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“Living Doll” Episode Recap CSI:Vegas

by Jason on May 22nd, 2007

Okay, I was finally able to watch and reflect on last week’s CSI:Vegas episode of “Living Doll”. I had been out of town Wednesday through Friday and didn’t get to watch any TV in the hotel room. One thing (among numerous others) the trip did do for me was to highlight the usefulness of something like a Slingbox. Having the ability to connect to my TV and A/V equipment from any Internet connection could really come in handy if I start traveling with any frequency again.

Here’s a brief synopsis of the episode provided by TV.com:

As the CSI’s continue their search for and discover the identity of the “Miniature Killer”, Grissom and Sara’s relationship gets exposed to the rest of the team as she goes missing during the investigation. The “Miniature Killer” is finally captured, but not before a member of CSI becomes the killer’s final victim.

We fairly quickly find out that the miniature killer is one of the foster children that we had come closer to expecting from previous episodes.  The bleach freak-out catalyst is due to the killer pushing another girl off of her tree house and down to the ground where she hit the sidewalk. The father was obviously distraught by the entire ordeal and in the scene is sobbing as he scrubs the blood off the sidewalk with a stiff brush and bleach.

The killer has been watching members of the CSI team, and specifically Grissom. In one case of a car crash she notices how Grissom touches Sara Sidle’s arm and sees that there’s much more there than just a co-worker relationship. It’s for this reason that she targets Sara Sidle for her next attack. The show starts by her making a miniature doll of Sara’s body.

In a very interesting part of the show, the miniature killer is applying for a job with a maid service. We see her waiting in the lobby for her interview and thumbing through a sketch book of her drawings from previous killings. We also find out that part of the reason for her incanny ability to get every detail correct is that she has a photographic memory. During her interview, she is able to vividly and accurately describe details in the lobby to the interviewer.

Later we see her pounding dents into a model Mustang, which we find out was the car involved in the wreck of the crime scene with Sara and Grissom. She is able to obtain the car and uses it to reinact the scene she’s been building as her next miniature. More information about her is obtained from Grissom infiltrating the model builders community and making contacts with a local shopkeeper where the miniature killer has been purchasing her items. The shopkeeper let’s Grissom know that she had “crazy eyes” and that she had just purchased a little electric motor that would allow her to animate any item she wanted to in her models.

With her recent model that she left on Grissom’s desk she animated Sara’s hand coming out from the wrecked car and it was moving. Flashing back to “reality” we see an outstretched hand coming from underneath a car that’s been wrecked and in the rain.

The team apprehends the killer and Grissom is interviewing her and telling her that she’s the best case he’s ever worked on . At one point though he watches her as she slips something out of her mouth and into her hand, then slices Grissom’s neck in the interrogation room. As the viewer, we continue to watch as blood is pouring from between Grissom’s fingers and he stares blankly at her trying to figure out and understand what just happened. It turns out to be a daydream or hallucination instead.

The team then pursues trying to find out where in the desert this wreck could have been staged so they can save Sara.

As a little bit of Trivia. Did you notice who the miniature killer was? Maybe you recognize her from the show “The Nine” that was on briefly this season. Not sure what happened to it, guess it got pulled. The part is played by Jessica Collins and her character on the show was Lizzie Miller, who was engaged and pregnant by Scott Wolf of Party of Five fame.

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