This episode featured six contestants competing in Las Vegas. The winner would have to bet half the $50,000 on a hand of blackjack.

Doug and Carrie try to get the Russian workers to repair their house, by going to extreme lengths of giving them vodka.

The investigation into a drug heist offers brief glimpses into the private lives of the CSIs, whose nerves are on edge when they become suspects in the crime they're trying to solve. A police convoy headed across town includes an unmarked truck filled with confiscated drugs being taken to an incinerator to be destroyed. The trip ends abruptly when thieves hijack the vehicle, kill its driver and shoot Speedle, who was riding shotgun. It's hard for Horatio when the media draw comparisons to a similar case several years ago in which his brother, an undercover cop, was killed. But it's worse for his team when Internal Affairs decides that one of them tipped off the robbers about the delivery.

Tonight, President of the Council of Foreign Relations, Leslie Gelb.



Jon begins tonight reporting on the new date now picked for war, March 17th, St. Patricks Day. Jon notes the insanity that as the war begins, Americans will be partying at the same time.



Jon then reports on the continued U.N. vs. U.S. debate over whether the U.N. will authorize war with Iraq in a segment called "Slowdown: Iraq". Regardless, the U.S. will still go to war disregarding the U.N.'s guideline. Incidentally, that's why the U.S. is invading Iraq in the first place.



Finally, Jon looks at Broadway's orchestra strike in a segment called "The Music Ban". Jon talks with Senior Theatre Analyst Stephen Colbert about this story.

It's relationship chaos for the staff at Holby this week. Owen discovers the truth about Chrissie; Mubbs and Jess's secret's out; and Tony wakes up to the reality about his relationship with Ben. In theatre, Ric and Diane try to save Tony's kidney but it's unsalvageable. He's placed on dialysis until a suitable donor is found.