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8/10
The Mastermind
claudio_carvalho21 November 2023
A middle-aged man is shot in a casino by a younger man wearing orange shirt. The LVPD and the security guards immediately lock down the casino and follow the criminal using the security cameras, but he dodges the officers and guards and flees. The victim is identified as Dr. Dennis Kiel from Los Angeles and his money and credit cards have been stolen by the killer. Soon Nick and Morgan locate the room where the man spent the night with a woman. Then they locate him, Jordan Brentson, in another room hidden by a friend, but he denies the crime. Soon they find an identical twin called Xavier Marx, but he is not the man that killed the doctor. They say that they have received free-tickets to Las Vegas and when Morgan investigates the information, she learns that there is a triplet called Kevin Chance that is also hosted in the hotel. Further. Dr. Kiel was a pediatrician, but he had internship in an in-vitro fertilization clinic.

"Split Decisions" is a curious episode of "CSI", with a surprising conclusion, when the mastermind and the reasons for the death of Dr. Dennis Kiel are disclosed. But along the show, the CSI investigators and the viewers become curious when the technical evidence o not support what they believe. My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): "Split Decisions"
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3/10
Oh, Really
Hitchcoc21 March 2021
Most of the time I'm quite forgiving when the plot is totally unique. But this time they drummed up such an impossible scenario that it is laughable. I have to agree with the other reviewer. DNA is one method but when you have all the characters, there are numerous other methods of telling who's who. They bent over backward to create the killer. Just doesn't wash.
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3/10
The writing in this episode is incredibly stupid
koohii26 November 2020
This episode is so badly written that it was one of the key reasons we stopped watching the show as it was first airing. They are so busy showing off their Anti-body profiling gimmick (because whoever wrote this story doesn't understand how DNA actually works), that they ignore several much easier ways to solve the problem. Like test the people for Gun Shot Residue, or just back-trace the shooter from the video surveillance. Oh dear... did I just come up with a gaping plot hole in the writing that any nit-wit should have spotted? Why yes I did. This episode seemed to be yet another shallow attempt to make Elizabeth Shu's character more interesting.
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