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8/10
A Totally-Insane (But Fun) Episode
ccthemovieman-124 January 2009
Warning: Spoilers
There are so many wacky, insane things in this episode, I wouldn't know where to start.

Suffice to say, this show continues people with green blood, a deer killed with a crossbow and then having a skirt put on it; a lady who wears tinfoil and says she communicates with aliens, a 60-some year old married couple who die in their sleep in the same night but aren't murdered; a ultra-violent drunk who is beats up several officers at police headquarters, is pepper-sprayed and then tasered and then bursts into flames and dies.

In addition, there are lawnfuls of dead squirrels at the old folks place and at their welder/sculptor neighbor's, who is a woman who is flaky......and then there is the big story about brutal migraines and what they are doing to some of the above-mentioned people.

Among the wacky, sad to say, are the three usual CSI suspects: the ludicrous "Hodges,"Wendy," and "David." The latter, the assistant ME, is brought to tears over a dead animal but is never upset at a human being killed. Another CSI worker, the female who wears glasses ("Mandy?"), tells Hodges he'd better stop living with his mom if he wants a girl, meaning her. There is a lot more, but why spoil it? At the end of the show, Grissom gives his "Theory of Everything" which could possibly tie all the bizarre events together. His New Age speech all being tied together by some invisible string is utterly laughable, but he's serious and all his CSI subordinates seem to nod in agreement. Man, these "scientists" will anything about the universe, except about a God, of course.

None of the three CSI shows gets as bizarre as this one has done the last three years. Sometimes it's funny, sometimes it's insultingly-stupid but it's usually pretty interesting. Never a dull moment in Las Vegas, I guess, especially when you have wackos as the good guys and the bad guys!
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8/10
Grissom's Theory
claudio_carvalho29 March 2023
Brass is interrogating a highly intoxicated man, Kyle Planck, who was driving his truck with a female deer with a dress and killed with a crossbow. When Nick makes the breathalyzer test on Kyle, he leaves the room and runs through the station, knocking police officers down. One officer throws pepper spry on him but he does not stop. When he is surrounded by the officers, Brass asks one of them to hit him with the taser, setting him on fire and killing him. Then the CSI's longtime acquaintance, the deranged Evelyn, is found dead on a road hit by a truck, and her blood is green. Then Grissom is called to a nearby crime scene, where a homeless man is found dead and also with green blood. Meanwhile, Catherine and Warrick are summoned to a crime scene where an old couple is found dead apparently while sleeping. When Mandy identifies the fingerprint of the murder weapon that killed the homeless man, the crimes begin to be resolved and Grissom has a theory in the end.

"The Theory of Everything" is an episode of "CSI" where several crimes are interconnected in a kind of the theory of six degrees of separation for murders by Grissom. The plot is intriguing and mysterious for most of the crimes, having explained twists on each segment. The tragic death of Kyle Planck and the green blood are also well explained. My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): "The Theory of Everything"
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9/10
Coincidence versus String Theory
Hitchcoc22 February 2021
I can't begin to explain all the connections that take place here. It starts with a drunk who has dressed a dead deer in women's clothing. He later is immolated by a taser. There are also people dying with green blood and a herd of squirrels. The last scene shows how these may be related as two old folks have died in their beds. I know it is crazy, but sometimes one can appreciate the Rube Goldbergishness of this kind of episode. Grissom tells Hodges to quit stalking him and asks him how he got his brown nose.
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Super confused and confusing story that made zero sense
interestingstuff16 March 2022
This episode reaches really really hard, to the extreme levels, to appear smart and intelligent while at the same time manages to be super confused, stupid and nonsensical. Basically this is like a crossover of CSI, X-Files and Looney Tunes where the episode throws everything at you including the kitchen sink to look interesting but only manages to be confused and doesn't make any sense.

I know CSI isn't supposed to make sense, it's more like a comedy show that pretends to be serious but this one pushes the envelope even further into asinine territory. You have to actually make special effort to come up with a storyline this confused and stupid. It wouldn't just happen by itself.

At the end, they throw 6-7 different cases at you and fail to solve any of them to the satisfaction and still pretend they solved all cases at the end. Typical CSI.
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