Paper or Plastic? (12 Feb. 2004)

There's been a supermarket robbery with 5 deaths, one of whom is a police officer. Another police officer was at the scene and is being questioned when a bullet from his gun killed a ... See full summary »

Director:

Kenneth Fink

Writers:

Anthony E. Zuiker (creator), Naren Shankar

Stars:

William Petersen, Marg Helgenberger, Gary Dourdan

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
William Petersen	...	Gil Grissom
Marg Helgenberger	...	Catherine Willows
Gary Dourdan	...	Warrick Brown
George Eads	...	Nick Stokes
Jorja Fox	...	Sara Sidle
Eric Szmanda	...	Greg Sanders (credit only)
Robert David Hall	...	Dr. Al Robbins
Paul Guilfoyle	...	Captain Jim Brass
David Andrews	...	Officer Fromansky
Jamie Anne Allman	...	Celeste Turner (as Jamie Anne Brown)
Michael Landes	...	Trent Reed
Wallace Langham	...	David Hodges
Tim Kelleher	...	IAB Officer
Joe Maruzzo	...	Store Manager
T.J. Thyne	...	Bag Boy

Storyline

There's been a supermarket robbery with 5 deaths, one of whom is a police officer. Another police officer was at the scene and is being questioned when a bullet from his gun killed a civilian. The policeman insists that he shot another robber, but his body wasn't found in the crime scene.

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Plot Keywords:

police officer killed

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

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Details

Language:

English

Release Date:

12 February 2004 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

CBS Paramount Network Television

Did You Know?

Goofs

In the scene where Catherine goes to the hospital to talk to Celeste and the little boy, there is a shot of Celeste through a window with tubes going into her nose, then a close up of her face with no tubes, then back to a shot through the window where the tubes reappear.

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Quotes

Catherine Willows: Do you have somewhere you need to be?
Employee: I have to change my pants.

User Reviews

Pretty good episode - Gris vs the cops again :)

I speak as a CSI veteran. This holds up very well the first time you see it, but has subtleties that bear watching a few times over - a strength of the Vegas CSI series.

The CSIs have to reconstruct what happened in a shoot-out between cops and robbers in a road-side store. There's some barely believable science as usual

One feature is that Grissom is once again investigating the same cop he investigated before, received near-threats from, and eventually cleared that time (because of the evidence, not the threats). The tension works well, excellent acting from both characters.