Gary Dourdan as Warrick Brown

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Warrick Brown is a CSI Level 3 in the Las Vegas Police Department Crime Lab. Born in Las Vegas, he was raised by his grandmother, whom he credits with keeping him grounded during his turbulent adolescence. He is a complex character, with idealism and compassion, humble despite his strong intellect and investigative talents, but with personal demons that threaten to wreck his life and damage the reputation of his team.

Warrick has an addiction to gambling. Before, and while, working for the LVPD, he ran book for various high-level worthies in Las Vegas. He is a card-counter: a poker-player with the ability to memorize long series' of plays in order to mentally calculate his odds of winning. Like all counters, he keeps this skill a secret. Card-counters, once found out, are generally banned from poker tables.

In addition to the financial and psychological problems gambling causes him, Warrick also runs afoul of the law on several occasions. In the series' first episode, he places a bet for a judge, and loses a large sum of money. In order to make up the debt, he leaves rookie CSI Holly Gribbs alone at a scene while he places another bet. Holly is killed; Warrick is brought under investigation, and the judge claims that he will "own" Warrick for a long time.

Warrick is mentored and sometimes covered for by his direct supervisor, Gil Grissom. Grissom considers Warrick, an highly talented CSI, to be his natural successor, and seems to consider Warrick's problems to be resolvable. He guides Warrick through various legal and political mazes to help clear his name and keep his career on track, in a pattern that repeats several times over the years.

Warrick shares a gentle but unresolved flirtatious relationship with his co-worker, CSI Catherine Willows. Although their chemistry is obvious, Warrick eventually marries his recent girlfriend Tina, seeking stability in his life. Their marriage lasts only two years, and the final season shows the old sparks coming to life between Warrick and Catherine.

During the final stressful months of Warrick's marriage, he becomes dependent on prescription medications - sleeping pills as well as stimulants. His behaviour becomes even more erratic, and after he misses a call-out and becomes personally involved with an investigation of a crime-boss, his friend and fellow CSI Nick Stokes confronts him on his dependency. Warrick appears to listen, but later goes on a drinking spree with devastating consequences.

His long-running and increasingly dangerous investigation of Gedda, a Godfather-type kingpin of the old order, gives Warrick a renewed focus, but ultimately proves fatal.

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Marg Helgenberger as Catherine Willows

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Catherine Willows is a CSI Level Three and occasional Acting Shift Supervisor with the Las Vegas Police Department.

Raised in Vegas by a showgirl mother, Catherine became an exotic dancer and nightclub wild child. Finding her calling, she danced her way through a medical technology degree at UNLV, hung up her spangles and became a CSI, specializing in blood spatter analysis. Her supervisor, Gil Grissom, mentions the fact that she was his first friend in Las Vegas, and the first person he recruited for his team. While a reliable and meticulous CSI, Catherine still enjoys flaunting her sexuality, and occasionally uses it to make a point - or win over a difficult suspect.

Catherine is a single mother with an attitude and a complicated family life. Her late husband Eddie, from whom she "should have gotten divorced years ago" had issues with drugs and fidelity, and was murdered in 2003. Their teenaged daughter Lindsey seems to have acquired her mother's feistiness - talking back, running away, and hanging out with questionable friends. Catherine, despite her night-shift schedule, keeps a close watch on her, placing her in an highly disciplined private school, and spending as much time as possible with her during the day. Lindsey is soon to graduate and go to college, a fact that causes Catherine no end of anxiety.

Casino tycoon Sam Braun, a friend of her mother, is a surrogate uncle to Catherine during her childhood and stormy teenage years. While they operate on opposite sides of certain gray areas of law, they share a lasting affection and grudging respect. Catherine learns that he is, in fact, her biological father after performing a DNA control test during a murder investigation involving Sam. This comes to haunt her during the trial. When Sam dies, he leaves Catherine and her mother some of his fortune, but the vast majority of it is tied up in the land development trusts he began during his life.

Catherine, while well-liked and highly successful at her job, seems to be trailed by bad luck in her personal life. Grissom is known to have criticized her for having a personal life at all, as drama seems to find her despite her best intentions. Her dates seem to end up jeopardizing investigations, or involved in them. Her daughter was kidnapped as a warning to her, and soon after her safe return, her father was killed in her arms by the kidnapper. Her recent dating life is next to nil, though she shares an unresolved, and ultimately tragic, flirtatious relationship with her co-worker, Warrick Brown.

