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[INT. CSI - CONFERENCE ROOM -- NIGHT]
(Everyone sits at the conference table. BRASS prepares to hand out assignments.)
JIM BRASS: When we get some free time, try and catch up on your reports. I'm getting a lot of heat from the sheriff's office. There, I said it. Administration, not my favorite thing. All right, here we go. Nick Stokes, 414, trick roll. Victim found drugged and robbed at the scene.
(NICK winces at the assignment.)
JIM BRASS: Warrick Brown, 407, home invasion, forced entry. Person reporting crime fired multiple rounds at the suspect. Suspect's condition is ... (BRASS glances up and sees HOLLY.) ... unknown. Anyone seen Catherine Willows?
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SCENE #11:
[EXT. MINI-VAN (PARKED) -- NIGHT]
(CATHERINE parks the car.)
(Cut to: CATHERINE opens the car sliding door. Inside belted in the back seat is LINDSEY WILLOWS.
CATHERINE WILLOWS: Okay, give me a kiss. Mommy's got to go catch some bad guys.
(CATHERINE kisses LINDSEY.)
CATHERINE WILLOWS: (to her sister) I'll pick her up in the morning.
CATHERINE'S SISTER: Okay.
CATHERINE WILLOWS: Bye, sis.
CATHERINE'S SISTER: Bye.
CATHERINE WILLOWS: (yells) I love you!
(The car leaves. CATHERINE stands there for a moment, then rushes into the building.)
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[INT. CSI - CAPTAIN BRASS' OFFICE - LATER -- NIGHT]
(JIM BRASS is in his office. HOLLY GRIBBS stands in front of his desk.)
JIM BRASS: So your mother is Lieutenant Jane Gribbs from Traffic, is that right?
HOLLY GRIBBS: (smiles) Yes, sir.
JIM BRASS: Well, Congratulations, Gribbs.
(GRISSOM is also in the office. He takes a seat at the couch. BRASS holds out her file.)
JIM BRASS: You're the fifth person I've been forced to hire. We're the number two crime lab in the country. We solve crimes most labs render unsolvable. Now what makes you think you belong here?
(HOLLY glances at GRISSOM. When it's apparent that he's not going to answer for her, HOLLY turns back to BRASS.)
HOLLY GRIBBS: Sir, with all due respect I thought the key to being a lucid crime scene investigator was to reserve judgment until the evidence vindicates or eliminates assumption.
(BRASS glances at GRISSOM and smiles.)
HOLLY GRIBBS: You're prejudging me. I graduated with honors in criminal justice at UNLV.
JIM BRASS: (flippantly) Yeah, so?
HOLLY GRIBBS: That's not fair.
JIM BRASS: Fair? Well, you think putting a juiced-in Lieutenant's daughter on this shift is fair? You know, I've been in the field 22 years. I've seen it all. I've seen people like you come and go, and you know what? They don't amount to nothing but headaches and bad press. Dismissed.
(BRASS takes a seat at his desk.)
HOLLY GRIBBS: Fine.
(HOLLY leaves the office.)
GIL GRISSOM: Think you got through to her?
JIM BRASS: You're scheduled to appear at an autopsy at 12:30 A.M.
(GRISSOM stands up.)
JIM BRASS: They're cutting up that bozo put a hole in his chest. Take her with. I think every new hire should experience an autopsy on their first night.
(GRISSOM turns to leave the office.)
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[EXT. LAS VEGAS CITY (STOCK) - NIGHT]
(CATHERINE and WARRICK cross under the crime scene tape and make their way to the front of the house.)