Fight Night, Season 3 #7

A triple bill: fighter dies in the ring, gang shooting on the strip and robbery at a jewelry store.

GREG:

1. Presents gloves and swabs results like he’s calling a fight. "And in this corner...."
2. In his own time (of which he has precious little) he analyzed the gloves – but he can’t say it simply – leading Grissom to ask: “Greg, why are you always doing this?” “Because you make me nervous.” Which Doc Robbins thinks is quite funny.

White shirt with black decorative stripes. And a grey long sleeved t-shirt.

REST OF TEAM:

• Nick is finally processing alone since they’ve got so much going on. Welcome to Fight Night.
• Smiling suppresses the gag reflex. And processing saliva is Sara’s limit so she’s doing a lot of smiling.
• Catherine is processing the gang shooting, finds 3 guns. But Bobby D can’t match any of the guns to the murder.
• Heavyweight can land a punch at a 1000 pounds per square inch. Energy from punch is transferred to cerebral spinal fluid, compressing the brain against the skull which disrupts neural output. Too many hits and it’s a knockout.
• Catherine’s hair is curly, a different look for her. But she wears anything well.
• Warrick: 8 out of 10 boxes suffer some form of brain damage later in life.
• Nick questions Grissom about why he got a robbery when everyone else had much more serious cases. He uses a another bird story from Nick to illustrate his point. “How come when you talk about bugs, everyone says you’re a genius but when I talk about birds everyone says I watch too much television.”
• Boxer injected mercury into his gloves to make them more lethal which made his punches harder and caused other fighters death. Harsh.

Execution of Catherine Willows, Season 3 #6

The episode begins with man strapped to a table about to be executed. He gets a stay due to new evidence. He’s on death row having been convicted of murder 15 years before, a case where Catherine was a rookie CSI. And while Catherine is reviewing the evidence, another murder is committed with many of the same elements - the victim? A missing teenager (whose bedroom door has 3 locks on it) that Grissom, Nick & Sara had been investigating.

GREG:

1. Confronts Catherine about DNA evidence from old case going to another lab – he calls it cheating on him with an out-of-state analyst. She has to tell him he just doesn’t have the equipment.
2. Intercepted Catherine’s DNA analysis from federal lab, which doesn’t make her happy. And then he discovers that hair from current murder matches one of the victims from 15 years before.

Dark dress shirt, blue or black with tan/white stripes. Green t-shirt with lightening bolt.

REST OF TEAM:

• How come sometimes their cases are shiny and sometimes they’re not? Type of crime scene?
• Backyard of missing girls house - time for the big scanner again, last seen in Alter Boys. (Season 2 #6)
• Fancy footage of Mitochondrial DNA lab at Dept of Criminal Justice. It’s a clean room – which Greg’s lab isn’t. But does the federal guy have such cool hair? Doubt it.
• Warrick stumbles on railing with still-wet blue paint (which is kept in its wet form by addition of motor oil to paint). They had blue paint in earlier 3 murders but didn’t know about it. Now that they do, how does copycat know if their prime suspect is on death row?
• Catherine goes to prison to sit with the parents for execution. And blue-paint killer is still out there.

Grissom’s Lesson of the Week: Cicadas are one of the longest living insects. They spend 17 years underground and then emerges and shed their skin. They then fly around for 5 weeks after that as adult and then dies.

Abra-Cadaver, Season 3 #5

A volunteer in a magic show goes into a booth for a disappearing trick and doesn’t reappear. And a rock star is found dead on a tour bus of what looks like an overdose, but isn’t.

GREG:

1. Greg plays swami (complete with hat) to give Sara results. Sadly, she really doesn’t want to play.
2. Locates facts about dead rock star's band for Nick and Catherine. Was searching internet and found out the band was splitting up. Nick asks him to do more digging. Greg does the “horns” hand sign as he walks away, and Nick throws up “I love you.”
3. Discovers lady missing from magic trick has been in missing person’s database for six months.

Dark t-shirt, same fleece pullover we've seen before I thinks.

