Melina Kanakaredes credited as playing...
CSI Detective Stella Bonasera
- Detective Stella Bonasera: Steering column's intact. Wasn't hotwired. Definitely started the old-fashioned way, with a key. Hey, Danny, I'm waiting for your "boom."
- Detective Danny Messer: Ah, no more booms. Lindsay made me promise. She's afraid it's going to be Lucy's first word.
- Mac Taylor: That's the victim, but who's the other guy?
- Detective Stella Bonasera: They're both James Manning. The moment I saw him, I knew there was something familiar about him and then when I saw that scar on his hand. I ran him through CARS for past collars and came up with this booking photo.
- Mac Taylor: It's hard to believe they're the same person.
- Detective Stella Bonasera: Put some meat on his bones and a shave and he looks like a completely different guy.
- Mac Taylor: It's never a good thing when you look better in the autopsy photo than you do when you're alive.
- Mac Taylor: I'm going to go get Grace Chandler. Stella, you go get Sam Baker, get him out of lockup and bring him down to Interrogation. You two pick up Debbie Fallon, get her over to the precinct.
- Detective Stella Bonasera: What's going on?
- Mac Taylor: We got ourselves a triangle except it doesn't involve love. It involves murder.
- Detective Stella Bonasera: When I was a little girl, there was a sign hanging above the desk where I did my homework. And it said that "Temptation will lean on the doorbell, but opportunity may knock only once."
- Sam Baker: As ironic as it might seem, Debbie provided me with a second chance and I plan to make the most of it.
- Detective Stella Bonasera: Good.
- Detective Stella Bonasera: Manning fights his way back from the streets and seems to have a great life ahead of him.
- Mac Taylor: So, how does he end up in that alley right back where she found him?
- Detective Stella Bonasera: Sam, you were next.
- Sam Baker: What?
- Detective Stella Bonasera: Your life was insured for over $5 million dollars. In order to become a legitimate beneficiary, Debbie called herself your fiance in all of the paperwork.
- Sam Baker: I can't believe this is happening. I was living on the streets. She helped me get a place.
- Detective Stella Bonasera: This was all part of the plan. Debbie and Grace waited two years, enough time for the policies to mature and pay out at maximum benefits, no matter what the manner of death. Most likely, Sam, in a week, you'd have been dead.