Paper or Plastic

Season 4, Episode 13, Aired
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A robbery at a grocery store results in a shootout leaving five dead. The police officer at the scene believes Grissom has a grudge against him. The entire team has to process the enormous amount of evidence at the scene.
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  • A robbery at a grocery store results in a shootout leaving five dead. The police officer at the scene believes Grissom has a grudge against him. The entire team has to process the enormous amount of evidence at the scene.moreless

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    A robbery at a grocery store results in a shootout leaving five dead. The police officer at the scene believes Grissom has a grudge against him. The entire team has to process the enormous amount of evidence at the scene. the policeman is suspected at first of just shooting and not checking on who he was shooting at . it was cool how the little boy was under the table and noone had found him until grissoms keen eye's did the job. brass is a good cop with the right attitude to back grissom up . a single mother that works her tail off why is it so hard to make it these days.moreless

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    • Title: Paper or Plastic Refers to the question frequently asked by grocery store clerks. Edit
    • Goof: The dead cocktail waitress can be heard exhaling when Warrick and David move her to examine the bullet wound. Edit
    • Goof: When Grissom first arrives at the crime scene and is taking pictures, in the first photo he takes you can see the victims eyelids flutter. Edit

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    • Warrick: How do you want us to handle this? Grissom: Same way you'd eat an elephant... one bite at a time. Edit
    • Grissom: Hey, Jim! Did you know that Charles Manson is only five foot two? Brass: Yeah, little guys tend to overcompensate. Edit
    • Grissom (about the surveillance camera): Just because it shows nothing doesn't mean it's not seeing everything. Edit

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    • Grissom: Well, I guess that depends on whether or not I get stuck in traffic on the way to your hearing. This is an allusion to Fromansky's thinly veiled threat to Grissom at the end of the earlier season episode "All for Our Country (2) Edit
    • The guy who runs the cameras is watching an episode of the animated show Dexter's Laboratory when Nick talks to him. Edit

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