Writer:	Richard Catalani, Douglas Petrie
Story:	Allen MacDonald, Carol Mendelsohn
Director:	Jeffrey G. Hunt
Star:	Robert David Hall (Dr. Al Robbins (episode 47+, recurring previously)),  Jorja Fox (Sara Sidle (episode 2+)),  George Eads (Nick Stokes),  Gary Dourdan (Warrick Brown),  Eric Szmanda (Greg Sanders (episode 47+, recurring previously)),  Louise Lombard (Sofia Curtis (episode 142+, recurring previously)),  Marg Helgenberger (Catherine Willows),  Paul Guilfoyle (Captain Jim Brass),  William Petersen (Gil Grissom)
Recurring Role:	Jon Wellner (Henry Andrews),  Wallace Langham (David Hodges),  David Berman (David Phillips),  Archie Kao (Archie Johnson)
Guest Star:	Andrew Welsh (Dealer),  Becky Stockton (Smart Girl),  Brenda Canela (Gloria Torres),  Paula Jai Parker (Julia Beltran),  Alexondra Lee (Rebecca McGill),  Kevin E. West (Ray Gaynor),  Jessica Steen (Donna Basset),  Troy Ruptash (Lou Beltran),  Jim Parrack (Sgt. Jack Stone),  Markus Flanagan (Hotel Manager),  Amanda Fuller (Cara Stone),  David Eigenberg (Gavin McGill),  Jim Jim Garrity (Russel Caris),  Rick Yune (Robert Hsing),  Anne Bedian (Officer Linda Mendosa),  Kevin M. Horton (Male Student)

Four Chapters:
1. American Beauty
2. No Brainer
3. Embalmy Day
4. The Nevada Chainsaw Massacre (edit) Grissom states that 2500 left-handed people die every year using objects intended for right-handed people. (edit) Music used while Catherine is processing roses: Bonobo feat Bajka -Walk in the sky (edit) Many websites, including myspace, were saying that is would be the first episode of the season. (edit)

Doc Robbins (after Nick finds a knife in the car of Russel Caris, who's dead): Why wouldn't he have thrown that knife away?
Nick: He's not smart.
Doc Robbins (laughs): This is natural selection, the dumb ones die. (edit) Warrick: (Talking about Gavin McGill) Well, if he is lying somebody should give him an Emmy Award. (edit) Donna (to Rebecca): I changed his luck and he took my life. Every time we came to Vegas he would gamble for four hours exactly. You know what? I took that bath every time. (edit) Grissom: Hello David.
David: Hello Grissom.
Grissom: David Phillips everyone, our assistant coroner and baseball trivia expert. (edit) Grissom: 2500 left-handed people die each year using products designed for right-handed people. (edit)

The effects of smoking Fry sticks or marijuana dipped in embalming fluid can include, at lower doses, the following.

Embalming fluid can numb pain (physical and mental), produce a feeling of euphoria, and induce mild hallucinations. Negative effects like headache, depression, and disturbed vision can last a day or longer. At high doses people tend to react the same way as they do on PCP. They are usually highly disturbed because they were not aware that the drug they consumed contained PCP, and they do not like the feeling. (edit) Nitpick:
When Sara arrives at the chainsaw massacre, she opens the door (which had been forced) with ungloved fingers. (edit) In the first chapter "American Beauty", when the Asian player is talking to the CSI you can clearly see the head of a audio operator in the lower left corner of the screen. (edit) Embalmy Day shows that sometimes murder has no purpose or meaning, other than itself. (edit) Goof: In chapter four of this episode, as Grissom says "was attacked from the front", you can clearly see the actor playing the chain saw victim Lou Beitran, breathing whilst on the autopsy table. Also, the monitor above the table shows the victim's head turned to the right, whereas he is actually facing forward. (edit)

The concept of the victims in the morgue telling the story of their death came from a Billy Wilder movie called Sunset Boulevard. It starts with William Holden already dead, speaking to the audience. There was a scene cut from the final film where they take him to the morgue and he and the other bodies wake up and start talking to each other about the ways they died. (edit) Brass: So you believe in all this Feng-Shui stuff?

Brass is talking here about the ancient practice from China of placement and arrange of space which is claimed to achieve harmony with the environment. This practice is considered supersticious by the skeptics. (edit) Catherine: A rose petal. A true American Beauty.

American Beauty
This is a reference to the 1999 drama film written by Alan Ball directed by Sam Mendes and with the performances of Kevin Spacey and Annette Bening.
This drama explored themes of love, freedom, self-liberation, the search of happiness and family against the backdrop of modern American suburbia.

An American Beauty is also a type of rose.

Catherine could be referring to either or both the movie or the rose type. (edit) Warrick: If he's lying, someone should present him an Emmy award.

William Petersen was a presenter at the 2006 Primetime Emmys. The Emmys are an awards show that honors television shows and their cast and crew. (edit) Chapter 4's title, The Nevada Chainsaw Massacre, is an obvious reference to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. It was an infamous horror movie about a chainsaw-yielding cannibalistic serial killer made in 1974 and remade in 2003. A prequel to the 2003 version, Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning is coming out this year (Oct, 06). The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is also based on true events. (edit)