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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation :: The Descent of Man (09x19)
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| Title: | The Descent of Man |
| Episode #: | 09x19 |
| Production Number: | 919 |
| Original Airdate: | Thursday April 09th, 2009 |
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May 19, 2009 |
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Jun 29, 2009 |
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Episode Summary |
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The CSIs investigate an expert sky diver paralyzed after his chute failed to properly deploy. Several people are suspected, but when Catherine and Greg connect the skydiver to two dead people, the case becomes more complicated. Raymond looks into the death of the spiritual leader of a very small, very odd little cult while the leader was alone out in the middle of the desert on a trek.
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Episode Notes |
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FYI: A minor note about the listed guest stars:
Eric Allan Kramer--------played---Deputy Sheriff----------Recurring (second appearance)
Charley Rossman (1)---played---Highway Patrolman--Recurring (4th appearance)
It's actually only Eric Allan Kramer's first appearance as this character. Both of his appearances are as two unquestionably different characters, but the database does not refine control to that level.
This also may be true for Charley Rossman, who has appeared four times but this may be a different character from the previous roles -- it's unclear.
| The "bit part" played by Joe Ochman (in 2003, the episode called "Got Murder?") as Man #2, was indeed the same Birdwatcher, who with 2 fellow birders discovered a human eyeball in a raven's beak. This guy may have discovered bodies (or pieces thereof) more times than anybody in CSI history. It would be rather ironic if he somehow wound up as the centerpiece to a future case, either as victim or prime suspect.
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Bird Watcher: Such a lonely place to die.
Raymond: What place isn't, my friend, what place isn't?
| Raymond: (reading from the tattoos on a dead man's body) Spread the word, I am come...
David: ...And you is gone!
| Jim: So, according to this, you said that you struck The Steven with his Staff. "You smote him". (pauses to sip his coffee, George emulates the action) That isn't true, is it?
George: Ye--No.
Jim: What did you hit him with?
(looks at George)
Jim: Oh! It says here you hit him with a large rock.
(looks expectantly at George)
George: Yes.
Jim: No, wait a minute, a branch of a tree.
George: Yes.
Jim: No, a hockey stick.
George: Yes.
Jim: You didn't really kill Steven, did you?
George: Nnno.
Jim: So, why'd you confess to murder?
George: Well, I try to live my life according to the Seventeenth Proclamation of the Steven... from his... Second Sermon at the Starbucks
Jim: Oh, I missed that one.
George: It is better to be agreeable, than to be right.
Jim: That's not religion, that's marriage.
| Jim: So you didn't kill Steven?
George: Yes. No.
Jim: You did?
George: Yes.
Jim: You killed him?
George: No.
Jim: Are you clinically insane or just incredibly annoying?
George: What would you prefer?
| Deputy Sheriff: Look, I know the jumper, alright? Pierre Delongue and I served together in the French Foreign Legion. [Pause while they stop and Nick looks at him.] What? It's a real thing.
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Cultural References |
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The title The Descent of Man is a pun on the parachuting component of the plot, contrasted against a classic work on societal evolution titled The Ascent of Man by Alfred George Fysh Machin, an early twentieth century British writer. The book advanced the theory that human mental ills were/are caused by the difference between the simple social conditions under which we evolved vs. the complex and constraining society we've created.
More generally, all the various deaths in the show devolve onto something dropping from the sky.
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Highway Patrolman: Now exactly what were you doing out here all alone, sir?
Bird Watcher: I-I'm a landscape photographer. I-I used to be a bird watcher, but I gave it up. Too much death.
This is an in-joke... Joe Ochman played "a bird watcher" (presumably the same man) in the 3rd episode of this season, Art Imitates Life. He was one of the people who found the posed bodies in that episode. In addition, he also was one of a group of three birders who found an eyeball in season 3's "Got Murder?". Dead bodies do seem to land underfoot for him.
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George: It is better to be agreeable, than to be right.
In many ways, the outlook promoted by the Religion of Steven is much like that of Elwood P. Dowd in the classic Jimmy Stewart comedy, Harvey --
"Y'know, years ago, my mother used to say to me: 'In this world, Elwood, you must be Oh so smart, or Oh so pleasant.'Well, for years, I was smart. I recommend pleasant. And you may quote me."
I believe it's probable that Elwood and George would get along quite well together.
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