The Best Episodes Directed By Scott Lautanen
Every TV Episode Directed by Scott Lautanen Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters
Scott Lautanen Ratings Summary
The best episode directed by Scott Lautanen is "Grand Murder at Central Station", rated 8.2/10 from 4 user votes. It was "written by N/A". "Grand Murder at Central Station" aired on 10/5/2005 and is rated 0.2 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "Red Rock Jarod".
8.2/10 4 votes#1 - Grand Murder at Central Station
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/5/2005
Stella and Danny are heading into the world of cuddle parties: non-sexual events were adults learn to touch and hug each other. Meanwhile, Mac, Hawkes, and Flack investigate the death of a hated plastic surgeon found covered with lye with thousands of eyewitnesses during rush hour at Grand Central Station. While Mac and Stella assist Aiden in a rape case, after she breaks an evidence seal, Mac must come to terms with Aiden's action and work up the nerve to fire her.
Director: Scott Lautanen
Writer: N/A
8.0/10 2 votes#2 - Red Rock Jarod
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 5/2/1998
DRY RIVER, ARIZONA - Responding to an email he believes was sent to him by Sydney, Jarod finds himself in the hands of someone he once thought dead. Jarod also meets a boy who is in need of a heart transplant. Meanwhile, Miss Parker closes in on Jarod. But she's in for a surprise when she meets his captor.
Director: Scott Lautanen
Writer: Juan Carlos Coto
8.0/10 3 votes#3 - Blackout
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/3/2006
Blackouts leave Los Angeles in the dark. Don must work with his entire team to figure out if the power outages are a catastrophic accident or the sinister plot of terrorists.
Director: Scott Lautanen
Writer: Andrew Dettmann
8.0/10 3 votes#4 - Triple Threat
Season 5 Episode 18 - Aired 3/19/2007
After a wealthy businessman is killed at a charity event the CSI's first suspect his wife who was hosting the event. The blood evidence is thought to belong to the wife or her two secret twin sisters but leads the investigators in another direction after the victim is not who they thought he was.
Director: Scott Lautanen
Writer: C-Murder
7.9/10 8 votes#5 - The Priest in the Churchyard
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 3/28/2007
A broken water main uproots multiple coffins in an old graveyard. When the team is brought in to identify the bodies for re-interment, they discover a newer skeleton that should not be in the graveyard, which has not been used for 50 years.
Director: Scott Lautanen
Writer: Lyla Oliver
7.7/10 3 votes#6 - Felony Flight (I)
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 11/7/2005
A convicted serial killer escapes after sabotaging an airplane that was flying him from New York to Miami, where he allegedly buried a body. After fleeing the crash site, the man goes on a killing spree and abducts a college student. Mac Taylor arrives to help Horatio track the killer since Mac originally arrested the man in New York. The crossover concludes on CSI: New York S02E07 Manhattan Manhunt (II).
Director: Scott Lautanen
Writer: Anthony E. Zuiker
- 7.7/10 3 votes
#7 - Under the Influence
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/4/2004
The CSIs must find the killer after a young woman is pushed in front of a moving bus. Alexx finds a bruise shaped like a hand imprint on the victim's back, proving that she was pushed in front of the bus, and her boyfriend, Jay Seaver, is the prime suspect. When one of Jay's office rivals also turns up dead, Jay reveals that he has a psychotic stalker, Claudia, who he thinks might kill to please him. However, when Jay hires a lawyer to protect Claudia, Horatio suspects that Jay may be more involved than they thought. Later, a man's body is discovered down an elevator shaft in a nearby building, and there is evidence to link the victims to a common killer. Meanwhile, Calleigh's father seeks her help when he fears that he may have killed someone after a night of drinking, and Horatio assigns a new CSI, Ryan Wolfe, to the case.
Director: Scott Lautanen
Writer: Marc Dube
7.5/10 2 votes#8 - Crash
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 4/11/1998
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA - While waiting for his plane, Jarod meets a young man who is bumped to a later flight. Jarod offers an exchange of tickets to the boy, who thanks him for helping. But Jarod is horrified when he hears later that day that the plane has crashed. Guilt ridden, Jarod sets out to find the cause of the accident. Meanwhile, Miss Parker is put in charge of find out everything on Mr. Lyle. And with aid from Jarod; Sydney, Broots, and Miss Parker are going to get all the information they need.
Director: Scott Lautanen
Writer: Paul Jackson
7.5/10 2 votes#9 - Stolen
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 5/2/1998
SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA - After taking down a corrupt doctor, Jarod unexpectedly gets involved in a kidnapping when the father of the kidnapped ends up in the hospital. Back at The Centre, Miss Parker sides with Mr. Raines on the fact that Sydney is becoming too attached to Jarod. To the point, even, that it's complicating the search for him.
Director: Scott Lautanen
Writer: Tommy Thompson
7.5/10 2 votes#10 - Extreme
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 12/4/1999
Jarod Pretends to be an extreme sports enthusiast in order to learn what happened to a comatose young man. Meanwhile, Miss Parker, Sydney, and Broots follow Jarod's "game show" clues, and find themselves investigating Mr. Lyle.
