweet Jane by Cowboy Junkies
Rise by Will Dailey
Million Faces by Brian Leisure
Metamorphosis Two (Glass) by Aleck Karis
Man on the Moon by R.E.M.
Mad World by Michael Andrews and Gary Jules
Let's Make Love by Faith Hill and Tim McGraw
Amelia by Carlos Ponce
Abandon Opening Titles by Clint Mansell
9 Crimes by Damien Rice (edit) The episode ends with "To Be Continued..." (edit)

(Greg, Nick, Warrick and Catherine are in the room examining the latest miniature)
Greg: The doll's still alive. That means Sara's still alive.
Nick: Generic stretch of desert. She could be anywhere in a four-state radius.
Catherine: Let's just focus on the details. There's always something to go on.
Warrick: She has to make these in advance, right? But how do you plan a car wreck? There's no way to know how the car's going to land. (Nick examines the car) Unless you wreck the car first, and then put her under it. (edit) (Grissom walks in the layout room with a file)
Grissom: Her name is Natalie Davis, and she works for our janitorial service.
Warrick: What?
Catherine: Here in the lab? (Catherine looks at a copy of her ID badge and info)
Grissom: For over a month. She's never been arrested, so there's nothing to flag on a security check. She used Ernie Dell's address on her work form. She has no home phone and no driver's license. (edit) Grissom: My God. She was at the crime scene.
Nick: So she salvages the car, and somehow gets it out to the desert, and grabs Sara, and puts her under it?
Warrick: I don't get it. What does Sara have to do with bleach?
Catherine: I don't know. This just feels different.
Grissom: It is different. (flashback to crime scene where Grissom takes a camera from Sara and caresses her arm) This girl holds me responsible for the death of Ernie Dell. I took away the only person she ever loved, so she's gonna do the same thing to me. (everyone looks confused) (edit) Grissom (talking about the miniature killer): Do you remember what she looked like?
Art: Late 20s, early 30s ... She's about yay high. Uh ... brown hair. Uh ... she's kind of a skinny chick. Weird.
Grissom: Weird how?
Art: I got guys who come in here trying to recreate Civil War battles
hoping for a different outcome. I get the desperate housewives who are trying to build the perfect Thanksgiving dinner. Control freaks with social problems that's my bread and butter, but ... uh ... this chick, she had ... crazy eyes, you know. (edit) Wendy: Hey, I got DNA off the Trevor doll. There were two contributors: the vic and an unknown. There was nothing in CODIS, but ... the unknown was XX.
Nick: The Miniature Killer's a woman? (Wendy nods)
Grissom: Female serial killers are rare enough. Delusional psychosis in women ... rarer still.
Nick: Well, "female" cuts the list down a little bit.
Wendy: We could also narrow it down even further by cross-referencing the dates that Trevor lived with Ernie. I mean, that's got to be enough to get the foster records released, right?
Grissom: Family court judge was explicit: "No fishing expeditions." We need to go in with a name. (edit)

Grissom says that he became so obsessed with chess to the point that "...whenever I closed my eyes I could see the chess pieces moving all around the board...", this is an example of what is known as the Tetris Effect. The Tetris effect is the result of any activity that sufficent time is spent on, to the point that it dominates your thoughts. (edit) Dayton Callie (Ernie Dell) and Sean Bridgers (Art) have worked together before in the HBO series 'Deadwood', as Charlie Utter and Johnny Burns, respectively. (edit) Gil enjoys chess to the point of obsession. (edit) Gil's worked at CSI for 22 years and worked 2000 murder cases. (edit) This is the first episode where the team really finds out about Grissom and Sara with Grissom's words about why Natalie kidnapped Sara. Although a relationship is never specifically mentioned, by the reactions of the team they certainly figured something out. (edit)

Twilight Zone

"Living Doll" is also the name of an original twilight zone episode with a psychotic doll called Talky Tina (this was also parodied in the Simpsons in a Halloween special) (edit) Silence of the Lambs

The scene in which Brass knocks on the door of Trevor Dell's neighbor and Natalie also has a delivery is reminiscent of a scene in Silence of the Lambs in which they used the same technique to deceive the viewer into thinking the killer was about to be caught. (edit) Catherine: Ok, we're in a David Lynch movie. Where's the dwarf?

David Lynch is an American filmmaker, famous for his surreal movies, like Twin Peaks and Blue Velvet (edit) Grissom makes a statement and mentions "Google" which is referring to www.google.com (edit)