*The body of a man, Roy Harmon, is found in a bathtub, the apparent victim of suicide. Gil Grissom, the nightshift CSI supervisor, plays Harmon's taped suicide note for his distraught mother, but she says the voice on the tape isn't Roy's. Grissom returns to the lab to meet his newest recruit, Holly Gribbs, the daughter of a traffic court cop who has just graduated from with a forensics degree. She's overcome at the Harmon autopsy, where the coroner confirms Harmon's death was indeed a homicide--and rushes out, only to get herself locked in the morgue. Holly's first night on the job only gets worse when Captain Jim Brass gives her a dressing down and dismisses her as a legacy hire. Grissom sends her on what should be a simple robbery case, but the owner aims a gun at her to get her to hurry up her processing and CSI Catherine Willows comes in to intervene and offer the new CSI a few words of encouragement.
CSIs Nick Stokes and Warrick Brown are in a fierce competition for a promotion to CSI Level 3. Both men are just once case away from closing the deal. Nick works a robbery where a man has been robbed by the prostitute he brought up to his hotel room. His lips are discolored, but when Nick takes the swab to tech Greg Sanders, nothing comes up. Nick lucks out when a young woman named Kristi Hopkins passes out while driving and gets into a minor car accident. She's sent to the hospital and the doctor observes a discoloration around her nipple. Nick gets her to admit to drugging the man who hired her, and agrees not to press charges if she returns the man's belongings and turns over the solution she used to drug him.
Warrick doesn't fare quite as well on his case; he's called to the scene of a home invasion turned deadly. A husband has shot the drunk friend of his wife who was staying with them for six months before the husband threw him out. He claims the drunk man returned to attack his family and he shot him in self-defense, but Warrick has his doubts. He notices the victim's left shoe has been retied and also notices that the husband's left pinkie toe is hurt. The man admits to retying the shoe after it flew off during the shooting, but denies ever putting the victim's shoe on his own foot. When Warrick finds a broken toenail inside the victim's shoe, he's convinced the husband kicked the door in himself using the victim's shoe to make it look like the victim broke in. But when Warrick goes around Brass to a get a warrant from a judge in exchange for placing a bet for him, Brass calls him out and gets him removed from the case. Grissom sends Warrick with Holly to the scene of a robbery and finishes the case up for him, going to the house and collecting toenail clippings from the husband and confirming that he did indeed wear the victim's shoe--and kill him in cold blood.
The murder of Roy Harmon proves more of a challenge. There's a perfect print on the tape recorder--too perfect--laced with latex. The print matches a man named Paul Millander, but Grissom finds an explanation for it when he brings the man in for questioning: Millander works in a model warehouse and designed a hand model using his own hand as the blueprint. His prints are on the fingers of the ten thousand hands that were shipped out for Halloween. Though Grissom can reassure Mrs. Harmon that her son's death was indeed not suicide, he can't close the case. The CSIs gather to celebrate Nick's promotion to CSI Level Three, including Warrick, who left Holly to process the robbery scene while he went to place the bet for Judge Cohen. Brass interrupts the celebration with disturbing news: Holly Gribbs has been shot at the scene of the robbery and isn't expected to pull through. Warrick is placed on suspension and the rest of the team is headed into overtime to catch the shooter.
++Quotes...
"Here comes the nerd squad." Sgt. O'Riley to another detective when they see Grissom's team arrive
"I need a pint of your blood. It's customary for all new hires." Grissom to Holly
"No offense, but I don't think I want to eat anything that's been in this office." Holly Gribbs to Grissom
Nick: "Is there anything you won't bet on, man?"
Warrick: "Nah"
"I think every new hire should experience an autopsy on their first night." Brass to Grissom about Holly
"This is why I took this job. I can always tell when whitey's talking out of his ass." Warren to Boe at lab
Catherine: "Are you in danger?"
Holly: "We're getting there." Store owner in the liquor store has a gun on Holly
"Concentrate on what cannot lie -- the evidence." Grissom to Warrick
Grissom: "If latex rubber and lecithin went on a blind date, how would the night end?"
Lady Technician: "A lot better than ours did."
"You want to be different? Pin me up against the wall. Lay one on me like you mean it." Lady lab technician to Grissom
"Pin you against a wall??" Grissom's response to above technician
"We're just a bunch of kids, that are getting paid to work on puzzles. Sometimes there's a piece that's missing, sometimes, we solve it in one night." Catherine to Holly
"Stick with it. at least until you solve your first. And if after that you don't feel like King Kong on concaine, then you can quit.' Catherine to Holly about the job
"There is always a clue." Grissom to Warren
"There is no room for subjectivity in this department." Grissom to Warrick
Grissom: "I need to give you a pedicure."
Hubby: "Come again?"
Grissom: "I have warrant for your toenails."
++Pics...
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