If you watched the season two “CSI: Vegas” episode “The Painted Man,” you’ll probably remember what Mandeep Dhillon was referencing when she called a particular death “fascinating” and “disgusting, as well.”
In the episode’s opening moments, viewers are treated to a look at the inside of a walk-through horror show, with actors pretending to chainsaw one another for the benefit of onlookers. Sensing that it’s in the setup for an episode of “CSI,” a mannequin in the background tips over, cracking open the area around its hand and exposing the fingers of an actual dead body inside, which — you know when you stay in the pool too long and your fingers go all pruney? Imagine if that happened to a bouquet of hot dogs. That’s what it looks like. There’s goo that they have to scrape off the floor with a dough knife.
“Honestly, it amazes me how many people love gore,” Dhillon’s Allie Rajan says as she enters the crime scene that needs investigating, being careful not to step in body goo. With 3.2 million viewers putting eyes on that episode, it’s a heck of a sentiment.
