Pilot (CSI)

Infobox Television episode | Title = Pilot
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Season = 1
Episode = 1


Airdate = October 6, 2000
Production =
Writer = Anthony E. Zuiker
Director = Danny Cannon
Guests = Matt O' Toole (Paul Millander)
Harrison Young (Judge Cohen)
Chandra West (Holly Gribbs)
Garland Whitt (Jerrod Cooper)
Season list = CSI season 1 episode list
Episode list =
Prev = none
Next = Cool Change

Pilot is the pilot of the American crime drama "" which is set in Las Vegas, Nevada. It originally aired as Episode 1 of on October 6, 2000.

Plot

At the crime lab, Holly Gribbs introduces herself to Gil Grissom, who is the supervisor of the graveyard shift. Nick Stokes and Warrick Brown both realize that they only need to solve one more crime to reach the level of CSI 3. Catherine Willows jumps out of a car, saying goodbye to her daughter and her sister before rushing into the CSI building. Jim Brass hands the CSIs their assignments for the night.

Brass and Grissom investigate what appears to be the suicide of Royce Harmon. However, the autopsy shows that the entry hole for the bullet is too small for a shot at close range, as would be the case if he had shot himself in the chest, and they realize that Harmon was murdered. Grissom finds a fingerprint with latex particles in it on the tape-recorder Harmon used to record his “suicide” note. The print belongs to Paul Millander, a man who sells fake Halloween hands made from a mold of his own hand. Grissom realizes that the suspect used one of these hands.

Nick Stokes arrives at his crime scene and meets a man who was drugged by a woman and had his possessions stolen while he was passed out. Nick notices a discoloration around the man’s mouth. He then learns about Kristy Hopkins, who crashed her car because she passed out and may be connected to his case. He notices discoloration around her nipples and realizes that she put scopolamine on her nipples to knock out her victims and steal their possessions.

Catherine and Warrick arrive at a house where a man lies dead. They learn that the dead man had been staying at the house until the owners recently kicked him out. When he tried to kick in the door, the husband shot him. Catherine notices that the husband's left toenail is broken and that the laces of the dead man’s shoes are tied differently from each other. Warrick processes the shoes and finds a broken toenail in one of them. He tries to obtain a warrant for the husband’s toenails but Brass refuses to call the judge, so Warrick visits Judge Cohen. In exchange for giving him a blank warrant, the judge gets Warrick to place a bet for him on a football game.

Grissom takes Holly to her first crime scene, a store robbery, and leaves her there. However, when the store owner pulls a gun on Holly, she requests back up from Catherine. Later, as Holly wonders if she is cut out for this job, Catherine convinces her to stay until she solves her first case.

Brass discovers that Warrick went behind his back to obtain a warrant and pulls him from his case. He forces Warrick to shadow Holly. However, Warrick still has to place the bet for Judge Cohen and leaves Holly at the scene alone with a police officer. Unbeknownst to the CSI team, the officer leaves Holly’s scene, leaving her to process the scene alone. The suspect returns to the scene and attacks her. Meanwhile, Grissom takes over Warrick's case and finds the husband's toenail clippings. He matches the broken nail in the shoe to the husband's clippings and concludes that the husband shot the victim and then kicked the door in to make the murder look like self-defense.

Nick, having solved his 100th case, is now a Level 3 CSI. As the CSI team begins to celebrate, Brass tells them the news that Holly has been shot and is in hospital.

Continuity

*The Royce Harmon murder is the first of a series involving Paul Millander, who would appear again in "Anonymous" and "Identity Crisis".

*Charlotte tells Grissom that if he wants to be different he should pin her up against a wall. In Invisible Evidence, Grissom pins Sara against the wall.

See also

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External links

*imdb title|id=0534724|title=Pilot
*Tv.com episode|id=2909|title=Pilot
*csiguide episode|id=1|title=Pilot
* [http://www.csifiles.com/episodes/csi/season1/pilot.shtml "Pilot"] at CSI Files