- Catherine Willows: [to Warrick] How 'ya holdin' up?
- Warrick Brown: That depends. Do you think I did it?
- Catherine Willows: I can't discuss the case.
- Warrick Brown: Yeah. I dunno, I think I'd just feel a lot better if I had a change of clothes. I hate being dressed like a convict.
- Catherine Willows: I'll take care of it.
- [takes Warrick's hand]
- Catherine Willows: Stay strong.
- IA Officer Wagenbach: [as he lays out photos in front of Warrick] Your gun with blood tissue and hair at the scene. Your cuffs, on the vic. You covered in blood. You went to Pigalle to get revenge by giving Lou Gedda a taste of his own medicine. You're a CSI, what's the evidence telling you?
- Warrick Brown: [pauses] The evidence is... is suggesting that I did it.
- Gil Grissom: Brass always suspected that there was a mole in the department that worked for Gedda. I bet we're looking for a cop.
- Catherine Willows: A P.I. investigating Gedda gets killed, then Gedda gets killed. Maybe this dirty cop did 'em both.
- Gil Grissom: Yeah, but we can't prove it because we're not allowed to investigate Gedda's murder.
- Catherine Willows: We're still investigating the P.I. if the cases are linked, we solve one, we solve the other.
- Undersheriff Jeffrey McKeen: [to Warwick] I just wanted to congratulate you in person. Sure made a believer outta me.
- Warrick Brown: Thanks.
- Undersheriff Jeffrey McKeen: Look, I don't wanna fire you. I just need to know that you're through running the streets on your own looking for bad guys.
- Warrick Brown: Look, I'm done being a rogue in the streets, but there's one son of a bitch still out there and I promise you that we're gonna get him.
- Undersheriff Jeffrey McKeen: Grissom taught you well.
- Warrick Brown: I'd like to think so.
- Undersheriff Jeffrey McKeen: You never give up.
- Warrick Brown: Nope.
- Undersheriff Jeffrey McKeen: That's what makes you a great CSI.
- [takes out his gun and shoots Warrick twice in the head]
- Catherine Willows: [to Greg] What is this? More research for your mob book? I hope you're not starting to admire those thugs.
- Greg Sanders: I don't admire them, but I'm grateful.
- Catherine Willows: For what?
- Greg Sanders: Well, for starters, my book is done. I have meetings with three different publishers out in L.A. and I fly out the day after tomorrow.
- Gil Grissom: What if the killer used the victim's car to transport the body?
- Nick Stokes: He drives the victim's own car back to the funeral home, stuffs the body in a double-decker coffin, hits a car wash, comes back cleans the office, then leaves us the keys. That's pretty considerate.
- Gil Grissom: Or very smart.
- Nick Stokes: Warrick couldn't investigate Gedda himself, so he had the P.I do it for him. Archie tracked down thousands of photos, soundbyte files, videos. Everything's connected to Lou Gedda. I think Gedda caught Harper spying on him, killed him and had the mortician put the body in the double-decker casket.
- Gil Grissom: [dials Warrick's phone, but it goes straight to voicemail] Warrick, call me. Now!
- [hangs up the phone and turns to Nick]
- Gil Grissom: Anybody hears from him, I wanna know.
- Gil Grissom: [to Warrick on the phone] Where the hell have you been?
- Warrick Brown: Grissom, I gotta talk with you.
- Gil Grissom: Where are you?
- Warrick Brown: Pigalle.
- Gil Grissom: What are you thinking?
- Warrick Brown: I don't know. I don't know!
- Gil Grissom: You don't... you don't know what?
- Warrick Brown: I don't know what I did here. I don't know what happened.
- Warrick Brown: Grissom...
- Jim Brass: Don't say another word.
- Warrick Brown: Jim...
- Jim Brass: Just get on your feet.
- Warrick Brown: I don't know what happened.
- Jim Brass: Hey, it's for your own good. Just keep your mouth shut until we get to the station. You couldn't just let it go.
- Conrad Ecklie: [to Warrick] Get a lawyer.
- Warrick Brown: I don't want one.
- Conrad Ecklie: This isn't going away, Warrick. In 48 hours, they're gonna charge you.
- Warrick Brown: I wouldn't know what to tell a lawyer anyway.
