The team is getting desperate now the serial killer got hold off both captain Brass's daughter Ellie and sheriff Ecklie's Morgan Brody. Jailed for abuses, while the murders continue, ex-con 'brother' Daniel Larson collaborates and leans on psychopathic cahoot Jake Tarland. However the case against Oliver Tate they build collapses when he too is found to be set up. Incaptivity with Ellie, Morgan fights their kidnapper, only to be surprised by an unsuspected cahoot, who plans an equally surprising last murder. Written by KGF Vissers

Roger Gentry loses big at a casino poker table, yet is caught in another after all the chips had been stolen by a helmet-cloaked motor-biker, who shot a guard, only to collapse later, chased by police, from a poisoned injection, carrying only counterfeit cash. The team realizes this must an inside job and works out the cahoots, including a young parking valet whose kid son is kidnapped. Written by KGF Vissers

Four people died in an arson case at a near-broke nightclub's free podium during a hate core concert. Fire expert Ryan Miller helps the team investigate, albeit with mainly outdated technology. Latino Timo Padia was shot before he corpse was dropped and the exit blocked, probably to trap the band. CSI soon realizes it could be elaborate revenge for another hate core-related murder. Written by KGF Vissers

A popular TV cooking competition is down to four finalists. While trying to taste a mystery ingredient, they discover to have been 'suuplied' with human remains. those turn out to belong to a recently eliminated candidate. While the team works out possible motives and opportunity, a former jury guest chef is also murdered. Meanwhile Hodges grudgingly helps Elisabetta with the wedding preparations, only to realize they want incompatible futures. Written by KGF Vissers

In lush recluse millionaire Jack Witten's opulent estate, the corpse of an 'easy' girl is found. D.B. warns Sara not to go too far again as he 'got away' in her first major case without Grissom, similar MO, 14 years earlier. Greg is fascinated by Witten's failed project for an original casino and shares his obsession for film. Another girls is found in Witten's preservation room, but her story is full of holes, leading the team to secrets which shed a surprising light on both present and old crimes. Written by KGF Vissers

Penniless Jeremy Sikes was beaten up, shot and stabbed in an alley after an unlikely massive win in ruthless 'old school' security chief Bobby Esposito's casino. Brilliant day shift CSI Sean Yeager wants eh case for a promotion, but is forced to team up with Morgan. D.B.'s wife wants him to retire and buy there Seattle dream house, their son is up for an Indiana basketball scholarship. Suspicion soon falls on the dealer, Kristi Holt, actually Sikes's partner in several robberies. There are also links to hard-handed drug baron Louis Delgado and the pawn shop run by Kyle and Zeke Banks, sons of widow Ruby. Written by KGF Vissers

Sara suspects CSI is dealing with Armenian terrorists when she discovers a bomb on a man found in a flood channel, and Greg is accused of planting evidence in an old case.

Zach Fisk's corpse is found inside a hamster ball, beaten to death. Shortly after, his female SM playmate Melodie Davis's corpse is delivered in a box addressed to him, asphyxiated without abuse. Meanwhile Morgan allows swing shift CSI Dawn Banks to join the investigation of serial rapes, only to go missing after gathering DNA of her mischievous, somewhat estranged teenage son Tyler, who has a drug problem linking him to the case's hot-spot. Prime suspect Jared Wallace, son of lawyer Ken, is cleared, yet his DNA proves crucial. Written by KGF Vissers

With short interludes, several fatal, excessively bloody incidents without apparent motive occur, all involving people staying in room 114 of loner Trent Reager's sleazy motel. Victims include a couple who invited a homeless man and a model pupil who called a science teacher for help. All suspects and survivors hint at not being themselves, but that theory is only explored fully after the team concludes the site is the only known link and Hodges attacks Henry during another forensic search. Written by KGF Vissers

Car trouble forces the CSI girls, en route to a spa, to spend the night in a desert town's only bar. Finaly eagerly leaves to flirt with hunky mechanic Darryl Walsh, but turns down full intimacy, he pulls a knife to force her, she stabs him in the ensuing struggle. Sheriff Gardner reluctantly allows forensic assistance from Nick and Greg and HQ backup in the investigation, which shows that Walsh's garage is the center of drug business and serial drug rape murders, his local accomplices prove dangerous. Written by KGF Vissers

At an elaborate private seasonal party complete with real snow and live reindeer, the Santa is fatally stabbed. The team finds he switches places, barely noticed, with host Ryan Bonham, whose pre-teen son Blake is the only witness of an intruder. Furthermore, the fake snows got mixed with a Mexican cartel's smuggled cocaine. Written by KGF Vissers

Plane spotters are the only possible witnesses of the dumping of a foxy passenger's corpse at the airport. She escaped in the confusion over thefts aboard, pursued by one previously most flirtatious victim as likely suspect. She was however also on the run for her violent New Yoek husband, in a double-secret arrangement with her high-school lover, who posed as a non-existent 'specialist' private detective. Written by KGF Vissers

An investigative journalist appears to have been killed in a car accident, but CSI soon discovers that he is still alive and trying to uncover the truth behind a top-secret military project.

