Grave Danger (1)
- Episode aired May 19, 2005
- TV-14
- 1h 25m
IMDb RATING
8.5/10
3.1K
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While investigating a case, Nick is abducted and is buried alive in a special coffin while his team takes unorthodox steps to try to find him.While investigating a case, Nick is abducted and is buried alive in a special coffin while his team takes unorthodox steps to try to find him.While investigating a case, Nick is abducted and is buried alive in a special coffin while his team takes unorthodox steps to try to find him.
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Did you know
- TriviaThe episode is dedicated to the actor and impressionist Frank Gorshin, who had made a guest appearance playing himself in this episode. Gorshin was a popular headline act in Vegas in his heyday. He died shortly before the episode originally aired.
- GoofsWhen the CSI show the video feed to Nick's parents, the timer is clearly inconsistent. It is most visible at the end of the scene: just before Nick's father leaves the room, the timer is on 04:01:42 going down to 04:01:39. When Catherine looks at the screen 18 seconds later into the scene the timer is still at 04:01:39.
- Quotes
Tony Curtis: [about early 70's] Everybody knew your name in those days.
Frank Gorshin: You could dress up in drag.
Tony Curtis: Me, dress up in drag? Who do you think you're talking to? Jack Lemmon?
- ConnectionsEdited into CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Daddy's Little Girl (2006)
Featured review
(review for parts 1 & 2) Tarantino puts on the white gloves...
I normally don't watch CSI- not because I particularly dislike the show, but I just don't have it as a main priority on TV (and in general it's tough to get into a show and stick with it these days). But, as with ER, when filmmaker Quentin Tarantino pops up to take the helm for an episode, I'll sit up and take notice. This time it was well worth the wait (missed the original airing, saw it again later). This is indeed one of the more intense- and of course mainstream (in an ironic way)- things Tarantino has done. It's also interesting right off the bat that, despite giving the initial story, is not really credited with writing the script here. So Tarantino is coming in on to a show that's already got its own fan base, and usually style. I wondered if he would be able to subvert himself, or just go with his own thing. The latter seemed to be the case, to great effect.
Basic story- one of the CSI guys, Nick Stokes, is kidnapped by a psychotic (John Saxon) who wants a million dollars in an hour. The CSI guys have to scramble, but then after a wild chance of occurrence (i.e. Saxon's character does a very un-expected thing), the CSI people have to scramble to find Nick before the clock runs out. This story has the elements of what could've been made as a pretty nifty but somewhat standard state of story mechanics told- and one has seen stories like these in films before (The Cell kind of comes to mind, though QT's own Kill Bill 2 with the Bride in the grave is there too). But with a director like this, there's a lot of little unexpected opportunities and twists in the storytelling screws that make it like the best action film you wish to see. And of course with Tarantino there are the morbidly, hysterically funny moments, some more over the top than others (the black and white scene involving two doctors and Nick is the best). But there are even moments where he actually sticks to the more 'TV' material, with (good) TV dialog and solid styling.
In short, though I've never really watched another CSI episode from start to finish, I was extremely satisfied with this two-parter, that leaves on such cliffhangers from commercial spot to spot that it almost becomes unbearable. All the minutes inside that box mark as some of the best minutes on TV all of last year...not to mention a couple of amazing cameo apparances from Saxon (maybe one of his best roles that some of his die-hard fans will rush out to see on DVD) and Kill Bill actor Clark Middleton (in part 1 only).
Basic story- one of the CSI guys, Nick Stokes, is kidnapped by a psychotic (John Saxon) who wants a million dollars in an hour. The CSI guys have to scramble, but then after a wild chance of occurrence (i.e. Saxon's character does a very un-expected thing), the CSI people have to scramble to find Nick before the clock runs out. This story has the elements of what could've been made as a pretty nifty but somewhat standard state of story mechanics told- and one has seen stories like these in films before (The Cell kind of comes to mind, though QT's own Kill Bill 2 with the Bride in the grave is there too). But with a director like this, there's a lot of little unexpected opportunities and twists in the storytelling screws that make it like the best action film you wish to see. And of course with Tarantino there are the morbidly, hysterically funny moments, some more over the top than others (the black and white scene involving two doctors and Nick is the best). But there are even moments where he actually sticks to the more 'TV' material, with (good) TV dialog and solid styling.
In short, though I've never really watched another CSI episode from start to finish, I was extremely satisfied with this two-parter, that leaves on such cliffhangers from commercial spot to spot that it almost becomes unbearable. All the minutes inside that box mark as some of the best minutes on TV all of last year...not to mention a couple of amazing cameo apparances from Saxon (maybe one of his best roles that some of his die-hard fans will rush out to see on DVD) and Kill Bill actor Clark Middleton (in part 1 only).
- Quinoa1984
- Mar 1, 2006
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- Runtime1 hour 25 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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