Shooting Stars 

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

Writers:

Anthony E. Zuiker (created by), Danny Cannon

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	...	Al Robbins
Paul Guilfoyle	...	Jim Brass
Louise Lombard	...	Sofia Curtis
Clea DuVall	...	Abigail Spencer
Tomas Arana	...	Joseph Diamond
Jeannetta Arnette	...	Mrs. Spencer
Meta Golding	...	Tina Brewster
Josh Daugherty	...	Ty Bentley
A.J. Trauth	...	Dexter (as AJ Trauth)

Storyline

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.

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Plot Keywords:

suicide | mass suicide | written by director | husband wife relationship | kiss on the lips | 

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

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Certificate:

TV-14

Details

Language:

English

Release Date:

13 October 2005 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Jerry Bruckheimer Television,CBS Productions,Alliance Atlantis Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

45 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

First appearance of Warrick's wife Tina.

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Goofs

After Gil and Catherine find the silver BMW in the shack, they open the trunk and find a body with a chunk missing from the back of its head. Gil says he doubts it is a suicide and reaches into the trunk and removes a crowbar. As he holds it up, he calls it a tire iron. The octagonal shape of the bar, the leverage curve and the v-notch on the working end are clearly visible. A tire iron has the flat opposite of the curved end, the flat doesn't have a notch, and the curve is a dog-leg instead of a U. This mistake is also repeated during the autopsy when Gil states "We found a tire iron at the scene..."

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Quotes

Gil Grissom: Abigail, I'm sure if there is something out there, looking down on us from somewhere else in the universe, they're wise enough to stay away from us.

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Soundtracks

Ovary Stripe
Performed by 'Kasabian'

User Reviews

Leaves A Bad Taste

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.