At the end the man goes free (and his girlfriend and Grissom are there when he's released), and the episode ends with these lines: suspect: It's funny. When I
got out, I thought I'd feel ... (sighs) ...free. Ironically, Grissom helped free a man who very well may have committed the murders of his wife and son. But he looked so cool doing it. Scuba Dooba Doo In the story, two land developers get in a fight, with one killing the other. The killer inexplicably decides to disguise the murder to resemble the urban myth. So he lathers his dead partner up with soap and somehow gets a wetsuit on him (anyone who's ever donned a wetsuit while alive would know how impossible it'd be to get that thing on when you're dead). The killer gears up his victim, complete with scuba tank, then props him up in the woods and lights a match, creating a forest fire which ultimately blows up the scuba tank and sends the dead diver high into a tree. Later we find that the diver, a developer, was also an environmentalist, which was likely only a vehicle to introduce a bit of oxymoronic humor into the plot (in this case, the scriptwriters had some fun with the term 'tree-hugger'). Enter the amazingly adroit CSI team. The character Catherine performs her investigation in the charred forest wearing a knockout tight and brilliantly white blouse - hardly the appropriate clothing for examining a fire scene. But she looked great! Her partner discovers the remains of a cigarette butt embedded in a charred pack of matches, and determines that this was a time delay device which allowed the arsonist an extra 5 minutes to escape undetected. If the scriptwriters had done their research, they'd have discovered that, while smoldering rates vary, the burning time of an unpuffed cigarette is actually 10 to 30 minutes. |
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