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Episode Number: 86    Season Num: 4    First Aired: Thursday March 11, 2004    Prod Code: 417
A mutilated female body is discovered tied to the undercarriage of a bus carrying prisoners from a women's correctional facility after a severed arm flies out from beneath the vehicle and strikes a car. Catherine leads the investigation and at first believes the woman was escaping, but the evidence increasingly points to murder. Back in town, Warrick probes the death of a gambler who was stabbed multiple times in his brother's kitchen.

Cast and Crew

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Writer: Ethlie Ann Vare
Director: Deran Sarafian
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: Wallace Langham (David Hodges),  Eric Stonestreet (Ronnie Litre),  James Patrick Stuart (Attorney Adam Matthews),  David Berman (David Phillips),  Archie Kao (Archie Johnson),  Alex Carter (Detective Vartann)
Guest Star: Masasa (),  T.R. Knight (Zero Adams),  Tess Parker (Antoinette- Baby Girl),  Floreda Cooks (Inmate #2),  Ralph P. Martin (),  Amanda Kaplan (),  Gina Torres (Warden),  Sami Reed (),  Patrick Macmanus (),  Todd Tesen (),  David Marciano (Frank Samuels),  Diana-Maria Riva (Juanita),  Paul Carafotes (Casino Manager),  Jack Kyle ()

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Quotes

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(Drawing a sample from a cadaver's bladder)
Doc Robbins: Urine... you're out.
Catherine: Home pregnancy test, huh?
Doc Robbins: It's about 10 times cheaper than the brand sold by our medicial supply company. But just as accurate.
Catherine: Eye on the bottom line. I find that very---
Doc Robbins: Sexy?
Catherine: Prudent. But that was a good try.
Doc Robbins: Ah, plus sign. You know what that means.
Catherine: Who's yo daddy? (edit)
Hodges: Since when did you become an insect expert?
Sara: Entomology textbook, Grissom gave it to me last Christmas... when I can't sleep I read. (Nick and Hodges share a look)
Nick: Funny I didn't get a Christmas gift from Grissom, did you?
Hodges: No. (edit)
Brass: Hitch a ride under a bus. Well, that's one way to get out of jail.
Nick: Yeah. And I bet this big boy spit up body parts all the way down the road.
Catherine: So, if a bus is traveling 65 miles per hour, what's the distance between the tip of her nose and the tip of her toes? (edit)

Trivia

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In the beginning, the Chrysler skids completely off the road. In the next scene, when the CSI's arrive, the car is back on the road. (edit)
The white fiber from the head wound consisted of 78% cotton, 14% polyester and 7% nylon elastic.

NOTE: Although this does not add up to 100%, it can be assumed that the numbers are rounded off. (edit)

Allusions

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Doc Robbins: Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio.

Quote is from Shakespeare's Hamlet, 1603.

Meaning--
A meditation on the fragility of life.

Hamlet says this in a graveyard as he looks at the skull of Yorick, a court jester he had known as a child, and grieves for him. (edit)
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