Undersheriff Jeffrey McKeen has shot Warwick and uses false evidence to set up known dirty cop Daniel Pritchard. The team in mourning soon finds McKeen's testimony doesn't fit the facts. Conrad Ecklie demands conclusive proof before any action is undertaken. Meanwhile McKeen helps Pritchard flee to Mexico, but with a hidden agenda. Written by KGF Vissers

Shameless casino addict Paula Bonfilio, ironically still a school guidance counselor, was murdered in the street, presumably by a bookie. Her small daughter now has nobody but her son, model student Scott, whose college fund she stole to gamble away, but the team finds more anomalies. Brett Davidson's bride jumped to her death from their luxury apartment's balcony for no apparent reason. A hypnotherapist links the case with a number of bizarre casino robberies. Written by KGF Vissers

Day after day, the overworked team, which also has to cope with bereavement and work in new forensic colleague Riley Adams, is confronted with another bizarre death in a public place. It becomes clear that all victims, who have very little in common, must have been murdered in a gas-chamber, moved and staged like macabre artwork. Indeed a critic proves key to the case. Written by KGF Vissers

Two corpses coincidentally end up side by side in a street dumpster. Angelica Carlos, daughter of a Colombian drug lord, was last seen in Craig Hess's nightclub and died from a dose of atropine, used to pep cocaine for the market. Related violence follows. The male corpse wore a real Reno police uniform, but was a civilian nobody and his buddy's partner in fun and crime. Written by KGF Vissers

Ian Wallace's corpse was dragged under a car into the desert and abandoned, but has marks from multiple abuse before his death. Grissom consults BDSM professional Lady Heather as consultant on athletic, handsome Ian's wounds to work out his relationship with house mate Justine Stefani, insurance salesman Martin Devlin, lawyer and torture pro Michelle Tournay. Written by KGF Vissers

CSI needs the help of an 8-year-old, HIV-positive boy to figure out who shot and killed his uncle and his mother during a street party in Koreatown.

A husband accused of killing his wife and injuring his daughter maintains that he is innocent, Stokes and Hodges discover that a fatal car accident was connected to a game of mailbox baseball, and Grissom meets with the Miniature Killer. Written by jgp3553@yahoo.com

Nightingale Kip Westerman and his domineering father-manager are the natural suspects when Kip's final-contestant in verbally abusive producer Drew Rich's popular television amateur singing competition, Layla Wells, is killed in a derelict building. CSI works out the youngsters had an affair, Drew has a dark past, and so does the building, once a world-class nightclub and Las Vegas's first casino where races mixed. Grissom insists to work out the part of the owner and a former artist in another murder committed there in its 50 years earlier, short-cut hey-day. Written by KGF Vissers

Grissom's announcement he's planning to leave CSI takes a backseat when a nine-stab-wound corpse, bagged in water, is provisionally identified as the long missing adolescent son of the Jewish Stein couple, presumably the last victim of the infamously sadistic serial killer Nate Haskell. Further forensics show however their initial suspect, Gerald Tolliver, plausibly Haskell's accomplice, was murdered in his home. The team now searches for a copycat, believing a recent double murder also their work. Grissom attends a serial killers seminar from criminology professor Dr. Raymond Langston, who happens to have scheduled an interview with Haskell, whom Grissom manages to stimulate just right. Written by KGF Vissers

Grissom takes his leave from a mostly grateful team and finds his successor by hiring criminology professor Langston, initially as consultant in the serial killer Nate Haskell and copy cat case, their last viz. first. Nate won't cooperate, but analyzing his eye-contact with students helps identify his cahoot and fancy forensics plus victim disposal routes analysis help track down the torture layer he 'inherited' from the original killer. Written by KGF Vissers

Gentle Nick sees everyone sort of eases into the reshuffle after Grissom's departure, even 'recruit' Raymond Langston, who has method and brains but lacks any experience. An explosion unexpectedly calls them away across town from a robbery scene to a murder. A traceable stolen laptop opens the dysfunctional Palento family's tragic can of criminal worms. Written by KGF Vissers

The lab tries to unravel a complicated case involving fake FBI agents, an ultimate fighter, and a possible human trafficking ring.

