The Best Episodes Written By Carol Mendelsohn
Every TV Episode Written by Carol Mendelsohn Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters
Carol Mendelsohn Ratings Summary
The best episode written by Carol Mendelsohn is "For Warrick", rated 9.389/10 from 9 user votes. It was "directed by Richard J. Lewis". "For Warrick" aired on 10/9/2008 and is rated 0.3 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "One to Go".
9.4/10 9 votes#1 - For Warrick
Season 9 Episode 1 - Aired 10/9/2008
After Warrick is shot in a Las Vegas alley, the CSI team comes together to deal with the aftermath.
Director: Richard J. Lewis
Writer: Carol Mendelsohn
9.1/10 9 votes#2 - One to Go
Season 9 Episode 10 - Aired 1/15/2009
The CSI team is shocked and saddened when, after working with Dr. Raymond Langston (Fishburne) on the "Dick & Jane" murders, Grissom announces that his time as a CSI has come to an end and offers Langston a permanent position on the CSI team.
Director: Alec Smight
Writer: Carol Mendelsohn
8.8/10 9 votes#3 - CSI-19 down
Season 9 Episode 9 - Aired 12/11/2008
When the team discovers a connection between a new murder and a serial killer, Grissom secretly joins the class of a criminal pathologist (Laurence Fishburne) to help crack the case.
Director: Kenneth Fink
Writer: Carol Mendelsohn
8.8/10 8 votes#4 - The Theory of Everything
Season 8 Episode 15 - Aired 5/1/2008
A deer is illegally killed, and the person found with the body in the back of his truck apparently dressed it in a tutu. The man, who was completely drunk when arrested, was being interrogated by Nick and Brass, and suddently tries to escape and is pepper sprayed. Unfazed by the spray, officers then taser him and he bursts into flames and dies. Meanwhile an unbalanced woman wearing a tinfoil outfit at the front desk tries to warn people (including Nick) of an alien invasion. After observing the burning man, she later turns up dead with green-tinted blood. When other people turn up with the same problem, it's up to the team to figure out why. Meanwhile, an old couple dies, apparently in their sleep... but there is evidence the cases are related.
Director: Christopher Leitch
Writer: Carol Mendelsohn
8.7/10 10 votes#5 - A Bullet Runs Through It (2)
Season 6 Episode 8 - Aired 11/17/2005
The CSIs sift through the overwhelming evidence from a shootout with drug dealers in order to determine who is responsible for the death of a police officer killed during the incident.
Director: Kenneth Fink
Writer: Carol Mendelsohn
8.6/10 9 votes#6 - Blood Lust
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 12/4/2002
Distracted by an attractive passenger, an Indian taxi driver feels his cab strike something at a suburban intersection. When he gets out to check, he finds a teenage boy pinned beneath the left rear tire, apparently killed on impact. The cabbie jumps back into the taxi to call for help, but a mob of angry onlookers - all of them white - drags him out and beats him for the crime. When Grissom arrives on the scene, he discovers that the teen has been eviscerated and has stab wounds, but shows no signs of having been struck by the cab.
Director: Charles Correll
Writer: Carol Mendelsohn
8.6/10 9 votes#7 - A Night at the Movies
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 4/9/2003
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.
Director: Matt Earl Beesley
Writer: Carol Mendelsohn
8.6/10 8 votes#8 - Grissom's Divine Comedy
Season 8 Episode 12 - Aired 4/3/2008
Grissom and his team battle the flu when they are called upon by D.D.A. Klein to investigate the deaths of several key witnesses for a grand jury case against a dangerous Las Vegas gang.
Director: Richard J. Lewis
Writer: Carol Mendelsohn
- 8.5/10 9 votes
#9 - Living Legend
Season 7 Episode 9 - Aired 11/23/2006
The Cadillac of an infamous 1970’s mob boss turns up in a lake, even though he disappeared years ago. A photo of current murder victims also turns up in the car, so the team must determine whether this current murder spree is related to the missing gangster.
Director: Martha Coolidge
Writer: Carol Mendelsohn
- 8.4/10 10 votes
#10 - 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: Carol Mendelsohn
- 8.3/10 10 votes
#11 - A Bullet Runs Through It (1)
Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 11/10/2005
The team must investigate the death of a police officer who died during a shootout leaving hundreds of bullets on the crime scene. The case becomes complicated when it turns out that Sofia Curtis and Jim Brass were with the victims during the shootout. When it turns out the officer died from friendly fire, it is up to the team to find out who fired the fatal shot. Meanwhile, Sofia is wondering whether she fired the fatal shot or not. She decides to hide the fact that the officer stepped into her line of fire, afraid it will ruin her career.
