7.5/10959 votes#1 - Burked
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/27/2001
Grissom and crew are called in after high roller Tony Braun, a known drug addict, is found dead in his house by a gardener. Since drug paraphernalia is discovered near his body and it is also determined that he had recently inhaled heroin, the cause of death is at first thought to be an overdose. But further examination of the corpse reveals that Braun had been restrained at some point with duct tape, leading Grissom to believe that the victim was forced to ingest lethal amounts of heroin and, perhaps, other drugs.
Director: Danny Cannon
Writer: Anthony E. Zuiker, Carol Mendelsohn
- 8.0/10978 votes
#2 - Chaos Theory
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/4/2001
The entire CSI team investigates a disappearance at a local university. A young woman vanished, seemingly off the face of the earth.
Director: Kenneth Fink
Writer: N/A
7.5/10921 votes#3 - Overload
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/11/2001
Grissom investigates a possible suicide at a high-profile construction site. Catherine takes on a case with a teenage boy who dies while in session with his female psychologist,
Director: Richard J. Lewis
Writer: Josh Berman
7.6/10910 votes#4 - Bully for You
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/18/2001
When the class clown at the local high school is found murdered, the CSI team is called to investigate, while Nick and Sara respond to the crime scene of a decomposed body found in a bag.
Director: Thomas J. Wright
Writer: Ann Donahue
7.8/10924 votes#5 - Scuba Doobie-Doo
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/25/2001
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
Writer: Andrew Lipsitz, Elizabeth Devine
7.5/10967 votes#6 - Alter Boys
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/1/2001
Grissom and his team investigate a murder suspect who is caught red-handed -- burying the victims -- while Catherine and Warrick take on the case of a woman found dead in a hotel spa.
Director: Danny Cannon
Writer: Ann Donahue
7.9/10950 votes#7 - Caged
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/7/2001
Grissom and Nick investigate the death of a book restorer while Catherine and Sara are called to the scene of a fatal train crash.
Director: Richard J. Lewis
Writer: Carol Mendelsohn, Elizabeth Devine
8.2/101,053 votes#8 - Slaves of Las Vegas
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/14/2001
Grissom and Catherine investigate the apparent violent death of a woman found in a sandbox. Warrick and Sara are called to a crime scene to investigate a shooting, which initially appears to have taken place during a robbery.
Director: Peter Markle
Writer: Jerry Stahl
8.1/10934 votes#9 - And Then There Were None
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/21/2001
Grissom and his team investigate a casino heist during which innocent victims were shot, while Catherine and Sara are called to the scene of a murder in a remote part of the desert.
Director: John Patterson
Writer: N/A
7.7/10896 votes#10 - Ellie
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 12/5/2001
Warrick heads the investigation of the murder of a con artist who turns out to be involved with Brass' daughter, and the evidence leads Sara on a counterfeit investigation.
Director: Charles Correll
Writer: Anthony E. Zuiker
7.8/10899 votes#11 - Organ Grinder
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/12/2001
When the body of Bob Fairmont, the real estate developer, is found, the team discovers that the crime scene has been tampered with and that the victim has been re-dressed.
Director: Allison Liddi-Brown
Writer: Ann Donahue, Elizabeth Devine
- 7.5/10882 votes
#12 - You've Got Male
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/19/2001
Grissom and Sara are called to the crime scene when two murder victims are found hidden in pipes at a construction site in the middle of an alfalfa field, while Catherine and Nick investigate an ostensible hunting accident.
Director: Charles Correll
Writer: Marc Dube, Corey Miller
8.5/101,025 votes#13 - Identity Crisis
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 1/17/2002
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
8.5/101,014 votes#14 - The Finger
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 1/31/2002
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
- 7.8/10904 votes
#15 - Burden of Proof
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 2/7/2002
Grissom investigates the murder of a Las Vegas photographer whose remains were dumped at a nearby body farm where CSIs routinely study corpses, and his findings reveal that the man was apparently shot to death even though there are no bullet fragments in the body.
Director: Kenneth Fink
Writer: Ann Donahue
- 7.4/10914 votes
#16 - Primum Non Nocere
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 2/28/2002
Grissom, Catherine and Sara are called in to investigate the death of a hockey player on the ice. Warrick and Nick look into the apparent drug-related death of a sax player at a casino.
Director: Danny Cannon
Writer: Andrew Lipsitz
- 7.6/10900 votes
#17 - Felonious Monk
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 3/6/2002
Grissom investigates the murders of four monks who were shot point blank while chanting in a Buddhist temple; Catherine reopens a cold case in which her best friend was murdered, after the man convicted of the crime claims he's innocent shortly before he dies.
Director: Kenneth Fink
Writer: Jerry Stahl
- 7.9/10919 votes
#18 - Chasing The Bus
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 3/28/2002
A bus carrying 23 passengers from Los Angeles to Las Vegas crashes less than 40 miles from its destination, killing nine people. Tthe CSIs soon discover that a recent parolee was on the bus, but is now unaccounted for.
Director: Richard J. Lewis
Writer: Eli Talbert
- 8.3/101,047 votes
#19 - Stalker
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 4/4/2002
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
Writer: Anthony E. Zuiker, Danny Cannon
- 7.4/10920 votes
#20 - Cats in the Cradle
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 4/24/2002
Grissom and Catherine investigate the stabbing death of an 80-year-old woman who lived in a run-down house full of cats; Nick and Sara comb through the remains of a car bombing that was, apparently, a murder plot gone awry.
Director: Richard J. Lewis
Writer: Kristy Dobkin
- 8.0/10915 votes
#21 - Anatomy of a Lye
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 5/1/2002
Grissom and Sara investigate when a man's body, which has been doused with lye, is found buried in a park; Nick tries to determine how a hiker apparently drowned in a desert.
Director: Kenneth Fink
Writer: Andrew Lipsitz, Josh Berman
- 7.8/101,125 votes
#22 - Cross Jurisdictions
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 5/8/2002
Grissom and his crew handle their highest profile case to date when the city's former chief of detectives is slain execution-style in his house following a wild party. Missing from the residence are the chief's trophy wife and their 7-year-old daughter. Catherine and Warrick follow the trail to Miami, and soon enlist the help of Horatio Caine.
Director: Danny Cannon
Writer: Anthony E. Zuiker, Ann Donahue, Carol Mendelsohn
- 8.0/10939 votes
#23 - The Hunger Artist
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 5/15/2002
Season Finale. The CSIs investigate when the body of an unidentified young woman is discovered stuffed in an overturned shopping cart near a freeway underpass. Her horribly disfigured and partially decomposed face is a nightmare of blood, scabs and scars, as if she'd been shoved into a fan. A huge circular hole dominates her left cheek. Someone not only wanted her dead, Grissom reasons, but ""they wanted her ugly."" Adding to the mystery are the cart's other contents: an expensive handbag, fashion magazines and a leather day planner with notes written in code.
Director: Richard J. Lewis
Writer: Anthony E. Zuiker, Carol Mendelsohn, Jerry Stahl
The Best Episodes of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 2
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A Las Vegas team of forensic investigators are trained to solve criminal cases by scouring the crime scene, collecting irrefutable evidence and finding the missing...
Genres:CrimeDramaMystery
Network:CBS
Season 2 Ratings Summary
"Burked" is the best rated episode of "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" season 2. It scored 7.5/10 based on 959 votes. Directed by Danny Cannon and written by Anthony E. Zuiker, Carol Mendelsohn, it aired on 9/27/2001. This episode is rated 0.5 points higher than the second-best, "Chaos Theory".