CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (TV Series) Secrets & Flies (2005) User Reviews

A first class episode

[akicork · 9/10 · 29 November 2021]

I reckon this to be one of the best episodes of the whole run of the programme. It has two jaw-droppingly loathsome baddies, while avoiding unnecessary gore and torture. Our hearts are broken for Catherine's victim and for the daughter of that villain, two women who just wanted the best for a child. The timing of the revelation of the skulduggery of Grissom's opponent was perfect, and to see him getting such a well-deserved comeuppance at the end was the cream in the eclair. A well balanced and satisfying episode.

Birth and Death

[Hitchcoc · 8/10 · 7 February 2021]

A young mother is found dead, a bullet in her head. There is a note written by her on a coffee table. The issue is that there are is all kinds of evidence that it was not a suicide. I won't get into the details. The fact that the person who committed the murder was caught is not liberal prejudice. It was the right call. That old lady took the life of someone. Where is the right to life thing there? Where is the religious prejudice. In the second case, a murderer will go free based on an entomologist research, but it turns out he doctored his demonstration. Gil and the CSI's got him.

The Baby and the Flies

[claudio_carvalho · 8/10 · 27 January 2023]

When Lana Adalian arrives in Las Vegas to visit her sister Christina, she sees her sister through the window laying on the floor and her nephew Joey in the cradle, and calls the police. Catherine and Sara meet Capt. Brass at the crime scene and they soon find that it was staged to look like a suicide. In the autopsy, Dr. Robbins finds that Christina was virgin and the owner of the weapon she used, Duane McWane, who tells that he gave the weapon to Rita Day. She says that she lost the gun in a poker game to a man called Cy, with a large mole between the eyes. When they find that Joey is not the biological son of Christina, they shift their investigation to another direction. Meanwhile, Grissom is summoned by Ecklie and Undersheriff Jeffrey McKeen that ask him to go to court to hear the testimony of the independent entomologist Mark Thayer. He will present proves that Preston Breckman has not killed McKeen's goddaughter Joanna Whitman based on an experiment with flies questioning the number of days that Joanna was dead that was crucial for the trial of Breckman.

"Secrets & Flies" is another great episode of "CSI", with two engaging segments. Grissom's one shows his knowledge to resolve a complicated scam using his skills in insects. The other segment, with the rest of the team, is interesting with a surprising discovery in the end. My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): "Secrets & Flies"

Wow! Hostile towards Christians Much?

[maria_garcia_us · 1/10 · 21 October 2022]

This episode would have been just as good as the vast majority of them if they could have just left their anti-Christian hostility out of the story line.

There's the silly handwriting interpretation dude. But the ink identification, pen information was ok. The fly information was good.

But they just couldn't keep the pro-abortion, anti-pro-life, Christians are nutty out. Adopting fertilized embryos is treated as insane, unethical, illogical. The show is flat out hostile to the thought that anyone could possibly believe that unborn babies are human beings with souls, that there are people out there willing to carry these babies to term.