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Living Doll is the season finale of the Season 8 premiere. The identity and origins of the " Miniature Killer " are revealed during the course of this episode. PLOT Grissom and Brass visit Trevor Dell, one of Ernie Dell's foster children. They find him lying dead in his apartment, and a miniature doll of Trevor nearby. The Autopsy shows that Trevor died of accidental Electrocution . Grissom finds a partial Fingerprint on the Trevor doll, and Epithelial s in the print come back with female DNA . He also observes that the doll wears a metal bracelet. Grissom visits a Hobby Shop that specializes in miniature work. The owner recognizes the bracelet and says he made it for a Natalie, who also bought a battery-powered micro motor. The CSIs learn that one of Ernie's foster children was a Natalie Davis . Grissom and Catherine visit Natalie's biological father, a Ventriloquist . He tells them that when Natalie was six years old, she killed her younger sister, Chloe, by pushing her out of their treehouse. He had used Bleach to clean Chloe's blood from the driveway, as Natalie watched placidly from the treehouse. Later on, Natalie's father put her up for adoption because he could no longer deal with her psychosis. Grissom and Catherine discover that the doll pictured in all of the miniatures is the Bisque doll that Natalie's father uses in his act, and that the doll is modeled after Chloe. Grissom returns to his office and is horrified to find another miniature crime scene on his desk. The miniature shows a female doll, meant to represent Sara , trapped underneath a red Ford Mustang on a nondescript stretch of desert road. The doll's hand, which is visible from under the car, is moving. He immediately calls Sara's phone and gets no response. Grissom later learns that Natalie had abducted Sara from the parking garage; Natalie Davis, a member of the CSI lab cleaning crew, is revealed as The Miniature Killer . Grissom tells the other CSIs about Natalie. After recalling that Sara was the lead CSI on a case involving a car accident six weeks before, the team pulls up case photos and discover that Natalie had been in the crowd observing the Crime Scene . Grissom remembers gently stroking Sara's arm at the crime scene and realizes that, unlike the other murders, which were triggered by bleach, this crime is personal. Feeling cornered, Grissom says that Natalie holds him personally responsible for taking Ernie Dell, the only person she ever truly loved, away from her, so she intends to do the same thing to him. Catherine, Greg, Nick, and Warrick are shocked by the revelation of Sara and Grissom's relationship. Natalie is arrested. As Grissom questions her, she hallucinates that she slashes his throat. Grissom angrily demands to know where Sara is, but Natalie tunes him out, singing " I've Got A Pain In My Sawdust ," a song her father sings in his act. The episode closes with a shot of an overturned red Ford Mustang lying in a remote stretch of Nevada desert as it begins to rain. Sara's hand reaches out from under the car and claws at the mud as puddles of rainwater begin to grow around the car. CRITICAL ANALYSIS The dual scene in which the police knock on the door of a suspect and the viewer is led to believe it is Natalie is comparable to a similar scene in '' The Silence Of The Lambs ''. Tilt Shift Photography is used (or possibly simulated in post production) in the external aerial scenery shots of the episode to give the swooping shots of Las Vegas (a series motif) the impression of being a model in fitting with the plot of the episode. CONTINUITY This is the climax to The Miniature Killer case which has featured through large parts of season seven, most prominently in:
TRIVIA This episode featured the Nine Inch Nails song 'Survivalism', off the sixth full-length record, 'Year Zero' (2007). The air date of this episode, May 17, 2007, also coincides with front man Trent Reznor's birthday. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS |
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