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Primum Non Nocere

Episode Number: 39    Season Num: 2    First Aired: Thursday February 28, 2002    Prod Code: 216
When Terry Rivers barrels into the opposing team's goalie, a fight breaks out and Terry ends up at the bottom of a huge pile of bodies. After the players are separated, he is found dead...with a deep, bloody gash across his neck. Grissom, Catherine and Sara are called in to investigate. Across town, Warrick and Nick look into the apparent drug-related death of a sax player at a casino. While working on the case, Warrick finds himself drawn to a rising young singer who worked with the dead musician.

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Writer: Andrew Lipsitz
Director: Danny Cannon
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: Jeffrey D. Sams (Det. Lockwood),  Robert David Hall (Dr. Al Robbins),  Eric Szmanda (Greg Sanders)
Guest Star: Jeremy Ratchford (Tommy Sconzo),  Nicole Ari Parker (Lillie Ivers),  Abby Brammell (),  Peter MacKenzie (Doctor),  David Andriole (Terry Rivers),  Dig Wayne (Joe Baker),  Anthony Dimaria (Bartender)

Notes

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Music:
Born Yesterday- Rob Dougan
Gorecki- Lamb
Gorecki Revisted- Aether
Piranha Pool- Blue Rodeo
Supermoves- Overseer (edit)
Guest star Nicole Ari Parker(Lillie Ivers) stared in Showtime series "Soul Food" in which Gary Dourdan(Warrick Brown) made 6 guest appearances. (edit)
According to the DVD version, the title of this episode was also known as Icings (edit)
The "club" scenes of this episode were filmed at the House of Blues Foundation Room at the top of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino. (edit)
'Primum Non Nocere' is a Latin phrase meaning "first do no harm." (edit)

Quotes

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Nick (to Warrick): Hey Sara. (Warrick looks at him) You come up on your nights off. People will gonna start confusing the two of you. (edit)
(Upon entering Terry River's apartment)
Catherine: How do men live like this?
Grissom: What's wrong with it?
Catherine: Well, it's a cave, with hardwood floors.
Grissom: It's clean. Television, couch. What else does a guy need?
Catherine: Well, how about a plant? Anything to makes it a little more...human. I mean, it doesn't seem like this guy had any...connection to anybody.
Grissom (looking at the bed): I don't know about that. (Grissom walks over to the closet. Catherine takes out her ALS and starts examining the sheets)
Catherine: It's never a good sign when a guy has more women than furniture.
Grissom: What's the ratio here?
Catherine: Judging from these stains, I'd say four women for every piece of furniture including the TV. At least we know what this guy was about: bucks, pucks and... (Grissom gives her a look, so she changes what she was about to say) ...chicks. (edit)
Sara: Boys will be boys.
Grissom: Yeah, it looks like these boys went to a fight and a hockey game broke out.
Sara: You just don't like sports.
Grissom: That's not true I've been a baseball fan my whole life.
Sara: Baseball that makes sense, all those stats.
Grissom: It's a beautiful game.
Sara: Since when are you interested in beauty?
Grissom: Since I met you. (edit)
Sara: You sucked at team sports, didn't you Greg?
Greg: I was captain of the high school chess team.
Sara: Chess is not a sport, Greg.
Greg: Then why is there a World Chess Champion?
Sara: Sports are physical by definition.
Greg: Well, sex is physical. Is that a sport?
Sara: Not to me. (edit)
Sara: Looking for blood on a hockey jersey is like handing out jaywalking tickets during a marathon. (edit)

Trivia

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In this episode we find out that Warrick can play the piano. (edit)
On the table where Warrick and Nick's victim is found, Warrick finds a contact lens which is still wet. It was dropped by the drug dealer before he died, and by the time it would take for the body to be discovered and Nick and Warrick to arrive, it would have dried up. (edit)

Allusions

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Title: Primum Non Nocere
As noted above, the translation is First Do No Harm, and this is often thought of as part of the Hippocratic Oath that doctors and medical professionals adhere to. In fact, this exact translation is not in the Oath. Hippocrates actually wrote 'As to disease, make a habit of two things - to help, or at least to do no harm'. However, so ingrained is the First Do No Harm that even medical dictionaries suggest it is part of the Oath. (edit)
Sara: 120 minutes for the tooth, the whole tooth, and nothing but the tooth.

This is a play on the oath taken by witnesses before they testify in court. "Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth so help you God?" (edit)
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Sorry, have to give it bad marks, for complete and total fabrication of rec hockey is like. Inaccurate portrayal. And it gives it a bad name.
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I love zambonies as well.
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Loved the eminent GSR in this episode.
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