TEXT: [EXT. LAS VEGAS CITY (STOCK) - NIGHT] [EXT. LAS VEGAS PRISON (STOCK) - NIGHT] (The bright white guard light turns toward the camera.) FLASH TO WHITE: [SCENE_BREAK] [INT LAS VEGAS PRISON - NIGHT] (Guards strap the PRISONER in orange to his chair.) (Cut to: The wall clock reads: 11:58 p.m.) (Cut to: The guards strap The PRISONER'S legs to the table, uncuffs his hands and straps his arms down to the table. They cut his orange prison uniform and stick a needle in his arm. His cut shirt is pushed aside and electrodes are attached to his chest to monitor his hearbeat.) (The guards leave.) (The camera pans from the execution cell, through the observation mirror and down to the next room where six large syringes are laid out on the table in front of the warden and other officials.) (Cut to: The PRISONER is spread out on the table and strapped down so he can't move.) (The clock reads: 11:59:00.) (The PRISONER breathes rapidly. He looks to the side at the window where the curtain to the observation room is closed. The curtains open and behind the window are several rows of witnesses. The camera lingers on the man and woman sitting up front and center. The woman is startled at the sight in front of her and reaches for her husband's hand.) (The PRISONER sees them, then turns his head away. The woman clutches in her lap, a picture of a young woman, her daughter.) (The audience waits. The clock counts down with every passing second... (Camera cuts to focus on the man's neck where his pulse beats rapidly just beneath his skin.) (Quick CGI POV to the blood flowing rapidly through his veins. Through his veins, where it comes out to his heart. We watch the heart beat for a moment. End of CGI POV. Resume to
SUMMARY:
Fifteen years ago, Catherine helped to put John Mathers on death row for the rape and murder of a young student at a local college. On the day of his execution , he's granted a stay based on new DNA evidence. Meanwhile, Grissom, Nick and Sara are looking for a missing student, who is found murdered and left in exactly the same fashion as the women in Catherine's case.