While in a garage building, a young black woman is attacked and kidnapped in her car. Later, she is found in the road shoulder raped and with two bullets in her skull and left to die. Grissom, Nick and Sara investigate the case, while Catherine and Warrick are assigned to help the prosecutor in a case that is finally going to trial after three years, but the key evidence is missing. Sara visits the Jane Doe in coma in the hospital and feels involved with the case when she learns that the woman would live a vegetative life in case of surviving. Meanwhile, Catherine and Warrick find contradictory statements from the killer, who was a neighbor, and the widow and follow this evidence to find the truth.
—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil