Cool Change (CSI)

Infobox Television episode | Title = Cool Change
Series =
Season = 1
Episode = 2
Guests= Chandra West (Holly Gribbs)
Garland Whitt (Jerrod Cooper)
Harrison Young (Judge Cohen)
Production =
Writer = Anthony E. Zuiker
Director = Michael Watkins
Airdate = October 13, 2000


Season list = CSI season 1 episode list
Episode list =
Prev = The Pilot
Next = Crate 'n Burial

Cool Change is the second episode of the American crime drama which is set in Las Vegas, Nevada. It originally aired as Episode 2 of on October 13, 2000.

Plot

Following the Holly Gribbs incident, Grissom has been placed in charge of the unit, and Brass has been moved to homicide. Grissom gives the other CSIs their assignments. Catherine, feeling guilty that she pressured Holly into staying on the job, insists on working Holly’s case. Nick is assigned to work with Grissom on a case and Warrick is placed on leave until the Gribbs case is solved. Grissom also tells the team that he is bringing in Sara Sidle from San Francisco to investigate Holly’s shooting.

Grissom and Nick arrive at their scene and find Ted Sallinger on the ground in front of a casino, having fallen from the roof. They learn that Sallinger had won the $40 million jackpot the night before and was staying in the presidential suite. As they process the suite, they find a broken champagne bottle and bloody towels. They question Sallinger’s girlfriend Jamie, who tells them that he broke up with her immediately after winning the jackpot. Angry at being dumped, she attacked him with the bottle; he left and never returned. The keycard records for the suite confirm her story.

Grissom and Nick conduct experiments to see if Sallinger fell, jumped, or was pushed from the roof – they conclude that he was pushed, and thus murdered. Sara approaches Grissom at the crime scene and after a happy reunion, she asks after Holly.

Autopsy shows that Sallinger died due to blunt force trauma to his head. Grissom and Nick find fibers in the victim's watch, which was bought after he left his suite. The fibers match the carpet in the suite, indicating that he returned to the suite after he broke up with Jamie. Grissom discovers the murder weapon, a candlestick, in the suite and asks the hotel to check the keycard monitoring system. They learn that the monitor does not work, and conclude that Jamie attacked Sallinger when he returned to the suite after buying his watch. She then pushed him off the roof.

Catherine processes her crime scene and finds a beeper. Back at the lab, she meets Sara and is initially hostile, thinking that Sara will steal the case from her. However, they agree to cooperate and Sara asks where she can find Warrick. Catherine points her to the casinos.

Sara finds Warrick at a blackjack table, and he tells her he went to buy a coffee when Holly was shot and that he felt it was safe for him to leave because there was an officer there. Sara confronts him with the suspicion that he was placing a bet and tells him that Holly died on the operating table.

The beeper goes off, and Catherine calls the number. She expresses interest in meeting up for a little "something something", and the suspect gives her his address. She and Brass go to his motel to arrest him, and Catherine notices a cut on his face. She collects DNA from under Holly’s fingernails and matches it to the suspect.

Warrick receives a phone call from Judge Cohen who informs him that he placed his bet on the wrong team. The mistake cost the judge $10,000, and demands that Warrick find the money and deliver it to him and tells him that he 'owns' Warrick for the time being.

Grissom speaks to Warrick about Sara's report and decides that since he has lost one good CSI, he does not want to lose another: He reinstates Warrick.

See also

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External links

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*Tv.com episode|id=2910|title=Cool Change
*csiguide episode|id=2|title=Cool Change
* [http://www.csifiles.com/episodes/csi/season1/cool_change.shtml "Cool Change"] at CSI Files