CSI: CRIME scene investigation

Season 3 - Episode 10 - High and Low

Written by Eli Talbert & Naren Shankar
Directed by Richard Lewis

When a John Doe is found crumpled on the street, the setting suggests that he jumped or was thrown from the roof of a nearby building, but the damage to his body says otherwise. Nick and Warrick soon determine that the man didn’t die on the ground or on the roof, and their best chance at identifying him is from an elaborate tattoo on his body.

They trace the elaborate body design to Las Vegas’ premiere artist, a man named Too, who implies that the man who asked for the Icarus tattoo was , indeed, the type of guy who might fly too close to the sun on wings of feathers and wax. When Dr. Robbins’s autopsy revealed that their victim died of suffocation, Nick and Warrick, realizing he died in the air, soon track their victim to a nearby paragliding center. There, the CSIs discover that even amongst paragliders, there is competition between new school, old school, traditionalists and grandstanders. It soon becomes very clear that their victim was as cocky as any top-gun, with as many enemies...and once he was in the air, there were many ways for the guys who hated him – and envied him – to bring him down.

Meanwhile, Catherine works a shooting at a local bar, but what looks like a simple brawl is anything but that. Blood and hair found on the gunshot victim’s vehicle turns out to be animal, not human, and when she traces the pickup that screeched away from the scene, Catherine finds herself in a neighborhood where the neighbors are anything but neighborly.

And, Grissom continues to struggle with his hearing loss.