While not vain in the strictest sense, Catherine has a dancer's strong sense of beauty and style to go with her natural good looks. She has watched her mother age from a great beauty into comfortable older-middle-age, and as she watches Lindsey grow up, she is often shown to be struggling with her own signs of aging.

In recent episodes, Catherine is shown to be transferring her maternal tendencies to the team, attempting to steer Grissom through his fiancee's departure, and helping Warrick through drug dependency and a murder charge.

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William Petersen as Gil Grissom

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Gilbert "Gil" Grissom was born on August 17, 1956 in Santa Monica, California and grew up in Marina Del Rey, California. His father, a botanist, died when Gil was nine years old. His mother, who was deaf, ran an art gallery in Venice.

He was raised Roman Catholic, but he now seems to be a lapsed Catholic. He describes this as "practic[ing] a kind of secular Catholicism that involves ritualizing certain aspects of everyday life and imbuing them with a spiritual intensity they might not otherwise possess". This appears to neatly sum up his personal faith in scientific rigor as well as humanity, despite the crime scenes he attends every night.

Grissom describes himself as "a ghost" in school, focussing on his studies and on his scientific interests. He was known to pick up and dissect animals killed along the highway, and was eventually called upon to assist local law enforcement with necroscopies and other forensic tasks. (It is later hinted that Grissom has Asperger's Syndrome, or Asperger's-like tendencies, and these are key examples: social withdrawal and intellectual obsession leading to mastery of a subject.)

Grissom has a degree from UCLA in Biology, though it is unclear where he completed his postgraduate work.

At only 22, Grissom became the youngest country coroner in California history. Winning a surprise windfall in a poker game, he set up his first Body Farm - a natural setting where donated human bodies could be observed and recorded at all stages of the process of decomposition, local predation, and of course, bugs - entomological interference.

At 29, Grissom switched careers and became a CSI, rising quickly through the ranks to become a shift supervisor. He eventually transferred from the San Francisco PD to the Las Vegas PD, and took over the graveyard shift. Under his guidance, the LVPD Crime Lab rose to a second place crime-solving position in the country, second only to the FBI national headquarters at Quantico.

Grissom, while attached mainly to his work, does make friendly connections with his staff. And at least one friend is willing to relocate entirely to work with him: CSI Sara Sidle appears in the second episode of the series, called in from San Francisco by Grissom to run an internal investigation. His night shift crew treat him as an avuncular figure, eccentric but wise, hilariously dry, and solid as a rock. His own supervisor, Conrad Ecklie, considers him the proverbial thorn and a possible contender, and takes every opportunity to put him in his place.

Grissom's inherited his mother's otosclerosis, a fusion of the small bones in the ear, which nearly led to the loss of his hearing. This leads him even further into himself, withdrawing emotionally from his crew, and especially from Sara, for whom he has feelings he can neither deny nor act upon. With successful surgery, he regains his full hearing, but the effects of his behaviour upon Sara take much longer to heal.

Grissom and Sara, while both ferociously intelligent and adept observers, both find personal relationships awkward and difficult. Grissom especially takes a great pleasure and pride in his mind, and doesn't often see the point in changing to accommodate the people around him. Sara surrounds herself with emotional brick walls. It takes years for them to realize that neither of them is asking the other to change - only to be honest and willing to try. Six years after she arrives from San Francisco, Grissom and Sara are finally shown to be a couple, though they keep their relationship hidden from their colleagues for another two years. It is not until the end of the seventh season that Grissom reveals to them, during Sara's kidnapping, that she is the only one he has ever loved.

Upon Sara's return, she and Grissom must deal with the administrative effects of an interoffice relationship. Sara volunteers to switch to the swing shift, which brings "more daylight" into her life, but which leaves them with little time to spend together. Grissom, in his usual sideways manner, suggests that perhaps they should marry, and Sara agrees delightedly. This seems to boost her spirits, but even Grissom can't entirely stop her headlong spiral into a PTSD-sparked depression due to her violent childhood and more recent ordeal. She leaves him to return to California to confront her ghosts, while Grissom, giving her the space she asks of him, throws himself back into work.

