My husband and I had to go to a meeting tonight at 7:30, so I taped 'Survivor". We got home at 9:15 and I stopped and rewound the tape. We watched the Survivor ep and there was 10 minutes of CSI after it. I got interested – so, who killed the little girl and why?
Her brother. The parents were going to force her to donate a kidney and the brother decided that the murder (by OD on painkillers) would be more defensible to God as a way to end her suffering on his behalf than suicide.
Thanks! So the parents did have here for spare parts, huh? Yuck.
Also, did the older sister know what was up and so try to cover for the brother?
Yep. She called in the false Amber Alert.
Even though I know CSI isn’t the paragon of scientific accuracy:
Is there enough blood used in a transfusion that it completely replaces a person’s blood to the extent that a crime lab can’t detect a difference after testing it three freakin’ times?
You missed the point:
The girl was a genetic match to her brother. Her blood type and his would be nearly identical (or even identical). Think identical twins.
RealityChuck, I thought the point was:
[spoiler]He also had her bone marrow. Bone marrow is what produces blood cells.[/spoilers]
Oh, crap! I previewed, I swear! How did that happen? Sorry. :smack:
While we’re picking nits, the discovery of the body really irritated me. According to Brass, “Her body was spotted by a tour helicopter passing by”.
So, this tour helicopter was “passing by” this area that is completely covered in fricking high-tension wires? The entire area looked like it was nothing by power lines, yet a tour helicoper operator thought it might be an interesting and safe place to fly. Ooookay then. :rolleyes:
Perhaps the area was passed by ON THE WAY to something interesting (Hoover Dam for example)
Brian
At a low enough altitude to spot a dead, wrapped body in a bunch of tall grass?
Lordy, do I hate CSI. But my husband loves it, and we were eating dinner, so there you have it.
I just finished reading My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult, and this episode was practically lifted from that book - the one child with leukemia, the other child conceived specifically to be a cord blood donor, then the sick kid needing bone marrow and blood and more and more and more, the other (older) child who is a Bad Kid, the sick kid eventually needing a kidney transplant. The gist of the book was the “donor child” suing her parents for medical emancipation from donating the kidney (well, that and they didn’t kill her), but other than that, I think the writers stole the idea from Picoult’s book.
This episode had one redeeming feature that most CSI episodes don’t: the family refused to take any crap from Grissom (or anyone else on the CSI team). It’s occasionally nice to see the wind get sucked out of his sanctimonious sails.
Total agreement with Hal Briston about the helicopter/wires gaffe. I said much the same out loud.
To continue the highjack -
Sadly, his “wind” was restored tenfold by the end of the episode…
…where the guilty son tells Grissom he’s doing God’s work. Like that fuzzy blowhard needs more of a messiah complex!
after preview: By “fuzzy blowhard” I meant Grissom, not God. Although I suppose the label could apply to either character.
I like the fuzzy blowhard. 
I completely agree with Hal Briston, though. The power lines annoyed the crap out of me.
Other shows have stolen from that book, BiblioCat. One of the Law and Orders had a similiar episode (ripped from the headlines!). It’s the shocking storyline du jour. Everybody’s gotta do a sibling-born-for-the-sake-of-another deal. Oh, the morality!
Was anyone disturbed by how tarted up Lindsey looked? She disappears for most of last season, as Catherine works nights and plays tonsil tennis with some night club owner, then reappears as a sullen 10-year-old that Cat needs to reconnect with. Either TPTB did a poor job with makeup on the little girl actor, or they deliberately smeared on the heavy blue eye shadow, blush, and lipstick to Make a Point. And Dave was quite right in telling Catherine that the morgue is not the place for her to practice her parenting skills.
They’re laying it on pretty thick, what with the lecture from the mom and all, and I think Catherine is going to have a crisis sometime during November or May with her daughter. (Sweeps, you know.)
Not to mention she was 8 a year or two ago (in the episode where Grissom and Nick both bought her a chemistry set for her birthday), and now they’re trying to tell us she’s 12. Didn’t Lindsey say she was 12 in the episode Thursday, the same age as the missing girl?
And I agree, she had waaaay too much make-up on; Catherine should have dunked her face in cold cream.
Actually, I was surprised by how much she reminded me of my 13 year old cousin, whose purpose in life is to Be Cool and Flirt With Boys. She always wears the little wee tank tops and a ton of makeup, which always looks bizarre to me on her still very baby looking (and in so many ways acting) self. I think Lindsay’s whole attitude, outfit, and makeup was sadly not unrealistic at all.
It’s only realistic if a mother lets it be so. My 12-year-old daughter may want to wear mascara and lip gloss and tight jeans that show off her butt, but it ain’t happening. I feel sorry for your 13-year-old cousin.