(Wild cheering)
Changing $100.
Change $100. Go ahead.
All right baby Big Eight Big Eight
No more bets
Section G3 all clear. En route to H4, and then soft count.
New dealer. Coming in.
Double zero.
(Screaming)
Section G4. Security Three. Intercept at G5.
Contain. Contain.
And the body count?
Five guards, three civilians wounded, one dead bad guy.
Armed robbers snatched the Iock boxes from the two high-stakes tabIes right off the roIIing cage.
- Cash on wheels. - Yeah, the busiest time of night.
Three women. Organised and muscled.
Small-time crooks, Jim.
Hey, they got away with 250K.
Yeah. That's a mere pittance to a Vegas casino.
The cashiers alone are sitting on a million in change.
Small-time or not,
these Iadies are dangerous.
Dangerous? Yes.
Ladies?
No.
(Camera whirs)
These guys packed enough 45 ammo
for a small army
Well, security managed to return a few rounds, 9mm.
Less than a year ago, security couldn't even carry guns.
- Times have changed. - Yeah.
The same MO as Laughlin. Last month. The Cottage Casino.
Men dressed as women. Shot the place to hell. In and out in under five.
My bet is that that was the practice run.
- And the more you practise... - What the hell is going on with the world?
Everything's crazy. Now I risk my Iife just coming into work.
Makes you miss the mob days. Back then, this never would have happened.
And if it did, those scumbags, they'd be dead, every Iast one of them.
And you would never know about it.
Mr Duncan, take a deep breath and tell us what happened.
We'd just made a money transfer to the rolling cages.
Then "bang"
the chandelier comes crashing down
It sounded Iike an expIosion, so I dropped to my knees, took cover.
Anything else?
Yeah, I started praying for the gunfire to stop.
OK. Thanks a Iot. And check in with Triage before you Ieave.
- Well, that was helpful. - Actually, it was.
it gives us a starting point
The falling chandelier distracts the guards and makes them easy targets
The armed robbers Ioad up, head for the exits.
A quick escape.
Chaos moving in one direction, the money moving in the other.
Can you imagine Iiving out here?
It's peacefuI.
Peaceful? The town just Iost 5% of its popuIation.
- I thought you said this was a singIe homicide. - Yeah.
In a popuIation of 20.
Made it. State trooper.
SARA: Woo
Two hours to drive 75 miles?
You guys got Iost.
What's the rush? The crime scene's not going anywhere.
Yeah, but I am. The body's behind the counter.
Dustin Bale
Store clerk. Bullet through the chest. The register's empty.
Officer...Spencer, did you touch anything?
14 years as a state trooper. I can secure a crime scene without contaminating the evidence.
Sorry.
It's OK.
Look, I cover 97.5 square miles. I gotta book.
Vomit?
Not an expectorant. Potato.
Blown to smithereens.
The poor man's silencer.
Now...
why would an assailant need a silencer way out here?
The Iast paying customer?
Eight hours ago.
We just got the call. This place is open 24/7. Why'd it take so long?
SARA: The assailant flipped the sign on the way out, buying him time to get away.
But not without getting his picture taken first.
It's plastic.
You're joking?
A nine volt attached to a blinking light.
Well...real or fake,
it didn't work.
There was three of 'em. They come from round the corner, guns drawn.
I think they came from over there. There were two of them.
OLDER WOMAN: I said four
There were four of those Iunatics. They were everywhere.
- Write it down. - Right, I got it. Thank you. Excuse me.
You know, I've interviewed 17 people.
No two accounts are alike.
A professor got students to watch a basketball game, count the times the ball was passed.
- Yeah? Ground-breaking. - During the game,
a person in a gorilla suit ran across the court.
Afterwards,
the professor asked them if they noticed the gorilla. 50% responded, "What gorilla?"
That's wonderful. If I see a goriIIa, I'II arrest him.
The car was sitting right here.
Did you get a good Iook at it? Make? ModeI?
No.
It was beige. Beat-up. Hazards fIashing.
People leave their cars here all the time.
I wait ten minutes, then caII for a tow.
- Did the car peeI out? - No
The driver gunned it. I didn't hear a screech.
(Car alarm)
It smeIIs Iike burnt wood.
