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Episode Score

 
8.9 Great
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Air Date

Thursday October 25, 2001

Production Code

205

Episode Summary

Grissom, Sara and Warrick are called in to investigate an abandoned, blood-splattered apartment and Nick and Catherine must examine a dead scuba diver lodged in a tree.

The team members are suspicious when the former tenant of the bloody apartment claims that his missing girlfriend is visiting her parents -- and the parents say she never showed up.

Meanwhile, Nick and Catherine are called to the site of a large fire and are confronted with the scuba diver found dead in the top of a tree near Lake Mead. Is it a murder or an urban legend turned fact?

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    9.1 Superb

    CSI Epiosde Review. hide show

    In this season 2 episode of CSI titled Scuba Doobie-Doo Grissom Warrick and Sara are called too a apartment the has blood-splattered wall Nick and Catherine look into the death of a scuba diver found in the top of a tree over all a average episode the cases wert my favorite but still pretty good the scuba diver story is much better then the other it is interesting on how a scuba diver got on top of a tree over all a ok episode the has a good balance of both stories my over all episode rating for this episode is 9.1 out of 10

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    5.4 Mediocre

    Episodes like this make me wonder... hide show

    Whenever CSI runs an episode like this, I have to wonder which came first: the silly title or the plot? There have been quite a few (Felonious Monk, Crate 'n' Burial and Abra Cadaver come to mind) where the writers worked backwards from the title and concocted a convoluted plot to go with it.

    Even bad (comparatively speaking) writing on CSI is still better than average (or even good) writing on many other shows. However, that's no excuse to tolerate or condone it. In this case, the plot twists worked out okay, but whether by accident or by design doesn't matter. The only criterion should be the story.

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    9.8 Superb

    Urban legend or clever episode of CSI with a GSR moment? hide show

    When I saw the scuba diver in the tree the first thing I thought of was: It's the urban legend! Although I was a little disappointed that it wasn't, that was still a really cool case. It makes you wonder where they got the inspiration to base it on that. The other case? Awesome! Imagine walking into a room that has blood splattered all other the walls, and what your first though of how it got there? Murder was suspected first, the previous owner of the room left along with his girlfriend. "Our big murder's a nose bleed?" Demonstrated before them the suspect shows them his unique talent... he can blow blood through his nose. He expatriated blood all over his walls to get back at his land lord. But on the lamp that they recover from "nose man" they find female blood and his girlfriend hasn't turned up yet.. that causes them to continue their investigation. With a warrant they start bringing down the house by breaking through the walls looking for her... in the land lords room they recover evidence that there is a body around there.. some where. After a GSR moment out side.. they end up discovering the body, of the land lord's wife... "She nagged me." He says. With the combination of the Rocket-Man Scuba Diver, the Nose Bleed, a Sara and Grissom moment and a clever case I say that this was a great episode!

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    9.8 Superb

    This is such a great episode. hide show

    This episode reminds me of why I watch CSI week after week. The idea of a scuba diver was great, it was a case that provided some laughs, especially when Nick said he still believes in Santa Claus. It was one of the funniest moments in CSI history.

    I also loved the other case of the episode. It was a case that kept me guessing until the very end. There was another reason why I loved this episode, the GSR. It made me laugh when Sara said there was chalk on Grissom's face. I checked many times and can I just say that there was no chalk on his face or at least not that I could see. It must just have been invisible chalk. Great episode with GSR which always makes GSR great!

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    10 Perfect

    cool and tricky it is amazing what will turn up next hide show

    cool and tricky it is amazing what will turn up next.people we need to step back and say this is a tv series and not be so technical on the the show this is the best show on tv today quit downing grissom.cool and tricky it is amazing what will turn up next.

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  • The day that this episode began filming, a real forest fire broke out nearby. The directors took the opportunity and ordered some shots of the rescue effort, which resulted in the shots of helicopters dropping water over the fire. []
  • Goof: When Nick and Catherine are interviewing Walden, Catherine's fringe moves from right to left and back to right. This continues throughout the interview. []
  • Goof: The flashback showing the cigarette delay device being set up shows the cigarette being placed deep inside the matchbook. The heat won't set off the matches from there. It should be up near the heads of the matches. []
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  • Music:
    Judas - The Charlatans. []
  • Nick: You just made yourself useful, my friend.
    Greg: Oh yeah?
    Nick: Yeah.
    Greg: How? []
  • Grissom: You never get a second chance to make a first impression.
    Sara: A square of nine dots on paper and you can only draw four lines to connect them... without the pen ever leaving the paper.
    Grissom: Right. Think outside the box. []
  • Grissom: Mr. Renteria, your apartment walls are covered in human blood. Are you aware of that?
    Clifford Renteria: Yeah.
    Grissom: Do you have an explanation?
    Clifford Renteria: It's my blood.
    Grissom: Your blood?
    Brass: You got a stigmata?
    Clifford Renteria: No. I get nosebleeds. []
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  • Sara: Flies don't spontaneously generate.

    When the theory of evolution was in its infancy, Lamark, Darwin's predecessor suggested that simple life forms, like maggots, spontaneously came into existence. He was later proven wrong by Francesco Redi, who proved that maggots don't appear when flies are isolated from the meat. []
  • Doc Robbins suggests "Jaques Cousteau" as the name of the dead man in a tree- in a reference to the famous scuba diver. []
  • Grissom: Right through his Jimmy Durante.

    Jimmy Durante was a famous actor/comedian known for having an oversized nose. []
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