10.0/101 votes#1 - Castles in the Sand
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 8/19/1992
Andrea and the children nearly catch Dylan and Kelly sleeping on the beach. Kelly tells Dylan that they must forget their summer romance, but he doesn't want to do this. Brenda and Donna come home from Paris and are greeted with a party. Jim and Cindy agree to let Brenda resume her relationship with Dylan. Kelly tries to avoid Brenda and Dylan, and is annoyed when he continually inquires about her well-being. Brenda suspects that Dylan cheated on her. She confesses her fling with Rick, but they decide to move forward with their relationship. Brandon dumps Brooke because of her constant stereotypical comments about other races and religions. In danger of being fired as David's manager, Steve engages in bribery to get him a gig at the beach club's end-of-season dance. Music: ""Dancin'"" by Chris Isaak; ""Be My Love,"" performed by Brian Austin Green
Director: Paul Lazarus
Writer: Ann Donahue
9.0/102 votes#2 - 10-7
Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 5/23/2005
While investigating the murder of man hired to make dirty bombs that terrorists intend to set off in Miami, Horatio finds the bloody fingerprint of his brother, Raymond, who he believed to be dead. However, when Raymond's son is kidnapped, he emerges from deep undercover and the estranged brothers must work together to save the boy. Meanwhile, while processing a crime scene, an unknown assailant holds a gun to Calleigh's head and, after a deadly confrontation in her gun lab, she is left doubting that she can continue as a CSI.
Director: Joe Chappelle
Writer: Ann Donahue
8.8/104 votes#3 - Blood Brothers
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/22/2003
Horatio investigates the murder of a model intentionally run down outside of a Miami hotel by a driver who fled the scene. When the evidence leads to a suspect, governmental red tape puts an unexpected twist on the proceedings. Horatio and Yelina begin to confront their feelings for one another.
Director: Danny Cannon
Writer: Ann Donahue
8.5/1010 votes#4 - Strip Strangler
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 5/17/2001
The team is investigating the ongoing murders by a signature killer. The killer has some knowledge of forensics and has left little evidence behind. With the investigation somewhat stalled, the sheriff invites the FBI to join the case. This makes Grissom angry and it only gets worse when Sara offers to bait the killer.
Director: Danny Cannon
Writer: Ann Donahue
8.3/103 votes#5 - Lost Son
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/20/2004
After a large yacht slams into a major Miami bridge, the team finds that the man steering the boat was shot and killed before the accident. The victim's wife reveals that their son had been kidnapped and her husband was handing over the ransom – three million dollars worth of jewels. But when the team learns that the jewels were fake, the investigation leads them into a dangerous situation at a jewelry shop that may contain crucial evidence, where Horatio must face the unimaginable when one of the team is killed in the line of duty.
Director: Duane Clark
Writer: Ann Donahue
8.2/1010 votes#6 - A Little Murder
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/16/2002
Grissom suspects murder, not suicide, when the body of a dwarf is found hanging from a rope high above a stage in a casino hotel where a convention of little people is being held. Across town, Catherine is attacked at a crime scene where a man was murdered during what appears to have been a home robbery.
Director: Tucker Gates
Writer: Ann Donahue
8.2/109 votes#7 - Snuff
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/20/2002
Catherine called in by a pornographic-film developer to view graphic footage from a snuff movie in which a woman is brutally slain. But the clues are scant: The murderer isn't clearly seen, the cheap-looking hotel room could be almost anywhere and the film was sent to the developer anonymously. Outside of town, Grissom investigates another killing when a body, smothered with fire ants, is found stuffed inside a large toolbox. The initial findings indicate that the person died well over a year earlier.
Director: Kenneth Fink
Writer: Ann Donahue
8.2/104 votes#8 - Manhattan Manhunt (II)
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/9/2005
Horatio Caine follows Henry Darius to New York so that he can keep his promise to a young boy in Miami, but by the time he and Mac are able to locate Darius he has disappeared again, leaving behind six more bodies. The crossover starts on CSI: Miami S04E07 Felony Flight (I).
Director: Rob Bailey
Writer: Ann Donahue
8.0/1010 votes#9 - Identity Crisis
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 1/17/2002
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
Writer: Ann Donahue
- 8.0/1011 votes
#10 - Burden of Proof
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 2/7/2002
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
8.0/1010 votes#11 - Kitty
Season 14 Episode 21 - Aired 4/30/2014
The team investigates the cyber-related murder of a prominent casino owner's wife and receive help from the FBI's Cyber Crime Division.
