Nick Stokes
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| CSI: Crime Scene Investigation character | |
 George Eads portrays Nick Stokes | |
| Nick Stokes | |
|---|---|
| Gender | Male
<tr><th align="left">Hair color</th><td>Brown</td></tr><tr><th align="left">Birthdate</th><td>August 18, 1971</td></tr> |
| City | Las Vegas |
| Job | CSI
<tr><th align="left">Rank</th><td>CSI Level 3</td></tr><tr><th align="left">Position</th><td>Nightshift CSI</td></tr> |
| Current status | Alive
<tr><th align="left" valign="top">Known relatives</th><td>Bill Stokes (father), Jillian Stokes (mother), several unnamed older siblings</td></tr> |
| Portrayed by | George Eads |
| First appearance | The Pilot |
Nicholas 'Nick' Stokes (born August 18, 1971) is a fictional character on the drama series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. He is portrayed by actor George Eads.
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[edit] Background
Stokes spent his first three years out of college on the Dallas police force, then transferred to the Dallas crime lab, spending one year as CSI level 1 before transferring to the Las Vegas crime lab. Nick specializes in hair and fiber analysis.
[edit] Biography
Nick is currently single. When he was nine years old, Nick had a traumatic experience, most likely molestation, at the hands of a last-minute replacement babysitter. He never told anyone until 2001, when he confided in Catherine Willows in episode 203, "Overload". Because of this Nick easily loses his cool, becoming irrational and even violent, when investigating crimes against children. Nick was a member of a fraternity when he was in college and is familiar with fraternity hazing, as he tells a fraternity member in the fourth episode, Pledging Mr. Johnson .
Nick seems to have had a happy childhood and is close to his parents. In the season five finale "Grave Danger," it is revealed that his father's nickname for him is "Pancho", and he in turn calls his father "Cisco" (probably a reference to the central characters in The Cisco Kid). His boss, Gil Grissom, later uses the "Pancho" nickname to calm Nick down while they are trying to rescue him from a coffin that has been rigged with explosives.
Nick has a natural empathy with the people affected by the crimes he investigates. Other members of the team believe that it is better to maintain an emotional distance. This difference in outlook is a source of much comment and occasionally raised voices.
Other than that, Nick is usually affable and gets along with his co-workers (except maybe Hodges). Nick considers co-worker Warrick Brown a very good friend.
In Grave Danger (Season 5 finale), Nick was nearly killed when he was incapacitated using ether, put inside a Plexiglass coffin and buried underground while an installed web camera provided visuals of his plight to his coworkers who were initially helpless to save him. It turned out he was the target of an attack on the CSI team by a man whose daughter was implicated in a murder case. The deathtrap culminated when fire ants entered Nick's coffin and attacked him. Although Nick was in horrific agony in this ordeal, the ants gave Gil Grissom (who is an insect expert) a vital clue that allowed the team to determine his location. The box was also rigged with semtex. Thus informed, Nick's coworkers rushed to his rescue and managed to save him from the brink of death.
Despite being one of the more well-adjusted members of Grissom's team, he has personally been the victim of a number of crimes during the course of the series: he has had his car (and all the evidence inside it) stolen (Rashomama); he has been kidnapped and buried alive (Grave Danger); held at gunpoint more than once; stalked (Stalker); and thrown out of a second-story window, to name a few.
During the sixth season of CSI, Nick grew a moustache, but soon got rid of it.
George Eads, who portrays Nick Stokes, has a much stronger Texas accent in real life than on the show.
[edit] Quotes
- (To Grissom) "How come whenever you talk about bugs, people say you're a genius, but when I talk about birds people say that I watch too much TV?"
- (To Sara) "You can't have a career without a job."
- "There's a sucker born every minute... and they all come to Vegas."
- (To Sanders) "What's up, Einstein? Got anything there?"
[edit] References
| CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | |
|---|---|
| Episodes | Characters | Official website | |
| Characters | Gil Grissom | Catherine Willows | Nick Stokes | Warrick Brown Sara Sidle | Jim Brass | Greg Sanders | Al Robbins Sofia Curtis | Conrad Ecklie |
| Former Characters | Holly Gribbs | Paul Millander | Lady Heather |
| Creator(s) | Anthony E. Zuiker |
| Computer Games | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | CSI: Dark Motives CSI: 3 Dimensions of Murder |
| Related Series | CSI: New York | CSI: Miami |
