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Another brand-new episode of CSI aired last night. Since Grey’s Anatomy hasn’t come back with original eps after the writers’ strike, I didn’t have anything else competing for my attention in that timeslot. Epsiode 8×13 was called “A Thousand Days on Earth” (a reference that I don’t get) and once again featured a single plot with all of the CSIs working on the same case.

Plot summary (with possible spoilers): This time around, a little girl’s body was found inside a cardboard box in a parking lot. She apparently died of blunt force trauma to the head, so the CSIs approach the case from a child abuse angle. The team questions a sex offender living in the vicinity of the body recovery site, but didn’t have enough evidence to hold him. They then catch a break when an inmate sees a picture of the dead girl on the news and realizes it’s his daughter.

It turns out that the inmate gave custody of his daughter to someone he had previously done time with. The other con had a family of his own, and when all the kids were playing together, the little girl ended up hiding under a sink near a bunch of toxic chemicals. Her death was accidental, but the con panicked and disposed of her body like that to avoid contact with the police.

My Reaction: Here are a few random thoughts I had while watching this episode play out.

— I can’t believe the writers are just totally dropping all of the trouble Warrick had in the few eps leading up to the strike. He was popping pills, drinking, gambling, seeing prostitutes, and getting in trouble at work. Now everyone’s acting like nothing out of the ordinary ever happened. I wouldn’t want to see the character do a prolonged stint in drug rehab or anything like that, but there should be some kind of fallout.

– I kind of liked how the beginning and end of this ep were different from what we usually see. The teaser finally featured some characters that didn’t end up dead before the theme music started, and the end had a wrongly accused suspect confronting Catherine. Neither of these things has happened before, which made the differences all the more noticeable. I hope there’s some follow-up to the Catherine story, as I believe it’s time for her to be called out about her attitude regarding suspects.

– No Grissom/Sara angst in this one. I’ve never been on board that ship, so I was happy not to have any hints or references to the departed CSI at all.

Overall, this was kind of a boring — and very depressing — episode, but it did have some good things to offer. That being said, I don’t think it’s one that I’ll ever end up watching again!