Director: Scott Lautanen
Writer: Craig W. Van Sickle
- 7.5/10 4 votes
#11 - Hell Night
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 10/25/2004
The wife of a famous baseball player is brutally killed in her home and her philandering husband is charged with the crime. The jury on the case, as well as the accused and his defense, visits the house to examine the crime scene, but when the lights are dimmed, as they were when the victim was killed, and then turned back on, the ball player is found dead with a meat clever in his back and a note that reads "guilty." Now, as Horatio and the team find that the husband's defense team tampered with the crime scene, they must examine the evidence to find the couple's killers. Meanwhile, Horatio gets a call from Yelina, who tells him that her son, Ray, Jr., is missing.
Director: Scott Lautanen
Writer: C-Murder
7.5/10 4 votes#12 - Fade Out
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 1/30/2006
When evidence shows that a series of murders is linked to organized crime, Horatio and the team are instead lead to a pair of film students who have screenplay that contains the details of the crimes.
Director: Scott Lautanen
Writer: C-Murder
7.4/10 5 votes#13 - Kill Clause
Season 8 Episode 9 - Aired 11/23/2009
Deadly jellyfish are used as a murder weapon, and a mysterious woman from Jesse's past returns.
Director: Scott Lautanen
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/10 3 votes
#14 - After The Fall
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 11/29/2004
The CSIs must investigate when a pedestrian is killed after a man falls from a building and lands on him. Horatio and the team find that the victim found on the sidewalk is not the same man who fell from the building, but the unfortunate person he landed on. The CSIs discover that the fallen victim is in possession of a sex DVD involving a top Miami criminal judge and a woman with a sordid sex life. When the woman is found dead, the team must delve into the complicated personal lives of those in Miami's judicial system in order to find the killer.
Director: Scott Lautanen
Writer: Ildy Modrovich
7.3/10 3 votes#15 - Free Fall
Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 4/10/2006
The CSI team must try to find out who is trying to kill a young couple who are released from prison. The couple was made out to be “media darlings” and soon find that not everyone though of them as darlings. Calleigh must work with her ex-boyfriend to help solve the case.
Director: Scott Lautanen
Writer: Marc Dube
7.3/10 4 votes#16 - Prey
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/3/2005
The search of a missing 17-year-old girl, whose trip to Miami turns into an ongoing nightmare.
Director: Scott Lautanen
Writer: Barry O'Brien
7.0/10 2 votes#17 - Murder 101
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 1/9/1999
Jarod takes over a criminal psychology class and teaches a lesson in committing a flawless murder before tracking down three suspected killers.
Director: Scott Lautanen
Writer: Daniel Truly
7.0/10 1 votes#18 - Dr. Feelgood
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/12/2007
Still reeling from Mick's revelation about his identity, a cautious Beth struggles as she helps him track down a blood-thirsty, renegade vampire who doesn't know how to deal with his killer urges.
Director: Scott Lautanen
Writer: Gabrielle Stanton
7.0/10 10 votes#19 - The Man in the Mud
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 4/14/2008
A body discovered in a hot spring turns out to be that of Tripp Goddard, a sexy motorcycle racer who had disappeared two weeks earlier. Sweets talks Booth and Bones into going out with him and his girlfriend.
Director: Scott Lautanen
Writer: Janet Tamaro
- 7.0/10 6 votes
#20 - Tanglewood
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/26/2005
The detectives investigate a murder at a grocery store that is also connected to the death of a young man with the tattoo "Tanglewood" on his back. A third case involves a woman who was killed in a hit-and-run auto accident.
Director: Scott Lautanen
Writer: Carol Mendelsohn
- 7.0/10 3 votes
#21 - Money Plane
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 3/7/2005
Someone uses a laser light to blind a pilot and bring down a jet, which carries $1.2 billion in checks to be delivered to banks on the eastern seaboard. The crime scene evidence reveals a victim, a young fundraising socialite, who was inside the plane but killed prior to the crash. Now, although the team has little to work with since the victim's wealthy family is opposing an autopsy, Horatio must follow the money trail. Meanwhile, Calleigh works on the case with her ex-boyfriend, Detective Hagen, and their romantic history could cause problems for both of them.
Director: Scott Lautanen
Writer: Sunil Nayar
7.0/10 3 votes#22 - Whacked
Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 5/16/2005
An axe murderer on death row is given a stay of execution just moments before it was to take place, on the grounds that there may have been tainted DNA analysis used at his trial. Now, without using any DNA evidence, the team must race against time and reexamine all of the physical evidence in the case, just as they get a call on a new double murder that looks suspiciously like the case they're working on.
Director: Scott Lautanen
Writer: Ann Donahue
7.0/10 4 votes#23 - Shattered
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 11/28/2005
A drug lord is gunned in his Coconut Grove mansion and a suspect arrested at the scene claims he sells marijuana to Delko. Stetler, from Internal Affairs, investigates and the case quickly gets personal when Horatio gets involved. As for the shooting, the CSIs learn that two gunmen may have been involved. Also, Calleigh makes a major decision concerning her job.
Director: Scott Lautanen
Writer: Ildy Modrovich
7.0/10 3 votes#24 - If Looks Could Kill
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 10/9/2006
The CSI’s investigate the murder of a male model and have to figure out the inner workings of the modeling world in order to find his killer.
Director: Scott Lautanen
Writer: Barry O'Brien
7.0/10 3 votes#25 - No Man's Land
Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 2/5/2007
A truck carrying weapons that were confiscated from previous crimes are now back on the streets of Miami. An old enemy of Horatio's puts the lives of two CSI's in harms way after a confiscated missile is launched into courthouse allowing Clavo Cruz to escape during his arraignment and injuring one CSI and the fatality of another CSI.
Director: Scott Lautanen
Writer: N/A