REST OF TEAM:

• Sara wants to take the disappearing box back to the lab – maybe they can make Greg disappear.
• Stage hand’s name is Punky Dillenger. I want to say something about another unusual name, but after Augie two episodes ago – I’m out.
• Creepy old house by the railroad, last known address for missing lady. Grissom find a hidden door in the dining room with creepy basement room/dudgeon.
• Grissom finds a butterfly in the basement room they’re processing; Warrick gets a quick lesson in butterfly markings.
• Grissom has Doc Robbins cut finger off burned body so he can finger print it. Quite the gruesome scene of him pulling bone out of it before slipping it on his own finger like a mini-glove.
• Grissom checks the magician’s mouth before he gets in the squad car, doesn’t find anything. Last thing we see -- magician regurgitating a key once the car is underway.

Grissom’s Lesson of the Week: Abracadabra-- a word charm made from 3 Hebrew words that means father-son-holy spirit.

A Little Murder, Season 3 #4

A man is found in what is assumed to be a suicide at a Little People Convention, but Grissom disagrees – it’s a little murder. (Hence the ep title) And Catherine is assaulted working a home invasion.

GREG:

1. Processing evidence from rope. Grissom buzzes through and takes the hairs, Greg couldn’t analyze them since they didn’t’ have skin tags. Grissom says doesn’t matter and he keeps walking. “I hate it when he does that, I like to make a presentation.”
2. Reminds Nick he’s open 24 hours if he can get him something for results comparison.
3. Tries to give Grissom results from further analysis of hairs from rope, stammers and has problems making his point. Grissom always makes him nervous. And he sounds like might have a slight cold -??

Wardrobe: brown pinstriped shirt. Or maybe it’s purple, hard to tell.

REST OF TEAM:

• Grissom knows the facts about the convention because he gets the newsletter.
• Catherine gets a wicked cut on her forehead. She swabs it, but doesn’t bandage it. Ouch.
• Shimmery kinda tie-dyed shirt on Nick. Not his usual conservative apparel. Maybe he's been shopping with Greg?
• Actor (Michael Gilden) playing murder victim and Ms. Grace (played by Meredith Eaton), convention organizer that Grissom talks with were real-life husband and wife.
• To find which restaurant worker assaulted her and killed the other guy, she makes them blow their nose to find which one inhaled the fingerprint powder. Yicky.
• End of episode finds Grissom back at the school for the deaf; he seems to find it peaceful.
  

Grissom’s Lesson of the Week: dwarfs with pseudoachondroplasia have features and head size like normal people and achondroplasia have shortened limbs and enlarged heads.

Let the Seller Beware, Season 3 #3

Trophy wife is found shot on the top of a pool awning in the back of her house. Sara gets a solo case (which makes Nick nuts) of an eviscerated cheerleader. Teeth mark injuries on cheerleader are human.

GREG:

1. Analysis of sperm from dead wife. Nope and ibid – ie. ditto nope. I get it, but it’s weird. Who talks like that?
2. Reads Sara coroner’s report as she picks through what Greg succulently calls “driving someone else’s porcelain bus.”
3. The infamous mildew outbreak: Greg is in locker room putting on his jacket, when Grissom comes in and tells him to take his shoes off. Greg isn’t so sure he can ‘roll’ with strip forensics. Grissom says he knows that Greg’s mother’s maiden name is Hojem which is Norwegian and swabs something on Greg’s feet with the brief description of “it’s an experiment.” He tells him to come see him in 6 hours.
   Six hours later Greg is getting frantic, calling his reaction on his left food hazmat meat. “You infected me with mildew!?!” Grissom calmly explains hydrocortisone will clear it right up.

Light blue t-shirt. And dark t-shirt with small pictures of buildings/architecture on it.

REST OF TEAM:

• House is listed for sale; realtor’s name is Augie Heitz. Not a name you hear every day, particularly on an adult.
• Nick quotes another bird factoid from his Discovery channel viewing. Hummingbirds like the color red.
• Nick and Warrick play rock-paper-scissors to see who goes in the pool. Nick loses so we get shirtless Nicky. And he finds the missing husband on his first dive.
• Archie does a weak Elvis impersonation, but he’s still a cutie. He compares virtual tour of house on real estate site with crime scene photos and notices missing art/collectibles.
• Sexy video of dead wife, Catherine has to notice guy reflected in mirror in background as Nick and Archie are both so riveted by the ½ naked woman that don’t see anything else. Nick’s mouth is actually hanging open catching flies.