Motor oiI?
No, transmission fluid.
But it's brown, not red.
Which means?
It's not the right coIour.
Extraction is an art, Albert.
I Iike to think so.
So, this is our cross-dresser in the blue coat?
ID'd as Adam Brower. Shot in the back with a hoIIow point. CIose range.
It mushroomed upon impact,
maximising trauma.
Calibre?
.45.
Well, the guards were armed with 9mm
and they weren't hollow point.
So...
He was shot in the back by one of his own partners?
Someone didn't want to share.
Wow. A fumette.
- Did you get that out of some museum? - Hey don't knock it
Still the best tool for lifting prints off cardboard.
Blow and print.
If you were in a hurry, how would you get back there?
Easy.
Jump the counter.
Exactly what I'm thinking.
Shoe prints.
Lay it out.
The suspect entered.
He shoots the clerk through the potato
Then hops up and over leaving behind since prints
He grabs the cash
flips the sigh from "open" to "closed" and exits
How old's the killer?
What are you thinking?
The shoe size is five, six, tops.
We may be Iooking for a minor.
You want to see me?
Yeah.
This is the video surveillance from that heist.
This camera was trained on their entrance.
AII the disguises in the worId and they dress Iike women.
Ski masks are played out.
Red and Blue teamed up together
and took out the guards in the rolling cage. Black shot down that chandelier.
Well, Blue's the decedent,
ID'd as Adam Brower,
so enlarge Red.
Yeah, no amount of make-up in the worId
can cover up that chunk of Adam's apple.
That must be the one that killed Brower.
A .45 in the back at close range.
No honour among thieves.
Photoshop black.
No stubble.
- No Adam's apple. - Dressed as a woman
Among men dressed as women.
Now, see? That's a disguise.
Fluorescent powders?
Yeah. Why not? They're in the kit.
The protocol's black.
Since when do you care about my choice of powders?
The Assistant Coroner is four hours Iate and we are stuck out here untiI he transports the body,
and I haven't even heard from Grissom.
You know, I've never tried green.
I shouldn't have been sent here. I've got seniority. I deserve...
no I've earned the right to pick my cases
If I start eating, I wiII shut up.
Do you have a mirror?
Since when do you care about your appearance?
I mean, at a crime scene.
It's not for me.
Sorry.
We can't touch it.
I'm just getting a better Iook.
- Oh, thank God. It's about time. - Nice to see you, too.
Well, I smell the body. Where is he?
Hey, David. I...I wasn't touching him.
I know you better than that.
- What took you so Iong? - Made a wrong turn at the fork.
- You're a surfer now? - Oh, dude, I rip.
We're 300 miles from the nearest beach.
Surfing is just a state of mind.
I got your page.
- Where's my report? - Relax. The GC mass spec's working on it.
Should be done er...
(Machine beeps) - how
Transmission fluid.
Yeah. Thanks.
Type F with Dexron.
- So? - So...
You should be reading Car And Driver instead of Sand & Surf.
Someone put the wrong type of fluid in the car's transmission.
You see, Ford automobiles use a thick red type F transmission fluid.
GeneraI Motors uses a thinner, yellow fluid
with Dexron.
When Dexron's put into a Ford, it thins that type F fluid.
Friction builds, gears grind.
The second gear is the first to go Friction causes the engine to overheat
in turn cooking the transmission fluid
turning it brown. The Ieak on the pavement is the first cIue you've got a probIem.
Well, congratulations. You're looking for a Ford with a leak.
Not just a Ford. The getaway vehicle has a stubborn second gear.
Which means it can't get very far.
My guess is it's already been dumped.
BRASS: Before Mr Brower dressed up as a woman and heisted a casino,
he was a janitor at an office park off Flamingo.
Before that,
he was out of town.
Pour years, grand Iarceny.
Well, the manager's not in.
I got a warrant.
I got a key.
Woo. A tidy IittIe camper, isn't he?
WARRICK: yeah
- What are we Iooking for? - Anything that links Brower
to his co-conspirators.
Dirty Iaundry?
I'm thinking trace eIements in the cIothes couId teII us where he was before the heist.
Let's take it all back to the lab.
OK.
Let's see.
