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The Best Episodes of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 2

Every episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 2!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 2 Episode 13 - Identity Crisis
    8.5/10(1097 votes)

    S2:E13

    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
    Writers:Ann Donahue, Anthony E. Zuiker

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  2. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 2 Episode 14 - The Finger
    8.5/10(1091 votes)

    S2:E14

    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
    Writers:Carol Mendelsohn, Danny Cannon

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  3. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 2 Episode 19 - Stalker
    8.3/10(1134 votes)

    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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  4. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 2 Episode 8 - Slaves of Las Vegas
    8.2/10(1133 votes)

    S2:E8

    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

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  5. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 2 Episode 2 - Chaos Theory
    8.1/10(1059 votes)

    S2:E2

    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:Unknown

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  6. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 2 Episode 9 - And Then There Were None
    8.1/10(1010 votes)

    S2:E9

    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:Unknown

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  7. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 2 Episode 21 - Anatomy of a Lye
    8.0/10(985 votes)

    S2:E21

    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
    Writers:Josh Berman, Andrew Lipsitz

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  8. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 2 Episode 23 - The Hunger Artist
    8.0/10(1019 votes)

    S2:E23

    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
    Writers:Jerry Stahl, Anthony E. Zuiker, Carol Mendelsohn

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  9. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 2 Episode 7 - Caged
    7.9/10(1023 votes)

    S2:E7

    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
    Writers:Elizabeth Devine, Carol Mendelsohn

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  10. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 2 Episode 18 - Chasing The Bus
    7.9/10(994 votes)

    S2:E18

    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

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  11. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 2 Episode 22 - Cross Jurisdictions
    7.9/10(1179 votes)

    S2:E22

    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
    Writers:Anthony E. Zuiker, Carol Mendelsohn, Ann Donahue

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  12. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 2 Episode 5 - Scuba Doobie-Doo
    7.8/10(994 votes)

    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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  13. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 2 Episode 11 - Organ Grinder
    7.8/10(974 votes)

    S2:E11

    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
    Writers:Ann Donahue, Elizabeth Devine

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  14. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 2 Episode 15 - Burden of Proof
    7.8/10(987 votes)

    S2:E15

    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

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  15. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 2 Episode 10 - Ellie
    7.7/10(968 votes)

    S2:E10

    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

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  16. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 2 Episode 4 - Bully for You
    7.6/10(995 votes)

    S2:E4

    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

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  17. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 2 Episode 6 - Alter Boys
    7.6/10(1050 votes)

    S2:E6

    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

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  18. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 2 Episode 17 - Felonious Monk
    7.6/10(976 votes)

    S2:E17

    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

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  19. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 2 Episode 1 - Burked
    7.5/10(1043 votes)

    S2:E1

    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
    Writers:Anthony E. Zuiker, Carol Mendelsohn

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  20. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 2 Episode 3 - Overload
    7.5/10(997 votes)

    S2:E3

    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

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  21. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 2 Episode 12 - You've Got Male
    7.5/10(954 votes)

    S2:E12

    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
    Writers:Marc Dube, Corey Miller

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  22. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 2 Episode 16 - Primum Non Nocere
    7.4/10(994 votes)

    S2:E16

    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

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  23. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 2 Episode 20 - Cats in the Cradle
    7.4/10(1012 votes)

    S2:E20

    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

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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"Identity Crisis" is the best rated episode of "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" season 2. It scored 8.5/10 based on 1097 votes. Directed by Kenneth Fink and written by Ann Donahue, Anthony E. Zuiker, it aired on 1/17/2002. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "The Finger".