Drops' Out (24 Apr. 2008)

A nightclub owner serving time in prison gets a temporary leave so that he can help Brass and Stokes investigate a double homicide with several connections to him.

Director:

Jeffrey G. Hunt

Writers:

Anthony E. Zuiker (creator), Dustin Lee Abraham (teleplay),

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
Eric Szmanda	...	Greg Sanders
Robert David Hall	...	Dr. Al Robbins
Wallace Langham	...	David Hodges
Paul Guilfoyle	...	Captain Jim Brass
Method Man	...	Drops
Grant Sullivan	...	Walter Jaynes
Cara Santana	...	Dana Espinoza
Al Shearer	...	Dale D
Octavia Spencer	...	Sherry
Archie Kao	...	Archie Johnson
David Berman	...	David Phillips

Storyline

Grissom and the CSI team deal with what appears to be two related deaths. In the first, a young woman is found dead in an apartment, the victim of multiple gunshot wounds. When they find blood dripping through a hole in the ceiling, they find another victim in the upstairs apartment. When the autopsy reveals that different guns killed the two victims, the only connection they have left is that a man who has been in jail for several months rented both apartments.

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Plot Keywords:

prison | jail | night club

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

24 April 2008 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Jerry Bruckheimer Television, CBS Paramount Network Television

Technical Specs

Runtime:

43 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Goofs

When Nick confronts Dale at the club about the GPS jamming device, Dale hands Nick the business card that Drops gave to Sherri. The writing on the business card changes from the flashbacks of Drops writing it to the writing on the card that Dale gives Nick.

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Connections

References 48 Hrs. (1982)

User Reviews

Nick Has A Bad Feeling

It was tough to get really involved with this crime story since there were no "good guys." Everyone connected with these murders - and there were several of them - was connected, and was a low-life-type person. Who do you care about? Nobody, in this episode. You just watch to see what happens next and how CSI and LV Det. Brass figure it out.

They wind up getting help - sort of - from a guy seen in a few past episodes, a thug behind bars by the name of "Drops" (Method Man). Reluctantly, Brass and Nick Stokes have to let Drops out of jail for the weekend to help track down the prime suspects.

"I have a feeling we are going to regret this," says Nick.

It turns out to be a "yes" and a "no" on that score. I'll leave it at that.