An elderly lady drives into a busy restaurant, killing three patrons of the restaurants and herself. Grissom and Nick are called to a house to process a lady who has asphyxiated from a gas leak.
GREG:
- Comes into room where Sara is working to share some info with her – Grandmother driving the car was high on marijuana, prompting Greg to recite a list of slang nicknames for grass. Greggo really knows his euphemisms. He is apparently standing too close, as Sara says he is crowding her.
- Pages Grissom as James Watson and Nick as Francis Crick, two of the founders of DNA molecular strand.
REST OF TEAM:
- Teenage son of dead lady is quite belligerent to Grissom when he tries to talk to him. His room was full of equipment that made Nick call him a science geek. At their second encounter, young man is reading Asimov which Grissom says is one of his favorite writers. His emotionless conversation is kinda creepy.
- In the gas leak death, husband was giving his wife his sleeping pills crushed up in her ice cream so she’d quit nagging and let him sleep.
- When discussing why young man sabotaged his parent’s fireplace (because they weren’t going to let him to college) Grissom has to tell him that he forgot to figure in the fact that his father had stopped smoking into his plan. He “stopped observing the human element because you thought it was inferior.”
- Grandson of lady driving is played by Christopher Gorham, Ugly Betty’s Henry Grubstick.
- One of the people in the restaurant was Sara’s boyfriend Hank. When Catherine charts who was seating where in the restaurant, she asks Sara who was Elaine that was sitting with Hank. Sara assumes friends until she goes to see Elaine about the case and see Hank’s photo on her coffee table – while they were in Hawaii last year. And Elaine happily tells her about their upcoming trip to Tahiti in two weeks.
- Insurance agents that Catherine & Sara talk to about the dead grandmother are bureaucratic and unfeeling – and one of them is Elaine. Granny drove into the restaurant by accident, she was intending to hit the insurance company that had denied her benefits for cancer treatment.
- The Sundays version of ‘Wild Horses’ plays in the closing as Sara & Catherine leave work.
Grissom's Lesson of the Week : Gas company adds the chemical mercaptan to the odorless natural gas so it can be detected.
Lesson #2, contributed by Detective Lockwood : the two most common causes for household geo-poisoning, unvented space heaters and improperly maintained chimneys.
