CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (TV Series) Burn Out (2006) User Reviews

The Amber Alert and the Arsonist

[claudio_carvalho · 7/10 · 11 February 2023]

When the eleven-year-old Jason Crowley and the ten-year-old Lucas Hanson go missing, there is an Amber Alert in Las Vegas. Capt. Brass has a meeting with the police officers to give information about the case and Nick, who is investigating an arson case, calls Grissom and tells that both cases may be related. The owner of the house, Carl Fisher, is a pedophile with record and claims that every time there is an Amber Alert, someone wants to kill him. Brass interviews the mother of Lucas, Dawn, at the police station and she blames her ex-husband Perry for kidnapping Lucas. Sofia and Catherine interview Jason's grandfather, the violent Terrance, who is taking care of his grandson while his son is working in Houston. They proceed their investigation and they find that Terrance had fought the boys in an abandoned house and they flee from him. Meanwhile, Grissom convinces Fisher to stay in the precinct to help him in his investigation. When the body of Lucas is found buried in a golf club, the CSI team seeks out other evidences to find who might have killed the boy and what happened to Jason.

"Burn Out" is another good episode of "CSI", with the story of two missing boy and an arson case that may be interconnected. The American system of register child abusers seems to be very unfair: if the pedophile is not healed, he should stay imprisoned or interned in a clinic. This present system generates prejudice and the buy is not able to return to the normal life. If is not possible to recover these criminals, laws should change to life sentence. My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): "Burn Out"

Good Acting, And Not The Expected Ending

[ccthemovieman-1 · 10/10 · 16 December 2008]

This was a very disturbing story, but an excellent one. It didn't have the ending I expected.

I've watched all the CSI stories to date, including the Miami and New York shows, and this ending surprised me, so kudos to the writers for going against the grain here.

Alan Tudyk is riveting as the prime suspect, "Carl Fisher," a child molester who is the number-one suspect when two neighborhood boys go missing. One of the boys winds up dead. Another suspect is the other boy's grandpa, who is nothing but a big bully.

Clifton Powell plays him. Powell is a veteran actor who has a long resume here on IMDb. He and Tudyk make this a particularly-fascinating episode. Beware, though: the subject matter is not pleasant.

some killer actors.

[AmericanDude · 10/10 · 13 February 2020]

Some killer actors in this episode. It has the guy that plays Michael Weston's brother on burn notice. It has the sister to Skyler White on breaking bad, and it had the guy that plays John Diggle on Arrow. All shows I've watched

A super slow episode that didn't have any actual CSI in it

[interestingstuff · 3 March 2022]

This episode is a bit different than your typical CSI episode because the entire episode consists of interrogating a suspect to solve a case with little to no actual CSI work. The case was eventually "solved" but without using any CSI science.

Also the pace of the episode is extremely slow, so slow that even though the episode is only 43 minutes long, it felt like I watched a 3-hour movie.

Not to mention "the plot twist" at the end was extremely predictable as is the case with almost every single CSI episode.