8.6/1010 votes#1 - Stalker
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 4/4/2002
Jane Galloway lives in fear. Her doors are triple-locked. Every shade is drawn. The bathroom window is nailed shut. An alarm system is activated. Who killed Jane, and how could the murderer have possibly entered, and left, the house?
Director: Peter Markle
Writer: Anthony E. Zuiker
8.5/102 votes#2 - Koala
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/20/2022
When three masked assailants invade a home and murder an entire family, including a pregnant woman, the CSIs are called to the scene to investigate. Catherine leads the team through the emotional case, which intensifies her own longing to reconnect with her estranged daughter, Lindsey.
Director: Claudia Yarmy
Writer: Anthony E. Zuiker
- 8.4/1010 votes
#3 - The Hunger Artist
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 5/15/2002
Season Finale. The CSIs investigate when the body of an unidentified young woman is discovered stuffed in an overturned shopping cart near a freeway underpass. Her horribly disfigured and partially decomposed face is a nightmare of blood, scabs and scars, as if she'd been shoved into a fan. A huge circular hole dominates her left cheek. Someone not only wanted her dead, Grissom reasons, but ""they wanted her ugly."" Adding to the mystery are the cart's other contents: an expensive handbag, fashion magazines and a leather day planner with notes written in code.
Director: Richard J. Lewis
Writer: Anthony E. Zuiker
8.3/109 votes#4 - Lucky Strike
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 2/20/2003
A man driving with a wooden stake in his head dies in front of a casino. Grissom and Nick work to discover the 'vampire' killer. Warrick and Catherine hunt for the killer of a NBA star's 5 year old son.
Director: Kenneth Fink
Writer: Anthony E. Zuiker
8.3/108 votes#5 - Feeling the Heat
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 10/22/2003
During Vegas's latest Heat wave of triple digit temperatures, Gil and Catherine investigate a baby locked in a car. Warrick investigates a man dead of an apparent heat stroke in his house. Nick and Sarah investigate a woman's body found floating in the lake with a blow to the head.
Director: Kenneth Fink
Writer: Anthony E. Zuiker
- 8.2/109 votes
#6 - Evaluation Day
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 5/10/2001
On the day Grissom has to evaluate his team, a head is found in the trunk of a car. While Gil and Catherine work on the head, Sara and Nick investigate a body in the desert that's missing it's head. Warrick looks into a murder in juvenile detention in which his young friend James is the only witness.
Director: Kenneth Fink
Writer: Anthony E. Zuiker
8.2/1011 votes#7 - Ellie
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 12/5/2001
Warrick heads the investigation of the murder of a con artist who turns out to be involved with Brass' daughter, and the evidence leads Sara on a counterfeit investigation.
Director: Charles Correll
Writer: Anthony E. Zuiker
8.2/1010 votes#8 - Abra-Cadaver
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/30/2002
Grissom investigates when a woman vanishes while taking part in a magician's act. The female volunteer is placed inside the Amazing Zephyr's "Chamber of Doom" and the illusionist thrusts swords through the box. When it's opened, she's gone---and doesn't reappear in her seat as she's supposed to. Only traces of blood are left inside the chamber. Clues lead the CSIs to an eerie, decrepit mansion filled with secrets. Elsewhere, a rock star's death on a band bus appears to be the result of an overdose, but Catherine uncovers evidence that points to murder.
Director: Danny Cannon
Writer: Anthony E. Zuiker
8.2/1010 votes#9 - Sqweegel
Season 11 Episode 4 - Aired 10/14/2010
The CSI team investigates a mad slasher who strikes without leaving a trace -- because he wears a form-fitting black latex suit that leaves not a molecule of evidence behind
Director: N/A
Writer: Anthony E. Zuiker
- 8.2/105 votes
#10 - 'Til Death Do We Part
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 2/16/2005
The team's investigation into the death of Hannah Bloom, who died at her own wedding, is put on hold when her father refuses to allow them to perform an autopsy until after his daughter's body is blessed by a rabbi. Danny and Mac turn their attention to the woman who trained the doves who were supposed to be released, but cannot tie her directly to Bloom, who died from formaldehyde poisoning. Stella, Flack and Aiden investigate when a hand is found deep underground, and soon realise that the dead man, Rick Amadori, chewed off his own hand. It seems like a slam dunk when the son of a man Amadori killed three years earlier confesses to the crime, but things aren't as easy as they seem.
Director: Nelson McCormick
Writer: Anthony E. Zuiker
- 8.2/105 votes
#11 - The Fall
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 3/2/2005
When young gang members murder the owner of an upscale Bronx wine store, the CSI’s must work to find evidence that ultimately ties someone to the crime. Tempers flare when the murder investigation reunites Detective Flack with his long-time mentor and friend Sergeant Gavin Moran, who was the first to arrive at the crime scene. Meanwhile, Danny and Aiden investigate the death of an influential movie producer found dead on the canopy of his Chelsea apartment building.
Director: Norberto Barba
Writer: Anthony E. Zuiker
8.2/104 votes#12 - 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: Anthony E. Zuiker
8.1/109 votes#13 - Revenge is Best Served Cold
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/25/2002
Catherine and Nick become absorbed in the dangerous world of street racing after one of the illegal sport's hotshot drivers is found dead out in the desert at an abandoned airstrip. Back in town, Grissom and his crew probe the sudden death of a renowned poker player who suffered a violent convulsion in the middle of a high-stakes game with three others. It looks like natural causes, at first, but Grissom suspects foul play.
