CSI: Crime Scene Investigation2000

Nick Stokes:
[about Marlon West] He confessed. It was later thrown out on a technicality. We really didn't need it. The prosecution's case against Marlon was very strong.

Sara Sidle:
Until Marlon's little sister Hannah got on the stand and confessed to the murder herself.

Catherine Willows:
Oh, yes, I remember this case. A high school senior at age 12.

Nick Stokes:
She's a pint-size Machiavelli. She manipulated events, fabricated evidence, and in the end...

Sara Sidle:
She claimed that she did it because she loved Marlon. Some warped sense of justice... She graduated later that summer, became legally emancipated from her parents and went off to Harvard, pre-med.

Gil Grissom:
You keeping tabs on her?

Sara Sidle:
Not recently. Look, accident or no accident, Marlon killed before. Hannah sunk this case, Marlon got a free pass, and now he's killed again.

Catherine Willows:
Well, we don't know that just yet. I mean, we don't have Marlon's DNA to compare with the semen that was found in the victim. All the old evidence was expunged with the verdict.

Sara Sidle:
I want this case.

Gil Grissom:
The one that got away?

Sara Sidle:
We're not supposed to let them get away, right?