Well, while you're at it,
don't forget his wigs and bras.
CATHERINE: Anything on the shoe print?
Skechers. Adult size five.
SARA: Female - Well, at least we're not chasing a kid.
How's the prints coming?
You two Iifted 82 suspect prints. 43 are partiaI.
We lD'd one from the "open closed" sign.
- Great. - Well, not so great. The state trooper.
You gotta be kidding me. Officer Moron contaminated the scene?
Yep. Well, I'll just beef him to his captain.
Tough.
I Iike that.
TECHNICIAN: Match
- Print off the register - What have you got?
- Tammy Pelton. - Who's Tammy Pelton?
A fugitive...and clinical psychopath
that Grissom and I put behind bars
She tried to play me, but I didn't bite.
Her biological parents posted bail and then she bailed on them.
- Biological parents? - Tammy was kidnapped as a child
and raised by her kidnapper.
When she found out the truth, she killed him.
Hey, finish running the prints.
Tammy uses people. She wasn't alone.
CATHERINE: Grissom!
If you're gonna badger me about your crime scene Iocation, put it in a memo.
You don't read memos.
- Do you remember Tammy Pelton? - I always remember the ones that get away.
She's back.
And she's been to CalNevAri.
She's a prime suspect in our convenience store homicide.
Grissom.
I need you. ASAP.
Please.
GREG: So, Ballistics sent me a bullet from the casino.
It's a .45, so we know it came from one of the Iadies' guns.
- And this is a speciaI buIIet? - No.
But there was a foreign substance adhered to it.
The substance is speciaI?
- Er, not exactly. - Just get to the point, Greg.
To-may-to. To-mar-to.
- Ro-tay-to... - Wait a second.
There was potato on the bullet?
you bet
- Strange, huh? - There was potato on the bullet
because there was potato inside the barreI of the gun.
- This bullet is from my investigation. - Right.
One of your armed robbers may have used a potato as a silencer prior to the heist.
Tammy Pelton?
Maybe.
Three armed robbers.
Adam Brower killed at the scene
Tammy Pelton,
and we're still one suspect short.
SARA: Another match
from the convenience store.
The print on the outside doorknob belongs to ex-con Darin Hanson.
You know this guy too?
CATHERlNE: He ran with Tammy's "father"
Mostly from the law.
So, Tammy kills "Dad" and she and Darin Hanson run off together.
A regular Bonnie and Clyde.
Just what Vegas needs.
GRISSOM: Let me see, Bobby.
The projectile on the left, a .45 hollow point, courtesy of Adam Brower's back.
On the right,
a 45 hollow point extracted from Dustin Bale the dead clerk at the convenience store
The bullets confirm the story told by the potato.
- The same gun. Two crimes. One case. GRISSOM: Three suspects
Adam Brower, deceased. Tammy Pelton, Darin Hanson, still at large.
Hey, guys. I just got a caII from Brass. We got a possibIe getaway vehicIe off I-93.
- What makes you think it's the right car? - it's beige abandoned a '77 Mercury Cougar
Mercury's a division of Ford.
I'II drive.
A trucker called it in.
Well, if that's the getaway car, there would have been a secondary vehicle parked nearby.
Yeah. Check for treads, Jim?
Yeah.
- Shall we? - Let's go.
If you were stashing a car, where would you hide it?
Well, these bushes would provide good cover.
NICK: Oh.
Check out that dirt displacement.
Yeah.
BRASS: Skid mark One tyre
Where's the other one?
There isn't one.
Dirt to pavement.
Then the traiI goes coId.
No damage. This car was barely moving.
It was dumped.
DetaiI.
CATHERINE: Pop the trunk
Thanks.
It's Tammy.
Contusions on the anterior neck.
Streaking erythema on the IateraI aspect
of zone one
Cartilaginous tracheal rings are crushed.
Hey, doc.
Catherine.
She didn't put up a fight, did she?
How'd you know?
She was killed by the one person in life she trusted.
Ahh!
Darin Hanson stared her in the face and she never saw it coming.
He put his thumbs around her air pipe and pushed.
I swabbed her neck.
Affirmative for epithelials.
I'II run them against Darin Hanson's DNA.
The parents called. They're on their way in to lD.
How did they sound?
