- Grissom, newly appointed head of the crime lab, investigates the supposed suicide of a jackpot-winner. Meanwhile, Warrick has to deal with the fact that the shooting of rookie CSI Holly Gribbs was due to his failure to supervise her.
- Jim Brass is transferred to the police department and Grisson is appointed as the new chief of the CSI team. Holly Gribbs dies in the hospital, and Sara Sidle is assigned to work in an internal investigation. The whole team is feeling bad, but Warwick is worse since he had been assigned to supervise the rookie member. When a jackpot winner in a casino falls off the balcony of a hotel, Grisson and his team investigate the case.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Grissom is now head of the CSI team. After winning a casino jackpot, a man mysteriously commits suicide. Holly Gribbs, the new CSI, had been shot. An old friend of Grissom's comes to Las Vegas.—Erik Kirchner
- Following the Holly Gribbs incident, Grissom has been placed in charge of the unit, and Brass has been moved to homicide. Grissom gives the other CSIs their assignments. Catherine, feeling guilty that she pressured Holly into staying on the job, insists on working Hollys case. Nick is assigned to work with Grissom on a case and Warrick is placed on leave until the Gribbs case is solved. Grissom also tells the team that he is bringing in Sara Sidle from San Francisco to investigate Hollys shooting.
Grissom and Nick arrive at their scene and find Ted Sallinger on the ground in front of a casino, having fallen from the roof. They learn that Sallinger had won the $40 million jackpot the night before and was staying in the presidential suite. As they process the suite, they find a broken champagne bottle and bloody towels. They question Sallingers girlfriend Jamie, who tells them that he broke up with her immediately after winning the jackpot. Angry at being dumped, she attacked him with the bottle; he left and never returned. The keycard records for the suite confirm her story.
Grissom and Nick conduct experiments to see if Sallinger fell, jumped, or was pushed from the roof they conclude that he was pushed, and thus murdered. Sara approaches Grissom at the crime scene and after a happy reunion, she asks after Holly.
Autopsy shows that Sallinger died due to blunt force trauma to his head. Grissom and Nick find fibers in the victim's watch, which was bought after he left his suite. The fibers match the carpet in the suite, indicating that he returned to the suite after he broke up with Jamie. Grissom discovers the murder weapon, a candlestick, in the suite and asks the hotel to check the keycard monitoring system. They learn that the monitor does not work, and conclude that Jamie attacked Sallinger when he returned to the suite after buying his watch. She then pushed him off the roof.
Catherine processes her crime scene and finds a beeper. Back at the lab, she meets Sara and is initially hostile, thinking that Sara will steal the case from her. However, they agree to cooperate and Sara asks where she can find Warrick. Catherine points her to the casinos.
Sara finds Warrick at a blackjack table, and he tells her he went to buy a coffee when Holly was shot and that he felt it was safe for him to leave because there was an officer there. Sara confronts him with the suspicion that he was placing a bet and tells him that Holly died on the operating table.
The beeper goes off, and Catherine calls the number. She expresses interest in meeting up for a little "something something", and the suspect gives her his address. She and Brass go to his motel to arrest him, and Catherine notices a cut on his face. She collects DNA from under Hollys fingernails and matches it to the suspect.
Warrick receives a phone call from Judge Cohen who informs him that he placed his bet on the wrong team. The mistake cost the judge $10,000, and demands that Warrick find the money and deliver it to him and tells him that he 'owns' Warrick for the time being.
Grissom speaks to Warrick about Sara's report and decides that since he has lost one good CSI, he does not want to lose another: He reinstates Warrick.
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