Recent episodes show Grissom in emotional retreat, occasionally speaking with Sara by phone, but otherwise channelling all of his energy into his work. His team is fraying around the edges, with Sara gone, Ecklie hovering, and Warrick's problems affecting his work, and he feels responsible. The finale of the eighth season shows his relief at sitting down to breakfast with his old crew, and his prodigal son Warrick returned to the fold. As every viewer knows, however, one should never trust a season cliffhanger.

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CSI :Season 1-Blood Drops

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A teenage girl runs out of her house in the middle of the night screaming for help. The crime scene inside is a mess with four dead bodies, her father, mother and two brothers, lying in pools of blood. The only survivors are the oldest daughter and Brenda, the youngest member of the family. Grissom assembles his team together and announces that this will be the only crime scene for his shift. Meanwhile, he assigns Sara to take care of Brenda, much to her dismay as she is not good with children. Nonetheless, during the course of the investigation, Sara discovers a maternal side in her.

In the end,the killer was actually the boyfriend of Brenda's 18 year old sister,Tina,Who's actually her mother. Tina set up the plan and told her boyfriend to kill their family because her father abused her daughter Brenda,just like what he did to her when she was a child. her mother did nothing to stop it accept keeping herself quite. Tina got arrested after she confess everything.

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Grissom: "You don't sleep, do you?"
Sara: "Hmm.

"This isn't butter. It's imitation."Catherine, to Grissom, about murders not be cult murders.

Warrick: "You need to tell somebody when you're cutting the lights?"
Grissom: "What? You work for OSHA now?" After Warrick nearly trips in dark

"Yet who would have thought the old man would have so much blood in him." Grissom, quoting MacBeth.

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CSI :Season 1-Who Are You?

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*A skeleton is found in the concrete foundation of a house in Summercliff and Grissom and Nick set about recovering it. Grissom calls in a facial reconstruction expert, Dr. Teri Miller, in to create a mold of the dead woman's face in the hopes of identifying her. The coroner, Dr. Al Robbins, determines that in addition to being stabbed, their victim suffered blunt force trauma to the head. He also finds grains of sand preserved in earwax. The woman is identified as Faye Green, who went missing just after moving in with her boyfriend, Jason Hindler. The CSIs go to Jason's house and question him while his wife, Amy, looks on. Grissom notices a fish tank in one of the rooms of the house and Nick finds a loose floorboard with sand underneath. The CSIs obtain a warrant and discover blood on the floor. Positing that Jason and Faye fought and he slammed her into the fish tank and stabbed her before hiding her at Summercliff, where he was working as a contractor at the time, they arrest him. Grissom takes him out, leaving Nick to process. The CSI is shocked when Amy Hindler aims a gun at him. She admits it was she who killed Faye, enraged that Jason had left her for Faye. Grissom returns and draws his own gun, getting Amy to lower hers and arresting the right person for the crime.

Sara and Warrick investigate a shooting of a fleeing suspect. Officer Joe Tynar claims he pursued a suspect in a car down the strip who suddenly pulled over and shot himself. Brass is irritated that the CSIs feel the need to throughly investigate Tynar's story, especially when a valet comes forward and claims the officer was the one who shot the suspect. The CSIs scour the scene for the bullet, but can't find it anywhere. When they turn to the suspect's car, Warrick finds the bullet buried in the treads of the spare tire. Bobby Dawson runs the bullet and finds it matches the suspect's gun, not Tynar's. The officer is exonerated. Catherine faces a case that gets even more personal when her ex-husband, Eddie, is accused of rape by a stripper named April. Grissom urges her to turn the case over to Warrick, but Catherine pushes forward, going to the club where April works and finds vaginal contraceptive film in her locker. When Greg runs the rape kit, he finds glycerin, proving April used the contraceptive prior to having sex with Eddie, and therefore the sex was planned, not forced.

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"By law, you have to disclose everything. Three bedrooms, two baths and a skeleton." Grissom to Nick

"Just bones? What a rush." Sara to Grissom

Grissom: "You know, for a ladies man you don't know much about bone structure."
Nick (grinning): "I know all I need to know."

"Who are you?" Grissom, to skull!

