Writer:	Naren Shankar, Andrew Lipsitz
Director:	Richard J. Lewis
Star:	Robert David Hall (Dr. Al Robbins (episode 47+, recurring previously)),  Eric Szmanda (Greg Sanders (episode 47+, recurring previously)),  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:	Christopher Wiehl (Hank),  Skip O'Brien (Det. Ray O'Riley),  Terry Bozeman (Mr. Lewis),  Gerald McCullouch (Bobby Dawson),  Geoffrey Rivas (Det. Sam Vega),  Joseph Patrick Kelly (Officer Metcalf)
Guest Star:	Greg Serano (Javier Molina),  Roma Maffia (Adelle Cross),  Jennifer Aspen (Mrs. Ramsey),  Ron Canada (Jerry Barone),  Khalil Kain (The Man),  Marty Rackham (),  Ryan Cutrona (),  Ricky Aiello (),  Charley Rossman (Officer Bellran),  Rick Fitzgerald (Randy James),  Pete Cunningham (Steele),  Dawn Marie Church (Jewelry Store Manager),  Gary Carlos Cervantes (Molina's Chief Trainer),  Richard Biggs (The Man's Lawyer)

Music:
Subway: Weekend Players
Mr Tiddles: Sasha
Basstrap: Overseer (edit) This is the first (and possibly only) time thus-far that the pre-title sequence opener was used to mislead the audience. If you listen carefully, the telltale music used to signify the transition between opener and opening sequence begins playing during Grissom's last few bits of dialog in the boxing-ring crime scene, but stops when he gets a phone call. No doubt that many viewers thought the show was going to start at this point, only to be surprised as the opener continued longer than usual, to show just how busy the team will be in the episode. (edit) In 2003, this episode won an Emmy for 'Outstanding Sound Editing for a Series'. (edit)

Sara: You knew there was no way you could beat Steele in a fair fight.
Warrick: The best way to punish a guy is to beat him to death in the ring in front of two million people on pay-per-view.
Molina (smiling): That's boxing.
Brass: No, that's murder. I'll see you in court. (edit) Lawyer: Laroi Steele's death was a tragedy not a murder.
Brass: It became when your client injected mercury into his gloves.
Sara: And your hands, Molina, literally, became lethal weapons. (edit) Warrick: There was this one case where a boxer put lead shot in his gloves to increase his punching power. And also ancient Greek and Roman pugilists used a glove weighted with metal, called a "cestus."
Grissom You making a classical reference?
Warrick: Yeah. I thought you'd like that. (edit) Grissom: I guess clothes do make "The Man."
Catherine: In this case, "The Man" makes the clothes ... and produces the music ... and represents the athletes ... when he's not involved in street shootings, of course.
Grissom: And when you asked him what he was wearing the night of the murder, he couldn't remember?
Catherine: As far as he's concerned murder is just another way to separate himself from the Calvins and Ralphs of the world.
Grissom: Calvin and Ralph?
Catherine: Klein and Lauren. Fashion.
Grissom: Oh. Well, for most CSIs, fashion is irrelevant.
Catherine: Speak for yourself. The only thing between me and a wardrobe like this is a few extra zeros on my paycheck. (edit) Greg: Well, in the interests of posterity, I took it upon myself to establish provenance for the killer gloves... I mean DNA-wise. On my own time of course, of which I have precious little so that should count for something.
Grissom (exasperated): Greg, why are you always doing this?
Greg: Because you make me nervous. (edit)

This is the first episode where Nick gets to work alone on a case. (edit) A large part of Nick's plotline revolves around the discovery that the couple's stolen ring has a fake diamond switched out for the real one. But the ring was left as collateral for a very expensive necklace for the woman to wear that night. There is no way that a jewelery store would accept a ring for collateral without appraising the ring's/stone's value first. And in that inspection, they would have discovered the switch and not accepted it. (edit) Sara's problem area in criminalistics is saliva. (edit)

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