Oddly...relieved.
They finally know where she is.
I'm not puIIing it.
I found simiIar dust on Adam Brower's dirty cIothes.
Check it out.
ReaI Iive fairy dust.
Yeah. Turns grown men into criminals.
What's the composition?
Si-
O2.
Silica dust.
Each particle's 100 times smaller
than a grain of sand.
I thought you guys were processing the car.
Yeah. Um, what do you know about silica?
It's used to make gIass. It's mined in open pits. Why?
NICK: SiIica found both on Adam Brower's cIothing and the getaway vehicIe.
There's an abandoned silica mine outside CalNevAri.
What don't you know?
(Sirens)
Come here.
The motorcycle tracks
at the vehicle dump site
Eurgh. That smells nice.
It shouldn't smeII at aII if this pIace is abandoned.
Get your guns out.
(Sighs) Say hello to Darin Hanson.
Shot with a .45.
Execution style.
NICK: Adam Tammy
And now Darin. AII dead.
And we're out of suspects.
Three robbers hold up the casino
Tammy was in black
Adam was the one in blue
And that Ieaves us Darin.
We found Darin and Tammy's prints at the convenience store.
Hours before the heist, the clerk gets murdered.
Shot with the same gun used to kill Adam at the casino.
The surveillance video tells us that Darin was the only one in position to shoot Adam.
Why did Darin kill Adam?
SARA: Greed
Fewer slices. Bigger pieces.
Which explains why he killed Tammy.
- That's confirmed? - Epithelials on her neck match Darin's DNA.
- Darin thought he was getting the whole score. SARA: But how he's dead
So, who killed him
and where's the money?
And we still don't know why Darin and Tammy took out a convenience store clerk.
Why kill a man for a few hundred bucks when you're about to steal a few hundred thousand?
We've got more questions than answers.
I just got off the phone with the LaughIin CSI assigned to Iast month's Cottage Casino case.
He told me the casino's cameras captured four assailants, not three.
Maybe Tower Club surveillance missed something.
Actually, it didn't. We did.
Tower Casino surveillance.
On your Ieft, the camera's trained on where Tammy, Darin and Adam entered.
The screen on your right is trained on the gaming tables.
OK. Check it out.
- What are we Iooking for? - What? You missed him?
I'II pIay it again, sIower, just for you.
WARRICK: Now, keep your eye trained on the pit boss and the chandeIier.
- He ducked before the chandelier fell. - Before Tammy drew her gun.
Play it again.
GRISSOM: Well done Warrick
You've found our mole.
The pit boss's name is Max Duncan.
He started working there about three weeks ago, and before that...
Let me guess. Laughlin? Cottage Casino?
I'II caII Brass. He can make the arrest.
I'II meet him at the station. I'II caII you with an update.
BRASS: Max Duncan?
Yeah. What the hell's going on here?
You going somewhere?
- Why? BRASS: I'll tell you how this works
I ask the questions. You give the answers. Downtown.
I'm caIIing my Iawyer.
Good idea.
Max...
are you clairvoyant?
Excuse me?
The surveillance tape at the Tower Club Casino
You ducked before there was a reason to cover.
I saw a gun.
I hit the ground.
BRASS: OK. Let's try this.
Why were you Ieaving town?
- Trying to beat a murder rap? - I didn't kiII anyone.
You forget about Darin Hanson?
your car was covered
with grey dust. Silica.
It pIaces you at the murder scene.
- Well, I didn't kill him. I went there, but... LAWYER: Max
- I'm advising you not to say another word. - No, I want to cIear this up.
Right, I went out to the mine, but I didn't kiII Darin.
He was already dead.
AII right. Look, I...
I'II admit...
I heIped him out.
I...I toId him when and where to hit.
That's why I ducked.
But that's it.
That's a Iot.
And it still doesn't explain why you went to see Darin.
- Max, that is enough. - Well, I went to collect my share.
But the money was gone, Darin was dead and I panicked.
But I didn't shoot him.
You can't get me for murder on this.
When someone is killed during a commission of a felony, all the conspirators are liable.
Darin Hanson shot Adam Brower, but you might as well have pulled the trigger.
Let's make a deaI.
Tell me.
