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Plump Fiction

By Sobell | Aired on 2005.05.19

Grave Danger - Guess what? Even when this show has a fancy guest director, it still opens with a shot of Las Vegas. We quickly move from a car driving into said car, where Nicky is demonstrating that his love for country-western music...

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5-24 Recap	Plump Fiction Grave Danger - After Nicky's buried alive, Gil gets the band back together. But there's still no pancakes.	2005.05.19 2005.05.24	B-	Sobell
Ep.	Title	Air/Pub'l	Grade	Author
5-23 Recap	Dead Man's Party Iced - Who could ask for more? Everybody's waiting -- leave your tapeworms at the door.	2005.05.12 2005.05.17	B-	Sobell
5-22 Recap	A Drink with a Dink Weeping Willows - Catherine's near-hookup at a bar with a creep who later becomes a murder suspect leads to her episode-long walk of shame.	2005.05.05 2005.05.09	B	M. Giant
5-21 Recap	One tough mother Committed - A criminally insane inmate gets framed by his equally batty mother. Because she loves him. Yes, really.	2005.04.28 2005.05.03	A-	Sobell
5-20 Recap	Reviving Elphelia Hollywood Brass - Brass heads to Los Angeles to deal with his wayward daughter in a Very Special Episode.	2005.04.21 2005.04.26	A-	Sobell
5-19 Recap	Fantastic Four 4 x 4 - A series of little cases, strung together like interlocking loops, makes for a fun episode.	2005.04.14 2005.04.20	A-	Sobell
5-18 Recap	The Wages Of Sin... Spark Of Life - ...are evidently paid by other people. The world's dimmest adulterer manages to be responsible, directly or indirectly, for the deaths of four other people.	2005.03.31 2005.04.05	B	Sobell
5-17 Recap	Pissed off Compulsion - Teenaged shame drives a boy to kill his brother; a serial rapist gets caught by a hotel bathroom.	2005.03.10 2005.03.15	B	Sobell
5-16 Recap	A sensitive look at weight in America Big Middle - ...is probably airing somewhere on Frontline. Here, the obese are merely killing simply by being in the same room.	2005.02.24 2005.03.01	C+	Sobell
5-15 Recap	No shit! King Baby - As in, no more. Please. I don't care if this episode did involve infantilism.	2005.02.17 2005.02.22	F	Sobell
5-14 Recap	Bear this in mind Unbearable - A bear gets more sympathy than the guy it mauled, for good reason.	2005.02.10 2005.02.15	B+	Sobell
5-13 Recap	No money-back guarantee Nesting Dolls - A runaway mail-order bride -- or her body, anyway -- sets Sara at odds with Catherine.	2005.02.03 2005.02.08	B	Sobell
5-12 Recap	The Young Turks in winter Snakes - The show continues its shift away from Gil and Catherine as Warrick and Nicky helm cases involving cranky old men and crazy singers.	2005.01.13 2005.01.18	C+	Sobell
5-11 Recap	Elementary, Dear Grissom Who Shot Sherlock? - Gil tests Liam a final time in a Holmesian murder, and the lab tech demonstrates that he's been paying attention.	2005.01.06 2005.01.11	A	Sobell
5-10 Recap	Awww! Kittens! In a rainbow basket! No Humans Involved - Not really, but there's no way to write anything pithy about starving children that isn't also jerky.	2004.12.09 2004.12.14	B-	Sobell
5-9 Recap	You Can't Spell "Wreaking Holy Havoc" Without "Ecklie" Mea Culpa - The newly promoted assistant director uses his powers for evil, not good, as he dogs Gil for the sheer sport of it.	2004.11.25 2004.12.01	B	Sobell
5-8 Recap	Boys Who Like Girls Who Are Boys Ch-Ch-Changes - An MTF transsexual is killed, but at least her passing provides plenty of excuses for people to say the words "penis" and "vagina."	2004.11.18 2004.11.23	B	Sobell
5-7 Recap	Not even home-schooling would help Formalities - Homecoming festivities end up killing two, boring millions.	2004.11.11 2004.11.16	C+	Sobell
