CSI: CRIME scene investigation

Season 3 - Episode 7 - Fight Night

Written by Andrew Lipsitz & Naren Shankar
Directed by Richard Lewis

It’s Steele vs. Molina in a middleweight boxing match billed as “Revenge in the Desert,” and the bout brings out the best – and the worst – in the citizens of Las Vegas, and those who are drawn to the strip by the promise of the main event. But when Laroi Steele hits the mat, it’s not just the end of the fight – Steele is dead and the CSIs are called to find out what – or who – is responsible. As Grissom observes, it’s 19 wins – “and one loss” for Laroi “Fists of” Steele, who went from the odds-on favorite before the match to the underdog, suggesting someone may have had a lethal hand in fixing the fight.

Meanwhile, gangbangers on hand for the action get into a little bit of action of their own that begins with a perceived slight in the Tangiers Hotel and comes to a violent end in the casino parking lot. When Catherine arrives on the scene, she finds three guns, no witnesses, and bullets in the victim that don’t match any of the recovered weapons.

And Nick works solo on a smash and grab robbery in a hotel jewelry store, where his best chance at finding the brazen thief is to follow the trail of blood he left behind in the display case.