(BRASS picks up the phone.) (Quick flashback to: A woman screams. CSI -- LAB]
(GRISSOM is looking through the scope.) Catherine Willows: Could you take a look at this drawing and point out to me ... where he touched you? Gil Grissom: Yes, you had him and the minute you started thinking about yourself instead of the case, you lost him. Holly Gribbs has been shot. Jim Brass: So your mother is Lieutenant Jane Gribbs from Traffic, is that right? LAS VEGAS CITY (STOCK) - NIGHT]
(CATHERINE and WARRICK cross under the crime scene tape and make their way to the front of the house.) Me and Nick are tied! NICK STOKES walks up to the OFFICERS.) Next crime solved gets promoted to CSI-3, man. Paul Millander: A staged suicide?. She gets out of the car and talks into the radio.) There is always a clue. Victim found drugged and robbed at the scene. Warrick Brown: Talk to me. We're the number two crime lab in the country. Well, you think putting a juiced-in Lieutenant's daughter on this shift is fair? Would you like to donate?
Plan: A: Las Vegas'; Q: What city's elite crime scene investigators is Gil Grissom the supervisor of? A: the team; Q: What does Holly Gribbs join? A: the unit; Q: What is Jim Brass the head of? A: CSI; Q: What is Jim Brass trying to scare Holly Gribbs from? A: Catherine Willows; Q: Who is the number two CSI on the graveyard shift? A: mother; Q: What is Catherine Willows's relationship to her daughter? A: Warrick Brown; Q: Who is competing with Nick Stokes to earn a promotion to CSI 3? A: Nick; Q: Who talks to a man who picked up a woman who drugged and robbed him? A: their 100th case; Q: What are Warrick Brown and Nick Stokes trying to solve to earn a promotion to CSI 3? A: precious little evidence; Q: What is the problem with the murder that was staged to look like a suicide? A: a drunk; Q: Who breaks into a house and is shot to death? Summary: Gil Grissom is the supervisor of the graveyard shift of Las Vegas' elite crime scene investigators. Holly Gribbs, fresh out of the academy, joins the team. Jim Brass is head of the unit and is trying to scare Gribbs from CSI. Catherine Willows, mother of a young daughter, is the number two CSI on this shift. Warrick Brown and Nick Stokes are competing to solve their 100th case to earn a promotion to CSI 3. Grissom investigates a murder staged to look like a suicide with precious little evidence. Warrick and Catherine take the case of a drunk who breaks into the house where he had been staying and is shot to death. Nick talks to a man who picked up a woman who drugged and robbed him.