Blood Drops

Season 1, Episode 7, Aired
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When a teenager and her sister are the sole survivors of the gruesome murder of four members of one family in a quiet suburban neighborhood, Grissom and his entire team investigate the crime. What initially looks like a bizarre cult murder becomes more disturbing when they discover the motive behind the massacre.moreless
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  • Blood Drops

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    By bankscountybabe, Oct 04, 2011 Report Abuse
    Grissom and team investigates quadrupile murder. Woman was killed in her sleep. Boy found dead stab to back in the floor. A little girl and a teenager are the only ones to survive. The little girl won't let Sara Sidle out of her site. The teenager knew something because she didn't check on her family after she found out they were dead. Scooter tracks were found outside the house. The girls boyfriend killed her family because they wouldn't let them together is what everyone thought. The father was molesting the little girl. The other 16 year old was Brenda (the little girl) mother. She got pregnant when she was 13 by her father.moreless

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  • OMG!!

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    By Violet_Eyez, Oct 04, 2011 Report Abuse
    I couldnt believe it when I watched this episode, I had never seen it and I bought the first 4 seasons on dvd, as I was watching I was amazed, this is one of the best episode still, and it was one of the first, and who doesnt love Dakota, shes a cute kid!! This episode I beleive is what express what CSI is all about!!

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  • This is a great episode!

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    By sid1157, Oct 04, 2011 Report Abuse
    Ok so i loved this episode because nothing is like exactly what you thought it was. I was kind of wondering in the begining how it was both girls lived but everyone else died. so it wasnt that suprising to me when they revealed a secret that the youngest kid was hers. I thought that this was kind of a revealing episode for like catherine and sara and grissom because there characters kind of stood out like Sara with the kid and Grissom needing to know WHY they did it and catherine with the struggles with her daughter and ex-husbund.moreless

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  • CSI goes dark and disturbing. Well, even more than usual.

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    By archangelcory16, Oct 04, 2011 Report Abuse
    "Blood Drops" is probably one of the most memorable episodes of "CSI". It is one of the few episodes that focuses only on one case and that case is quite dark and shocking.

    The episode opens with a teenage girl named Tina stumbling out of her house and screaming for help. Her family has been brutally stabbed and she and her sister are the only survivors. The scene is so grisly that several police officers get sick from being on the scene.

    Several neighborhood boys are questioned after certain clues are found, and one boy, Jesse, admits to the murders but a lie detector test shows he's lying about certain details.

    It's discovered that the father had been sexually abusing the youngest girl (played by a young Dakota Fanning) and that Tina had her boyfriend kill her entire family, for letting it happen. Tina herself was sexually abused from a young age and her sister is actually her daughter.

    Catherine is slapped with an investigation from child services when her ex-husband files a report claiming she is a neglectful parent.

    This has got to be one of my favorite episodes. It's dark, disturbing, and twisted, with elements of dark humor. It's sad and heartbreaking and the very young Dakota Fanning is great and chilling despite having only one or two spoken lines.moreless

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  • A teenage girl and her little sister survive while their family gets killed.

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    By max1164, Oct 04, 2011 Report Abuse
    Ok this episode was ok but i kinda had a feel for what was going on in the begining. I loved when sara came back to the lab and she teased that she left the daughter back in the car i laughed so hard. I felt bad for Catherine though cause eddie called child services on her and she didnt do anything wrong and she is a way better parent then he is. The part i didnt see coming was when you were told that the little sister was the older sisters daughter I was so shocked and i kinda though that that was the really good touch to this episode.moreless

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    • Goof: The father, who is dead, can be seen blinking during the hallway scene with Grissom and the man taking notes. Edit
    • Goof: In the "Pilot," Grissom says it is only the how the crime occurred that matters, not the why. However in this episode, he isn't satisfied when the team figures out the how and keeps working until to find the why. Edit
    • Goof: In the scene where Tina is shown the photos of Brenda in a pile of three, the camera keeps cutting back between piles of two and three throughout the scene. Edit

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    • International Episode Titles: Czech Republic: Pokrevní pouta (Blood Ties) Edit
    • Music: "Let's Stay Together" by Al Green Edit
    • Originally titled "The Beast." The title was listed as "If These Walls Could Talk" the first time it aired, and then became "Blood Drops" when it was rerun. Edit

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    • Grissom: Ecklie! I want everything right now. Ecklie: I've been going over it. Grissom: The Collins case is my shift. You are completely off base. Ecklie: What, you're afraid I'll find something that might show you up? Grissom: Oh, I'm sure, if you could, you would have by now. Where is it? Ecklie: I don't care that you got some pimply-faced kid to confess. You kept the Sheriff out of the loop. That's a career killer, Gil. Grissom: That's what so sad, Conrad. You think of this as a career. Edit
    • Brass (looking at Jesse's polygraph results): Well, the sick bastard is on the up and up. Except your last question. Your "Why"? Catherine: That they killed the family so they could be together? Brass: Operator says his respiratory reactions were inconsistent. He's lying. Nick: We got them both. I don't much care why they did it. Warrick: I'm with you there. Grissom: I care. I don't like holes. What are they hiding? Edit
    • Sheriff Mobley: Grissom. Grissom: Sheriff? Sheriff Mobley: The mayor has already called. So what have you got? Grissom: Nothing. Sheriff Mobley: I'm not asking you to lay out your whole case. Just give me something I can run with. I have got to feed the press and defuse the panic. Grissom:: As soon as I have something, you'll have something. Sheriff Mobley: Here's a thought. Why don't you try being more like Ecklie? Grissom: I could speak volumes about Conrad Ecklie, but I have a crime scene to process so ... you'll have to excuse me. Edit

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    • Grissom: What, you're working for OSHA? OSHA, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, is a federal agency that enforces job saftey and health legislation. Edit
    • Again something a CSI says is acted out- Grissom quotes Lady Macbeth and it is later shown that the older daughter was the mind behind the killings- that she had planned it all- much like (many believe) Lady Macbeth had spurred Macbeth to kill Duncan. Edit
    • When Sara and Grissom are inspecting the house, Sara asks Grissom if he thinks this is a cult, like the Manson killings. Charles Manson had a "hippie" cult following where they killed several people, notably the first being Sharon Tate, filmmaker Roman Polanski's wife. One of the killers (Susan Atkins) is quoted as saying "Because we wanted to do a crime that would shock the world, that the world would have to stand up and take notice." In the beginning when the teenage daughter is running from the house screaming frantically for help- it is akin to the reaction of Tate's housekeeper, who upon finding the scene of the house, ran around the neighborhood screaming. Edit

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