5-6 Recap	This episode had nothing to do with food What's Eating Gilbert Grissom? - But everything to do with Gil's gnawing irritation about getting played by a serial killer.	2004.11.04 2004.11.09	A-	Sobell
5-5 Recap	For wives can also be lovers too Swap Meet - At least, that's the attitude everyone in this neighborhood takes -- until the murder.	2004.10.28 2004.11.02	B-	Sobell
5-4 Recap	It is necessary to suffer to be beautiful. Crow's Feet - So those who die at the hands of a Botox-pimpin', urine-drink-advocatin' doc are the prettiest of all.	2004.10.21 2004.10.26	C	Sobell
5-3 Recap	Mother, Drugs and Need Harvest - It's Fun With Bioethics week, with a side trip into Blame the Mother-land, as the team tries to figure out who killed a middle-schooler with an extraordinary medical record.	2004.10.14 2004.10.19	C	Sobell
5-2 Recap	Family Values Down The Drain - Another team outing, as everyone tries to avoid getting blasted to Primm in a high-risk household crime scene.	2004.10.07 2004.10.12	B+	Sobell
5-1 Recap	Four To Go Viva Las Vegas - The team scatters as they tackle a suicidal hooker, a fried gambler, a plugged hit man, and a buried alien preacher.	2004.09.23 2004.09.28	B+	Sobell
4-24 Extra	Evel Dead Evel Knievel - This made-for-TV biopic about the American daredevil crashes and burns on impact.	2004.07.30 2004.08.05	N/A	Sobell
4-23 Recap	I liked it better when they got pancakes Bloodlines - Seriously. Anyone remember when the season finale didn't make you all depressed? Because I don't.	2004.05.20 2004.05.25	B	Sobell
4-22 Recap	Know what this episode needs? No More Bets - Stifler's mom. And Stifler. And even a story about band camp. Instead, we get a second-stringer from American Pie.	2004.05.13 2004.05.18	C+	Sobell
4-21 Recap	Love Is Like A Roller Coaster Racing Across The Track... Turn Of The Screws - Then, suddenly, it flips you over, pinning you underneath it. At night, the CSIs come.	2004.05.06 2004.05.11	C+	Sobell
4-20 Recap	Chariots of Liars Dead Ringer - As usual, sex and jealousy up the body count on this show; as not per usual, there is foot-racing involved.	2004.04.29 2004.05.04	B+	Sobell
4-19 Recap	A hot temper Bad Words - Note to parents: Try not to introduce your grudge-bearing son to fire.	2004.04.15 2004.04.20	B-	Sobell
4-18 Recap	Pity The Nevada Traveler Bad To The Bone - ...who gets stuck at a hotel where the proprietor makes Norman Bates look laid back. Gil tries to unravel the case, and fails.	2004.1.001 2004.04.06	N/A	Sobell
4-17 Recap	Casual sex kills XX - At least, it can when your girlfriend catches you doing it. This is why you should probably not cheat on your prison lover.	2004.03.11 2004.03.16	C+	Sobell
4-16 Recap	Words that should never go together Getting Off - And they're all in the A-plot: clowns as the object of erotic desire. And there's a B-plot about what happens to rehabbing do-gooders, but it's nowhere near as creepy as the clown deal.	2004.02.26 2004.03.02	B	Sobell
4-15 Recap	Murder's only dirty if it's done right Early Rollout - A moneyed couple with a money-shot past gets gunned down for a motive other than sex.	2004.02.19 2004.02.24	B	Sobell
4-14 Recap	When Double-Coupon Promotions Go Horribly Wrong Paper Or Plastic - A shootout at the local grocery store leads into the dullest team investigation ever. Not even the glower of a cop on the edge can make this more interesting.	2004.02.12 2004.02.17	B-	Sobell
4-13 Recap	Gil Is The Very Model Of A Modern Crime Investigator... Suckers - He's information forensic, with evidence, and skeptical/ He knows the operettas and he quotes the songs historical/ from Gilbert and from Sullivan and links them up with criminals.	2004.02.05 2004.02.10	B	Sobell
