Grissom is called to investigate the murder of a 17-year-old in a casino penthouse. The entire team gets involved when it's discovered that a kidnapping took place along with the murder.
A woman's head is discovered in a newspaper dispenser, and when Dr. Robbins does his post-mortem he finds a startling clue - a dead snake resting in the victim's mouth.
One night, four cases. Grissom and Brass get a stolen hummer and a taco stand. Warrick gets a dead car show girl. Sara and Greg get a dead bodybuilder. Nick gets a dead boy found on a bench.
Grissom, Sara and Brass are called to Sparks State Psychiatric Hospital when a nurse discovers one patient murdered with his skull smashed in, and another huddled in the opposite corner, covered in blood.
When Jim Brass receives a rare phone call from his daughter Ellie, he takes emergency leave and travels to Los Angeles to help her find a friend who has disappeared.
A feverish night in Las Vegas results in one dead male in an alien suit, one more dead male in a bathtub, one dead female with two suspicious men at the scene, and another dead male with a polaroid of yet another dead male.
A casino employee is beaten and raped on her way home from work, but she survives and identifies her attacker. Grissom and his team struggle to find the physical evidence to convict the perpetrator when it points in a different direction.
Sara and Greg investigate the death of two naked students at WLVU, who clearly died after a night of lovemaking. What is not clear is what turned their bodies pink, after carbon monoxide and cyanide have been ruled out as cause of death.
A lonely and frustrated Catherine meets the wrong man in a bar, but doesn't admit to the encounter - even when he turns up as the lead suspect in what may be a double homicide.
Grissom and his team are called to investigate a multi-million dollar art robbery, while Catherine and Warrick investigate the death of a woman with a bite to her jugular.
A woman found murdered in her home. Her resemblance to Sara causes Grissom to take a personal interest in the case and forces him to examine the decisions he has made in his life.
Catherine and the team find what's left of a body tied beneath the undercarriage of a prison bus and must determine whether this is an escape gone horribly wrong, or murder.
The lone holdout on a jury is found dead in the jury room. The eleven jurors who were voting guilty and who hated the dead juror are the natural suspects.
Grissom, Sofia, Sara and Greg investigate the disappearance of a woman coming home from a night out with a friend after her abandoned car is found on the edge of a highway.
Grissom is shocked to discover the prime suspects in his ongoing homicide investigation shot to death in their house. But what is more surprising is that their murder points to an inside job.
When Grissom and Warrick arrive at a burglary scene, they are shocked to discover the mummified corpse of an elderly woman locked in a closet from a prior home invasion.
Warrick's appearance at the preliminary hearing on a rape and murder case goes terribly wrong when the only piece of evidence is thrown out on a technicality.
A severed head is shipped to Dr. Robbins from Jackpot, Nevada. Grissom goes to Jackpot to find the rest of the body and gets very little cooperation from the locals.