Sex, Lies and Larvae

Season 1, Episode 10, Aired
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Grissom and Sara investigate a bug riddled body found in the desert. Warrick and Catherine look into the theft of some valuable art. Nick gets to find out why a missing woman's car is found at the bus station. Warrick is suspected of having gambled on duty.moreless
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  • Grissom and Sara have a domestic abuse homicide case, Catherine and Warrick investigate a missing painting, and Nick gets a missing person.

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    By Sasquatch_223, May 04, 2008 Report Abuse
    Grissom and Sara have a domestic abuse homicide case, Catherine and Warrick investigate a missing painting, and Nick gets a missing person. Grissom and Sara get a dead body covered with bugs, which was dumped in the mountains. Grissom says according to the bugs she's been dead three days, but that eliminates their only suspect, her husband. So he and Sara conduct an experiment using a dead pig, which proves that the husband was indeed at home when Kaye Shelton was killed. The meanie Sheriff says a jury won't understand bugs, so they look at bullets instead. The bullets provide even more evidence, and that's better than bugs, because as Sara said: There's "less Latin."

    Catherine and Warrick get a supposed missing person, a Paul Sorenson, but upon arriving at Richard Zeigler's house, they find out they've been called in to investigate a stolen painting. They gather ear prints and find out that Zeigler's son, Jason, stole the painting. The case is apparently solved, but Catherine feels it isn't finished. So she, Warrick and some tech discover that Zeigler has ten grand of forgeries in his house, and that Jason swapped them with the real ones to get attention.

    Nick has to look at a missing person, Sheryl Applegate's car, which is slightly suspicious because there's blood all over the carpet. However, in the end he finds out that Sheryl merely ran away from her husband to be with someone else, and that the blood was from an injured stray dog she picked up.

    This episode was one of the best in Season 1, not only because of the great cases. Usually when there are three cases, I feel slightly confused, but not in "Sex, Lies and Larvae." The three cases are just too drastically different. Apart from the investigations, we learn more about the characters. Sara gets overly sensitive to a domestic abuse case, we don't know why until Season 5 when she reveals the truth about her past to Grissom. There was quite a lot of GSR in this episode. Other than that, Catherine discovers that her ex-husband Eddie has "sic-ed" Child Services on her, because she won't let him back into her life. Warrick tells her they called him, and that he told them: "As far as mothers are concerned, you're the bomb." Lastly, Warrick gets busted for missing a court date, because he was, apparently, gambling at the Monaco.moreless

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  • The pig was gross!!!

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    By lsburton, Mar 25, 2008 Report Abuse
    I like this episode but it wasn't one of my favorites. Sara did good acting in this episode. My favorite part was when she got all up in the dudes face after seeing signs of domestic abuse on the walls. I thought the pig experiment was a little gross but it worked and it proved that the husband was capable of killing his wife. The story that Catherine and Warrick was working on was interesting. I couldn't believe it was the son who was stealing the painting from his father. I was glad he pressed charges against his son at the end. It was a hard lesson to learn.moreless

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  • body,bugs, great episode

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    By sid1157, Feb 25, 2008 Report Abuse
    I love this episode. I feel really bad for sara though because she gets so into it and she just blows up on that guy. I love it when sara asks grissom to sleep wit her oh i laughed sooo hard and then shes like so when i hear her screams and then i was like oh dang it i was hoping she was really asking cause it was funny. Then that girl went missing and nick ended up finding her with a guy and she was like dont tell my husband lol that was so funny. All around a pretty good episode.moreless

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  • bugs, decomposing pigs, dead bodies and GSR - what more could we ask for?

