CSI: Vegas Review: Funhouse (Season 1 Episode 6)
Clowns and killers and shutdowns, oh my! CSI: Vegas Season 1 Episode 6, “Funhouse,” gets into the nitty-gritty of finding out exactly how David Hodges has been framed. Also, murdered clowns.
Folsom and Allie are the only ones working the clown case, which if it were anyone else could get stale, but they work so well together that it never gets boring.
CSI: Vegas loves a good A and B plot, and boy, do they ever deliver in “Funhouse.”
The clown case at the [reads notes] clown hotel is [Jean-Ralphio voice] hauntinggggg.
It’s not incredibly unpredictable, but man, it is bizarre. The owner of a clown hotel is forced, by a man in prison, to kill some of his guests.
Prisoners, of course, know other prisoners who are eventually freed. It’s not crazy to think that this killer could have assassin connections, but two separate people believed an imprisoned man was going to kill their families?
Y’all are putting way too much faith in a man who is, again, in prison.
Allie and Folsom are banned from returning to the lab, so they spend all afternoon at the funny farm, and the field diagnostics they run are insanely cool.
The entire time they’re gone, they don’t get to know what’s going on. This makes sense, but it does make me wish we could’ve seen their reaction upon finding out.
Speaking of which, the CSI lab becomes a crime scene when several grenades are stolen from their inventory, and if anything is stolen from a crime lab, we don’t want it to be half a dozen grenades.
Then there’s a whole debacle with luminol bottles not having the correct top, and once we reach the end of both of these mysteries, there’s only one person who could’ve done it: King Chris Park.
I’m shocked, I’m concerned, I’m devastated! Not Chris Park! Not the man I’ve been gushing about since episode one!
No, not him. There’s a quick, but tough interrogation where Max and Nora think it really could be Chris, and seeing his face fall when he realizes this is so, so sad.
Sara points out earlier in the episode that it’s always the people you least suspect, and, well, Chris is definitely who I’d least suspect.
Besides Sara and Grissom, of course. But I’m pretty sure they’re not mastermind murderers.
We end up at a money-hungry attorney, surprise! The money he would get from wrongful imprisonment suits alone is astronomical, and at the cost of one man, he sees it as a worthwhile trade. Gross.
Now that Nora is sort of–kind of–on our side, once full evidence is found, David Hodges should be in the clear. Good for him!
Stray Thoughts:
- Here’s something fun I discovered after this episode: Nevada really has a Clown Motel you can stay at. It has a solid 4/5 stars!
- “What, this guy? This Goth here?” The fact that the subtitles capitalized “goth” when Allie says this made me fully scream out loud.
- Allie and Josh didn’t deny they were a couple because why give a murderer the satisfaction, but that neither of their faces even twitched… Romance, your honor.
- I said “clown” far too many times in this review, and now I’m doubting that it’s a word.
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CSI: Vegas airs Wednesday at 10/9c on CBS.
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Laura Wanberg
Laura is a homebody who loves everything about TV. Some of her favorite shows include Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Parks and Recreation, and The Morning Show. With her ever-growing list of new shows to watch and books to read, her favorite thing to do is to cuddle up with her cat and get lost in someone else's world.