CSI and Forensics in the News. ![]() I love the show. I remember when Cote joined the cast and I’m not sure we all loved her immediately. It took some time. Season 1 Season 1, Episode 0: Unaired. CSI / Characters - TV Tropes open/close all folders CSI Dr. And anyone who tries to hurt Sara. Pity that didn't include him. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Episode Scripts - Springfield! Springfield! TV Show Episode Scripts. SS is dedicated to The Simpsons and host to thousands of free TV. In- universe, Grissom cites three Berserk buttons. Grissom: . In the first season, he was prone to bouts of anger (once slapping a coffee pot out of Ecklie's hand, enraged) and happiness (even—gasp—smiling! With teeth and all!). By Season 3, his character was shaped into being level- headed at all times, even in normal conversation. Justifiable in that he starts to retreat emotionally during his struggle with his hearing loss. Friend to Bugs. Game of Nerds: He likes baseball. Innocently Insensitive: His distant approach to social life leads him to sometimes saying the wrong things without realizing it, specifically to Sara before they dated, much to her frustration (she nearly quits over it). Intelligence Equals Isolation: Especially in the earlier seasons. Despite his intelligence and expert grasp of human nature, Grissom led a very isolated life, and rebuffed most opportunities of interaction outside of the workplace. He even turned down Sara's initial dating requests in Season 3. Married to the Job : For most of the series, at least until he married Sara. Catherine used to tell him to take his head out of his microscope once in a while. Nice Hat: Seen sporting a straw sunhat in more than one episode. It was once complimented by a hooker. And that hat belongs to Petersen himself acquired from his own travels. Not That Kind of Doctor. Papa Wolf: Pretty much the only way to get him riled up is to either threaten one of his teammates, especially Sara, or do anything to endanger children. ![]() The Enhance Button trope as used in popular culture. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation premiered on October 6, 2000. Since then, fifteen seasons have been broadcast. The first season consisted of 23 episodes, including a. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (also referred to as CSI and CSI: Las Vegas) is a procedural forensics crime drama television series that premiered on CBS on October 6. Rick Stetler was an officer of the Internal Affairs Bureau in the MDPD in CSI: Miami. CSI Adorkable Alliterative Name Ambiguous Disorder: He displays the combination of extremely high intelligence and extremely low social skills that is.![]() Platonic Life Partners: With Catherine. They are obviously best friends, but there's also no hint of sexual chemistry between them. Put on a Bus: After season 9. The Bus Came Back: He did have a cameo in season 1. One of the first time we see him take some time off and puts Catherine in charge is when he goes to a conference to race his vermin. It doesn't go so well (. He had no problems getting dinner dates when he actually sought them out. The Smart Guy. The Spock. Team Dad: To the boys more than Sara (obviously), but especially to Warrick and Nick. Big mistake. The same applies to her team members. Ms. Fanservice: She used to be a stripper, way back in the day (and not an Old Shame for her, even when a DA tries to use it against her in court). She's had a couple of Toplessness from the Back scenes and an interrogation where she unbuttoned her blouse every time her suspect gave her an answer. Official Couple: With Vartaan. For a while, anyway. Platonic Life Partners: With Grissom. Put on a Bus: Season 1. She's with the FBI now. The Bus Came Back: Like Grissom, came back to Vegas for the series finale case, which started at the casino she inherited, and decided to stay. Revenge Before Reason: Her automatic hatred towards registered sex offenders and anyone she even suspects of being a child abuser. The long version: Catherine has several times had a very strong reaction to cases where a little girl is the victim of their case, to the point where she will allow her own emotions to cloud her judgement. It is hinted this is because she is the mother of a young girl. Her emotions have caused her to severely jump the gun when it comes to a suspect and showing no hesitation to add her own verbal disgust and disbelief towards a suspect when they tells her their side of the story. Sara even once lampshaded this by snarking that it was . Ironically, every time she has let her emotions take control of a case like this, who her hatred is focused towards has always turned out to be a mere victim of . She believed he was a child molester because of his name on the Sexual Predator Watch List though he was only there because of an incident where he got high on hallucinogenics and walked out naked in front of a bus full of children. After the man's fiance found out about his past (through Catherine vindictively outing him) and that he was using an assumed name, she kicked him out of the house and then got him fired by telling his boss. The man walked up to Catherine in the parking lot after this, threatening to shoot himself in the head on her front lawn one day, even calling her a . Robbins' disapproval). Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: Her being Sam Braun's daughter has gotten things done with her superiors at least once, even after his death. Brass: Unbelievable! She even referred to the event as the . She ended up in foster care. Not to mention the stuff that's happened to her since. Freudian Excuse. Hint Dropping: Tries this as a tactic while trying to court Grissom. She once told Hodges (who was fretting about a possible grey hair) that she finds grey hair rather sexy, while standing next to Grissom. Eventually, she point- blank asks him out, which he refuses. After a couple of more years, he eventually comes around to Glad You Thought of It. Hot For Supervisor. The Lancer. The Maiden Name Debate: She still uses . Not that it matters to Sara, who as mentioned above, has a thing for silver foxes. Put on a Bus: She's taken a round trip, having come back to assist the team when they're short- staffed in season 1. Relationship Reveal: with Grissom. Second Episode Introduction: Comes in to help the team per request of (who else?) Grissom in the second episode following the death of the Na. This is a man who likes variety. Deadpan Snarker. Delinquent Hair. Expository Hairstyle Change: Shortly after becoming a CSI he stops sporting his normally wacky hairstyles, to show how he's matured. Genius Ditz: In earlier seasons. While he does act like an idiot he's very good at his job, and has extended knowledge on coin collection and Old Vegas. I *Might* See Dead People / Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: His grandmother had . One the one hand he couldn't detect anything when he was in the . Raymond Langston Bowties Are Cool: Averted. Langston begins wearing bowties for practicality after his necktie was contaminated at his first crime scene and he had to cut it as evidence. Crazy- Prepared. Enemy Within: He possesses the same . His father was apparently violent, and Raymond worries that he may become that way himself. He also has a gene that has been associated with violent behaviour. On the other hand, when faced with Serial Killer Nate Haskell, who has the same gene and his own abusive father, he testifies in open court against his attempt to use this card, and afterwards Haskell admits to him that he decided in his youth he'd blame it on those things if he were ever caught. I Am Not My Father. Not That Kind of Doctor: Inverted, he is that kind of doctor (or rather, he used to be). The Professor. Put on a Bus: After killing Haskell, he is discharged from CSI by IAB and sent back to the east coast with his former ex- wife. He's mentioned once in the Season 1. Token Minority Riley Adams Played by: Lauren Lee Smith D. B. Russell Bunny- Ears Lawyer: Almost as much, if not more, than Grissom. Cloudcuckoolander: Sometimes, at least. Cool Old Guy. Do Not Call Me . Also in his premiere as well as he is posing as a dead body for . In CSI: Cyber he's divorced. Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Not to Langston, but rather Grissom. Team Dad: Picking up where Grissom left off, but in a different kind of way since D. B. He's especially this trope for Greg and Morgan, the two youngest CSIs. They're a little weirded out by it. Unfortunate Name: Diebenkorn. Fanservice: Wears more makeup than the other team members and her clip in the titles involves her running in a tight white T- shirt. Parental Abandonment: Ecklie left when she was 1. She uses the surname of her stepfather. Ship Tease: Several moments with Greg and, believe it or not, Hodges, whom she pretends to date to impress his mother. Vitriolic Best Buds: A Type II with Greg and Sara is shaping up. Absolutely has this with Hodges. They bicker frequently, but clearly care about each other. Morgan actually flat- out refers to him as her best friend, and even once agreed to pretend to date him in order to get his mother off his back. With Elisabeth electing not to come back for the series finale movie, it seems unlikely she's ever going to wake up. The Grand Finale confirms she died. Do Not Call Me . She prefers Finn. Interestingly, D. B.'s wife also calls her 'Jules', and she doesn't even react. Last Name Basis: Sort of. Sleeves Are for Wimps: The most likely of the final female team to not wear sleeves. Medical Examiners Dr. More commonly seen is his tendency to get incredibly testy when he sees evidence of another medical examiner (or a paramedic, or police officer) cutting corners or not following protocol. And don't even think about suggesting that he was less than thorough about doing his own job. The Coroner. Genius Cripple. Handicapped Badass: He might need a cane to get around, but he can be a pretty mean fighter when he has to be. Happily Married: Besides a few issues, he's one of two CSI employees, the other being D. B. Russell, to be this. The Lab Rat: Sort of, although he's a mortuary rat rather than a lab rat. Mr. Exposition: His autopsies often reveal further background on the murder victims. Sympathetic Adulterer/Your Cheating Heart: Reveals in season 1. It nearly ruined him and his wife, and they've been faithful ever since. It's really kind of adorable. Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Rats. Written- In Infirmity/Disabled Character, Disabled Actor: Both Robert David Hall and Albert Robbins are double amputees. Its his lucky day. On this day, nothing has ever gone wrong for him, ever. When she finally appears on- screen, we learn that she's a surprisingly attractive and classy lady, and far from the typical My Beloved Smother that most mothers involved in this trope are. Pet the Dog/Establishing Character Moment: For the first couple seasons he was on the show, he was portrayed as a through- and- through Jerkass. Professional Butt- Kisser with no redeeming qualities whom all his co- workers hated. Enhance Button - TV Tropes. Zapp: Why's it still blurry?! Kif: That's all the resolution we have. Making it bigger doesn't make it clearer. Zapp: It does on CSI: Miami. This process is virtually instantaneous unless added dramatic tension is required (in which case extra Techno Babble or more Applied Phlebotinum may be needed). May require someone to stand next to the computer intoning . But the Enhance Button simply ignores the fact that the big blocky pixels you get when you zoom in too close on a picture are the only information that the picture actually contains, and attempting to extract more detail than this is fundamentally impossible. No matter what you do or how you do it, you're merely guessing, if not making stuff up outrightnote You can test this by yourself if you've a digital camera with digital zoom, taking a picture with the full digital zoom and comparing it with another that was taken without using it, or with the resizing function of image editing software such as Photoshop or GIMP. Sometimes this is Hand Waved, where the enhanced image is still blocky/blurry, but a higher- up will instruct the techie to . In reality, the techie is merely analyzing the picture and making educated guesses about what is probably there. It's like attempting to guess the exact words on a missing page from a book, based on what was said in the surrounding pages — it's ultimately just a guess, and hopefully not proof admissible in court (although the courts have bought into this trope to some degree also — Photoshop is still a very popular tool in forensic image analysis). In particularly jarring examples, they might even pull off feats such as rotating the image to see the faces of people with their backs turned, or to see something that's just around the corner.. If the tech claims it's impossible due to the picture's low resolution it usually means there's an important clue being obscured which would drastically shorten the story if revealed. Also compare Rewind, Replay, Repeat, which is used under similar circumstances but is a lot more realistic. It works, naturally, although it helps that he was obsessed with the character in question. The enhancing does bupkis for the investigation. Togusa's Eureka Moment comes after hours of pointless enhancing when he comes to a picture of a mirror that doesn't reflect a camera. This is when he realizes that the pictures were taken with the (minimally- enhanced) subject's eyes. Someone lo- jacked the subject with Nanomachines! Pok. They get a grainy image of Mewtwo standing on a mountain and then they keep enhancing it so it becomes clearer. An image of Deoxys is picked up and has to be zoomed in on, but no enhancement is implied, making it slightly more realistic. While impossible in real life, this always works in the setting. There's a bit of blink- and- you'll- miss- it justification at one point, implying that the mosaic functions in all commercial and most freeware graphics packages were written by a grand conspiracy of perverts and thus all find ways to steganographically embed the original image data in the end result — making mosaics reversible. In this show's setting, that's actually plausible. He uses his . Notable because it's not just an Enhance Button—Fred explicitly describes what he's doing as he enhances the image, which includes altering the contrast and sharpness to reveal the ghost, which was invisible to the naked eye. Zooming in on a shot of the pilot, Hiro discovers the name 'Callaghan' printed on her helmet, revealing that she was Professor Callaghan's daughter and that he was seeking revenge against Krei for her death. Justified as the computer program doing the . As a secondary character blows up a photograph, he pins up a series of even greater enlargements until he finally gets one roughly 2. In modern digital terms, a 1. MP image (assuming it's a 6x. Modern lenses and film can surpasss 2. MP without problem. With a CCTV, the FBI agents were able to zoom in and enhance the picture enough to get a VIN number from a SUV. The enhancement itself doesn't actually get a clear photo because he's masked, but it's clear enough that they're able to match him by facial structure. It's speculated that they are in fact holographic images of a three- dimensional space just shown through a flat screen. Ostensibly a documentary looking into the murder of three filmmakers years after the event, the documentary maker asks a photographic expert to enhance an blurry image of a monstrous- looking creature. The image is returned to throughout the film, each time being slightly clearer, but is only revealed at the end. It turns out that the image, as well as being blurry, is