CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Season 6, Episode 4Shooting Stars (13 Oct. 2005)A UFO cult commits mass suicide in an underground complex shortly after apparently dumping a body in a garden. When the CSI team discover their bodies, they suspect two members are still alive and go looking for them. Director:Danny Cannon |
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A man and his wife are sleeping when their barking dog outside wakes them up. The man goes downstairs and discovers someone raiding his refrigerator. That guy races outside in the backyard where the husband sees a group - maybe 20 people, all very dirty-looking - standing there. They run off.
It turns out a body was left lying on the ground. The man has many, many injuries, too many to count. What happened to him? Who were all those people?
We see all kinds of strange scenes in this one-story episode, such a bombed-out car, another car with a body in the trunk, and most shocking: eleven recently-deceased bodies of young people lying in cots in an underground bunker. That's all part of a "Heaven's Gate"- type cult in which college age kids are recruited, believing some meteor shower is going to bring them to some kind of bliss in another world....or something like that.
The episode is interesting but too preachy, getting in a few religious cheap shots in here with numerous Biblical analogies.
Like the drink the kids took, this show left a bad taste my mouth.