Friends & Lovers

Season 1, Episode 5, Aired
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Grissom and Warrick take the case of a young man who is found naked in the desert without an obvious cause of death. Sara gets to find out why the body of a woman who was buried last week is in a dumpster. Catherine and Nick investigate the killing of a school's dean by the school's founder.moreless
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  • the tea is bad and the druggy needs to go to jail wake up people we kill ourselves more than we die of natural causes.

    10
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    By twlovesdj1, Dec 03, 2011 Report Abuse
    Grissom and Warrick take the case of a young man who is found naked in the desert without an obvious cause of death. Sara gets to find out why the body of a woman who was buried last week is in a dumpster. Catherine and Nick investigate the killing of a school's dean by the school's founder.

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  • an average episode - teaching everyone about drugs are bad.

    7.5
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    By Pucktweety, Apr 11, 2008 Report Abuse
    so really this epsiode was boring, not bad, just boring.

    i dont even remember much about it and i watched it only two nights ago (bless season box sets that provide countless hourse of entertainment)

    so pretty much a guy dies in the desert, a dean dies and a girl ends up in a dumpster but shes already dead.

    the guy who died in the desert was killed by his best friend - i felt realy bad for him cause it seemed like he really did regret it and didn't care what happened to him cause he had killed his best friend. must be awful

    dean gets killed by two female teachers cause they were getting blackmailed and girl in dumpster cause the dude was re-using caskets.

    boring episode - okay cases but could be improved.moreless

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  • Sarah investigates and woman found in a dumpster who apparently was buried a week prior, Catherine and Nick investigates the death of a dean while Warrick and Grisom takes on a case of a boy found naked and dead in the dessert.moreless

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    By lsburton, Mar 12, 2008 Report Abuse
    I thought this episode was real suspenseful. I would have never guessed that it was the guy's best friend who killed him. But I guess when you are on a drug as powerful as they were than it may have that type of effect. Personally I don't see the thrill in not remembering what occurred the night before. Sara's case wasn't a surprise to me because we hear all the time about casket robbers. And as far as Catherine and Nick's case, it wasn't as interesting as the case Warrick and Grisom had but it was better than Sara's case. I enjoyed it!moreless

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  • bad drugs, body dump, dead dean.

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    By sid1157, Feb 24, 2008 Report Abuse
    This episode was pretty ood. The guy dead in the desert ended up getting drugs and his friend killed him because he was having a reaction to the drug. I felt so bad for him when he started crying and saying that he killed his best friend so now he dosent care what happens to him. Sara had to investagate this girl that was found in a dumpster and then she figured out that she had a funeral like a week ago. Then it led her to the director who is re using caskets. Catherine and nick investaged the murder of a dean and it ended up being these teachers (they were girls) killed him because he was black mailing them because they were gay I really hated that part of it because it was a horriable thing for him to do so i felt really bad for the teachers.moreless

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  • Bad trip.

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    By archangelcory16, Aug 26, 2007 Report Abuse
    A dead teenager, Eric, is found dead in the desert. Grissom and Warrick investigate his death and find that his skin is abnormally dry and that there is a drug - jimsonweed - in his system. They question his friend, Bobby, and they learn that the two had attended a rave. It turns out that Eric developed visual hallucinations due to the drug and that Bobby developed auditory hallucinations, and suffocated Eric to keep him quiet.

    Sara investigates a dead body found in a dumpster and discovers that a funeral home owner has been digging up bodies to reuse the caskets to save money.

    Catherine and Nick, meanwhile, investigate the death of the dean, who has suffered severe blows to the head. A woman, Kit, admits to killing him in self defense because he was harassing her, but they learn that she and another woman killed him because he was blackmailing them about their lesbian relationship.

    This was an engaging and entertaining episode, and I liked it a lot. The likable Milo Ventimiglia guest stars as Bobby in the drug story segment, and the death of the dean was interesting as well. My favorite part of the episode, however, was Grissom going to the rave and encountering the girl on ecstasy.moreless

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    • Goof: When Sara runs the lint brush in the coffin to collect her samples, the brush has some very dark hairs visible on it. But when the shot changes to a close-up, the dark hairs are gone, only to reappear when the shot changes again. Edit
    • Goof: When Sara wipes embalming fluid from the face of the female victim found in the dumpster, victim can be seen blinking. Edit
    • At the end, Grissom is riding the rollercoaster at the New York New York Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. Edit

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    • International Episode Titles: Czech Republic: Přátelé a milenky (Friends and Lovers) Edit
    • Music: Grissom's Overture- John M. Keane Song for Olabi- Bliss Edit
    • From this episode on in the series, Jorja Fox would be fifth in credit sequence. In the previous episodes, she was third in credit sequence. Edit

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    • (Warrick and Grissom sit side by side as they watch police car drive away. Grissom stands up and walks off) Warrick: Where you going? Grissom: Away. Edit
    • Kimberley Cassano: I can tell you right now we're going to plead diminished capacity. Grissom: Good, I hope you win. Bobby: Doesn't matter. Kimberley Cassano: It's the difference between prison and a hospital, Bobby. It matters. Bobby: You don't understand. I don't care what happens to me. I killed my best friend. Edit
    • Grissom: Let me tell you something, Humbert. You're twice the age of these kids and most of them couldn't find their ass with a map. You prey on innocent children concocting god-knows-what from god-knows-where selling Russian roulette in a bottle and you think we came all the way out here to bust you for "possession", you dumb punk? (beat) I'm gonna get you for murder. (Ethan looks back at Grissom, surprised) Cool. Edit

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    • Jenna: Grissom, Grissom...tin man with a heart. Jenna compares Grissom to the Tin Man from The Wizard Of Oz, indicating he has more feeling that she would have imagined. Edit
    • Grissom: Benihana the maggots. A reference to the famous Japanese chain of restaurants, where food is freshly prepared by very skilled chefs in front of guests. Everything is freshly chopped and cooked at a Hibachi Grill in a very theatrical style. Grissom is telling Warrick he needs to slice and dice a maggot in order to get out the good stuff inside it basically! Edit
    • Grissom: Let me tell you something Humbert... Said by Gil to Ethan the jimson tea drug seller, followed by more lines about him picking on and exploiting those much younger than him. Humbert Humbert was the main character in Vladimir Nabokov's famously controversial novel Lolita about a much older man becoming sexually obsessed with a twelve-year old girl. Edit

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