In a Vegas ally behind the bellagio casion behind 3 dumpsters, Gil Grissom and his crew of CSI's are examining the crime scene of an incident where a man has been stab through the heart.
Grissom inspects the body "There seems to be wooden splinters in the puncture wound." Greg chimed in with his theory "maybe it's a vampire" as Nick and Warrick began to laugh Greg grabbed Sara by the waist from behind and pretended to bite her neck.
Grissom was not at all impressed by this and tells Greg to take photos of the crime scene. Nick continued the vampire joke by adding "what's the point? Vampires can't have their pictures taken." Once again the team breaks into laughter, that is everyone apart from Grissom, "It's nice to know that you all take your jobs seriously." At this point he was starting to get very annoyed.
Behind a dumpster Catherine finds a babies bottle and calls Grissom over to see it. Greg decided that the vampire must be toothless this comment makes Nick and Warrick snigger, Grissom scowls at the three of them and adds "or maybe theres another victim." this puts a stop to the laughter.
Later Back at the Lab Dr.Robins is running an altopsy on the victim as Cathrine enters."hey doc, what have you got for me?" he explained that the victim had died from a single stab wound to the left ventrical. He looked up and cathrine then added "the weird part is the weapon seems so have been made of wood." Cathrine gave a small grin and said "this makes Gregs jokes look less funny" Neither of them could understand why someone would use a wooden instrument to stab someone else. Dr.Robins concluded that it must have been a weapon of oppertunity.
Catherine leaves the morgue and joins Grissom, Sara, Warrick, Nick and Greg in the break room. She informs them of how the vic died. Sara asks "do we have an ID on the vic?" Nick hands over the file of Ryan Atwood, "his prints were on record for assisted car theft, burning down a house, among other things, His guardians are on their way." For several minuets they sat and discussed possibilities. Warrick decided that the killer must have been male because a female wouldn't have the strenght to puncture a heart with a stick. Sara and Cathrine took offence to this comment and Sara retorted "maybe it was and ex girlfriend." Warrick agreed that "dumping a chick can turn them psycho." As Greg and Nick laughed Grissoms stands up and clears his throat to shut them up. "Children please, this is a serious matter, a man is dead and all we have is a footprint and some wooden splinters." Everyone hung there heads, Just as Grissoms phone starts to ring. Detective Jim Brass has found some finger prints while clearing the scene. Grissoms sends Nick, Warrick and Cathrine to the scene to collect them. As they leave the room Grissom asks Sara to accompany him to the interview room to speak with the victims guardians, Greg gets huffy because he only gets to watch from the observation room and whispers to Sara "Grissoms pet" Sara smirks at this comment, Grissoms just looks at them both "when did my staff turn in to children?"
In the interview room Ryan's guardians are sitting down waiting whe Sara and Grissoms enter, Grissom offers a few words "I'm sorry about your son Mr and Mrs Cohen but we need to ask you a few questions." Mr Cohen stood and shook hands with Grissom "I understand Mr.Grissom, I work for the DA." Then all three were seated. Sara asked "Did Ryan have any ememies?" Mr. Cohen explained that Ryan was more of a doer than a thinker but that he would never have done anything to deserve this. Mrs. Cohen spoke while fighting back her tears "When you catch the son of a bitch who did this I hope he gets what he deserves." She started to cry hysterically. Mr. Cohen excused his wife's grief Grissom ended the interview "I understand, That's all for now, we may need to contact you again if we have more questions, Thank you for your co-operation." As the Cohens left Mr. Cohen shook Grissoms hand again and added "if there is anything we can do to help just call."