Who else was involved? Who killed Darin?
Look, Darin was the only one that I spoke to.
I never even met the other three.
Then we got no deaI.
BRASS: Officer
OFFICER: Let's go.
You know what? I kinda beIieve him.
Yeah, me too.
He confirmed a fourth.
Darin plus three.
- Just Iike LaughIin. - So, the Iast man standing kiIIed Darin.
And he's still out there,
flushed with cash
and a .45 calibre.
Surveillance stills from the Laughlin heist
Four perps. We've identified three. Darin, Tammy and Adam.
- AII deceased. - Yeah. AII murdered.
TECHNICIAN: And that leaves one
ID the unknown, good chance we soIve both cases, LaughIin and Vegas.
Except all we got is a guy in drag.
Well, that's why I'm here.
(Technician types)
I've divided the photo into segments,
removed the disguise and rebuilt the original image
based on male physiological norms.
Now it's not exact
but you'II have an idea what your guy Iooks Iike.
That's Dustin Bale.
- The clerk from the convenience store? - Whoa, hold on.
He was killed hours before the Tower Club heist.
In on LaughIin. Out on Vegas.
So Darin took him cut first
He cleared the register just to make it look like a robbery.
But the pit boss said it was Darin plus three.
Because he knew there were four at the Laughlin heist.
Maybe he didn't know that the clerk wasn't there.
He wasn't counting wigs. He was hiding
under a blackjack table.
And we're back to "Who killed Darin Hanson?"
- Bobby D. - yeah?
I need your heIp.
Another round from the casino heist?
IndirectIy, yeah.
Well, the tip didn't blossom.
Not a hollow point, so it's not from Darin Hanson's gun.
No, it's from his head.
BOBBY D: All right 230 grains
gives us a .45 automatic.
What else?
OK.
Normally, lands and grooves are highly delineated.
These are smooth polished
which means that your projectile was fired from a polygonal barrel.
Be right back.
OK. These are the only types of .45 automatics with polygonal barrels.
The gun that fired your bullet
was either a Heckler & Koch USR or a Glock.
CATHERINE: Narrow it further
Well, that's what I'm doing. Dissecting your bullet.
BOBBY D: Hey Nick - Mm-hm?
Count the stripes.
One, two, three, four,
five six
- Six Iands and grooves with a right-hand twist. - Mm-hm.
A Glock's got eight, Heckler & Koch, six.
You got your gun.
Let's run ATF.
A pretty unique weapon. Expensive.
Not exactly what you'd buy out of the back of a van.
(Computer beeps)
Only take a second.
(Beeping) - See? Can I caII it?
Only 18 registered in-state.
Ten in Clark County.
Seven of them still in circulation.
- Any names jumping off the page? - Just one
It's out of Ieft fieId.
About 75 miles out.
You're accusing me of murder?
And absconding with a quarter of a miI of stoIen money.
Where'd you stash the cash?
- I'm a state trooper. - How does a cop
hook up with an ex-con Iike Darin?
I can answer that.
It's aII in a day's work.
A potato silencer
muffles a bullet, but won't silence it.
You went in,
your gun drawn.
Take it easy, paI.
You should have arrested them.
But something happened, didn't it?
My bet?
Tammy made you an offer.
Drop the weapon.
Hey, uh...
Let's be smart about this.
You can take us in or we can cut you in.
They still had pockets full of cash from the Laughlin job.
They offered you a finder's fee.
This isn't gonna do it.
It'II hoId you over...tiII tomorrow.
DeaI?
What are you doing?
CATHERINE: you patrol 97.5 square miles
Is the CaINevAri mine part of your jurisdiction?
- No, I'm east of the mine. - But you've been there, haven't you?
Where's the cash?
Jim, hit the overhead, will you?
GRISSOM: Silica is a crystal
it reflects the light Even trace amounts
will show up
How about that?
More than I'd make in a Iifetime.
Was it worth it?
You wouldn't understand.
CATHERINE: That's right
- We make the big bucks. - Look
I was never that guy.
You know, that guy that wins the jackpots,
gets promoted catches the breaks?
It was right there.
You're still not that guy. Get him out of here.
$250,000 turned a career cop bad.
Yeah, well, he had his price.
We all do.