The Hunger Artist (CSI)

Infobox Television episode
Title = The Hunger Artist
Series =
Season = 2
Episode = 23
Airdate = May 16, 2002
Writer = Jerry Stahl
Director = Richard J. Lewis
Season list = CSI season 2 episode list
Episode list =
Prev = Cross Jurisdictions
Next = Revenge is Best Served Cold

The Hunger Artist is the twenty-third (and last) episode from the of the popular American crime drama , which is set in Las Vegas, Nevada.

ummary

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.

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".

External links

*imdb title|id=0534751|title=The Hunger Artist
*Tv.com episode|id=146513|title=The Hunger Artist
*csiguide episode|id=46|title=The Hunger Artist
* [http://www.csifiles.com/episodes/csi/season2/the_hunger_artist.shtml "The Hunger Artist"] at CSI Files