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Suckers

Episode Number: 82    Season Num: 4    First Aired: Thursday February 5, 2004    Prod Code: 414
Three little CSIs (Grissom, Sara, and Nick) respond to an electrocution at a casino. The casino is hosting Japanese antiquities. The electrocution is just a ruse to steal the central piece of the exhibit. Catherine and Warrick deal with a vampire murder.

Cast and Crew

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Writer: Josh Berman, Danny Cannon
Director: Danny Cannon
Star: Robert David Hall (Dr. Al Robbins (episode 47+, recurring previously)),  Eric Szmanda (Greg Sanders (episode 47+, recurring previously)),  Jorja Fox (Sara Sidle (episode 2+)),  Paul Guilfoyle (Captain Jim Brass),  George Eads (Nick Stokes),  Gary Dourdan (Warrick Brown),  Marg Helgenberger (Catherine Willows),  William Petersen (Gil Grissom)
Recurring Role: David Berman (David Phillips)
Guest Star: Steven Lee Allen (Security Guard),  Maggie Egan (Woman),  Mei Melancon (Vanessa Green (Screaming Woman)),  Sherman Augustus (Head of Security),  Sam Doumit (Angela Somerville),  Danny Huston (),  Wendy Gazelle (),  James Haven (Lazarus Kane),  Cameron Bender (),  David Chung (),  Kimberly McCullough (),  Jacqui Maxwell (Alice),  Cheselka Leigh (Joyce),  Joel Bissonnette (),  Andrea Roth (),  James Haven (),  Alan Gelfant ()

Notes

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Music:
Bela Lugosi's Dead: Bauhaus
This is the New Shit: Marilyn Manson
N'existe pas: Apollo 440
Set My Baby Free: Ian Brown (edit)
James Haven, who plays Lazarus Kane, is Angelina Jolie's real life brother. Ironically, Angelina was known to wear a vial of her then-husband Billy Bob Thornton's blood around her neck, like the character of Lazarus Kane does with Angela's blood. (edit)

Quotes

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Grissom (to Sara): To find the hunter, know the game. (edit)
Grissom: Sara?
Sara: Hmm?
Grissom: Do you have any duct tape in your kit?
Sara: Yeah, that's what I use to keep it together. (edit)
(Grissom tosses a bag of money on Caulfield's desk)
Ty Caulfield: What's this?
Grissom: This is what's left of your $10 million.
Ty Caulfield: Thank you for reminding me.
Grissom: Do you know how much $10 million weighs? (Caulfield shakes his head) 220 pounds. Your lifeguard, Nathan Pollard-- 5'6", 140 pounds.
Ty Caulfield: Strong little bastard.
Grissom: Mmm. Say, could I borrow $10,000 in $100 bills?
Ty Caulfield: What?
Grissom: Only for a demonstration.
Ty Caulfield: I'm sorry. I'm all out.
Grissom: That's okay. I brought my own. (he shows him the blank money
bills)
It's only paper, but it's the same size, weight and density. (he puts it down on the table to continue the demonstration) Did you know...money bands are wrapped tightly around stacks of bills? They're very difficult to slip off. In fact, the only way you can get them off is to tear them.
Ty Caulfield: What's your point?
Grissom: None of your money bands were torn. Now, I don't know how much money you had in your vault, Mr. Caulfield, but I'm pretty sure I know how much you're going to be asking your insurance company for. You see, that's why you had your "thief" leave the money bands behind. You hired Mr. Chen and his merry band of actors to rip you off. I'm sure you paid them, but nothing close to $10 million.
Ty Caulfield: "Your notions, though many, are not worth a penny."
Grissom: Mmm. "The Mikado"
Ty Caulfield: Notions are all you have. Otherwise, we'd be downtown instead of here in my office. You know, I've always been a big supporter of the arts. Hence, Mr. Yamamoto...
Grissom Uh, Mr. Chen's...
Ty Caulfield: Hence, the exhibition. Over the years, I've financed theatrical productions.
Grissom: Including The Mikado? Well, you know, one of your "partners" is going to come back again someday. He's going to miss his family, friends, the
ensemble. He'll be back. And I'm guessing he'll tell us all about your latest production.
Ty Caulfield: Yes, well, until then, Mr. Grissom.
Grissom: Until then. (he stands up and collects his things) I'm going to hand my findings over to your insurance company. I wouldn't count on receiving a payment. (picks up his kit and heads out the door... whistling) (edit)
(Greg whips out a wooden stake and holds it out to Catherine)
Greg: For you ... (Catherine takes the stake. Greg holds out a crucifix for Warrick) ... and you. Just in case. (edit)
(Grissom checks the vent and finds the missing sword hidden in the ceiling)
Grissom (smiles): Huh. Domo arigato. (edit)

Trivia

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Bobby Jones: I was born with these [his fangs].

But, the irony is that if you look a the difference in colour between his "fangs" and his teeth you can clearly see that his "fangs" aren't natural. (edit)
Dr. Robbins said that Angela (the vampire girl) was 20 years old. Yet her parents claimed she was 18! (edit)
The runner up name for the dummy used in this episode was "Pam Anderson". (edit)
There was nothing about the suit of armor that suggested it was made to be part of a formal military. In fact, the armor was of the type samurai wore, and the samurai caste was dissolved when Emperor Meiji formed the national army. The army itself wore western-style uniforms, not armor. Sara might have been jumping to conclusions, but if she believed armor could only exist as part of a national military, she should have drawn the same conclusion about the sword itself. (edit)

Allusions

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"Angela Somerville"
The name of the vampire victim sounds a lot like it was was created from the names of the two main characters of Joss Whedon's shows "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "ANGEL" Buffy Summers and her boyfriend Angel, the vampire with a soul. (edit)
Lifeguard: We couldn't find Macaulay.

The CPR dummy is named after child actor Macaulay Culkin, because of Culkin's wide-mouthed gasp in the well-known poster of his trademark movie, Home Alone. (edit)
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Community Reviews (7)

 
8.2
Great
Suckers
"Well written"
Enjoyable and frustrating
Continue » Posted May 4, 2008 10:32 am PST
10.0
Perfect
Suckers
"Exactly why I watch this series"
Grissom, Sara and Nick are called to a crime scene to deal with a man who's been electrocuted but not everything is as it seems. Elsewhere, Catherine and Warrick have to deal with a victim thats seems to have been murdered by a vampire.
Continue » Posted Jan 19, 2007 10:15 am PST
9.6
Superb
Suckers
"Cleverly plotted"
The Mikado and Suckers. What up with Gilbert and Sullivan and The Town of Titipu. Not the only TV drama to reference the Mikado. There must be something to it.
Continue » Posted Sep 15, 2006 5:25 pm PST
2.1
Terrible
Suckers
"Painful to watch"
Poor research shines through and really disappointed me on this one.
Continue » Posted Jun 22, 2006 12:05 pm PST
9.1
Superb
Suckers
"Alternate reality"
"Three little maids from school are we..."
Continue » Posted Apr 11, 2006 10:57 am PST
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