CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Paper or Plastic?
TV Flash files “Paper or Plastic?” as hour 83 of 337 in the TV Flash guide — CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000–2015) on CBS, season 4, episode 14, aired 2004-02-12, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S04E14: listed hour 83 of 337 in the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation guide, hour 14 of 23 in season 4. It aired 2004-02-12 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Suckers” (S04E13). Next is “Early Rollout” (S04E15).
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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
A robbery at a grocery store results in a shootout leaving five dead. The police officer at the scene believes Grissom has a grudge against him. The entire team has to process the enormous amount of evidence at the scene.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Paper or Plastic? sit in the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation guide?
S04E14 is listed hour 83 of 337 — hour 14 of 23 in season 4, season 4 episode 14.
When did CSI: Crime Scene Investigation S04E14 air?
Paper or Plastic? aired 2004-02-12 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Do I start with Las Vegas CSI or a spinoff?
The original Las Vegas series is the mothership — stylish forensics as nightclub cinema. Miami, NY, and Cyber are franchise mitosis, not the first language.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Las Vegas criminalists solve murders with stylish science that made lab work look like nightclub cinema. Anthony E. Zuiker's CBS hit turned the who into the how, spawned a franchise mitosis machine, and put the "CSI effect" into real courtroom talk. 2000s procedural TV as global brand architecture.
The first useful image is glass, not a confession. Las Vegas criminalists solve murders with stylish science, moody lighting, and forensic close-ups that made lab work look like nightclub cinema. Anthony E. Zuiker's CBS series premiered October 6, 2000; the original Las Vegas run lasted through 2015, with a later revival limited series. William Petersen and Marg Helgenberger anchored early years of sunglasses, evidence, and gravitas beside George Eads, Jorja Fox, Paul Guilfoyle, and Eric Szmanda. The show turned…
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Filed against
- William Petersen as Gil Grissom
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- Marg Helgenberger as Catherine Willows
Marg Helgenberger’s K.C. made China Beach treat Vietnam trauma and R&R as the same weather — Dana Delany’s nurse, evacuation-hospital ensemble — then turned CSI’s Las Vegas lab into nightclub cinema. Late-80s quality drama with aching…
- George Eads as Nick Stokes
George Eads played Nick Stokes on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation — Las Vegas criminalist heat in the lab-as-nightclub years, when stylish science turned the who into the how. Franchise mitosis waited in the wings. TV Flash files him as…
- Jorja Fox as Sara Sidle
Jorja Fox’s Sara Sidle made CSI’s Las Vegas lab a human weather system — criminalists solving murders with stylish science, Anthony E. Zuiker’s CBS hit turning the who into the how, a franchise mitosis machine, the CSI effect in real…
- Paul Guilfoyle as Jim Brass
Paul Guilfoyle played Jim Brass on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, 2000s Las Vegas criminalists solving murders with stylish science that made lab work look like nightclub cinema. Anthony E. Zuiker’s CBS hit turned the who into the how,…
- Eric Szmanda as Greg Sanders
Eric Szmanda worked the graveyard shift as Greg Sanders on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation — Las Vegas lab-as-nightclub, the who turned into the how, a franchise mitosis machine. Anthony E. Zuiker made science stylish; Szmanda made the lab…