Funny / Forensic Files

• At the end of "Postal Mortem", the explosives expert is asked how common it is for bombers to get blown up by their own bombs. His answer? "Not common enough".
• "Summer Obsession" is about a guy who ran a Ponzi scheme, using the money to spend tens of thousands of dollars a week on a single stripper at a club while not doing any actual work for his business. The narrator hilariously summed up his scheme in a single sentence:
  Peter Thomas: The closest thing Craig [Rabinowitz] had to an office was his seat at Delilah's strip club.
• While the detectives in "Freeze Framed" were breaking down the death of a reported suicide/possible homicide of the victim of the episode, they note that a turkey baster had been found in the house with traces of poison on the inside and the victim's DNA on the tip. According to the prosecutor for this case:
  Bill Fitzpatrick: What in the name of Heaven is he doing committing suicide by turkey baster?
• This gem that describes what moshing is in "Shopping Spree".
• In "Sex, Lies, and DNA", Earl Morris claims to have been in Los Angeles when his wife Ruby was killed in Phoenix. His alibi is busted when a flight attendant recalls seeing him on a flight from San Diego to Phoenix, having remembered him for the poor quality of his toupee.
• "Freedom Fighter" concerns the tale of a framed man singlehandedly proving the case for his innocence. He's a hoot throughout, but special mention goes to his commentary on the judge's refusal to retry even after he'd decisively proven another man attacked the victim:
  Roy Brown: This is what kind of people I'm dealing with.
• "Purr-fect Match" treats the Mounties' floundering efforts to take the suspect's cat as evidence with the show's trademark stone-cold seriousness, down to a shot of the cat scowling from its kennel like a detained suspect.
  Melvin Duguay: The [constable] told me he went down to the house and read out the rights—the cat's rights—to the parents. And I said to [him], "What did the cat say?" And he said, "Meow."
• In "Telltale Tracks", the killer gives an alias to police to hide the fact that he's wanted for violating his parole. The name he gives is Peter Thomas Love. One can only imagine how Peter Thomas (the narrator) felt basically reading out his own name while narrating the episode.
• "The Buddhist Monk Murders" can be an uncomfortable episode to watch, but Mike McGraw's description of what happened was so hilariously inaccurate that it sounds more like a shootout from a mob movie than a robbery leading to murder. He described them as using assault rifles, Glocks, 9 mms, deer rifles, and shotguns.
• "Three's A Crowd": After it was discovered that victim Susan Fassett had had sex within 48 hours of her death, the police go to speak to her lover Fred Andros. He claimed that he was impotent from medication he was taking — a claim that police proved to be false after interviewing various prostitutes in town.
• In "Chief Evidence", the prosecutor dryly recounts Kenneth Leuluaialii's flailing efforts to avoid a guilty verdict by explaining away the blood on his sleeve as being from an unrelated fight.
  Timothy Bradshaw: That did give me an opportunity to ask him whether the man he was fighting with had hit him with a dog.

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