Snuff

Season 3, Episode 8, Aired
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Catherine is called in by a pornographic-film developer to view graphic footage from a snuff movie in which a woman is brutally slain. Grissom investigates an ant covered body that's been dead over a year.
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  • An ant covered body and death by porn.

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    By l35l13, Jun 26, 2007 Report Abuse
    I would have to say that this is one of the sickest and horrifying CSI episodes I have seen so far. The red ants eating away at the body reminds me of that one MacGyver episode. Ewww. I'm just happy that the people who treat different people badly always get justice on CSI. And as for the snuff film part of the show, I did recognize one person- William Mapother who played Ethan in the television show "Lost"... plus I decided to do a little snooping because of his last name and found out what I though might be true, he's related to Tom Cruise, he's his cousin. Anyway, this was a fantastic and suspenseful episode.moreless

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  • One of my all-time favorite episodes.

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    By lorrising, Dec 18, 2005 Report Abuse
    This episode is one of my very favorite ones because of the Grissom story about the young man with Down Syndrome. My son has DS and so it really touched me. It seemed to bring out all those fears that the mother of a special needs child has about how her child will ultimately be treated by others and it made me love the Grissom character more than ever! I once explained to my older children that in music the word retard means slow down. Which is exactly what you need to do for people with Down Syndrome, just slow down, but the way Grissom speaks to the boys murderer at the end just took my breath away. He tells him that his own life will be "retarded" from that point on and it felt like a triumphant moment to me. I realize that this is not a particularly critical review of this episode but I really did like this one. There are so few times on television when you see people with Down Syndrome at all (and the actor who played the victim really did have Down Syndrome) and I felt like Grissom treated this victim with the same respect and dignity he gives all the victims that he works with. It was a very rewarding and special episode.moreless

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    • Goof: When Grissom and Doc Robbins are putting the skeleton on the autopsy table, there is no ants on it. When we see it on a close up, there are ants all over it. Edit
    • Goof: In the scene where Catherine and Sara search through lots of thrown away film clip negatives, they empty the bin with the film clips on the ground and searched for the end of the snuff film, which is bad because they could contaminate the evidence. What they should have done was to bring the whole bin back to the CSI lab. Edit
    • As Catherine and Sara scan the list of porn actors and their HIV status, the name David Hodges can be seen a couple of times. Three episodes after this one, in Recipe for Murder, a new character David Hodges joins the lab as a Trace Evidence Technician. Edit

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    • Music: Come Into Our Room - Crystal Method & Clinic Emerge - Fischerspooner Edit

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    • Nick: Wait a minute. I've seen one of these before, man. A spur. Chip spur. Grissom: What's that cowboy expression? Gotta see a man about a horse? Nick: Yeah. Grissom: It reminds me I gotta see a woman about a face. Nick: Yeehaw. Edit
    • Doc Robbins (straining to put the shoe cover on the foot of his prosthetic leg): Come on, you bitch. (gets it on and grabs his cane) I'm allergic to red ants you know. Grissom: Yeah? I put them on my eggs. Doc Robbins: They're dead, I hope. Edit
    • Sara: How does somebody cross the line where killing a woman is a turn-on? Catherine: Oh, I don't think snuff makers cross a line, I think they start on the other side of it. Sara: Biology determining pathology. Warrick: Yeah, some people were just born bad. Edit

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    • When examining a red light at the hotel where the snuff film was made, Catherine mentions Zalman King and odd lighting in the same breath. Zalman King is an American film director, writer, actor and producer, perhaps best known for his work on the Red Shoe Diaries. Edit

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