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The Best Episodes Written By Andrew Lipsitz

Every TV Episode Written by Andrew Lipsitz Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters

Andrew Lipsitz Ratings Summary

"Scuba Doobie-Doo" is the best rated episode written by Andrew Lipsitz. It scored 8.8/10 based on 9 votes. It was directed by Jefery Levy. It aired on 10/25/2001 and is rated 0.5 points higher than their second-best episode, "Sounds of Silence".

  • Scuba Doobie-Doo
    8.8/109 votes

    #1 - 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

  • Sounds of Silence
    8.3/109 votes

    #2 - Sounds of Silence

    Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 4/19/2001

    Two women run over a deaf man but they didn't kill him- he was already dead. Grissom has to find out who did it and he's not getting help from the deaf man's school. Catherine and Nick investigate an apparent mob hit that leaves five dead in a coffee shop.

    Director: Peter Markle

    Writer: Andrew Lipsitz

  • Precious Metal
    8.3/109 votes

    #3 - Precious Metal

    Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 4/2/2003

    Catherine, Nick, and Sara investigate a seemingly months old body found in the mountains. Discovery of the man's identity lead the team to the world of robot wars. Warrick and Grissom look into the case of a man found murdered in an alley. Complicating their efforts, the medical examiner ""lost"" the body for 11 days. Greg helps this case by doing some undercover work.

    Director: Deran Sarafian

    Writer: Andrew Lipsitz

  • What You See Is What You See
    8.3/106 votes

    #4 - What You See Is What You See

    Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 5/18/2005

    While Mac dines at his local breakfast spot, a gunman opens fire, leaving a waitress critically injured and a man dead, and Mac having to choose whether to chase after the suspect or save the life of the young woman. Meanwhile, before the chaos, Mac was approached by a shy patron who awkwardly engaged him in conversation. After feeling that he saved her life during the shoot out, she asks him to join her for a drink and Mac must decide if he is ready to start dating after his wife's tragic death.

    Director: Duane Clark

    Writer: Andrew Lipsitz

  • Fight Night
    8.2/109 votes

    #5 - Fight Night

    Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/13/2002

    A middleweight boxing champ dies in the ring after taking a brutal beating from his nemesis, but Grissom finds evidence that points to murder. Outside, in a nearby parking lot, Catherine works a crime scene where a Los Angeles gang member was gunned down, apparently by a rival gang. Also, Nick investigates a jewelry-store robbery.

    Director: Richard J. Lewis

    Writer: Andrew Lipsitz

  • Play with Fire
    8.2/1010 votes

    #6 - Play with Fire

    Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 5/7/2003

    A woman's body is discovered in a small press box at a high-school football field, apparently the victim of strangulation. The evidence leads investigators to two convicts, one of whom is still in prison. At the crime lab, an explosion destroys key evidence and leaves Greg and Sara injured.

    Director: Kenneth Fink

    Writer: Andrew Lipsitz

  • The Closer
    8.2/105 votes

    #7 - The Closer

    Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 5/11/2005

    The team examines the murder of an avid Boston Red Sox fan found dead with a ruptured spleen following a tough loss against New York. Danny must put his baseball skills to the test to piece together the evidence as the CSIs try to find out how and why he was murdered. Meanwhile, after testifying in a murder trial, Mac is confronted by the defendant, Quinn Sullivan, who questions the validity of the evidence. Mac is torn between trusting science or his desire to help a man facing jail time who swears he's innocent. Also, when a truck kills a barely clad woman early one morning, the team investigates why she was running through the streets and from whom.

    Director: Duane Clark

    Writer: Andrew Lipsitz

  • Corporate Warriors
    8.2/104 votes

    #8 - Corporate Warriors

    Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/19/2005

    Three cases. A murder during the Feast of San Gennaro with ties to a financial services company. A body sitting upright on a Central Park bench. An apartment fire where a 10-year-old boy died of smoke inhalation.

    Director: Rob Bailey

    Writer: Andrew Lipsitz

  • Necrophilia Americana
    8.2/104 votes

    #9 - Necrophilia Americana

    Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 3/22/2006

    A young boy witnesses the death of a museum curator but doesn't want to tell anyone about it. Danny investigates the death of an urban golfer found dead on a construction site.

    Director: Steven DePaul

    Writer: Andrew Lipsitz

  • Anatomy of a Lye
    8.1/109 votes

    #10 - 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

  • Friends & Lovers
    8.0/1010 votes

    #11 - Friends & Lovers

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/3/2000

    Grissom and Warrick take the case of a young man who is found naked in the desert without an obvious cause of death. Sara gets to find out why the body of a woman who was buried last week is in a dumpster. Catherine and Nick investigate the killing of a school's dean by the school's founder.

    Director: Lou Antonio

    Writer: Andrew Lipsitz

  • A Man a Mile
    8.0/105 votes

    #12 - A Man a Mile

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/3/2004

    Stella and Aiden investigate after finding the body of a teenage girl in a creek. They soon realize that she was a middle-class girl attending a fancy school who was trying to make it seem like her family had more money than they did, and trace her movements to a nightclub. Mac and Danny investigate when a body is found in the tunnels without any protective gear on, and end up running into a brick wall when the Sandhogs union blocks many of their attempts to get information about the victim.

