Unfortunately this episode is the start of a plot thread which I find UNUTTERABLY TEDIOUS, which is to say, Grissom’s deafness. However it gives only the faintest glimmer of what will become, over the next season, a seriously hackneyed subject. The hint at hand comes through the unfortunate death of this deaf kid, squashed ‘neath the uncaring wheels of a ‘large truck or SUV’.
BRUTAL
PPP sez... 'hate breaking bad news to the family'
The CSIs’ investigation leads them to an unlikely pair of criminals, one of whom appears to be around 10 years old (and who is the first yoof on the show possessed of that fabled plot device/motivation to conceal a crime, ‘a scholarship to Duke’) [edit: apparently he’s also familiar to viewers of One Tree Hill. I’m not one, so can’t comment…]
He has a kind of Gareth Gates look going on
and the other of whom is not only Kenny the houseboy from Edwardian Country House
Kenny?
Kenny!
but who possesses a set of headlice to rival even my six and a half year old self.
Ming
'I had 37 headlice. It was the most!'
Truly, a fine achievement
It also introduces them to this absolutely terrifying lady
Righteous indignation - the same in any language
whose fear-inducing eyebrows and hip-hop dance moves
"Wicky waa" - as I believe all the kids are saying these days
have even Sara snapping into line.
Don't MESS with the PROFESS(or lady)
And finally, of course, it has Grissom whapping out his own sign language supermoves.
This one means 'your eyebrows look like tiny beards on your forehead'
In a speedy rundown of other important news, Catherine demonstrates some of her most fabulous faces as she becomes frustrated by Grissom’s absent-mindedness…
"I don't always want to be second banana...
... I could probably do your job...
... I KNOW that I could do Ecklie's."
… and Greg is modelling possibly his worst outfit yet.
White trainers, black trousers, orange shirt? Survey says, UH-UH!!
It's not even all one shade of orange!
It makes this exchange with Warrick and Grissom particularly intriguing:
Greg: I’m the man!
Warrick: Why? What’d you do? Let me guess… You ran a DNA profile from the blood on the dead guy’s knuckles and you got a match?
Greg: No.
Grissom: You ran a DNA profile and something very distinctive popped up?
Greg: Not quite.
Warrick: You made it out of bed and you dressed yourself?
Greg: No.
NO? Does he employ a STYLIST? Does his MUM (Mom) still dress him? The people need an answer!!
Finally, there’s another Olde Technologie moment as Nick listens in on the heavy metal music a gunshot victim was pumping…
It's got a ROCK SOLID BEAT
… on his handy Discman.
Hahaha what now
No seriously, wot?
C.S.I. Love You 
JESSA – I’VE SPOTTED A CELEBRITY GUEST STAR. That Gareth Gates lookalike is actually Austin Nichols who you may recognise as Julian from One Tree Hill (if, like me, you didn’t give up on OTH when Dan’s heart was eaten by a dog) or alternatively as the cocky young Tennis stud who fancied Kirsten Dunst in Wimbledon.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA Small.
I too was just coming to comment on this very fact.
Jess you need more trash tv-references in order to identify these up and coming celebs when they appear. if someone’s in other things, they’s always the guilty one.
I don’t need more trash TV references when I have you two to identify this kind of thing for me! Will update it with this new info over the weekend!!