Dr. Robbins goes to Mexico to do an autopsy on a friend's daughter. Meanwhile, back in Vegas, CSI finds a man and woman shot to death and buried in concrete.

Debbie Logan (16)'s corpse was dumped after her skull was smashed. Autopsy also suggests rape. Her father, reverend Jim, and mother, seem strangely oblivious of her life, as she spent her last night in madame Suzanne's high-end brothel. Its attendance list includes county councilman Roger Ridley and two of Debbie's relatives, neither of whose presence is what it seems. Written by KGF Vissers

Gifted former chess-player Greg soon realizes seemingly unrelated murders refer, by means and position, to chess pieces and moves. That applies also to previous murders in cities where Jenny Carroll's traveling chess demonstration tournament, presently in Vegas, came before. Greg's former mentor points out the serial killer has been repeating the moves of tournament star Karl Schrute against once national champion Troy Parker, who left public life after that very humiliating defeat. Ex-con chess-obsessed Troy-fan Lee Crosby not only has an alibi, the next murders and diverting moves require rethinking the plot. Written by KGF Vissers

Fatally struck Marcie Cody's corpse is found near the rented stretch limo hired from Marty 'The Cat' Kirch by nostalgic would be-rock band Kiss as part of a star experience package, including Kiss rock star Gene Simmons. Angela 'Tangerine' Ward, the other girl hired as 'groupie' by the wealthy professionals, is missing, but has a criminal record and fitting partner, who turns up murdered. The team finds possibly motives among band members as well as star experience cast. Written by KGF Vissers

Only ex-con handyman Doug Adamson is found, unconscious after hurting his head in a fall, in the blood-drenched home of respected citizen Dwight Connor, his wife Claire, their son Ethan and daughter Heather, whom nobody saw for a month. Doug swears he was hired for chores, ignores where the family went and sold some belongings 'for his due payment'. The team soon finds that Dwight was involved in corporate fraud, Ethan in drugs, the marriage shaky, and in the chase for evidence, corpses keep cropping up at several sites. Written by KGF Vissers

While teenager Mark Powell, who seems consumed by hatred for the police, takes hostages, including D.B. Russel, a beat-cop is fatally shot. D.B., himself doting father of an occasionally troublesome son, slowly gets trough to Mark, but just when the knave prepares to hand over his gun, another uniformed cop shoots him fatally. The team works out the surprisingly interlinked lives of those dramatis personae. Written by KGF Vissers

Nick and Greg politely laugh away Owen Linder's crackpot story about nearly having escaped a cannibal who took a bite out of his leg, until fetish exploiting Brenda 'Miss Feed' Waring's corpse mutilated with the exact same type of knife suggest there may be such 'criminal diet'. Greg's web research kicks off forensic links to a pseudo-cannibalistic fetish scene, including fired endoscope surgeon turned snuff cameraman Dennis Hagel and Gary Korlov's macabre dinner club. More victims follow. Written by KGF Vissers

FBI cyber crime specialist Avery Ryan is brought in to help CSI investigate the case of a casino owner's wife's murder on fetish scene snuff video. They soon discover there are two relevant angles to the case, requiring the hunt of two expert killers, one serial, one professional, who pose formidable traps. Conrad Ecklie meanwhile doubts whether to stand for sheriff again. Written by KGF Vissers

Desert town sheriff Combs shows the CSi team the corpse of a man raised there, who returned after founding a business in Texas to hunt for the lost loot of a bank robbery 25 years ago. As a kid, he and a local mate survived finding the cash hidden in 'their' play shed, where one of the two robbers bled to death. The third boy went missing, presumed killed and dumped in Lake Mead, but was never found. CSI teams up with local ex-cop Sam Bishop, who never ceased documenting and studying the case. Together, they find the site where the missing boy was buried and the recent murder weapon, a priceless antique Persian stone statue. A partial fingerprint of a rare type helps reconstruct the gruesome succession of crimes. Written by KGF Vissers