In the nearly ten years of the series, the opening credits' (pilot epsiode) scene of Grissom's experiment dummy-being bludgeoned in the back of the head-has always been shown.
Night Shift Supervisor Jim Brass states that the Las Vegas crime lab is Number Two in the country. He does not tell us who is number one. For the record, number one belongs to the FBI lab in Quantico, Virginia.
In the United Kingdom for its premiere, the pilot episode was stitched together with the second episode Cool Change (2000) and aired as a feature-length presentation.
This is the only episode where Jim Brass is the Night Shift Supervisor and Gil Grisom is the Assistant Night Shift Supervisor.