CSI: Crime Scene Investigation » Season 2 » Burden of Proof (Episode)

format_quote (Grissom finds compromising photos of teenaged Jody Bradley)
Nick Stokes: Sometimes I hate this job.

format_quote Gil Grissom: So, take some photos of the experiment for the D.A. and then, uh, get rid of that stuff.
Sara Sidle: That meat? The raw meat? Me?
Gil Grissom: Yeah.
Sara Sidle: How many meals have we shared together?
Gil Grissom: I don't know.
Sara Sidle: Take a guess. Over a year working together.
Gil Grissom: ...Thirty?
Sara Sidle: I'm a vegetarian, everyone here knows I'm a vegetarian. I haven't eaten meat since we stayed up that night with that dead pig. It pains me to see ground beef. Forget about cleaning it up.
Gil Grissom: Okay... have Nick do it.
(leaves)

format_quote (upon finding an insect on the victim's clothes)
Gil Grissom: It's a carpet beetle. It shouldn't be here.
Catherine Willows: The vic seem more like a hardwood floors kind of guy to you?
Gil Grissom: Carpet beetles are usually the last to arrive at a corpse, when only found on a body when its near becoming being a skeleton. This guy is still fresh.
(looks up at skeleton hanging from tree, sees other insects on it)
Gil Grissom: David! Get this body out of here right now! We've got cross-contamination!

stars  The "meat bullet" plot device used in this episode was tested by the Mythbusters in their Season 1, Episode 4 show, in which they also examined the possibility of ice bullets and other exotic - and conspiracy-theory-invoked - ammunition.

stars  Sara Paxton who played Jody Bradley won a Young Artist Award for her guest starring role in this episode.