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    By BabyBunting, Nov 10, 2007 Report Abuse
    There is just so much passion in this episode is really is mind blowing! Sara becomes obsessed with a case of a woman who was obviously a victim of domestic abuse, yet through the analysis of the insects present on the body they struggle to prove that the husband is responsible for her death, who claims he was out of town when she died. This only proves to add fuel to the fire for Sara. We have quite a few lovely Grissom/Sara scenes, my favourite being when Sara and Grissom are in the Shelton's apartment and she reveals the blood on the walls, but in the process of explaining the presence of the blood ends up completely wigging out at the suspect and Grissom has to haul her away. Grissom realises quite how deeply Sara feels about this case and after the very awkward "do you want to sleep with me?" exchange, which I don't think I'll ever tire of watching (Grissom takes just a little too long to respond!), we get the lovely scene of the two of them together watching a decomposing pig (ok maybe not quite so lovely...) which eventually leads to them discovering that the husband, Scott, was in fact in town when his wife died and leads to his conviction.moreless

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  • Grissom and Sara investigate the death of a woman found in the woods wrapped in a blanket. Warrick and Catherine investigate the theft of a piece of artwork. And Nick investigates the disappearance of woman.moreless

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    By foxycsi, Aug 16, 2007 Report Abuse
    This episode has 1 very good storyline involving the primary case investigated by Grissom and Sara. The case involving Catherine and Warrick was fair and the case involving Nick was lukewarm. The overall episode was very good based on the primary case which involves Grissom and Sara identifying the cause of death of a woman who it turns out was a victim of wife abuse. With the husband stating he was out of town at the time of his wife's death, Grissom and Sara look into the evidence found in the victim. Bugs found only in Urban areas. This is one of the first episodes where Grissom's background as an expert in entomology (insects) is revealed. After going back thru the evidence and re-creating the sequence of larvae infestation being delayed due to the blanket being wrapped tighter inhibiting flies from getting to the victim then first thought, Grissom is able to provide evidence connecting the husband to the murder of his wife. The primary case was full of drama especially for Sara, who shows unusual emotion towards the suspect concerning his abuse of his wife. The scenes were very well done with the actors doing a great job regarding a horrendous crime that comes out into the open as more information is revealed concerning the victims prior abuse both physically and mentally. The script is well written and poignant. Both Jorja Fox and William Peterson did an extremely good job in their scenes. The early stages of GSR is also found in this episode. It is for all of these reasons I enjoy watching this episode over and over again. It is truly one of the best.moreless

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    • Gil Grissom has a diploma from the University of Chicago. William Peterson, who plays Grissom, is from Chicago. Edit

    • Goof: When checking the Sorenson paintings for fakes, they use a special light and the tech says that titanium wasn't used in white oil pigments until the 1950s. However, starting in 1921, the pigment was able to be mass produced so it could be used as oil color suitable for artists.

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    • Goof: When the tea-kettle is whistling and Grissom goes to pick it up you can clearly see the cameramen in the reflection. Edit

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    • International Episode Titles: Czech Republic: Sex, lži a larvy (Sex, Lies and Larvae) Edit
    • Pre-production title name of Insects. Edit

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    • Sara: I wish I was like you, Grissom, I wish I didn't feel anything. Edit
    • Sara (to Grissom): I heard you were going into an autopsy. How can you just move on to another case? They're laughing at us. You know that, right? They think we're a couple of 'science nerds'. They threw out our findings. Edit
    • Sara: Any idea how long she's been dead? Doc Robbins: The elements really got to her. Grissom and his insects are going to have to figure that one out. (Doc Robbins turns around and sees Grissom picking up a bug from the body) Have we lost you, Grissom? Grissom (muttering): "The worms go in the worms go out the worms play pinochle on your snout." Sara: Shakespeare again? Grissom: An old nursery rhyme. Doc Robbins: A very special insect, Dr. Seuss? Edit

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    • Grissom: ..full of sound and fury and signifying...what, Doc? A paraphrase from a line by Macbeth (from Shakespeare's play of the same name) having been confrtonted with the death of his wife and a reflection on the fact that no matter how we start out and spend our lives, we all end up in the same place eventually. The original quote is: ...it is a tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury / Signifying nothing. Edit
    • When Grissom picks beetles off of the dead woman, he names them "John, Paul, George and Ringo"- after the famous Beatles musicians. Edit
    • Grissom: The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out, the worms play pinochle in your snout. This is part of a children rhyme called "The Hearse Song." It's a song about death and what happens to the body after one dies. It can be found in the book called "Scary Stories to Tell in The Dark." Edit

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