Bad to the Bone (1 Apr. 2004)

A very large man is beaten to death by a smaller man with enormous strength. During interrogation, the suspect jumps on Grissom and is subdued by police officers in the room. He ends up ... See full summary »

Director:

David Grossman

Writers:

Anthony E. Zuiker (creator), Eli Talbert

Stars:

William Petersen, Marg Helgenberger, Gary Dourdan

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
William Petersen	...	Gil Grissom
Marg Helgenberger	...	Catherine Willows
Gary Dourdan	...	Warrick Brown
George Eads	...	Nick Stokes
Jorja Fox	...	Sara Sidle
Eric Szmanda	...	Greg Sanders
Robert David Hall	...	Dr. Al Robbins
Paul Guilfoyle	...	Captain Jim Brass
Xander Berkeley	...	Sheriff Rory Atwater
Megan Follows	...	Beth Darian
Josh Stewart	...	Sean Cleary
Erik Passoja	...	Walter Darian
Archie Kao	...	Archie Johnson
Eric Stonestreet	...	Ronnie Litre
David Berman	...	David Phillips

Storyline

A very large man is beaten to death by a smaller man with enormous strength. During interrogation, the suspect jumps on Grissom and is subdued by police officers in the room. He ends up dead, not from being beaten, but from cardiac arrest. The findings in his stuffed car, which includes a waitress uniform, leads Grissom to investigate the dead man's motel. The result shocks the team when a skeleton of a woman is found buried in his property.

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

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Details

Language:

English

Release Date:

1 April 2004 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

CBS Paramount Network Television

Did You Know?

Goofs

During the facial reconstruction, the large plasma screen used has a 16:9 format, while the actual computer screen running the software is a standard 4:3 format. The image on the plasma screen is clearly the 4:3 image, stretched (and thus distorted) to fill the 16:9 screen. A real crime lab would obviously *not* distort the image (and thus change the proportions of the face shown) - the whole point of the facial reconstruction is to find the correct proportions of how the face looked like.

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Quotes

Grissom: [after getting attacked]
[to Catherine]
Grissom: I'm fine.
Catherine Willows: [touches his wound on his neck] Nasty. Kinda looks like a hicky.
[he pushes her hand away]

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Soundtracks

"Tuesday Morning"
(uncredited)
Written by Simon J. Hunter
Performed by Simon J. Hunter

User Reviews

Scary stuff, good back story

Maybe worth a 9 rating, but I'm stricter than most people on the ratings.

This starts off with a tough guy picking a fight. The scene cuts to later: we find that tough guy has received an absolutely brutal beating and died. At first it looks as though several people must have beaten him, but in the pathology lab scene (a CSI regular feature, where Grissom and Doc Robbins pontificate over a dead body) Robbins says it was probably just one..

It doesn't take the CSIs too long to discover the man who did it - a small man who must have been possessed by inhuman fury - sitting calmly having a drink in the same bar (smart fellow!) with badly swollen knuckles.

He turns out to be a truly scary guy. It does beggar belief that he's never been caught - bit of an idiot, though I wouldn't say it to his face :). But there's an interesting and moving back story woven in that is well worth watching.

Excellent television drama.