Real estate agent Scott Tucker is found drunk as a skunk at home, while his wife Melinda died, handcuffed to the bed, from ingested tooth paste. Their business and marriage were going down the drain. Chicken fast-food joint owner Robert 'Bob' Graham is found dead inside, asphyxiated in hot oil after a non-fatal blow on the head. Suspect fingerprints don't point to any employee, but things tie together after indications for a second murder, the corpse from which was removed in an oil drum, are followed to reveal several at first sight irrelevant plots. Written by KGF Vissers

A Congressman is on trial for murdering his mistress by shooting her. Langston is testifying for the prosecution which has some pretty solid evidence. In the middle of the trial, however, the Congressman's Chief of Staff commits suicide outside the courtroom with the gun that killed the mistress. In his suicide note, he claims responsibility for the murder, although the evidence show reason to doubt that. Written by J. Rieper

Art dealer Carsten's skull-smashed corpse floats in the pool of his rented luxury villa after a party where a vase was smashed and a client, buyer for a casino museum, stormed out. The find finds the vase, which his cat Gareth bizarrely licked, was a fake for a piece stolen form an Iraqi museum. Hollywood actor Mickey Ross is arrested after his print is found in blood on the shell of Gareth, the pet tortoise he gave his murdered wife, who committed adultery with sleazy producer Tripp Linson. Finally a man's corpse is found crushed under his steering wheel, and the dog around is again called Gareth. Gradually the team works out, mainly from identification, that the identical pet name is neither coincidence nor the most remarkable link between the three murders and several related crimes and private dramas. Written by KGF Vissers

Nick forgets about his 'CSI birthday party' when he hears of the murder of Haley, the daughter (16) of dodgy outskirts motel owners Mark and Nicole Jones. Nick was there months earlier for other cases, including two men at floor and attic level of the same room. But the link is with the murder of Bree Lindale, whose complex relationships with the Jones and the local hockey team, especially attorney Gavin Fenish's drug-dealing son Zach, was not unraveled timely. Nor were the Jones's family secrets, connecting them to ex-con Frank Carrow's ex Tanya, who apparently committed suicide in the motel. Written by KGF Vissers

A young boy was killed by a stray bullet during a gang shooting in a respectable suburb. Raid target was the Hatcher home, from where son Reggie and his cousin, neighboring honors student Frankie, are missing. The team soon works out they dealt in drugs on a gang's territory. The teenage cousins are found by Langston and Adams, who get taken hostage but can ward off and inform Greg by secret message. Written by KGF Vissers

Langston is shocked to confront the corpse of Sylvia Mallick, his former criminology student, whom he promised continued support for her grad assistant thesis on serial killers and the hunt for them. Even her house mate, barman, Dan Forrester, was kept in the dark about her research on escaped killers. The team tracks it to the Mexican 'lutta libre' free-style wrestling circus, and especially the extra crazy voodoo practice there. Written by KGF Vissers

Belgian tourist Pierre Delongue nearly died in his umpteenth sky dive, his equipment wasn't up to scratch, yet his team and its instructor are reputed for scrutiny. Nick's team works out what everybody is hiding and what happened. Langston's team is puzzled by the fate of a cult leader's corpse, found abandoned in the desert. Written by KGF Vissers

Producer, actor and script writer Jonathan Danson is beaten to death at the SciFi convention where he presented a daringly 'realistic' remake of a highlighted cult series. Hodges and Wendy are on site, discovering to be both Questers (fans), which also kindles romantic space hero phantasms and clumsy dating attempts. Nick can use their expertise while investigating other fans who openly opposed the 'sacrilige' and academic SciFi mythology researcher Dr. Penelope Russell, who lies about her rapport with Danson. Written by KGF Vissers

After 18 years in jail, Jeremy Kent obtains a retrial for the brutal murder of lonely old Thomas Harrott during a robberies spree. It was Catherine's first unsupervised case and far from up to since much stricter evidence rules. While she and captain Brass just race to uphold the conviction, Nicks spearheads the unbiased search for the truth. After the murder weapon, a hammer, is finally found, and the emergency services' recording expertly analyzed, the plot proves more complicated then anyone anticipated, with major consequences for more people then Kent. Written by KGF Vissers

Dr. Robbins determines that a number of unsolved deaths are actually from rabies, and that they are connected to a tattoo parlor and a former medical examiner from Reno who runs it.

None of the members of the local motor-bikers gang, which is involved in drug trade competing with the Righteous Dogs, admits knowing anything about the murder of one of them, Joe Niagra, found in a puddled of blood from several of them, with many blows from shortly before the fatal stabbing with his own knife. Niagra was the cover name of police detective Jack Nettles, whose gang girl Tonya Charles is also undercover. However his widow Rita, who had an affair with Brass without either realizing the other's police connection, says she lost Jack to the lure of the gang months ago. Written by KGF Vissers

Amidst budget cuts, Nick is off at his own expense to become the team's new entomology expert. Meanwhile Langston leads the investigation concerning the murder of Huston Dobbs, an unskilled construction laborer who came into possession of chips from a legendary 1980s casino. His work buddy Bruno Curtis is missing. Huston met with dodgy collector items dealer Eli Schindler. Meesly suburban diner manager Barbie Aubrey and her cook Walter Ellis also may have known about the chips. More crime follows. Written by KGF Vissers