    Director: David Grossman

    Writer: Andrew Lipsitz

  • Rain
    8.0/105 votes

    #13 - Rain

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/17/2004

    When the charred bodies of two men who had been robbing a Chinatown bank are found, the entire team investigates the crime, which leads them to Doris, the missing infant of the bank's manager. The team realises that Joanna Cho assisted with the robbery out of fear for her daughter's life. Mac and Stella finally manage to track down the third robber, only to find him lying in a pool of blood, with a trail of bloody baby handprints leading away from the body.

    Director: Alex Zakrzewski

    Writer: Andrew Lipsitz

  • After the Show
    7.9/109 votes

    #14 - After the Show

    Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 11/19/2003

    A suspect's infatuation with Catherine results in her taking over a high profile case. The case is a missing woman who aspired to be a showgirl. Sara and Nick are angered since it takes the career making case away from them.

    Director: Kenneth Fink

    Writer: Andrew Lipsitz

  • To Halve and to Hold
    7.5/109 votes

    #15 - To Halve and to Hold

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 2/15/2001

    When a single human bone is discovered in the desert, Grissom and Catherine must cover miles of territory to find the rest of the skeleton. And Warrick and Sarah trace the death of a male stripper to members of a wedding party who may have celebrated a little too hard the night before the nuptials.

    Director: Lou Antonio

    Writer: Andrew Lipsitz

  • Let the Seller Beware
    7.5/1010 votes

    #16 - Let the Seller Beware

    Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/9/2002

    Grissom and Catherine investigate the murder of a wealthy couple who are discovered just outside of their glamorous Las Vegas house, which was up for sale. Meanwhile, Sara probes the death of a cheerleader who is found eviscerated on a soccer field, her organs having been ingested by her killer.

    Director: Richard J. Lewis

    Writer: Andrew Lipsitz

  • Major Case
    7.5/102 votes

    #17 - Major Case

    Season 8 Episode 14 - Aired 7/26/2009

    Detective Eames assists with Nichols' case involving the death of an addict who was just days from going straight when Wheeler is otherwise engaged in the labor and delivery of her baby.

    Director: Christopher Zalla

    Writer: Andrew Lipsitz

  • Eleven Angry Jurors
    7.4/1010 votes

    #18 - Eleven Angry Jurors

    Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 1/8/2004

    The lone holdout on a jury is found dead in the jury room. The eleven jurors who were voting guilty and who hated the dead juror are the natural suspects. Nick reopens a four year old case when the sister of the victim comes forward with new evidence.

    Director: Matt Earl Beesley

    Writer: Andrew Lipsitz

  • Salome In Manhattan
    7.3/103 votes

    #19 - Salome In Manhattan

    Season 8 Episode 10 - Aired 6/28/2009

    A celebrity chef’s star is on the rise as he plans the opening of a trendy restaurant with powerful partners. Yet his world is upended when his tabloid-friendly, gorgeous girlfriend and business partner is killed under mysterious circumstances. Detectives Nichols and Wheeler enter the seductive world of power and privilege and discover desperation and murder.

    Director: Steve Shill

    Writer: Andrew Lipsitz

  • Primum Non Nocere
    7.0/1010 votes

    #20 - 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

  • Three Generations are Enough
    7.0/106 votes

    #21 - Three Generations are Enough

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/24/2004

    Danny and Mac investigate after a briefcase belonging to Luke Sutton is found left in the NYMEX with a bloody note inside. Their investigation into Sutton's activities lead them to Nick Lawson, whom Sutton had been investigating for illegal trades, but who swears he had nothing to do with his disappearance. Stella and Flack investigate the death of Trina Rolston, a young pregnant women who fell to her death from the roof of a church. With Hawkes help, Stella realises that the body was thrown off the roof to mask the true cause of death. The detectives soon realise that their two cases are connected.

    Director: Alex Zakrzewski

    Writer: Andrew Lipsitz

  • Night, Mother
    7.0/106 votes

    #22 - Night, Mother

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/15/2004

    Mac and Stella investigate the murder of a woman who was stabbed in the heart with a wooden stake. The police arrest a woman who was kneeling over the body with blood on her, but Mac isn't convinced that she committed the crime.

    Director: Greg Yaitanes

    Writer: Andrew Lipsitz

  • The Dove Commission
    6.8/106 votes

    #23 - The Dove Commission

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 3/23/2005

    When the chief investigator of a controversial report documenting corruption within the NYPD is gunned down the day before his findings are published, Mac and Stella must find the killer, launching a massive search that makes every officer listed in the report a suspect. Meanwhile, Danny and Aiden investigate the murder of a gypsy cab driver.

    Director: Emilio Estevez

    Writer: Andrew Lipsitz

  • Jamalot
    6.6/105 votes

    #24 - Jamalot

    Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/30/2005

    Mac and Stella work on the case of a female roller derby player. Danny and Hawkes look into the murder of one of New York's upcoming crop of writers.

    Director: Jonathan Glassner

    Writer: Andrew Lipsitz