"Gil Grissom, or should I call you Spiderman?" Teri Miller to Grissom

"I need you to make me a face." Grissom to Teri Miller

"Give me your hand. You'll enjoy this." Teri Miller to Grissom

"It's about the evidence, Catherine. And you may not like where it takes you." Grissom to Catherine

Tyner: "Scientists! I bet you've never even drawn your weapon!"
Grissom: "And I hope I never have to."

Evans: "You dressed like that?"
Catherine: "If you want to call it dressed." About exotic dancer on stage.

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CSI :Season 1-Friends & Lovers

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*The naked body of a teen boy is found in the desert. Grissom is quick to note the maggots on the body, indicating that the boy has been dead for a while. There's no obvious sign of death, so Grissom has Warrick autopsy one of the maggots and he discovers Jimson weed in the maggot's belly. Bobby Taylor reports his friend Eric missing and identifies the boy's body. He tells Grissom they were at a rave the night Eric disappeared and Warrick is able to identify the DJ playing at the rave by an entrance stamp on the boy's wrist. With Bobby in tow, Grissom and Warrick go to the rave and locate the drug dealer, Ethan, who is well-versed in the language of the law. Grissom wants to bring him down for murder, but the Warrick discovers that the levels of Jimson weed in Eric's system weren't fatal. The sad truth comes out when Grissom discovers a bite on Bobby's arm, which Bobby, who doesn't remember much of the evening due to the drug, assumed was a spider bite. The boys had a bad trip: Eric got overheated and stripped and freaked out while Bobby had an auditory overload and inadvertently smothered Eric to get him to be quiet. Bobby is crushed to discover he killed his friend.

Catherine and Nick are called to a school where Dean Vernon Woods has been bludgeoned to death with a stone by the school founder, Kate Armstrong. She claims that he attacked her and she struck him in self-defense, but the CSIs find multiple holes in her story. Kate struck the man several times, not just once as she initially claimed. A gap in the blood splatter on the walls indicates another person was in the room at the time. Kate claims her friend Julia was simply there to back up her story that Woods was hitting on her, but when the CSIs find another gap in the blood splatter--this one in the shape of a hand on Woods' shirt--they are able to prove Julia held him down while Kate beat him to death. Not satisfied with simply knowing how, Catherine observes the detective questioning Kate and Julia: it turns out they were lovers being blackmailed by Woods, who threatened to expose them. After he kept demanding money from them, they killed him to keep their secret. Meanwhile, Sara works a body dump case and is surprised to find the woman, Stephanie Reyes, was actually buried days ago at a nearby graveyard. When she discovers Stephanie's casket is missing as well, she figures out that the mortuary director has been reusing the coffins from graves--dumping the bodies and reselling the coffins. She demands that he pay for Stephanie to be reburied properly at another cemetery--and then to face charges.

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*Grissom: "You want to know what killed this kid? Benihana the maggots."
Warrick: "What the maggots?"

Entomology is our friend." Grissom to Warrick

"The walls in his office look like the dean went a couple of rounds with Mike Tyson." Catherine to Kate Armstrong

Grissom: "Dry as a bone, red as a beet, blind as a bat , mad as a hatter."
Warrick: "Really? Cite your sources.
Grissom: "Internet insomnia."

"Now there's a look I like to see - confusion." Catherine to Nick

"Blood's like my grandfather. Never lies." Nick to Julia

"Don't take it personally, miss. He's kind of married to his job." Warrick to rave girl who was clinging to Grissom

"If you're going to break the law, Jim, you've got to know the law." Grissom to Brass

"The evidence only knows one thing: the truth. It is what it is." Grissom to Warrick

"Gruesome Grissom. Tin man with a heart. Who knew?" Jenna Williams to Grissom, in morgue

Nick: "You heard Grissom. The more the why, the less the how. The less the how, the more the why."
Catherine: "Hey, Nick. Grissom's not always right. Do yourself a favor, think for yourself. I mean that as a friend, okay?"

"It's not about memory now, Bobby. It's about evidence, and the evidence … sucks." Grissom to Bobby.