4-12 Recap	Gil and Sara, sitting in a lab Butterflied - ...A-N-G-S-T-I-N-G. First comes denial, and then comes triple shifts, and then comes a long monologue about the perils of being a hyper-focused middle-aged workaholic who blew his chance with his nubile younger coworker.	2004.01.15 2004.01.20	B-	Sobell
4-11 Recap	"It's one of those open-and-shut things. They proved that ten different ways." Eleven Angry Jurors - Well, Nicky's not used to supposin'. He's just a workin' man. His boss does all the supposin' -- but he'll try one. Supposin' he reopens an old case and, uh, the lady really did cremate her sister? Why, it's enough to get him a promotion!	2004.01.08 2004.01.13	B-	Sobell
4-10 Recap	"No, Sara, These Killers Are Teenagers. That Means They're Cowards." Coming Of Rage - "Teenagers! F*** me. I mean, say what you like about the tenets of serial killing, dude, at least it's an ethos."	2003.12.18 2003.12.23	C-	Sobell
4-9 Recap	Eaten Up With Negative Feelings Grissom Versus The Volcano - Or the kind of caustic chemical cleaner that burns people's hands without reducing their esophagus to jelly when swallowed. That's the kind of cleaner Sara and Warrick look at when the depressed wife of an R&B star kills herself.	2003.12.11 2003.12.16	C-	Sobell
4-8 Recap	Sara Sidle is pretty too! After the Show - Just not in the eyes of a killer photographer. Somehow, that doesn't seem like a big insult.	2003.11.20 2003.11.25	C-	Sobell
4-7 Recap	Deadlines for dead people Invisible Evidence - An evidence gaffe puts the CSI team on a round-the-clock crime-solving spree.	2003.11.13 2003.11.18	B	Sobell
4-6 Recap	How to get a head without really trying Jackpot - Gil traipses way up north to find a body that matches the head he received C.O.D. ("cash on death").	2003.11.06 2003.11.09	A	Keckler
4-5 Recap	Yiff-A-Dee Doo-Dah Fur And Loathing - Yiff-a-dee-doo-dah, yiff-a-dee-ay. My, oh my, those plushies like to play. Plenty of skritching, but no Warrick today. Yiff-a-dee-doo-dah, yiff-a-dee-ay. Sexy Blue Cat stole the episode. It's the truth, it's actual. Even if the ending was counter-factual. Yiff-a-dee-doo-dah, skritch-a-dee-ay. Wonderful feeling, wonderful day!	2003.10.30 2003.11.04	B	Aaron
4-4 Recap	Life's Most Precious Cargo Feeling The Heat - It is not, as you would presume, children, but rather the overheated feelings of those who bear them.	2003.10.23 2003.10.28	B-	Sobell
4-3 Recap	Of all the cases to leave open... Homebodies - The CSIs' near-perfect record (come on -- check out previous recaps for their clearance rate) gets marred by a home-invasion case.	2003.10.09 2003.10.14	B-	Sobell
4-2 Recap	The Thin Blue Line Got Thinner All For Our Country (2) - Gil and Brass butt heads over the possibility that a cop slew a sexed-up serial-killing couple; both are proven half-right. Catherine and Sara deal with the grossest case ever.	2003.10.02 2003.10.07	B	Sobell
4-1 Recap	Making an Ass of U and Me Assume Nothing (1) - Part one of the series' second two-parter (the first one was in season one -- remember Holly Gribbs?) centers around a couple that kills together.	2003.09.25 2003.09.30	C	Sobell
3-23 Recap	Blast It All Inside The Box - A bank explosion staged to procure evidence from an unsolved murder has major repercussions for Catherine.	2003.05.15 2003.05.21	B-	Sobell
3-22 Recap	Blasted! Play With Fire - The lab gets blown to kingdom come; Sara blows her working relationship with Gil there shortly afterward.	2003.05.08 2003.05.14	F	Sobell
3-21 Recap	Gil Has To See A Man About A Horse Forever - The A-plot this week shows the CSIs that there's no need to skin the pony to make a ponyskin bag.	2003.04.31 2003.05.07	B	Sobell
