CSI: CRIME scene investigation

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Revenge is Best Served Cold

Written by Anthony E. Zuiker & Carol Mendelsohn
Directed By Danny Cannon

Doyle Pfeiffer falls over dead in the middle of a volatile, high stakes poker game, and at first look, it appears that the card-playing legend suffered a heart attack – until Dr. Robbins finds contradictory evidence during the autopsy –someone slipped him a mickey that helped the hypertensive Doyle to his death.

There are suspects aplenty, just at the poker table where Doyle died. Lita Gibbons, who uses eyedrops because the smoke from the casino bothers her eyes, could have used the vials to poison Doyle. Or perhaps someone found a way to taint the little chocolate candies Doyle was known to munch while he was playing. Or did someone drop something they shouldn’t have in his free drinks?

Meanwhile, Catherine and Nick are called to a deserted desert airstrip, where the vultures have beaten them to the body of a gunshot victim. Has the body been dumped from a plane? Nick finds evidence of tire tracks, which leads the CSIs to suspect that the murder may have something to do with the illegal world of street racing. “There’s a reason it’s illegal,” he explains, and Catherine agrees: “Kids wind up dead.”

The dead kid in question, Jace Felder, was known as the Steve McQueen of Southern Nevada, and Nick and Catherine want to know who he was racing the rainy night he died at the airstrip—and why his opponent would want to put a bullet in his head.