9.1/109 votes#1 - 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: Naren Shankar
9.0/1031 votes#2 - Abaddon's Gate
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 6/27/2018
Holden and his allies must stop Ashford and his team from destroying the Ring, and perhaps all of humanity.
Director: Simon Cellan Jones
Writer: Naren Shankar
8.8/109 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: Naren Shankar
8.7/108 votes#4 - Post Mortem
Season 7 Episode 7 - Aired 11/9/2006
While investigating an elderly woman's murder, Grissom receives a miniature crime scene replica; Greg attends a hearing to ascertain his culpability in a teenager's accidental death.
Director: Richard J. Lewis
Writer: Naren Shankar
8.7/1011 votes#5 - Monster in the Box
Season 7 Episode 16 - Aired 2/15/2007
Once he unseals a package sent to him through the mail, Grissom is floored when he finds a miniature crime scene inside. The finding is entirely more perplexing since the successive killer accountable for earlier related miniature crimes is now deceased. Grissom plows to examine the miniature and discover the actual location, when the investigation makes it clear the murder showed has yet to happen, but is probably going to happen soon.
Director: Jeffrey G. Hunt
Writer: Naren Shankar
8.7/109 votes#6 - Living Doll
Season 7 Episode 24 - Aired 5/17/2007
As the CSI's continue their search for and discover the identity of the "Miniature Killer", Grissom and Sara's relationship gets exposed to the rest of the team as she goes missing during the investigation. The "Miniature Killer" is finally captured, but not before a member of CSI becomes the killer's final victim.
Director: Kenneth Fink
Writer: Naren Shankar
8.6/109 votes#7 - Family Affair
Season 10 Episode 1 - Aired 9/24/2009
A rising young star is killed in a wreck and her determined stalker claims credit, but the team finds out there's more to this tragedy than meets the eye.
Director: Kenneth Fink
Writer: Naren Shankar
8.5/109 votes#8 - High and Low
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 12/11/2002
Grissom, Warrick, and Nick investigate the case of man who apparently was murdered and pushed off a six story building. Grissom's involvement is cut short by renewed hearing problems. Catherine looks into the murder of man outside of his regular bar.
Director: Richard J. Lewis
Writer: Naren Shankar
8.5/108 votes#9 - Homebodies
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/8/2003
Grissom and Warrick get the case of an old woman found mummified in her closet. Sarah and Nick arrive to investigate a breaking and entering to find a raped teen. These cases are not as disparate as they first seem. Catherine looks into a gun found by a boy. The gun is connected to a week old murder across town that Warrick caught.
Director: Kenneth Fink
Writer: Naren Shankar
8.5/108 votes#10 - Lab Rats
Season 7 Episode 20 - Aired 4/12/2007
The CSI labrats take center stage to discuss the case of the Miniature Killer.
Director: Brad Tanenbaum
Writer: Naren Shankar
8.5/109 votes#11 - Drops Out
Season 8 Episode 14 - Aired 4/24/2008
Brass, Catherine, Grissom and Nick work the case of a female victim found in an apartment building with a gun shot wound. Drops becomes a person of interest during the investigation, even though he is still in jail.
Director: Jeffrey G. Hunt
Writer: Naren Shankar
8.5/1024 votes#12 - Babylon's Ashes
Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 1/13/2022
In the thrilling season finale, Inners and Belters fight side by side with the crew of the Rocinante in a last, massive, desperate battle with Marco and his Free Navy, with the fate of the Solar System, the Ring Gates, and of all humanity hanging in the balance.
Director: Breck Eisner
Writer: Naren Shankar
8.3/109 votes#13 - Precious Metal
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 4/2/2003
Catherine, Nick, and Sara investigate a seemingly months old body found in the mountains. Discovery of the man's identity lead the team to the world of robot wars. Warrick and Grissom look into the case of a man found murdered in an alley. Complicating their efforts, the medical examiner ""lost"" the body for 11 days. Greg helps this case by doing some undercover work.
