Nick Stokes quotes from CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

(about his girlfriend taking his pepper spray) But she dances nights at the Acid Strip.

Nick

(chuckles) What, does she clip the can to her g-string?

Brass

That'd be a deterrent to stuffing a tip in there, wouldn't it?

Nick

Is it bad when you start thinking none of this sounds too weird anymore?

Warrick

Oh, it's a bit too freaky how these cases are connected.

Greg

Grissom, you always say that there is no such thing as coincidence...

Grissom

There isn't.

Catherine

Oh, come on. You got the guy who bursts into flames, just divorced from the woman who was fighting squirrel wars with the Martins...

Greg

... Who had hired the exterminator who's drugs were turning everybody's blood green.

Nick

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.

Greg

Only Evelyn never showed up, Connor lost his temper and Boer killed him in a fight.

Warrick

And it all started with Kyle Plank, lonely guy with a gut full of moonshine.

Grissom

String theory.

Nick

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.

Catherine

Cosmic symphony.

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.

Nick

But every one of them thought they were alone.

Warrick

Too bad they didn't know about Grissom's theory.

Greg

In a parallel universe, maybe they're all having breakfast together.

Catherine

In this universe, maybe we are.

Nick

Yeah.

Catherine

(to Grissom) And you're buying.

Grissom

No strings attached.

Nick

Looks like a comedy writer came out of the closet.

Catherine

I doubt if it's the first time.

Greg

So, that's it. Robot-man, closet-stalker-guy gets his package grabbed and a TV star dies.

Nick

It is the classic story.

Grissom

What if the killer used the victim's car to transport the body?

Nick

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.

Hodges

I said that I saw Warrick sitting alone in Grissom's office in the dark.

Nick

So what?

Hodges

He got a phone call and he got really pissed at the person that he was talking to.

Nick

So what?

Hodges

Then he was found an hour later in a pool of Gedda's blood.

Nick

Hey, you don't know what happened in there.

Hodges

Look, Nick, all I did was tell the truth as I saw it. That's what we're supposed to do, right?

[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.

[softly] Okay.

Nick

I feel sorry for whoever did this.

Catherine

[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.

I'll drive ya.

Grissom

I'm gonna go with Warrick.

Grissom

He didn't wanna go, Sara.

Sara

(pause) Tell me.

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.

Sara

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]

Sara

[while hugging Catherine] I'm so sorry.

Catherine

It's so good that we can all be together. [Greg and Nick walk in and Sara hugs them both]

Greg

I'm glad you're here.

Sara

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.

Greg

I'll help you.

Sara

I'd appreciate that.

Nick

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.

Sara

We're gonna need, uh, a key, I guess to his place.

Catherine

I've got one. I... went over to his place and got him some fresh clothes when he was in custody.

Nick

Warrick was right about Gedda and he was right about the department. [looks at everyone then at Grissom] Let's finish this for him.

[after Nick finds him] Thank god you're here. I was tryin' to bring Pritchard in.

Nick

Shut up.

He got the drop on me, he grabbed my gun, I lost control...

Nick

[points his gun at McKeen] I said shut up!

Okay, you wanna know why I did it? Warrick had a big mouth. You know, I just shot him. I'd try to warn him, but he was just too stupid to listen. You know, when I shot him, he had a big smile on his face. I told him that he could keep his job, I didn't have the heart to fire him. [laughs]

Nick

Shut up.

You were his friend. What kinda friend are you?! Shoot me, you son of a bitch! [[Nick is shaking, screen shows Brass running though the woods, Brass hears a shot and runs over to Nick, who is stand over McKeen]

Brass

Nick...

Nick

McKeen has a gunshot wound to the stomach, he's lost a lot of blood, we should get the Med-Evac helicopter here ASAP.

Brass

What was that shot?

Nick

A miss.

Nick

What's with the bikini?

Catherine

Maybe she wanted to leave a good looking corpse.

Catherine

Autopsy report. Cause of death, cardiac arrest.

Nick

That's coroner speak for "I can't explain what killed her."

Catherine

No organ damage, no disease, no trauma, this was a perfectly healthy young woman.

Nick

Yeah, 'til she dropped dead without dropping.

Catherine

Lividity says the victims died in the positions in which they were discovered.

Riley

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.

Nick

Now that we know the recipe, let's find the cook.

Nick

I know this seems like a simple trash hut, but it could make or break the case. The sooner we find this stuff, the sooner we're gonna find this kid. So, don't be afraid to get your hands dirty. (notices Hodges not walking with them) Hodges, come on man, I know you're not nuts about the field but I didn't bring you all the way out here to just stand around, you know what I mean?

Hodges

Can I see you for a second?

Nick

What?

Hodges

You can work hard (opens up a trash bin right by the crime scene) or you can work smart. (Nick pulls out a bag from Dempsey's department store) Can I go now?