Sounds of Silence (CSI)

Infobox Television episode
Title= Sounds of Silence
Series=
Season = 1
Episode = 20
Guests =
Airdate = April 19, 2001
Production =
Writer = Josh Berman
Andrew Lipsitz
Director = Peter Markle
Season list = CSI season 1 episode list
Episode list =
Prev = Gentle, Gentle
Next = Justice is Served

Sounds of Silence is the twentieth episode from the of the popular American crime drama "", which is set in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Plot

When a car runs over a body, the team discover it wasn't the car that killed him as he was already dead. The investigation reveals personal information about Grissom, which surprises Sara and Warrick. Catherine and Nick, meanwhile, investigate what appears to be a mob hit in a coffee store that leaves five dead.

After tracing the hit-and-run victim's mother, Grissom discovers that he was a student at a school for the deaf. The school's principal, Dr. Gilbert, becomes uncooperative when Warrick and Sara question her via an interpreter - she is able to read lips and takes offense. When Grissom interrogates her in sign language, she opens up and helps Grissom track down the killers, a pair of teenagers who asked the victim to buy beer for them and flew into a rage when he did not respond.

At the end of the episode, Grissom talks to Dr. Gilbert in American Sign Language. What he is saying is that his mother lost her hearing when she was eight years old. He once asked her, 'What is it like to be deaf?' and she told Grissom, who loved to swim, that it was like being underwater. She also taught him that being deaf does not make one inferior and that deafness can be a blessing. The camera pulls back to reveal a fountain as the two continue signing, and the sound of the fountain becomes dominant as the scene fades to the closing credit slide.

Production details

The closing scene with the fountain was filmed at Los Angeles Mission College in Sylmar, CA.

See also

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External links

*imdb title|id=0534741|title=Sounds of Silence
*Tv.com episode|id=35810|title=Sounds of Silence
*csiguide episode|id=20|title=Sounds of Silence
* [http://www.csifiles.com/episodes/csi/season1/sounds_of_silence.shtml "Sounds of Silence"] at CSI Files