The Accused is Entitled, Season 3 #2

Girl is found murdered in a movie star’s hotel room. And blood evidence suggests there was another woman there as well, but where is she?

GREG:

1. Blood analysis from sink. Doesn’t know what it means to pull a Polanski – huh? Guess Greggo is just that young.
2. Scene of Greg waving his phone at Nick when he pages him was cut from cable re-run – but we see it in every episode in season 3 as its Greg’s 2 seconds in the show’s opening montage.
3. After being caught messing with the dice, next scene has Greg in lab coat with surgical mask and hat looking all professional and sterile.
4. Greg’s stash of fan magazines comes through with photos of Haviland that Grissom needs to help interpret the blood pattern. (I thought his stash was porn, not TeenBeat. TeenBeat - really. I'm so disappointed.)

Wardrobe: Green/white Charlie Brown striped shirt.

REST OF TEAM:

• Movie star Haviland is played by Chad Michael Murray.
• There is a LOT of blood on the sheet. Catherine calls it a butchers apron. And later in the episode, Nick says to Greg- “Murder's messy my friend.”
• Attorney for Haviland is nicknamed “Sound Bite Wescott.” Before they even get to court she accuses CSI team of mishandling and contaminating evidence. Warrick’s Good Samaritan effort to help with a car accident is her basis for accusation. She also drags in all the team’s dirty laundry as well as Nick’s mistake documenting the dice evidence. Warrick’s gambling past is brought up as reflection on his character. And she hints that Sara’s emotional attachment to Grissom might encourage her to tamper with evidence to please her supervisor.
• Dr. Phillip Gerard: Grissom’s mentor is defense’s forensic scientist. He creeps around the lab trying to catch the team making a mistake. Seems very hard to believe Grissom would have ever admired this person. Now he sees him as a sell-out and actually calls him a bottom-feeder. He catches Greg playing with dice that had victim blood on them. Insinuates Sara’s relationship with Hank creates problem with relocated bra evidence. And insinuates Nick organized video evidence to help with reasonable doubt.
• Second victim was a man, which Nick describes as ‘franks n’beans.”
• Grissom’s hearing keeps going in-and-out the entire episode. And Gerard tries to get him exposed by having Wescott talk quietly to try to catch him out. He is referred to as Dr. Grissom in the courtroom, first time we hear that title.

Revenge is Best Served Cold, Season 3 #1

Best poker player in the world dies at the table, in the middle of a hand. And a man with gunshot wounds is found on an abandoned landing strip.

GREG:

1. Attempting to quiz Sara about Hank and what he has that Greg doesn’t. Sara doesn't really respond.
2. Analyzing eye drops again, asks Sara if lady it came from was putting it on her nipples. Big time flirting with Sara.
3. More eye drop analysis. Word game with Warrick, what do vacuum cleaners do?

[With start of Season 3, Eric Szmanda now part of opening credits. He has moved from 11th billing in early episodes of Season 1 to 6th.]

Another dark t-shirt. Then brown spotted dress shirt.

REST OF TEAM:

• Season 3 opens with Grissom standing in the middle of the casino. Listening. Warrick: “Except when you’re losing, then you don’t hear anything.”
• Grissom financed his first body farm in college by playing poker. “Used to study people and I guess I got bored. Now I study evidence.”
• Doc Robbins looks scarily excited at the prospect of examining the brain of the poker player. And SuperDave gets equally excited about the new turbo bone saw. Until he gets blood spatter all over him. Its all fun and games until somebody gets dirty.
• Nick looks exceptionally sharp in his black polo and khaki pants. Must have had a good hiatus.
• Actor playing Thumpy G is Carmine Giovinazzo, now Danny Messer on CSI : NY.
• Like the character of Detective Lockwood, but he was only around for 9 episodes. Too bad.
• Bartender Grissom talks to is Kenny (Michael Bunin) from My Boys. And guy that killed the street racer is Ian Somerhalder, first season of Lost and the new Vampire Diaries.
• Waitress that put eye drops in drink is so nasty-ugly-mean; you almost want her to be guilty.

