The Best Episodes of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

After Warrick is shot in a Las Vegas alley, the CSI team comes together to deal with the aftermath.

Director: Richard J. Lewis

Writer: Carol Mendelsohn

As the CSI's continue their search for and discover the identity of the "Miniature Killer", Grissom and Sara's relationship gets exposed to the rest of the team as she goes missing during the investigation. The "Miniature Killer" is finally captured, but not before a member of CSI becomes the killer's final victim.

Director: Kenneth Fink

Writer: Naren Shankar, Sarah Goldfinger

The CSI team is shocked and saddened when, after working with Dr. Raymond Langston (Fishburne) on the "Dick & Jane" murders, Grissom announces that his time as a CSI has come to an end and offers Langston a permanent position on the CSI team.

Director: Alec Smight

Writer: Carol Mendelsohn, Naren Shankar

Nick takes the lead on a case where in the house a family of four, three pools of blood are found. Nick thinks that the little girl may still be alive, but Sara is doubtful, thinking that Nick's recent near-death experience is affecting his judgement.

Director: Richard J. Lewis

Writer: Sarah Goldfinger

The CSI team says goodbye to Catherine Willows as she makes a life-changing decision.

Director: Alec Smight

Writer: N/A

When a teenager and her sister are the sole survivors of the gruesome murder of four members of one family in a quiet suburban neighborhood, Grissom and his entire team investigate the crime. What initially looks like a bizarre cult murder becomes more disturbing when they discover the motive behind the massacre.

Director: Kenneth Fink

Writer: N/A

Grissom is confronted with new evidence while on the stand of a murder trial of a restaurant owner. This development requires the reopening of the case and Eckley initiates an inquiry into Grissom and his team. The results of the inquiry lead to dramatic changes of the CSI team and the series.

Director: David Grossman

Writer: N/A

Catherine comforts Warrick when he is accused of murdering a famous Vegas gangster and even he is uncertain of his guilt or innocence.

Director: Kenneth Fink

Writer: Dustin Lee Abraham, Kenneth Fink

Greg, for his final proficiency, has to determine how the Sherlock Holmes of a Sherlock Holmes club was killed. Nick and Warrick try to determine how the driver of jeep was killed when the car ran off the road. They have to do this under budget while Catherine is watched by Ecklie.

Director: Kenneth Fink

Writer: Richard Catalani, David Rambo

A serial killer strikes again, and the CSI team tries new technology using evidence from a prior killing. They find a fingerprint belonging to Jesse Acheson, who becomes the prime suspect. A boy confesses to the killing of his brother, but evidence suggests that he may not have committed the crime.

Director: Duane Clark

Writer: Josh Berman, Richard Catalani

In the second part of this two-parter Grissom investigates the murder of an aging rockstar who is found dead in his kitchen with an exact replica of the crime scene on the counter next to him. Meanwhile, Catherine probes her own abduction and learns that someone may be targeting her family.

Director: Kenneth Fink

Writer: David Rambo

Grissom returns from his sabbatical; Keppler is put into a compromising position when the bodies of a Trenton police officer and a hooker are found in a hotel room. The man who found them is a retired New Jersey cop and close friend to Keppler, who doesn't reveal their relationship.

Director: Richard J. Lewis

Writer: Richard Catalani

Once he unseals a package sent to him through the mail, Grissom is floored when he finds a miniature crime scene inside. The finding is entirely more perplexing since the successive killer accountable for earlier related miniature crimes is now deceased. Grissom plows to examine the miniature and discover the actual location, when the investigation makes it clear the murder showed has yet to happen, but is probably going to happen soon.

Director: Jeffrey G. Hunt

Writer: Naren Shankar, Douglas Petrie

When the CSIs are called to a murder scene at a familiar motel, Nick is thrown for a loop as he pieces together three separate murder investigations that all took place at the same establishment over the course of a year.

Director: Richard J. Lewis

Writer: Tom Mularz

Grissom's nemesis, serial killer Paul Millander, reappears and claims a third victim in this gripping episode. The latest slaying matches Millander's previous killings in that it recreates his father's murder. The killer's next target was born Aug. 17, 1956...which just happens to be Grissom's birthday.

Director: Kenneth Fink

Writer: Anthony E. Zuiker, Ann Donahue

Catherine is ordered by a kidnapper to accompany a man who is to deliver $1 million in ransom to him or else he will kill the man's mistress.

Director: Richard J. Lewis

Writer: Carol Mendelsohn, Danny Cannon

Grissom investigates the murder of two men that leads him to a new encounter with Lady Heather. Catherine is desperate to find out what lead to the near death of her daughter and why her ex, Eddie, disappeared.

Director: Richard J. Lewis

Writer: Anthony E. Zuiker, Ann Donahue, Josh Berman, Bob Harris

The killer from The Execution of Catherine Willows returns with deadly results. The entire team is engaged in a race against time to stop this sadistic killer from succeeding again. Grissom is additionally distraught by the idea that this killer is smarter than he is.

Director: Kenneth Fink

Writer: Sarah Goldfinger

The CSIs sift through the overwhelming evidence from a shootout with drug dealers in order to determine who is responsible for the death of a police officer killed during the incident.

Director: Kenneth Fink

Writer: Carol Mendelsohn, Richard Catalani

Grissom investigates when a worker at a poultry processing plant is found dead in a stun bath used to electrocute chickens before they are slaughtered. Nearby, a miniature replica of the crime scene is discovered. It's eerily similar to two other replicas left at scenes of homicides. Also, a man and a dead woman are found stuck in cement at a construction site; and an elderly Russian woman is discovered dead in her apartment with her head in a gas stove, but Warrick thinks she was murdered.

Director: Kenneth Fink

Writer: Evan Dunsky

When a has-been boxer is killed, the CSIs must establish which of several life-threatening acts actually killed him.

Director: Kenneth Fink

Writer: Evan Dunsky

When the team discovers a connection between a new murder and a serial killer, Grissom secretly joins the class of a criminal pathologist (Laurence Fishburne) to help crack the case.

Director: Kenneth Fink

Writer: Carol Mendelsohn, Naren Shankar

Sara clashes with her mother-in-law and a woman from Gil's past.

Director: Steven Felder

Writer: N/A

Catherine's friend Laura's mogul husband Mark has a lot to hide behind his successful international corporation, and he's hired a crack team of assassins to carry out the murders of anyone who might be aware of what he's doing, and that includes Laura's lawyer and Laura herself.

Director: Louis Shaw Milito

Writer: N/A

Grissom and his crew are called in to investigate the death of a young woman found in the hotel room of popular actor Tom Haviland. Haviland admits that he slept with her, but denies killing her. Grissom believes otherwise, however, after finding blood evidence on the celebrity. Then things get personal when Haviland's lawyer hires Grissom's former mentor, Philip Gerard, to find mistakes in the forensic part of the case. And, unfortunately for Grissom, Gerard finds plenty of errors to exploit.

Director: Kenneth Fink

Writer: Ann Donahue, Elizabeth Devine