CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (TV Series) Caged (2001) User Reviews

One of My Favorites

[Hitchcoc · 9/10 · 5 January 2021]

I was impressed when I saw this the first time. It involves two really interesting cases. The first is the death of a woman who works on rare books. The most interesting person is an autistic young man who works at the facility. He has incredible recall but few social skills. The second is a woman who has been killed at a railroad crossing, seemingly trying to beat a train, but Catherine and Sarah find a couple of damaged parts and this causes them to look further. Excellent police work. By the way, at times Nick can be a real cretin.

CSI:Crime Scene Investigation-Caged

[Scarecrow-88 · 8/10 · 7 December 2010]

A woman is found dead in a cage which houses precious books in a historical library, the key to her demise could very well lie in the mind of a highly intelligent, incredibly ordered autistic young man named Aaron. A ballpoint pen and a poison derived from ricin could be the answer, but who is the one responsible? Grissom really attaches to Aaron as he tries to get as much exact, elaborate detail from him as humanly possible(Aaron may be autistic, but details are his specialty and his memory of faces, conversations, and words from books is extraordinary). Meanwhile Catherine and Sara work on the case of a woman whose SUV was crushed head on by an oncoming train..the reason may not be suicide as first impressions would surmise. Tire tracks, a 911 call for help, and the emergency break, along with eye witness testimony of an Accountant's tirade with the victim, could lead Catherine and Sara to an actual murder. Sadly tragic is this case as one woman's love for her dog could've been the reason she didn't exit her SUV as the train was about to destroy her. Aaron's love for the victim and his quote from Othello(his favorite Shakespeare)are especially endearing, although she planned to implicate him for a forgery operation orchestrated by their boss, Mr. Hunter(Currie Graham). Amazing work from Michael A Goorjian as the autistic Aaron, the way he is able to embody this character and all his movements and quirks.

The Poison and the Train

[claudio_carvalho · 8/10 · 8 October 2022]

When the restorer Veronica Bradley is found dead in a cage in the Historical Society's basement, the only witness is the autistic co-worker Aaron Pratt that worshiped her. While investigating the case, Grissom and Nick suspects of Aaron and their boss, the curator Stanley Hunter. Meanwhile, Catherine and Sara investigate the death of Megan Treadwell, who was apparently killed when a train crashed her car in a crossroad after being hit by another car.

"Caged" is another good episode of "CSI", with two segments as usual. The one of the restorer has a good conclusion, with Grissom and Nick finding what happened. The one relative to the woman hit by a train is also great, with Catherine and Sara disclosing what have happened to Megan. My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): "Enjaulada" ("Caged")

Keep Your Cool.

[rmax304823 · 6/10 · 8 January 2012]

Kind of an interesting set of cases. A train demolishes a young woman's car while skid marks indicate she was trying to stop it from crashing the barrier. Another young woman foams at the mouth and drops dead in the locked and caged room of an improbable collection of rare and exotic books in a Las Vegas library, the only witness being an autistic young man.

The episode has a few morals in tow. One is that you should never have an argument with a man who has been hijacked by his amygdala while behind the wheel -- and if he throws the F bomb at you, do not throw your coffee at him.

The second is that, if you insist on committing forgery as part of a conspiracy, be absolutely certain that you're taking castor oil to keep regular and nothing else.

If only life were this simple.