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The Best Episodes of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Every episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 9 Episode 1 - For Warrick
    9.4/10(1313 votes)

    #1 - For Warrick

    S9:E1

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

    Director:Richard J. Lewis
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 9 Episode 10 - One to Go
    9.1/10(1021 votes)

    #2 - One to Go

    S9:E10

    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
    Writers:Carol Mendelsohn, Naren Shankar

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  3. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 12 Episode 11 - Ms. Willows Regrets... (1)
    9.0/10(826 votes)

    #3 - Ms. Willows Regrets... (1)

    S12:E11

    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:Unknown

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  4. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 2 Episode 5 - Scuba Doobie-Doo
    8.9/10(983 votes)

    #4 - Scuba Doobie-Doo

    S2:E5

    Grissom, Sara and Warrick are called on to investigate an abandoned, blood-splattered apartment and Nick and Catherine must examine a dead scuba diver lodged in a tree.

    Director:Jefery Levy
    Writers:Elizabeth Devine, Andrew Lipsitz

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  5. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 4 Episode 23 - Bloodlines
    8.8/10(936 votes)

    #5 - Bloodlines

    S4:E23

    A casino employee is beaten and raped on her way home from work, but she survives and identifies her attacker. Unfortunately, a DNA test sets him free and Grissom must wrestle with whether evidence can ever lie. Later, Grissom comes to the rescue of a coworker who ends up on the other side of the law

    Director:Kenneth Fink
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 6 Episode 5 - Gum Drops
    8.8/10(1190 votes)

    #6 - Gum Drops

    S6:E5

    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

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  7. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 8 Episode 15 - The Theory of Everything
    8.8/10(843 votes)

    #7 - The Theory of Everything

    S8:E15

    A deer is illegally killed, and the person found with the body in the back of his truck apparently dressed it in a tutu. The man, who was completely drunk when arrested, was being interrogated by Nick and Brass, and suddently tries to escape and is pepper sprayed. Unfazed by the spray, officers then taser him and he bursts into flames and dies. Meanwhile an unbalanced woman wearing a tinfoil outfit at the front desk tries to warn people (including Nick) of an alien invasion. After observing the burning man, she later turns up dead with green-tinted blood. When other people turn up with the same problem, it's up to the team to figure out why. Meanwhile, an old couple dies, apparently in their sleep... but there is evidence the cases are related.

    Director:Christopher Leitch
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 8 Episode 17 - For Gedda
    8.8/10(1064 votes)

    #8 - For Gedda

    S8:E17

    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:Unknown

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  9. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 9 Episode 9 - CSI-19 down
    8.8/10(871 votes)

    #9 - CSI-19 down

    S9:E9

    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
    Writers:Carol Mendelsohn, Naren Shankar

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  10. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 9 Episode 21 - If I Had A Hammer
    8.8/10(773 votes)

    #10 - If I Had A Hammer

    S9:E21

    Catherine revisits one of the very first cases she worked as a CSI when the convicted felon in the murder claims the verdict was based on faulty evidence.

    Director:Brad Tanenbaum
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 10 Episode 9 - Appendicitement
    8.8/10(863 votes)

    #11 - Appendicitement

    S10:E9

    When Nick, Greg and Hodges take Henry to celebrate his birthday at a biker bar, they uncover a double homicide and find several suspects still at the bar who may be the murderers.

    Director:Kenneth Fink
    Writer:Evan Dunsky

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  12. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 2 Episode 19 - Stalker
    8.7/10(1118 votes)

    #12 - Stalker

    S2:E19

    Jane Galloway lives in fear. Her doors are triple-locked. Every shade is drawn. The bathroom window is nailed shut. An alarm system is activated. Who killed Jane, and how could the murderer have possibly entered, and left, the house?

    Director:Peter Markle
    Writers:Anthony E. Zuiker, Danny Cannon

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  13. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 3 Episode 9 - Blood Lust
    8.7/10(926 votes)

    #13 - Blood Lust

    S3:E9

    Distracted by an attractive passenger, an Indian taxi driver feels his cab strike something at a suburban intersection. When he gets out to check, he finds a teenage boy pinned beneath the left rear tire, apparently killed on impact. The cabbie jumps back into the taxi to call for help, but a mob of angry onlookers - all of them white - drags him out and beats him for the crime. When Grissom arrives on the scene, he discovers that the teen has been eviscerated and has stab wounds, but shows no signs of having been struck by the cab.

