CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION 6X20: POPPIN' TAGS ORIGINAL AIR DATE ON CBS: 04/13/2006 TRANSCRIBED FROM CBS Written by: DUSTIN LEE ABRAHAM Directed by: BRYAN SPICER Transcript by Intrepid Courtesy of http://www.kilohoku.com/ Do not archive this transcript without permission from the Transcriptionist. RATING: TV-14-LV HDTV 5.1 SURROUND ========================== DISCLAIMER: ========================== "CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION" and other related entities are owned, (TM) and (c) by ANTHONY E. ZUIKER, JERRY BRUCKHEIMER Television, CBS Worldwide Inc., Alliance Atlantis Corporation, CSI Productions and CBS Productions, All Rights Reserved. For Fair Use, for entertainment and for educational purposes only. This transcript was made without their permission, approval, authorization or endorsement. Any reproduction, duplication or distribution of this material in any form is expressly prohibited. It is absolutely forbidden to use it for commercial gain. CONDITIONS OF USE: (1) Do not alter the content of this file. (2) Leave the headers/disclaimers intact because it lists all those who have made this transcript possible for your enjoyment. (3) Provide a link back to the site where this file originated: http://www.kilohoku.com/ Contact the Transcriptionist at (intrepidly002@yahoo.com) ========================== SUMMARY: The team investigates three kids who are gunned down while putting up concert posters. ========================== CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION 6X20: POPPIN' TAGS ========================== FADE IN: [EXT. VARIOUS LAS VEGAS CITY LIGHTS (STOCK) -- NIGHT] [EXT. CONVENTION CENTER DRIVE - NIGHT] (Open on a concert poster-covered pole or palm tree. A kid carrying a backpack with a pink-colored canister tucked in it runs to the pole. He stops at the base and pauses to cover his mouth and nose with his black sweater, completely obscuring his face except for his eyes. He pulls down his black cap lower on his forehead.) WHITE FLASH TO: (The young man pauses and peers around the pole. Two other young people dressed similarly appear with him. They all peer around the pole to make sure the coast is clear.) (They run quickly across the street. They each run to a poster-covered pole and start climbing the pole.) POV: BARREL OF THE GUN (Through the center of the gun barrel, we see one of the young people climbing the pole.) RESUME VIEW (Fireworks burst in the night sky.) (The young man climbing the pole nearly reaches the top. He climbs quickly.) POV: BARREL OF THE GUN (Through the center of the gun barrel, we see the young man continuing to climb up the pole.) (Quick CGI EFX: A gun fires and the bullet exits the barrel. The bullet speeds up straight toward the climber.) (The climber grunts upon impact.) SMASH CUT TO: [EXT. CONVENTION CENTER DRIVE - NIGHT] (The body is hanging from the top of the pole. A light shines on the dead body dangling mid-air.) (From the ground, Nick shines his flashlight up at the body. Grissom walks over to him. He stops and looks at Nick.) GRISSOM: Feel like getting high? NICK: Do I have to? (Grissom nods. He turns and walks past Nick, who takes out his radio.) NICK: (to radio) Hey, this is Stokes. I need a lift, Convention Center Drive. DISPATCH: (from radio) Copy that -- (Grissom and Nick head over to Brass, who is standing on the road nearby a second body.) BRASS: Looks like somebody had some late-night target practice. Three Boy Does. No IDs. Nobody saw anything. (Grissom looks down at the body nearest him. There are bullet shells on the road nearby.) GRISSOM: Nine-millimeter shells all over the place. NICK: That's a lot of racket. Somebody heard something. BRASS: Well, the only ones who did thought it was the fireworks show at the Wynn. Good luck. (Brass turns and walks away. Grissom turns and walks over to the second body on the pavement. David is near the body with another forensics person. David peels open the victim's shirt to find a thin clock hanging from the front, a bullet-sized hole hanging securely around his neck.) (Grissom kneels down next to them. Nick looks over his shoulder.) GRISSOM: What do you think? Time of death: 3:17 A.M.? DAVID PHILLIPS: Shot through a Flavor Flav clock. Haven't seen