Nick's car expertise proves valuable when the local street race champion is found shot dead in his car in the desert, apparently during a duel. The motive is to be found is his automotive past. A poker champion died from a lead overdose while playing. Grissom works out how and why. Written by KGF Vissers

Hollywood sex symbol Tom Haviland admits having had sex with a girl who is found in the same casino hotel, throat fatally pierced with a corkscrew. As he failed to clean up, the team quickly gathers enough evidence for a murder charge. His top lawyer chooses to demand a near-instant trial, leaving CSI almost no time to work out the part of Tom's buddy and a second victim, actually the first murder. Meanwhile Grissom's mentor and predecessor, Dr. Phillip Gerard, uses all his forensic expertise to question every move they make and discredit team members. Written by KGF Vissers

Peter Berglund and his girl-friend have naughty fun in Cal and Monica Newman's fabulous house, to which the real estate agent hands out the combination, then discover Monica's corps with a bullet trough the temple. Husband Cal and his 15-year old son Max are missing; Nick's dive finds Cal in the pool, identified by Max' mother Jeri Newman. A valuable sculpture is missing, and similar thefts abound in houses sold trough broker Augie Heitz, who also appears in a reflection on a sexy video left by Monica. Hunky, professional pool-boy Jack Jarvis reports that Cal often had rows with son Max, and admits taking screws from the pool filter as an excuse to return, hoping Monica would show even more of an interest in him. Greg finds Monica had sex with still another, unidentified man. The Augie on the video turns out to be cardboard; Archie finds a reflexion of the actual cameraman: Max, but he doesn't quite fit the MO... Sarah is called in on her day off to examine the corps of Amanda 'Mandy'... Written by KGF Vissers

Grissom's anthropological interest in dwarfs comes in handy when popular sales representative Lawrence Ames is found hanged during the midgets annual convention, now in Las Vegas. Verbal hostility is obvious and frustration seems to play a crucial part in the motivation, which relates with Lawrence's surprisingly healthy love-life, including two or at second sight only one 'tall' partner. Nick solves the physical how. Written by KGF Vissers

Grisham, Captain Jim Brass, Catherine Willows and Warrick Brown examine the case of magician Amazing Zephyr whose Chamber of Doom- illusion is supposed to make a volunteer from the audience disappear from stage and magically reappear, but claims he doesn't know where the last female went, and refuses to reveal his trick, which stagehand Punky Dillinger does, whose fingerprints are on too many objects. Rival illusionist Toby Arcane and the identity of the victim Zoe prove interesting... Meanwhile Nick Stokes and Sara Sidle find the apparent OD of rock band- member Gus Kenyon must be staged by his murderer, which they look for in the band... Written by KGF Vissers

On the day of convicted serial killer-rapist John Mathers's execution, a new case following his MO causes a stay after countering the already administered lethal injection and urgent forensic (re-)examination. It was Catherine's first case leading to death row. The most modern techniques, even requiring federal equipment not available to Greg, show another killer was at work and probably one was a copy-cat, but the question remains in which order, as that may or not discharge Mathers. Written by KGF Vissers

Boxer LaRoi Steele didn't survive his third fight against Javier Molina, whom he defeated in both earlier encounters. Grissom works out what happened exactly and why after learning how that Vegas show discipline really works. Nick wanted a solo case but isn't tickled-pink with a jewelry theft, yet does it well enough to counter abuse from ingrate victims. A gang fight involving an arrogant 'modern' gangster turns out to tie in as well. Written by KGF Vissers

Brass urges Grissom for hastily examination of a corps that is covered in fire ants, who made their nest in the casket and completely cleaned up bones. A black fly pupa case allows Grissom and Greg Sanders to establish an entomological time-line of about 19 months. Facial reconstruction from the skull for victim identification is extremely difficult, so he enlists the help of specialist 'artist' Teri Miller- it's stable boy Randy Traschell, Down syndrome, missing for 17 months from a horse ranch, which fits the dun beetle found in the skull. Geometrical extrapolation allows Nick Stokes to conclude a cheep spur was used; the broken-off tooth fits present stable-boy Enrique Vasquez, an illegal immigrant. Two symmetrical wounds in the corps fit... Catherine and Warwick examine a pornographic snuff movie, send to a studio, about a murdered porn star. Archie's triangulation identifies the abandoned Mandolin Tower hotel where it was made. The security guard admits having had paid sex with ... Written by KGF Vissers

Taxi driver Rajeeb Khandewahl accidentally runs over a teenage pedestrian boy and is brutally battered in hospital, where he later dies, by a gang of white trash who think the 'foreign scum' runs away. Grissom remarked his intestines are at the outside, which is very rare, and Dr. Albert Robbins' autopsy shows that the boy was run over after being killed by a stab wound; his blood traces to the park, where a hidden handgun is found, not a knife, and another dead man. His mother identifies the stabbed kid as Todd Branson; she says she was on the run with Todd and his kid brother Eric for her violent ex, which she told them to be dead. The corps in the park has a typical knife-wielder's hand-wound and a fatal bullet-wound in the heart. The gun was John Ruark's, the corps is Mrs. Branson's boyfriend Stewart Bradley and has a posthumously dislocated shoulder, as if dragged by a woman or a kid... Written by KGF Vissers

