[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for CSI: Vegas Episode 4 “Long Pig.”]
Gil Grissom (William Petersen) and Sara Sidle’s (Jorja Fox) objective was to remain absent from Interior Affairs’ Nora Cross (Kat Foster) considering the fact that they’re not meant to be performing on everything linked to the Hodges situation. But they’re identified to show their previous colleague didn’t tamper with proof and has been framed, and they can only steer crystal clear of Nora for so extended. That improvements in the most recent CSI: Vegas episode — but can they use that to their edge? In 1 phrase, sure.
Nora queries Gil about the situation for which proof may well have been tampered with that fell underneath his supervision: Diane Chase (Period six’s “Rashomama”). A blood sample from 1 of the ladies convicted was discovered in the storage device. She desires to get in touch with him to testify about how he skipped it, but she only exhibits him a redacted report. He refuses to signal off on everything without the need of a search at the proof. But she then queries the timing of Gil and Sara returning to Las Vegas and performing at the Criminal offense Lab. And so Gil and Sara be a part of the crew on the most recent situation so they’re noticed performing on a little something not tied to Hodges.
Then Sara satisfies with Nora, who desires to know what she noticed as the human being who labored with Hodges the longest. Sara states she hardly ever noticed everything. Hodges was a excellent gentleman, a terrific lab tech, and a experienced. But the IA detective warns that if she commences featuring character testimony for the accused, the DA will impugn her character. For illustration, they may well search at a functionality assessment from Gil ahead of the Chase investigation: “Sara Sidle’s temperament can be an difficulty. She has blind places, an incapacity to channel psychological power stands in the way of her turning out to be the very best CSI she can be.” That’s from all-around when they received major, Nora states, suggesting she was distracted by an affair that commenced in the place of work and that’s why she didn’t observe what Hodges was performing.
Sara’s (understandably) irritated — just after the assembly and that they’re continue to caught contacting the human being they’re attempting to discover “whoever.” They want to get a peek at the proof, and Sara will come up with a system that will enable that to take place, by generating Nora feel it’s her thought.

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And so when they both of those fulfill with the IA detective once more individually, Gil tells Nora he can only say that Hodges “might” have falsified DNA at this place if she places him on the stand. She may well feel he’s becoming naïve, but as he details out, naïveté, by definition, is the absence of expertise, knowledge and judgement. Its antonyms are “intelligence, notion, enlightenment. That would be my spouse.”
Sara, in the meantime, tells Nora that she and Gil have been in no way swept up by their romance 𠇊nd not having to pay focus to our positions. The function at CSI, that was our enthusiasm, it’s what introduced us alongside one another.” Gil would hardly ever cheat the procedure, Sara carries on. Nora remarks that she doesn’t typically have this a lot issues bringing a gentleman all-around, and Sara takes advantage of that to her edge. “It took me yrs. He didn’t realize my mood. He doesn’t why I would get psychological on the work,” she states. But give him time, place him in a lab, enable him review, and he’ll get there.
And so Nora offers Gil all the documents. He opens the 1 for Ronald Pose, who choked to demise on the cremains of his lifeless spouse (Period 11’s “ontact That Cremains”) and narrows in on 𠇋ones leached of DNA” in file. He tells Nora he’ll testify, then goes again to his and Sara’s resort area to notify his spouse it labored.
Sara’s not stunned. “She’s underneath the feeling I’m psychological, so I went with it,” she describes. So what did he locate? Only 1 of their suspects has the techniques to do what he noticed in that Pose file, and he exhibits her the gentleman’s image. Now they just have to show it.
CSI: Vegas, Wednesdays, 10/9c, CBS