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The Best Episodes of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 7

Every episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 7 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 7!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 7 Episode 1 - Built To Kill (1)
    7.9/10(951 votes)

    #1 - Built To Kill (1)

    S7:E1

    In part one of this two-part seventh season opener Grissom and Catherine handle the case of a women's dead body found at Cirque du Soleil by a performer. Meanwhile, an investor at one of Sam Braun's new casinos is shot to death during a party on the rooftop. Catherine's life is in jeopardy after visiting a nightclub with Nick. Grissom finds a miniature replica of a crime scene that he is investigating.

    Director:Kenneth Fink
    Writer:Sarah Goldfinger

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  2. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 7 Episode 2 - Built To Kill (2)
    8.6/10(1052 votes)

    #2 - Built To Kill (2)

    S7:E2

    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

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  3. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 7 Episode 3 - Toe Tags
    7.9/10(990 votes)

    #3 - Toe Tags

    S7:E3

    Coming straight from the perspectives of five people: Donna, Rebecca, Jack, Lou and Ray. All with one thing in common. They’re all dead. Brass and Catherine get to handle the case of Donna, who’s a cop from San Francisco, moonlighting as a bodyguard. Warrick and Greg work the case of Rebecca, who’s a former supermodel who died while hiking with her new husband Gavin. Nick and Sofia handle the case of Jack, a returning veteran from Iraq, who was killed in front of his wife and baby daughter who he just met for the first time. Grissom and Sara take the case of Lou and Ray whose bodies were found in Lou’s garage.

    Director:Jeffrey G. Hunt
    Writers:Allen MacDonald, Carol Mendelsohn

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  4. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 7 Episode 4 - Fannysmackin'
    8.3/10(1078 votes)

    #4 - Fannysmackin'

    S7:E4

    Three tourists are beat up, badly. One is dead, Alfonzo. Jessica is badly beaten but is still alive. Stanley, the last tourist is saved by Greg who ends up severely hurt in turn and ends up hospitalized after having to make a life altering decision.

    Director:Richard J. Lewis
    Writer:Dustin Lee Abraham

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  5. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 7 Episode 5 - Double-Cross
    7.3/10(865 votes)

    #5 - Double-Cross

    S7:E5

    Grissom and Sara may be secret lovers, but they still find ways to surprise each other like when their religious beliefs surface when two nuns find a body of a woman crucified on a makeshift cross. The woman was found in a church where the priest may be a man of sin instead of a man of God.

    Director:Michael Slovis
    Writers:Marlane Meyer, Marlane Gomard Meyer

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  6. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 7 Episode 6 - Burn Out
    7.7/10(869 votes)

    #6 - Burn Out

    S7:E6

    Grissom attempts to get a confession from a neighborhood pedophile by having him help in locating two missing boys. The sex offender is the main suspect. The investigation is more complex than the team ever thought it would be.

    Director:Alec Smight
    Writer:Jacqueline Hoyt

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  7. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 7 Episode 7 - Post Mortem
    8.1/10(907 votes)

    #7 - 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:Naren Shankar

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  8. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 7 Episode 8 - Happenstance
    7.8/10(866 votes)

    #8 - 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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  9. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 7 Episode 9 - Living Legend
    8.4/10(1077 votes)

    #9 - Living Legend

    S7:E9

    The Cadillac of an infamous 1970’s mob boss turns up in a lake, even though he disappeared years ago. A photo of current murder victims also turns up in the car, so the team must determine whether this current murder spree is related to the missing gangster.

    Director:Martha Coolidge
    Writers:Douglas Petrie, Carol Mendelsohn

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  10. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 7 Episode 10 - Loco Motives
    8.5/10(972 votes)

    #10 - Loco Motives

    S7:E10

    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

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  11. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 7 Episode 11 - Leaving Las Vegas
    8.0/10(870 votes)

    #11 - Leaving Las Vegas

    S7:E11

    Catherine testifies in a murder trial in which a man is accused of murdering his own mother three years ago, but the suspect is found not guilty. Catherine, however, believes he did commit the crime and that he may also have killed two other people, so she sets out to find the other victims. Grissom prepares to leave on a four-week sabbatical.

    Director:Richard J. Lewis
    Writers:Allen MacDonald, Carol Mendelsohn

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  12. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 7 Episode 12 - Sweet Jane
    8.0/10(917 votes)

    #12 - Sweet Jane

    S7:E12

    The team has a hard time trying to understand Michael who has become a team member since Grissom’s teaching hiatus. They investigate the murder of an unidentified girl who may have been killed by a serial killer who has been killing since the early 1970’s.

