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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Season 5

25 listed hours · 2000–2015 · CBS

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How this season is filed

Filed by Julian Hart · The Binge Brief

Las Vegas criminalists solve murders with stylish science that made lab work look like nightclub cinema. Anthony E. Zuiker's CBS hit turned the who into the how, spawned a franchise mitosis machine, and put the "CSI effect" into real courtroom talk. 2000s procedural TV as global brand architecture.

TV Flash files Season 5 of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000–2015) on CBS as a mid listed season (5; 5 of 16) — 25 listed hours, 2004-09-23–2005-05-19 from “Viva Las Vegas” (S05E01) to “Grave Danger (2)” (S05E25). Titles, dates, and synopses on file — no invented recaps.

Desk essentials in this season

  1. S05E01 Viva Las Vegas

    Viva Las Vegas is the season-five title that admits the city is the co-star — neon as production design, the lab still the detective.

  1. S05E01

    Viva Las Vegas

    Wild night in Las Vegas has the CSIs simultaneously investigating four fatalities.

  2. S05E02

    Down the Drain

    .Heavy rain in Las Vegas causes the CSI team to investigate the demise of victims found in the sewage drains.

  3. S05E03

    Harvest

    .The CSI team investigates the kidnapping of a young girl.

  4. S05E04

    Crow's Feet

    Catherine and Nick delve into the dark world of hazardous cosmetic procedures to keep people looking young, while Grissom, Sara and Greg investigate a man found dead in a house tented for termites.

  5. S05E05

    Swap Meet

    The CSI team investigates a suburban murder with a sexual twist.

  6. S05E06

    What's Eating Gilbert Grissom

    Grissom is haunted by the return of the blue paint serial killer that got away two years ago.

  7. S05E07

    Formalities

    Grissom works with a new CSI from the dayshift on an apparent kidnapping from a high school formal held at a Vegas casino.

  8. S05E08

    Ch-Ch-Changes

    A murder investigation leads the CSI team to explore the world of trangenders, which turns into the ultimate case of mistaken identity.

  9. S05E09

    Mea Culpa

    An undetected piece of evidence in an old murder case has the graveyard shift under internal investigation.

  10. S05E10

    No Humans Involved

    Tension rises as the CSI teams adjust to their new assignments while investigating two vastly different murders.

  11. S05E11

    Who Shot Sherlock?

    The CSIs investigate the murder of a Sherlock Holmes enthusiast in his perfectly re-created Victorian Era Baker Street study.

  12. S05E12

    Snakes

    Catherine and Nick delve into the dangerous world of a Mexican band with a cult-like following, while Warrick and Sofia investigate a man found dead in a handicapped van.

  13. S05E13

    Nesting Dolls

    The CSIs discover two female corpses that turn out to be part of an undercover Russian mail-order bride operation.

  14. S05E14

    Unbearable

    The CSIs suspect third party involvement in the murder of a hunter and a bear found in the outskirts of Las Vegas.

  15. S05E15

    King Baby

    Grissom and Catherine's teams work together to discover the truth behind the death of a larger-than-life casino owner.

  16. S05E16

    Big Middle

    The CSIs search for a murderer at a convention for overweight adults.

  17. S05E17

    Compulsion

    Grissom and his team use new technology to process a fingerprint from an old crime scene while they investigate a serial killer.

  18. S05E18

    Spark of Life

    Grissom finds a connection between the suicide of a woman in the Las Vegas Wilderness and the slaughter of an entire family in a suburban home.

  19. S05E19

    4x4

    Wild day in Las Vegas has the CSIs simultaneously investigating four fatalities.

  20. S05E20

    Hollywood Brass

    Captain Brass goes to Los Angeles to investigate a case involving his estranged daughter.

  21. S05E21

    Committed

    Grissom and Sara investigate the brutal murder of an inmate at a locked-down state mental hospital.

  22. S05E22

    Weeping Willows

    The man Catherine flirts with at a bar comes back into her life as a suspect in a murder investigation.

  23. S05E23

    Iced

    The CSIs find themselves immersed in university life when a couple of amorous freshman are found dead in a college dormitory.

  24. S05E24

    Grave Danger (1)

    The CSIs are in a desperate race against time to save a member of their team.

  25. S05E25

    Grave Danger (2)

    The CSIs are in a desperate race against time to save a member of their team.

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