CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (TV Series) Committed (2005) User Reviews

Oedipus Wrecks

[Hitchcoc · 8/10 · 4 February 2021]

A man is killed in a hospital for the criminally insane. Because of the irrational mental states of the patients, the CSI's must wade through all kinds of obfuscation. The more obvious possibilities are no so obvious. What we get is causality, big time. This is one creepy episode, but it quite engagiing.

Mother-Son Incest

[claudio_carvalho · 7/10 · 21 January 2023]

When the inmate Robbie Garson is found dead inside his room, Grissom, Sara and Capt. Brass investigate the murder. They learn that the inmates are criminally insane and rapists, and they get their DNA. When Sara finds semen on his bed, Dr. Valerie Dino tells Sara that Robbie had been chemically castrated and could not ejaculate. In the autopsy, Dr. Robbins finds that Robbie had various thing in his stomach and the cause of death was asphyxiation and his head trauma happened a couple of hours later. Sara and Grissom finds that the pharmacist Leon Cadera was stealing expensive drugs and giving simple medication to the inmates. When they identity the recovered semen belonging to Adam Trent, they change the line of their investigation.

"Committed" is a predictable episode of "CSI" with flaws. Why Grissom and Sara swab the inmate's DNA if they certainly are in the system? Why they do not use the surveillance cameras to identify the criminal? The scene where Grissom brings the vase to the laboratory and uses acoustic archaeology to pull sounds from the grooves in the vase is quite ridiculous. Anyway, the episode is entertaining for CSI's fans. My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): "Committed"

Committed

[xbatgirl-30029 · 8/10 · 27 July 2023]

In 2005, when this came out I was in nursing school. We had to take a trip to a high security mental hospital. I went on to work in an ER that had a psych unit. Some things are sort of accurate and some not. As another reviewer says, there are cameras everywhere and there would have been one in the hallway outside the victim's room. But I have no idea if they actually record or are just used for surveillance. I do wish that had been addressed. The five points restraints shown were not what we used. The ones on the show would be considered unsafe and would not be allowed by government regulations. Also the nurses station is always locked. The team would have been told not to just leave the door open and we know Grissom would not have ignored that rule. Everyone had cards to open doors, not keys, so there would have been no fumbling to get into the nurses station when Sara was inside. There should have been many more *competent* security guards too. There were other small issues but in general they definitely tried.

All that aside, James Badge Dale did a great job. He is so very young here yet already showed talent. This might be what finally makes me pay to watch Rubicon again. Super great show. I loved seeing Jon Huertas from Castle. Funny that I recognized his voice before they even showed his face. Obviously his character was criminal and unethical to steal drugs from patients, but he had a point about how staff gets treated, including constant verbal abuse and being at risk of physical assault, all while some do just get minimum wage. If you pay better, you get better people. Additionally, I for sure met some staff, including nurses and others higher up, who are way worse people than that patients. That they got right.

The whole thing with the pot is ridiculous. In the end that facility would be shut down for a full scale investigation of its practices. The ending is sickening and absolutely enraging. I agree with Sara's assessment.

Ridiculous logic

[interestingstuff · 12 February 2022]

They didn't have to run all those tests, DNA checks or fingerprints. They could have solved the case in 5 minutes by simply checking security cameras since mental institutions have tons of them. They could have checked who entered in the room in the evening and solved the case in 5 minutes.

Also the whole "acoustic archaeology" is pure comedy.