The bulletin board headed "crime solve score board", briefly in shot around 25 min, shows CSI names of Warrick, Nick, Sara, Catherine, and Joe, with a list of their open and solved cases. Possibly as an in-joke about Grissom's lackadaisical feelings about office admin tasks, the board hasn't been updated in the five years since season 1, and also who "Joe" refers to is never made clear.
Aasif Mandvi plays a doctor who examines a shooting suspect in a Las Vegas hospital. A year later, on the apocalyptic drama Jericho (2006) (also a CBS drama), Mandvi would play a doctor who found himself in Jericho, KS after fleeing a Las Vegas devoid of power and water.