CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (TV Series) A Thousand Days on Earth (2008) User Reviews

Collateral Damage

[Hitchcoc · 8/10 · 21 February 2021]

A toddler is found in a box on a boulevard. This jacks up the CSI's and Brass to catch the perpetrator. It gives us a look at something I think about from time to time. Does having a record give the authorities license to do anything they want to you if you happen to be a suspect. I know of an 18 year old in my home town who had consensual sex with a 17 year old. The parents of the girl pressed charges and he has been labeled a sex offender for his entire life. Yes, that's the law, but.... The CSI's are not the judge and jury but are often portrayed that way. Grissom is very clear on the limitations and the need for hard core evidence. This question comes into play here.

Heartbreaking Episode with Lives Destroyed

[claudio_carvalho · 8/10 · 25 March 2023]

When a baby girl is found dead in a wrapped in a blanked inside a cardboard box in a parking lot, the CSIs investigate the case. Soon there is a great commotion about the case, and Warrick and Nick install a survey camera hidden in a bunch of flowers at the shrine of "Baby Cordelia" to see the people that is honoring the toddler. Grissom finds a bar code inside the box, and the CSIs find that the box was shipped to a Nora O'Toole with a vacuum cleaner. Brass and Catherine visits Nora and she tells them that her fiancé Dean James discarded the box in the trash. When Catherine learns that Dean James is indeed the registered Leo Finley that lied to Brass and she, he becomes her prime suspect despite his explanations and Grissom warnings that there are other evidences to be followed. But the investigation continues to a tragic conclusion.

"A Thousand Days on Earth" is a heartbreaking episode with lives destroyed in the end. The poor father of the "Baby Cordelia" because of his unfortunate decision knowing how the American system works, and the arrogant Catherine Willows, with her hasty deduction despite Grissom's warning, destroying an innocent man's life. The mission of a CSI investigator is to check the evidences, and not judge the case. My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil); "A Thousand Days on Earth"

Giving 'Catherine The Nazi' A Piece Of His Mind!

[ccthemovieman-1 · 24 January 2009]

I liked the ending to this episode. It was different, and but I don't think it's going to lead to anything as sometimes its done when we see serial killers or stalkers. They wind up being part of a two-part story, or more.

Here, a guy with a shady past (one incident where he got stoned out of his mind, went outside naked and got charged with a number of things including being put on Megan's List because 20 little kids saw him naked.) Anyway, this guy is a chronic liar but one of the points of this story - apparently - is about being falsely accused of something, and how easy it is once you are a registered sex offender. I don't know if CSI isn't defending sex-offenders as "victims," but with the agenda this program sometimes has, nothing would surprise me.

Nevertheless, the offender who now is proved innocent, gets "Catherine" a nice little speech and a piece of his mind for the "Nazi" tactics and attitude she had toward him. You can't blame him. Marg Helgenberger's character here ("Catherine Willows") has gotten very hard-edged in recent years, I think, so I didn't mind seeing her told off.

The case in this episode is finding out who left a little dead girl in a cardboard box at an intersection in town. Who murdered her and why, and why left in a box? All of those questions are answered.

Note: I still find it odd not to see "Sara" (Jorja Fox) anymore. It's a void. This was mainly a Grissom-Brass-Willows story, with a little Warrick thrown in. "Nick," I think, had the week off.