Pledging Mr. Johnson
- Episode aired Oct 27, 2000
- TV-14
- 45m
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7.7/10
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A severed leg is found in a lake while a fraternity pledge goes badly.A severed leg is found in a lake while a fraternity pledge goes badly.A severed leg is found in a lake while a fraternity pledge goes badly.
Terrell Clayton
- Homicide Detective Kane
- (as Paul Terrell Clayton)
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- TriviaThis episode was inspired by a real life hazing gone wrong. In 1959, Richard Swanson choked to death on a piece of liver while pledging the Kappa Sigma fraternity at the University of Southern California.
- GoofsWhen the team is examining the frat boy, discussing the petechial hemorrhaging, the ME shines the pen light into the decedent's eye, which flutters in reaction to the light, revealing the dramatic irony that using a fake corpse is better than trying to make an actor play one.
- Quotes
Catherine Willows: You're right, you know. I should be just like you. Alone in my hermetically sealed condo, watching Discovery on the big screen, working genius-level crossword puzzles. But no relationships, no chance any will slop over into a case. Yeah, right. I want to be just like you.
Gil Grissom: Technically it's a townhouse. And the crosswords are advanced, not genius. But you're right, I'm deficient in a lot of ways. But I never screw up one of my cases with personal stuff.
Catherine Willows: Grissom... WHAT personal stuff?
- ConnectionsReferences Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
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Loose Lips Sink Ships
The two cases involve a woman, found dead in a lake after one of her legs has been severed. Her husband is losing her and there is another man. It's another case where Grissom refuses to accept cursory evidence. The second is about a fraternity pledge who is suspected of hanging himself. But when hazing comes into the picture, things go haywire. There is a bit of a cliche here with the head of the fraternity being connected and having a thing with power. Bot cases have neat solutions and make this one of the better episodes.
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- Hitchcoc
- Dec 25, 2020
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