- A nightclub owner serving time in prison gets a temporary leave so that he can help Brass and Stokes investigate a double homicide with several connections to him.
- Grissom and the CSI team deal with what appears to be two related deaths. In the first, a young woman is found dead in an apartment, the victim of multiple gunshot wounds. When they find blood dripping through a hole in the ceiling, they find another victim in the upstairs apartment. When the autopsy reveals that different guns killed the two victims, the only connection they have left is that a man who has been in jail for several months rented both apartments.—garykmcd
- Jessica Jaynes is found fatally shot sixfold in the head in the apartment under that of older Maria Espinoza, killed in one shot, yet with another type of gun. Both apartments were rented by wealthy jail bird Drops, whose bars profited from Jessica's entertainment while maria raised him as an orphan. Drops gets to show sheriff and Nick around, leading them to Jessica's husband Walter Jaynes, who also has a link with the next murder victim.—KGF Vissers
- When a blonde woman is found murdered with two shotguns after multiple shots, Grissom, Nick and Greg investigate the crime scene. Grissom notes a drop of blood from the apartment above and he asks Officer Mitchell to visit the place. Soon they find the elderly woman Maria Espinoza dead on the floor with a shotgun in her face. The angle that Espinoza was shot is not consistent with their theories and the seven retrieved 9mm shell casings, one of them with urine on it, shows that Maria was shot with a revolver by a different person. Soon they learn that both apartments belong to the nightclub promoter Kellen "Drops" Tyford, who is in prison. Brass and Nick visit Drops, who recognizes the blonde Jessica "JJ" Jaynes, and tells them that Maria took care of him when he was a boy, and he lent his apartment to her when she needed. When the urine is identified from Drops' girlfriend Dana, who is the daughter of Maria, Brass and Nick return to the prison, and Drops asks them to let him 48 hours out of prison so that he can find Dana. What will be Brass decision?—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- A girl walks down a dark and scary hallway to find her door open. Naturally, she walks in anyway. Someone jumps out and shoots her - a lot. She's hit twice.
Grissom and Greg survey the scene. They find seven bullet casings and a strange blood drop. It appears to have dropped down from the ceiling. Grissom sends someone upstairs to check, but because that doesn't make for a cool visual, he looks through a tiny camera up through the ceiling and finds another body. "Looks like this crime has a second story," he says dryly.
Nick checks out the upstairs crime scene with Grissom and they surmise it was a stray bullet. Greg finds pee downstairs.
Grissom theorizes that the woman was on her knees listening to something through the floor when the stray hit her.
Back in the lab, Catherine looks at the body and finds a row of dollar signs tattooed around her waist.
Greg calls. He found seven bullets and can't figure out which hit the upstairs neighbor. They check the dead girl for gun shot residue. It's positive.
They figure out "Blondie" had a revolver.
Brass calls. The name on the lease is "Drops," the nightclub promoter they put away on a weapons charge. He also owns the place upstairs.
Cut to Drops in the prison where he's playing chess with some kids from Cornell. Brass shows up, asking questions.
Drops IDs her as J.J., a sort of in-house prostitute at one of his clubs.
Then Brass shows him a picture of the upstairs neighbor, Mrs. Espinoza. He says she helped raise him.
Back in the lab, J.J.'s husband IDs her body, holding their toddler. Kids love morgues. He looks wistfully at her string of dollar sign tattoos.
Cut to Mrs. Espinoza's. Nick and Catherine pose a dummy to determine bullet trajectory. Catherine finds another bullet hole in the ceiling. It's from a .38, the same one that fired the bullet that killed Mrs. Espinoza.
Nick thinks J.J. killed Mrs. Espinoza and then went downstairs and was shot.
Wendy finds that the pee's DNA matches Mrs. Espinoza. Her daughter, Dana. She was on trial for attempted murder but a defense witness helped exonerate her: Drops.
Back at the prison, Drops says Dana's carrying his baby. He says he had no idea why J.J. would kill Mrs. Espinoza, but that Dana would fight back if threatened. He says he's the only one who can find Dana, if they let him out for a while, like in "48 Hours."
Catherine checks out text messages on JJ's phone. They mention money. She calls a recently dialed number... and Warrick answers. Valinda, JJ's friend, is also dead. A witness saw a pregnant woman getting into the car. They decide they have to get Dana off the street fast.
Back to Drops. He puts on his pin-striped finery and meets Nick and Brass for his furlough. They cuff him and put an ankle bracelet on him. They start with Drops' financial planner, Zigzag Bruce. They go to his house. He's dead on the porch, shot through the eye.
Next Drops suggests Dana's step-sister, Sherry. They find her at a burger joint and Drops says he has to talk to her by himself. They uncuff him and let him go.
She spies the cops immediately. But when he tells her who all has died she says she hasn't seen Dana. He writes something on Brass's business card and gives it to her. When she gives him a bag, they get suspicious and make him drop it. It's chicken giblets.
Next he suggests his club, where he keeps his safe.
In the lab, Warrick finds JJ's purse in Valinda's car. They think the women were in it together. But something doesn't line-up with the witness testimony and bullet trajectory. Warrick thinks Valinda was shot from the back seat, by a third person.
At the club, a guy tells Brass that Dana was there an hour ago with a NASCAR-looking dude. "Mini-Britney," a little person performing in Britney red pleather, is performing. Drops has the good sense to be embarrassed.
They look at the surveillance video, Dana being lead through the crowd by JJ's husband/pimp, Walter. Drops says he used to tattoo JJ everytime she bagged a high roller. And some girls just like flowers. Nick sees that Walter has a gun on Dana.
They figure that Walter is holding Dana hostage for Drops' money - which he neglected to mention isn't in the safe.
Drops' guy brings him a sandwich with something in it that he uses to block his ankle bracelet signal. Nick and Brass keep their eyes glued to the video and Drops runs off.
Lots of running, chasing. Drops gets into a waiting car, losing them.
As they look for him, Nick realizes the GPS is jammed. Drops' guy tells him they put a GPS jammer in the sandwich, per Drops' direction scribbled on Brass' business card and handed to Sherry.
They figure out that the car that Drops got in was Walter's.
Back at Mrs. Espinoza's, Walter is holding guns on Drops and Dana, taking the money. He says he also wants payback for JJ's death. He tells Drops to choose who dies, Dana or her baby. Down on his knees, Drops turns off his GPS. The cops drive up silent. Drops charges Walter, Dana gets shot in the shoulder. Drops wrestles with Walter and gets shot, the cops bust in and take him. Dana's water breaks.
Drops wakes up in the hospital, cuffed to the bed. Dana's holding a baby, but won't share. She tells Drops that because of him, she heard her mother die. She was downstairs when she heard her mother get shot. She grabbed a gun, not knowing it was JJ, and shot her. Then Valinda called, saying she wanted to help. But Walter was in the backseat and killed Valinda. Dana didn't know Drops had money so she took him to Zigzag's, where Walter shot him, too. Dana tells Drops she's going to leave him while he's in prison. Method Man makes a sad face.
On his way back to prison Drops asks what's going to happen to Dana. She probably won't be charged for her self-defense shooting of JJ. And the money technically doesn't belong to anyone and was in her mother's apartment and now belongs to her and his baby. For a dude heading back to prison, Drops seems pretty OK with that.
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