The team is back together. Their first assignment takes them to a trailer park where a gas explosion has demolished a mobile home. The team finds two victims dead in bed: Robert Durgee and Selena March, who owns the trailer.
Then Catherine gets a 419 call. A woman is found dead off Industrial Road (also called "G-String Row"). Catherine chooses Warrick to work with her on this case. When they arrive at the scene, they meet Detective Vartann. Also present is Officer Michaels, who tries to offer his appologies for not keeping an eye on Nick when he was abducted. Vartann leads them to the victim. The dead woman is wearing rubber work boots and a plastic shopping bag, covering her underwear. Then Vartann notices that Warrick is wearing a wedding ring. It turns out Warrick got married yesterday at a drive-through. Catherine is shocked.
Meanwhile at the trailer park, Grissom wants to know the cause of the explosion. They also find out that the car outside the trailer belongs to Robert Durgee, who turns out to be married. Reason enough to talk to his wife.
Back at the lab, Grissom receives a package from Flora Nevada Nursery. It's the cassette tape that was in the coffin with Nick Stokes when he was burried alive. We also learn that Sofia Curtis didn't transfer to Boulder Country, but stayed in Las Vegas as a Detective.
During the autopsy, Albert Robbins informs Grissom and Nick that Selena March died of smoke inhalation, and Robert Durgee suffered a fatal crushing of the abdomen. When Grissom and Nick take a closer look at the inhjuries on Durgee's abdomen, they find out the bruises are tire marks, and they happen to match the tires of his wife's car.
Brass brings Mrs. Durgee in for questioning. She tells him that she was on a date with a married man during the night of the murder. She also informs him that she lent her car to her brother who drove it to Mexico. Conveniently she has no idea when he will return.
Catherine finds out that the boots her "homeless stripper" wore are the property of Streets & Sanitation. The initials on the boots lead them to Eddie Vonner, who was on duty that night. When Catherine and Vartann interview him, he tells them that wanted to help the victim. He gave her his boots and dropped her off at Industrial and Western.
At the trailer park, Nick finds a piece of the wall with tire tracks on it and Sara spots blue paint on the gas main. This leads them to believe the trailer was rammed by a car. When Sara leaves to get lunch, Nick spots a cockroach on his arm. He panics, but manages to collect himself.
That night, Warrick and Detective Vartann investigate the place where Eddie Vonner picked up the "homeless stripper". They not only find her shoes, but also a 911 call, and a video taken off traffic cameras that shows her make the call.
The next day, Nick and Grissom are back at the trailer park. Grissom suddenly notices that there are no tire threads between the gas main and the mobile home. He walks to the back of the trailer and finds an impact crater and pieces of glass. He concludes the trailer wasn't just rammed, it was a through-and-through. Nick uses the number on the pieces of headlight glass to find out that they belonged to a '97 Pontiac. Brass puts out a broadcast for the car.
The broadcast leads the team to Nellis, where a car matching the description is found. Sophia Curtis meets Grissom and Sara on the scene. It turns out the car isn't the one they are looking for, but when they pop the trunk, it contains two bodies: a male and a female. They have another case. Grissom orders the car to be taken back to the lab.
In the A/V lab, Archie is working on Grissom's tape, but is interrupted by Warrick who wants to listen to the 911 call and combine it with the traffic videos. They learn the victim was pushed out of an airport shuttle. But when they track down the logo on the side of the car, they learn it is not an airport shuttle at all, it's a driving strip club.
Catherine and Vartann interview Marcus Corcoran, who owns the van. He tells them he was giving a bunch of CEOs a "champagne ride" down Las Vegas Boulevard the night the stripper was murdered. Warrick processes the van and finds the victim's cell phone and ID. Their victim turns out to be Brooke Harris, a housewife fom an upscale residential neighborhood. Marcus informs them that a client ordered him to put her out of the van when she didn't like his advances. He figured that strippers are tough chicks, and that she would get herself home.
When Warrick takes a closer look at the phone, he finds a couple of unanswered calls from someone named "Giselle." Giselle turns out to be a woman who teaches a striptease class to suburban housewives. Brooke was one of her students. It turns out Giselle put Brooke on the "Champagne Ride" to give her an experience she'd never forget. Catherine thinks that Giselle fed Brooke to the sharks.
Grissom and Nick discover that Randy Swansiger - the trailer park's local drunkard - owns a blue Pontiac. When they return to the trailer park to confront him, he confesses that he fell asleep at the wheel and only remembers a big bang. His car was still running, so he just parked it and went to sleep. He then tries to make a run for it, but fails miserably.
Meanwhile, Sara and Greg are investigating the car with the two decomposed bodies in it. While Sara is taking prints, Greg has to drain the trunk, which leads him to be covered in decomp fluids, and Sara calling him a cannibal. But his work turns out not to be in vain, because he finds a bullet fragment which matches a drug-related shooting in Mesquite five days ago. They also find a box of torn up gooeybuns.
At the morgue, Albert Robbins tells Greg and Sara that their male victim is a Caucasian, mid-twenties. The woman is an African-American teenager. In the Missing Persons Database they find a profile that matches the girl: sixteen-year-old Clara James.
Sofia and Sara bring in the girl's father for an interview. From him they learns that Clara worked at Gooeybunz. He also informs them that Clara couldn't stand gooeybuns. This means the box of gooeybuns could only have belonged to the male victim... or the killer.
When Sara and Greg disect the torn gooeybuns, they find no bite marks on them. Instead they find a small package of cocaine in the single gooeybun that wasn't torn up. The list of suspects Sara made by indentifying finger prints contains only one person with a conviction for cocaine trafficking: Joey Zack. His print was found on the radio tuner. The radio was set to 107.1 FM, a frequency Greg knows can only be received at one place in town: the Moonlight Drive-In Theatre.
The drive-in-manager informs the CSIs that a man named Darryl Blakeny worked for him, but quit last week to go home to his parents in Mesquite. The CSIs conclude that Darryl, a former drug user, was a customer of Joey Zacks. When he saw his old dealer at the drive-in, he lost it and abducted, robbed and killed them. The only thing left to do is tracking him down, which won't be easy. But at least he's in the system now.
While discussing the case, Warrick feels he should clear the air between him and Catherine. He tells her that after what happened to Nick, he figured life was too short and decided to marry Tina. Catherine confesses that this breaks any chance of her fantasy getting real. They decide to return to Industrial Road, to find out what happened to Brooke before she died. They find the place where she parked her car, but the parking attendant informs her she didn't get it back, because she couldn't pay the ten bucks. When they return to the scene of the crime, Warrick notices that rod that Officer Michaels used to put up crime scene tape has blood on it. They ask Officer Michaels where he found it. When he points out the place, they find a homeless man. When they show him Brooke's picture, he confesses to killing her, because she wanted to steal his money.
Finally in the A/V Lab, Grissom and Archie listen to the cassette tape. It ends with a question: "Okay?". And after a pause, there is a new voice which answers: "Perfect.". Grissom figured the "Okay?" wasn't meant for Nick, and he was right. Walter Gordon must have had an accomplice.
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