The BEST episodes written by Anthony E. Zuiker

#1 - Grave Danger (1)

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 5 - Episode 24

The CSI teams come together to save one of their own when they learn one team member has been kidnapped and buried alive, and now they must find him before he suffocates under five feet of dirt.

#2 - Grave Danger (2)

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 5 - Episode 25

#3 - Identity Crisis

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 2 - Episode 13

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. The killer's next target was born Aug. 17, 1956...which just happens to be Grissom's birthday.

#4 - Felony Flight (1)

CSI: Miami - Season 4 - Episode 7

(Crossover episode with CSI: New York, Season 2 Episode 7.) A crossover episode that concludes on "CSI NY" begins with a convicted serial killer who escapes after sabotaging an airplane that was flying him from New York to Miami, where he allegedly buried a body. After fleeing the crash site, the man goes on a killing spree and abducts a college student. Mac Tayor arrives to help Horatio track the killer since Mac originally arrested the man in New York.

#5 - Abra Cadaver

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 3 - Episode 5

Grissom investigates when a woman vanishes while taking part in a magician's act. A rock star's death on a band bus appears to be the result of an overdose, but Catherine uncovers evidence that points to murder.

#6 - Kitty

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 14 - Episode 21

The team investigates the cyber-related murder of a prominent casino owner's wife and receive help from the FBI's Cyber Crime Division.

#7 - Stalker

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 2 - Episode 19

Jane Galloway lives in fear. Her doors are triple-locked. Every shade is drawn. The bathroom window is nailed shut. An alarm system is activated. Who killed Jane, and how could the murderer have possibly entered, and left, the house?

#8 - MIA/NYC - NonStop

CSI: Miami - Season 2 - Episode 23

When a teenage girl returns home from a big party night at an underage nightclub to find her parents murdered, the search for the killer leads Horatio to New York City. Before he arrives, the New York detectives, led by Detective Mac Taylor, are called out to investigate the shooting of an undercover police officer – who, it turns out, is the lead suspect in the Miami case. However, the medical examiner determines that he has been dead for 72 hours and could not even have been alive at the time of the double-murder in Miami. After further investigation, Horatio and Mac determine that the real killer murdered the New York cop, then used his ID to get to Miami, and is still on the loose.

#9 - The Promise

CSI: Vegas - Season 2 - Episode 17

When the body of a young girl who was killed over 40 years ago is discovered at the bottom of Lake Mead, Max Roby promises her mother, Raquel Williams, that the CSI team will finally find justice for her daughter. Also, Greg Sanders brings his quirky humor as he returns to the crime lab.

#10 - Unfriendly Skies

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 1 - Episode 9

Grissom and his team investigate the death of a first class passenger on a flight to Las Vegas.

#11 - Bang-Bang (1)

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 6 - Episode 23

A man accused of murdering his wife and co-workers leads the CSIs on a wild ride through a busy casino, eventually barricading himself and a hostage in a casino hotel room. The CSIs process the evidence from the crime scene to determine whether or not the man acted alone or had an accomplice. One of the CSIs eventually steps in as a hostage negotiator, putting himself in danger.

#12 - Table Stakes

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 1 - Episode 15

At a swanky fundraiser, a woman is discovered dead in the pool. Warrick looks into an apparent professional hit inside the glass elevator of a hotel.

#13 - Sqweegel

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 11 - Episode 4

The CSI team investigates a mad slasher who strikes without leaving a trace -- because he wears a form-fitting black latex suit that leaves not a molecule of evidence behind

#14 - Let the Seller Beware

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 3 - Episode 3

Grissom and Catherine investigate the murder of a wealthy couple who are discovered outside their glamorous home, which was up for sale. Sara probes the death of a cheerleader who is found eviscerated on a soccer field, her organs having been ingested by her killer.

