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The Best Episodes of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 8

Every episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 8 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 8!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 8 Episode 1 - Dead Doll
    7.8/10(1101 votes)

    #1 - Dead Doll

    S8:E1

    With time, the weather, and the desert against them, the CSI team must work together to find Sara before she dies from the miniature killer's attack.

    Director:Kenneth Fink
    Writer:Naren Shankar

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  2. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 8 Episode 2 - A La Cart
    7.7/10(896 votes)

    #2 - A La Cart

    S8:E2

    The CSI team investigates two unusual cases, one involving the suspicious death of a go-cart racer who took his hobby to the highway and paid the price with his life, and a murder at a hip new restaurant where patrons dine in the dark

    Director:Richard J. Lewis
    Writers:Sarah Goldfinger, Richard Catalani

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  3. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 8 Episode 3 - Go To Hell
    7.4/10(843 votes)

    #3 - Go To Hell

    S8:E3

    The team investigates a girl whose whole family had been killed and she is supposedly possessed by the devil.

    Director:Jeffrey G. Hunt
    Writer:Douglas Petrie

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  4. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 8 Episode 4 - The Case of the Cross-Dressing Carp
    7.4/10(821 votes)

    #4 - The Case of the Cross-Dressing Carp

    S8:E4

    Grissom investigates the mysterious hanging death of a young man whose body looks like that of a female.

    Director:Alec Smight
    Writers:David Rambo, Jacqueline Hoyt

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  5. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 8 Episode 5 - The Chick Chop Flick Shop
    7.3/10(872 votes)

    #5 - The Chick Chop Flick Shop

    S8:E5

    Grissom and his team investigate when an actress is killed on the set of a horror porn film.

    Director:Richard J. Lewis
    Writer:Evan Dunsky

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  6. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 8 Episode 6 - Who and What (I)
    7.5/10(822 votes)

    #6 - Who and What (I)

    S8:E6

    Grissom and the team join forces with Jack Malone, an FBI Agent from New York to track a serial killer. The crossover continues on Without A Trace S06E06 Where & Why (II).

    Director:Danny Cannon
    Writers:Carol Mendelsohn, Naren Shankar

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  7. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 8 Episode 7 - Goodbye and Good Luck
    8.0/10(975 votes)

    #7 - Goodbye and Good Luck

    S8:E7

    Sara questions her future as a CSI when a past case comes back to haunt her, the 12 year old Hannah, who has to back up her brother one more time with all new tricks up her sleeves.

    Director:Kenneth Fink
    Writers:Sarah Goldfinger, Allen MacDonald

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  8. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 8 Episode 8 - You Kill Me
    7.5/10(981 votes)

    #8 - You Kill Me

    S8:E8

    Hodges stages hypothetical murders in the lab in order to give his fellow lab techs a chance to play CSI, but unbenownst to them he has other motives behind his actions. Meanwhile, after Sara's farewell, everyone tries to comfort Grissom.

    Director:Paris Barclay
    Writers:Sarah Goldfinger, Naren Shankar

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  9. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 8 Episode 9 - Cockroaches
    7.6/10(831 votes)

    #9 - Cockroaches

    S8:E9

    The team investigates an underground mob. Warrick ends up becoming the prime suspect in a murder that's related to the mob, and his addiction to pills starts to have a significant impact on his job as a CSI.

    Director:William Friedkin
    Writer:Dustin Lee Abraham

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  10. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 8 Episode 10 - Lying Down With Dogs
    7.6/10(852 votes)

    #10 - Lying Down With Dogs

    S8:E10

    The world of illegal dog fighting is explored by Grissom and the rest of the team when they take on the case of a wealthy socialite who was murdered. Meanwhile, Warrick struggles to clear his name in the recent exotic dancer murder case.

    Director:Michael Slovis
    Writers:Michael Daley, Christopher Barbour

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  11. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 8 Episode 11 - Bull
    7.3/10(794 votes)

    #11 - Bull

    S8:E11

    Two murders that happen during Las Vegas' annual bull riding rodeo are investigated by the CSIs, who find that the murders might be connected to illegal bull breeding.

    Director:Richard J. Lewis
    Writer:David Rambo

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  12. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 8 Episode 12 - Grissom's Divine Comedy
    7.8/10(786 votes)

    #12 - Grissom's Divine Comedy

    S8:E12

    Grissom and his team battle the flu when they are called upon by D.D.A. Klein to investigate the deaths of several key witnesses for a grand jury case against a dangerous Las Vegas gang.

    Director:Richard J. Lewis
    Writers:Carol Mendelsohn, Jacqueline Hoyt

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  13. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 8 Episode 13 - A Thousand Days on Earth
    8.0/10(804 votes)

    #13 - A Thousand Days on Earth

    S8:E13

    CSI investigates the death of a little girl whose identity remains unknown.

    Director:Kenneth Fink
    Writer:Evan Dunsky

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  14. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 8 Episode 14 - Drops Out
    7.5/10(766 votes)

    #14 - Drops Out

    S8:E14

    Brass, Catherine, Grissom and Nick work the case of a female victim found in an apartment building with a gun shot wound. Drops becomes a person of interest during the investigation, even though he is still in jail.

    Director:Jeffrey G. Hunt
    Writers:Dustin Lee Abraham, Naren Shankar

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  15. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 8 Episode 15 - The Theory of Everything
    8.1/10(851 votes)

    #15 - 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
    Writers:David Rambo, Carol Mendelsohn

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  16. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 8 Episode 16 - Two and a Half Deaths
    7.4/10(1027 votes)

    #16 - Two and a Half Deaths

    S8:E16

    Grissom, Catherine, Nick, Greg and Brass are investigating the death of a well known TV star called Annabelle.

    Director:Alec Smight
    Writers:Chuck Lorre, Lee Aronsohn

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  17. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 8 Episode 17 - For Gedda
    8.7/10(1068 votes)

    #17 - 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
    Writers:Kenneth Fink, Dustin Lee Abraham

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Season 8 Ratings Summary

"Dead Doll" is the best rated episode of "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" season 8. It scored 7.8/10 based on 1101 votes. Directed by Kenneth Fink and written by Naren Shankar, it aired on 9/27/2007. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "A La Cart".