When a man is found dead in a trash container on Thanksgiving night, Grissom and the team look to what the man ate for the cause of death.
The team finds a dead baby rattlesnake in the throat of a decapitated human head, sending investigators into a dangerous underground world that glamorizes violence and brutality.
A human eyeball is found in a raven's nest, and the team traces it to a murdered woman; a car salesman has a heart attack and winds up on the autopsy table, but he is still alive.
Grissom and Catherine probe the death of a trainer who was trampled by a racehorse in the cargo hold of a lavish private jet.