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| 5-24 Recap |
Plump FictionGrave 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 PartyIced - 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 DinkWeeping 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 motherCommitted - 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 ElpheliaHollywood 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 Four4 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 offCompulsion - 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 AmericaBig 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 mindUnbearable - 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 guaranteeNesting 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 winterSnakes - 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 GrissomWho 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 BoysCh-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 helpFormalities - 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 foodWhat'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 tooSwap 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 NeedHarvest - 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 ValuesDown 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 GoViva 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 DeadEvel 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 pancakesBloodlines - 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 LiarsDead 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 temperBad 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 TravelerBad 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 killsXX - 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 togetherGetting 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 rightEarly 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 WrongPaper 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 labButterflied - ...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 FeelingsGrissom 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 peopleInvisible 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 tryingJackpot - 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-DahFur 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 CargoFeeling 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 ThinnerAll 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 MeAssume 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 AllInside 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 HorseForever - 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 LineLast 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 LineA 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 BastardCrash 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 ShameLucky 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 WetLady 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 BeginningOne 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 MurderRecipe 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 VelocityHigh 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 intentionsBlood 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 BloodSnuff - 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) RockyFight 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 StallThe 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 FreakshowAbra 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 KillA 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 internetLet 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 trialThe 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 babesThe 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-offCross-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 ExamAnatomy 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 ideaCats 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 FateStalker - 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 TitlePrimum 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 BandBurden 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, RunThe 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 treesYou'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 hairOrgan 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 SeedEllie - 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 committedAnd 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 BackSlaves 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 WarrickCaged - 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 virtueAlter 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 GreggoScuba 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 knowsBully 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 friedOverload - 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 GoodsBurked - 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 longerManhunter - 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 InanitiesThe 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 downEvaluation 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 FraudSounds 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, DollyGentle, 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 killsFace 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 dogsToo 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 remainsTo 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 galoreBoom - 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 confrontationFahrenheit 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 CrazyI-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 ThoughtsSex, 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 youUnfriendly 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 TimeAnonymous - 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 ExtinctBlood 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 StayWho 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 1995Friends & 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 KillsPledging 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 TruthsCrate '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 FortunesCool 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 GamblingPilot - As an SUV pulls up, a plainclothes detective mutters, "Here comes the nerd squad." |
2000.10.06
2000.10.08 |
D | Sobell |