also stretched vertically, and turns out to be a picture of the documentary maker, who is implied to be the original killer. Enemy of the State. The NSA uses two takes from separate frames from a security video, and then rotate the image in 3- D, Matrix- style, in order to see a shopping bag hidden behind someone's back. There is some handwaving about how the computer is simply . And then the Big Bad's next words order his subordinates to find out precisely what it is, presumably so they have concrete evidence instead of speculation. In the actual movie, he simply sees it in the background and zooms in. One guy asks if they can get a look at their faces, to which Jack Black responds, . It can only look straight down. Fiedler: Well, maybe you should invent something better. Krug: Well, maybe I will! Well, he could actually see it before he zoomed. So the theory behind it isn't wrong. The representation is though. There's an early example in Call Northside 7. DAY BEFORE she made her identification, was therefore lying, and the suspect is therefore innocent. Given the age of the film, this may be the Ur- Example. Stargate SG- 1, however, mostly avoids this trope.. It still creeps into . In the movie, at least, rather than using the Enhance Button to add more information that they couldn't possess, when the image is scrolled the computer displays a low- resolution placeholder until it finishes loading the high- resolution image to memory. The same process can be seen in the program Google Earth. The protagonist apparently has a good enough video camera that he can enhance a split second image seen through a hole in a grate, in a dark house, into a high resolution image. A secret government agency recruits Denzel to help them apprehend a terrorist using an experimental imaging system that uses satellite data to reconstruct every aspect of the bomb site in 3. D, capable of zooming in at ground level, going inside structures, even supposedly recreating audio. He is extremely skeptical at first, but then it is revealed that they are actually folding space- time in order to view past events in real time. Not only that, they spot their target through his reflection in the door of a nearby car. It simply must be seen to be disbelieved. Martin complains that she wasn't in the picture he received. Latifah takes him to a computer, and enhances the picture, to show her in handcuffs in the background. It takes several zooms, and each takes more time than the last, but he eventually gets a slightly over- saturated and blurry, but still altogether too- clear picture. Two lab technicians muse over a very blurred photo of Adam and his stuffed bunny, thinking it's an alien. Hendrickson arrives, he presses one button which completely unblurs the photo. This does not seem so amazing until you realize he did this at a photo kiosk in a subway station. Still, once Brian clicks . You get the impression that the first image was a low- resolution digital preview created by the kiosk so someone could navigate a large number of photos quickly, while the second, . Zoomed in CCTV footage is visibly pixellated, and the focus is fuzzy, if not quite as badly as it should be. Nonetheless, it provides Gerard and his team useful clues about the homicide their fugitive committed. While the Duras sisters are watching through Geordi's VISOR, he looks at a control panel in Engineering with a graphic of the Enterprise. They enhance part of the screen so they can see the shield frequency the Enterprise is using. Later developments have allowed for the use of video of an object to be enhanced to details well in excess of anything in any individual frame. Justified due to the fact that what they are watching is an image extrapolated from the readings taken from the VISOR, which is more like an Everything Sensor than a video camera and very well could have recorded far more data than is visible in a 2. D video. Replay from time index 9. Magnify this section and enhance! Shield modulation: 2. Another bump. There's your plate. Before, you couldn't quite tell it was him, but after the enhancement, it's enough for the Big Bad to recognize him. Their computer is able to . Apparently in the future, you can preserve image layers in a hard copy of a photograph, and the creators of this fake never thought to . In an aversion, Dredd's defense counsel maintains that CCTV footage of Dredd supposedly murdering someone is too low- res to be admitted into evidence, on the rationale that his face cannot be seen at the angle in question, Dredd never speaks, and his uniform could be a forgery. After a long, tense scene in which Sullivan is pursued through the streets by Costigan without their ever clearly seeing each other, he finds Costigan on security camera footage. There is no enhance button, and zooming in reveals nothing. It is then taken to a even more ridiculous level when agent Morgan asks the tech to enhance a section that just looks like blackness, it flashes a couple times, and then suddenly a reflection appears with the face of the other suspect. Used in The Truman Show to spot Truman's hand. Noah (who owns a video production studio) is helping Rachel analyze the Cursed Video frame by frame.
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