- While Catherine helps perform surveillance on a pair of meth dealers in a casino hotel room, Archie accidentally stumbles on the dead body of a casino hospitality employee in the loading docks.
- Catherine and Detective Vartann are thrown together in a hotel room for 24 hours as they stake out a duo making drugs in the room next door. Meanwhile, Nick and Langston work a case that involves a fetish which has become big business in Vegas.—CBS Publicity
- LVPD detective Vartann is assisted by the team in an elaborate trap for silver-spoon XTC top dealers Bellermine Quisk and Everett Edwards, whom they observe prepare a stock for a major rave, where Greg will infiltrate as 'client'. While leaving the hotel, Archie stumbles in the loading docks on the corpse of event employee Sasha Katsaros. That murder must be investigated without arousing the drug barons' suspicion. It's soon found to concern her second job, as underwear model for fetishist sniffers.—KGF Vissers
- Catherine and Louis Vartann are at stakeout of two drug dealers that are cooking meth in a hotel room, in a secret operation with Brass, Greg and Archie supporting them. When Archie leaves Greg, he stumbles upon the dead body of a beautiful and sexy young woman at the loading dock. Soon the other CSIs investigate the murder case and learn that it is connected to a lingerie exhibition with models.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- "CSI" - "The Panty Sniffer" - April 1, 2010
It's night in Vegas and part of the gang- Brass, Greg, Archie, Catherine, and Vartann- is staking out a Vegas hotel on a sting to take down two big purveyors of Ecstasy.
On her way up to the room Catherine passes a casino employee telling someone that she's taken care of a rowdy patron by ejecting him. In the elevator she rides up with said patron, who is complaining to himself aloud that at a live lingerie show you should be able touch the girls.
As Catherine is about to enter the room, some people come by. To protect their cover, Vartann grabs her and kisses her very heartily. She doesn't seem to mind. Neither does he.
One of the Ecstasy guys - Edward- heads back to the suite early with a girl forcing Archie and Greg to skedaddle before installing all the video cameras. One camera, for the bathroom, is missing. The screens are next door in the suite where Catherine and Vartann will monitor them.
On his way out Archie stumbles onto a dead female casino employee by the loading dock. They have to investigate, of course, but they're all freaked out that the police presence will spook their Ecstasy guys.
Ray, Nick, and David come to investigate. A security employee gives Ray the skinny: the woman's name was Sasha, she was an event planner at the casino. It looks like she fell down the steps. Someone grabbed her and fought with her. Archie is shook up but gives them the tip that she's wearing no panties. They think the killer might've taken them as a souvenir.
Catherine asks Nick to keep the police presence quiet as she and Vartann continue watching the Ecstasy guys getting it on in their room. Vartann is mad at these rich kids making more money off poor kids: selling them an overly strong product that gets them higher but causes heart attacks. The police have determined they cook the product in hotels. We learn that Catherine is unhappy with Lindsey at the moment (so what else is new?) and that Vartann is divorced with a 21-year-old son. Now that his son has moved out, he finds that sometimes he's lonely.
Ray and Nick investigate and go to the lingerie show to find out about the angry guest who was ejected. Nick likes the lingerie show. Ray tells him to focus. Nick asks one of the models where the boss is. She hasn't seen him in awhile. She asks what he thinks of her panties. He says he doesn't know. A pervy guy behind him says he'll take them.
Ray walks around and looks at the models and picks up some of the packaged product. Its brand name is By Any Other Name, which is from Romeo & Juliet ("That which we call a rose by any other name Would smell as sweet." Juliet, the balcony scene) Lon Rose the boss man approaches him. Lon says Mr. Pudder is the man who was ejected from the show and he tried to sneak back in and Lon sent him down to Sasha to talk. Nick brings a package down to Ray and they wonder about the $2,000 price tag for a single pair of panties and why they are vacuum-packed. Apparently the panties have a specific, intoxicating odor. They're used.
Back in the room Catherine and Vartann continue to watch. We go into the room itself where the girls are crashed out. One Ecstasy guy turns up the AC because it must be as cold as possible while making the Ecstasy. Someone knocks at the door. It's room service. They don't let the guy in the door. One guy is mad at the other guy saying they have drugs to cook so to hurry up and eat. Vartann says that's their confirmation.
At the lab Ray and Nick discuss the panty sniffing fetish and the power of the sense of smell in general.
Nick interrogates Mr. Pudder. They figure he was mad when Sasha kicked him out, killed her, and took her underwear. We see a version fo this scenario. He says he would never go to a loading dock since they smell horrible and besides Sasha is not his type. Rays asks what is. He says he has a very sophisticated palette when it comes to a woman's "aroma." It's gross the way he talks about smelling panties. He tells them to ask Lon about the show and that all he does is buy Brenda's panties. (She is the one who was talking to Nick). After he was kicked out he got another buyer to buy all of Brenda's panties and he stayed in his room all night with them. Nick says that's no alibi. Pudder says if Nick ever tried it he'd know it was. They take his prints.
