CSI: Vegas Review: Let the Chips Fall (Season 1 Episode 5)

On CSI: Vegas Season 1 Episode 5, “Let the Chips Fall,” we learn more about Joshua Folsom, and a trip to the body farm is in order! 

On “Let the Chips Fall,” Sara and Grissom take one step forward and three steps back on Hodges’ case, and, man, whoever is framing Hodges is doing a very good job. 

Even Sara and Grissom knew that Kline introducing himself to them meant he’s up to no good. I’m very interested to know if the DNA from this blown-up body matches him. 

Kline calls someone as soon as he gets into the elevator and I’m not fully convinced that whoever that is, especially with Kline having access to the body farm, didn’t swap his body for someone else’s. 

There’s no head, and his dental records are a no-go considering his head apparently exploded, but hopefully, as Grissom said, DNA will confirm.

Marty, we hardly knew ye. 

Folsom personally connects with this case because it involves a child ending up in CPS, and Folsom shares that he was in foster homes for a while. 

Learning about new characters is the best part about a new show, and with Folsom, we haven’t learned much, so it’s nice to see a side to him past pining over Allie and sarcastic jokes. 

Allie mentions that she would never date a coworker, no matter what the circumstance, and there’s a half a second look between Folsom and Park that is so unbelievably upsetting. 

Speaking of which, Chris Park is back! God amongst us mere mortals, Park brings a great amount of joy to this episode with his flamingo button-up, and his suggestion of playing never have I ever at a crime scene. 

Love is in the air between Max and FBI agent Barron, but unfortunately, it’s not very believable. 

The two flirt throughout the entire episode, and it’s nice to see Max loosen up a little bit, but the history we’re supposed to catch onto isn’t there. 

The lack of chemistry definitely doesn’t help, and I’m pretty sure that’s not the fault of Paula Newsome. 

It’s seen as a previous relationship, a what-if, amongst everything else going on in their lives, and it makes sense for them to never have found a place to work out. 

This is a great episode, with honest twists, and enough personal connection to move the stories of almost everyone forward. 

I want to say how grateful I am for CSI: Vegas and the writers not even thinking about adding COVID-19 into the show. 

Some shows are doing it fairly well, but most shows are dealing with the fact that they mentioned it last year, thinking it would be gone in 2021, and surprise, it’s not! 

Whether a show has since time jumped past the pandemic, wears masks occasionally or not at all, CSI: Vegas does it right in having it not exist, to begin with. 

Stray Thoughts:

• You learn something new in every episode of CSI: Vegas, and this week I learned that you can rip the fuse out of a black box so it stops keeping data. Nice. That’s not horrifying at all.
• There are so many FBI agents in this episode that for a second I wondered if this wasn’t some sort of backdoor pilot for CSI: FBI. 
• Laura didn’t even try to hide her frostbite. Living in a desert. What?!

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CSI: Vegas airs Wednesday at 10/9c on CBS.

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