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Season 7, Episode 3, Aired
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Coming straight from the perspectives of five people: Donna, Rebecca, Jack, Lou and Ray. All with one thing in common. They're all dead. Brass and Catherine get to handle the case of Donna, who's a cop from San Francisco, moonlighting as a bodyguard. Warrick and Greg work the case of Rebecca, who's a former supermodel who died while hiking with her new husband Gavin. Nick and Sofia handle the case of Jack, a returning veteran from Iraq, who was killed in front of his wife and baby daughter who he just met for the first time. Grissom and Sara take the case of Lou and Ray whose bodies were found in Lou's garage.moreless
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  • This episode of CSI takes a little different approach and has several dead people, who recently arrived at the mourge, tell the stories of how they got there. The episode cuts back between their stores and Grissom's teams' efforts to solve thmoreless

    8.0
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    By meathead704, Oct 08, 2011 Report Abuse
    There are some good things to say about this particular episode of CSI. For one thing the performances by the actors who rose from the dead to tell their stories to one another were all quite good, but as I watched the episode I kept asking myself if I was watching CSI or Six Feet Under. The idea of having the dead speak has been done before on the popular HBO series and took away from my enjoyment of the epsiode. I hope this is something the producers of CSI don't repeat any time soon.moreless

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  • Great idea, despite the fact some people didnt like it and some thought it jumped the shark, per tv guide-- extremely innovative

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    By ackermaniv, May 18, 2011 Report Abuse
    The opening to this episode was fantastic, and the piano music of sleepers awake definately added to that

    the week before the episode, i read the description and i thought, WOW- this is a great idea, and it was--now, i wished they had made the dead people more involved in the telling of their stories, and i wished that there had been only 2 or 3 murders, and in the end they all linked, but i still loved the idea. While others may say that this episode caused the show to jump the shark--because dead people were \'talking\'- i though this was an innovative idea thats never been done before, and shows how csi is still one of the best shows on tvmoreless

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  • I didn't really care for the format of this episode.

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    By Lynn770, May 18, 2011 Report Abuse
    Four separate cases are told from the point of some of the victims lying dead in the morgue while Grissom takes a class of students on a tour.

    I didn't like the "chapter" separations of the 4 told stories. It was like watching 4 separate 15 minute episodes with no connection except the bodies were all lying in the morgue at the same time. I found it a little unsettling to watch the corpses sit up and have discussions about what had happened to put them in the morgue. Each case was covered by a separate team of CSIs so there was quite a bit of the cast used but they had little interaction with each other as the cases were not connected. They weren't really chapters of the same book it was more like 4 short stories, and I've never been a fan of short stories. They could have expanded each one of these cases and loaded them with details and made 4 separate episodes. The format was creative but I don't think CSI needs to change their format. I like the format exactly the way it is. This episode might have been ok if it were later in the season as a break from the normal format, but in episode 3? It just didn't sit well with me.moreless

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  • If the dead could talk, CSIs would be out of a job.

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    By keipots, May 18, 2011 Report Abuse
    Pretty interesting treatment here. Murder from the mouths of the victims. A tad bit freaky, but still interesting.

    This episode kind of reminded me of that one episode in a past season (I think it was S5, I'm not so sure, but I'm sure the episode was called "4x4"), where the team had to do 4 separate cases simultaneously, and showing one crime solved before the next one somehow made it really cool and fun to watch. It also gave the illusion that they worked really fast. Anyway, I got the same vibe from this episode, but with a freak factor because of the dead bodies.

    Out of the four chapters, the last one was what I liked best (not because of the gore, mind you) because it was the case where I had no clue whodunnit. The first and the second was pretty obvious. The third, with a soldier falling victim to a random act of murder after only being home for a week and just meeting his baby girl, is sad. I did like how that soldier seemed to be at peace because his family is unharmed.

    All in all, a great episode. But I wouldn't watch it again, lest I dream about corpses.moreless

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  • Tales from the morgue...oooooOOOooooo

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    By ForenzicFanatic, May 18, 2011 Report Abuse
    I thought that this was an exceptional episode in that it dared to delve deep into the minds and perceptions of the victims rather than have their stories played out how they otherwise normally would. That way, you get to see how they perceive their own deaths and how the csi's and even the viewers perceive them...as well as where they match up and where they differ. It also was an interesting touch to have the episode divided up into 4 separate chapters...obviously one for each case/story. I especially loved the last story:"The Nevada Chainsaw Massacre" haha...awesome(I sooooooo can't wait to see that movie btw).moreless

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    • Many websites, including myspace, were saying that this would be the first episode of the season. Edit
    • Four Chapters: 1. American Beauty 2. No Brainer 3. Embalmy Day 4. The Nevada Chainsaw Massacre Edit
    • Goof: Donna Basset's police badge has her rank listed as 'Detective'. In the San Francisco Police Department, the title for a detective is 'Inspector'. Edit

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    • International Episode Titles: Czech Republic: Visačky (Tags) Edit
    • International Airdates: Denmark: November 17, 2006 on Kanal 5 Czech Republic: September 11, 2008 on TV Nova Edit
    • Music Featured In This Episode: Walk In the Sky- Bonobo ft. Bajka Edit

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    • Greg (about the victim): She's hot. Warrick: You pay for hot, believe me. (Later, in interrogation with Warrick) Gavin: You try having a hot wife. You pay for it, every day. Edit
    • Doc Robbins (after Nick finds a knife in the car of Russel Caris, who's dead): Why wouldn't he have thrown that knife away? Nick: He's not smart. Doc Robbins (laughs): This is natural selection, the dumb ones die. Edit
    • Warrick (talking about Gavin McGill): Well, if he is lying somebody should give him an Emmy Award. Edit

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    • The concept of the victims in the morgue telling the story of their death came from the 1950 film Sunset Boulevard. It starts with the main character, already dead, speaking to the audience. There was a scene cut from the final film where they take him to the morgue and he and the other bodies wake up and start talking to each other about the ways they died. Edit
    • Brass: So you believe in all this Feng-Shui stuff? Brass is talking here about the ancient practice from China of placement and arrangement of space which is claimed to achieve harmony with the environment. This practice is considered superstitious by skeptics. Edit
    • Catherine: A rose petal. A true American Beauty. American Beauty This is a reference to the 1999 drama film written by Alan Ball directed by Sam Mendes and with the performances of Kevin Spacey and Annette Bening. This drama explored themes of love, freedom, self-liberation, the search of happiness and family against the backdrop of modern American suburbia. An American Beauty is also a type of rose. Catherine is referring to a scene from the movie in which one character is filmed laying in a bathtub filled with rose petals. Edit

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