The Hunger Artist (CSI)
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| “The Hunger Artist” | |
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| CSI: Crime Scene Investigation episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 2 Episode 23 |
| Written by | Jerry Stahl |
| Directed by | Richard J. Lewis |
| Original airdate | May 16, 2002 |
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| List of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation episodes | |
The Hunger Artist is the twenty-third (and last) episode from the second season of the popular American crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, which is set in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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[edit] Summary
A mutilated woman is found dead in a shopping cart in a part of town usually associated with homeless people. However, the victim does not seem to be homeless herself and the team must figure out who she is and how she came to be where she was found.
Grissom's progressive hearing loss is touched upon as a subplot during the episode. At several points during the episode, his hearing loss is obvious. At the opening scene he is at the doctor's office, and nearly missed hearing his cell phone ringing. Later, he's walked down a street when Warrick Brown and Nick Stokes call out to him, he doesn't hear them. At the end, his doctor diagnoses him with Otosclerosis, a degenerative disease of the bones in the inner ear.
[edit] Critical analysis
The title is a reference to Franz Kafka's A Hunger Artist, the story of a man who starved himself to death on public display, trying to attract the attention of circus audiences. The victim in the episode, however, was probably suffering from body dysmorphic disorder.
Unlike most CSI episodes (up to this point in the series), this only focused on a single crime.
[edit] Continuity
This episode starred two actors who would later go on to star in cult science fiction shows: Mark Sheppard (Rod Darling) would go on to play Badger in Firefly, and Tricia Helfer (Ashleigh James) would go on to play Number Six in Battlestar Galactica. Sheppard would later play a recurring role at the end of the third season of Battlestar Galactica, including a scene opposite Helfer in the episode "The Son Also Rises".
[edit] External links
- The Hunger Artist at the Internet Movie Database
- "The Hunger Artist" at TV.com
- "The Hunger Artist" at CSI Guide.com
- "The Hunger Artist" at CSI Files
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