CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (TV Series) Stalker (2002) User Reviews

Where is the dog?

[brueggemanntami · 7/10 · 10 April 2019]

Very creepy episode. A stalker inside your own home. Scary stuff. And they never showed what happened to the dog. That part bothered me a lot.

Stalker

[Scarecrow-88 · 8/10 · 25 December 2010]

Doug Hutchison has always been a character actor with the incredible ability to make your skin crawl with his mere presence on screen. He's certainly had quite a collection of wackos in his resume. His cable guy, Nigel Crane, discovered to have been voyeuristically tormenting a young women he eventually executes, doing so from within her attic without the victim's knowledge, falls in league with such lunatics. A young woman was receiving phone calls from Crane, pretty much barricading herself in a hermetically sealed home, unaware that he was all the while hiding out in her attic, little holes cut out where each room was located, recording her on a camera or using night vision goggles to spy on her at night. This Crane is a real repellent creep. It seems that Nigel has chosen another one to spy on..Nick! I imagine the Nick Stokes character(he's almost killed by Crane when he and Warrick were in Nigel's home wanting to ask him some questions; pushed out the window by Crane)practically feels raped as Crane falls through his ceiling after killing a psychic(Leland Orser, a clairvoyant who might just be legit since his second sight yields startlingly successful answers, a clue leading Grissom to suspect that the killer was able to get in and out thanks to the attic of the victim's home.), wearing some of his clothes, knowing practically everything about him. Crane had actually dressed and posed(including red hair coloration since Nick prefers redheads)the victim seen at the beginning of the episode to look exactly like a drunk girl Nick knew in college! I mentioned Leland Orser briefly above--his psychic is quite a creepy character, mainly, I guess, because he must stare into the abyss, receiving dark images, glimpses of scary events. His Morris Pearson actually "witnessed" glimpses of the frightening events which transpired the night victim Jane Galloway(Brianna Brown)was suffocated with a plastic bag. And when he appears to Nick at the end, with the "green t" forewarning him of potential danger, Leland certainly leaves an impression as well. Hutchison makes such an impact, that he seems to be on a show or in a movie far longer than he really is, when in actuality he's not. The Nick Stokes character not only receives physical but psychological damage as well.

How the Killer Left the Crime Scene?

[claudio_carvalho · 8/10 · 23 October 2022]

When the young Jane Galloway is found murdered in her over protected house, Grissom questions how the killer could leave the crime scene. Nick spends many time watching the position Jane was put on the toilet by the killer and recalls his prom night. They investigate suspects until the clairvoyant Morris Pearson arrives at the Police Department to meet Grissom and Captain Brass, giving a hint to be followed by Grissom and his team.

"Stalker" is a great episode of "CSI" despite the inclusion of a clairvoyant in the investigation. There is a great flaw in the end since the death of Morris Pearson is not included in Nick's comment that only mentions Jane Galloway. Hope that this type of solution using a "mentalist" is not included in the next episodes. Scientific procedures are much better. My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): "À Espreita" ("Stalking")

Chilling and disturbing

[Valkonian · 8/10 · 5 October 2021]

Adding to what others have mentioned, putting aside some of the far reaching aspects of this episode, Doug Hutchison plays an excellent and chilling stalker. He will creep you out. Leland Oscar plays the clairvoyant who helps the team with the case. BOTH these actors are very good. Ironically, both actors plays psychos in previous shows. Hutchison played a stalker murderer in X-Files- more than 1 episode, if you haven't seen them please go watch them. He is as chilling in those as he is here. Hutchison plays a psychotic murderer in an episode of Star Trek Voyager. Again, he plays it very well.

Overall I enjoyed this episode, in the end you are left feeling the chills as much as Nick.

Atmospheric

[Hitchcoc · 9/10 · 11 January 2021]

This is sort of a right turn from the normal CSI offering. The vicious attack on the young woman had more of Criminal Minds to it than CSI. That said, it is slickly done with lots of neat camera angles and elements of terror. The question is how this guy was able to pull off what he did. Even though he had expertise. The one odd thing was the clairvoyant. He is too significant and it would have made him more tenable if his gifts could be explained rationally, the hallmark of the show. Still it was eerie and quite interesting.

The creepiest so far

[gwenette-spann · 9/10 · 13 October 2020]

I've been watching this during the pandemic and I must say it's pretty good. I love the science-based forensic which makes it so interesting although sometimes it's off a tad bit. Otherwise great show not as good to as Csi miami but still holds it on for a world in a pandemic a you need to take your mind off it.

Stretching credibility

[rlda-38329 · 8/10 · 12 August 2021]

Probably third time we have watched series. Great show and cast, but the credibility of Warwick packing a gun, and other credibility factors, make this third round comical. Grissom saves the day.

Still creeps me out

[jillyoword · 8/10 · 26 June 2022]

Of all the CSI episodes, this one stuck with me the most. I remember being home, alone (and female!) watching this and being TERRIFIED that someone could be living in my attic stalking me. I still freak myself out some times and I don't even have an attic anymore!!

Why introduce the supernatural?

[alex-droogley · 3/10 · 15 April 2013]

The whole point of CSI is that the answers are found through science.

So why have a clairvoyant with psychic knowledge of the crime? If it was X-Files I wouldn't mind if there was a clairvoyant, a platoon of clairvoyants, or a battalion of clairvoyants, but it is totally out of place in CSI.

Also, the clairvoyant character actually added nothing to the plot at all, apart from being a very slight red herring.

Really, if you know the Gil Grissom character, can you image him bringing someone who claims parapsychic knowledge to a crime scene, then leaving him unattended there? Not on.

Also, it's implausible that someone could "move into" someone else's attic, still do his day job, and remain unobserved for months on end.

And how could the perp, a short dude, hurl Nick, a much larger dude, through a second floor window? Oh maybe he used telekinesis.