David Hodges (CSI)
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| CSI: Crime Scene Investigation character | |
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| David Hodges | |
| City | Las Vegas, Nevada |
| Status | Alive |
| Job | Trace Technician |
| Seasons | 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 |
| Portrayed by | Wallace Langham |
| First appearance | Recipe for Murder |
David Hodges is a fictional main character on the CBS drama, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. He is portrayed by Wallace Langham. Hodges has a habit of giving far more information than anyone wanted to hear while explaining things and is very afraid of germs.
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[edit] Fictional character biography
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Hodges, a lab technician with a B.A from Williams College, was transferred to the Las Vegas crime lab from the Los Angeles crime lab, where his superiors felt he had an attitude problem. In Las Vegas, Hodges has annoyed his co-workers and superiors, and in the season 3 episode, Play With Fire, he is one of the employees initially suspected of causing an explosion in the lab where co-worker Greg Sanders was working and, as a result, injured. Despite being accused of causing the explosion by Catherine Willows and Warrick Brown, he vehemently denies responsibility to the point of promising to call his lawyer if taken to case on the incident. He is ultimately cleared when it's discovered that Catherine caused the explosion. In the April 9, 2007 edition of TV Guide, Langham described his character as a "pain in the ass" who "kisses up" to his superiors. Langham said Hodges considers himself superior to the other laboratory technicians and wants to be like Gil Grissom. While Grissom was on a sabbatical during the seventh season, Hodges used an alias to sign up for an online class that Grissom was teaching. Grissom, however, appears to find Hodges annoying and often tells Hodges to report his findings to other CSIs or asks him to leave his office. In "I Like To Watch" Hodges contacts the reality television crew that is following the CSI crew while they investigate a case so they can video tape when he gives his report to Sara. While doing this he uses as many complicated terms as possible, and Sara asks if he is all right. Also, at one point during the episode he sees them filming the DNA lab and says that they should be in his trace lab because DNA is so overrated.
Despite his attitude, Hodges sometimes redeems himself. In the fifth season finale, "Grave Danger", he saves the entire CSI team when he calls them seconds before they are about to open the container that has trapped Nick Stokes and notifies them that Semtex charges are rigged at the bottom.
In the seventh season episode "Lab Rats", Hodges persuaded his fellow laboratory technicians to surreptitiously work with him in an attempt to identify The Miniature Killer. Hodges concluded at the end of the episode that bleach might be a common factor linking all four murder scenes. Grissom found Hodges in his office inspecting one of the miniatures and, after Hodges explained his conclusions, praised Hodges for his work. In season 5 (Compulsion) Hodges also identifies bleach as a unique aspect to the case, leading Grissom to say it's the first time Hodges has impressed him. Then, returning to form, Grissom again asked Hodges to leave his office. (One of the most embarrassing ways that Grissom has asked Hodges to leave was that he asked Hodges to close the door. When Hodges closed the door Grissom promptly said that Hodges was supposed to be on the other side of the door.)
During this covert investigation, a mobile phone number, linking the four Miniature Killer victims and previous suspect Ernie Dell, was dialed using Hodges' cellphone (reaching an answering service) - Hodges is now concerned that the actual Miniature Killer now has his mobile number.
At the beginning of the eight season, David Hodges becomes a main cast member. In the episode "The Case of the Cross-Dressing Carp" he tells Grissom he misses working with him on The Miniature Killer cases, Grissom says he misses it too.
[edit] Personal life
Hodges is apparently an avid fan of 70's TV sitcom Three's Company, winning an online auction for a Three's Company Board Game in the episode "Lab Rats." He is also apparently an aficionado of country-soul singer Willis; in the seventh season episode "Post Mortem" Hodges is seen dancing in the laboratory to a down-tempo cover of the song "Word Up!" while waiting for the results of a test.
In a season 5 episode,"Iced", Hodges is revealed to have a "genetic quirk" that allows someone to be able to smell if cyanide is present, and Doc Robbins uses this unique ability to test if two victims died of cyanide poisoning. This has been used on other cases like that of the dead elderly couple in "The Theory of Everything"
Hodges is a go-kart enthusiast [1]. Jujubes are his gummy candy of choice.
In the season 3 episode, "Snuff", the name "Hodges, David" appears on a list of adult film actors looked up by Catherine Willows and Sara Sidle. The person in question is listed as being HIV positive and having genital warts and syphilis. It is unknown, however, if this is the same character. [2]
Hodges has a cat named Kobayashi Maru, an apparent reference to the no-win training scenario administered to Star Fleet Academy students in the film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. He calls the cat "Mr. K" or "Kobe" in the seventh season episode "Monster in the Box".
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In past seasons, the character has had an interest in Sara, but she has never given him any reason to believe she shares his feelings. Langham said Hodges has a crush on fellow lab tech Wendy Simms. In the eighth season episode The Chick Chop Flick Shop, Hodges and the other lab techs, Ronnie and Sara are seen watching a low-budget slasher film in which Wendy played a victim. Ronnie criticizes the genre for featuring stereotypically large-breasted women and Wendy argues that her breasts are not large, but are rather "kind of medium." Hodges, evidently not realizing that he's speaking aloud, adds "but perfect," to which everyone turns around and stares at him. He then attempts to cover his tracks, tacking "-ly adequate" on to the end of his sentence. In season 8 episode You Kill Me, he labeled "Mindy Bimms", a player piece in his CSI board game, representing Wendy Simms as "clumsy yet buxom".
At age seventeen, Hodges tried to pick up a prostitute who turned out to be an undercover police officer. Because he was underage, the arrest didn't go on his permanent record (".. . because you're three months shy of your eighteenth birthday, so when you phone your Mom to come and get you, it doesn't go on my permanent record."(Ending Happy)
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