one of these since high school. NICK: Old school's the new school. (Right in front of him, Grissom picks up a stapler from off the pavement.) (CAMERA ZOOMS in for an extreme close-up of the bloodstains at the tip of the stapler.) (Grissom looks up at the poster-covered pole. At the top are posters for BANK NEW ALBUM APRIL.) NICK: (to Grissom) So, what do you think? This has got to be a gang war, huh? GRISSOM: Well, if it's a gang war ... (he looks at the stapler) ... these kids were outgunned. FADE TO END OF TEASER ROLL TITLE CREDITS (COMMERCIAL SET) WHITE FLASH IN: [EXT. CONVENTION CENTER DRIVE - DAY] (In the broad daylight, the body is still up on the pole, hanging upside down, dangling by his legs. In the background, we see two police cars parked in the center of the road to block traffic. Nick has put in pink rods in the bullet holes at the top of the pole.) (Nick is standing on the lift as he goes through the dead body's pockets.) NICK: (shouts) No personal effects! No keys, no ID! Nothing! (Down below, Warrick is standing near a body with his camera. He pauses and looks up at Nick.) NICK: Either these kids were traveling light, or they were robbed blind. WARRICK: And who the hell would rob them up there? Andre the Giant? (Warrick steps away from the body and walks over to the next body Robbins is examining.) WARRICK: Hey, Doc, is it just me, or did something crush his legs? ROBBINS: Well, first off ... (Robbins pulls the sweater away from the victim's face and shows that the BOY Doe is really a GIRL Doe.) ROBBINS: ... looks like he is a she, and something crushed her legs. (Warrick snaps photos of the body. He leans down and sees something just under the girl's leg. He snaps a photo of it and reaches down to pick it up. Robbins gets to his feet.) (Warrick holds up the round circular tubing.) WARRICK: What do you think this is? ROBBINS: That's your job. WARRICK: Yeah. (Warrick puts the item down and stands up.) WARRICK: Well ... I did find casings in such a wide distribution ... and a lot of them were flattened, so it suggests to me that the killer was moving when he was shooting. (Quick flash of: Tires screech. A car moves by quickly as bullets swish by amidst gunfire.) (A body falls to the ground. The car continues. A person is leaning out the car window as the car passes.) (More gunfire is heard. The car runs over the girl's legs. The heavy metal tubing falls to the ground.) RESUME TO SCENE ROBBINS: Drive-by? WARRICK: Yeah, with a hit-and-run chaser. CUT TO: [EXT. LAS VEGAS CITY (STOCK) -- DAY] [INT. CSI - BALLISTICS LAB - DAY] SCOPE VIEW: THE BULLET (Under the scope, the bullet turns around its side.) RESUME VIEW (Bobby Dawson is looking through the scope. He lifts his head as he thinks.) (Nick enters the lab.) NICK: What up, Country? BOBBY DAWSON: So, the bullet is practically smooth. I mean, no sharp-edged rifling marks. NICK: Which means it was probably fired from a polygonal barrel. Did you run cartridge casings yet? BOBBY DAWSON: Yeah, yeah, and got an IBIS hit off of a firing pin impression. Murder weapon is an H&K MP-5. NICK: That's a $2,500 firearm. That's not your typical street piece. BOBBY DAWSON: Yeah. It's registered to LVPD. NICK: Really? BOBBY DAWSON: Yeah. (Bobby turns to the computer, hits a key and a new screen with information appears: {Right side: Photo of Bullet} SPEER 9 mm LUGER ID: 37283-2 {Left side: INFO} LVPD FILE #: 05 11 17 6194-RC NEVADA REVISED STATE: NRS 406.065 Property Burglarized ITEM STOLEN: HGK MP-5 TIME/DATE OF INNCIDENT: NOVEMBER 11, 2005: 4:17 PM SUSPECT INFO: -- MISCELLANEOUS: LOCAL REF # 4738-43 NOTE: Weapon stolen from SWAT vehicle during a drug raid on Vegas Valley and Sandhill. Contact LVPD immediately with any new leads.) BOBBY DAWSON: Those babies are very popular with law enforcement, and that one is issued to SWAT ... and reported stolen during a drug raid on Vegas Valley and Sandhill ... six months ago. CUT TO: [INT. CSI - TRACE LAB -- DAY] (Hodges examines the rod Warrick found at the crime scene. He finds a number etched in it: 867252B--.) (He scrapes a paint sample off the edge of the rod and looks at it under the scope.) SHORT TIME CUT TO: [INT. CSI - TRACE LAB - LATER] (Warrick enters the lab.) 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