The Best Episodes Written By Josh Berman
Every TV Episode Written by Josh Berman Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters
Josh Berman Ratings Summary
The best episode written by Josh Berman is "Blood Lust", rated 8.611/10 from 9 user votes. It was "directed by Charles Correll". "Blood Lust" aired on 12/4/2002 and is rated 0.0 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "Compulsion".
8.6/10 9 votes#1 - 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: Josh Berman
8.6/10 10 votes#2 - Compulsion
Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 3/10/2005
A serial killer strikes again, and the CSI team tries new technology using evidence from a prior killing. They find a fingerprint belonging to Jesse Acheson, who becomes the prime suspect. A boy confesses to the killing of his brother, but evidence suggests that he may not have committed the crime.
Director: Duane Clark
Writer: Josh Berman
8.4/10 10 votes#3 - The Perfect Pieces in the Purple Pond
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 9/24/2008
The pieces of a dismembered body are found lying in a purple pool of water, except the head is missing. The team finds that the body belongs to Jared Addison, a science fiction writer who had several mental problems. With Sweets' help, several suspects are hunted down, however the team has trouble finding enough evidence with the victim's head still missing.
Director: Jeannot Szwarc
Writer: Josh Berman
8.3/10 9 votes#4 - 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: Josh Berman
8.3/10 9 votes#5 - The Wannabe in the Weeds
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 5/12/2008
A wannabe singer Tommy Sour was found on a grassy location. The investigation leads Brennan, Booth, and Cam to the Checker Box Restaurant where Tommy used to sing. There are several suspects who took part in the open mike contest there, with talent scouts in the audience. The group comes together with a startling revelation for Brennan.
Director: Gordon Lonsdale
Writer: Josh Berman
- 8.2/10 9 votes
#6 - Secrets and Flies
Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 11/3/2005
A 28 year-old single mother is found dead. Initially, it's believed to be a suicide, but Catherine determines she was murdered. Also, Ecklie summons Grissom to refute the testimony of an entomologist in a murder trial.
Director: Terrence O'Hara
Writer: Josh Berman
8.1/10 10 votes#7 - Overload
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/11/2001
Grissom investigates a possible suicide at a high-profile construction site. Catherine takes on a case with a teenage boy who dies while in session with his female psychologist,
Director: Richard J. Lewis
Writer: Josh Berman
- 8.1/10 9 votes
#8 - 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: Josh Berman
8.0/10 8 votes#9 - The Twisted Bones in the Melted Truck
Season 6 Episode 8 - Aired 12/2/2010
Booth and Brennan’s next case leads them to a crime scene where a human carcass has literally melted into the dashboard of a charred truck. As the team investigates the case, they discover a gunshot wound in the victim, but learn that neither the fire nor the bullet was the cause of the victim’s death. Additional clues lead them to a local high school where the victim’s wife is a teacher. As a student-teacher relationship begins to surface and a pattern takes shape in the lab, the team is able to track down the murder weapon and solve the crime. Meanwhile, Sweets resists the temptation of allowing his feelings for Daisy to interfere with helping her pass a government psychological evaluation, and Hannah attempts to break the ice and warm up to Booth’s son Parker.
Director: Gordon Lonsdale
Writer: Josh Berman
8.0/10 7 votes#10 - Face Lift
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 3/8/2001
A body is found in a pottery store in what's apparently a robbery that was interrupted. Fingerprints at the scene seem to match a twenty year old kidnapping case. Sara and Warrick look into a case where a woman burned to death in her home. The woman was burned to an ash but only the chair she was in was burned, the rest of the house is fine. Sara believes they have a case of spontaneous combustion.
Director: Lou Antonio
Writer: Josh Berman
8.0/10 10 votes#11 - Invisible Evidence
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 11/12/2003
Warrick's appearance at the preliminary hearing on a rape and murder case goes terribly wrong when the only piece of evidence is thrown out on a technicality. Grissom and the team have 24 hours to make the case with new evidence or the killer will go free.
Director: Danny Cannon
Writer: Josh Berman
8.0/10 10 votes#12 - Iced
Season 5 Episode 23 - Aired 5/12/2005
Two amorous freshmen are found dead on a sleeping bag in a dorm room, and Sara and Greg run into one dead end after another as they try to determine why the students were killed. Warrick, Nick and Catherine figure out how a man is found dead in the center of a crop circle. Ecklie is called into duty for a man found dead in his car and his body later goes missing.
Director: Richard J. Lewis
Writer: Josh Berman
8.0/10 2 votes#13 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 7/12/2009
When beautiful-but-vapid model wannabe Deb has a fatal car accident, she suddenly finds herself in front of Heaven's gatekeeper, Fred, who declares her a self-centered "zero." Outraged, she attempts to persuade Fred to return her to her shallow existence but is accidentally relegated to the body of the recently deceased Jane Bingum. A brilliant, thoughtful and plus-size attorney with a loyal assistant, Teri, Jane has always lived in the shadow of her more comely colleagues whereas Deb has always relied on her external beauty. Now, by a twist of fate and a bolt of divine intervention, Deb must come to terms with inhabiting Jane's plus-size frame in the ultimate showdown between brains and beauty.
