TEXT: [EXT. LAS VEGAS CITY (STOCK) - NIGHT] [INT. CSI - FORENSIC AUTOPSY - NIGHT] (A box is on the autopsy table. It's addressed to: DR. ROBBINS 3026 WESTFALL AVENUE LAS VEGAS, NV 89109 (ROBBINS cuts the string and cuts the box open. Inside is a large blue plastic tub. ROBBINS takes the tub out and pushes the empty box to the side as he concentrates on the blue tub. He cuts the tape around the cover of the tub and opens the lid. Inside is a head.) Robbins: Hmm. (ROBBINS puts his glasses on to examine the head. GRISSOM walks into the room and appears at his side.) Grissom: I heard you got some head. Robbins: Just came in. How'd you know? Grissom: I arranged house seats for David to see Celine, so he pages me the minute you get anything perishable. Robbins: Sellout. (ROBBINS reaches into the tub and removes the head. GRISSOM takes a deep breath.) Grissom: Oh... formaldehyde. Robbins: Yeah, it fixes tissue, but it destroys DNA. Grissom: No ID through CODIS. Quite a bit of leaf litter. Robbins: Puncture wound above the orbital plate. Grissom: That looks like animal activity. Robbins: Heavy decomp. It's going to be, uh... virtually impossible to determine time of death. This neck wasn't severed. It was disarticulated. No skill involved. (ROBBINS puts the head down on the table and turns it to the left. On the left cheek, there's a knife cut.) Robbins: Oh-oh. I take that back. Grissom: That took skill. (Quick CGI POV: Camera zooms into the cut - past the skin, into the muscle and flesh. End of CGI POV. Resume to present.) (ROBBINS turns to look at
SUMMARY:
When Dr. Robbins receives a severed head, Grissom goes to Jackpot, Nevada in search of the rest of the body. When he arrives he soon finds out that he cannot expect much help from the locals. Even the sheriff seems to be hiding something. Meanwhile, Catherine gets an unexpected gift from her father.