- A comic who was one-half of a legendary Vegas duo from the 1970s is found dead on the eve of their reunion show, while the body of a fugitive who bombed an abortion clinic is dumped in Las Vegas with over 100 bullet holes in him.
- After the rehearsal, the comedians Bernie Nash and Knuckles Pratt prepare for a sold-out reunion in Las Vegas. Out of the blue, Bernie Nash is found dead in his dressing-room. Nick, Greg and Brass assumed the investigation, and soon the CSI find evidence that his death was not natural as they had initially believed. Meanwhile, Catherine, Langston and Sara investigate the body of a man found without identification with a hundred and something bullets from different weapons. When they find one of his fingers, they learn that he is Kurtis Torse, a wanted fugitive that bombed an abortion clinic a few years ago. Now they believe the case is revenge from a victim's relative or friend.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- A legendary comic from the good old days of Las Vegas is set to reunite with his partner on stage for one night only, until one half of the famous duo is found dead.—CBS Publicity
- Two comedians play to a crowded house in the Vegas days of yore. Come to the present and they're old men, Knuckles (Tim Conway) and Nash, trying to play out the string of a faded career, with Knuckles sporting an awful brown toupee. Nash complains that everyone likes Knuckles better and Knuckles has his lovely wife, but he's got nobody. Before the show, the stage manager Bingo comes for Nash but finds him dead in his dressing room.
On the scene, Greg is bummed because he had tickets to the reunion show. Dr. Robbins isn't sure yet if it's a homicide.
At another scene, Willows and Dr. Langston have a body wrapped in a tarp. It's Swiss cheese, with the hands and feet blown off. There's white trace evidence on the tarp. Langston thinks it looks like gang work. They find a gun stuck in his leg.
Nick examines Nash and finds a hair. Doc Robbins says Nash's blood alcohol was .11 and he had oxycodon in his system. They find scratches and bruises on his back, with gold flecks in them. They don't think he was alone when he died.
Knuckles tells Brass about Nash discovering him. His wife Terpsie (Jennifer Tilly) volunteers that Nash was nervous all week. Knuckles shushes her.
Knuckles says he did ok after the act broke up, but Nash went broke. They tell him he wasn't alone when he died. "Good for Bernie," Knuckles says, "he went out with his shorts down."
In the morgue, Phillips is up to 100 bullet holes and counting on Swiss Cheese Man. Sara finds one of his fingers blown off into his chest. They print it. He's Kurtis Torse, on the 10 Most Wanted list for blowing up an abortion clinic.
Doc Robbins essentially says Nash drowned. The closest body of water was a toilet.
Willows talks to Torse's widow, who says he walked from Seattle to Vegas and never contacted her. Sara puts rods in the body to mark the bullet angles and they go in all directions.
Mrs. Torse says people were mad about the bombing, which killed 27 people, and she was getting threats.
Sara runs a simulation that makes it look like Torse was spun on a spit as he was shot. They counted 127 bullet holes from different guns, some with char. Langston says they come from tracer bullets that sort of burn as they go.
The hair on Nash came from a red head.
Greg gets to do showgirl hair samples. One tells him showgirls were moving targets to Nash. Knuckles was the same, but forcing jokes, until his wife yanks the leash.
Sara thinks Torse might have been killed at a shooting range, which have lax laws. One of the bullets is only used locally at one range, that has assault rifles and ads heavy on boobs.
Langston and Sara head to the range, where the woman behind the counter tells them they don't sell bullets, they're only used with the rentals.
They want to look around.
They test for blood and find none on the range.
Willows talks to a man named Daniel who called Mrs. Torses dozens of times. He tells Catherine that Torse killed his mom, dad and baby sister in the bombing. His mom was going to die if she carried her baby to term. Willows says they found an AK-47 in his apartment and he'd been to the shooting range.
When Willows tells him Torse was shot to hell he leaps up and hoots in celebration. He happily gives her his prints, DNA and boots.
Greg and Hodges find none of the showgirls' hairs match and the gold in the scratches came from fingernail polish.
Greg remembers Terpsie doing her nails while they talked.
She tells Brass that Nash was constantly hitting her and she always fended him off until he found her with the stage manager, Bingo. So she agreed to sleep with him to keep him from telling her husband. She went to his dressing room and they gave it a shot, but he wasn't up to it. So she got him a drink and left.
Brass suggests she spiked his drink with oxy and poured water down his gullet, drowning him. But she swears he was alive when she left.
Hodges cuts white powder with a straw and razor blade - but it's not coke, it's magnasite for an experiment. Magnasite comes from Gabbs, Nevada, 250 miles outside of Vegas - to far to drive and dump the body based on time of death.
They find it washes downstream to Koral, just 50 miles outside of Vegas.
In Koral, gun nuts go bonkers shooting the holy hell out of a van with assault rifles and tracer bullets. It's the "Ready, Aim, Freedom! Shoot-out."
Langston and Sara check it out and find all the bullets that were in Torse are in use there.
The organizer says he owns the land and doesn't need a permit. He doesn't recognize Torse, but recognizes the man Willows interviewed.
Hodges conducts his test on Bernie Nash's lung fluid. He finds iron rust in the water, which comes from old pipes.
Greg and Hodges head back to the dressing room. They hear shouting and find Bingo the stage manager fighting with a showgirl over her purse. They find oxy in it.
At the shoot out, CSIs look over the firing range. Sara finds a bloody foot and a trail of blood leading to a finger. They find a blood soaked, shredded sleeping bag inside the shot-up van.
We see Torse asleep in the van being woken up by the start of the shoot out and getting shot up.
The event organizer says he knows nothing about it. But Torse was wrapped in one of his tarps and dumped.
They think Daniel caught him and brought him for target practice.
But the organizer says Torse was already dead when he found him after the night's shoot. He thought he might get in trouble for having a dead body on his land. He dumped him in a bad part of town thinking they'd assume it was gang related.
He thinks Torse sneaked in after their last sweep of the night to sleep. He thinks every person on the line probably put a bullet in him.
They tell him if he'd just called the cops he would have been a hero, but since he covered it up, he's a criminal, too.
Greg thinks Bingo is linked to the oxy and Terpsie, but they still don't know how Nash drowned. They notice an old ice machine and take it apart. They find an iron pipe with a leak dripping on the ice cubes.
So in his drugged, drunken stupor, somebody put ice cubes in his mouth til he drowned. It leaves no prints and the weapon melts away, so it looks like natural causes.
Which leaves the red hair. They remember Knuckles' toupee, which Greg is certain will contain red hairs.
Brass talks to him and he confesses instantly, without much remorse. He wasn't upset about Terpsie sleeping with him, he knows she slept with everyone. It was that Nash couldn't remember any of their material and he was sure they were going to bomb. "He lost his funny," he says.
Flash back to Knuckles telling Nash he wanted to cancel and Nash saying he'll just do it solo. "I figure I just killed him before they did," he said. He did it because he loved him. "He'd have done the same for me."
He got the oxy from Terpsie and the ice cube idea from Angela Lansbury, who he did a show with once.
We close with a montage of old Vegas hotels being demolished and Sinatra singing "The Last Dance." Ah, Vegas.
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