The team finds themselves immersed
in the theatrical mystery of Vegas’ famous Cirque Du Soleil after an
anonymous corpse, wrapped in a deflated crash bag, falls from the rafters.
Across town, Brass and Sara investigate a man who blew his brains out and
held the gun after his death.
Meanwhile, Brass gets his medal of honor after coming close to losing his life, and Catherine becomes a victim of the date-rape drug.
Episode 2: Built to Kill - Part 2
Grissom and Sara try to solve the
mystery behind the miniature, which leads them into the sordid world of rock
music. Meanwhile, Catherine gets in a car accident, and Lindsey is kidnapped
from the passenger seat. Catherine realizes that she and her daughter are
the victims of her father’s crooked business ventures.
Episode 3: Toe Tags
Crime scene investigation collides
with the land of the living dead when four corpses come to life in the
morgue. Meanwhile, the team tries to solve the mysteries behind the victims’
individual deaths.
Episode 4: Fannysmackin
A mob of hooded criminals, who
surround their victims and then beat them to death, takes to the strip where
they seriously injure a few people and murder one. Trying to fight crime and
put the masked hooligans behind bars, Greg becomes a victim of the group’s
violence.
Episode 5: Double-Cross
The team uncovers the true meaning
of damnation when a woman is crucified in a church. When clues suggest she
was sleeping with the father of the parish, the CSIs reason that the
victim’s forbidden love might have caused her death.
Episode 6: Burn Out
The CSIs investigate the mysterious
disappearance of two young boys who live in close proximity to a known sex
offender. Grissom employs the help of the sex offender to put him inside the
mind of a pedophile and in turn catch the killer.
Episode 7: Post Mortem
The team struggles to identify the
criminal behind the death of an elderly cancer patient who fell through her
window. They realize that the serial killer who fashions miniatures after
his crimes is to blame for this tragedy as well. Greg comes up against past
demons when he is brought to court for the murder of Demitrius James.
Episode 8: Happenstance
Two estranged identical twins are
killed within a couple hours of each other; one is the victim of a drive-by
shooting while the other is found dead, in what appears to be a staged
suicide, as she is hanging from her home’s ceiling by a dog leash. The team
struggles to piece together the sisters’ pasts in order to catch their
criminal.
Episode 9: Living Legend
An old mob legend returns to Vegas
many years after his staged death to murder his deceitful cronies. To cover
up his murders he masquerades as a Mexican fisherman, an old and weathered
African American woman and transforms himself into one of his victim’s hours
before he kills him.
Episode 10: Locomotives
A man incriminates himself when he
falls in cement when trying to transport his wife’s dead body. His
unintentional actions lead him to commit two murders within 24 hours.
Meanwhile, Grissom comes face to face with the miniature killer when the
third and final murder takes place at a slaughterhouse.
Episode 11: Leaving Las Vegas
Catherine and Nick
investigate a case in which a guilty man was proven innocent. They leave
Grissom leaves his team for a four
week sabbatical.
Episode 12: Sweet Jane
When an unidentified girl is found
dead, the team finds three other “Jane Does” from three separate decades
that share similar body types and looks. The CSIs struggles to identify the
victims as well as their murderer.
CSI Michael Keppler
joins the team.
Episode 13: Redrum
Catherine and Keppler
stage a follow-up crime to catch the biggest drug supplier on the West Coast
suspected to have murdered a public official. Catherine deals with
the repercussions of keeping the staged crime a secret from her team.
Episode 14: Meet Market
The burned body of an
ex-con leads the team into the underground world of black market body tissue
trades. Meanwhile, Sara
investigates a case in which a woman is found dead in her home after
partying at a new kind of escorts’ club.
Episode 15: Law of Gravity
Keppler’s past is revealed when he
covers for his deceased ex-girlfriend’s father who recently committed a
crime in Vegas. However, when Keppler realizes that the man he trusted is a
dirty cop he becomes embroiled in a very dangerous and life-threatening
situation.
Grissom returns from sabbatical.
Episode 16: Monster in the Box
Newly back to the office from his
sabbatical, Grissom realizes that Ernie Dell wasn’t the miniature killer
after all when he finds yet another replica of a heinous crime packaged on
his desk. With only a few hours to save the potential victim, an officer
finds herself in the line of danger.
Episode 17: Fallen Idols
When the head of the cheerleading
team and her basketball star boyfriend go missing, Grissom and Nick wonder
if they are still alive after finding blood trace on the football field.
However, when the team finds evidence leading back to their circle of
friends and photographer teacher, who showed an obsessive interest in the
missing male, they try to uncover the disastrous plot behind the case.
Episode 18: Empty Eyes
When five showgirls
are found dead in their
Episode 19: Big Shots
Across town, Catherine and Warrick
find a young woman dead on the street next to a golf course. The
investigators believe she might have been thrown from the car after she was
killed as her corpse shows traces of gravel.
Episode 20: Lab Rats
With lady luck on his side and
looking for some personal glory, Hodges enlists the help of the other lab
techs in a covert effort to find a common link between the miniatures in the
miniature killer cases while the CSI’s are out of the lab on various
investigations.
Episode 21: Ending Happy
In their attempt to identify the
murderer of a has-been boxer who lived among a group of prostitutes who
detested him, the CSIs must establish which of several life-threatening acts
against him one night actually killed him.
Episode 22: Leapin' Lizards
The CSI’s discover that several
suspects in a woman’s murder are members of a bizarre UFO club who believe
that shape-shifting reptile-like aliens have mated with humans for centuries
as a means of conquering the human race.
Episode 23: The Good, The Bad & The Dominatrix
Lady Heather and Grissom’s worlds collide again when she is found near death
after a private rendezvous with a sadistic client.
As the CSI team comes closer than
ever to identifying the miniature killer, Sara mysteriously goes missing,
forcing her relationship with Grissom out into the open.