Fracked (11 Nov. 2010)

The deaths of a rancher and an engineer are tied together by their connections to a tainted water supply and the small-town newspaper reporter trying to expose it.

Director:

Martha Coolidge

Writers:

Anthony E. Zuiker (creator), Bradley Thompson,

Stars:

Laurence Fishburne, Marg Helgenberger, George Eads

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
Laurence Fishburne	...	Dr. Raymond Langston
Marg Helgenberger	...	Catherine Willows
George Eads	...	Nick Stokes
Jorja Fox	...	Sara Sidle
Eric Szmanda	...	Greg Sanders
Robert David Hall	...	Dr. Al Robbins
Wallace Langham	...	David Hodges
David Berman	...	David Phillips
Paul Guilfoyle	...	Captain Jim Brass
Angela Bettis	...	Rosalind Johnson
Henry G. Sanders	...	Bill Gibson
Megan Ward	...	Lisa Adams
Archie Kao	...	Archie Johnson
Marc Vann	...	Conrad Ecklie
Katee Sackhoff	...	Detective Frankie Reed

Storyline

In desert town Cable Springs, skinny dipping teenagers are surprised by the corpse of local petty rancher Walter Burns. He was dumped after drowning elsewhere. the only car traces lead to the corpse in Las Vegas of natural gas company Conservo's engineer Richard Adams, who was hot and hidden in a dumpster. the trail leads back to Burns' neighbor Bill Gibson, who commits suicide in a spectacularly surprising way, desperate because of extreme pollution, most likely the result of Conservo's 'fracking'. All three had contact with the local one woman-newspaper maker.

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Plot Keywords:

skinny dipping | swimwear | bare chested male | explosion | contraband | 

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

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Details

Language:

English

Release Date:

11 November 2010 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Jerry Bruckheimer Television, CBS Television Studios

Technical Specs

Runtime:

60 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

At one point Ecklie tells Catherine that she's not Erin Brockovich. Just a nice shout out since Marg Helgenberger was in Erin Brockovich.

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Goofs

Langston states that the Cuyahoga River is just outside Cleveland. The Cuyahoga River bisects Cleveland.

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Connections

References Battlestar Galactica (2004)

User Reviews

Environmental Propaganda

This was basically an environmental agenda episodes with a company "fracking" and not being careful enough to monitor the quality of water in the area. People in this small rural area outside Las Vegas are getting sick and are dying from the water. A local editor of a weekly rag is one step away from proving her case printing it in her newspaper.

With two violent deaths come investigations from the CSI team as they try and put two-and-two together on what or who is causing these deaths and why these people died. It appears they were about to blow the whistle on this company which was poisoning the local water supply.

Along the way, we learn what the term "fracking" means.....if CSI had that correct.

Overall, however, as what happens when you bring an agenda to the table, it gets overwrought with the points you are trying to make. How they handled the character of the newspaper editor, and Ray Langston's responses to her, is Exhibit A.