CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Episode Guide
Series eight
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Episode 1/17 Dead Doll (Part 2)
Grissom and the team are shocked to realise that Sara has been abducted by Natalie Davis, the "Miniature Killer", who is now in custody. Unbeknown to Sara's frantic team-mates, she is trapped beneath a car, her arm crushed, out in the middle of the desert. Under arrest, Natalie is saying nothing about Sara's whereabouts. Can the team find her before the heat, dehydration and her injuries take their toll?
RT Choice (Alison Graham, 8 January 2008)
In some ways - apart from the Quentin Tarantino-directed episode from 2005 when Nick was buried alive - CSI's least interesting episodes involve CSI-ers in peril. And this one is no different. It will be a relief when the series stops navel-gazing and gets back to what it does best - murder.
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Episode 2/17 A La Cart
While trying to take in the news of Grissom and Sara's relationship, the team investigate two more bizarre deaths. A girlie-magazine tycoon has met his end while dining with two of his bimbos at a trendy restaurant in the park. The restaurant's gimmick is that customers eat in the pitch dark, so the killer will have been hard to spot. Meanwhile, a teenage go-karter has been inexplicably decapitated - but where's his body?
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Episode 3/17 Go to Hell
Catherine and Grissom are called to a seedy hotel where a wealthy middle-class husband and wife have been brutally shot dead. Evidence at the crime scene suggests that the couple's missing daughter is in the clutches of a registered paedophile (played by Lost's Harold Perrineau) who's now a fiery preacher. Meanwhile, a tramp has been found dead in an alley in suspicious circumstances, and Sara is back at work, training a new CSI hopeful.
RT Choice (Alison Graham, 22 January 2008)
This could be described as a good, old-fashioned crime thriller, were it not for the disturbing contemporary subject matter and vague suggestion of the supernatural. It's the best kind of CSI episode, when everyone just gets their heads down and works, with no clutter about personal lives or other ephemera.
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Episode 4/17 The Case of the Cross-Dressing Carp
The death of a local transgender teen seems to indicate a hate crime - but the investigation leads to a freezer full of hermaphrodite carp. Another body is excavated from the foundations of a recently demolished casino, which had been built by Catherine's late father. Have the team stumbled upon a native American burial ground, or could the story have its roots elsewhere in the distant past?
RT Choice (Alison Graham, 29 January 2008)
One of the many lovable things about CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is its audacity. In CSI-land, everything is possible, however unlikely, and no-one ever bats an eyelid. Which is probably the secret of its success. The scenarios might be crazy, but everyone takes everything so seriously that it's impossible not to get swept along.
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Episode 5/17 The Chick Chop Flick Shop
Erotic horror-movie actress Weatherly Adams is found dead in a run-down film studio. An axe is buried in her back - but was it the murder weapon? As Ronnie continues her investigation of the studio, she finds a second body hanging from the rafters - and comes face to face with the killer. Meanwhile, Sara's passion for the job appears to be waning.
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Episode 6/17 Who and What? (Part 1)
FBI Special Agent Jack Malone (Without a Trace's Anthony LaPaglia), head of the New York Missing Persons Unit, arrives by helicopter in Las Vegas at the scene of a double murder. One of the victims is a young boy who may also be the victim of a kidnapping six years ago. The story concludes with the Without a Trace episode Where and Why? (episode six of series six).
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Episode 7/17 Goodbye and Good Luck
An old case comes back to haunt Sara when former murder suspect Marlon West is linked to the death of his student girlfriend at her university dorm. Despite the evidence placing Marlon at the scene, Sara becomes convinced that his jealous 14-year-old sister Hannah was involved. And when the case ends in tragedy, will it finally prove too much for the troubled CSI officer?
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Episode 8/17 You Kill Me
Hodges gives Wendy and her fellow lab workers the chance to play CSI by challenging them to solve a series of hypothetical murders - all featuring various members of the team as victims. It's a fun way to pass the time but unbeknown to the lab rats, Hodges has other motives for setting up the experiment. Meanwhile, how is Gil feeling after the sudden departure of his girlfriend Sara? Everyone asks, but he's not telling.
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Episode 9/17 Cockroaches
A police chase leads to the discovery of two bodies, and uncovers a sinister link to a Mob-owned pole-dancing club. As Warrick investigates, he finds himself spending rather too much time at the club, where the mixture of alcohol and his recent addiction to prescription medication get him into big trouble. The episode was directed by Hollywood director William Friedkin.
