CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

You Kill Me

Season 8, Episode 8, Aired 11/22/07

Episode Summary

Hodges stages hypothetical murders in the lab in order to give his fellow lab techs a chance to play CSI, but unbeknownst to them he has other motives behind his actions. Meanwhile, after Sara's farewell, everyone tries to comfort Grissom.

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Marg Helgenberger

Catherine Willows
William Petersen

Gil Grissom
Gary Dourdan

Warrick Brown

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Jorja Fox should be thankful she jumped ship before this Thanksgiving waste of time was filmed.

4.5

"Poor"

By jekyll, Nov 26, 2011 Report Abuse

From the beginning minutes, you knew the episode was going to be agitating and not that good. In trying to provide a light-hearted episode, it was ruined by the fact that everyone just seemed to be trying way to hard. Knowing winks to the audience, head bobs to direct the camera, and other cartoonish conventions were just silly and detracted further from the presentation.
Broken up into several non-simultaneous mini-cases that Hodges had pawned off as "thinking exercises" to test his new Lab Rats board game, each one dealt with the death of a techie in the lab. Several continuing jokes either weren't that funny the first time, or ran flat by the episode's end from overuse. The final act provided some salvation to the episode, with Hodges and Grissom bonding nicely over a game scenario. It may be coincidence, but this simplistic episode (it featured no new guest stars) very much felt like a script rushed to completion by a team of writers more worried about squeezing another story out before being forced to join the WGA strike than in actually making sure the story's quality was what show fans expect and deserve.moreless

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Well despite the CSI purist I enjoyed this escape into full unabashed fantasy. They gave a small nod to Sarah being gone appropriate since a long drawn out exercise would've been bad. It was fun to watch Hodges in action whenever hemoreless

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By danharr, May 20, 2011 Report Abuse

Well despite the CSI purist I enjoyed this escape into full unabashed fantasy. They gave a small nod to Sarah being gone appropriate since a long drawn out exercise would've been bad. It was fun to watch Hodges in action whenever he's on comedy abounds. His center of the world mentality, his fascination with a techs average bust size that he swears is enormous, and only he would be creating a board game of all things. The proposed murders were hilarious due to the absurd nature of them. Finally in the end a wonderful scene with Grissom and Hodges playing the board game. Hodges having the nerve to bring up Sara was so gutsy it was beautiful and watching Grissom school him in his own game was priceless. Nice fun episode you've got to give a show an opportunity to experiment some time lighten up people.moreless

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Great episode! What more needs to be said in a summary? Isn't that the point of the review?

9.4

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By Game-Face, May 20, 2011 Report Abuse

I think the Jorja Fox fans have been at the scores eh ;-) Hardly reflective of a strong episode. I love Jorja as much as the next fan, but fact is, CSI goes on, and as it showed last night, it can go on from stregth to strength. Characters like David Hodges certainly can take more air time, to pick up the slack. Not that I'm suggesting he has an affair with Grissom, as much as he'd like too. This was a great episode. Hodges, Brass, Grissom, Doc Robbins, Wendy, Super Dave - all excellent! Well acted, well written. Not often does a serious programme do comedy so very very well. The final scenes with Hodges and Grissom where nicely done, and it was nice to see Grissom back doing his super-sleuthing.

The way the storyline of the team trying to comfort Grissom was woven into the show was good as well, as was his typical reaction. Nice to see a bit more of Grissom in this episode than the last one as well.moreless

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boring...

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By Fwirrel, May 20, 2011 Report Abuse

Wow, this was a bad episode. The only part I kind of liked in this episode was how everyone was trying to help Grissom feel better but Grissom just wanted to be left alone. I hated the whole idea of the game. It was boring and pointless. All of the techs tried to solve hypothetical cases. The cases were solved quickly and were pretty obvious. It was pretty funny, though, that the medical examiner's assistent was just laughing about it. Overall, stupid story which could just be promotion for the CSI game. There was some good character development, but, overall, this was a bad episode.moreless

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6.1

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By Parricida, May 20, 2011 Report Abuse

I would not say I did not like it - it was interesting in the first time and the last play with Grissom - it was also stunning. I did not like the idea on the other hand - Hodges was somehow hostile for others and in his own perfect world thinking he is so cleaver. This episode had no storyline, I would say - it was just sequence of games, it got nowhere.. had no development and to be honest - most of the cases where not catching. There were some unexpected turns but even the play Grissom had - Hodges moving forward betrayed the real murderer on the first watch.

I did not enjoyed this episode but it was good to see labrats in action.. and have episode where they got more screentime than usual.moreless

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- In the third case, the number on the board in the evidence locker is the exact numver of days since Greg blew up the lab in 3x22 Play With Fire
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- Despite being a gambling addict, Warrick suggests to Nick that they 'hit the Strip' and play some pai gow or blackjack. Edit
- Wendy turned 35 in October. Edit
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- International Titles: Czech Republic: Dám se zabít (I Will Have Myself Killed) Edit
- Original International Air Dates: Denmark: January 25, 2008 on Kanal 5 United Kingdom: February 26, 2008 on Channel 5 New Zealand: March 24, 2008 on TV3 The Netherlands: March 24, 2008 on RTL4 Norway: March 25, 2008 on TVNorge Latin America: March 31, 2008 on AXN Australia: April 21, 2008 on Nine Italy: May 8, 2008 on FoxCrime Sweden: May 19, 2008 on Kanal 5 Germany: October 30, 2008 on RTL Austria: October 30, 2008 on ORF1 Spain: November 4, 2008 on AXN Finland: January 7, 2009 on MTV3 Czech Republic: October 15, 2009 on TV Nova Edit
- Music Featured In This Episode: That's Life - Karaoke Tribute Edit
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- Wendy (during their 'murder' investigation): No, no. Captain Brass is not the kind of cop who smacks a suspect around. Henry: Really? He scares me. Edit
- Wendy: Well, Bobby's a gun guy. Gun guys shoot people. Mandy: Gun guys don't shoot people. People shoot people. Hodges: Actually, bullets shoot people, shot from guns which are usually in the hands of gun guys. Edit
- Wendy: You said that the emergency release plunger was bent. Hodges: Mm-hmm. Wendy: Well, that thing is made of solid steel. How could Henry do that? Mandy: Adrenaline kicks in when he finally realizes that he's dying. So, maybe in the moment of crisis, Henry has the strength of ten men. (beat) Ten small men. (laughs) Hodges: "Maybe." That word always looks so good on a case report. Edit
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- Greg erases the "1659" from the OSHA safety sign (DAYS WITHOUT A LOST TIME ACCIDENT) and replaces it with "0". This episode aired 1659 days after the Season 3 "Play With Fire," in which Greg was seriously injured when part of the lab exploded. Edit
- This episode is filled with references to the Season 7 episode"Lab Rats." Among the references include: 1) Hodges creating a board game called "Lab Rats." 2) Hodges eating "Lucky Chips", the same kind of potato chips he eats in "Lab Rats." 3) The episode revolves around the the "Lab Rats": Hodges, Wendy, Mandy, Henry and Archie. 4) Archie is the second lab tech to have the final words before the beginning credits roll (after Hodges in the episode "Lab Rats"). 5) This episode is filmed completely in the CSI lab, with only the Main Stars and Recurring Guest "Lab Rat" cast appearing. Edit
- Warrick asks Nick to play Blackjack and Pai Gow. "Pai Gow" poker (or Double-hand poker) is an Americanized version of Pai Gow, in that it is played with playing cards using poker hand rankings, while Pai Gow is played with Chinese dominoes. Edit