TEXT: [EXT. LAS VEGAS CITY OUTSKIRTS (STOCK) - DAY] (Overhead view of dry land outside the city.) [SCENE_BREAK] [EXT. LAS VEGAS FIELD - LATE DAY] (Camera cuts to a view of open plains and dry fields. Just over the hill is an empty construction site with large machinery, white pipes and other materials.) (In the background, we hear a horse neighing and off in the distance, we can see a single horse and rider approaching the site.) (Cut to a closer view as the horse and rider approach the site.) (The horse starts to struggle against the rider.) Rider: What is wrong with you? (She gets off of the horse, puzzled at what could have gotten the horse spooked. As she checks out the large pipe directly in front of the horse, she finds a dead body hidden inside.) [SCENE_BREAK] [EXT. CONSTRUCTION SITE - NIGHT] (BRASS and GRISSOM check the dump site out. All around them, the field is covered with officers.) Grissom: A girl in a culvert pipe... at a highway construction site in the middle of an alfalfa field. (BRASS waits for GRISSOM to finish. GRISSOM looks at BRASS.) Grissom: You got anything to add? Brass: Nothing as poetic. (BRASS reaches into his coat pocket for his notebook and starts to read from it.) Brass: Just, uh, road crew took off at 3:00. Body was discovered 5:15. Grissom: Who found the body? (BRASS turns to indicate the girl standing next to her horse just beyond the police tape.) Brass: Our friend, Flicka. Grissom: Well, there goes that theory. Brass: What's that? Grissom: Whoever finds the body is the first suspect. Sara: (o.s.) Uh, Grissom... (GRISSOM turns to see SARA standing next to another culvert pipe. He
SUMMARY:
Grissom and Sara are called to the crime scene when two murder victims are found hidden in pipes at a construction site in the middle of an alfalfa field, while Catherine and Nick investigate an ostensible hunting accident. The investigation of the construction site murder reveals that the victims were sisters and the relationship of one of the sisters to a former prison inmate is a cause for suspicion -- especially when his presence is traced to the scene of the crime. Meanwhile, Catherine and Nick begin to doubt seriously that the body found in the woods was the victim of a hunting accident.