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Season 1, Episode 8, Aired
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Royce Harmon was murdered 3 months ago in a scene staged to look like a suicide. Now another murder has taken place. Whoever the killer is he has a thorough knowledge of forensics, he purposefully has left evidence, and has baffled Grissom and his team. Warrick and Nick investigate the case of a man who went over a cliff in his car and is now unconscious.moreless
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  • Royce Harmon was murdered 3 months ago in a scene staged to look like a suicide. Now another murder has taken place. Whoever the killer is he has a thorough knowledge of forensics, he purposefully has left evidence, and has baffled Grissom and his team.moreless

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    By twlovesdj1, Mar 19, 2011 Report Abuse
    Royce Harmon was murdered 3 months ago in a scene staged to look like a suicide. Now another murder has taken place. Whoever the killer is he has a thorough knowledge of forensics, he purposefully has left evidence, and has baffled Grissom and his team. Warrick and Nick investigate the case of a man who went over a cliff in his car and is now unconscious . it is amazing that anyone could be as smart and as good at forensics as grissom . this series just gets better and better . i love to watch this due to how interesting csi keeps it.moreless

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  • A faked suicide matching the M.O. of another from three months earlier sends Grissom into a frenzy.

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    By cherrytree34, May 09, 2010 Report Abuse
    When Grissom finds another victim of a faked suicide, which exactly matches the M.O. of a previous murder, he puts his efforts to catch the killer into overdrive. He begins to try to interpret signs the killer has left into a message.

    While the episode is exciting and interesting, it is also, at times, a bit unbelievable. For example, when unknown DNA is discovered at the scene, one investigator remarks that the killer is "toying with us". Also, the investigators are constantly discovering new messages that the killer has left for them, and while they make sense, it seems a bit of a stretch that people would just come up with these interpretations so quickly. Perhaps they are just highly intelligent, but it still seems a stretch. Furthermore, there seems to be no importance attached to cost in this show. After a victim's ATM card is used following his death, Grissom orders the entire machine to be brought into his lab. It is unlikely that the city would be so willing to spring for the bill of transporting the machine, as well as compensating the owner for the removal of it. Overall, the episode was interesting, and the audience does get a feeling of foreboding when Grissom interviews the suspect. He is, if nothing else, a strange man, and we start to see that he is, leading us to believe he could be more involved than we originally thought.moreless

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  • Grissom gets a blast from his past.

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    By lsburton, Mar 16, 2008 Report Abuse
    This was one of my favorite episode because for the first time we see Grissom caught off gaurd. I loved it. It had the suspense, mystery, sitting on your edge of your seat-ness, that makes this a show worth watching week after week. Now of course Grissoms case was the meat and potatos of the episode but watching Nick and Warrick battle it out of yet another case kinda added some humor to such a tense episode. Thats what I love about this show, no matter how intense one case may be, there is alway a scene that adds a bit of comedy to the show.moreless

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  • Paul Millander

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    By sid1157, Feb 24, 2008 Report Abuse
    This guy is so crazy i love this story line. HE stages the people he kills to look like a suicide. He tapes them saying goodbye and it ends with i love you to my mother. I like it because it was all backwords. Paul kills men on the reunion of his fathers murder that he witnessed when he was little. But the men that did it got released and never went to jail. I love the whole story plot with paul and he is one of my favorite serial killers on csi. This episode is really good probably one of my favorites.moreless

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  • A very nice "serial-killer" episode.....haha.

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    By tsar_luke30, Mar 24, 2007 Report Abuse
    What a good episode! Paul Millander is sure a creepy person. But, he is no match for Grissom who will flatten him like roadkill. This episode had a great plot to it. The whole basis of why Millander did what he did was intriguing and a little disturbing. This episode leaves on the edge of your seat wanting more and more and more and more and more and more.

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    • Madison McReynold's (Lindsay) birthday is on August 17, 1993, which is probably where they got the date from. Edit
    • Goof: At the voice comparison scene, Disco Placid first compares Royce Harmon's suicide tape to the talking frame that he gave his mother. When we look down at the sample that is meant to be the talking frame however; the note on it says "Stuart Rampler." Stuart Rampler's suicide tape comes after the comparison with the talking frame. Edit

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    • International Episode Titles: Czech Republic: Anonym Edit
    • Music Featured In This Episode: Ain't No Sunshine- Bill Withers performed by Al Green (playing when Grissom introduces Catherine to the DJ) Edit
    • The storyline (Royce Harmon) originated in an earlier season episode "Pilot." It would conclude in Season 2 episode "Identity Crisis." Edit

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    • (Grissom opens the envelope to find a plain sheet of paper) Catherine: Blank. What's that mean? Grissom: We have nothing. Edit
    • Brass (walks into Grissom's office): Dr. Livingston. Your dead man is making cash withdrawals. Grissom: Which one? The first victim or the second? Brass: The second. Stuart Rampler. The bank called. His ATM card showed a couple of withdrawals after his time of death. Grissom (pleased): ATM machines take photographs every three seconds. Maybe we can get a Kodak moment of this guy. I want the machine here. I want prints. I want film. I want everything. Brass: The whole machine? Grissom: Yeah, the whole machine. Brass: Okay. (turns and leaves the office) Edit
    • Grissom: What happened? Brass: You tell me Carnac. Edit

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    • (Grissom plays the suicide tape reversed at the start of the episode) Brass: What kind of language is that, Swedish? This is a reference to the 1984 film Top Secret. In the film, there's a scene where the main actors are supposed to be speaking Swedish, but in reality, the dialogue of the movie (along with the acting) is reversed. Edit
    • Brass: Quincy wants to be alone. Quincy, M.E. was a drama series starring Jack Klugman as a medical examiner who solved murder cases. Edit
    • Brass: You tell me, Carnac. On The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, "Carnac the Magnificent" was an parody act of psychics and fortune tellers. Edit

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