"CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" Spellbound (2006)

Director:

Jeffrey G. Hunt

Writers:

Anthony E. Zuiker (creator) and
Jacqueline Hoyt (writer)

TV Series:

"CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" (2000)

Original Air Date:

6 April 2006 (Season 6, Episode 19)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Plot:

A psychic is murdered in her own shop after predicting her own death. |

Plot Keywords:

Sixth Sense | Fortune Teller | Investigation | Crime Lab | Police

US TV Schedule:

Wed. Jan. 6	11:00 AM	SPIKETV	Spellbound	#6.19
Wed. Jan. 6	4:00 PM	SPIKETV	Spellbound	#6.19

Cast

William Petersen	...	Gil Grissom
Marg Helgenberger	...	Catherine Willows
Gary Dourdan	...	Warrick Brown
George Eads	...	Nick Stokes (credit only)
Jorja Fox	...	Sara Sidle (credit only)
Eric Szmanda	...	Greg Sanders
Robert David Hall	...	Dr. Al Robbins
Paul Guilfoyle	...	Captain Jim Brass
Wallace Langham	...	David Hodges
Liz Vassey	...	Wendy Simms
Joseph Lyle Taylor	...	Damon
John Mese	...	Gordon Wallace
Jennifer Grant	...	Sedona Wylie
Eric Jungmann	...	Reese Bingham
Archie Kao	...	Archie Johnson

Runtime:

Netherlands:55 min (including commercials)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Netherlands:12

Company:

CBS Paramount Network Television

Trivia:

_Spellbound (1945)_ was a movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock. While Gregory Peck appeared in that movie, Cary Grant, father of Jennifer Grant, appeared in four Hitchcock movies: Suspicion (1941), Notorious (1946), To Catch a Thief (1955) and North by Northwest (1959).

Goofs:

Factual errors: Greg Sanders mentions his psychic grandmother, named Olaf. It has earlier been mentioned that Sanders family is Norwegian. However Olaf is a name used on male, not female. If his grandmother is Norwegian, there is no way she can have been called Olaf.

Quotes:

Gil Grissom: What am I thinking?
Greg Sanders: That I'm due for a promotion?
Gil Grissom: That you should focus on your other five senses.

Movie Connections:

References Spellbound (1945)

We Hear What We Want To Hear

It's never surprising to me to see a modern television show, with all its secular writers, give credence to the occult. They certainly don't that to the opposite: Christianity. That's been scoffed at a few times by Bill Petersen's "Grissom" in this show. To be fair, he admits to going to a psychic once but generally isn't a believer in that, either.

The "believers" are everyone else, especially CSI field man "Greg Sanders," who pushes it when he can here. So does a police captain, who claims the psychic who was killed in this show gave him evidence on a past case that no else did. It's all treated with credibility. Thank goodness, "Grissom," after the case has been solved, does fit things into the right places when he explains the problems people have with "perceptions."

In all, no matter how one views "psychics," it wasn't all that great a show and didn't have any suspense to it. However, like almost all CSI episodes, it didn't bore me.