Writer:	Carol Mendelsohn, Elizabeth Devine
Director:	Richard J. Lewis
Star:	Jorja Fox (Sara Sidle (episode 2+)),  Paul Guilfoyle (Captain Jim Brass),  George Eads (Nick Stokes),  Gary Dourdan (Warrick Brown),  Marg Helgenberger (Catherine Willows),  William Petersen (Gil Grissom)
Recurring Role:	Robert David Hall (Dr. Al Robbins),  Eric Szmanda (Greg Sanders),  Skip O'Brien (Det. Ray O'Riley),  Archie Kao (Archie Johnson)
Guest Star:	Currie Graham (Stanley Hunter),  Michael Goorjian (Aaron Pratt),  Dared Dunard (),  Maria Celedonio (Melanie),  Tsianina Joelson (Megan Treadwell),  Nicole Freeman (Veronica Bradley),  Faline England (Wendy),  John Dyerler (),  Wayne Wilderson (Edwin)

Currie Graham also played Willie Cutler in the Season 6 finale "Way To Go. (edit) Music:
Hell Above Water - Curve (edit) Sara finds a dog near the crime scene and it's name is "Maverick." Maverick is the name of George Ead's (Nick Stokes) dog in real life. (edit) Gary Dourdan (Warrick) did not appear in this episode. (edit)

O'Riley: We got a situation. You know that weird guy?
Grissom: He's not weird, O'Riley, he's autistic.
O'Riley: Whatever. (edit) (Speaking to Nick about some antique books)
Mr. Hunter: I just got here. I don't even know what happened. But what I do know is that these are masterpieces. One of a kind.
Grissom: They're evidence in an active criminal investigation--also one of a kind. (edit) Grissom: Question is: why did the SUV cross the tracks?
Catherine: To get to the other side. (edit) Greg: Okay, now, this is a 66-kilodalton globular protein, composed of two disulfide-linked sub-units, A and B.
Nick: Very impressive.
Greg: And I know what you all think of me -- I'm just another pretty face who got to where I am by sleeping with Catherine. (edit) Grissom: Aaron Pratt is a high-functioning autistic man with superior right brain abilities.
Nick: Kind of sounds like you. (edit)

As Grissom enters the cage in which the woman is found, he goes to the wastebasket to examine the pen that rolled on the floor. As he first picks it up, he grasps it right at the point where the black grip section meets the gray barrel section. As the shot changes and he continues bringing it up to examine it, he is now grasping it near the end of the gray barrel. As it is supposed to be a continuous shot (conversation is uninterrupted the entire time), there is no time for him to change his hand position. (edit) The CSI team determine a woman died after accidentally ingesting ricin (which she tried to use to kill someone else). She died within minutes of sticking her ricin covered pen into her mouth. According to the CDC, death by ingestion of ricin will occur within 36-72 hours (depending on potency, amount, etc.), not a matter of minutes. And, death could not have been from inhalation during her manufacturing of the ricin. They make it a point to show her burnt-looking tongue as the place where ricin was introduced to the body. (edit) In the final reconstruction of the train victim's last moments, there is a shot of her left profile in her car. You can clearly see a California lottery sign in the window of a store behind her.

Naturally, Nevada merchants would not have California lottery signs in their windows. (edit) The size and shape of the brushguard on the Ford Excursion they are investigating changes many times throughout the scene (edit) The Ford Excursion, the car that pushed the Jeep Cherokee onto the railroad tracks, blew a headlight out during the impact. However, when the CSIs were examining the Excursion, it had a full frontal brushguard. Assuming that was in place during the crash, how would the headlight have broken? (edit)

Grissom: Yet she must die else she betray more men. Put out the light, and then put out the light.

This is a quote from The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice, ACT V SCENE II: ...Yet I'll not shed her blood;
Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow,
And smooth as monumental alabaster.
Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men.
Put out the light, and then put out the light:
If I quench thee, thou flaming minister...
I can again thy former light restore... (edit) Nick: Autistic? What, you mean like Rain Man?

Rain Man (1988) was a movie about an incredibly gifted man with autism, much like the subject in the case that Grissom was investigating. (edit)