CSI: Miami

Death Grip

Season 2, Episode 3, Aired 10/13/03

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When a teen tennis phenomenon is abducted from her bedroom, the investigation leads to the waterways when a girl's arm is recovered in the belly of a alligator. Delko calls for an expert - his old college buddy and now alligator expert Jeff Corwin to assist.

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David Caruso

Lieutenant Horatio Caine
Khandi Alexander

Chief Medical Examiner Alexx Woods
Adam Rodriguez

Eric "Delko" Delektorsky

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Season 2 Episode 4

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By Otori_Shigeru, Aug 18, 2008 Report Abuse

The episode starts off with a scene where two girls are shown sleeping in their beds, and it appears that someone breaks into their room. In the next scene, the younger of the girls is shown hiding in the room, and tells the CSIs her sister was taken by a monster. This prompts a state-wide search for the girl, who is a budding young tennis player. Turns out, she had just run off with her boyfriend who had climbed in through her bedroom window. However, it is discovered that her boyfriend, also her tennis instructor, had previously killed several of his young players, and he is taken away, yadda yadda yadda. Not one of CSI Miamis best episodes, but ok nonetheless. Gotta love Horatio at the end though when he puts the reporter in his place.moreless

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Death Grip

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By bankscountybabe, Dec 26, 2006 Report Abuse

A teen comes up missing. A man comes in at night and gets the girl while she sleeps. The girls arm is found on the ground. An alligator tooth is found in the remaining arm. Purple fibers are being found in a lot of places. The woman's arm was not Dana's they had consentual sex she says. The man thought that she was 18 years of age, but in reality she is 16 years old. She was a hispanic girl that the croc ate. The man was her tutor. He had a relationship wit her too, but then killed her.moreless

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I chose revealing because you learn more about crocodiles and alligators than you do about much else - except the stupidity of a certain tennis pro.

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By qstevie, Sep 24, 2006 Report Abuse

A young girl is kidnapped from her bedroom in the middle of the night and all stops are pulled out to find her. There's some initial interest in a local sex offender, but actually the truth is more complex. She was a tennis student - the next Venus or Serena as her parents put it - but her relationship with her tennis pro teacher is a little more than teacher/student.

Virginia Madsen - a deeply underrated/underused actress - is great as the distraught mother and the story pans out quite well. When an arm is discovered having been chomped on by an alligator in comes real life expert Jeff Corwin to explain that it's actually been eaten by a crocodile.

There are a few too many lectures in this episode for my taste. Jeff Corwin gets to let us know about the endangered species and we are told at great length about the difference in approach to the investigation of the disappearance of white, middle class girls and hispanic ones. All very important issues, but they could have been slightly more cleverly placed. They appear a bit clunky here.

I wasn't wholly convinced by the culprit - what exactly what his motive? He wasn't actually committing a crime by seducing the girls, even though they were young. His motives for killing Consuela didn't really come across - it seems like his prime motivation was seduction not murder and he could have got away with it a lot longer.

I do like the scene with Delko & Calleigh where he says to get any police involvement you have to be blonde and blue-eyed. No offence. None taken, says Calleigh, my eyes are green. It's unfortunate that given her pony tails and the lighting it's not actually obvious she's even really blonde!moreless

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Trivia
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- Goof: When the mom tosses her rose into the water there is one already there. But when Horatio tosses in his rose, there is only one rose already in the water, there should be two, the mother's and the father's. Edit
- Delko attended the University of Miami. Edit
- Goof: There are at least three rackets in the sequence. The racket given to the dead girl might not be one in the sequence but it gave them the idea to check every one of his students for gift rackets as well as his own personal rackets. Edit
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- International Episode Titles: Germany: Stück für Stück (Bit by Bit) Brazil: Jogo Mortal (Deadly Game) Czech Republic: Smrtící stisk (Deadly Grip) Edit
- Sara Paxton (Lana Walker) also appeared in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, in the second season episode Burden of Proof. Edit
- Featured Music: Baxter by Gonna Make It There Gabriel by Lamb I Am Loco by Ill Nino Edit
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- (while examining the crocodile's stomach contents) Jeff: Nothing unusual... some fish... some crab... some... a foot. Edit
- Speed: (to Calleigh, while watching a sex tape recovered as evidence) Now that's different... Calleigh: Someone's been doing yoga! Edit
- Jake Grant: (Journalist with the Sun Times doing a story on CSI) It's a list of names… Horatio: Yes. In the last 12 months, Jake, 7 Hispanic girls and 5 black girls disappeared right here in Miami and not one of them made it to the front page. Jake Grant: What's your point? Horatio: What's my point? Make it your next story! Edit
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