[to Warrick] Excuse me, buttercup.
S1 E9Unfriendly Skies
Guys...If you jump a guy at the exit, he dies at the exit.
If just one person had stopped and taken the time to look at the guy to listen to him, to figure out what was wrong with him it might not have happened. It took five people to kill him. It would have only taken one person to save his life.
[Grissom and Warrick go to interview the final passenger]
Mr. Cash?
CCash
[Smirks] I was wondering when you guys would get around to asking me some questions.
So, what did you see?
CCash
Not much.
[Barely holding his frustration] Mr. Cash, we're all very tired, here. And we don't have much time before our crime scene flies away.
CCash
I was in my seat.
You were in 1A.
Sitting ringside; how could you not see what was going on?
[Cash promptly pulls out a collapsible cane used by blind people, extending it]
[Sheepishly smiles] "The blind leading the blind."
CCash
I'm not totally blind, I'm legally blind. My central visual acuity is 20/200.
[A flashback is shown of the crime on the plane, from Cash's perspective, then cuts back to the present]
Can you describe the voices?
CCash
First voice, behind me, 4B. Businessman, I could tell by the way he ordered drinks.
How so?
CCash
"JW Black, triple not double."
That's Lou.
CCash
Second voice, 2F, kind of far away.
Max. Third voice?
CCash
Third voice...ah, row behind me, two seats over. Mr. Dot-com. Guy must've typed sixty words a minute.
Nate. That's very good.
[The CSI team and Brass are recreating the crime based on the different witness testimonies]
Now Lou said that he was the peacemaker.
Peacemaker, my ass. [Shows three empty mini-bottles of whiskey] He's got three empties in the pouch, the seat reeks of whiskey; the guy probably spilled Lou's drink.
Very good.
I was boss at CSI once, for a reason. So, Lou gets up and takes a swing at the guy. Well, after knocking three back at 30,000 feet, you know, he probably misses, so what does he get for his troubles?
A CD swipe across the chops.
So, then he falls back–oh, maybe that's when he fell back and spilled his own drink.
Now, by this time, Candelewell's got to be out of his seat, right?
You know, if I'm Max, I want no part of this. Plus, I don't have an aisle seat.
Yeah, but you're lucky: your wife's going to make sure you get into the playing field.
Yeah, go ahead, honey. Save my life.
So Max gets up, goes across Marlene,[to Warrick] Excuse me, buttercup...
I don't care what you say. I could never take a life.
It was between him or me, I could. What about you, Nick?
I don't know.
[walks in with Grissom] Wow, looks deathly serious in here.
[smiling sweetly] Oh, we were just talking about murder and whether or not we would commit it. I couldn't, Warrick could, and Nick's on the ropes. We're taking an exit poll.
Catherine, you're a mother. You and Lindsey are on that plane. How far do you go?
All the way.
(surprised) You didn't even hesitate.
That's right. If it involves the protection of my child I fight to the death.
See? We have four people here, all with different opinions. Think of how the passengers must have felt.
What do you think, Grissom?
(beat) I can't answer that question.
That's a cop-out. It's a simple question. What would you have done if you had been one of those passengers?
It's not about that. You all have different opinions but you've taken the same point of view. You've put yourself in the shoes of the passengers, but nobody's put themselves in the shoes of the victim. That's the point.
I'm sorry. What are you saying?
Nobody stopped to ask Candlewell if he was all right. They just assumed, because he was kicking the back of Nate's seat, that he was a jerk. Because he was pushing his call button, that he was bothering the Flight Attendant. Because he was trying to get into the lavatory, he was making a scene. Because he was going back and forth up and down the aisles, he was posing a threat.
He was a threat.
No. He turned into a threat. It didn't have to be that way. People make assumptions. That's the problem. You just did. And I think these passengers made the wrong assumption and now this guy's dead.
Well, if that's your stance how could it have been prevented?
If just one person had stopped and taken the time to look at the guy to listen to him, to figure out what was wrong with him, it might not have happened. It took five people to kill him. It would have only taken one person to save his life.
S1 E10Sex, Lies, and Larvae
No, Sara's gonna work with me. You've got a missing person, Sheryl Applegate. Her husband notified the police that she took the car and headed to LA, but she never showed up. A few hours ago, the PD found her car at the bus station. They requested a CSI.
She took the bus instead, case solved. [grins]
Well, right now, treat her car like a crime scene. [tilts his head to the side] Go.
You've still got to convince a jury.
On guns. It's got to be better than bugs. Less Latin.
You're the one who's always saying it's better to have one piece of forensic evidence than ten eyewitnesses.
What, do you tape everything I say?
SSScott Shelton
[after Sara discovers blood that has been wiped clean off the wall] I have no idea how it got there.
Oh... How it got there was when you shot your wife in the head, wrapped her in a blanket and left her on the side of a mountain. Dead!
[points her finger in his face]
SSScott Shelton
Get that finger out of my face bitch!
[they fight]
Stop! That's enough! [to Grissom] Get her under control!
Get him out of here, Jim!
SSScott Shelton
Told you she was a handful.
Oh, you don't know a handful!
Hey, Sara, what's the matter with you?
I am a woman, and I have a gun and look how he treated me! I can only imagine how he treated his wife!
You have empathy for her, Sara. You want someone to pay for what was done to her. That's normal.
You want to sleep with me?
Did you just say what I think you did?
That way, when I wake up in cold sweat under the blanket, hearing Kaye's screams ... You can tell me it's nothing. It's just empathy.
So, you planning a little late-night luau? Roast pig?
It's an experiment. Maybe Kaye was dead five days.
I thought your bugs never made mistakes.
They don't. People do. The victim was wrapped in a blanket. Normally a blanket or clothing doesn't impact insect maturation. The insects usually fight their way in anyway. But I examined the folds in Kaye's blanket. She was wrapped tight---maybe tighter than I realized---which would have decreased the corpse's exposure to insects
So it took longer for the insects to get in there?
And deposit their eggs. Maybe two whole days. I've wrapped porky here pretty tight.
Well, let me ask you this. You killed a pig just for this?
This poor ham was already on its way to someone's Christmas dinner
table.
Wouldn't a rabbit be easier?
Gotta be a pig. Interestingly, they're the most like humans.
Yeah, I've been saying that since I was a rookie. You're on your own, pal.
Any idea how long she's been dead?
The elements really got to her. Grissom and his insects are going to have to figure that one out. (Doc Robbins turns around and sees Grissom picking up a bug from the body) Have we lost you, Grissom?
" The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out, the worms play pinochle on your snout."
Shakespeare again?
An old nursery rhyme.
A very special insect, Dr. Seuss?
Hey, how's the body with the bugs?
How do you know about that already? (he turns around and looks at Sara)
Hey, don't look at me.
We, uh, played a hunch; checked with homicide. You were late.
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