On a trip home from work on the subway, Danny sees a body laying on the tracks. Luckily, he manages to stop the train before destroying any evidence. Mac Taylor, arriving from a Mayor's reception in his tuxedo, and Lindsay Monroe join him. Stella and Hawks investigate the death of stock broker found hanging from a noose off of the window of his fancy office. As usual, the hanging was staged as the man was strangled to death.

A man is found dead in a cemetery. The wound on his chest indicates that he died from a bullet wound, yet the CSIs found nothing but small pieces of paper inside it. The second case is of a dead woman found blindfolded with her hands tied behind her back in her fancy bed. The investigation leads the detectives to a restaurant that serves exotic food such as centipedes, live octopus, and cockroaches.