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5-24 2005.05.19 |
Plump Fiction After Nicky's buried alive, Gil gets the band back together. But there's still no pancakes. |
| 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 2001.10.25 |
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 2001.10.18 |
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 2001.10.11 |
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 2001.10.11 |
B+ |
Sobell |
| 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. |
1986.01.01 2001.08.08 |
B |
Sobell |
| 1-23 Recap |
Bonfire of the Inanities
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 2001.06.13 |
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 2001.05.17 |
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 2001.05.07 |
D |
Sobell |
| 1-20 Recap |
Children of a Lesser Fraud
The 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 2001.04.25 |
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 2001.04.19 |
B |
Sobell |
| 1-18 Recap |
The Post-It Always Sticks Twice
$35K OBO - 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 2001.04.04 |
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 2001.03.15 |
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. |
2001.03.01 2001.03.08 |
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 2001.03.01 |
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 2001.08.04 |
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 2001.02.14 |
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. |
2001.02.01 2001.02.06 |
C |
Sobell |
| 1-11 Recap |
Driving me crazy
The 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 2001.01.19 |
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 2001.01.04 |
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 2000.12.15 |
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 2000.11.26 |
Sobell |
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| 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 2000.11.25 |
Sobell |
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| 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 2000.11.16 |
Sobell |
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| 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 2000.11.09 |
Sobell |
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| 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 2000.11.02 |
Sobell |
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| 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 2000.10.20 |
Sobell |
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| 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 2000.10.13 |
Sobell |
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| 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 2000.10.09 |
Sobell |