3-20 Recap	Not a Punchline So Much as a Poison Line Last Laugh - A shock comic gets what he so richly deserves, but Gil's still compelled to solve the case.	2003.04.24 2003.04.30	B	Sobell
3-19 Recap	Strangers On A Chorus Line A Night At The Movies - Gil unravels a murder mystery through an in-depth knowledge of Hitchcock.	2003.04.10 2003.04.16	B+	Sobell
3-18 Recap	Linguo Dead? Linguo IS Dead. Precious Metal - A man is killed by his robot creation; Catherine and crew determine if artificial intelligence took an unwelcome leap forward, or if people were behind it.	2003.04.03 2003.04.09	B	Sobell
3-17 Recap	Hank, You Duplicitous, Body-Moving Bastard Crash And Burn - Sara's brief foray into the world of human relationships ends badly; Gil and Nicky take down an evil juvenile genius.	2003.03.13 2003.03.19	B	Sobell
3-16 Recap	A Doggone Shame Lucky Strike - Catherine and Warrick investigate a kidnapping that ended in a kennel, while Gil and Nicky deal with batty circumstances.	2003.02.20 2003.02.26	C+	Sobell
3-15 Recap	All Wet Lady Heather's Box - A Very Special supersized CSI makes much use of the wet stuff in the name of character development.	2003.02.13 2003.02.18	B	Sobell
3-14 Recap	Hairy Palms Are Only The Beginning One Hit Wonder - An onanistic menace alarms Gil, Catherine, and the boys. Meanwhile, Sara gives a friend the gift that keeps on giving -- a Murder II indictment.	2003.02.06 2003.02.11	B	Sobell
3-13 Recap	You're Not My Real Dad, Gil! Random Acts Of Violence - Or so Warrick effectively says throughout this episode as he violates Gil's trust in the line of duty.	2003.01.30 2003.02.04	A-	Sobell
3-12 Recap	Rage On, Diary! Got Murder? - Yeah, there are women in the trash and eyeballs in birds' nests, but this episode is all about the rage diary.	2003.01.16 2003.01.22	B	Sobell
3-11 Recap	Meat Is Murder Recipe For Murder - ...especially when it's human meat. Catherine and Gil dig out their victim from the gears of a meat grinder.	2003.01.09 2003.01.15	B+	Sobell
3-10 Recap	Terminal Velocity High And Low - An extreme jackball suffers an extreme fall while doing extreme sports; an extreme jerk gets shot extremely dead.	2002.12.12 2002.12.18	B	Sobell
3-9 Recap	Beware the best intentions Blood Lust - A crowd of idiots murders a cab driver, and a boy manages to kill both his brother and his mom's boyfriend -- all with the best of reasons for doing so.	2002.12.05 2002.12.12	A-	Sobell
3-8 Recap	Bugs and Blood Snuff - It's an ickfest -- lots and lots of ants in one case, and lots and lots of gory killer sex in the other.	2002.11.21 2002.11.28	B	Sobell
3-7 Recap	(It's a fake) Rocky Fight Night - Nicky unwittingly uncovers a crime of marital indiscretion, Catherine takes on a rapper, and Gil figures out who killed a boxer in the ring.	2002.11.14 2002.11.21	B	Sobell
3-6 Recap	The Executioner's Stall The Execution Of Catherine Willows - While Catherine sweats out the reprieve of the first person her work sent to death row, a copycat killer -- or the original -- strikes again.	2002.11.07 2002.11.14	A	Sobell
3-5 Recap	Got A Black Magic Freakshow Abra Cadaver - Gil debunks the greatest magicians in the world, and it's not even on Fox.	2002.10.31 2002.11.07	C+	Sobell
3-4 Recap	Short People Got No Reason To Kill A Little Murder - Everyone learns a lesson about love -- self- and otherwise -- at a little people's convention.	2002.10.17 2002.10.21	B+	Sobell
3-3 Recap	Sex, drugs, and the internet Let The Seller Beware - If you needed more proof that rock and roll is dead, here it comes as the internet gets third billing into tonight's list of menaces to society. Sex and drugs are still numbers one and two.	2002.10.10 2002.10.16	B	Sobell
