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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    undefined Season 2 Episode 19 - Stalker
    8.5/10(12 votes)

    #1 - Stalker

    S2:E19

    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?

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    Writer:Anthony E. Zuiker

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  2. undefined Season 2 Episode 4 - Koala
    8.5/10(2 votes)

    #2 - Koala

    S2:E4

    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.

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    Writer:Anthony E. Zuiker

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  3. undefined Season 3 Episode 19 - A Night at the Movies
    8.4/10(11 votes)

    #3 - A Night at the Movies

    S3:E19

    Grissom and Catherine investigate a movie-goer who was stabbed to death; the team comes to a forensic impasse while processing a teenager who died from a gunshot wound.

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    Writer:Anthony E. Zuiker

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  4. undefined Season 3 Episode 16 - Lucky Strike
    8.2/10(11 votes)

    #4 - Lucky Strike

    S3:E16

    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.

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    Writer:Anthony E. Zuiker

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  5. undefined Season 2 Episode 23 - The Hunger Artist
    8.1/10(12 votes)

    #5 - The Hunger Artist

    S2:E23

    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.

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    Writer:Anthony E. Zuiker

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  6. undefined Season 3 Episode 5 - Abra-Cadaver
    8.1/10(12 votes)

    #6 - Abra-Cadaver

    S3:E5

    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.

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    Writer:Anthony E. Zuiker

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  7. undefined Season 2 Episode 10 - Ellie
    8.1/10(13 votes)

    #7 - Ellie

    S2:E10

    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.

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    Writer:Anthony E. Zuiker

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  8. undefined Season 1 Episode 9 - Unfriendly Skies
    8.1/10(12 votes)

    #8 - Unfriendly Skies

    S1:E9

    Grissom and his team investigate the death of a first class passenger on a flight to Las Vegas. The investigators are forced not only to examine the physical evidence, but also to interview all of the first class passengers to get their personal accounts of the incident.

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    Writer:Anthony E. Zuiker

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  9. undefined Season 4 Episode 15 - Early Rollout
    8.1/10(12 votes)

    #9 - Early Rollout

    S4:E15

    The whole team must investigate a crime where a husband and his porn star wife were murdered execution style. Things get personal for Catherine when Grissom talks to her about her evaluation. Brass believes that Sara may have some type of problem.

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    Writer:Anthony E. Zuiker

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  10. undefined Season 4 Episode 4 - Feeling the Heat
    8.1/10(10 votes)

    #10 - Feeling the Heat

    S4:E4

    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.

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    Writer:Anthony E. Zuiker

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  11. undefined Season 1 Episode 8 - Anonymous
    8.0/10(12 votes)

    #11 - Anonymous

    S1:E8

    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.

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    Writer:Anthony E. Zuiker

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  12. undefined Season 11 Episode 4 - Sqweegel
    8.0/10(11 votes)

    #12 - Sqweegel

    S11:E4

    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

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    Writer:Anthony E. Zuiker

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  13. undefined Season 2 Episode 7 - Manhattan Manhunt (II)
    8.0/10(8 votes)

    #13 - Manhattan Manhunt (II)

    S2:E7

    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).

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    Writer:Anthony E. Zuiker

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  14. undefined Season 1 Episode 22 - Evaluation Day
    8.0/10(11 votes)

    #14 - Evaluation Day

    S1:E22

    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.

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    Writer:Anthony E. Zuiker

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  15. undefined Season 3 Episode 1 - Revenge Is Best Served Cold
    7.9/10(11 votes)

    #15 - Revenge Is Best Served Cold

    S3:E1

    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.

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    Writer:Anthony E. Zuiker

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  16. undefined Season 1 Episode 17 - The Fall
    7.9/10(8 votes)

    #16 - The Fall

    S1:E17

    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.

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    Writer:Anthony E. Zuiker

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  17. undefined Season 2 Episode 22 - Cross Jurisdictions
    7.8/10(11 votes)

    #17 - Cross Jurisdictions

    S2:E22

    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.

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    Writer:Anthony E. Zuiker

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  18. undefined Season 5 Episode 25 - Grave Danger (2)
    7.8/10(32 votes)

    #18 - Grave Danger (2)

    S5:E25

    The CSI teams come together to save one of their own when they learn one team member has been kidnapped and buried alive, and now they must find him before he suffocates under five feet of dirt.

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    Writer:Anthony E. Zuiker

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  19. undefined Season 1 Episode 15 - 'Til Death Do We Part
    7.8/10(7 votes)

    #19 - 'Til Death Do We Part

    S1:E15

    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.

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    Writer:Anthony E. Zuiker

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  20. undefined Season 1 Episode 1 - Pilot
    7.7/10(35 votes)

    #20 - Pilot

    S1:E1

    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.

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    Writer:Anthony E. Zuiker

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  21. undefined Season 1 Episode 12 - Recycling
    7.7/10(7 votes)

    #21 - Recycling

    S1:E12

    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.

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    Writer:Anthony E. Zuiker

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  22. undefined Season 11 Episode 19 - Unleashed
    7.7/10(11 votes)

    #22 - Unleashed

    S11:E19

    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.

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    Writer:Anthony E. Zuiker

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  23. undefined Season 1 Episode 2 - Cool Change
    7.7/10(20 votes)

    #23 - Cool Change

    S1:E2

    A man is killed after winning a fortune and then dumping his girlfriend. So, Grissom, Nick, and newcomer to the CSI team, Sara Sidel, investigate this one. Holly Gribbs is in the hospital and Warrick is up for suspension for leaving her at the crime scene by herself. Holly later dies in the hospital, but Grissom doesn't suspend Warrick.

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    Writer:Anthony E. Zuiker

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  24. undefined Season 1 Episode 9 - Officer Blue
    7.6/10(8 votes)

    #24 - Officer Blue

    S1:E9

    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.

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    Writer:Anthony E. Zuiker

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  25. undefined Season 2 Episode 23 - MIA/NYC - NonStop
    7.6/10(5 votes)

    #25 - MIA/NYC - NonStop

    S2:E23

    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.

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    Writer:Anthony E. Zuiker

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Anthony E. Zuiker Ratings Summary

"Stalker" is the best rated episode written by Anthony E. Zuiker. It scored 8.5/10 based on 12 votes. It was directed by N/A. It aired on 4/4/2002 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Koala".