CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

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.

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.