CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This episode has Sara and Grissom working together on a case which is great and of course neccessary for all us GSR lovers. It is epescially good when Sara asks Grissom to sleep with her but unfortunately this is not for the reasons us GSR lovers want it is simply so she can prove a point to him. More GSR is also shown when Sara comes and gives Grissom a blanket and wraps it round him in the pig decomp scene. It is a great moment and great for the neccessary character developement between the two and is one of the start off points for there ongoing relationship. A great episode.

No spoilers in my review! I promise!!!



The first time that I saw this episode it was as a rerun, on Spike TV. I am a late-blooming CSI addict :D



I\\\'ve always liked Jorja Fox (Maggie Doyle was the coolest!) and her performance \\\"Sex, Lies, and Larvae\\\" is one of the classics of this series. Sara\\\'s reaction to an abused woman\\\'s murderer is one of the classics of the show. Does Sara overreact? Maybe... she *really* flies off the handle. Does Miss Fox over-act? Absolutely not. Her acting in her \\\"big scene\\\" is flawless.



The \\\"B\\\" plot, with the \\\"missing person\\\" is goofy yet clever, and helped establish the creativity that the heroes of this young series use to catch the bad guy.

Sex, Lies and Larvae was the first GSR heavy episode in the show\'s history and it has gone down in our history books as one of the books. The friendship and support shown between both characters was fantastic and coming from the scientific point of view made the show even more believable. I think the plotline was also very believable with a Hollywood twist, domestic violence is certainly a big issue in every country of the world and it\'s good for them to put that out on the air. I think that Sara\'s reaction might have been a little overboard but considering what we know now about her past, it makes sense. The pig experiment scene was great scientifically and it made for quite a good episode. Did I mention how watching CSI is almost like learning the fundamentals about entomology? Overall, a fantastic episode and I would certainly love to see more like it. Good job CBS!

There was some really good storylines all around - the missing painting and person... but the main story line - the dead body in the desert was amazing.

It is great to see Sara's reaction and how passionate she gets about this case. I love her two speeches - the first about how 'she is a woman, and i have a gun. i can only imagine how he treated his wife' and then the 'you want to sleep with me. that way when i awake in a cold sweat from kaye shelton's screams, you can tell me its just empathy'. It really humanized her. Sara has always been my favorite character, but it was nice to see that she does have a human side (also shown in blood drops).

I liked Grissom and Sara's case the best, the other two were a little drab. I also like how the case Sara was on got pretty personal for her, and how she handled it. Sara is so forward, and i loved how she just came right out with what she said, its perfect. If you're a GSR (Grissom/Sara Romance) fan, you should watch this episode.

In this episode there were 3 cases, and we get to find out more about the characters personalities & lives and of course there was lots of GSR.



Catherine & Warricks case about a stolen painting wasn't very interesting.



Catherines ex-husband Eddie isn't happy that she won't let him back into her life so he gets child services to investigate her. Warrick has a court appearence & gets someone from the dayshift to cover for him while he goes to a casino on CSI time. Ecklie finds out & tells Grissom so he gets Sara to investigate Warrick (his favorite CSI).



Nick's case about a missing woman added some much needed humor to this episode when he found her in a hotel room "with" another man.



Grissom & Sara's case was the most interesting of all. Sara Gets emotionally involved when she finds out that the victim was a battered wife (Later on in season 5 we know why) and all the evidence points to the husband, except for the insects which prove that the husband was out of town at the time of her death. Sara & Grissom won't give up until they find some evidence that will convict him.

The episode was great and it was a touching episode of GSR. It was a little over the top of the GSR we're used to as it was quite obvious what Sara's intentions were. She just came out with what she said. Grissom's expression was priceless. You could tell he didn't know what to do. Warrick and Catherine's case was kind of boring and I can't say Nick's was the greatest either but at least his had some humor in it. The only real good part about Catherine and Warrick's was that we learnt what was happening about Eddie's personal vendetta. The decomp pig scene also was good, it was a touching scene and it wasn't in your face like the other GSR scene of the episode.

warrick and catherine investigate the theft of a very valuable painting when they find out who took it they get it back and everything is back to normal but that was to easy they then go and get the painting checked to see if it is authentic and low and behold its a fake. meanwhile nick investigates a missing person report were he finds blood in the victims car he eventually finds the woman in a hotel room with not her husband another man and she hadnt been kidnapped after all and the blood was from a injured animal she had looked after :). rissom and sara investigate the murder of a woman who was found in the dessert wraped in a blanket, they interigate the husband and find blood on the walls of his house and her imeddiatly becomes the number 1 suspect but the time of death of the victim does not match up to the husband being home, grissom then conducts an experiment with a pig in a blanket and finds out that the time of death was calculated wrong and that the husband was at home the day of his wifes murder from suspect to murderer :)