- With a suicide, a homicide, and an accidental death already in the books, the team places bets on whether there will also be a natural causes death to complete "the cycle" before the end of the shift.
- During the night shift, the team logs a suicide, a homicide, and an accidental death. They bet whether there will be a natural cause death and who will investigate before the end of the shift. The selfish Kelvin from Los Angeles is the new assistant of Dr. Robbins. Catherine, Greg, Sara and Jim Brass investigate the death of the obese Steven Pyles, aka "Dv8Avenger", who is addicted in videogame. Meanwhile, Nick and Langston investigate the death of Benjamin Fowler, who has just divorced his wife and was found at the bottom of a swimming pool in the house of his friends that are lodging him. They suspect of a robbery followed by a homicide.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- A string of deaths, including a gamer found dead on his couch and a newly divorced man at the bottom of a pool, instigate a bet among the CSIs as to whether they've "hit for the cycle" - a homicide, a suicide, an accidental and a natural death all in one night.—CBS Publicity
- "CSI" - "Hitting for the Cycle" - March 31, 2011
As Nick writes the day's cases on the whiteboard, Henry realizes they're one natural death away from "hitting for the cycle": a homicide, a suicide, an accidental death, and a natural death. Hodges decides to set up a little wager with Nick, Greg, and Henry on who will pull in the "natural" to "win" the cycle. Nick and Greg both feel confident it will be them. Hodges bets on Nick. Others join in.
Robbins, Sara, and Greg and Kevin, Robbins' new assistant try and determine the COD of a young woman with a distended belly. The new assistant is very crude. Turns out she may have died accidentally so it's probably not the "natural" Greg is hoping for.
Sara and Greg meet Brass at a crime scene, the death of a very obese video gamer, who was wearing a diaper when he died, so he wouldn't be away from his video games. David and Kevin arrive, Kevin continues to be obnoxious. Kevin thinks the guy died naturally and congratulates Greg. David says they need to wait for the autopsy. Some clues make it seem like it might be a homicide.
At another crime scene a body is found at the bottom of a pool, Ben Fowler, who was house-sitting for friends. Nick and Ray take it. The house was broken into and robbed. Since it's not a natural Nick is eager to solve this one and get back in the game.
Back at HQ Robbins tells Catherine that the big video gamer choked on his own vomit. He had a history of a seizure and was probably a contributor to his death. Sara finds epilepsy medication. (For the record: Catherine is betting that there won't be a "natural.") In light of the meds, Greg is thinking that this is looking like it's going from a natural to an accidental. Greg decides to look through his old gaming logs to see if he can find a recording of the big guy's "death.'
Ray and Nick work the pool crime scene, Ray inside, Nick out. Kevin continues to annoy everyone. Then he meets Ray and is enamored because he saw him on "America's Most Wanted" with regards to the Haskell case. The guy from the bottom of the pool was bound, beaten, and shot in the head. They figure he interrupted the burglar, tussled with him, ran, and was then shot in the back of the head.
Greg goes over the last game the big guy played. He was doing a multi-player live game. Greg explains the intricacies of the game to Catherine. Someone unloaded flash bombs, which may have been intentional to hurt the big guy if they knew he was epileptic. Another player NinjaAssassin unloaded the attack. And if he did it on purpose, it could be considered homicide.
Greg and Brass attend a live multi-player video-game showdown to track down NA. Brass complains they need to get a life and when he was their age he was in a real war, he doesn't need to playact it. Turns out the winner of this showdown gets $100k, which might mean motive. Brass and Greg move in just as the game is in action. They interrogate NA with pics of the big guy. The guy points out that he didn't actually kill the big dead guy. He admits to knowing he had epilepsy. He said he looked it up and found that you can't die from a seizure. Brass disabuses him of this notion and tells him to get a lawyer.
Nick goes to Robbins who has some new evidence about Fowler, pool guy, Turns out he was shot through his mouth and came out the back of his head. Robbins gives Nick a hard time about the whole cycle business.
Ray talks to Fowler's tearful ex-wife. She had seen him recently, after bailing him out from a DUI. he tried to get her to stay after she took him home but she left in a huff. (He had become a drinker and a gambler in the face of some tough financial times.) She never did stop loving him.
Nick and Hodges look for the bullet at the pool crime scene. They check the pool skimmer and find it. They're hopeful this will close the case so Nick can get back into the cycle hunt.
Henry informs Greg that his big video game guy was taking sedatives during the game and may have been asleep at the time of the flash bombs, getting NinjaAssassin off the hook. This makes no sense, a gamer taking sedatives, so Greg goes to look over the evidence from his house. They think it was spiked. Sara found a bottle of the stuff in question in the guy's trash and it had someone else's name on it so she couldn't take it. But she scans the barcode on the bottle and they get a name and they figure he must also be a gamer.
Greg and Brass go to the live video game showdowns and ask around for Evan Ferrari. It's a hot blond chick, who is basically the eye candy at these events, like a boxing ring girl. They question her. She says they were dating and cries and wonders if he had a heart attack. They tell her about the pills and how they figure she spiked his drink. She says she didn't spike him but that sometimes she would just give him pills but never more than recommended. They don't believe her. She said she loved him and wouldn't need to cut a deal with another gamer to off him.
Nick and Ray compare blood and fingerprint evidence. They stumble across a loan shark who was in the house. They bring him in and he says he doesn't kill people since dead people don't make him money. He admits he was there to collect and he roughed the guy up but he didn't kill him.
Catherine alerts David of a dead body, an old woman who just might be the natural they're looking for. David thinks she fell, fractured her femur and threw a blood clot and therefore is an accidental not a natural. The annoying Kevin is not happy.
Henry tells Sara and Greg that there was also ipecac on his pizza, so if he was given sedatives and then ipecac, it would have caused him to choke on his own vomit. They theorize she was jealous of other women who were texting her man. They go looking for her fingerprints on the pizza box and drug bottle. The prints come back to the hot female deejay from the live multiplayer games.
Brass brings her in. She admits to delivering the pizza. He mentions the ipecac and how she used her credit card to buy the ipecac and drops the bomb that he knew that she and the big guy's girlfriend were actually lesbian lovers. She was mad that she was dumped for a big fat guy and couldn't believe he was about to win $100k so she killed him with the stuff he couldn't resist, food and hot chicks. She figured no one would investigate it since it was just "fat guy chokes on vomit." Oops.
Catherine, Nick, and Hodges are beginning to realize that perhaps Fowler killed himself as opposed to being killed. Ballistic evidence is consistent with the gun being in his mouth upside down and it seems like the break-in was staged. (The only missing piece is a very expensive sculpture.) He wanted to make a suicide look like a homicide so he could take the money from the sculpture that he pawned and pay off his life insurance policy for his wife, one million dollars. Ray tells the wife. She is, understandably, sad.
Robbins and David take in the last body and it's a homicide, no natural, no cycle. Robbins tells David to go get Kevin. David goes to rouse him, thinking he's asleep and it turns out he's dead, from natural causes: an aneurysm. Robbins won the pool because he bet on David.
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