CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (TV Series) Up in Smoke (2006) User Reviews

Ups and downs!

[akicork · 8/10 · 27 May 2020]

The main down was the realisation that Nick Stokes' haircut was approaching that of Mike Nesmith - or maybe even Peter Tork? Of what were the producers thinking? Not the right image. The ups were the emotional upthrusts throughout the episode, leading to the final scene.

Good Carryover Episode

[Hitchcoc · 8/10 · 10 February 2021]

When a chimney begins to smoke, a body is found in the chimney. This leads to the investigation of a guy who appeared as a suspect in the death of a sixteen year old girl earlier. This episode has lots of nice twists and turns. The good guys aren't always who you think they are. One thing, once again Catherine is playing fast and loose with search and seizure stuff. Still, it works quite well.

The Chimney

[claudio_carvalho · 8/10 · 3 February 2023]

When Martin Sidley lights the fire in the fireplace to please his girlfriend, the smoke returns to the living room and he calls the firemen. They find a charred body inside the chimney and summon the police and the CSI team. Nick and Sara arrive at the scene and remove the bricks, finding the body. David Phillips says that the victim is a male that was burned a few days ago. Then he finds a burnt plastic card and Nick discovers later that it belongs to Martin Sidley's son, Tad. Meanwhile, Catherine and Warrick recall that Martin was involved in the disappearance of the sixteen-year-old aspirant photographer Caroline Fitzgibbons, who is still missing. They use their warrant to investigate the previous case, and they find blood under a piece of wood withdrawn by Warrick. When they learn that Tad is alive and the blood belongs to Caroline, they proceed a different investigation with surprising results.

"Up in Smoke" is another great episode of "CSI", with a plot with many twists. The investigation begins with a charred corpse, wrongly identified later, and end with a cold case of a missing teenager. The screenplay is very well-written and apparently without flaws. My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): "Up in Smoke"

Lots Of Twists At The End

[ccthemovieman-1 · 6/10 · 22 March 2007]

A "smoked" body is found in a chimney of a wealthy man's house. By smoked I mean the guy was already dead and burned. Then he was dumped in the chimney and was further charred. The body was a lot smaller by then but, thanks to some CSI work and a gym membership card in the deceased pants, they later found out who he was....the son of another guy from a previous episode who was involved with a female minor who since disappeared.

Meanwhile, they have to find out what happened to this kid. Further examination by Doc Robbins reveals he was the victim of a blunt forced trauma, then burned. That, it turns out, had no relevance in the case. Instead, this episode turns out to be more about the previous case with the missing girl.

Everyone is on this case, figuring out the usual who, what, why and hows of the mystery. The opening scene of this charred skeleton, complete with gruesome Halloween-type skull staring at us, and the ending which included several startling twists in the last five minutes, were the best parts of the show.