Grissom, Nick and Warrick examine a body fallen out of the sky, literally in front of two teenage skaters, but there is blood on top of the six-store building, he was dumped, maybe already dead; Nick finds a crack-pipe. He has no ID, just a distinctive Icarus-tattoo for the chosen one, according to the drug-convicted artist it's Jimmy Maurer who was sure to die. The cause of death is suffocation, but without strangulation- he fell from much higher; pine pollen point to Mount Potosi, used for paragliding, which proves very competitive; he had a show-off reputation and determined rival, Fred Dacks; his truck is still there... Grissom's hearing problems may require surgery. Catherine and Detective Ray O'Riley investigate a man who was shot trough the chest with his own show-off gun; a waitress heard fighting and a loud sound, she says he's Roger Edmonds, a regular who attracted trouble; mulberries in the truck point to his neighbor Ned Bookman, who points to neighbor Frank Kraft, with ... Written by KGF Vissers

A hand is found jammed in a meat-grinding at a big facility. The rest of the body is in tiny pieces. Catherine manages to recover these by disassembling the grinder. Fingerprints reveal that the decease was a chef at a 5-star restaurant. Another case investigated by Sara and Nick involves an apparent suicide of a woman. The lack of hesitation cuts in the deceased left wrist leads Sara to believe that she was murdered. Written by Ploy P.

An eye is recovered from the beak of a raven. Catherine, Sara, and Nick attempts to find the rest of the body and discover the deceased at the Las Vegas garbage dump. They bring the body, along with items found around it, back to the lab hoping to find who the woman was. Dr. Robbins and David begin a routine autopsy only to realize that the man isn't yet dead. They revive him but he later dies in the hospital. Grissom and Warrick investigate the cause of his suspicious death. Written by Ploy P.

A little girl dies in her bed when her house is bombarded with bullets from an automatic gun. Her father and brother are unharmed. Warrick knows the family and lets his emotions rule his objectivity by immediately assuming a suspect to be guilty. This leads to a tragic conclusion for the victim's father and the suspect. Nick works on the case of a dead computer geek in a sealed room with only one exit. His three employees who were working on the other side of the door are all suspects. Written by Ploy P.

There is a 'peeping Tom' on the loose in Las Vegas. He has just committed his first breaking-and-entering which means that he is going to commit more serious crimes any time soon. This fear becomes true when he rapes a young woman. The team works against time before this criminal strikes again. Sara, working solo, re-opens a case involving an assistant DA's husband's death. Three years ago, they were shot in their own home. The bullet got stuck in her throat and she is finally having it removed. The bullet is the only evidence Sara has to find the truth. Written by Ploy P.

Two male prostitutes are found dead, one in a night club and the other in his own home. They both worked for Lady Heather so Gil Grissom and Jim Brass pay another visit to her house. Catherine, while processing the house of the second victim, receives a phone call from her daughter Lindsay who is stuck in her dad's sinking car alone. Things get more complicated when Lindsay's father, Eddie, who has been a recurring thorn in Catherine's side, is later found dead from a bullet wound. Sara is given the case. Written by Ploy P.

The police pursues a car driving recklessly before stopping. The driver, who has a wooden stake sticking out of his head, stumbles out before falling down dead. This site attracts quite a crowd before the coroner arrives and authorizes the body to be moved. Catherine and Warrick works on a kidnapping of Isaiah, the son of a very famous basketball player. There was a ransom note left at the hotel lobby asking for $5 million. Written by Ploy P.

An old woman crashes her car into a building for apparently no reason. When it emerges that three of the five people in the window were from the same healthcare company, and she had cancer, the team realize it may not be an accident. Sara is happy to see Hank survived the incident, but during the case, she discovers he may be two-timing. Meanwhile, a woman dies of CO poisoning, with her husband being left seriously ill, despite him lying in the same bed. It emerges that the chimney was sabotaged, so it most definitely wasn't an accident. Written by movieguy3

A really badly decomposed body of a man is found in a chemical waste barrel. The markings on the barrel indicates that it came from a warehouse, now used as an arena for specially-built remote-controlled robots to destroy each other.

A dentist is murdered in an art house movie theater showing black and white classics. The man is stabbed in the back of his head in the almost-empty cinema. Witnesses only identify the killer as a tall redhead. Across town, a 15-year-old boy is killed by a single bullet wound despite the hundreds of rounds scattered around him, which were fired in an abandoned warehouse. Written by Ploy P.

Jim Brass asks Sara and Nick to re-investigate a case which was ruled as an accidental drowning when he sees how happy the once-grieving husband is with a new date and sports car. Meanwhile, Catherine and Grissom works to solve a case of a very famous comedian who fell during his act and died. Written by Ploy P.

A horse stomps her trainer to death aboard a luxurious personal jet. The horse is then personally cared for by a vet in quarantine upon landing. Things begin to look much more suspicious and complex when the horse suddenly dies and the vet disappears. Another case involves the suicide of two teenagers in the middle of the desert. Written by Ploy P.

A woman dies at a high school football field. She has been associated with a recently released prisoner. Greg's DNA lab explodes and evidence is destroyed in the fire. Warrick and Catherine are assigned to investigate the cause of the explosion. Written by Ploy P.

A bank robbery results to the death of Detective Lockwood. No money was stolen. The only missing thing is one safety deposit box registered to a friend of Sam Braun. Catherine Willows decides to confront Sam about the incident which ultimately leads to the discovery that she is his daughter. Grissom finally decides to get surgery to correct his hearing. Written by Ploy P.