Secrets and Flies

Season 6, Episode 6, Aired
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A 28 year-old single mother is found dead. Initially, it's believed to be a suicide, but Catherine determines she was murdered. Also, Ecklie summons Grissom to refute the testimony of an entomologist in a murder trial.
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  • Grissom takes on his former mentor in the case of a murdered mother.

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    By HLMel1592, Sep 25, 2011 Report Abuse
    The storyline of grissom vs mentor was a good one, but the episode had other problems. Although I'm a protestant myself, the Catholic group had every right to be outraged at the portrayal of pro-life people. And it's especially disturbing that someone can rationalize that the murder of an unborn child is somehow different than the people shot or stabbed on the streets. People like the Catherine character would do well to see this and get as outraged by the senseless slaughter of the unborn as they do by cases involving born children. Really, it's total hypocracy to be sickened and outraged by the abuse of children already born but then say it's okay to kill another child simply because it's not out of the womb yet. Children are children and human life is human life, period. The writers should be ashamed of themselves.moreless

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  • Not a bad episode.

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    By Danny2312, Mar 26, 2008 Report Abuse
    OK. This episode is not very good, and not very bad. It's average. In the beginning of this episode, we saw many sperms flowing into an egg, and then a baby is formed. Weird, very weird. Then later on, a mother is found dead. Even weird. Just another weird episode with weird plot and weird character. The scientist Grissom's with, is totally weird, and the funny thing is, I don't know why. A fine episode, not the best in this series but considered good due to Grissom's court case. Love it. Josh Berman, the writer of this episode, has done a very good job to this episode and I love it.moreless

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  • A mother was found dead while her baby was there.

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    By sid1157, Sep 24, 2007 Report Abuse
    So this is not my favorite episode but its still pretty good. This girl had a baby that wasnt hers it was someone elses. See that is whats stupid to me the whole sunflower thing was bull crap! But they get put in many different directions of who it would. First they thought hey its her EX nope it wasnt. Then they thought hey maybe the real mom wants her baby back. NOPE your looking at the mamas mama! yep the babys grandma. She just wanted her daughter to have her baby back which is bull because that other girl had to go through all the pain and fatness so that is what i thought was stupid!moreless

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  • Secrets and flies

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    By bankscountybabe, Oct 19, 2006 Report Abuse
    A woman turns up dead with her infant and they find out that the infant was NOT her biological child. The infant was given away at young while she was still an embryo. Flies were in the womans body. Believed that biological mother's mom killed her because the evidence points to her. Blood splatter is on her shirt. Gun powder residue on the bio mother's shirt is from someone close not her, believed to be her mother. Her red pen that wrote the suspected "suicide" note was the mother's. And mother forced the woman to write the note before she shot her.moreless

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  • Grissom, the entomologist.

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    By Malcolmjamal, Aug 21, 2006 Report Abuse
    This episode is a typical solid CSI episode. It has all the elements that make me watch this series, even though the baby storyline was a bit predictable (I mean the whodunnit part).

    The first murder shows a mother being shot and her baby left in the play pen. At first glance, one may suppose that it was suicide but at second glance it turns out that it wasn't. This storyline is twisted with surprises, even though in the end it is easy to figure out who did it.

    The second storyline shows why Grissom is such an insect geek. A case is brought to court again because the defense supposedly has got 'new' evidence. A tape showing that insects need 15 days in order to breed. Grissom, however, knows his bugs and eventually finds a way to convict the suspect.moreless

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    • Goof: Paramedics uniforms have their flags on backwards. The blue field with stars should always face forward (towards the front of the shirt). Edit
    • Catherine now shares her office with the day shift supervisor which according to her loves water fowl. Edit
    • In this episode we find out that when Catherine was pregnant with Lindsey, she considered an abortion. Edit

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    • International Episode Titles: Czech Republic: Tajnosti a mouchy (Secrets and Flies) Edit
    • Music Featured In This Episode: Gone Away- The Offspring Snowdrops- Chris Nemmo Edit
    • The B plot that involved Grissom contradicting another insect expect, was to originally aired during the Season 5 episode "Iced" but was removed because of time constraints. Also, the same episode was originally titled Secrets and Flies. Edit

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    • Catherine: So I understand that you're going up against Mark Thayer? The guy's an ass. Grissom: Used to be a competent scientist. We actually co-authored a paper together ten years ago. I believe greed has gotten in his way. Catherine: Well, I've seen him on the stand. He manipulates evidence. Grissom: He manipulates people. The public assumes that scientists are ethical. But many of us are no better than politicians evidently. Edit
    • ADA Jeffrey Sinclair: You have the right to remain silent. The D.A.'s filing charges for perjury ... Mark Thayer (groans): Oh, my God ... ADA Jeffrey Sinclair: ... and obstruction of justice. We won't be accepting a plea. (Mark Thayer turns and glares at Grissom) Mark Thayer: This is all your fault. Grissom: I hope so. Edit
    • Hodges: It seems like you and Grissom were having a fairly intense conversation. Can I ask ... ? Catherine (interrupts): Tell me about the blouse, please. Hodges: I ran the S.E.M. over the adhesive disks and confirmed gunshot residue. Edit

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    • Catherine says she took "Rocks for Jocks" in her senior year. Warrick also took the same class and said it to Nick in the Season 2 episode "Anatomy of a Lye" while discussing Nick's case of a woman who drowned in the desert. Edit
    • Catherine: In the 16th century the Pope declared that embryos less than 40 days old are not human life. Catherine seems to be referring to Pope Gregory XIV, who was Pope from December 5, 1590 to October 16, 1591. One of his first acts as Pope was to revoke the Papal Bull issued by Pope Sixtus V stating that abortion at any stage of pregnancy would result in excommunication and the death penalty. He replaced this with the 'quickening test' which Aristotle put at 40 days; Pope Gregory XIV put it at approximately 16 weeks. Edit
    • Dr. Robbins makes reference to Christine Adalian as the Virgin Mary. This reference is to her becoming pregnant without ever having had sex. Edit

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