Warrick Brown

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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation character
Warrick Brown
Gender Male
Hair color Black
Birthdate October 10, 1970
City Las Vegas
Job CSI
Rank CSI Level 3
Position Night shift CSI
Current status Alive
Known relatives Tina (wife), unnamed Grandmother (deceased)
Portrayed by Gary Dourdan
First appearance The Pilot

Warrick Brown (born October 10, 1970) is a fictional character on the television series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. The character is played by Gary Dourdan.

[edit] Fictional character biography

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Warrick is the only member of the team born and raised in Las Vegas. As of season 7, Warrick has never met his father. His mother died when he was seven, leaving Warrick in the care of his maternal grandmother. He grew up in a strict household, and that meant he kept his position as a runner (someone who jots down sports bets and runs between casinos to place those bets) a secret from his grandmother.

Prior to becoming a CSI, Warrick worked as a casino runner throughout his teenage years. He put himself through college working as a taxi driver, a bell captain at the Sahara, selling helicopter rides over the Grand Canyon, and a grave digger before finding his way to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department and its CSI.

Early in the series, Warrick had a severe gambling problem, one that even started to cross into his professional career. In the pilot episode Warrick left a crime scene, leaving a new CSI, Holly Gribbs, without backup so he could place a bet on a team for a judge. The perpetrator of the crime Holly and Warrick were investigating returned to the scene and murdered Holly. Their supervisor, Gil Grissom was supposed to fire Warrick for this, but having already lost one CSI, he did not want to lose another.

Brown can move just as easily through the Clark County courthouse as he can through the Sportsbook at the Hard Rock. To let off steam, he DJs at clubs run by his friends and writes his own songs. Spending his whole life in the city means Warrick knows at least one person in most bars, clubs, and hotels there. He's connected, and he uses those connections to move between his worlds. He dated a lot of women in his early twenties, but the first time he fell in love, the woman broke his heart. As a result he became more cautious with his lovelife.

Warrick maintains a good friendship with fellow CSI Nick Stokes. Warrick is extremely upset when Nick is kidnapped and buried alive in the two part Season 5 finale, "Grave Danger" parts 1 and 2, as he felt it should have been him to volunteer for the assignment in which Nick was kidnapped (they flipped a coin to see who would take which assignment that evening). Warrick pushed the team as hard as he could when investigating Nick's disappearance, not knowing what he would do if he was unable to save his friend.

After dating a woman named Tina for a short time, he proposed and quickly married in Season 6. When he announced this, many of his co-workers were surprised, including a somewhat dismayed Catherine Willows. Nearing the Season 6 finale, Warrick's marriage seemed to have become rocky, but after a scene when Tina's supposed infidelity was shown to be her planning a party for Warrick, nothing more of the marriage has been shown. Through the mid-point of Season 7, Warrick still wears his wedding band, which would suggest that he and Tina have worked through their differences.

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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Episodes | Characters
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 | Michael Keppler
Creator(s) Anthony E. Zuiker
Computer Games CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | CSI: Dark Motives
CSI: 3 Dimensions of Murder | CSI: Hard Evidence
Related Series CSI: NY | CSI: Miami
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