Director: Deran Sarafian
Writer: Naren Shankar
8.3/109 votes#14 - Down the Drain
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 10/7/2004
Heavy rains in Vegas wash up a body in the storm drains. As the team investigates, they find bones from another murder.
Director: Kenneth Fink
Writer: Naren Shankar
8.2/1010 votes#15 - 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: Naren Shankar
8.2/109 votes#16 - Fight Night
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/13/2002
A middleweight boxing champ dies in the ring after taking a brutal beating from his nemesis, but Grissom finds evidence that points to murder. Outside, in a nearby parking lot, Catherine works a crime scene where a Los Angeles gang member was gunned down, apparently by a rival gang. Also, Nick investigates a jewelry-store robbery.
Director: Richard J. Lewis
Writer: Naren Shankar
8.2/1010 votes#17 - Play with Fire
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 5/7/2003
A woman's body is discovered in a small press box at a high-school football field, apparently the victim of strangulation. The evidence leads investigators to two convicts, one of whom is still in prison. At the crime lab, an explosion destroys key evidence and leaves Greg and Sara injured.
Director: Kenneth Fink
Writer: Naren Shankar
8.2/1010 votes#18 - Sweet Jane
Season 7 Episode 12 - Aired 1/18/2007
The team has a hard time trying to understand Michael who has become a team member since Grissom’s teaching hiatus. They investigate the murder of an unidentified girl who may have been killed by a serial killer who has been killing since the early 1970’s.
Director: Kenneth Fink
Writer: Naren Shankar
8.1/108 votes#19 - The Way We Weren't
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 4/13/2000
A datacam tape is uncovered showing Aeryn as part of a Peacekeeper firing squad that executed a previous Pilot aboard Moya. The rest of the crew wants answers but Aeryn is recalcitrant about revisiting her past - especially her relationship with Velorek, the man charged with forcibly bonding a new Pilot to Moya. Pilot two refuses to communicate with the crew, not wanting to reveal his own complicity in the murky circumstances surrounding his installment as Moya's guide.
Director: Tony Tilse
Writer: Naren Shankar
8.1/1010 votes#20 - Random Acts of Violence
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 1/30/2003
Warrick investigates the drive by murder of a young girl in his old neighborhood. The girl's father is a friend and mentor of Warrick's as well. Warrick struggles to control his emotions to the point where Grissom pulls him off of the case. Nick tackles the murder of a computer company employee. The only supects are the three other employees in the building.
Director: Danny Cannon
Writer: Naren Shankar
8.1/1010 votes#21 - You Kill Me
Season 8 Episode 8 - Aired 11/22/2007
Hodges stages hypothetical murders in the lab in order to give his fellow lab techs a chance to play CSI, but unbenownst to them he has other motives behind his actions. Meanwhile, after Sara's farewell, everyone tries to comfort Grissom.
Director: Paris Barclay
Writer: Naren Shankar
8.1/109 votes#22 - Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda
Season 9 Episode 7 - Aired 11/20/2008
The murder of a mother and her child seems to be connected to a murder case from 12 years earlier.
Director: Brad Tanenbaum
Writer: Naren Shankar
8.0/109 votes#23 - Paper or Plastic
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 2/12/2004
A robbery at a grocery store results in a shootout leaving five dead. The police officer at the scene believes Grissom has a grudge against him. The entire team has to process the enormous amount of evidence at the scene.
Director: Kenneth Fink
Writer: Naren Shankar
8.0/1010 votes#24 - 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: Naren Shankar
8.0/109 votes#25 - All In
Season 9 Episode 24 - Aired 5/14/2009
A cache of missing chips from a closed down casino turn up in Vegas and a string of murders follow, leading Langston to use deadly force for the first time in his career as a CSI.
Director: Paris Barclay
Writer: Naren Shankar
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"One to Go" is the best rated episode written by Naren Shankar. It scored 9.1/10 based on 9 votes. It was directed by Alec Smight. It aired on 1/15/2009 and is rated 0.1 points higher than their second-best episode, "Abaddon's Gate".