Room Service (29 Sep. 2005)

An up and coming movie star is found dead in his hotel room after partying with groupies. In another case, a dead cab driver leads the team to a string of deaths involving immigrant workers.

Director:

Kenneth Fink

Writers:

Anthony E. Zuiker (creator), Dustin Lee Abraham,

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
Louise Lombard	...	Sofia Curtis
Wallace Langham	...	David Hodges
Art Chudabala	...	Keo Vipraxay
Paul Dillon	...	Joe Cavanaugh
Jeff D'Agostino	...	Gerald 'Blinky' Allison
Kristin Richardson	...	Eva
Silas Weir Mitchell	...	Willie Angel

Storyline

Julian Harper, a famous movie star, is found dead in his hotel suite after a wild night of partying and sex. Although his room has many traces of drugs and alcohol, his tox report shows that he couldn't have died from an overdose. He suffocated to death, yet his neck shows no signs of strangulation. Another case involves the death of three people, two Laotians and a taxi driver. One of the Laotians, as well as the unlucky cabbie, died from gunshot wounds. The other man, found in his car, died from excessive blood lost. This case leads the CSIs to a laundry facility that employs many South East Asians.

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

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Details

Language:

English Lao

Release Date:

29 September 2005 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

CBS Paramount Network Television

Did You Know?

Goofs

As the taxi is shown driving down the strip with the Asian passenger, we get to see casino signs reflected in the glass window. However they are not reflections as they are not reversed, you are seeing them as if you were looking out the window.

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Quotes

David Hodges: I was just having the greatest dream.
Warrick Brown: You were out.
David Hodges: It was the 80's and I had this Don Johnson beard, you know, the "Miami Vice" stubble. It just gave me this air of danger. My lady loved it.

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Connections

References Miami Vice (1984)

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Soundtracks

"Trapped in Hell's Waiting Room"
(uncredited)
Written by Simon J. Hunter
Performed by Simon J. Hunter
Under License from Wall Lizard Music LLC

User Reviews

Unsatisfying Endings, But Better Than The First Week

We see some handsome young movie actor with all his female admirers ogling him at several places, then a disturbed-looking Asian man getting out of a cab and obviously agitated. The next thing we know, all three have been shot. The latter two, we find out early, were shot by the same gun at the same time. A shotgun blasted the "fare" and one of the pellets caromed off an iron gate and struck the cab driver in the neck, killing him! But why was the man shot in the first place? The killer said he was shooting a "burglar" but there was nothing in his house to steal!

Meanwhile, how exactly and with what the young movie star was killed is puzzling the ME "Dr. Robbins" (Robert David Hall). The doctor sees no evidence, except for one mark on his neck, of how the man was asphyxiated, which seems to be the cause of death.

Not a bad episode, better than the opening week, but still a bit unsatisfying in the end on both murder cases.