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On the day Grissom has to evaluate his team, a head is found in the trunk of a car. While Gil and Catherine work on the head, Sara and Nick investigate a body in the desert that's missing it's head. Warrick looks into a murder in juvenile detention in which his young friend James is the only witness.moreless
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  • Evaluations are due. A gorilla corpse is found, prompting Sara to her own personal investigation. And a friend of Warrick is in trouble again.

    7.0
    "Good"
    My favorite funny moments in this episode:
    Grissom: do you really think a woman could do this?
    Catherin: I could
    Grissom: scared of you...

    Grissom and the Dr. Robbins excitement over boiling the head

    Grissom and Warrick riding the roller coaster

    Review:
    Not my favorite episode, but alright.

    Criticisms:
    Okay, maybe it's I'm just sheltered, but why the heck are almost all college student/teenagers on this show displayed as parters delinquents? I'm twenty years old and I have never, and I do mean never, been to a wild party, played strip poker (much less undressed in front of some random guy i met at a bar), or taken illegal drugs, and what's more is I have absolutely no desire to and neither do the people I hang out with. I mean seriously, what is attractive about being stupid and out of control and then not being able to remember it in the morning. All that sounds like to me is a recipe for a whole lot of guilt and regrets. Are most people really like this? If so, I'm not sure I want to know.

    Secondly, the gorilla thing was kinda weird.moreless

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    9.7
    "Superb"
    Really Good Episode, Great Cast Again! And A Really Interesting Storyline, Plus A Really Good Episode Name, Well Suited! Was Definitly One Of The Best Episodes Upto Yet In The Series! And Was A Definate Series Classic! A Really Good 2nd Las Episode For Seaosn 1! Just Hoping That Season 1's Last Episode Will Be Just As Good... Preferably Better! And Hopefully The 7 Later Series Will Be Great! Why 100 Words? Why Why Why? Why 100 Words? Why Why Why? Why 100 Words? Why Why Why? Why 100 Words? Why Why Why? Why 100 Words? Why Why Why?moreless

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  • It's evaluation day.

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    A head is found in the trunk of a car, & 2 drunk women are driving. Grissom & Catherine investigate.

    Sara & Nick investigate a headless body found in the desert. At the autopsy Doc Robbins reveals that the body isn't human & Terri gets called in to identify what species the body belongs to.

    Warrick looks into a murder in juvenile detention. His young friend James (from Crate & Burrial) is the only witness. If James testifies, he's dead. And if he doesn't he'll be spending most of his life in prison. Warrick tries to find enough evidence so that the DA won't need James' testimony.

    Nick isn't too happy in this episode because Grissom still won't let him work solo on a case, when Warrick, who was promoted to CSI level 3 after Nick got to work solo a few times. Grissom tells Nick that he doesn't think he's ready yet & to prove his point gives him a simple riddle.

    We also learn that Catherine just filed for divorce.


    Grissom evaluates his team:

    Catherine gets a "Keep up the good work"

    Nick won't tell Sara what he got on his evaluation. Saying that it was private.

    Grissom's evaluation for Sara: "Overall performance: Outstanding." "Ability
    to prioritize:" ... "Improvement needed."

    And finally Warrick was sitting in his evaluation as the episode ended.moreless

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  • Trivia

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    • Goof: Teri Miller incorrectly states that humans are not primates. Edit
    • Goof: In the scene where Warrick pulls the piece of cloth from the toilet bowl, the amount of water and dirt changes between shots. Edit
    • Goof: When Grissom, Nick, and Brass are in Spur's Corral, Grissom looks at the sombrero and asks Brass if he still has the picture he got from DeSilva's house. Then, Brass pulls it out of his coat pocket and hands it to Grissom. However the picture should've been filed as evidence. Edit
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    • International Episode Titles: Czech Republic: Komplexní hodnocení (Comprehensive Evaluation) Edit
    • Music Speak for You - SkinnerRat. Edit
    • Keri Lynn Pratt (Anna Leah) and Shonda Farr (Lori) would reprise their roles in Season 6 episode "Spellbound." Edit
  • Quotes

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    • Sara: Why did they amputate the gorilla's head? Teri: It's a trophy. American fetishists would pay up to $10,000 for the head of a lowland gorilla. Sara: The hands and feet? Teri: Novelty items. Sold as ashtrays. Sara: Here Nick and I were thinking it was to avoid I.D. Why skin it? Teri: Purses, shoes, boots ... It's sad. Genetically we're 92.7% identical with gorillas. Sara: It's hard to tell where the human ends and the animal begins. Teri: Well said. Sara: I checked out a couple of websites ... bushmeat.net, gorilla.org. I think she was killed probably in Cameroon or Congo transported to the port of Los Angeles. Dismembered, packaged ... loaded onto a small plane ... where they dumped what they couldn't sell but, uh, I just have to find the plane. Teri: Needle in a haystack. Chances are, whoever did this are halfway around the world by now. Edit
    • Catherine: We found everything else in that shed. I don't know why we didn't find a gun. Grissom: Well, maybe he was shot somewhere else. Catherine: That would explain the plastic. Grissom: What plastic? You never told me about any plastic. Catherine: I didn't? Oh. ... The victim was wrapped in a plastic sheet. Grissom: Victor DaSilva's entire house was covered in plastic. He was having it painted. Catherine: Really? Who's the painter? Grissom: Nobody famous. Catherine: Yet. Edit
    • Catherine: What about my evaluation? Grissom: Keep up the good work, Catherine. Edit
  • Allusions

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    • Nick (finding a hammer): Bob Vila. Catherine (finding an axe): Paul Bunyan. Bob Vila is a famous TV handyman who sells a range of tools under his own brand.While Paul Bunyan is a legendary, mythical lumberjack, supposedly such a giant that it took seventeen storks to carry him at birth. Edit
    • (to Catherine and Brass in the interrogation room) Anna: This guy was weird, like way weird. I was thinking he was going to pull a Silence of the Lambs on me and tell me to (makes face) put the lotion in the basket. This is an reference to the 1991 film The Silence of the Lambs starring Jodie Foster as a young, inexperienced FBI agent, Clarice Starling, who is forced to work with a disturbed serial killer (Dr. Hannibal Lector). Edit
    • Grissom: You're a riot, Alice. Responding to a cutting joke from Catherine, Grissom quotes Ralph Kramden from the 1950s classic show The Honeymooners. Edit
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