Field Mice

Season 10, Episode 18, Aired
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Wendy and Hodges take a group of High School Explore Scouts on a field trip and they embellish their roles in solving cases and take their assignment too far.
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  • Terrible, just terrble.

    1.0
    "Abysmal"
    By wetchemistry, Apr 15, 2011
    If I want to watch a silly show, I'll go through my daughter's dvd collection and watch "The Wiggles." whenever CSI goes off on these Hodges and Wendy tangents, I feel I've wasted an hour. The "Star Trek" homage was bad, but this episode was even worse. The kids in the episode were terrible, and the way the lesser characters think of their repective bosses was not good character development. Hodges making fun of Brass for drinking too much, and dork coroner making fun of the senior coroner for looking at cat websites was low class. This is not what I expect when I tune in to CSI, for a joke and laughs I watch CSI:Miami.moreless

  • I enjoyed this episode

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    By Hopejoyfaith, Jan 26, 2011
    *some spoilers* I don't know why some people didn't like this episode. I really enjoyed it. Yeah I know it was silly and apparently "stupid" but I really have to disagree with that. I know it was silly but I liked the humor. It was funny and I didn't want the show to end. I thought it was cute about the whole asking Wendy out for dinner and Henry thinking it was Hodges that did the pranks. And I like that Hodges cares so much about Wendy that he would take the blame for something he didn't do. And since " he" did it its going to go on his perminent record. I thought it was nice to see that kiss becuase Hodges has been waiting for that moment for such a long time! And now it finially happened.moreless

  • Wendy and Hodges fans rejoice!

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    By CthulhuSaves, Jun 02, 2010
    An awesome ep for fans of these two techies. This seems to have been the week for breaking up every romance and/or couple right across the board. Doesn't seem to matter which network you watched this week, they all torpedoed the hopes and wishes of almost every "shipper" out there. Which is why this ep was such a pleasant surprise.

    The infrequent episodes that focus on the "lab rats" have become my favorites. I look forward to each of them, especially those that spotlight Wendy and Hodges. Tonight's ep, although not quite as good as some of the earlier ones (such as the Star Trek spoof, which was simply superb), was entirely satisfying due to the two hesitant lovebirds finally putting their cards on the table (in a way only those two could, or would, do). Even more interesting, the ep was actually written by Wallace Langham (Hodges) and Liz Vassey (Wendy).

    The bulk of the ep revolves around a few "lab mice" (get it? Junior lab rats?), coming into the lab to learn by studying an actual case. A not-entirely-subtle "homage" to past and present CSIs is given in the form of the students being presented as young versions of Grissom, Katherine, and Warrick (there's even a "moment" between mini-Katherine and mini-Warrick).

    Overall a very enjoyable episode.moreless

  • Just plain silly and stupid

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    By intimidationcap, May 15, 2010
    It's so frustrating that after such a good episode last week, they come out with an episode the following week that is as huge a ball of nonsense as this was. The characters (or the caricatures of the characters) made less than no sense. The story itself was totally uncompelling and rather boring. Even concept was totally zero. It was basically just a regurgitation of an idea already aired on CSI (when Hodges played a CSI game with some of the lab techs). What I don't get is, it didn't work then, what could possibly have made them think it would work now?
    All and all this was just a bad idea.
    Could we please just stick to the vintage CSI style and not delve into these ridiculous side tracks? I think we'd all be better off.moreless

  • Not the greatest episode ever, but a nice little bit of fun as a change of pace.

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    By thorswitch, May 12, 2010
    I know there are a lot of mixed feelings among fans about the "lab rats" episodes, but I like seeing the techs get the spotlight every now and again for a change of pace, and they really don't do it ALL that often. The kids were probably my least favourite aspect of it, but I thought the caricatures of the senior characters were kinda cute - especially hearing Ray talking like Hodges. Yeah, it was kind of over the top, but that's just how Hodges is when he goes off on a flight of fancy and I wouldn't have expected less. If they were to do this kind of thing too often, I'd get sick of it, but once or twice a season - just as kind of a breather - works just about right for me. And then it'll be back on to the normal gore and gravitas, and I'll be quite happy for that, too!moreless
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    • Hodges: Mea culpa. Mea culpa is a Latin phrase that translates into English as my fault, or my own fault.

    • The title of this episode is a play on words and is contrasted with the season seven episode, Lab Rats. In the prior episode, we see Wendy and Hodges (and the rest of their team) in the lab, and in this episode, it looks like they will be out in the field.

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    • Hodges: You see, Wendy suspected what I was up to, and she was urging me to come clean. I swear, it'll never happen again. Mea culpa. (to Henry) Can you forgive me? Catherine: (to Hodges) This is going to go on your permanent record. (to Henry) You got your confession. Happy? Henry: Hmm. Catherine: Nobody likes a snitch.

    • Wendy: That's what you're doing, you're lying to children? Hodges: It's a teaching exercise. Wendy: It's an exercise in self-love. Hodges: Just play along and be a role model, please? Wendy: Uh, no. Why would I play along with you? Hodges: Because if you can't even imagine yourself out in the field, how will you ever expect Ecklie to?

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    • International Episode Titles: Czech Republic: Polní myši (Field Mice)

    • Music Featured in This Episode: Mr. Blue Sky - Electric Light Orchestra

    • Original International Air Dates: Canada: April 15, 2010 on CTV United Kingdom: May 11, 2010 on Five Sweden: May 31, 2010 on Kanal 5 Norway: June 1, 2010 on TVNorge Finland: December 8, 2010 on MTV3 Spain: January 18, 2011 on AXN Germany: March 31, 2011 on RTL Slovakia: April 28, 2011 on JOJ Czech Republic: May 12, 2011 on TV Nova

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