"CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" A Thousand Days on Earth (2008)

User Rating:

7.9/10   

Director:

Kenneth Fink

Writers:

Anthony E. Zuiker (creator)
Evan Dunsky (written by)

TV Series:

"CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" (2000)

Original Air Date:

10 April 2008 (Season 8, Episode 13)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Plot:

CSI investigates the death of a toddler who was left in a cardboard box in a parking lot. A registered sex offender who is wrongly accused threatens Catherine after the real cause of death is identified.

Plot Keywords:

Investigation | Crime Lab | Police | Evidence | Crime Scene

Cast

William Petersen	...	Gil Grissom
Marg Helgenberger	...	Catherine Willows
Gary Dourdan	...	Warrick Brown
George Eads	...	Nick Stokes
Eric Szmanda	...	Greg Sanders
Robert David Hall	...	Dr. Al Robbins
Wallace Langham	...	David Hodges
Paul Guilfoyle	...	Captain Jim Brass
Jay Paulson	...	Leo Finley / Dean James
David Meunier	...	Boyd Waldrip
Raymond Cruz	...	Donald Balboa
Ryan Simpkins	...	Faith Waldrip
Jennifer Hall	...	Nora O'Toole
Bobby Hosea	...	Negotiator
Greg Fitzsimmons	...	Himself

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour

Company:

Jerry Bruckheimer Television

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: When the stand-up comic approaches his car he uses an electronic key to unlock it (with the car making various beeps and honks in the process), but when he gets into the car he puts his hand over the open window to pull the door closed. Clearly the "locked" car's window was already down.

Movie Connections:

Features Pigs in a Polka (1943)

Giving 'Catherine The Nazi' A Piece Of His Mind!

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

I liked the ending to this episode. It was different, and but I don't think it's going to lead to anything as sometimes its done when we see serial killers or stalkers. They wind up being part of a two-part story, or more.

Here, a guy with a shady past (one incident where he got stoned out of his mind, went outside naked and got charged with a number of things including being put on Megan's List because 20 little kids saw him naked.) Anyway, this guy is a chronic liar but one of the points of this story - apparently - is about being falsely accused of something, and how easy it is once you are a registered sex offender. I don't know if CSI isn't defending sex-offenders as "victims," but with the agenda this program sometimes has, nothing would surprise me.

Nevertheless, the offender who now is proved innocent, gets "Catherine" a nice little speech and a piece of his mind for the "Nazi" tactics and attitude she had toward him. You can't blame him. Marg Helgenberger's character here ("Catherine Willows") has gotten very hard-edged in recent years, I think, so I didn't mind seeing her told off.

The case in this episode is finding out who left a little dead girl in a cardboard box at an intersection in town. Who murdered her and why, and why left in a box? All of those questions are answered.

Note: I still find it odd not to see "Sara" (Jorja Fox) anymore. It's a void. This was mainly a Grissom-Brass-Willows story, with a little Warrick thrown in. "Nick," I think, had the week off.