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This 3 page paper explores the concepts of heroes, victims and gender and racial stereotypes in the CSI episode Grave Danger. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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that was the fifth-season finale of the original series, and how gender roles were portrayed. Discussion This was one of the series highest-rated episodes; for one thing, Quentin Tarantino directed
it and for another, the plot was intricate and nerve-wracking. CSI Nick Stokes (George Eads) was kidnapped while investigating a crime scene and buried alive in a Plexiglas casket. Then
the kidnapper sent a link to the CSI team that activated a camera in the casket so they could watch him die. The story then followed the team as they
worked feverishly to find Nick before it was too late. Which character was the hero? The answer is: they all were. This show is perhaps one of the most even-handed
on television when it comes to the male/female dichotomy; it is less effective in handling minorities, frequently relegating its black regular Warrick Brown (Gary Dourdan) to a few scenes; he
rarely carried an entire episode. Despite this, Brown is prominent in this episode because of his strong friendship for Stokes. The show is structured around two teams of investigators,
one headed by Catherine Willows (Marg Helgenberger) and the other by Gil Grissom (William Petersen); the two characters have, over the nine years they worked together, shared screen time fairly
equally, which is unusual. They are both exceptionally strong characters, and the question of Willows gender is rendered moot by the fact that she is every bit as capable as
her male counterparts. The most unusual thing about this episode is probably that the victim is male; usually it is the woman who is put in jeopardy and the
man who saves her, thus perpetuating the stereotype of the helpless female who cannot help herself but must depend on the heroic man to rescue her. So the stereotype here
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