Synopsis  

Grissom and Catherine investigate the grisly meat grinder murder at a slaughterhouse. Warrick and Sara look into the apparent suicide of a troubled young woman.

Review  

Sara and Warrick investigate an apparent suicide at an apartment complex. At the scene, Sara inadvertently calls Hank ‘baby’ (she apologizes later) – embarrassed, she ducks into the closet, where she finds still-wet stains on the victim’s clothing. At the autopsy, she finds tinted glass in the victim’s hair; later in Trace, she trades comments with the new tech, Hodges. Sara and Warrick match the glass to a recently-broken windshield at the apartment garage, and discover that the victim was always breaking things, depending on her mood. They discover that the victim was bipolar, and off her meds – and that her boyfriend was bipolar as well. Discovering Valium in the victim’s system, they confront the parents and find that the father slit his daughter’s wrist, hoping to get her admitted to a psychiatric facility.

Notes  

• Sara embarrasses herself when she calls Hank ‘baby’.
• Sara is getting along better with Warrick, claiming she doesn’t see him as a gambler.

Quotes  

Warrick: Are you sure that in all your lifesaving efforts you didn’t move her?
Peddigrew I’m telling you, I only checked for vitals.
Sara: It’s okay, baby.

Peddigrew I’m going to hit the road … baby.
Sara: (grimaces) I’m sorry.

Hodges: Didn’t beep you to say hi.
Sara: Glad to you’re settling in, Hodges. … Stranger things have happened. If you weren’t such a lab rat, you would know that.

Sara: (to Brown) You know, the more I see of this kind of stuff the less I picture you a gambler.

Sara: Bipolar girl meets a bipolar guy. Together, they cut out their medication. She ends up committing suicide.

Sara: Mr. And Mrs. Damen, there are five types of tears – sorrow, regret, joy, fear and allergic reaction. The one thing that they have in common is DNA.