"CSI" Season 4: Part I of IV Trivia Quiz

Answer: The theme song of the show is different from the first three seasons.

"Assume Nothing" gives us our first-ever view of a bearded Grissom, and the episode does indeed end with a dramatic "To Be Continued" title card, which had never happened before. The theme song (an abbreviated version of "Who Are You?" by The Who) is exactly the same as it was in the first three seasons.

Answer: Nick Stokes (George Eads)

Nick, while trying to trace the path that the suspects in question took after committing multiple homicides, runs across an old buddy from college (played by Josh Holloway, who went on to become famous for his role as Sawyer on "LOST"!). Nick mentions that the hotel room under investigation has been given the nickname "Murder Central" by CSIs, and his old buddy presumably leaks that inside info to the first TV reporter he sees.

Answer: one of the sonnets

The quote comes from "Sonnet CXVI: Let Me Not to the Marriage of Two Minds". Gil and his suspect get a few words wrong, but the import of the sonnet is, as Gil says to the suspect, "Love is not conditional."

Answer: the CSI's and the Las Vegas Police Department

Grissom initially suspects that police officers (specifically, from the Homicide division, which Captain Jim Brass oversees) might be responsible for the murder that he is trying to solve. This eventually gets Grissom and Brass shouting at each other, and Grissom even winds up being blatantly threatened by a uniformed officer in the parking lot of CSI headquarters!

Answer: in a bar

While watching a football game in a sports bar, Daniel O'Hannissey got sucker-punched in the back of the head by Wayne, a young man who was angry that Daniel's college team was beating the team from his own college.

The shark-shaped ring that Wayne wore punctured Daniel's skull and caused a subdural hematoma -- a "slow leak," as described by coroner Albert Robbins (Robert David Hall). A few hours later, Daniel died while taking a bath.

Answer: a bite mark

Steve Jansson, the suspect in question, left behind dental impressions at the scenes of two of his crimes -- when he took a big bite out of a piece of cake at the home of an elderly woman, and when he bit the shoulder of a teenager while he was sexually assaulting her.

Unfortunately, despite the bite-mark evidence, the suspect was never actually arrested, since the sexual assault victim was unable to bring herself to pick him out of a line-up.

Answer: balloons

Frank Maddox, a bounty hunter at the end of his rope, decided to kill himself, but in order to make it look like he was murdered, he tied helium-filled balloons to his gun, so that after he shot himself fatally, the gun literally floated away. It landed miles away in a suburban neighborhood.

Answer: Tay-Sachs Syndrome

The occasionally reliable www.wikipedia.org has this to say about Tay-Sachs Syndrome: "Infants with Tay-Sachs disease appear to develop normally for the first six months of life. Then, as nerve cells become distended with fatty material, a relentless deterioration of mental and physical abilities occurs. The child becomes blind, deaf, and unable to swallow. Muscles begin to atrophy and paralysis sets in. Death usually occurs between 2-5 years."

The tragedy here is that, even though the infant's older sibling did die after a years-long battle with Tay-Sachs, the infant himself didn't even have the disease! His parents panicked when a doctor suggested that the baby MIGHT have the disease. As Catherine says to the parents at the end of the episode, "You killed a perfectly healthy baby." That's some chilling, horrific stuff.

Answer: electrocution

Wesley Jones was killed when a massive surge of electricity entered his body (via his bare foot, which was flat on the floor) and "short-circuited" his heart. The energy surge exited his body via his hand, which was holding a telephone at the time. Warrick initially thought that the exit point was the entry point, and theorized that the phone itself might have somehow killed the man!

Answer: raccoon

Grissom later learns that the deceased, Robert Pitt, went by the less-than-original name "Rocky Raccoon" in the "Furry" world.

Answer: False

It's the real deal, and it's been around a lot longer than "CSI"! Check out http://www.tigerden.com/infopage/furry/ for an extensive list of links and details about "Furries".

Answer: It's frozen solid.

Al Sesto, the deceased, was fatally shot in what Nick calls "the coldest place in Vegas", a warehouse that apparently stores frozen goods. Dr. Albert Robbins (Robert David Hall) and his team have to pour boiling water on the floor in order to melt the ice and extricate the corpse from the scene!

Answer: Gil Grissom

Grissom follows a lead to the small town of Jackpot, Nevada. He winds up working a murder case almost entirely on his own...and, for a while, even without the use of his trusty field kit!

Answer: a head

Grissom spends the rest of this episode a) tracking down the body to which the head belongs, and b) determining why someone would kill a man in such a grisly manner.

Answer: He was a resident of Jackpot, Nevada.

Ross (whose marijuana Jim Brass found during a search of his dorm room) was having an affair with the father of his roommate, Eric Brooks. Eric found out about the affair and decided to kill Ross.

While Eric and his father are natives of Jackpot, NV, it's made clear that Ross Jensen didn't meet the Brookses until he wound up rooming with Eric at college, so he apparently grew up somewhere else.

Part II of this quiz is coming soon!