    Director:Charles Correll
    Writers:Josh Berman, Carol Mendelsohn

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  14. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 3 Episode 19 - A Night at the Movies
    8.7/10(883 votes)

    #14 - A Night at the Movies

    S3:E19

    Grissom and Catherine investigate a movie-goer who was stabbed to death; the team comes to a forensic impasse while processing a teenager who died from a gunshot wound.

    Director:Matt Earl Beesley
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 5 Episode 9 - Mea Culpa
    8.7/10(833 votes)

    #15 - Mea Culpa

    S5:E9

    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:Unknown

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  16. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 6 Episode 10 - Still Life
    8.7/10(852 votes)

    #16 - Still Life

    S6:E10

    The CSI's are called out to investigate the disappearance of a boy whose father died four years ago. Soon a couple is arrested at a convenience store with a boy matching the description of the missing kid. The only problem is they both claim it is their son. Both parents have exactly the same picture of the boy, with a scar on exactly the same place on his face. They hope a DNA-test could confirm who the real parents are, but when this information comes to light, it lead to another bizarre twist, possibly murder.

    Director:Richard J. Lewis
    Writer:David Rambo

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  17. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 7 Episode 7 - Post Mortem
    8.7/10(898 votes)

    #17 - Post Mortem

    S7:E7

    While investigating an elderly woman's murder, Grissom receives a miniature crime scene replica; Greg attends a hearing to ascertain his culpability in a teenager's accidental death.

    Director:Richard J. Lewis
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 7 Episode 8 - Happenstance
    8.7/10(858 votes)

    #18 - Happenstance

    S7:E8

    Identical twins are found murdered on the same night. The CSI’s investigate the two separate murders only to find a twist in the investigation find that leads them in another new direction.

    Director:Jean de Segonzac
    Writer:Sarah Goldfinger

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  19. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 7 Episode 16 - Monster in the Box
    8.7/10(928 votes)

    #19 - Monster in the Box

    S7:E16

    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
    Writers:Douglas Petrie, Naren Shankar

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  20. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 7 Episode 24 - Living Doll
    8.7/10(1194 votes)

    #20 - Living Doll

    S7:E24

    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
    Writers:Sarah Goldfinger, Naren Shankar

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  21. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 11 Episode 13 - The Two Mrs. Grissoms
    8.7/10(771 votes)

    #21 - The Two Mrs. Grissoms

    S11:E13

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

    Director:Steven Felder
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 12 Episode 8 - Crime After Crime
    8.7/10(738 votes)

    #22 - Crime After Crime

    S12:E8

    Three new murders related to three unsolved (or incorrectly solved) crimes from the past come back to haunt the CSIs.

    Director:Paul McCrane
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 1 Episode 23 - Strip Strangler
    8.6/10(1080 votes)

    #23 - Strip Strangler

    S1:E23

    The team is investigating the ongoing murders by a signature killer. The killer has some knowledge of forensics and has left little evidence behind. With the investigation somewhat stalled, the sheriff invites the FBI to join the case. This makes Grissom angry and it only gets worse when Sara offers to bait the killer.

    Director:Danny Cannon
    Writer:Ann Donahue

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  24. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 3 Episode 10 - High and Low
    8.6/10(892 votes)

    #24 - High and Low

    S3:E10

    Grissom, Warrick, and Nick investigate the case of man who apparently was murdered and pushed off a six story building. Grissom's involvement is cut short by renewed hearing problems. Catherine looks into the murder of man outside of his regular bar.

    Director:Richard J. Lewis
    Writers:Eli Talbert, Naren Shankar

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  25. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 5 Episode 11 - Who Shot Sherlock?
    8.6/10(913 votes)

    #25 - Who Shot Sherlock?

    S5:E11

    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
    Writers:David Rambo, Richard Catalani

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Best Episodes Summary

"For Warrick" is the best rated episode of "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation". It scored 9.4/10 based on 1313 votes. Directed by Richard J. Lewis and written by Unknown, it aired on 10/9/2008. This episode scored 0.3 points higher than the second highest rated, "One to Go".