CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (TV Series) Sqweegel (2010) User Reviews

Blue Paint Killer, Miniature Killer...Sqweegel?

[laurent1979 · 8/10 · 15 October 2010]

Here's hoping Sqweegel will become this season's multi-episode "Big Bad" in the tradition of the Blue Paint and Miniature killers. The episode was, in my view, outstanding. The black latex-clad Sqweegel slithers creepily through his victims' cars and houses and (I shudder) sleeps under their beds. The premise is fairly simple - he attacks people honored by the City of Las Vegas who harbor secrets or skeletons in their closets. He attacks them twice - once cutting them up and telling them to confess and repent, and a second time two weeks later, this time killing them if they haven't done as ordered. Incredibly forensics-savvy, he leaves no evidence, and the only name CSI's can find is Ian Moone - an anagram for "I am no one." I sincerely hope this is the start of a recurring character for this season, as I LOVED the Miniature Killer storyline.

So why is this not a 10? Well...I rarely give 10's and sadly this episode was not without it's one eye-roll-inducing, poorly-written, poorly-acted, I-almost-got-up-and-got-coffee scene of Langston idiocy. The team is in the evidence room and Langston lapses into theory, drawing stupid diagrams and talking about "truth." Even Nick, Greg, and Catherine give each other dubious looks. Now even the other characters think he's a waste of space and screen time. And again, lose the cane already!

Sad But True

[Hitchcoc · 9/10 · 10 March 2021]

This is about a type of vigilante who dresses up in slippery latex and attacks prominent people who have some baggage of some kind. The first we see is a lady who has a tremendously high profile for doing community service. She is a multiple award winner of various civic prizes. We are then shown three other figures who have similar pasts. Well done and very frightening. I feel for one of the other reviewers who saw this as a young child. I would have had some serious nightmares.

The Vigilante of the Truth

[claudio_carvalho · 8/10 · 3 October 2023]

When the famous philanthropist Margot Wilton is brutally attacked by a stranger, the CSI investigators suspect that she is hiding information from the attacker. They proceed their investigation until the woman Carrie Jones is slashed and murdered in a car wash in the same modus operandi, but her little daughter Alise survives and calls him "Sqweegel". Soon the CSI and the LVPD learn that the criminal punishes Important people that have lied and have secrets.

"Sqweegel" is so far the best episode of the Eleventh Season of CSI, with a clever serial-killer, who is a vigilant of the truth. The character is a weirdo, wearing black latex, but the plot is not bad. My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): "Sqweegel"

Sqweegal, Come Back!!

[ccthemovieman-1 · 10/10 · 12 December 2011]

This was an outstanding episode and one I wish they would have continued with, (as I checked and saw this "Sqweegal" character never came back.) It would have been neat to have a continuing story of him, although, he finished his job, so to speak.

The killer is a strange spider-like man spayed with black latex to make him slippery, who can get into small spaces and walks around on all fours, if necessary, in any combination. The actor who played him is Daniel Browning Smmith and is actually a real-life contortionist. You can read his bio here on IMDb. It's pretty interesting.

Sqweegal, as this young girl calls him, gives three peoples warnings to repent for their sins, to come clean, because each one has committed crimes and reaped the benefits from them. If, after something like a two-week warning period, nothing is done, he comes back and kills them.

This a creepy episode and in the end, the strange man just "disappears in the wind," leading (wem hope) to more episodes.....but when? He calls himself "Ian Moone," an anagram for "I am no one."

Note: The famous Ann-Margret plays one of the killer-victims.

Veeeery creepy killer here

[roni_arg · 10/10 · 4 April 2011]

I really liked this episode. The killer is the best part, but he is extremely creepy and scary. I was watching with my sister and mom and we all jumped at the last scene. Apparently very smart, very patient and clad in an all black latex suit (with a zipper instead of a mouth hole), he will really make the hairs on the back of your head stand. I mean, he contorts himself through the smallest of holes moving like an insect, hides in the shadows with the head to toe black suit, lives inside the victim's house for weeks and sleeps under the bed...suddenly I love all that junk I have under mine...

Also, I don't agree with the reviews about Langston. He is a respectable character, you might like his attitude or not, but he can really pull some deductive power from time to time. And of course, he is not Grissom. Grissom left, get over it already!

Pedagogic series goes for broke with scary visuals...but the writing is a constant obstacle

[moonspinner55 · 4/10 · 17 October 2010]

Condensing Anthony E. Zuiker's serial killer novel "Level 26: Dark Origins" for a (seemingly) one-part episode of a television crime series was a risky move--and the returns might have paid off if only the writing here wasn't so one-dimensional. Ann-Margret guest-stars as a Las Vegas honcho who is attacked in her bedroom one night by a "slippery man" armed with a straight-razor. The Crime Scene Investigating team believes the attacker to be a stalker of the still-sexy redhead, until an unrelated woman is attacked by the same nutcase in her vehicle during a car-wash (!) and is killed. Nearly everything is laid out in elemental terms (i.e., dumbed-down) for an audience of a presumably limited intelligence. The killer's appearance (in a full-body latex sex suit) and his acrobatic movements are really the only things of interest here, as the actors fall prey to the pedantic teleplay and the director's penchant for displaying open cuts and wounds in loving close-up.

I watched this episode as a kid and it still terrifies me to this day

[abbykowal · 1/10 · 17 March 2019]

I've been watching CSI since I was 4 (I know it's weird but I can't change it, and my parents didn't mind because I obviously wasn't scared of it.) And no episode has terrified me to the point where I won't watch it anymore like this one. I can't explain how terrified I was (and still am) of the man in the latex suit. I am now nearly 15 years old and still cannot look at a picture of the latex man. The way he crawled on all fours and the way the mask looked on his face gave me nightmares for years. I remember closing my eyes the night I watched it for the first time (I was about 8-9) and every time my eyes were shut I would see his face. I know this seems stupid to a lot of people but it's not stupid to me or my family at all, my mom knows how scared I am of this episode. She knows about the nights I stayed awake, petrified of the man in the latex and wondering if he was probably sitting under my bed. I just wanted to explain my situation with this terrifying episode.