Director: James Hayman
Writer: Josh Berman
8.0/10 1 votes#14 - The 'F' Word
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 7/19/2009
Deb discovers what life is like for Jane as she takes on a case defending a cocktail waitress who is fired after she gains 50 lbs. Grayson and Kim represent Chad in a divorce but the only thing he wants from back from his wife is his kidney.
Director: Ron Underwood
Writer: Josh Berman
8.0/10 1 votes#15 - Would I Lie to You?
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 6/6/2010
Jane dreams she is in a big musical dance number, working at a food court where she is visited by judge Paula Abdul. Meanwhile, Tony represents Jane at her disbarment hearing, but the case takes a big hit when Kim testifies against Jane. But when Tony learns about Ethan, will his relationship with Jane be able to weather the shocking news?
Director: Michael Lange
Writer: Josh Berman
8.0/10 1 votes#16 - A Mother's Secret
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 7/25/2010
When Deb’s mom Bobbi requests Jane’s help in a legal matter, Jane discovers Bobbi had secrets of her own while she takes on a case involving a lab technician who is accused of stealing lab secrets. Meanwhile, Kim and Grayson work on a custody case involving a dueling couples pet chimp.
Director: Arlene Sanford
Writer: Josh Berman
8.0/10 1 votes#17 - Hit and Run
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 6/19/2011
With Grayson in a coma, Jane represents an actor whose innocence she questions in a fatal hit-and-run. When Kim takes the case of a woman whose ex-husband lied to lure her back into bed, she goes up against her ex-boss and former boyfriend, Jay Parker.
Director: Jamie Babbit
Writer: Josh Berman
7.9/10 11 votes#18 - The Salt in the Wounds
Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 3/19/2009
The body of a pregnant 16-year-old athlete found buried in a mound of salt in a city de-icing truck leads Booth and Brennan to the discovery that many of her teammates are pregnant or have babies after a pregnancy pact.
Director: Steven DePaul
Writer: Josh Berman
7.9/10 9 votes#19 - Crow's Feet
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 10/21/2004
A woman is found dead in a hotel suite with symptoms of the ebola virus. Another woman is found dead with similar symptoms. Catherine and Nick investigate. Sara and Greg with help from Grissom try to determine how a the owner of a home was killed. His home was tented for infestation.
Director: Richard J. Lewis
Writer: Josh Berman
- 7.9/10 11 votes
#20 - Up In Smoke
Season 6 Episode 16 - Aired 3/2/2006
The investigation into a body found in a chimney leads the CSIs to re-open an investigation of an unsolved homicide of a female teenager named Caroline Fitzgibbons.
Director: Duane Clark
Writer: Josh Berman
- 7.8/10 10 votes
#21 - Werewolves
Season 6 Episode 11 - Aired 1/5/2006
The CSI team investigates the murder of a man suffering from a congenital hypertrichosis, causing him to grow excessive body hair. Elements of the case suggest a connection with a belief in werewolves. The case leads to the victim's sister, who suffers from the same disease. Because of her condition, she'd been hiding from the world, but it turns out that she's hiding facts that are vital to solving the case.
Director: Kenneth Fink
Writer: Josh Berman
7.8/10 11 votes#22 - A Night at the Bones Museum
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 10/15/2009
Brennan and Booth are called to investigate what appears to be charred human remains on an electrical fence. The mysterious corpse is later determined to be a mummified Egyptian royal on loan to the Jeffersonian. The anthropological mystery has Brennan in a tizzy, and when the Jeffersonian curator prepping the mummy for exhibition is murdered, the team suspects foul play. Brennan’s investigation of the curator sheds new light on the life of the Egyptian royal, turning their case into one of historic proportions. Meanwhile, Brennan goes on a date with Booth’s supervisor and former intern, and Sweets’ girlfriend Daisy Wick (guest star Gallo) returns to the Jeffersonian.
Director: Jeannot Szwarc
Writer: Josh Berman
7.8/10 10 votes#23 - Crash and Burn
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 3/12/2003
An elderly woman crashes her car into a crowded restaurant. One of the patrons is Sara's paramedic boyfriend. Grissom and Nick investigate the possible carbon monoxide murder of a woman in her home.
Director: Richard J. Lewis
Writer: Josh Berman
7.6/10 11 votes#24 - Suckers
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 2/5/2004
Three little CSIs (Grissom, Sara, and Nick)respond to an electrocution at a casino. The casino is hosting Japanese antiquities. The electroctution is just a ruse to steal the central piece of the exhibit. Catherine and Warrick deal with a vampire murder.
Director: Danny Cannon
Writer: Josh Berman
7.6/10 9 votes#25 - Death in the Saddle
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/9/2007
Things get kinky when Booth and Brennan follow murder clues that lead to a lodge used as an S&M retreat for "jockeys" and their "horses." Meanwhile, Angela tries hypnosis in an effort to figure out her elusive husband's name so she can finally divorce him.
Director: Craig Ross Jr.
Writer: Josh Berman