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Rashomama

Episode Number: 138    Season Num: 6    First Aired: Thursday April 27, 2006    Prod Code: 621
A wealthy defense attorney is killed at her son’s wedding but Nick’s car, containing all the collected evidence is stolen and the case is compromised. After discovering new evidence, the team suspects that someone from the wedding party may be responsible for the murder.

Cast and Crew

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Writer: Sarah Goldfinger
Director: Kenneth Fink
Star: Eric Szmanda (Greg Sanders (episode 47+, recurring previously)),  Gary Dourdan (Warrick Brown),  George Eads (Nick Stokes),  Jorja Fox (Sara Sidle (episode 2+)),  Marg Helgenberger (Catherine Willows),  Paul Guilfoyle (Captain Jim Brass),  Robert David Hall (Dr. Al Robbins (episode 47+, recurring previously)),  William Petersen (Gil Grissom)
Recurring Role: Conor O'Farrell (Undersheriff McKeen),  Jon Wellner (Henry Andrews),  Liz Vassey (Wendy Simms),  Sheeri Rappaport (Mandy Webster),  Louise Lombard (Sofia Curtis),  Wallace Langham (David Hodges),  Archie Kao (Archie Johnson),  David Berman (David Phillips),  Paula Francis (Herself)
Guest Star: Claire Coffee (Cindy Jansen),  Reagan Pasternak (Jill Shoemaker),  Alex Skuby (Federal Agent),  Dave Power (Bryce Gundy),  Daniel Roebuck (Frank Rosetti),  Ray Wise (Ernest Chase),  Josie DiVincenzo (Waitress),  Carmen Argenziano (Sylvano Fatelli),  Veronica Cartwright (Diane Ray),  Johnathan McClain (Adam Chase),  Amanda Seyfried (Lacey Finn),  Chris Hardwick (Mikey Shoemaker),  Rachel Miner (Valerie Whitehall),  Rheagan Wallace (Mindy Faberge)

Notes

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Featured Music:
Four Seasons by Vivaldi. The part played here is from Autumn heard in the opening scene.

Any Other Name/Dead Already from "American Beauty" by Thomas Newman

Feel Like Making Love by Bad Company. This is Greg's cell phone ring tone.

Guitar and Pen by The Who

Plastic Bage Theme by Thomas Newman (edit)
This episode states that Nick's private vehicle is a 'Ford Explorer' 2004 model. (edit)

Quotes

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(Nick's car arrives in the garage with half naked women painted on it)
Brass: Hey pimp. How do you like your new ride?
Catherine: Hey look, they fixed it.
Nick (whining): Ooh, Ooh, that's not funny.
Catherine: Oh, it's a little funny. (edit)
(After Wendy tells them the DNA results)
Greg: We could compare them to the bucal swabs that we collected...if we still had them.
Sara: Well we just have to recollect them.
Greg: All 200 of them?
Sara: Yeah. And since we can't leave...someone else is...gonna have to recollect them.
Nick: This is crap. I've been waiting on IAB for 14 hours. I'm tired. And I kinda smell. And I don't have a friggen car. (edit)
Nick (walking in): What's up?
Sara (holding up the bride's lingerie): I need your hands.
Nick: I thought you'd never ask.
Sara (smirks): To uh...reprint the bumper because the tape lifts were stolen. (edit)
Catherine: So, you took the perimeters, right?
Nick: Yeah.
Catherine: Well, I caught this guy in the shadows, he looks more like a suspect than a guest. Archie blew it up. (shows Nick the pictures) That face look familiar?
Nick: Yeah, yeah, I caught that guy sleepin' one of in the bushes. It's the groom's old man.
Catherine: Wow, I thought my wedding was bad. (edit)
Sara: Why do we always come here?
Greg: Open 24 hours.
Sara: Everything in Vegas is open 24 hours.
Greg: It's cheap.
Nick (walks in): It smells like bacon in here. (to Sara) Slide over. (he sits down) That scene took forever, we were there like what? 9 hours?
Sara: Eleven.
Greg: A dead lawyer and 200 eyewitnesses, it's gonna take a while.
Nick: Come for a wedding, stay for the funeral. Why do we always eat here?
Greg: It's tradition.
Sara: Ah tradition. Like becoming property exchanged between your father and your husband.
Nick: No, that's not what a wedding is. It's a public declaration of love.
Greg: I'm with Vince Vaughn on this one. Dozens of horny single women with access to an open bar and coupling on their mind.
Waitress (walking up): Weddings are a Rorschach, everyone sees what they wanna see. My first 5 were good. (walks away)
Greg (looking up and seeing the news): We're not even back to the lab yet and we're already on TV. (Sara and Nick turn to look at the TV) The stones on these guys to take her out at her son's wedding.
Nick (to Sara): Pass the cream will ya.
Greg (to Nick, looking outside): Dude, where's your car? (edit)

