CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

I love this episode. I think its so sad that that little boy was just thrown out with the trash and that his relative was sapouse to take care of him but instead didnt feed him or his two brothers. But he was the un lucky one that didnt make it. I love when sara is questioning the suspect and shes like it dosent look like you've missed a meal and shes like ok skinny B!tch i just get by.. i laughed on that part lol. But this was an all around great but sad episode its up in my favorites.

Of course, the focus of this show is the poor 5-year-old boy being starved to death. The whole tragedy is likely due to loopholes in the system, such as the mom can have custody of her children even though she is not competent and too stupid to put them in the wrong hand.



For Catherine, as Gil said, she has become a little bit paranoid after being the supvisor of the swing shift. This can easily be understood 'cause she'll be the one accountable for the behavior of her team members. I believe after awhile she will become herself again.



This show somehow reviews the fact that things sometimes do not turn out what they appear. A foster home is better than a real home. The cops catch the wrong person. The cops are framed.

Definately a good episode. Showing images of a dead five year old kid (starved to death) and a jail cell full of feces, gives the show that realistic touch, something in which I look for in a show of this caliber.



The story of the dead kid really hit a nerve and it had some touching scenes like Sara freeing the kids in the end her talking to the other foster home girl.You could tell she had a crappy childhood.



The other story was not as gripping as the other one yet it still contained some interesting things. Here we could see that Warrick has his pants on all the time and will not be put down by anyone, not even a cop (even though he was a suspect).

It's a clever opening, because the CSIs are called out to a gang-murder, which escalates at the scene, with more shooting going on. Sofia rather stupidly runs after the shooters (though she does look good running!) She recovers a gun that she knew the culprits would drop and that case is more or less solved.



However, Greg has meanwhile discovered the near mummified body of a five year old boy that has been chucked in a dumpster and this is where the real crux of the story starts. I am going to include SPOILERS here, just as a warning.













I found this a very difficult subject to watch. The idea that someone can be that cruel to young children is horrific and I know it's true. The child was fostered while his mother was in prison. She apparently came to collect him and his siblings who are now also missing, and this leads the team eventually to an aunt who is supposed to be looking after them. She, however, is a prostitute who has little interest in looking after a bunch of kids, but did like the social security cheque coming in every month. So she locked them in a cellar to fend for themselves. They had even taken to eating paint chips.



The actress playing the aunt is wonderful. The character has no redeeming features at all, and doesn't even seem to realise how wrong what she's done is. There is even a scene where you see her empty out the trash onto the floor so that she can stuff the body of the boy in there. Brilliant, tragic, heartrending.



And poor Greg too - still a newbie, but now facing down gang violence and threats, being shot at and dealing with this kind of case. Talk about ordeal by fire.



A great episode, but not at all easy to stomach.

I had planned on doing homework during this episode. Let me tell you, it did not get done. There were several times during this episode where I had tears in my eyes. I love when any show does that -- when they expose issues that need to be exposed and when they really touch raw emotions. Besides occationally tearing up, I loved the insight into Sara's past. It really explains her reaction to some of the domestic abuse and child realated cases. It even justifies them. So even though my homework did not get done, this episode is worth it.

A heartwrenching episode.



Grissom & his team investigate the death of a 5 year old boy found in a trash can who died from starvation. They discover later on that he had 2 brothers who could also be dead or starving to death somewhere.



Catherine & her team investigate the death of a man in a holding cell, where he was beaten & trampled to death during a riot in the jail cell where the prisoners were throwing crap from an overflowing toilet all over the place. At first police brutality is suspected but it turns out that it was one of the prisoners.



We learn in this episode that Sara was once in the system as a child.



We also see Sophia trying to adjust to the graveyard shift after being demoted by Ecklie.

This very thought-provoking episode pulls on so many responses, you feel worn out afterwards. If it's a good worn out or not, let me know. I'm still haunted by the main case, but wondering still about the secondary case as well.



The secondary case involves a jail riot, where a man is found near death. the evidence at first leads to police brutality. Warwick meets the decidedly unimpressed, over-worked, and under-staffed Lt. Chan. Warrick, usually the epitome of cool, loses it with the Lt. when an unexpected phrase is uttered. While I don't completely side with Catherine, I can't fully side with Warrick, though I can understand why he reacted the way he did.



The secondary story eventually becomes about how anyone can fall between the cracks of The System and how every level needs to make sure as many of the checks and balances are used so that a law-abiding citizen doesn't get killed for being in the jail's general population for his first time. A very sobering story indeed. But....



For a heart-wrenching story, the tale of the small boy found stuffed into a trash can, leading our criminalists Sara and Greg, on a trail through foster parenting,feckless relatives, and the silent killer of child abuse in the suburbs of the U.S. Sara, finding the surviving brothers barely alive, and Greg, finding the unfortunate one, were sterling in this outing. Their shock and deferred outrage was palpable.The revelations from Sara this episode aren't shocking, but they have been hinted at; Jorja's interaction with Mae Whitman were wonderfully understated. Jorja Fox and Eric Szmanda showed why they deserve their starring credits.



A very hard episode to get through, but very well-written. A highly-recommended episode.

Definately a good episode, I particularly liked the starving kid plot, not because it was so gruesome but because it really hit a nerve and it had some touching scenes (Sara freeing the kids in the end, Sara talking to Glyniss, the other foster home girl).



The other plot was not as gripping as the other one it still contained some interesting things like the badass chinese cop (son of a...). I so cannot understand why Catherine reprehended Warrick for his behaviour towards that guy because it was absolutely justified, and warrick had even Det. Vartann as a witness.

Not a lot going for this episode. A lot of unlikable character. I want to smack David Hodges upside the head. That Officer Chan gets on my nerves "I'm a cop, you're a civilian lab tech... blah blah blah." And then there's that white kid trying to sound black. He was so pathetic.



We did get to see crap all over a jail cell, though. That was pretty gross. The kid found stuffed in the bucket was pretty gruesome too. It's always tough to look at child corpses on CSI. I'm sure it hits close to home for a lot of people.



Overall, this episode is nothing to write home about. I'll be watching a lot more tonight though. I'll let you know if I catch a series classic.