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
The best episode written by Andrew Lipsitz is "Scuba Doobie-Doo", rated 8.8/10 from 9 user votes. It was "directed by Jefery Levy". "Scuba Doobie-Doo" aired on 10/25/2001 and is rated 0.5 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "Sounds of Silence".
8.8/10 9 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
8.3/10 9 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
- 8.3/10 6 votes
#3 - 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
8.3/10 9 votes#4 - 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
8.2/10 9 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
- 8.2/10 5 votes
#6 - 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
- 8.2/10 4 votes
#7 - 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
- 8.2/10 4 votes
#8 - 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
- 8.2/10 10 votes
#9 - 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
- 8.1/10 9 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
8.0/10 5 votes#11 - 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: Kevin Bray
Writer: Andrew Lipsitz
- 8.0/10 5 votes
#12 - 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
8.0/10 10 votes#13 - 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
7.9/10 9 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
7.5/10 10 votes#15 - 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
7.5/10 9 votes#16 - 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
7.5/10 2 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
7.4/10 10 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
7.3/10 3 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
- 7.0/10 10 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
- 7.0/10 6 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
- 7.0/10 6 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
- 6.8/10 6 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
- 6.6/10 5 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