Committed
Grissom and Sara investigate the murder of a mental-hospital patient and quickly narrow down the suspects to a handful of other patients and staff members.
Synopsis
Sara accompanies Grissom to a mental hospital, where one of its inmates has been murdered inside his room. Interviewing patients proves to be harder than usual, as most of them are mentally unstable. While the two CSIs are there, they uncover more than just the crime. One of the most shocking discoveries involves a patient with a dark childhood, which is still haunting him, and a nurse with a secret.
Review
Sara is attacked by the main suspect when Grissom walks off and leaves her all alone in the nurse’s station. Later, we learn that Sara’s mother spent a few months in a psychiatric hospital, and that Sara used to visit her.
In the original script, the scene where Sara is attacked was supposed to show the suspect (Adam) fantasizing about raping her. On the DVD’s commentary, Jorja Fox says she was both ’excited and terrified’ when she first read that scene.
During the interrogation scene, when the camera pans down Sara, her fingernail is painted gold in a ‘shout out’ to episode writer Sarah Goldfinger.
Notes
- Sara’s mother spent some time in an institution again after “ Nesting Dolls.”
- Sara again refuses to leave a case in which she’s become personally invested.
Quotes
Sara: (patient bites at swab) Grissom… you take this one.
Sara: Sometimes a dying whale is just a dying whale.
Sara: When my father died, my mother came to a place like this for a while for evaluation. It looked the same, it smelled the same. It smelled like lies.
Grissom: You sure you’re okay?
Sara: Crazy people do make me feel crazy.
Grissom: If you want, I can have somebody take your place.
Sara: I appreciate that. I do, I really do, but … […] I kind of made a decision to move beyond that and … I really want to finish this case.
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