TEXT: [EXT. (PHILADELPHIA) STAIRS TO BUILDING - NIGHT -- FLASHBACK] (Snow falls on a young man begging for his life.) Alvarez: You got the wrong guy, man. I didn't do it. I didn't do it, man. CU: GUN (The shooter cocks the gun.) (Alvarez cries.) (The shooter fires the gun at Alvarez. Alvarez gets up and tries to get away.) (A second shot is fired.) (Alvarez gets to his feet and grabs the shooter.) (A third shot is fired point blank into Alvarez's chest.) [SCENE_BREAK] [EXT. (PHILADELPHIA) SIDEWALK - NIGHT - FLASHBACK] (A man with bloodied hands carries the gun down the sidewalk. Keppler slows when someone comes down the building's front steps.) (The young woman stops in front of him.) (She reaches down for his hand. She places his hand on her chest.) Amy McCarty: (echoy) I love you, Mikey. (A bright white light shines down on them. She removes her hands from his and Keppler takes her heart out of the opening in her chest.) (He looks at her beating heart in the palm of his hand. He looks at her.) (TOP VIEW DOWN: on Keppler and Amy. They're both standing in the middle of the busy sidewalk.) [SCENE_BREAK] [INT. - DAY] (Keppler wakes up. Sirens wail in the distance. Keppler is panting and sweaty. He sits up and we see an open bottle of liquor on the coffee table next to a glass.) (Keppler cries.) [SCENE_BREAK] [EXT. LAS VEGAS CITY (STOCK) - DAY] [INT. DINER - MORNING] (Keppler pushes his empty plate away from him and picks up his cup
SUMMARY:
Keppler finds himself having recurring nightmares about an incident many years ago in New Jersey, which get worse when a friend of his, a retired cop from Trenton and the father of his late girlfriend comes into town to visit. Soon, the bodies of a New Jersey police officer and a hooker are found shot to death in a hotel room, the left hand of the dead woman cut off. To Keppler's dismay, the one who found the bodies is none other than his friend. Back at the lab, Grissom returns from his sabbatical and learns about the friction caused by Keppler while he was away.