Trivia

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Differences in the flashbacks:

Sara: Has a pessimistic view.
Nick: Hopeless Romantic.
Grissom: Notices the ladybug (of course)
Greg: Film Noir, an example of his continued interest in the Gangster Era.

Greg's view could be referencing "Sin City", but it's probably Noir based, like "Sin City". The way he talks in the begining and the music is straight out of a textbook noir film. Film Noir usually describes stylish crime dramas, particularly those focused on sex, gangsters and corruption. Film Noir (In French, "Black Film") is always filmed in black and white. The bridemaids would reference the femme fatale role while Gregs role would be "the private eye". (edit)
When Undersheriff McKeen arrives at the diner where Nick's car was stolen, we see Nick take off his sunglasses and places them in his pocket. However, every time the camera zooms out on McKeen, we can see that Nick is still wearing the sunglasses. (edit)
Goof: While Catherine, Nick, Greg and Sara are watching the wedding toast, Diane Chase says, drunkenly, "Oh, I want to thank you all so much for coming. I love you, Adam." When they show Grissom the wedding toast, it ends with Diane Chase saying, "Thank you all for coming. I love you Adam," in a calmer way. (edit)
Greg's phone is set to play "Feel Like Makin Love" by Bad Company when it rings. (edit)
The locker room scene towards the end is Gary Dourdan's (Warrick Brown) only appearance in this episode. (edit)

Allusions

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Valerie: Ding-dong, the witch is dead.

Ding-Dong, the Witch is Dead is a song from the musical The Wizard of Oz. (edit)
Valerie: Sweethaert, I've had so many Martini's I'm both shaken and stirred.

This is a pun on the famous James Bond line 'Martini, shaken not stirred'. (edit)
Lacey: Cruella made me wear underwear today.

Cruella de Vil is the villain from the movie The Hundred and One Dalmatians. (edit)
Sylvano Fatelli: I was lost, but now I'm found.

This is a lyric in the song Amazing Grace. (edit)
We first learned that Nick was a 'hopeless romantic' in Nesting Dolls, where he doesn't see the difference between Chloe Daniels 'peddling marriage and peddling flesh'. Brass even comments that Nick is old fashioned. (edit)
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Community Reviews (41)

 
9.9
Superb
Rashomama
"A very special episode"
This is an absolutely AMAZING episode because there is a twist: Nick's truck gets stolen. The theft really makes the case challenging for the team, which is already under a lot of pressure because the murder victim is a high-profile lawyer.
Continue » Posted Feb 15, 2008 10:11 am PST
10.0
Perfect
Rashomama
"Exactly why I watch this series"
Funny, Funny, Funny!
Continue » Posted Jan 28, 2008 8:52 pm PST
10.0
Perfect
Rashomama
"Exactly why I watch this series"
When the evidence from a high profile is stolen, Greg, Nick, Sara, and Grissom must piece together what they know, before IAB has a chance to skewer them.
Continue » Posted Jan 1, 2008 11:36 am PST
10.0
Perfect
Rashomama
"Well written"
I loved it. You gotta see this.
Continue » Posted Dec 16, 2007 8:19 pm PST
10.0
Perfect
Rashomama
"Another great installment"
I loved this episode!!
Continue » Posted Jul 18, 2007 3:35 pm PST
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