Grissom’s Lesson of the Week: 70% of the world’s chocolate is produced in West Africa, in countries that still use leaded gasoline which disperses exhaust fumes into the atmosphere. And when the lead-laced rain that falls on the coco plants and is absorbed, chocolate made from that coco would contain trace amounts of lead.

The Hunger Artist, Season 2 #23

A model is found dead in a shopping cart in an area of Vegas frequented by the homeless. Her face has been horribly disfigured.

GREG:

Enjoying a little ‘college cuisine,’ i.e. cup-a-noodles. Nick totally checks out his ass as he walks away.

Solid black t-shirt.

REST OF TEAM:

• Deceased girl has a day planner written in a weird code. Sara figures out it is very detailed food diary of what when in and what came out, complete with weight.
• BSG alum night. Actress playing Ashleigh James, dead model is Tricia Helfer – Six on Battlestar. And Ashleigh’s manager is played by Mark Sheppard, who was also in BSG as Romo the lawyer.
• Street lady (Ashleigh’s sister Cassie) rants to Grissom that fleas can tell time – she uses it as an example, similar to when pigs fly. Grissom agrees with her and says he thinks fleas can tell time. He’s serious.
• This episode began with Grissom waiting at a doctor’s office, and leaving when he got a call to come to the crime scene. Season 2 ends with Grissom first walking through Vegas, facing facts that he is beginning to have problems with his hearing. Next scene: conversation with the doctor about his loss of hearing and what can be done.
  

Cross Jurisdictions, Season 2 #22

The ex-chief of police is killed at his home and his wife and daughter are kidnapped.

This was second to last episode of season 2 of CSI. The plot crossed into Miami, introducing cast of CSI: Miami show that would premier in the fall of 2002. CSI: Miami will begin its 8th season fall of ’09.

GREG: MIA

REST OF TEAM:

• Grissom sends Catherine and Warrick to Florida to be there to process the little girl since she would have evidence of two Vegas homicides on her.
• Sara asks Nick if he’s ever been to a swingers party. His answer: “if it’s the same thing as a frat party, yeah lots of ‘em. Get enough booze going things can get pretty wild.” Everyone I’ve known that were members of a fraternity always hated when name was truncated to frat.
• Speedle!
• Calleigh gives Horatio an update in Spanish to keep the FBI from overhearing. Never seen that in a Miami episode before.
• Showgirl that is one of their witnesses is a trifle self-centered. Grissom has to finally get a little loud with her, reminding her this isn’t about her.
• Point made numerous times during episode that the two teams work different. Vegas works the evidence, Miami is a little more “fanciful,” as described by Calleigh.
• Khandi Alexander as Dr. Woods, original Miami coroner was the best they had -- none as good since IMHO.
• Actor playing nightclub manager (Paul Tei) is now character of Barry on Burn Notice. Guess he does love Miami.

Anatomy of a Lye, Season 2 #21

A body is found buried in a park doused in lye. And a young woman is found in the desert. Cause of death – drowning.

GREG:

1. Silver fleck analysis, paint chips. Factory job, not body shop. Paint won’t tell make of car, but Greg has an answer anyway since, as he reminds Grissom -- he always goes the extra mile and works to expand his responsibilities. He has already given results to Sara – which according to Greg she was much more fascinated with than Grissom apparently. Grissom doesn’t appreciate Sara getting results first when he’s the boss.
2. Staring through the window at Nick’s hiking map, he has a few things to add: Las Vegas means the meadows even though most people assume it means desert. And the area when Nick’s drowning victim was found can have up to 40 inches of rain a year, more than Seattle even.
3. “Usually I bring the case home” - but not this time. Bleach degraded any trace Greg could analyze.

Grey t-shirt. Black shirt with white arrows/triangle shapes.

REST OF TEAM:

• Sylar! Actor from Heroes (Zachary Quinto) guest stars as the tow guy (as Brass describes him).
• Sara & Grissom interview one of the owners of car that may have done their hit & run. Young man has just started new job at law firm, very proud that he passed the bar on first try. Sara asks most of the questions, during which Grissom scowls at him almost the entire time they are talking.
• Warrick in a tie. He and Catherine are both on call for a court appearance and away for most of episode.
• Catherine wanders in where Grissom and Sara are processing the car and in the two minute she’s there, she does what Greg usually does – asks a pivotal question that makes them reconsider how they’re processing the car.
• Hit & run is similar to a actual crime in Fort Worth, Texas in March of 2002.

