CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (season 2)
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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation's second season took place between September 2001 and May 2002.
This season was most known for the cross-over episode with CSI: Miami. The latter show had yet to air, and the idea of having the CSIs visit Miami was viewed as a test. The episode fared well, though when CSI: Miami began fimiling their first season, tensions between the old and new CSI casts rose.
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| 24 - 201 | "Burked" | September 27, 2001 | 
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| Grissom and crew are called in after high roller Tony Braun, a known drug addict and the son of a Las Vegas Mogul, is found dead in his house by a gardener. Since drug paraphernalia is discovered near his body and it is also determined that he had recently inhaled heroin, the cause of death is at first thought to be an overdose. But further examination of the corpse reveals that Braun had been restrained at some point with duct tape, leading Grissom to believe that the victim was forced to ingest lethal amounts of heroin and, perhaps, other drugs. | |||
| 25 - 202 | "Chaos Theory" | October 04, 2001 |
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| Sometimes murder just happens, and there's no way to explain or solve it. That's the situation that the entire CSI team faces when they investigate a disappearance at a local university. A young woman, who was packing up to leave her dorm room to return home, vanishes, seemingly off the face of the earth and leaves all of her belongings behind. Unsavory facts about both students and staff begin to surface during the CSI's investigation. Forensics leads them to several possible suspects, and possible suspects all have probable motives, but nothing seems to pan out. This leads our team to discuss the "Chaos Theory." When combined, many seemingly-innocuous events may have a deadly outcome. They face the frightening possibility that the true killer might never be caught and closure is not always within reach. | |||
| 26 - 203 | "Overload" | October 11, 2001 |
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| A construction worker who fell 12 stories to his death at a high-profile construction site is thought to have committed suicide by everyone but Grissom. Against the wishes of the Sheriff, Grissom pushes to get at the truth of the matter- he thinks the suicide was actually a homicide, and uses theories on electrocution to look for his killer. Meanwhile, Nick and Catherine take on a case with little more than angora fibers to follow. A teenaged epileptic boy dies while in session with his female psychologist, and traces of angora on his underwear make them believe the psychologist may be practicing very unconventional methods of "therapy." | |||
| 27 - 204 | "Bully for You" | October 18, 2001 | 
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| When the class clown at the local high school is found murdered, the CSI team is called to investigate. The student, who is also the top jock on campus as well as being the class bully, is found shot in the back in the school bathroom. Grissom is convinced that he is looking for a classmate who was finally pushed to end the abuse once and for all. The team uses sophisticated new equipment to track the scent the killer left behind. Meanwhile, Sara and Nick investigate a case of the body of an Army veteran, found decomposed into human soup, in a bag dumped in a gully by hikers. | |||
| 28 - 205 | "Scuba Doobie-Doo" | October 25, 2001 |
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| Two bizarre cases baffle investigators in this intriguingly complex episode. Grissom, Sara and Warrick are called on to investigate apartment that has blood-spattered walls. The former tenant offers Grissom a highly unusual explanation for how it got there and claims no crime was committed, that his missing girlfriend is visiting her parents -- and the parents say she never showed up. Grissom doesn't believe him, but then he can't find a body either. In the second case Catherine and Nick are called to the site of a large fire and attempt to determine how a dead scuba diver in full gear became lodged between two charred tree branches 30 above the ground, near Lake Mead. Nick thinks the victim was snagged by a firefighting helicopter as it scooped up water from the lake, but Catherine isn't buying that urban legend. | |||
| 29 - 206 | "Alter Boys" | November 01, 2001 |
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| A young man is discovered burying a body that has been shot three times, but Grissom isn't convinced the guy is the killer---despite a wealth of evidence to the contrary; a woman is found dead in a health spa locker room without obvious evidence of foul play, but Catherine and Nick suspect murder. | |||
| 30 - 207 | "Caged" | November 08, 2001 | 
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| A book restorer at a historical society is discovered dead, apparently from natural causes, in a metal cage (a temperature and humidity controlled room) that is used to protect rare books---but Grissom and Nick suspect she was murdered and their only possible witness: an autistic co-worker. Catherine and Sara handle the fatal case of car vs. train when a woman is killed when her SUV is struck by a train at a railroad crossing, which may not have been accidental. Warrick digs into some residential burglaries. | |||
| 31 - 208 | "Slaves of Las Vegas" | November 15, 2001 |
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| A young woman's naked corpse is found dead in a park in a playground sandbox, but she was definitely murdered elsewhere. Whipmarks and liquid latex on the body lead Grissom, Catherine and Nick to a fetish club and the underworld of sadomasochistic sex. Sara and Warrick handle the case of a man shot and robbed outside check cashing store. It might be a robbery, but the CSI suspect an inside job smacking of insurance fraud and theft. | |||
| 32 - 209 | "And Then There Were None" | November 22, 2001 |
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| Three armed 'women' (sic) kill five guards while stealing $250,000 from a local casino, witnesses all have conflicting stories about what happened, and that doesn't make things easy for Grissom, Nick and Warrick. Meanwhile, Catherine and Sara investigate a murder at a faraway mini-mart where a man was killed with an unusual weapon. Are the cases related? | |||
| 33 - 210 | "Ellie" | December 06, 2001 |
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| Grissom has to give a lecture on preserving crime scenes at an out-of-town convention and Catherine is off to Reno for the evening, so he makes Warrick acting supervisor. The night begins routinely enough with the murder outside of a casino. The dead man was a con artist, who had run off with some tourists' money only to get shot and killed in the parking lot. Things heat up quickly when it's discovered that the dead man was part of a drug ring. He was also scheduled to fly to Baja with Capt. Brass's estranged daughter, Ellie, who turns out to be quite a spitfire---and does everything she can to humiliate her father. With his daughter as the prime suspect, Brass takes himself off the investigation professionally, but not personally. Meanwhile, the physical evidence in the case leads Sara to investigate a high-end counterfeit operation after the money found on the victim turns out to be bogus. | |||
