Overload (CSI)
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"Overload" is the third episode from the second season of the American crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, which is set in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Summary
A construction worker arrives to work late. As he is talking with the supervisor, a man suddenly lands on his car. Gil Grissom believes that the construction worker's death was murder and not a suicide or an accident. Aided by Sara Sidle and Warrick Brown, he sets out to prove that a crime exists before solving it. Catherine Willows and Nick Stokes investigate a 14-year-old boy's death at his therapist's home. Initially, they hypothesized that the psychiatrist had molested the boy based on her past record. However, the case "entered a whole dimension of weird" when Greg finds familial DNA samples to the boy on the blanket.
This episode also reveals a little about Nick Stokes' childhood - molested by his babysitter at the age of 9.
Critical analysis
The story of the teenager's death bears close resemblance to the real story of Candace Newmaker, suffocated during a treatment session for reactive attachment disorder. Similar stories appeared in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ("Cage"[1]) and Law & Order ("Born Again"[2]).
Mistakes
At the beginning of the episode Grissom incorrectly claims that terminal velocity is 9.8m/s/s. In fact terminal velocity depends on drag - a feather has a lower terminal velocity than a bowling ball. It would appear that the writers got mixed up between terminal velocity and the acceleration of a falling object in a vacuum on earth, which is 9.8m/s².
Also, Sara claims that the fact that the victim was wearing rubber soled boots should have protected him, for the same reason one is safe in a lightning storm, that the car is insulated by the rubber tires. In fact, the reason the occupants of a car aren't electrocuted when a lightning bolt hits it is because of the metal skin of the car. The electricity takes the easiest path to ground, through the metal of the outside of the car, rather than through the relatively non-conductive passengers.
See also
References
External links
- "Overload" at IMDb
- Template:Tv.com episode
- "Overload" at CSI Guide.com
- "Overload" at CSI Files
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