Director: Eagle Egilsson
Writer: Ann Donahue
- 7.9/109 votes
#12 - Cross Jurisdictions
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 5/8/2002
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
Writer: Ann Donahue
7.8/1010 votes#13 - Bully for You
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/18/2001
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
7.8/1010 votes#14 - The Accused is Entitled
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 10/2/2002
Grissom and his crew are called in to investigate the death of a young woman found in the hotel room of popular actor Tom Haviland. Haviland admits that he slept with her, but denies killing her. Grissom believes otherwise, however, after finding blood evidence on the celebrity. Then things get personal when Haviland's lawyer hires Grissom's former mentor, Philip Gerard, to find mistakes in the forensic part of the case. And, unfortunately for Grissom, Gerard finds plenty of errors to exploit.
Director: Kenneth Fink
Writer: Ann Donahue
7.8/104 votes#15 - From the Grave
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/20/2005
The team must find the connection between the two crime scenes; the killing of a drug dealer and the rape of a well-off family member.
Director: Karen Gaviola
Writer: Ann Donahue
7.7/109 votes#16 - Gentle, Gentle
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 4/12/2001
The entire team investigate the abduction of the infant child of a well to do family. Suspicion immediately falls on the child's parents.
Director: Danny Cannon
Writer: Ann Donahue
7.7/1011 votes#17 - Alter Boys
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/1/2001
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
7.7/103 votes#18 - MIA/NYC - NonStop
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 5/17/2004
When a teenage girl returns home from a big party night at an underage nightclub to find her parents murdered, the search for the killer leads Horatio to New York City. Before he arrives, the New York detectives, led by Detective Mac Taylor, are called out to investigate the shooting of an undercover police officer – who, it turns out, is the lead suspect in the Miami case. However, the medical examiner determines that he has been dead for 72 hours and could not even have been alive at the time of the double-murder in Miami. After further investigation, Horatio and Mac determine that the real killer murdered the New York cop, then used his ID to get to Miami, and is still on the loose.
Director: Danny Cannon
Writer: Ann Donahue
- 7.7/103 votes
#19 - Identity
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 2/14/2005
When the CSIs find a woman swallowed whole and killed by a gigantic snake, they uncover a covert drug smuggling operation. Evidence leads Horatio and the team to a drug smuggling operation where large snakes are suspected of be being used to bring illegal drugs into the country to avoid detection by customs. However, when Horatio finds that Clavo Cruz, a nemesis of Horatio's who hides behind his diplomatic immunity, may be behind the operation, the team must find a legal way to put the criminal behind bars. Meanwhile, Wolfe must find the truth when two women each claim that they are the real victim of identity theft and the other is the culprit.
Director: Gloria Muzio
Writer: Ann Donahue
7.7/103 votes#20 - Felony Flight (I)
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 11/7/2005
A convicted serial killer escapes after sabotaging an airplane that was flying him from New York to Miami, where he allegedly buried a body. After fleeing the crash site, the man goes on a killing spree and abducts a college student. Mac Taylor arrives to help Horatio track the killer since Mac originally arrested the man in New York. The crossover concludes on CSI: New York S02E07 Manhattan Manhunt (II).
Director: Scott Lautanen
Writer: Ann Donahue
7.7/103 votes#21 - Born to Kill
Season 5 Episode 24 - Aired 5/14/2007
There's a serial killer on the loose marking all of his victims with a Y on their chests and one or more of the csi's lives are in danger in this season 5 finale
Director: Karen Gaviola
Writer: Ann Donahue
7.5/109 votes#22 - 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: Ann Donahue
7.5/1012 votes#23 - Recipe for Murder
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 1/9/2003
Grissom and Catherine investigate the grisly meat grinder murder at a slaughterhouse. Warrick and Sara look into the apparent suicide of a troubled young woman.
Director: Richard J. Lewis
Writer: Ann Donahue
- 7.3/109 votes
#24 - Boom
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 2/8/2001
A bomb goes off in an office building killing one and injuring many more. The chief suspect is a security guard who left minutes before the explosion and has knowledge in bomb making. Nick helps his prostitute friend again. After giving in to his passion, she is found dead the next morning. Naturally, Nick is a suspect and to make it worse, Ecklie has the case.
Director: Kenneth Fink
Writer: Ann Donahue
7.3/1010 votes#25 - Organ Grinder
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/12/2001
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
Writer: Ann Donahue
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"Castles in the Sand" is the best rated episode written by Ann Donahue. It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. It was directed by Paul Lazarus. It aired on 8/19/1992 and is rated 1.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "10-7".