Director: Danny Cannon
Writer: Carol Mendelsohn
- 8.3/10 10 votes
#12 - Leaving Las Vegas
Season 7 Episode 11 - Aired 1/4/2007
Catherine testifies in a murder trial in which a man is accused of murdering his own mother three years ago, but the suspect is found not guilty. Catherine, however, believes he did commit the crime and that he may also have killed two other people, so she sets out to find the other victims. Grissom prepares to leave on a four-week sabbatical.
Director: Richard J. Lewis
Writer: Carol Mendelsohn
8.2/10 10 votes#13 - The Execution of Catherine Willows
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 11/6/2002
Fifteen years ago, Catherine helped put John Mathers on death row for the rape and murder of a coed at a nearby college. Her body was dumped in a trash bag, and two other girls found the same way were also linked to the suspect. As the episode opens, Mathers is about to be executed when he's granted a stay based on new DNA evidence. But while Catherine awaits the results of tests on hair samples found on the first victim, another girl at the same school is murdered... and discarded just like the first three - meaning the wrong man could be behind bars.
Director: Kenneth Fink
Writer: Carol Mendelsohn
- 8.2/10 9 votes
#14 - Leapin' Lizards
Season 7 Episode 22 - Aired 5/3/2007
Several suspects in a murder case are UFO-club members who believe shape-shifting aliens have been working to conquer the human race for centuries
Director: Richard J. Lewis
Writer: Carol Mendelsohn
8.1/10 9 votes#15 - 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: Carol Mendelsohn
8.0/10 10 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: Carol Mendelsohn
- 7.9/10 9 votes
#17 - 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: Carol Mendelsohn
7.9/10 8 votes#18 - Jackpot
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 11/5/2003
A severed head is shipped to Dr. Robbins from Jackpot, Nevada. Grissom goes to Jackpot to find the rest of the body and gets very little cooperation from the locals. Catherine gets an unexpected gift from her father.
Director: Danny Cannon
Writer: Carol Mendelsohn
7.8/10 10 votes#19 - Viva Las Vegas
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/2004
A wild night in Las Vegas has the CSIs simultaneously investigating four fatalities. Greg Sanders' first day in the field has him assisting Grissom's investigation of a fatal nightclub shooting. Meanwhile, Catherine probes into the death of a stripper found dead in a hotel room, while Sara and Nick look into the strange case of an "alien" body found near Area 51.
Director: Danny Cannon
Writer: Carol Mendelsohn
7.8/10 9 votes#20 - Ghost Town
Season 10 Episode 2 - Aired 10/1/2009
The son of a notorious killer is arrested on suspicion of murder, and the CSI team must overcome their natural prejudices against the boy's antecedents in order to track the true culprit.
Director: Alec Smight
Writer: Carol Mendelsohn
7.8/10 10 votes#21 - Caged
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/7/2001
Grissom and Nick investigate the death of a book restorer while Catherine and Sara are called to the scene of a fatal train crash.
Director: Richard J. Lewis
Writer: Carol Mendelsohn
7.7/10 9 votes#22 - Who and What (I)
Season 8 Episode 6 - Aired 11/8/2007
Grissom and the team join forces with Jack Malone, an FBI Agent from New York to track a serial killer. The crossover continues on Without A Trace S06E06 Where & Why (II).
Director: Danny Cannon
Writer: Carol Mendelsohn
7.7/10 7 votes#23 - URL, Interrupted
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 4/21/2015
The Cyber team investigates when a high school victim of intense cyberbullying by her classmates pledges to retaliate.
Director: Kate Dennis
Writer: Carol Mendelsohn
7.7/10 10 votes#24 - 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: Carol Mendelsohn
- 7.7/10 10 votes
#25 - Toe Tags
Season 7 Episode 3 - Aired 10/5/2006
Coming straight from the perspectives of five people: Donna, Rebecca, Jack, Lou and Ray. All with one thing in common. They’re all dead. Brass and Catherine get to handle the case of Donna, who’s a cop from San Francisco, moonlighting as a bodyguard. Warrick and Greg work the case of Rebecca, who’s a former supermodel who died while hiking with her new husband Gavin. Nick and Sofia handle the case of Jack, a returning veteran from Iraq, who was killed in front of his wife and baby daughter who he just met for the first time. Grissom and Sara take the case of Lou and Ray whose bodies were found in Lou’s garage.
Director: Jeffrey G. Hunt
Writer: Carol Mendelsohn