Catherine and Vartann continue to watch. He's getting antsy about how long it's taking. She explains they could play craps, have dinner, and go to a show and they'd only be halfway done. Vartann jokes she's not a cheap date. He says it's noon and the "surge"- new slang for a type of rave- is at ten so they better get cracking. They're both tired. Catherine's in a text fight with Lindsey. Vartann says she'll miss it someday. He says he misses his son's horrible techno music. This is the first she's heard of his son. Jake is 21 and he was a handful so he lived with Vartann in high school. Vartann says he always thought he was better alone but he misses having someone to come home to. He says he didn't mean to put her on the spot. He just wanted her to know.
Robbins is doing the autopsy when Ray comes in. He talks about his uncle's fetish for the smell of chocolate chip cookies and how it was the key to their marriage. He's determined that Sasha was grabbed and then kicked down the stairs.
Wendy determines she had sex but wasn't raped. And it wasn't Pudder. Wendy explains Pudder probably didn't take the underwear since none matching the bra were found at his place and she explains the whole matching undies concept.
Back at the room one of the guys has brought back more ice. She explains the cooking process to Vartann as we see it happening complete with beakers, goggles, etc. in the other room. The ice is necessary to keep things cool and from exploding.
Ray speaks to Archie who is still a little freaked. Monitoring the sales at Lon's company online and they find that Sasha was one of the contributors, apparently she wasn't making enough money.
Ray and Nick go to Lon and ask why he didn't mention that Sasha was a model. He asked her to keep it a secret because she loved her casino job. She was the inspiration for his business, he fell in love with her scent. They point out that the killer did also since he took the panties. They say he needs to come downtown and give a DNA sample. He pulls out her panties saying she gave them to him yesterday to sell as "fresh." He swears he didn't kill her, he loved her. But he also says he didn't have sex with her either, since that would be like scribbling on the Mona Lisa since it would change her scent. They want his DNA regardless.
Back in the Ecstasy kitchen one of the guy is ordering a hooker and the other guy stops him saying they have to keep cooking to get ready for the surge. The other one says who cares if they're late. They argue about the business and who has screwed up what. There's a knock at the door, some friends of one dude. They want a hook-up but the girls is already tripping. They start making out and her boyfriend gets mad and forcibly separates them. The girl gets deep into the carpet. The boyfriend and E guy fight, they both pull guns. The other guy comes out with his own gun and two tablets telling them to take them and go. They do.
Vartann tells the other cops to grab the couple and he'll go talk to them. He leaves Catherine a radio.
At the lab Nick has stuff for Wendy to check out, including Sasha's underwear. She's glad that she was right. Archie tells Nick that someone is using Sasha's hotel key card. Nick says that's impossible since the card is still in evidence. He opens the box, pulls out her card, swipes it and discovers something interesting that we aren't privy to.
Vartann meets up with Greg and Brass and tells them all they got from the couple was an address for the surge. Greg used to go to raves so he's enlisted to go to the party. Brass tells Vartann to arrest the E guys once they've started distributing at the party.
Nick and Ray go to the security guy and tell him someone, oddly, is still using Sasha's card even though they found one in her jacket. He tries to pretend he doesn't have his and they make him produce it. They swipe it, and yup, it's hers. They dated and her involvement with the lingerie show made him sick. She promised she would stop but she went back on their word. They fought and he killed her.
Vartann comes back and Catherine is putting on a jumpsuit. In the "kitchen" the boys are "branding" their goods. They take off for the surge. Catherine and Vartann go into the "lab." It's a mess, she tells him to stay outside since he's not suited up and there's open chemical containers.
Folks groove at the surge. Greg, in a crazy get up, arrives. He spots the "E" guys selling their wares. He goes to buy one and notices the dudes are armed.
At the lab, Catherine works with the chemicals.
At the surge, one E guy takes off and Greg texts the info. He goes to buy more and Brass grabs one of them. The other guy is gone.
Caherine takes pictures in the lab and says the chemicals are packed up and they'll need to collect other evidence. Catherine hears the other E guy return to the hotel room calling and asking somene to come pick him up. She sees in the mirror that he realizes someone is in the room and he whips out his gun and starts to look around. She grabs hers and follows. E guy spots Vartann and just as he's about to shoot, Catherine attacks him. E guy gets the upper hand on Catherine and Vartann shoots him, splattering his blood on Catherine.
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