"CSI" Season 3: Part IV of IV Quiz

Answer: Jay Mohr

Jay Mohr did appear on an episode of "CSI: Miami," but we don't see him in this episode at all.

Answer: headaches

We're told that Dougie Max's bottled water was tainted by naratriptamine, a chemical compound used to treat migraine headaches. One of his fellow comedians laced the cap of Dougie's water bottle with 12 times the recommended dosage of the stuff, which proved to be fatal almost immediately.

(For the record, I can't find any online reference to such a drug, so it's a safe bet that the "CSI" writers made it up.)

Answer: True

Comedian Michael Borland (Bobcat Goldthwait) is in the middle of a set when he notices that Gil Grissom is in the audience. He realizes that he has been found out, and actually admits to having killed Dougie Max right in front of the comedy club crowd!

Answer: of course

A nod to the theme song of "Mister Ed", a hugely popular sitcom about a talking horse that ran from 1961 to 1966. The first few lines of the theme song are "A horse is a horse/Of course, of course/And no one can talk to a horse, of course..."

Again, the "CSI" writers repeatedly state in their DVD commentaries that they like to pepper their scripts with references to their favorite classic TV shows.

Answer: Ian Fleming

Grissom goes on to add that he read Fleming's "James Bond" novels in his youth...but oddly, that quote doesn't come from any of the novels. According to my research, Fleming apparently said those words during an interview with a London newspaper. Hmmm...

Answer: baby vomit

To make a long story short, the teen-aged couple were aided and abetted in their "suicide pact" by the girl's mother, who planned on raising their baby as her own after the two were dead. As the couple were preparing to kill themselves, the girl's mother allowed each of them to hold their baby one last time...and apparently, the baby spit up a little on each of her parents.

Answer: Catherine Willows

Catherine -- who, oddly enough, was placed in charge of investigating the cause of the explosion -- had placed a sample of some kind of volatile liquid under the fume hood after a long night of CSI'ing. Little did she know that the hot plate under the fume hood had been left on accidentally.

The liquid was eventually heated to the point that it exploded, more or less wrecking the lab and sending quite a bit of shrapnel into the unsuspecting body of one Greg Sanders.

Answer: Honey

Sara is in shock after the explosion, sitting motionless on the curb outside of CSI headquarters as the fire department and EMT's attend to the fire and the wounded. Grissom approaches her and notices that she has a serious laceration on the palm of her hand. "Honey, this doesn't look good," he says...and the fans waiting for Grissom and Sara to enter into a romantic relationship ran wild in the streets! =)

Answer: money

A silk scarf, a pair of ceremonial "ribbon-cutting" scissors, and a decent amount of blood were in the safe deposit box that was snatched during an intense bank robbery...and all of it led directly to Sam Braun, who is revealed in this episode to be Catherine Willows' father!

Answer: Warrick Brown succumbed to his gambling addiction.

Detective Cyrus Lockwood (Jeffrey D. Sams) is killed in the bank robbery. The Sam/Catherine reveal is the emotional climax of the episode. The final scene depicts Grissom heading into surgery.

Warrick doesn't gamble in this episode at all.

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