- IA Officer Wagenbach: [to Warrick] Let's back up a little. You get involved with a pretty young thing, you go away to do your business, she winds up dead. You ever think about that?
- Warrick Brown: I think about Joanna every day. There's not a day that goes by that I don't think about her.
- IA Officer Wagenbach: No, no. I'm sorry. I was talking about Holly Gribbs. You remember Holly, don't 'ya? Rookie CSI. You left alone at a crime scene eight years ago to go place bets for a crooked judge. Suspect came back and shot her.
- Warrick Brown: I remember.
- IA Officer Wagenbach: Poor innocent girl, just trying to do her job, and winds up dead because of you.
- Warrick Brown: That has nothing to do with this.
- IA Officer Wagenbach: Do two points make a straight line? It's a pattern of behavior. Reckless, obsessive, compulsive, self-destructive behavior.
- IA Officer Wagenbach: [to Warwick] You get Holly killed, you get Joanna killed and you just can't take anymore so you kill Gedda. That's how jury's gonna see it.
- Warrick Brown: There's nothing that I can do about that.
- IA Officer Wagenbach: Sure there is. Look, Lou Gedda was a slime ball. That's common knowledge. Nobody is gonna miss him. In fact, the world is arguably a better place without him.
- Warrick Brown: So if I admit to killing him, they'll take it easy on me and you're just trying to help me out, right? You know how many times I used that on a suspect? Don't waste your game, pal.
- Gil Grissom: Okay, if there were any other suspect, what would be our conclusion?
- [everyone is silent for a long moment]
- Greg Sanders: That he did it.
- Gil Grissom: Which is what Warrick told Internal Affairs.
- Catherine Willows: He confessed?
- Gil Grissom: No, but he didn't deny it. He says that he can't remember.
- Greg Sanders: Yeah, we've all heard that one before.
- Nick Stokes: What's that supposed to mean?
- Greg Sanders: It's not supposed to mean anything. We're just talking.
- Nick Stokes: Well, we can't just sit here and watch him go down.
- Catherine Willows: We're not going to. He asked for a lawyer, and we're going to get him a shark.
- Greg Sanders: The only thing that a jury is gonna see is a rogue cop with a vendetta. I've been there before. They're gonna crucify him.
- Undersheriff Jeffrey McKeen: Do your client and this department a favor, and make a deal. The District Attorney said that he might consider manslaughter.
- Warrick Brown: I can't do that.
- Undersheriff Jeffrey McKeen: Are you telling me that you're innocent? Because I.A. said that those words never crossed your lips.
- Warrick Brown: Are you charging me?
- Undersheriff Jeffrey McKeen: Not yet, but in about five hours, it's gonna be first degree murder.
- Warrick Brown: Listen, Grissom, I'm so sorry about all of this.
- [sighs]
- Warrick Brown: And... yeah.
- Gil Grissom: You were framed.
- Warrick Brown: Framed?
- [Grissom nods and Warrick breathes a sigh of relief]
- Warrick Brown: By who?
- Gil Grissom: Gedda has a mole in the department.
- Warrick Brown: A cop?
- Gil Grissom: Daniel Pritchard. We think that he had him kill Lenny Harper and probably Joanna as well.
- Warrick Brown: And why would he kill Gedda?
- Gil Grissom: Who knows? Old mobsters, crooked cops, it's a long history.
- Warrick Brown: I don't know. I mean, come on, Grissom. Gedda's been killing and barbecuing people for 25 years. It would take more than a beat cop to get one over on that fat bastard. It's gotta be someone higher up than that.
- Gil Grissom: Probably, but Pritchard's all we got for now.
- Warrick Brown: [to Warwick] The D.A's gonna drop the charges.
- [Warrick sighs in relief]
- Warrick Brown: But there's still the question of administrative violation. So, Ecklie and I are recommending to the Undersheriff that you be suspended and demoted, but not terminated.
- Gil Grissom: So I still have a job?
- Warrick Brown: Well, the Undersheriff says that he has to think about it, but he just wants to make you sweat.
- Gil Grissom: I've sweat enough.
- Warrick Brown: I'd imagine.
- Gil Grissom: [hugs Grissom and holds on to him for a moment] Thank you. Thank you.