RT Choice (Alison Graham, 4 March 2008)
On the mercifully rare occasions that CSI personnel have personal problems, these arrive out of nowhere, last for about ten minutes, and then we never hear of them again. Remember how Gil was supposedly going deaf a few years ago? Now Warrick has suddenly (or so it seems) acquired an addiction to pills[…]
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Episode 10/17 Lying Down with Dogs
At a crime scene in the desert, the mauled body of a society hostess lies amid a pile of dead dogs. The ensuing investigation leads Grissom and co into the world of illegal dog-fighting. How did the victim, also a lauded humanitarian, come to be involved? Meanwhile, Warrick is under suspicion for the murder of an exotic dancer. As he struggles to clear his name, it seems someone is watching him.RT Choice (Alison Graham, 11 March 2008)
When this CSI episode was broadcast in the States, it was accompanied by William Petersen, in Gil Grissom costume, cuddling a cute dog called Bruno and making an appeal on behalf of America's RSPCA.
It's not difficult to see why this particular sop to animal lovers was considered necessary, as the episode features very unpleasant re-creations of brutal and illegal dog fights. -
Episode 11/17 Bull
At the Professional Bull Riders World Finals, ageing rodeo star Cody Prescott is thrown from his bull but walks away relatively unscathed. Later that night, he's found dead in the ring. Doc Robbins identifies the cause of death as a fractured vertebrae, but how, and why, did it happen? Meanwhile, Nick and Greg investigate the death of a woman in a hit-and-run accident - and discover she was Cody's girlfriend.
RT Choice (Alison Graham, 18 March 2008)
It's not often you see Gil Grissom wince, but there's definitely alarm in that stoic face when the owner of a prize rodeo bull asks him, "If I tied a rope around your testicles, would you feel like jumping up and down?"
[…]Someone in the CSI production team is clearly a big fan [of rodeo] - there's a lot of rodeo footage, and even a foray into "cowboy poetry" - "cowboy" in this context meaning "terrible". But Gil quotes Wordsworth, so everything is all right in the end. -
Episode 12/17 Grissom's Divine Comedy
A call from Deputy District Attorney Madeline Klein (guest star Bonnie Bedelia) rouses Gil and his ailing team from their sickbeds. As they each battle the symptoms of flu, the CSIs investigate the deaths of a number of key witnesses in the grand jury trial of a dangerous Las Vegas gang leader. Messages written in urine are just one of the intriguing points of the case…
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Episode 13/17 A Thousand Days on Earth
Following a successful show, comedian Adam Spence discovers a large box in the car park of the comedy club. But it's no laughing matter when he finds out what's inside - the body of a little girl. As Jim Brass conducts a press conference, appealing to anyone who might know the dead child, the rest of the team analyse the box in which she was found, searching for any clue as to the identity of her killer.
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Episode 14/17 Drops Out
Rap music star Drops may be in prison but the CSIs are sure he is connected to the murder of a young woman whose body has been found in an apartment he leases. Digging deeper, they discover Drops's pregnant girlfriend is living in the same block and she too has disappeared. Worried that the missing woman's life is in danger, Grissom agrees to have Drops released from jail for 24 hours in the hope that he can track her down.
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Episode 15/17 The Theory of Everything
An eccentric woman who regularly pesters police officers with stories of imminent alien invasion is killed by a truck. The traumatised driver claims to have been blinded by an inexplicable flash of light. Meanwhile, murder victims are turning up with green blood in their veins, and a fleeing police suspect bursts into flames when he is shot by a taser gun. Could sinister forces be at work?
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Episode 16/17 Two and a Half Deaths
In an episode that boldly mixes comedy and tragedy, famous sitcom actress Annabelle Bundt is found dead on the floor of her apartment with a rubber chicken shoved down her throat. The print of a stiletto heel can be seen in the blood that surrounds her head. Despite the grave faces of her co-stars, the suspects begin to mount up as the team discover Annabelle was widely disliked, and her grieving husband had been having an affair with another actress.
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Episode 17/17 For Gedda
A funeral procession comes to a standstill when the coffin falls open and two bodies tumble out, one of them unknown to the mourners. Back at the lab, the mystery corpse is identified as private investigator Benny Harper and a trip to his office reveals that someone has wiped all the surfaces free of prints and deleted everything on his computer. Meanwhile, Warrick is arrested in a nightclub and accused of murdering gangster Lou Gedda.
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