2000

S3.E1 ∙ Revenge Is Best Served Cold

Wed, Sep 25, 2002

A world-famous poker champion drops dead in the middle of a game. He appears to have had a heart attack. Outside of the city, Nick and Catherine investigate the death of a young street racer.

7.5 /10

S3.E2 ∙ The Accused Is Entitled

Wed, Oct 02, 2002

Hollywood sex symbol Tom Haviland admits having had sex with a girl who is found in the same casino hotel, throat fatally pierced with a corkscrew. As he failed to clean up, the team quickly gathers enough evidence for a murder charge. His top lawyer chooses to demand a near-instant trial, leaving CSI almost no time to work out the part of Tom's buddy and a second victim, actually the first murder. Meanwhile Grissom's mentor and predecessor, Dr. Phillip Gerard, uses all his forensic expertise to question every move they make and discredit team members.

8.4 /10

S3.E3 ∙ Let the Seller Beware

Wed, Oct 09, 2002

The owners of a house placed on sale are found dead, their bodies discovered by two interested buyers. Sara is working solo on the death of a cheerleader at a high school.

7.8 /10

S3.E4 ∙ A Little Murder

Wed, Oct 16, 2002

A dwarf is found dead, hanged in an auditorium during an annual convention for little people. Working on a case of murder during a home invasion, Catherine is attacked by the perpetrator while processing the scene.

7.7 /10

S3.E5 ∙ Abra Cadaver

Wed, Oct 30, 2002

During a magic show, a female participant really disappears during a disappearing act. Nick and Catherine investigates the death of a rock star found on his tour bus with a needle stuck in his arm.

7.8 /10

S3.E6 ∙ The Execution of Catherine Willows

Wed, Nov 06, 2002

On the day of convicted serial killer-rapist John Mathers's execution, a new case following his MO causes a stay after countering the already administered lethal injection and urgent forensic (re-)examination. It was Catherine's first case leading to death row. The most modern techniques, even requiring federal equipment not available to Greg, show another killer was at work and probably one was a copy-cat, but the question remains in which order, as that may or not discharge Mathers.

8 /10

S3.E7 ∙ Fight Night

Wed, Nov 13, 2002

The team investigate the death of a boxer who was killed in the ring, the shooting of a gang member, and a jewelry store robbery.

7.5 /10

S3.E8 ∙ Snuff

Wed, Nov 20, 2002

Catherine takes the lead on a snuff film case, and Grissom is called in on a dayshift case when the CSI assigned gets scared off by ants.

7.6 /10

S3.E9 ∙ Blood Lust

Wed, Dec 04, 2002

An Indian taxi driver is brutally beaten by a group of "patriots" who witnessed him running over a young teenager.

8 /10

S3.E10 ∙ High and Low

Wed, Dec 11, 2002

The team investigate a six storey fall with conflicting evidence, and a shooting outside a bar. Meanwhile Sara has reached her overtime limit, but can't be persuaded to go home.

7.4 /10

S3.E11 ∙ Recipe for Murder

Wed, Jan 08, 2003

The team investigate a chef in a meat grinder, and the suicide of a mentally ill young woman.

7.4 /10

S3.E12 ∙ Got Murder?

Wed, Jan 15, 2003

The team search for a body after a crow is seen with an eyeball, and Dr Robbins saves a life.

7.6 /10

S3.E13 ∙ Random Acts of Violence

Wed, Jan 29, 2003

Warwick gets emotionally involved in a case that hits close to home. The team deals with a locked room mystery.

7.7 /10

S3.E14 ∙ One Hit Wonder

Wed, Feb 05, 2003

The team hunt a sexual predator, while Sara investigates the unsolved shooting of a friend and her husband.