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CSI :Season 1-Pledging Mr. Johnson

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*Two men out fishing on the lake happen upon a gruesome find: a woman's severed leg. When the rest of her body is recovered, the CSIs identify her as Wendy Barger and the coroner, Dr. Jenna Williams, determines she didn't drown. Noting a dislocated shoulder and signs of sexual activity, Wells postulates that Wendy may have been raped. Grissom and Catherine question Winston, Wendy's husband, who admits they were having problems and she'd gone out to their cabin to think. His semen isn't a match, so the pair hits up the last place Wendy ate at and learns she dined with a neighbor, Phil Swelco. Swelco admits to an affair with Wendy and says she was planning to leave Winston. Swelco tells them Wendy took her boat to see him, but the boat isn't docked at the marina where it should be. While Grissom rigs up a tub to predict where the boat would be based on the currents, Catherine does the legwork and finds the boat near Barring Point Bridge. The CSIs recover the boat and find Swelco's blood on it. When they question him, he insists he cut himself innocently, but Winston spots him being question and Catherine tells him the truth: Swelco was having an affair with Wendy. Grissom gets angry with her for spilling the beans and compromising the investigation, and sure enough, even after Grissom determines Wendy's death was an accident--her boat ran out of gas and she dislocated her shoulder pulling the engine cord, hit her head and toppled into the water--tragedy strikes when a devastated Winston shoots Swelco, thinking the man killed his wife.

Nick and Sara look into the hanging death of a fraternity pledge, James Johnson. Matt Daniels, the fraternity president, claims James was depressed after not getting into the fraternity, but the coroner finds no teeth marks on James' tongue, indicated he didn't die by hanging. Petechial hemorrhaging indicates he did indeed suffocate, and the coroner points out ink on his penis. Matt and another fraternity brother, Kyle Travis, claim James was humiliated during an initiation ritual where pledges had to get girls to sign various body parts. The boys say James faked his and that they called him out on it, but Sara has doubts that are confirmed when fabric and liver are discovered in James' throat. Kyle claims James asked for a second chance, so the boys made him eat raw liver, but that he choked on it and died even after they performed the Heimlich maneuver on him. The coroner shows the CSI that there's no damage to the ribs indicating anyone tried to save James, and the plot thickens when the CSIs learn James actually did get his body signed by a girl: Kyle's girlfriend, Jill. When they find a bloody piece of string in Kyle's room, they're able to get Matt to confess: Kyle saw Jill's initials on James and made the pledge swallow the raw liver with a string attached, and then pulled on it, leaving the liver behind and causing James to choke to death.

Judge Cohen, the judge Warrick placed a bet for in the "Pilot" tells Warrick he wants the CSI to break an evidence seal in a rape case in order to compromise the case against the accused. Warrick is upset and turns to Grissom for advice after the supervisor tells him he's been promoted to CSI Level Three. Warrick lures the judge to a park to meet to discuss what Cohen wants him to do, and Warrick gets the judge's intentions on tape. Brass, who heard it all from nearby, swoops in and arrests the corrupt judge. Grissom tells Warrick he's proud of him but that he won't always be around to protect him.

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*"So Watson, the game's afoot." Grisson, to Catherine, about severed leg

"May I take your hand?" Grissom to Catherine, in order to take the victim's fingerprints

Nick: "I can't believe I used to live in a place like this."
Sara: "And here I had all this respect for you." About frat house they're in

Catherine: "I can tell you first hand, when you don't cheat, you don't suspect."
Brass: "Oh, man. I wish I had been married to you."
Catherine: "Not a chance."

Catherine: "Oh, alone?"
Grissom: "No, sometimes I have a beer with it." Her query about Grissom eating calamari at restaurant

Catherine: "When Eddie was cheating on me, I sure wish somebody would had said something."
Grissom: "You mean me."
Catherine: "Who else?"

"You know Grissom. Shortest distance between two points is science." Warrick to Greg, about tub experiment

Grissom: "We're scientists. We're not psychiatrists or victim's rights advocates."
Catherine: "You're right, I should be just like you. Alone in my hermetically sealed condo watching Discovery on the big screen. Working genius level crossword puzzles, but no relationships. No chance any will slop over into a case. Right. I want to be just like you."
Grissom: (beat) "Technically, it's a townhouse. And the crosswords are advanced, but not genius, but you're right. I'm deficient in a lot of ways. But I never screw up one of my cases with personal stuff."
Catherine: "Grissom ... what personal stuff?"

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