Toe Tags (5 Oct. 2006)

A group of dead bodies in the Las Vegas morgue get to know each other while CSI tries to solve the crimes that got them there.

Director:

Jeffrey G. Hunt

Writers:

Anthony E. Zuiker (creator), Richard Catalani (teleplay),

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
Louise Lombard	...	Sofia Curtis
Paul Guilfoyle	...	Captain Jim Brass
Wallace Langham	...	David Hodges
David Eigenberg	...	Gavin McGill
Rick Yune	...	Mr. Hsing
Paula Jai Parker	...	Julia Beltran (as Paula Jai Parker-Martin)
Jessica Steen	...	Donna Basset
Alexondra Lee	...	Rebecca McGill

Storyline

A group of dead bodies in the Las Vegas morgue get to know each other while CSI tries to solve the crimes that got them there.

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Plot Keywords:

morgue | nude woman murdered | police officer killed | narration from the grave | woman drowned | 

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

5 October 2006 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Jerry Bruckheimer Television, Alliance Atlantis Productions, CBS Paramount Network Television

Technical Specs

Runtime:

41 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

The talking corpses device is borrowed from the original opening of Sunset Blvd. In this opening, Joe Gillis and other corpses discuss how they met their ends while lying in the morgue.

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Goofs

The Toe Tag of Victim #1 reads 'Basset, Donna'. Her San Francisco PD I.D. also shows her to be Det. Donna Basset. However, during Catherine's fingerprint analysis, the victim's name is misspelled on the computer screen and shows up as 'BASSERT, DONNA'.

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Connections

References American Beauty (1999)

User Reviews

CSI trying something new...

CSI is one of my favorite shows, but I have to admit that one of the drawbacks of the show is that it has almost always followed a variation of the same basic format for almost the entire running of the series up to this point. In this episode, they try a little story-telling experiment, and it doesn't really work out so well.

There are four separate cases dealt with in this episode, and they are presented in an interesting way, but the problem is that they are introduced and wrapped up far too quickly and, most of all, the corpses talk. I don't know whose idea that was, but the talking corpses was goofy in the extreme.

As soon as the eyes popped open on one at the beginning of the episode, I thought that someone had suddenly come back to life somehow and my interest was immediately piqued. But then I realized that autopsies had already been performed and my eyes glazed over for the rest of the episode.

It's an otherwise entertaining episode and we get to see Grissom giving some kind of lecture tour, bringing students through the crime lab (I never knew this was part of his job), but the theatrics really brought it down.