TEXT: [EXT. VARIOUS LAS VEGAS CITY (STOCK) - DAY] BLUR TO: [EXT. AIRPLANE (MOVING) - SUNSET] (Through various cuts and dissolve shots, the camera follows the aircraft in flight as we overhear the conversation between the PILOT and the TOWER.) Pilot: (V.O.) McCarren approach Las Vegas nine-zero-nine, thirty-thousand. Request emergency personnel. Over. Tower: (V.O.) Las vegas nine-zero-nine, McCarren tower. Specify request. Over. Pilot: (V.O.) Negative, McCarren. Advise on runway. Tower: (V.O.) Las Vegas nine-zero-nine cleared for V-O-R runway one-five approach. Over Pilot: (V.O.) V-O-R runway one-five approach. Roger. Request Las Vegas police. (The camera moves in through the clouds and pushes up close to the aircraft window. From the outside, we see darkened figures inside and a lot of movement. We hear thumping. We see the shadows of a commotion happening on the plane.) Tower: (V.O.) Understand "police." Roger. Emily Berhle: (V.O.) Mommy! (Inside the moving aircraft, through the darkened window, we hear a little girl's screams. Something is happening inside that plane.) [SCENE_BREAK] [EXT. MCCARRAN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT - TARMAC - NIGHT] [SCENE_BREAK] [EXT. MCCARRAN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT - NIGHT] (The plane sits on the runway surrounded by police cars and emergency personnel.) (BRASS instructs his officers on what to do at the scene.) Brass: The luggage stays in the plane. We're going to treat this like a crime scene until we're told otherwise. Tim, Sam, talk to the coach passengers. See what you can't learn. (GRISSOM walks up to
SUMMARY:
Grissom and his team investigate the death of a first class passenger on a flight to Las Vegas. Their investigation is a race against time, because after 12 hours the F.B.I. will take over. To make matters worse, the other first class passengers are very reluctant to co-operate, leading the team to consider that they had some involvement in their fellow passenger's death.