The hit forensic crime drama continues its eighth season. Tonight, the TV drama debut of ‘The Exorcist’ director William Friedkin sees Warrick having a spectacularly bad day. After a police chase results in the discovery of two bodies, the ensuing investigation uncovers dark goings-on at a mob-owned strip club – and Warrick crosses the line when he gets involved with one of the dancers.

Police pursuing a speeding rubbish truck are shocked when the chase ends with the death of the driver, who is hit by a car when attempting to flee on foot. The body count soon rises to two when a corpse is found on the street, having fallen out of the truck. When Warrick arrives at the scene late, blaming personal troubles for holding him up, a peeved Grissom gives him the unattractive task of processing the vehicle.

The driver of the truck is identified as Brody Biggs, an ex-cop who left the force in 1980 with a perfect record and worked as a mechanic ever since. The other man, who Dr Robbins surmises was smothered to death, is Jason Crewes, a flashy young club owner with an enviable list of celebrity friends. When Nick and Catherine take a look around his house, they work out that Jason had been suffocated in bed –probably by Biggs, who was most likely on his way to dispose of the body when he was himself killed.
“This would have been the perfect murder,” remarks Nick, “if Jason’s body would have actually made it to the landfill.” “At least his mother has someone to bury,” replies Catherine.

Warrick, meanwhile, is processing the truck when he realises that all the junk inside is at least 20 years old –as are the licence plates. Brody appears to have doctored the vehicle to use it as a way to transport Jason’s body, and a gun found near the crash site suggests that Brody was a professional hitman. “If he is,” says Grissom, “we still have to find the guy that hired him.”

A clue to the identity of Brody’s employer is unearthed when Warrick traces the truck back to a mob-owned sanitation company. It turns out that the mobster who ran it was actually Jason Crewes’s father, who was ‘whacked’ two decades ago. Jason’s mother, Linda (Beth Broderick, ‘Lost’, ‘Sabrina the Teenage Witch’) recognises an old picture of Brody Biggs as her late husband’s friend ‘BB’ –but does not believe that BB killed her son.

Linda adds that she gave all the sanitation company equipment to Lou Gedda, a mobster who runs a strip club called Pigalle Boulevard. When Brass and Warrick visit Gedda at the Pigalle, he tells them that Jason had been a useful asset to him, bringing in celebrity friends and thus fattening Gedda’s wallet. However, it transpires that the relationship had recently soured after a disagreement between the two ended in Jason informing Gedda that he would not be steering any more celebs his way.

Warrick knows that losing Gedda money and humiliating him in front of his customers was easily enough to get Jason Crewes killed. When he delves deeper into the Pigalle’s history, he finds that there is a long line of crimes linked to the club – but nobody ever testifies or presses charges. “It looks like an old-school extortion racket,” he tells Grissom. “And you can’t do that without having cops on the payroll.”

Warrick’s investigation soon hits resistance when he fails to obtain a warrant for the club, so he decides to strike out on his own and heads back to the Pigalle armed with a risky plan. But the troubled CSI soon finds himself in too deep when an encounter with one of the strippers ends up putting him on the wrong side of the crime scene tape –with no idea how he got there...

Tuesday 4th March at 9:00pm on five