text: csi-las vegas watchers??? i missed thurs. nights season finale. i really need to know in detail what happened. thanks!!! in tonight's episode, the season finale, we open with jim brass being shot in slow-motion. the csis and paramedics rush to his aid and take him to the hospital. once he's inside the room for surgery, he crashes. the doctors are able to restart his heart with the defibrillator.  we cut to a scene which presumably took place some time ago, with jim brass speaking to grissom. brass tells grissom that he's the only person he trusts with his life and would like him to have power attorney over him.  we then move back to the hospital, where a surgeon briefs grissom about brass' condition. he was shot twice. one bullet was lodged in his vest and the other is lodged near his heart. grissom then receives a call about a case. there's a dead body near the railroad tracks in henderson. because of this, grissom has to leave the hospital and get to work.  as grissom arrives to the scene at the railroad tracks, he and sofia talk about brass. she just talked to undersheriff mckeen and has learned he's in pretty bad shape. they then walk further down the tracks and come upon a dead body lying in between the tracks. a train ran the person over about an hour ago and the engineer couldn't stop in time. one noticeable injury is the body was decapitated. nick thinks it's likely from the train, but the head is nowhere to be found. nick notices that there's virtually no blood on the ground, which is odd if this is where the decapitation took place. grissom agrees but he thinks the body was likely dragged quite a ways, until the train came to a stop. without the head, grissom sends nick to go look for it. grissom and nick split up to look for it, and grissom finds a toupé. david berman enters the scene to examine the body and is shocked to see that the person's waist is so narrow. it seems to have been compressed.  after the credits roll, we rejoin david berman trying to obtain a liver temperature, which can give them an idea of when the person died. unfortunately, the liver isn't in the normal place, which is causing david to poke multiple holes into the body, to which grissom asks, "are you getting the liver temp or performing acupuncture?" he's eventually able to find the liver, but the body doesn't look any better with all of the holes in it. sara wonders if the man committed suicide... maybe lost a ton of cash at the tables and wanted to end it all.  at a hotel in the city, catherine walks down a hallway, being briefed by the super. he found a deceased man, manny rupert, in his hotel room. manny had been playing music pretty late that night, so the super knocked on the door to ask him to turn it down, but found manny was dead, so he called in the police. the super is very talkative and seems interested in some sort of reward, so when catherine gets to manny's room, she tells the super to "stay here and shut up." catherine then enters the hotel room and finds a lot of booze and cake on the table. warrick and dr. robbins join her and are surprised by all of the booze in the room. the man clearly partied well into the night. dr. robbins believes manny died only three or four hours ago, based on the amount of body rigor. warrick picks up the wallet and notices there's no cash left. as catherine makes her way around the room, she finds broken glass on the floor near the bed. a few pieces of glass appear to have blood on it, likely because someone without shoes stepped on it, cutting his/her feet. on the nightstand, warrick finds a lot of pills, and inside, a pistol. catherine checks the wall across from the bed and finds a few bullet holes. someone shot out the mirror, which explains the broken glass.  back to the railroad crime scene, we catch up with nick, who walks across a bridge and finds a large barrel which was used to burn something. it's parked in the middle of a small stream. inside the barrel, nick picks something out with a stick, but it's u