    Director:Kenneth Fink
    Writers:Kenneth Fink, Naren Shankar

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  13. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 7 Episode 13 - Redrum
    7.8/10(847 votes)

    #13 - Redrum

    S7:E13

    At Keppler's request Catherine uses a different approach to catch the killer, and in doing so she deceives the rest of the CSI team. The team soon discovers that something is amiss in Catherine’s investigation.

    Director:Martha Coolidge
    Writers:David Rambo, Richard Catalani

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  14. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 7 Episode 14 - Meet Market
    7.5/10(812 votes)

    #14 - Meet Market

    S7:E14

    Nick and Keppler investigate the bizarre world of the black market sales of body parts after they find a body that has been burned and the organs removed. The rest of the CSI team investigates the death of rich woman who was killed in her own home.

    Director:Paris Barclay
    Writer:Dustin Lee Abraham

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  15. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 7 Episode 15 - Law of Gravity
    8.6/10(992 votes)

    #15 - Law of Gravity

    S7:E15

    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

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  16. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 7 Episode 16 - Monster in the Box
    8.6/10(936 votes)

    #16 - 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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  17. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 7 Episode 17 - Fallen Idols
    7.8/10(918 votes)

    #17 - Fallen Idols

    S7:E17

    Grissom and his team are discouraged when they find a pool of blood as they begin investigating the disappearance of a high school basketball star and his cheerleader girlfriend.Grissom's quip that the young lovers may have run off to Mexico is soon quashed by the discovery of drops of blood by Ryan's vacant parking spot at the school. After finding a letterman jacket and cheerleading sweater in the field house and a pool of Ryan's blood nearby, the team tries to determine what went awry.

    Director:Christopher Leitch
    Writers:Marlane Meyer, Marlane Gomard Meyer

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  18. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 7 Episode 18 - Empty Eyes
    8.0/10(918 votes)

    #18 - Empty Eyes

    S7:E18

    The terrified eyes and cryptic words of a murder victim haunt Sara while she processes the house where several showgirls were killed.

    Director:Michael Slovis
    Writer:Allen MacDonald

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  19. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 7 Episode 19 - Big Shots
    7.4/10(795 votes)

    #19 - Big Shots

    S7:E19

    After a man is killed in his limousine, Greg finds that the murder victim has ties to the man he had to kill in self-defense. The team finds that the brother is involved in this investigation and has to deal with him and his hostile mother.

    Director:Jeff Woolnough
    Writer:Dustin Lee Abraham

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  20. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 7 Episode 20 - Lab Rats
    8.4/10(1017 votes)

    #20 - Lab Rats

    S7:E20

    The CSI labrats take center stage to discuss the case of the Miniature Killer.

    Director:Brad Tanenbaum
    Writers:Sarah Goldfinger, Naren Shankar

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  21. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 7 Episode 21 - Ending Happy
    8.6/10(1145 votes)

    #21 - Ending Happy

    S7:E21

    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

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  22. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 7 Episode 22 - Leapin' Lizards
    7.3/10(832 votes)

    #22 - Leapin' Lizards

    S7:E22

    Several suspects in a murder case are UFO-club members who believe shape-shifting aliens have been working to conquer the human race for centuries

    Director:Richard J. Lewis
    Writers:David Rambo, Carol Mendelsohn

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  23. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 7 Episode 23 - The Good, the Bad, and the Dominatrix
    7.6/10(853 votes)

    #23 - The Good, the Bad, and the Dominatrix

    S7:E23

    Grissom investigates when a sadistic client tries to murder Lady Heather (Melinda Clarke), who makes the probe more difficult when she refuses to name her attacker. Also, Grissom's reunion with Lady Heather makes Sara uneasy.

    Director:Alec Smight
    Writer:Jacqueline Hoyt

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  24. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 7 Episode 24 - Living Doll
    8.9/10(1204 votes)

    #24 - 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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Season 7 Ratings Summary

"Built To Kill (1)" is the best rated episode of "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" season 7. It scored 7.9/10 based on 951 votes. Directed by Kenneth Fink and written by Sarah Goldfinger, it aired on 9/21/2006. This episode is rated 0.7 points higher than the second-best, "Built To Kill (2)".