3-2 Recap	Science on trial The Accused Is Entitled - The CSIs have to deal with doubters and worse (i.e. celebrity lawyers) when a movie star kills two people.	2002.10.03 2002.10.09	A	Mr. Sobell
3-1 Recap	Poker? I hardly know 'er! Revenge Is Best Served Cold - A vengeful waitress, a beret-wearing card sharp, and a pretty, pretty, pretty drag racer all exasperate the CSIs in the season opener.	2002.09.26 2002.09.29	B	Sobell
2-23 Recap	Out of the mouths of babes The Hunger Artist - Or babes turned schizophrenic homeless people, anyway. Gil spends quality time with one as he tries to crack a case.	2002.05.16 2002.05.22	C-	Sobell
2-22 Recap	It's A Bouncing Baby Spin-off Cross-Jurisdictions - And the usual crew gets shortchanged as we meet the new kids.	2002.05.09 2002.05.11	C	Sobell
2-21 Recap	They Didn't Cover This On The Bar Exam Anatomy Of A Lye - Two men who are proud of passing tests -- be they fitness or legal -- fail the most crucial moral tests.	2002.05.02 2002.05.08	A-	Sobell
2-20 Recap	This is why spaying is a good idea Cats in the Cradle - And going by what happens when Gil and Catherine figure out who killed an old lady, maybe humans should consider it too.	2002.04.25 2002.05.01	A-	Sobell
2-19 Recap	Nicked by Random Fate Stalker - After a stalking victim is murdered in her own home, the stalker focuses on his real target: a CSI.	2002.04.04 2002.04.10	B	Sobell
2-18 Recap	Lab Rat Or Field Mouse? Chasing The Bus - Liam ventures outside his hermetically sealed environment and gets an eyeful of crime scene; Gil and company band together to figure out why a bus crashed.	2002.03.28 2002.04.03	A	Sobell
2-17 Recap	Who Is The Loneliest Monk? Felonious Monk - Gil goes Zen-to-Zen with the sole survivor of a massacre at the local Buddhist temple; Catherine faces D-Day.	2002.03.07 2002.03.13	C	Sobell
2-16 Recap	First, Do Not Give Away The Ending In The Title Primum Non Nocere - Gil and company investigate the murder of a hockey player who saw more action than Sergei Federov; Warrick OD's on love.	2002.02.28 2002.03.06	B-	Sobell
2-15 Recap	"Meat Bullets" Is A Fine Name For A Band Burden Of Proof - But oh, what an ignominious way to go. Gil and company get down with the ground round in this team effort.	2002.02.07 2002.02.12	B	Sobell
2-14 Recap	Rabbit, Run The Finger - If only the perp in this week's episode had contented himself with reading John Updike instead of committing murder.	2002.01.31 2002.02.06	A-	Sobell
2-13 Recap	What's under the robe, Judge? Identity Crisis - Paul Millander makes his triumphant return, pestering Gil in traffic court.	2002.01.17 2002.01.23	B-	Sobell
2-12 Recap	Not seeing the forest for the trees You've Got Male - Half the CSIs frolic in the forest, and the other half play among the fields as they solve a hunting accident and a double murder.	2001.12.20 2001.12.25	B	Sobell
2-11 Recap	The loser, by a hair Organ Grinder - Dandruff can kill -- but not the person who has it. The entire team pitches in to figure out who poisoned a real-estate mogul.	2001.12.13 2001.12.19	B	Sobell
2-10 Recap	The Bored Seed Ellie - Brass's daughter becomes embroiled in a case of a dead con man -- just what Warrick needs on the night he's acting as shift supervisor.	2001.12.06 2001.12.12	B	Sobell
2-9 Recap	Fashion crimes weren't the only ones committed And Then There Were None - But they're the first things we notice in a casino heist gone deadly wrong.	2001.11.22 2001.11.28	B	Sobell
2-8 Recap	The Straw That Broke The Dominatrix's Back Slaves Of Las Vegas - Or something like that as our upstanding C.S.I. folk discover that some folks in Vegas might embrace alternate lifestyles. No!	2001.11.15 2001.11.21	A-	Sobell