| 34 - 211 | "Organ Grinder" | December 13, 2001 |
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| An amorous couple's desires are deflated when the hotel elevator opens up to reveal a nearly dead politician an/or real estate developer on the floor, who later dies of apparently natural causes. However, Grissom suspects murder. The man was poisoned, and it seems after he died, the man's organs were removed, the body was dressed and was then put in the elevator. The CSI team must check organ donors and delve into an old shooting case to solve the mystery. | |||
| 35 - 212 | "You've Got Male" | December 20, 2001 | 
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| Grissom and Sara are called to the crime scene when two murder victims are found hidden in pipes at a construction site in the middle of an alfalfa field. Their investigation of the construction site murder reveals that the victims were sisters and the relationship of one of the sisters to a former prison inmate is a cause for suspicion -- especially when his presence is traced to the scene of the crime. Catherine and Nick investigate an ostensible hunting accident, and begin to doubt seriously that the body found in the woods was the victim of any accident. | |||
| 36 - 213 | "Identity Crisis" | January 17, 2002 |
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| Grissom's nemesis, serial killer Paul Millander, reappears and claims a third victim in this gripping episode. The latest slaying matches Millander's previous killings in that it recreates his father's murder, which Millander witnessed as a boy. In each case, the victim is shot once through the chest while lying in a bathtub. A nearby tape recorder contains the person's supposed suicide message. All three victims share the same birthday of Aug. 17---the date Millander's father was slain---with the years in descending order from 1959. So presumably, the killer's next target was born Aug. 17, 1956...which just happens to be Grissom's birthday. | |||
| 37 - 214 | "The Finger" | January 31, 2002 |
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| Catherine is ordered by a kidnapper to accompany a man who is to deliver $1 million in ransom to him or else he will kill the man's mistress. But when the million is paid, they learn that his mistress is already dead. | |||
| 38 - 215 | "Burden of Proof" | February 07, 2002 |
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| Grissom investigates the murder of a Las Vegas photographer whose remains were dumped at a nearby body farm where CSIs routinely study corpses, and his findings reveal that the man was apparently shot to death even though there are no bullet fragments in the body. Also, Grissom's leadership is questioned by some members of his staff. | |||
| 39 - 216 | "Primum Non Nocere" | February 28, 2002 |
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| When Terry Rivers barrels into the opposing team's goalie, a fight breaks out and Terry ends up at the bottom of a huge pile of bodies. After the players are separated, he is found dead...with a deep, bloody gash across his neck. Grissom, Catherine and Sara are called in to investigate. Across town, Warrick and Nick look into the apparent drug-related death of a sax player at a casino. While working on the case, Warrick finds himself drawn to a rising young singer who worked with the dead musician. | |||
| 40 - 217 | "Felonious Monk" | March 07, 2002 |
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| Grissom investigates the murders of four monks who were shot point blank while chanting in a Buddhist temple; Catherine reopens a cold case in which her best friend was murdered, after the man convicted of the crime claims he's innocent shortly before he dies. | |||
| 41 - 218 | "Chasing the Bus" | March 28, 2002 |
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| A bus carrying 23 passengers from Los Angeles to Las Vegas crashes less than 40 miles from its destination, killing nine people. Before he dies, the driver recalls that, moments before the wreck, the steering wheel began vibrating like a jackhammer in his hands, making it impossible for him to control the speeding vehicle. When the bus finally did come to a stop, it was on its right side on top of a sports car that was following it. At the scene, the CSIs discover that a recent parolee was on the bus, but is now unaccounted for---and that there's evidence of foul play. | |||
| 42 - 219 | "Stalker" | April 04, 2002 |
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| Jane Galloway is a nervous breakdown waiting to happen. She has completely shielded herself from the outside world, but that doesn't stop a stalker in her attic from killing her. When CSI arrives, they find her hair dyed and her face shoved in the toilet. This image has a heavy impact on Nick, and they soon realize that this stalker is well acquainted with Nick, which makes the CSI the next target. | |||
| 43 - 220 | "Cats in the Cradle" | April 18, 2002 |
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| Grissom and Catherine investigate the stabbing death of an 80-year-old woman who lived in a run-down house full of cats; Nick and Sara comb through the remains of a car bombing that was, apparently, a murder plot gone awry. | |||
| 44 - 221 | "Anatomy of a Lye" | May 02, 2002 |
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| Grissom and Sara investigate when a man's body, which has been doused with lye, is found buried in a park; Nick tries to determine how a hiker apparently drowned in a desert. | |||
| 45 - 222 | "Cross Jurisdictions" | May 09, 2002 | 
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| Grissom and his crew handle their highest profile case to date when the city's former chief of detectives is slain execution-style in his house following a wild party. Missing from the residence are the chief's trophy wife and their 7-year-old daughter. When several motorists report seeing the girl along an access road near Miami, Catherine and Warrick fly there and meet that city's top CSI, Horatio Caine, who aids them in the investigation. | |||
| 43 - 223 | "The Hunger Artist" | May 16, 2002 |
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| The season concludes with a baffling case that requires the resources of Grissom's entire crew. The CSIs investigate when the body of an unidentified young woman is discovered stuffed in an overturned shopping cart near a freeway underpass. Her horribly disfigured and partially decomposed face is a nightmare of blood, scabs and scars, as if she'd been shoved into a fan. A huge circular hole dominates her left cheek. Someone not only wanted her dead, Grissom reasons, but they wanted her ugly. Adding to the mystery are the cart's other contents: an expensive handbag, fashion magazines and a leather day planner with notes written in code. | |||
