[Patrick Sun]

Well, the last we saw her, Sara was trapped under a car by the Miniature Killer. Tonight we found out that Sara

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found a way to survive, and I hope she keeps that rearview mirror with her as her good luck charm.

Overall, a good opening episode, showcasing how Sara got captured and placed under the car a la the miniature set from the Miniature Killer.

[Mike Frezon]

Gee, Patrick...my son and I were both pretty disappointed with the episode.

Really...not much happened involving the miniature killer...except for the flashback scenes you mentioned letting us in on how the crime went down. (And I'm still not sure how she lowered the car onto Sara's arm.)

Nearly half the show was simply Sara wandering the desert...with us left to wonder whether the team would make it to her on time. And the resolution boils down to:

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Nick spotting a momentary reflection (of the afore-mentioned rear-view mirror) while blindly driving down a desert highway. "Pull over here! Now!"

It seemed like the stuff of Saturday matinee serials. Not much high-tech detective work there. Another main clue was found:

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written underneath a drawing of Sara left on the killer's wall right out in plain view! (the phone number of the junkyard where the killer purchased the car.) And this was after Nick was frustrated that "he wasn't leaving until he found something!"

I'm not usually this negative about a show I've been looking forward to for months. But this one really left me disappointed.

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I mean...you just KNEW they were going to find her at the last minute and everything was going to be all right. Cheesy. No real drama. Nothing that utilized the best features of the show itself.

[Patrick Sun]

Sorry it didn't work for you. I thought it went against the grain for the usual CSI schtick, so I give them some leeway in telling the story. I figured the mirror would have been spotted from the sky, not from the road, that's where I thought they were going with her dragging it along with her.

[Nicholas Martin]

It was worth the wait to me, and this was the one show I was looking forward to more than any other.

[Mike Frezon]

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Originally Posted by Nicholas Martin

It was worth the wait to me, and this was the one show I was looking forward to more than any other.

Yeah. Ever since the last episode of season 7 aired, my son and I would occasionally make the hand motion of the miniature Sara as a reminder that we were anxious to see the resolution of the story-line. Although I'm sure we're going to get several episodes of Grissom trying to climb inside the killer's mind.

But, anyway...maybe it was because of too MUCH anticipation that we were let down on how things played out. For us, great cliff-hanger. Lame resolution.

[Nelson Au]

There was only going to be one of 2 resolutions.

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What I didn't see coming was that she got out of the car. Then it was a matter of whether they'd find her in time. I didn't see that she was going to get out, that surprised me. When she broke the mirror off, I thought she might try to cut her arm off like that hiker did a few years ago when a large stone fell on his arm. Liked the end when they locked eyes in the copter.

[Walter C]

I was thinking the same thing Nelson. I won't repeat it here, since it's in spoiler text.

I thought it was great, and a reminder why this CSI version is still the best.

[Martino]

I thought it was a very poor episode... Usually this show has some intelligence to it, but this one had some many dumb things in it.

Things I just didn't like:

- I could not believe they found a "random" dead body while looking for her...where was the searching party for that guy?

- Someone as smart as she is - bypassing shaded areas to wonder the desert during the middle of the day. Walking up and down a hill (that had shade by the way) to wander out into a flat desert...

- When going into the desert to look for her - why were the helicopters 8 feet off of the ground buzzing the cars (???) - they were actually going slower then the cars so they would not hit them. Get a little height and look around.

- Speaking of helicopters - where did they go? Why couldn't she hear them? After they found her, the helicopters showed up rather quickly - but you could not hear them buzzing around?

- At the end, she had what looked like at least a 5 inch gash on her face, but no blood was coming down. I said to my wife – that should leave a scar, but we will never see it again – bad makeup.