Wed, Jan 5, 2005
Greg is doing his final proficiency test and he has a case to solve. Ironically, he investigates the death of a Sherlock Holmes- wannabe, obsessive to the point of recreating the great detective's living room in his home. He died from a close-range gunshot wound. The murder weapon is not found in the scene although everything other pieces of evidence suggest that it was a suicide. Working under Catherine, Nick and Warrick works on a case of a dead guy found in his car which veered off the highway. Dr. Robbins cannot find the cause of death and it is left to the two detectives to solve the mystery.
Wed, Jan 12, 2005
When a delivery boy finds a severed head with the hair ripped off inside a newspaper stand, Catherine, Nick and Det. Sam Vega assume the case. In the autopsy, Dr. Robbins pull out a snake from her mouth and finds the serial number of her bridgework. The victim is identified as Veronica Juarez, and the investigators find a diploma from a university on the wall. They believe she is a gangbanger and they see a poster of the band Extremo. Nick and Det. Vega visit the club where Extremo is playing and they identify the victim as Carla. Soon they learn that the song that Extremo is playing is a ten-year-old narcocorrido that describes the way Veronica was murdered. Meanwhile, Greg, Sofia, Warrick and Capt. Brass investigate the murder of a man wearing and expensive suit shot in the head in the driver's seat of a handicap van. They identify the victim as Vincent Decarlo and they find that the victim was shot from a wheelchair. Soon they learn that the wheelchair belongs to Bonnie Bakerset, who lives in a nursing home, and a nice salesman has sold many things to Bonnie that has just died.
Wed, Feb 2, 2005
When a body is found at a construction site, Catherine, Warrick, Nick and Sara investigate the case. They dig the spot and Nick finds a third foot, indicating that there is a second body in the place. Grissom helps Catherine to get the bodies without damage out of the large block of tar using liquid nitrogen. Sara rebuilds the face of the upper victim with plaster and comparing the mold with photos of women victim of abuse, they identify her as Svetlana Melton. They interview Andrew Melton, her ex-husband that now is married with the Asian June. Meanwhile, Sara has a friction with Catherine and Ecklie suspends her, and asks Grissom to fire her.
Wed, Feb 9, 2005
When the young mother Lori Kyman is reported missing by her husband, Grissom and Sofia meets with Capt. Brass on the highway where her car was found with flat tire. Sara and Capt. Brass go to Lori's house to interview her husband Mark, and they find her best friend Amy Maynard. Lori's stepmother Diane Hoyt arrives and confirms Mark's alibi. Soon Greg finds that the valve of the flat tire in Lori's car was unscrewed leaking the air, and he finds prints. Meanwhile, Catherine, Warrick and Nick investigate the deaths of the hunter Rod Hollis with claws around his neck and a Kodiak bear in the woods. However, the animal is not native from the area. In the autopsy, Dr. Robbins finds that bear was shot twice, by Hollis' rifle and by a Magnum .357 that was used in a robbery and belongs to Aaron Colite. A microchip in the bear shows that he belonged to Clark County Zoo and was bought by a broker.
Wed, Feb 16, 2005
When the wealthy casino owner Bruce Eiger is found dead on the front steps of his mansion, Ecklie assigns the entire team to the case. They investigate whether Bruce has jumped, felt or was pushed off the second floor. In the autopsy, Dr. Robbins finds that Bruce was sodomite, with repeated insertions into his rectum. When they find a secret compartment in Bruce's mansion, they are forced to understand the bizarre world of Infantilism.
Wed, Feb 23, 2005
Catherine, Warrick and Nick investigate a shotgun killing in the desert. What they come across however is a beaver dam full of money. When they subsequently learn that the victim worked at setting the spread for sports betting, they think he may have a betting scam of some sort. Grissom, Sara and Greg investigate a death in a hotel where someone is found suffocated in his bed. He was staying in a hotel hosting a convention for overweight people and was quite popular with the ladies.
Wed, Mar 9, 2005
When the flight attendant Martha Krell is found dead and raped in her hotel room, Grissom, Greg, Sara and Capt. Brass investigate the case. They note that there is no luggage in the room that was cleaned and sanitized without any evidence. Ecklie tells Sara that he had a similar case five years ago, with the flight attendant Sue Stein. Sara notes that the present technology is able to retrieve the fingerprint from the previous case. Meanwhile, Catherine, Nick, Warrick and Det. Chris Cavaliere investigate the case of the death of the twelve-year-old Ty Hawkins, who has been beaten to death on his bed while sleeping. His fourteen-year-old brother Matt becomes the prime suspect to Det. Cavaliere and when Matt confesses the murder of his brother, Nick questions the way Det. Cavaliere conducted the interrogation. The CSI team proceeds the investigation and finds two other suspects: Ty's father Martin and the homeless Walter. Who might be the murderer?
Wed, Mar 30, 2005
A man is observing the sky with a telescope when, out of the blue, he is burned by a blaze. Grissom and Sara arrive to investigate the scene when Grissom finds a woman still live but completely burned. They believe it was arson and Sara uses the fingerprint in a broken bottle of cheap vodka to identify the truck driver Patrick Bromley. Meanwhile, Catherine, Warrick, Nick and Capt. Brass investigate the murder of the Stewart family, where the parents were shot and their five-year-old daughter Dani drowned in the swimming pull. Nick believes in the murder-suicide theory while processing the evidences. When they learn that the DNA in both cases belongs to the burned woman, they realize that the cases are the same.
