What's Eating Gilbert Grissom?

Season 5, Episode 6, Aired
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The killer from The Execution of Catherine Willows returns with deadly results. The entire team is engaged in a race against time to stop this sadistic killer from succeeding again. Grissom is additionally distraught by the idea that this killer is smarter than he is.
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  • A sequel to "The Execution of Catherine Willows". A great, well thought-out episode. Very creepy and hair-raising.

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    By Two_4theRoadx3, Mar 13, 2011 Report Abuse
    Another excellent episode for CSI! The killer was creepy yet someone you wouldn't suspect. Plus, it's always exciting when the killers outsmart Grissom since its near-impossible to do. The clues left for the CSI team are terrifying yet they had planning behind them and makes you think of what the killer is really capable of. A great episode overall!

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  • In this very scary episode, Grissom and the team track down the Blue Paint Killer concluding the episode "The Execution of Catherine Willows." *spoilers*

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    By CrimeDramaBee, Mar 13, 2011 Report Abuse
    This episode was very very very good in the serial killer tricking the team until the very end. The Brit Mosscoe ruse was creepie, but the best part was definately the drawings. Especially the folding one at the end. This whole episode was a twisted game of the killer. The creepy thing is that he had already planned how the end would play out. Unfortunately, this was the first episode I ever saw and I decided that this show was too scary for me to keep watching. (I decided to continue with different episodes and this became my favorite show!)moreless

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  • Freakiest. CSI. Ever. The short sighted murderer from "The Execution Of Catherine Willows" returns with a vengeance. Definitely not for the faint hearted or easily scared.

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    By Random_Person_9, Sep 04, 2010 Report Abuse
    Freakiest. CSI. Ever. The short sighted murderer from "The Execution Of Catherine Willows" returns with a vengeance. Definitely not for the faint hearted or easily scared. The music and camera shots were amazing and the storyline was brilliant. Maggots, people being fed through wood chippers, and hardcore rape make it not for the queasy, and the killer's twisted view into life makes it not for the easily scared, but if you're up for it, this is DEFINITELY worth a watch (Especially if you saw "The Execution Of Catherine Willows"). The last shot of the cartoon Grissom with the killer reflected in his eyes, the first shock when you saw inside the killers fridge and the brief realization there might be a sixth victim in Brit Moscoe gave me nightmares for days.moreless

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  • Conclusion to the excacution of catherine willows.

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    By sid1157, Feb 26, 2008 Report Abuse
    This episode was great i love the blue paint killer because he is so smart. He makes his own paint so that it cant be traced back to a certian brand. I love how he draws the people he kills and he is such a good drawer. I like when they found the blow up doll and they think its a person. When they get to the killers house and he leaves that message that he will be at the police station i thought that was funny. I like how he did the ana gram for miss october and then in the end he kills himself.moreless

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  • Grissom goes head to head with his second nemisis of the series.

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    By edmorita, Jan 15, 2006 Report Abuse
    Grissom goes head to head with his second nemisis of the series. It's always great to see Grissom go up against some who is as smart or dare I say smarter than he is. In this episode the team finds the break they need as to the identity of the killer. Yet even when they seem top have him in custody, it is apparent that even then the killer is still in complete control of not only the situation but of his own fate.moreless

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    • Kevin Greer's house is the same home as a suspect in the earlier Season episode "Harvest." Edit
    • This episode concludes a storyline that originated in the Season 3 episode "The Execution of Catherine Willows." Edit
    • Goof: In Sara's notes about the killer in the first column on the page it reads "PARAPHELIC: RAPE WITH FOREIGN OBJECT" but it's misspelled, it should be "PARAPHILIC". Edit

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    • Music Featured In This Episode: A Book Of Black Valetines- Teargas and Plateglass Bad Days- Moby Links 234- Rammstein Edit
    • Originally titled What's Eating Gil Grissom? Edit

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    • (Grissom swabs the blades of the wood chipper and tests it. Test is positive.) Walter Beerly: It's pregnant? Grissom: It's human. Edit
    • Nick (looking at a drawing the killer made): I recognize the signage. The Erotica Boutique on Tropicana. (everyone looks at him) It's distinctive... the font... Edit
    • Warrick: Griss, this place is crawling with press. They want a statement. Grissom: Not now. Warrick: Well, if you don't say anything, they're just going to fill in the blanks... Grissom: Screw the press, 'cause for all I know, the dead body is an auto mechanic who just painted his house blue. Edit

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    • Store Clerk (when Gil is looking at the various blow-up dolls in the boutique): I would have picked you for a leather guy. A possible reference to Gil's relationship with Lady Heather, first seen in the season two episode "Slaves of Las Vegas." Coincidentally, the actress who plays Lady Heather, Melinda Clarke, played a whore in an episode of Firefly. In which a guest star in this episode, Summer Glau, had a starring role. Edit
    • When Grissom says "If the devil requires a pound of flesh, this many maggots would require over a hundred" he is again referencing Shakespeare; this time it's "The Merchant of Venice," in which Shylock demands a pound of Antonio's flesh as repayment for a debt. Edit
    • Episode Title: What's Eating Gilbert Grissom? The title of this episode is play on the 1993 film What's Eating Gilbert Grape? Edit

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