2-7 Recap	Alas, poor Warrick Caged - Who is nowhere to be seen in this episode. Instead, Gil bonds with an autistic witness via the Bard.	2001.11.08 2001.11.14	C+	Sobell
2-6 Recap	Justice is a cardinal virtue Alter Boys - Although, looking at the way a critical investigation ends, you wouldn't know it.	2001.1.001 2001.11.07	A	Sobell
2-5 Recap	Leggo My Greggo Scuba Doobie-Doo - Everyone's favorite lab tech has himself a rough day sorting through evidence from an arboreal scuba-diver and a phantom snot-rocket scientist.	2001.10.25 2001.10.31	B	Sobell
2-4 Recap	The nose knows Bully For You - Sara is covered in the stink of morbidity as she tries to ID a liquid human; Warrick and Gil go nose-to-nose over the merits of a high-tech sniffer.	2001.10.18 2001.10.24	B	Sobell
2-3 Recap	Smothered, then fried Overload - And we're not talking chicken. We're talking teenage boys and union agitators on politically sensitive jobs.	2001.10.11 2001.10.17	B-	Sobell
2-2 Recap	Mayhem! Disorder! Chaos! Chaos Theory - All the laws of linear logic are rendered null and void when Gil and company try to figure out what happened to a college freshman.	2001.10.04 2001.10.10	B	Sobell
2-1 Recap	Burked Goods Burked - The CSIs whip up a little demo of why five minds on a case are better than one in this season opener about a rich playboy's untimely demise.	2001.09.27 2001.10.10	B+	Sobell
1-24 Extra	Like Miami Vice, only longer Manhunter - Michael Mann and William Petersen teamed up to make this; Mann went on to Miami Vice, and Peterson went on to CSI. See who got the better deal.	1985.1.001 2001.08.07	B	Sobell
1-23 Recap	Bonfire Of The Inanities The Strip Strangler - The show goes for cheap sweeps ratings by glamorizing violence against women; Sobell's computer sets itself on fire in protest.	2001.05.17 2001.06.12	B+	Sobell
1-22 Recap	Heads up, gorillas down Evaluation Day - Sara gets in touch with a distant relative, Nicky gets in touch with his inner idiot, and Warrick gets in touch with a lot of human waste.	2001.05.10 2001.05.16	B	Sobell
1-21 Recap	What is it with this show and livers? Justice Is Served - Gil and his merry men find a woman who appreciates a good piece of liver, and sobell develops a craving for a nice Chianti.	2001.04.26 2001.05.06	F	Sobell
1-20 Recap	Children Of A Lesser Fraud Sounds Of Silence - The last person in the CSI department who should be handling communications issues -- Gil -- attempts to bridge the gap between the hearing and Deaf communities; Catherine and Nicky do time in the subplot subbasement. And then there are the lice...	2001.04.19 2001.04.24	B-	Sobell
1-19 Recap	Hello, Dolly Gentle, Gentle - It's all very grim as Gil and company labor to find out who kidnapped and killed the world's ugliest plastic baby doll.	2001.04.12 2001.04.18	B	Sobell
1-18 Recap	The Post-It Always Sticks Twice $35K O.B.O. - Gil and the rest of the CSIs thank God for felonious females with short-term memory problems; Catherine takes a trip to the plot exile sub-basement.	2001.03.29 2001.04.03	B	Sobell
1-17 Recap	Pottery kills Face Lift - What starts off as a routine homicide turns into a convoluted case involving kidnapping, sociopathy, and the surprise reappearance of Jim Walsh.	2001.03.08 2001.03.14	B+	Sobell
1-16 Recap	Junkyard dogs Too Tough To Die - Canines of the four-legged variety help crack a case that's driving Sara crazy; Warrick and Catherine investigate a fatal scrap between junkyard dogs of the two-legged variety.	2001.02.29 2001.03.07	B	Sobell
1-15 Recap	O Portia, Where Art Thou? Table Stakes - One showgirl murder prompts an investigation into the disappearance of another, and the whole thing hinges on some fish with a poor diet, and some people with a poor sense of what "dating pool" means.	2001.02.22 2001.02.28	A	Sobell