7.8 /10

S3.E15 ∙ Lady Heather's Box

Wed, Feb 12, 2003

When a body is found in a foam party, he is identified by Grissom and Capt. Brass as the male prostitute Trey Buckman. Meanwhile, Catherine and Nick investigate a decomposed body of the also male prostitute Croix Richards in his apartment. Catherine receives a phone call from Eddie's phone, who is with Lindsey, with poor reception, but soon she learns that Lindsey is screaming and she leaves the crime scene to seek out her daughter. She finds Lindsey in a car in the water but she rescues her. Sara and Det. Vega investigate the case and they suspect that Eddie is dead. Meanwhile Grissom concludes that both victims may have been dead by insulin and they were employees of Lady Heather. Grissom and Catherine visit the suspect Rebecca and meet her husband Steven McCormick that tells to them a weird story. Then he goes with Capt. Brass to Lady Heather's house. Grissom has a personal moment with Lady Heather and when he learns that she is diabetic, he requests a warranty to get her insulin.

8.5 /10

S3.E16 ∙ Lucky Strike

Wed, Feb 19, 2003

A man driving with a wooden stake in his head dies in front of a casino.

7.4 /10

S3.E17 ∙ Crash and Burn

Wed, Mar 12, 2003

An elderly lady drives her car recklessly into a café for no apparent reason. Meanwhile, a wife dies of carbon monoxide poisoning while her husband does not even though he was sleeping right next to her.

7.9 /10

S3.E18 ∙ Precious Metal

Wed, Apr 02, 2003

A really badly decomposed body of a man is found in a chemical waste barrel. The markings on the barrel indicates that it came from a warehouse, now used as an arena for specially-built remote-controlled robots to destroy each other.

7.3 /10

S3.E19 ∙ A Night at the Movies

Wed, Apr 09, 2003

A man is found stabbed to death in an art house cinema while a young shooting victim is found in a storage room with a bizarrely wide bullet hole pattern.

7.9 /10

S3.E20 ∙ Last Laugh

Wed, Apr 23, 2003

While performing on the stage, the comedian Dougie Max dies. Grissom, Catherine and Capt. Brass investigate the case and Grissom and his team conclude that he was poisoned by the expensive bottled water Innoko. When a teenager dies in a convenience store, Warrick is assigned by Grissom to investigate the case, and soon he finds that the youngster had drunk Innoko water. Grissom finds that the bottles came from the same lot, and was not a tampering case. Meanwhile, Brass asks Nick to reopen the case of Shelley Stark, who died in an accident in a bathtub and Brass did not call any CSI investigator. He has just seen her husband with a hot woman driving a Ferrari and he is intrigued, since the man was inconsolable. Nick and Sara reopen the case and find new evidences.

7.5 /10

S3.E21 ∙ Forever

Wed, Apr 30, 2003

When a private jet lands after a party, they find the trainer Lori Hutchins dead apparently stomped by the horse in the cargo bay. Grissom, Catherine, Nick and Capt. Brass investigate the case. The horse is in quarantine and the veterinarian Dr. Stevens help Catherine to collect material from the animal. They interview the owner of the jet, guests and crew and find two tranquilizers dart in the cargo bay. When the horse mysterious die, Dr. Robbins make the autopsy and they learn what happened in the flight. Meanwhile, Sara, Warrick and Det. Lockwood investigate the suicide of a teenager in the middle of the desert. When they find a second body dead in the same circumstances, they believe it was a kind of "Romeu and Juliet" pact of the younger. Then they identify the couple, Toby Wellstone and Jill Frommer, and interview her mother trying to understand why they died in a distant place and separated from each other.

7.3 /10

S3.E22 ∙ Play with Fire

Wed, May 07, 2003

A couple of high school students find the body of a woman in the press box of football field. Grissom, Nik, Sara and Capt. Brass investigate the case and they learn her identity, the waitress Alison Carpenter. Their further investigation lead them to the former prison inmate Jason Kent, who has recently been released. Alison was his girlfriend and was having sex with the drug dealer Jesus to postpone the debt of Jason with him. Meanwhile, Greg's DNA laboratory explodes and Sara and him are injured. Warrick and Catherine are assigned to investigate the case and find the responsible for the accident.

8 /10