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Grissom and Sara investigate the murder of a mental-hospital patient and quickly narrow down the suspects to a handful of other patients and staff members.
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  • Sara and Grissom...

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    By Leanne_Cooper, Jul 11, 2010 Report Abuse
    I love that this episode is just Sara and Grissom. When Sara was trapped in that room with Adam, Grissom looked so scared for her, I wanted him to hug her when she run out, but he didn't :(. However without this, it would still have been a fantastic episode as I really enjoyed the case and explores a theme that not many shows decide to do; the Mentally Ill. I feel so sorry for Adam, being messed up by his mum. She is so selfish. Why couldn't she just take care of her son and find a new husband instead of turning her son into her husband. Its Sick!
    Although a brilliant episode, I wonder where the writers got this idea from? Anyway I loved that it was just Sara and Grissom, and the case was fantastically written and kept me on the edge of my seat. I would never have guessed that the Nurse was Adam's mother. Fantastic Twist!moreless

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  • Another Sara Sidle Pitty Party

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    By KCWillowsCSI, Apr 15, 2010 Report Abuse
    Except for the 5 minutes in which we were graced with the presence of Sofia Curtis, this episode was again another Sara Sidle Pity Party. Didn't she have Nesting Doll's to drown us in her childhood trauma? " Crazy People Do Make Me Feel Crazy ".. Well, self centered, spoiled, I want Gil Grissom's attention so I will steal all the important screen time from the lead female star, makes me feel like changing the channel. No offense, I like the character of Sara Sidle, but enough with her " Feel Bad " for me stories. Stop playing the victim to the hilt, it's really annoying.

    Oh how I miss the Sara Sidle of season 1.moreless

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  • Lack of scientific investigation.

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    By Danny2312, Jan 07, 2008 Report Abuse
    This episode reveals that Sara's mother used to stay in mental hospital after she killed her husband (Sara's father). A patient was found dead, lying in his room. The CSIs-Gil Grissom and Sara Sidle (by the way, where is Greg and Sofia?) to the mental hospital for investigation. Sara found semen on the bed, which turns up to be Adam Trent's semen.

    The first time I look at Adam Trent, he looks so familiar to me. Oh right, he is the one who play the role of Henry Darius in the crossover episode of CSI: Miami and CSI: NY (Felony Flight and Manhattan Manhunt) and Chase Edmunds in the third season of 24. Wow!! A agent turns into a rapist.

    The episode is all about Sara, she said: "Crazy people makes me crazy". Which crazy people don't make people crazy? Sarah Goldfinger is a great writer, but this is not the best episode in this season. It's one of the worse episode in Season 5.moreless

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  • This episode mainly involves Sara and Grisom.

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    By wan_ching, Dec 04, 2007 Report Abuse
    The episode I felt wasn't too bad and I can't believe it took me the second time to watch this episode to understand what happen!!!

    Poor Sara lol, Grisom expression shock horror to find Sara lock up in a room with another psychiatric patient I didn't realise that the patient actually when and slits his throat that was gross!!! i could tell that there is more GSR scene now, which are great!!!!

    We also found out that after Sara's mother killed her father, she went into a psychiatric unit like the one Sara is at, and it's still smell the same too.

    I can't believe a mother would do that too!!! I'm so shocked!!moreless

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  • This is a great episode, probably my second favorite (after Butterflied).

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    By grissomsidle, Jul 10, 2007 Report Abuse
    I thoroughly enjoyed that this episode had a lot of Grissom and Sara. I thought it was very nice of him to offer to have someone else take over for Sara after she got attacked by Adam. Speaking of that scene when Grissom left, the first time I saw this episode, I was sitting there going don't leave Grissom don't leave. When Adam came in I was all come back right now Gil. I think the flashbacks and special effects were very nicely done for this episode (not that they are ever really bad or anything). Of course Adam's mom needs help and is plain sick. But then Adam definitely needs help too. Thanks to his mom. The drawings that he did though extremely disturbing were nicely done. He's clearly good with his hands. I thought when Greg put the pillow up to Sara's face that it looked like for a second that Grissom might have said something. But of course he wouldn't or didn't, he just gave a look. I like I said before I really liked the fact that this episode's is just Grissom and Sara working a case together. I mean I know Brass is there and Greg, Sofia, and Hodges help out but it's not a whole lot. Alright that's it.moreless

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    • In this episode, we discover Sara's mother spent some time in an institution after murdering her father. Edit
    • The 'conversation' between Charles Pellew and Grissom was based, according to the director's commentary on the DVD, on an email he'd received several months earlier, which seemed to have gone through a translation program, so that the syntax of the sentence seems correct, but the words actually make no sense at all. Edit
    • Sara's single gold-painted fingernail is an inside nod to writer/co-producer Sarah Goldfinger. Edit

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    • According to the production code, this episode was supposed to air before the previous episode "Hollywood Brass." Edit
    • Much of this episode was filmed in the VA Hospital in Sepulveda, which according to the director of the episode once was a mental institution. Edit
    • According to MSN's 'Tv Best Bets' there was originally supposed to be a Case B ("Elsewhere, Catherine looks into the murder of a man found inside a crop circle.") in this episode. This case was used in the later Season episode "Iced." Edit

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    • Sara: Love your hair Leon. (Leon turns to see Sara and Brass standing at the window) Leon: Thanks. Sara: What do you got here? (Sara looks in the pill cup) Ibuprofen, laxative, aspirin. What are you treating exactly, schizophrenia or constipation? Brass: Where are the real drugs Leon? Edit
    • Hodges: Would you ever bleach your hair? (Sara looks up from the microscope) I wouldn't, it's so Greg Sanders. Edit
    • Charles Pellew: Female pig relation, hanged, it sped even, well, too. Grissom: What? Charles Pellew: No. I ground it ... blindly. Wet and dirty. Cut the blood oven. It spoke justly, repeatedly, calmly. Some thin rod dared your wash. They foretold this into some ready child, which fell crossly. They hag-rode me... again. (Grissom stares at him) Edit

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    • Sara: Of course I wouldn't expect Winnie the Pooh. Edward 'Winnie-the-Pooh' Bear, sometimes referred to as Pooh, is a fictional bear created by A. A. Milne. He appears in the books Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) and The House at Pooh Corner(1928). The hyphen was later dropped when Walt Disney Productions adapted the Pooh stories into a series of Winnie the Pooh featurettes which became one of the company's most successful franchises worldwide. Edit
    • Grissom: I'll take Jimminy Cricket. Jiminy Cricket is a fictional character who first appeared in the 1940 Walt Disney animated film Pinocchio. He was appointed by the Blue Fairy to serve as the official conscience for Pinocchio. He is also a comical and wise partner who accompanies Pinocchio on his adventures. Edit
    • Leon Madera: He suffers from Renfields syndrome. Renfield syndrome, also known as clinical vampirism, is a mental disorder somewhat recognised by doctors in modern times as the obsession to drink blood. The term was first coined by Richard Noll and is named after Dracula's insect-eating assistant, Renfield, in the novel by Bram Stoker. Edit

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