CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

"Overload" was a fantastic episode, but I prefered the B story to the A story. I really like Nick Stokes as a character, and George Eads is a magnificant actor.

Nick opens up to Catherine about being molestered as a child, also telling her that he had "never told anyone before." Both actor and actress were absolutely amazing at this scene, and it brought a tear to my eye to watch.

The only thing I would ask the writers would be to develope Nicks feelings about children being molestered, as in "overload," he is emotional in almost every scene in one way or another, but in any following episodes, nothing is mentioned, either between Nick and Catherine, or anywhere else.

So..in all, this was a pretty good episode. It's not one of my favorite story lines but it definitely revealed some key information about our CSI, Nick.



So, towards the end of the episode, Nick confides in Catherine and tells her about an incident when he was 9; he was molested. It's really the first 'big' thing we've learned about him. The scene with him and Catherine was very well done!



I also liked the scene where Brass asked Grissom why he does it...why he pushes so hard to solve the case. Brass came flat out and said because of the adrenaline rush. Grissom neither agreed nor disagreed with it, but it says something about the way he works. Of course, the ending was some what...I don't want to say surprising but understandable I guess. And by the ending, I mean Grissom and the Sheriff. The Sheriff needs Grissom. He won't lose his job because Grissom makes the Sheriff look good and it seems like he finally realized that...and he confirmed it. =) Very interesting!



~Snyder~

In this episode we find Grissom investigating a dead construction worker, who supposedly committed suicide by jumping of their current project. However, the evidence suggests that there was foul play involved in his death, it wasn't self inflicted after all. The nail in his boot, amongst things play a apart in his death by electrocution, however, if you read into the episode notes you can see how "far fetched" his electrocution was. After lighting up a pickle he eventually gets his guy. In the B story, Catherine and Nick investigate the death of a boy who died during a session with his psychologist, he apparently went into convulsions and died. However, the angora fibers tell a different story. During a practice that she calls "re-birthing" the patient was suffocated. We also find out that Nick was molested by a last minute baby sitter at the age of nine, a development on the charismatic CSI's past. Besides the flawed electrocution this was not a bad episode.