Fannysmackin'

CSI EPISODE
Fannysmackin'
Season	7
Number	4
Writer	Dustin Lee Abraham
Director	Richard J. Lewis
Original Airdate	12 October, 2006

Fannysmackin' is the fourth episode of the seventh season of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.

Synopsis

A violent pack of teenagers start savagely beating tourists in Las Vegas, and one of the CSIs finds himself in danger.

Plot

A Hispanic man getting off work gets beaten to death in the parking structure of his job. Later in the night, a young woman is ambushed, but she survives.

A third crime scene is investigated at a liquor store. Grissom sends Greg to the crime scene.

Before he arrives at the scene, he finds a group of people beating someone up in an alley.

Greg drives through the alley, beeping his horn and using his sirens to get the people to stop attacking.

One man continues to beat the victim up. He grabs a rock, but instead of finishing off the victim with it, he goes after Greg. Making a split second decision, Greg hits the attacker with his car.

Moments later, Greg is pulled from his car and beaten. At the hospital, Jim Brass interviews the victim, discovering he is a tourist.

Grissom visits Greg, telling him that the victim would be okay, Demetrius (the man he hit) was in surgery.

When Grissom asks Greg if he has told his parents, Greg tells Grissom that they think he is still in the lab.

Greg mentions that his mom is going to freak, and Grissom tells him that she will be happy that Greg saved a man's life.

Catherine interviews one of the people involved in the group beating people up. She tells Catherine that they were 'fannysmackin', which meant they were going around to beat up tourists.

When another member, Tara, is arrested, Nick finds the her wallet and phone in the back of her car.

Using a message written by Tara, the fannysmackin group is lured into a warehouse, where the police trap and arrest the attackers.

Back at the hospital, Greg is thanked by Stanley Tanner (the victim he saved) who shakes Greg's hand and thanks him for saving his life.

After Tanner is wheeled out, a mournful wail comes from the room next door. Greg watches as Demetrius James' mother sobs over Demetrius' lifeless body. Demetrius' brother, Aaron, glares helplessly at Greg.

Trivia

• Greg Sanders reveals that he is an only child.
• Fannysmackin' is a "thug" thing to do, they get a group together and go around beating up tourists.
• The camera Sara uses when photographing the second beating victim is a Nikon.

Goofs

• When the fannysmackers attack Greg, they smash his car back window out. The next morning, when Warrick and Nick are processing the SUV, Greg's car window is completely intact.
• After the attack on Greg, when Sara rushes to his side, we can see the sun's rays on the ground change at each scene.
• While talking to Sofia and walking, all the victims are in the shade. But as Sara kneels by Greg, his head is directly under the sun's rays while Stanley is fully under it. Though during the close-up of Greg's face, we see that he's in the shade again. Then, when they pull back on the scene, the sun-rays reappear but retreated further.
• Guy said he was beat-up "On the corner of Decatur and Jones." In Las Vegas, the streets Jones and Decatur do not intersect. They run parallel to each other (North/South) and are one city block apart.
• In the locker scene in the end you see Sara take her sunglasses off, her shirt and put them on her head, shot changes to Warrick, and Nick, and when it goes back to Sara, her sunglasses are back on her shirt. The shot changes again to Nick, Warrick and Grissom and when it is back to Sara her sun glasses are on her head again.

Quotes

Greg (after Grissom assigns him a case): Who's my wingman?

Grissom: Greg, you're a big boy now. You don't need a wingman.

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Cole Tritt: Man, you're weak, weak, weak, weak. (Nick walks up to him) I'm sorry, you're not weak. You're a joke.

Warrick: Nick, Nick.

(Nick looks at Warrick, grinning; Warrick shakes his head; Nick hits Tritt; Warrick runs over and pulls Nick back)

Cole Tritt: Man, anyone get that on video? (holds up his cell phone) I'll take a picture myself.

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Nick (to Warrick): I am sick of these punks, man. I'm serious, I'm sick of it.

Warrick: Then you're in the wrong town.

Nick: Maybe.

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Greg: Sara.

Sara: I didn't think you could see me.

Greg: I can't. I know that "Sidle Scent."

Sara: I'm... going to take that as a compliment.

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Grissom (to Greg): Has someone called your parents? You should let them know...(Greg groans) What's the matter?

Greg: They still think I'm in the lab.

Grissom: Why do they think that?

Greg: When I was in high school I never played any sports, no football, no basketball, definitely no hockey.

Grissom (sarcastically): I never would have guessed.

Greg: Well, it wasn't my choice. My mom wanted four kids, ended up with only one. She always made sure I stayed close and if I got a nosebleed she'd take me to the ER.

Grissom: Well, now would be the time to come clean.

Greg (beginning to cry): My mom's gonna freak.

Grissom: You tell her that you risked your life to save someone else's and I think she'll be very proud of you.

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Cole Tritt: Man, there has been an ass whoppin' on every block!

Nick: There's about to be an ass whoppin' on this one.

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Catherine: Pig and the piglets are in the pigpen.

Warrick: About time. Finally some good news.

Catherine: Did you know Pig, a.k.a Cole Tritt, was the only adult? The rest were all under 18. One was 14.

Warrick: You're kidding. Who raises these kids?

Catherine: I mean, they weren't all delinquents. Demetrius James was a college student.

Nick: Hangin' out with the wrong crowd in the wrong town. I'm tellin' ya, havin' a fake I.D in Las Vegas is like havin' a... a free ticket on the hell train. Sex, drugs, gambling, no adult supervision, 24/7 and by the time they're 21, they've done and seen it all.

Catherine: Make me slit my wrists, why don't ya? I'm raising a teenager here.

Warrick: Ah, you're doin' a great job. Linds is gonna turn out to be a beautiful young woman. Besides, I grew up in Vegas, I didn't turn out so bad, did I?

Nick: Yeah. That was pre-Mirage. Back when you were goin' to the casino, playin' the arcade games. Nah, Vegas is a different animal now.

Warrick: Yeah, these kids need to beat people up in the street to be entertained. They need some good discipline, they need their grandmother whuppin' their ass like I had.

Nick: Yeah, a good slap.

Sara: You know, it kinda sounds like you guys are blaming everyone but these kids. I mean, you don't get a bye just because you grew up here or your parents are on drugs or... those kids were perfectly capable of telling the difference between a wild night out and beating somebody to death.

Grissom: The truth is, a moral compass can only point you in the right direction, it can't make you go there. Our culture preaches that you shouldn't be ashamed of anything you do anymore. And unfortunately, this city is built on the principle that there's no such thing as guilt. "Do whatever you want, we won't tell." So without a conscience, there's nothing to stop you from killing someone. And evidently you don't even have to feel bad about it.

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See Also

• List of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation episodes
• CSI:Crime Scene Investigation Season 7
• Category:Images from Fannysmackin'