Is it bad when you start thinking none of this sounds too weird anymore?
Oh, it's a bit too freaky how these cases are connected.
Grissom, you always say that there is no such thing as coincidence...
GrissomThere isn't.
Oh, come on. You got the guy who bursts into flames, just divorced from the woman who was fighting squirrel wars with the Martins...
... Who had hired the exterminator who's drugs were turning everybody's blood green.
And one of his green blooded customers was Evelyn, our lady of tinfoil, who was the last person that Kyle Plank touched before he died.
Grissom
There's one more connection. Evelyn had 200 bucks, and I'm thinking that when she was run over, she was on her way to buy more Thyocite. I think that Wayne Connor was with Dave Boer waiting for the money to arrive.
Only Evelyn never showed up, Connor lost his temper and Boer killed him in a fight.
And it all started with Kyle Plank, lonely guy with a gut full of moonshine.
Grissom
String theory.
Grissom theory. This is better than a bedtime story.
Grissom
String theory is "the theory of everything." Quantum mechanics tells us about the very small. The theory of relativity explains the immense. String theory ties it all together. It proposes that atomic particles are made up of infinitesimal vibrating loops of energy or strings. Each string vibrates at its own frequency, like on a violin, producing notes and these notes make up everything in the universe.
Grissom
These strings have been combining and recombining ever since the Big Bang. So, the connections between our victims or any of us are not that extraordinary.
But every one of them thought they were alone.
Too bad they didn't know about Grissom's theory.
In a parallel universe, maybe they're all having breakfast together.
In this universe, maybe we are.
(to Grissom) And you're buying.
Grissom
No strings attached.
Grissom
What if the killer used the victim's car to transport the body?
He drives the victim's own vehicle back to the funeral home, stuffs the body in a double-decker coffin, hits a car wash, comes back cleans out the office, and then leaves us the keys. That's pretty considerate.
Grissom
Or very smart.
[arriving at Warrick's crime scene] Gil, how do you wanna handle this?
Grissom
I want us to do this, Conrad. I want Nick and Catherine on the car.
I feel sorry for whoever did this.
[finishes her phone call and walks over to Grissom and Ecklie] Greg's coming back from the airport, I told him to go straight to the lab. (pauses) We're gonna have to take your clothes to get processed.
Grissom
I'm gonna go with Warrick.
Grissom
He didn't wanna go, Sara.
Grissom
I was holding him. ... God, I could feel his life, ... I guess I felt that if I could hold him tight enough, he'd be okay.
You know that there is no place in the world that he would have rather been at the end. ... He loved you.
Grissom
[holding back tears] Yeah, I loved him. [Catherine comes in and sees Sara, Sara walks up to her and hugs her]
[while hugging Catherine] I'm so sorry.
It's so good that we can all be together. [Greg and Nick walk in and Sara hugs them both]
Look, um, maybe I can pick up some of the slack. I... I know I can't work the case, but maybe I can make some of the, uh... arrangements.
Grissom
That'd be great.
You know, since his grandmother passed, we were the only family that he had. He once told me that he'd like to be buried next to her.
Grissom
I went to her funeral with Warrick. She's, uh, buried at the Baptist cemetery on Eastern.
We're gonna need, uh, a key, I guess to his place.
I've got one. I... went over to his place and got him some fresh clothes when he was in custody.
Warrick was right about Gedda and he was right about the department. [looks at everyone then at Grissom] Let's finish this for him.
Grissom
There's no way that McKeen could've heard those shots. So why did he say that he did? He also implied that he saw Pritchard running away from Warrick's car.
But he never said that it was Pritchard.
Grissom
He led us to believe that though.
[sighs] You know when I first came to Vegas over twenty years ago... I haven't thought about this in a while, Jeff McKeen was a detective then. He invited us all to Mt. Charleston to his cabin, you know, all the new guys, have a barbeque, cook some steaks, have a few drinks, get to know each other, you know?. And it was a nice place, you know, but not too nice for detective pay. I mean, my radar's already up I came from Jersey, you know, guys took more than they gave, and they made it an art form, how not to push it, how not to make it showy, you know. Anyway, Jeff is sizing me up, he's sniffing around, he's telling me how great Vegas is, how great it'd be for my career... But I let him know, without bustin' his balls that I wasn't in a game, I wasn't for sale and it's a good thing that I took a look around up there at Mt. Charleston because I never got invited again, no more barbeques for me.
Grissom
First witness at the scene is the first suspect, right?
Grissom
When I told Warrick that Pritchard had framed him, he said that Gedda's mole had to have been higher up on the food chain. If I were McKeen I would worry that Warrick would never let it go.
[Flashback]
Let's say that McKeen saw the interview video. The time that Warrick left the PD to the time that Warrick got killed was like an hour, hour and a half. Is that enough time to frame Pritchard? For all we know Pritchard's not even in Vegas.
Grissom
Yeah, but if Pritchard gets picked up somewhere else, that gives him an alibi, and McKeen is screwed.
Unless he knows exactly where Pritchard is.
Lividity says the victims died in the positions in which they were discovered.
So, what does that mean? That the killer's using some sort of gas chamber?
Grissom
I think so. He lures someone back to his place, slips them a sedative, then re-dresses and positions the bodies inside a sealed container, waits for the carbon monoxide to go to work. Once the bodies are in full rigor, he's got about ten hours to place them and have them discovered.
Now that we know the recipe, let's find the cook.
PAPatricia Alwick
Dr. Grissom! May I have a word with you?
Grissom
Yes, of course. Come in.
PAPatricia Alwick
I wonder why it is you hold what I do in such obvious contempt?
Grissom
Excuse me?
PAPatricia Alwick
The last time we spoke, you mentioned that you were having problems with Hank. Now, out of concern for you and because I take my job very seriously, I started asking around.
Grissom
Oh...
PAPatricia Alwick
And was met with a mixture of bafflement and smirks by most of your staff until David Hodges took pity on me and informed me that Hank was your dog.
Grissom
I apologize. It was a serious question.
PAPatricia Alwick
Oh, really?
Grissom
For the last few weeks my dog's been listless, barely eats, and I just wondered that if you thought it was possible that pets could take on the emotion of their owners?
PAPatricia Alwick
Well, companion animals were bred to respond to human beings. At some level, I do believe that they resonate with what their owners are feeling. So, what are you feeling?
Grissom
I've just been a little distracted lately. Uh, having a hard time focusing on the details.
PAPatricia Alwick
That's normal.
Grissom
Not for me. [pause] I wondered if you knew, typically how long this lasts?
PAPatricia Alwick
There's no typical. Days, weeks, sometimes years, the important thing is to acknowledge it, but you do have to talk about it, and if not with me, then with somebody else and soon.
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