Jim Brass has a degree in history from Seton Hall University, the oldest diocesan university in the United States. He then worked for 20 years as a policeman.

During his time with the police in Jersey, he met his future wife, the marriage of the two, however, did not last too long. Brass has a daughter, but he is not her biological father. Elli was conceived during an affair of his unfaithful wife. After the father asked once he explains "... we call it the postman".

Later, he worked as director of CSI in Las Vegas before he was transferred as head of homicide. This offset in the past often led to controversy with Gil Grissom and other former colleagues, as they were his former employees.

Basically, the situation has now relaxed and Brass has a good relationship with Grissom, but that does not mean that the two characters get along nicely all the time. It is the same case with the remaining members of the team.

It is a different situation when it comes to Warrick Brown, however, because Brass approaches the crime scene investigators rather sceptically in the television series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.

In his current role as head of the homicide, Jim Brass (played by Paul Guilfoyle) acts as a link between the Las Vegas Crime Lab and the Las Vegas Police Department. In most cases, Brass gives a very nice impression.

He's a cop who leaves no trace in his work and whose goal is to convict an offender and sentence him accordingly. Usually Jim Brass appears very tough and sarcastic acting in a suspect interrogation.

His relationship with his daughter Ellie is more than tensioned because she hardly allows him to have any say about her life. Ellie doesn’t know that she isn’t his daughter, and she must never find out know either. Jim would like to improve their relationship, but his initiatives are met adversely.

Still, he tried his luck again and again. In an episode Ellie tells him that the time is now and that he mustn’t turn back, whereupon she turns around and walks away. The sad and a little lost looking Jim Brass stands there looking after her, so it makes it seem as if he had a little bit of heartache.

You may find all episodes of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation here.