Cats in the Cradle, Season 2 #20

Cat lady is found dead in her house. And a brand new BMW explodes.

GREG:

1. Has Nick play Name that Chemical Compound to get his results.
2. Rocking to Marilyn Manson while working. Tells Grissom he- “Could’a been a rock star.” Plays guessing game (again) with analysis results with Grissom and Catherine. This time Catherine gets impatient first. Grissom would prefer he try- “a little more absorbing, a little less rock ‘n roll.”

Blue & tan striped dress shirt.

REST OF TEAM:

• Actress (Diane Farr) playing lady whose car explodes was on Numb3rs for 4 seasons.

CSI has harsh stories. Hurt and abused children and the innocent, brutal endings to lives by people who were supposed to love them. For whatever reason, out of all of it - this story of cat lady being killed by children because she wouldn't give them a cat gets me. Fast forwarded to the Greg scenes and gave the rest of it a pass.

Chasing the Bus, Season 2 #18

A tour bus crashes in the desert, killing 9 people.

GREG:

1. Comes to the scene to help but in his excitement didn’t think to get a warmer jacket. And is already shivering. Nick isn’t too impressed with his lack of preparation.
2. Takes notes for Nick as he is interviewing the bus driver -- who also doesn’t have a warm coat or blanket. When bus driver starts coughing up blood and falls on Nick, Greg freezes. Nick isn’t too hard on him, taking about his first time in the field as a CSI 1.
3. Grissom mentions there is still one passenger unaccounted for, hasn’t been found at either the morgue or the hospital. And as usual, Greg asks the obvious question - -the one no one else seems to have thought of - - has anyone checked the bus?
4. They send Greg back to the lab with a broken bottle of whiskey they find, but not before Grissom fusses at him for not wearing gloves.
5. Grissom asks Greg how it liked it, Greg starts to mention his screw-up but Grissom doesn’t think he did anything wrong. Greg says he liked it fine. Could this be the beginning of Greg’s interest in becoming a CSI or his change all part of the events in Playing with Fire?
6. Sara also compliments him, “you’re good at what you do.” He doesn’t have time to respond as she gets her results and leaves. And she defends him when one of the other lab rats attempts to slam on Greg’s performance in the field.

Blue fleece again, grey t-shirt.

REST OF TEAM:

• Catherine & Grissom are examining the bus looking for cause, when Catherine moves to look at a car that was involved. Fire department had told her driver was dead, but as she’s examining the car – a hand comes up. Catherine follows injured man to the hospital trying to find out his name. Turns out his fiance was on the bus, extra sad side story.
• Owner of bus company seems to be honest, when he’s told there is a problem with sub-standard bolts he grounds the entire fleet.
• Chloroform in the tire destroys elasticity of rubber, causing a blowout. And they stage quite the elaborate experiment to prove it.

Felonious Monk, Season 2 #17

Four Buddhist monks are killed in their temple. And Catherine reexamines the death of a friend from 15 years before.

GREG:

1. Repeats analysis of weapon for Catherine. 3rd unknown male which gives Catherine leverage when Ecklie gets annoyed she’s reopened one of his cases.
2. IDs blue substance off idol, which Greg says is the case breaker - again. And Grissom agrees, but Nick just looks annoyed.

Dark shirt. Tan greenish patterned disco shirt.

REST OF TEAM:

• Catherine meets an old mentor for drinks; he complements her on the Logan case (The Finger). And Catherine feels terrible when her investigation shows he tampered with evidence and let another person go down for her friends murder - leaving the real killer still at large.
• We get a quick lesson in 7 Major Chakras from Doc Robbins when discussing cause of death of monks.
• Nick sounds kinda raspy, been sick?
• Father a LOT more antagonist about monks coming into the neighborhood than the son. Son speaks in Buddhist sayings, which has an appeal to Grissom.