#15 - Unleashed

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 11 - Episode 19

Langston and Sara turn to Lady Heather for help in tracking down the culprit responsible for injuring a woman before she was seemingly mauled to death by a mountain lion. Meanwhile, Nick and Dr. Robbins manage to rescue the unborn baby of a teenage girl who appears to have committed suicide

#16 - Koala

CSI: Vegas - Season 2 - Episode 4

When three masked assailants invade a home and murder an entire family, including a pregnant woman, the CSIs are called to the scene to investigate. Catherine leads the team through the emotional case, which intensifies her own longing to reconnect with her estranged daughter, Lindsey.

#17 - Anonymous

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 1 - Episode 8

3 months after the murder of a man, in a scene staged to look like a suicide, another similar murder occurs. Warrick and Nick investigate the case of a man who drove over a cliff and is now unconscious.

#18 - Inside the Box

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 3 - Episode 23

Three masked bandits steal a safe-deposit box from a Las Vegas bank in a daring daytime heist. Catherine follows the evidence to the casino owner, who is like a father to her. Grissom's hearing gets progressively worse and he asks Doc Robbins for help.

#19 - Last Laugh

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 3 - Episode 20

Grissom and Catherine investigate the murder of a despised comic who died onstage, apparently after drinking from a tainted bottle of water. Brass reopens a woman's accidental-death case after spotting the deceased's husband in a flashy new car with a trophy date on his arm.

#20 - A Night at the Movies

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 3 - Episode 19

Grissom and Catherine investigate the murder of a movie-goer. The rest of the team reach a forensic impasse while processing a teenager who died from a gunshot wound.

#21 - Pilot

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 1 - Episode 1

Gil Grissom is the supervisor of the graveyard shift of Las Vegas' elite crime scene investigators. Holly Gribbs, fresh out of the academy, joins the team. Jim Brass is head of the unit and is trying to scare Gribbs from CSI. Catherine Willows, mother of a young daughter, is the number two CSI on this shift. Warrick Brown and Nick Stokes are competing to solve their 100th case to earn a promotion to CSI 3. Grissom investigates a murder staged to look like a suicide with precious little evidence. Warrick and Catherine take the case of a drunk who breaks into the house where he had been staying and is shot to death. Nick talks to a man who picked up a woman who drugged and robbed him.

#22 - Evaluation Day

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 1 - Episode 22

While Grissom and Catherine investigate the case of a human head that is found in the trunk of a car, Sara and Nick have a case of a body in the desert that's missing it's head. Warrick looks into a murder in a juvenile detention facility.

#23 - Assume Nothing (1)

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 4 - Episode 1

One of two couples who meet in a bar is murdered and, when the second couple meets the same fate in a similar fashion, the team suspects a pair of serial killers is on the loose. Catherine gets some troubling news about her father's murder trial.

#24 - Revenge Is Best Served Cold

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 3 - Episode 1

Catherine and Nick become absorbed in the dangerous world of street racing after the body of one of the illegal sport's drivers is found in the desert at an abandoned airstrip. Grissom and his crew probe the sudden death of a renowned poker player who had a violent convulsion during a high-stakes game.

#25 - Cross-Jurisdictions

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 2 - Episode 22

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. Catherine and Warrick follow the trail to Miami, and soon enlist the help of Horatio Caine.

#26 - Burked

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 2 - Episode 1

Grissom and the crew are called in after a high roller, a known drug addict, is found dead in his house by a gardener. The investigation reveals that the victim was restrained at some point with duct tape, and was possibly forced to ingest lethal amounts of heroin and other drugs.

#27 - Oedipus Hex

CSI: NY - Season 3 - Episode 5

The CSI's handle to puzzling cases; Carensa is a young Suicide Girl who at 17, wanted a change of scenery and to become a Suicide girl, at 18 she gets her wish only to lose her life. Chopper, a rising street basketball star, a homeless man trying to change his life for the better is killed and leaves a painful trail of blood which leaves Mac to figure out where and how he died.

#28 - Ellie

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 2 - Episode 10

Warrick heads the investigation of the murder of a con artist who turns out to be involved with Brass' daughter, and the evidence leads Sara on a counterfeit investigation.

