Guest Stars

Alimi Ballard As Detective Kevin Crawford Recurring	Larry Sullivan As Officer Akers Recurring
Carter MacIntyre As Taylor Wynard	Kay Lenz As Laura Sidle

Co-Guest Stars

Adam Harrington As Ronald Basderic Recurring	Stan Egi As Joel Brenner

Main Cast

Ted Danson As Diebenkorn "D.B." Russell	Elisabeth Shue As Julie Finlay
George Eads As Nick Stokes	Paul Guilfoyle (1) As Captain Jim Brass
Jorja Fox As Sara Sidle	Eric Szmanda As Greg Sanders
Robert David Hall As Dr. Al Robbins	Wallace Langham As David Hodges
Elisabeth Harnois As Morgan Brody	David Berman As David Phillips
Jon Wellner As Henry Andrews

Recap

The episode begins with Sarah sitting alone at the restaurant. A man walks up to her table; he has also brought a small cake with a candle on it. He tells her that he took a shot in the dark and it turns out to be right; it is Sarah’s birthday. Sarah asks him to join her. Later, they go up to his hotel room. Next, Greg is at the hotel and meets Sarah who is now checking out of the hotel. He tells her that there is a dead body on the 18th floor. Sarah goes with Greg to check out the crime scene. They arrive at the crime scene; Sarah is shocked to see that the guy she spent time with last night, is now dead! Russell arrives and she tells him that she knows the victim and that she was in his room for an hour the previous night. ..

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• Creator	Anthony E. Zuiker
• Executive Producer	Don McGill  |  Jonathan Littman  |  Anthony E. Zuiker  |  Jerry Bruckheimer  |  Carol Mendelsohn  |  Ann Donahue  |  Louis Shaw Milito  |  Cindy Chvatal  |  William Petersen
• Co-Executive Producer	Gavin Harris  |  Richard Catalani  |  Melissa R. Byer  |  Rick Eid  |  Andrew Dettmann  |  Treena Hancock
• Producer	Steven Felder  |  Alec Smight  |  Kim Cybulski  |  Philip Conserva
• Co-Producer	Brad Tanenbaum (1)  |  Tom Mularz  |  Christopher Barbour
• Consulting Producer	Elizabeth Devine (1)
• Production Designer	Daniel Novotny
• Editor	Louis P. Bravo
• Line Producer	Frank Waldeck
• Director of Photography	Christian Sebaldt
• Composer	John Keane