"CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" Art Imitates Life (2008)

User Rating:

8.5/10   

Director:

Kenneth Fink

Writers:

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

TV Series:

"CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" (2000)

Original Air Date:

23 October 2008 (Season 9, Episode 3)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Plot:

CSI is caught in a race against time to catch a failed artist-turned serial killer who is leaving his victims in unusual poses all over Las Vegas. |

Plot Keywords:

Investigation | Crime Lab | Police | Evidence | Crime Scene

Cast

William Petersen	...	Gil Grissom
Marg Helgenberger	...	Catherine Willows
George Eads	...	Nick Stokes
Eric Szmanda	...	Greg Sanders
Robert David Hall	...	Dr. Al Robbins
Wallace Langham	...	David Hodges
Lauren Lee Smith	...	Riley Adams
Paul Guilfoyle	...	Captain Jim Brass
Jeffrey Tambor	...	Jerzy Skaggs
David Berman	...	David Phillips
Alex Kingston	...	Patricia Alwick
Alex Carter	...	Detective Vartann
Gabriel Casseus	...	Detective Williams
Googy Gress	...	Cabbie
Will McCormack	...	Langston Weller

Runtime:

Netherlands:55 min (including commercials)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour

Certification:

Netherlands:12

Company:

Jerry Bruckheimer Television

Trivia:

In the scene at Skagg's studio, he's working on a painting of a dead man lying in a red convertible with his arm trailing along the edge of the door. The pose Jerzy's model is in is a homage to 'The Death of Marat', a 1793 painting by Jacques-Louis David. Jean-Paul Marat was a political figure in the French Revolution before his assassination in 1793. Art imitating life imitating Art.

Goofs:

Factual errors: When the CSI crew is going to find the child, they know they're heading to a place where carbon monoxide is being used to kill people. Yet, they don't alert paramedics, they don't even take any oxygen. Treating carbon monoxide poisoning with oxygen is First Aid 101. Truly professional CSI people would never make such a bonehead mistake, and would make sure paramedics were en route to the scene before they even headed out.