Wed, Apr 13, 2005
When a Hummer in the wrong way runs over an old Fiero, Grissom meets Capt. Brass to investigate the scene. He learns that the Hummer's driver has fled and the Fiero's driver is alive in the hospital. At a car convention, when the host Mr. Daluca opens the curtains to show the latest RV model to the audience, there is a dead woman. Warrick and Det. Louis Vartann learn that the victim is the twenty-nine-year-old model Lisa Schumacher. Dr. Robbins tells Catherine that Lisa was asphyxiated and she had sex before her death. Daluca becomes their prime suspect. Meanwhile, the model Gwen that is working at the convention, goes to the house of her personal trainer Paul Charles to workout and sees him dead through the window. Greg and Sara investigate the crime scene while Dr. Robbins carries out the autopsy. When he sees a black substance in his eye, Hazmat takes Sara and Greg to the decontamination shower. When the body of a boy is found on a bus stop bench covered by a blanket in front of a laundromat, Nick investigates the case. Dr. Robbins tells Nick that the cause of death was asphyxia from heat damage. They identify the victim is Chase Ryan and Nick tries to understand what might have happened to the boy.
Wed, Apr 20, 2005
When the prostitute Dakota leaves the street of Los Angeles in a car for a program with a client, she never contacts her friend Jersey again. On the next morning, Jersey reports to the police that Dakota is missing. The attending officer does not pay attention to her complaint and she calls her father on the phone asking for help. Jersey is Ellie and her father is Capt. Brass, who asks for a leave to the sheriff to resolve family problems. He contacts his old friend and LAPD Captain Annie Kramer, who gives their police records to Brass and he learns that Ellie works on the streets and her last address. When the car is located with broken windows, Capt. Kramer call one local CSI investigator that brings Warrick that is in a conference with him. Kramer and Brass visits the owner of the car, Assistant City Attorney Todd Piccone, who has not reported that his car was carjacked. He becomes a suspect but The Powers That Be seems to be not interested in resolving the case.
Wed, Apr 27, 2005
When the inmate Robbie Garson is found dead inside his room, Grissom, Sara and Capt. Brass investigate the murder. They learn that the inmates are criminally insane and rapists, and they get their DNA. When Sara finds semen on his bed, Dr. Valerie Dino tells Sara that Robbie had been chemically castrated and could not ejaculate. In the autopsy, Dr. Robbins finds that Robbie had various thing in his stomach and the cause of death was asphyxiation and his head trauma happened a couple of hours later. Sara and Grissom finds that the pharmacist Leon Cadera was stealing expensive drugs and giving simple medication to the inmates. When they identity the recovered semen belonging to Adam Trent, they change the line of their investigation.
Wed, May 4, 2005
After a tough day at the work, Catherine invites Warrick and Nick to drink in a bar. She goes alone and meets Adam Novak, a stranger that fives his phone number in a matchbook. He offers to go to her car with her, they kiss each other and Adam turns brutal when she does not want to have sex with him. She hits her head on the door of the car and goes home. While sleeping, Catherine gets a call from Grissom and heads to the crime scene, where Alice Granger is found dead with a shot in her head. When Det. Vartann find her car nearby the bar where Catherine was, she goes with him to investigate. When she finds a matchbook in the belongings of Alice with a phone number, she heads home to find Adam's matchbook, but it has been thrown in the garbage. Their further investigation indicates that her ex-boyfriend, Jeff Simon, might be the killer, but he had a strong alibi. Catherine tries to tell to Grissom about her possible involvement in the case, but he does not give much attention to her. But when a second victim is found with the same M.O., they realize that the killer might be the same.
Wed, May 11, 2005
When the university students Paula Levine and Trip Wilmont are found dead on the floor after having sex in Trip's dormitory room, Grissom, Sara, Greg and Capt. Brass investigate the case. Grissom leaves the case since he has to go to the court and Sara and Greg use the monoxide carbon detector to look for a source, but they do not find any monoxide carbon in the room. Meanwhile, Brass talks to his next-door neighbor Zack Capola, who says that Trip and him were just mates, not friend. Sara and Greg proceed the investigation. Meanwhile, Catherine, Warrick and Nick join to David Phillip in the middle of a crop circle to investigate the death of a man. In the autopsy, they learn that the victim has urinated in his underwear. When the CSI team locates the owner of the helicopter that was in that area, they learn what has happened to Kevin Staniland. Meanwhile, Det. Louis Vartann finds that no investigator is available and Conrad Ecklie is forced to go with him to the Tangiers since there is a dead body needing to be processed. They learn that the victim is James Billmeyer from New Jersey and Ecklie requests the shoes of the woman that found the body since she stepped on the blood. When James' body vanishes from the morgue there is a further investigation.
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Wed, Oct 19, 2005
Nick arrives at the house of Jude McBride and the sheriff explains to him that they received an anonymous call reporting a possible crime. There is blood everywhere inside the house including three large pools. Nick learns that the Jude, Nina, Jeremy and Cassie McBride are a happy family and they are missing. Sara arrives in the house and tells to Nick that Grissom is at a conference. Then Warrick and Greg also arrive to help the investigation. Soon Sara finds a marijuana farm in the basement of the house. They also find that the anonymous phone call had called several times the family phone and they locate the caller, the local Dr. Malcolm Parker. When the laboratory discovers the identity of one fingerprint, the case begins to be resolved.
Wed, Dec 7, 2005
The CSI team is called to help when Karen Mathews reports her son, Jesse, missing from a playground where he was playing on the swings. Witnesses report seeing a man with a blue baseball cap near the swings. Clues in the park bathroom include blood and the boy's underpants. The boy is eventually found in a store, accompanied by a woman with a man fitting the earlier description. But the couple with the boy claim that he is their son Adam, while Karen insists he is her missing son Jesse.