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CSI: To Halve and to Hold

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When a single human bone is discovered in the desert, Grissom and Catherine must cover miles of territory to find the rest of the skeleton. And Warrick and Sara trace the death of a male stripper to members of a wedding party who may have celebrated a little too hard the night before the nuptials. Read full recap »

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Writers:: Ann Donahue Andrew Lipsitz

Director:: Lou Antonio

Stars:: 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:: Pamela Gidley (Teri Miller); Eric Szmanda (Greg Sanders); Palmer Davis (Margaret Finn); Skip O'Brien (Det. Ray O'Riley); Robert David Hall (Dr. Al Robbins)

Guest Star:: Eileen Ryan (Mrs. Rose Bennett); Dorie Barton (Meg Wheeler); Lisa Dean Ryan (Lynn Henry); Jan-Michael Vincent (Darren Pyne); Colby G. (Matthew); Bobby G (Robb); Christopher Jacobs (Luke); Ele Keats (Joyce Lanier)

Goof: When Sara and Warrick are interviewing Meg at the end of the episode, the scene cuts between a medium shot of the dynamic duo, a close up of Meg's face and a close up of her hands which remain clasped on the table. The first time we cut to Meg there are tears in her eyes, but her face is dry. The second time we cut to Meg, there is a drying tear track on her right cheek. The third time we cut back to her, the tear track is gone, but there is a tear halfway down her left cheek. edit »
Goof: CZ is weaker than diamond and is considered "brittle". While quality CZ might cut glass, a diamond certainly would have cut the glass table with the heavy finger pressure that Warrick applied. The fact that the glass was not even etched, would very accurately show that the gem was not a diamond. A better question might be, except for a cool show moment, why not just take it to the lab for analysis. The glass table might have had evidence on it. edit »
Goof: At the end when Grissom is on his date with Teri Miller, Grissom gets a page. Teri reaches for her drink with her left hand and brings it to her lips, but in the next shot she's sipping with her right hand. edit »
A cubic zirconium gem cuts glass just like a diamond does. It is extremely difficult to tell the difference between a diamond and a quality cubic zirconium, and certainly not without sophisticated testing. edit »

German episode title: "Knochenarbeit", meaning "Bone Work". edit »

Grissom: You failed to report him missing for seven months because ... ?
Rose Bennett: I don't like your tone, young man. edit »
Sara: So, ladies of the wedding party, you get a free course in the forensics of sexual intercourse. Secrets of our trade. Lynn, when you had your exam for sexual assault a SART nurse makes a clock like this. (turns around and picks up a piece of chalk to illustrate on the blackboard) This is the vagina. It does tell a monologue. Some bruising is normal when sex occurs. Injuries at 11:00 ... 12:00 or 1:00 indicate consensual sex or what we would call "avid." Injuries around the dinner hour ... five, six, or seven, indicate forced entry. The woman hasn't done anything to help her partner thus sustaining serious bruising.
Sgt. O'Riley: Sidle, I'm going to be just outside the door.
Sara: Okay, O'Riley. Lynn ... your exam showed no evidence of sex in the last 48 hours. Actually, in months. (Joyce snickers quietly) But the epithelials indicate that Darren had sex right before he died and the coroner puts time of death when you've all admitted to being present. So... Meg? Joyce? (they are all silent) Look, we can run the clock exam on each of you. And the clock is going to tell us what happened. So who wants to go first?
Meg: I had sex with Darren ... and it wasn't rape. edit »
Catherine: So, are you thinking what I'm thinking?
Grissom: How amazing the universe is. Everything made from the same carbon, stars to trees, trucks to human bones.
Catherine: Uh, no, I was thinking that we have about 100 bone fragments. We could ID this body before the end of the shift.
Grissom: Hmm.
Catherine: Stars and trucks? edit »
(They may have found a piece of bone and Grissom sticks it in his mouth)
Catherine (alarmed): What are you doing?
Grissom: Bones are porous. They stick to the tongue (puts piece in mouth again) and this doesn't stick. (puts it back down) It's a piece of rock.
Catherine: I-I hope you had your hepatitis B shot. (Grissom gets up and starts searching for more bones, Catherine follows) Did you? (Cuts to Grissom and Catherine walking toward a cadet, who may have found a piece of bone)
Grissom: Could be a piece of wrist bone.
Catherine: Well, do you want to suck on it... to be sure? edit »
(About a bone that was found in the desert)
Catherine: Well, it is a leg bone and my guess is that it didn't walk out here by itself.
Grissom: It could have been a hiker who got lost. It's interesting to me how you always expect the worst.
Catherine: You see, that way I'm never disappointed. And sometimes I'm nicely surprised. So, is this a crime scene?
Grissom: Potential crime scene. Did you know there are 206 bones in the human body?
Catherine: Yes professor. I, too, took osteology.
Grissom: Well, 205 more bones and we have a complete skelton. If we find the rest then we can determine if or if not it was a murder.
Catherine: Well, I feel it in everyone of my 206 bones that this was a murder. edit »

Catherine: We're using Cliff Notes to put that skeleton together...

Cliffs Notes started in 1958 as a study guide to various kinds of literature, explaining complex concepts and pointing out the worthy story points. Those in favour deem them extra help to dig out the sometimes very involved storylines and themes and adding to the students' enjoyment of the work itself. Others see them as shorthand to not having to read the actual work at all! Catherine's reference is an obvious allusion to the latter, whereby by not understanding what they are talking about they are never going to come up with the whole picture and be able to complete the task successfully. edit »
Grissom: I'll take toe bones for 200 Alex.

Said as they are trying to piece together the skeleton. An obvious reference to the famous game show Jeopardy, hosted by Alex Trebek since 1984, where contestants try to find the question from a posed answer. edit »
The title To Halve and to Hold is a clever play on words, mirroring the traditional wedding vow to have and to hold from this day forward. Given that the story involves a wedding and the cutting up of a body by the guy's wife, it seems very fitting. edit »
Grissom: All the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't put Humpty Dumpty back together again.

Grissom quote's the children's nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty. edit »
Sara: It does tell a monologue.

This quote is a reference to the stage show known as The Vagina Monologues. edit »

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aussieforgood
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To Halve and to Hold
The Bottom Line: "Average"
This episode was not one of my favorites, but it was ok nevertheless. ...Continue »
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The Bottom Line: "Exactly why I watch this series"
this is a cool episode that os full of twists ...Continue »
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