Director: Danny Cannon
Writer: Anthony E. Zuiker
8.0/1010 votes#14 - 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: Anthony E. Zuiker
8.0/1010 votes#15 - Bang-Bang (1)
Season 6 Episode 23 - Aired 5/11/2006
A man accused of murdering his wife and co-workers leads the CSIs on a wild ride through a busy casino, eventually barricading himself and a hostage in a casino hotel room. The CSIs process the evidence from the crime scene to determine whether or not the man acted alone or had an accomplice. One of the CSIs eventually steps in as a hostage negotiator, putting himself in danger.
Director: Terrence O'Hara
Writer: Anthony E. Zuiker
8.0/1010 votes#16 - 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: Anthony E. Zuiker
- 8.0/105 votes
#17 - Officer Blue
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/1/2004
After mounted officer Valasquez is shot down in the park, Mac goes looking for the bullet that killed the officer only to learn that it is lodged in the horse's spine and cannot be removed without being fatal to the horse. The investigation leads them to a local street vendor, but stalls when the D.A. asks Mac not to do anything to risk the horse until after the woman who donated it has a chance to say goodbye. Aiden investigates the body of a young man, Lenny Starks, who was found face-down, dead in the street. Aiden traces the young man to a local pizza parlor where she faces intimidation from the bookies who use it as a gambling front.
Director: Deran Sarafian
Writer: Anthony E. Zuiker
7.9/109 votes#18 - Anonymous
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/24/2000
Royce Harmon was murdered 3 months ago in a scene staged to look like a suicide. Now another murder has taken place. Whoever the killer is he has a thorough knowledge of forensics, he purposefully has left evidence, and has baffled Grissom and his team. Warrick and Nick investigate the case of a man who went over a cliff in his car and is now unconscious.
Director: Danny Cannon
Writer: Anthony E. Zuiker
- 7.9/109 votes
#19 - 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: Anthony E. Zuiker
- 7.8/106 votes
#20 - Silent Night
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 12/13/2006
The CSI team has a problem after learning the family is deaf: now they have to find a new way to catch the killer. Meanwhile, more information is given on Lindsey's horrifying past and what led her to become a CSI.
Director: Rob Bailey
Writer: Anthony E. Zuiker
7.8/1024 votes#21 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/6/2000
Gil Grissom is the supervisor of the graveyard shift of Las Vegas' elite crime scene investigators. Holly Gribbs, fresh out of the academy, joins the team. Jim Brass is head of the unit and is trying to scare Gribbs from CSI. Catherine Willows, mother of a young daughter, is the number two CSI on this shift. Warrick Brown and Nick Stokes are competing to solve their 100th case to earn a promotion to CSI 3. Grissom investigates a murder staged to look like a suicide with precious little evidence. Warrick and Catherine take the case of a drunk who breaks into the house where he had been staying and is shot to death. Nick talks to a man who picked up a woman who drugged and robbed him.
Director: Danny Cannon
Writer: Anthony E. Zuiker
7.8/109 votes#22 - Unleashed
Season 11 Episode 19 - Aired 4/7/2011
Langston and Sara turn to Lady Heather for help in tracking down the culprit responsible for injuring a woman before she was seemingly mauled to death by a mountain lion. Meanwhile, Nick and Dr. Robbins manage to rescue the unborn baby of a teenage girl who appears to have committed suicide
Director: Brad Tanenbaum
Writer: Anthony E. Zuiker
- 7.8/105 votes
#23 - Recycling
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/12/2005
Mac, Aiden and Flack investigate when Elaine Curtis is found dead at a dog competition, a knitting needle sticking out of her chest, and no shortage of suspects ranging from judges to trainers to contestants. Stella and Danny investigate the death of bicycle messenger Michael Starling, but the crime scene may have been anywhere along his route.
Director: Alex Zakrzewski
Writer: Anthony E. Zuiker
- 7.8/105 votes
#24 - Hush
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 2/23/2005
A woman's death leads our detectives to a school for sexual fetishes such as bondage and spanking.
Director: Deran Sarafian
Writer: Anthony E. Zuiker
7.7/1010 votes#25 - Inside the Box
Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 5/14/2003
Things get personal for the CSIs in the top-rated series' third-season finale, which explores the intersection of the investigators' work and their personal lives. Three masked bandits steal a safe-deposit box from a Las Vegas bank in a daring daytime heist, during which Det. Lockwood is killed. Lockwood's death provides Grissom and his crew with added incentive to find the murderous culprits. But the case really hits home for Catherine when the evidence leads to casino owner Sam Braun, who is like a father to her. Also, Grissom's hearing gets progressively worse and he seeks out Dr. Robbins for help.
Director: Danny Cannon
Writer: Anthony E. Zuiker
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"Stalker" is the best rated episode written by Anthony E. Zuiker. It scored 8.6/10 based on 10 votes. It was directed by Peter Markle. It aired on 4/4/2002 and is rated 0.1 points higher than their second-best episode, "Koala".