1-14 Recap	Of love and human remains To Halve And To Hold - We get a cyclical look at the nature of marriage as one team of investigators goes after newlyweds and the other team goes after golden-agers.	2001.02.15 2001.02.18	B	Sobell
1-13 Recap	Incendiary plotlines galore Boom - Nicky sleeps with his feisty post-feminist sex worker friend, then has to deal with the mother of all awkward mornings-after. Gil and the rest of the merry men (and women) investigate a mad bomber.	2001.02.08 2001.02.13	A-	Sobell
1-12 Recap	Flame-broiled confrontation Fahrenheit 932 - Gil faces off against the repellent Conrad Ecklie as the two spar over the validity of an arson investigation.	2001.1.001 2001.02.05	C	Sobell
1-11 Recap	Driving Me Crazy I-15 Murders - CBS screws with the series' continuity, causing sobell to tear her hair out trying to reconcile the C.S.I. she knows with whatever's on her screen. Oh, and there are crimes to be solved.	2001.01.12 2001.01.18	B-	Sobell
1-10 Recap	A Pupa For Your Thoughts Sex, Lies And Larvae - Gil and Sara commune with creepy-crawlies of the six-legged and two-legged varieties as they try to determine when a battered wife died. In the two ancillary plots, Warrick and Catherine deal with an uptight art collector, and Nicky bores us all.	2000.12.22 2001.01.03	B-	Sobell
1-9 Recap	In the event of an emergency, bludgeon the person next to you Unfriendly Skies - A dead body in first class leads the entire investigative team to reconstruct the events that led to his demise. The conclusion is both ugly and depressing.	2000.12.08 2000.12.14	B+	Sobell
1-8 Recap	I Shall Taunt You A Second Time Anonymous - A serial killer makes time in his busy schedule to hector Gil with elaborate forensics pranks and pictograms; the rest of the investigators keep their heads down and bustle about in ancillary plot lines.	2000.11.24 2000.11.25	D	Sobell
1-7 Recap	There's A Reason Buffalo Are Extinct Blood Drops - And we find out what it is, in the squickiest episode of C.S.I. to date. You know it's gotta to be something in a show devoted to regular close-ups of gory wounds.	2000.11.17 2000.11.24	D	Sobell
1-6 Recap	Nothing Gold Lamé Can Stay Who Are You? - Catherine revisits her glory days as an exotic dancer and cuckolded wife while the other CSI team members work on actual crimes involving innocent victims.	2000.11.10 2000.11.15	D	Sobell
1-5 Recap	Party Like It's 1995 Friends & Lovers - Raves kill, and so do deeply closeted lesbians. These and other life-affirming lessons are yours, courtesy of CBS and this week's episode of C.S.I.	2000.11.03 2000.11.08	N/A	Sobell
1-4 Recap	Infidelity Kills Pledging Mr. Johnson - Or so says the folks on C.S.I. this week as they wring out one soggy mystery and unravel another knotty one. And there are puns, which explains a lot of the wordplay in this recap. Well -- that and the DayQuil.	2000.10.27 2000.11.01	N/A	Sobell
1-3 Recap	Uncovering Unpleasant Truths Crate 'n Burial - For once, we see Las Vegas by the harsh light of day; more specifically, we see the view you'd get if you were crazy enough to stand on a sand ridge outside the airport and gaze at the strip in the harsh light of day.	2000.10.20 2000.10.19	N/A	Sobell
1-2 Recap	Falling Fortunes Cool Change - A middle-aged guy with a buzz cut keeps pulling the lever on one machine with relentless precision. As he plays, a skinny woman who would have made a fine Skid Row groupie back in the day is watching the slot-monkeys play.	2000.10.13 2000.10.12	D	Sobell
1-1 Recap	Law and Order and Gambling Pilot - As an SUV pulls up, a plainclothes detective mutters, "Here comes the nerd squad."	2000.10.06 2000.10.08	D	Sobell