#29 - Feeling the Heat

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 4 - Episode 4

During the latest heat wave, Grissom and Catherine investigate a baby locked in a car. Warrick investigates a man dead of an apparent heat stroke in his house. Nick and Sara investigate when a woman's body is found floating in a lake.

#30 - Cool Change

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 1 - Episode 2

A man is killed after winning a fortune and then dumping his girlfriend, so Grissom, Nick and newcomer to the CSI team, Sara Sidel, investigate the case. Warrick is up for suspension for leaving Holly at the crime scene by herself.

#31 - Manhattan Manhunt (2)

CSI: NY - Season 2 - Episode 7

(Crossover episode with CSI: Miami, Season 4 Episode 7.) Horatio Caine follows Henry Darius to New York so that he can keep his promise to a young boy in Miami, but by the time he and Mac are able to locate Darius he has disappeared again, leaving behind six more bodies. A link to the younger sister of one of the victims who was also Darius' hostage turns out to be a dead end, but Mac and Horatio soon find the connection between Darius and his hostage, leading them to a psychiatrist who had treated both.

#32 - Pledging Mr. Johnson

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 1 - Episode 4

Grissom and Catherine investigate when a leg is found severed from a body in a lake. Sara and Nick investigate a fraternity pledging gone terribly wrong.

#33 - Hush

CSI: NY - Season 1 - Episode 16

Mac and Stella investigate when they find the body of Paddy Dolan, a longshoreman. Part of the body is found on a transport truck and another part back at the warehouses, but Mac encounters difficulty with the investigation when the workers put up a wall of silence against them. Aiden and Danny investigate the death of Debbie Bogda, who was found naked on the expressway, and their investigation leads them into a world of sexual games and bondage once they realise she was actually harnessed to the front of a truck.

#34 - Recipe for Murder

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 3 - Episode 11

Grissom and Catherine investigate a meat grinder murder at an abattoir. Warrick and Sara look into the apparent suicide of a young woman.

#35 - Lucky Strike

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 3 - Episode 16

After a man driving with a wooden stake in his head dies in front of a casino, Grissom and Nick work to discover the 'vampire' killer. Warrick and Catherine hunt for the killer of an NBA star's 5 year old son.

#36 - Silent Night

CSI: NY - Season 3 - Episode 12

The CSI team has a problem after learning the family is deaf: now they have to find a new way to catch the killer. Meanwhile, more information is given on Lindsey's horrifying past and what led her to become a CSI.

#37 - All Access

CSI: NY - Season 2 - Episode 21

Mac and Lindsay question Kid Rock because he was the last person to see his limo driver alive when the driver is found dead in the alley just before Kid Rock’s encore performance concert.

#38 - Grissom Versus the Volcano

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 4 - Episode 9

The sheriff is under political pressure to find the killer of an air marshall with a car bomb, Warrick and Sara investigate the murder of the wife of a headline singer on The Strip.

#39 - Early Rollout

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 4 - Episode 15

The entire team investigates the execution murders of a porn star and her husband. Things get personal for Catherine when Grissom talks to her about her evaluation.

#40 - Tanglewood

CSI: NY - Season 1 - Episode 13

Mac and Stella investigate the death of Paul Montenassi, a young man left to bleed to death in the snow. The investigation leads them to another victim, Mihok Lev, who had been killed by Montenassi in a robbery earlier that evening. When Hawkes concludes his autopsy on Montenassi, he is able to reveal a sanded-off tattoo that leads the detectives to the Tanglewood Boys. Danny and Aiden investigate the hit-and-run that caused the death of Marta Santo. After discovering sperm on the woman's clothing, Danny and Aiden learn that Santo liked things rough, and their investigation leads them to an erotic massage parlor.

#41 - The Dove Commission

CSI: NY - Season 1 - Episode 18

When the chief investigator of a controversial report documenting corruption within the NYPD is gunned down the day before his findings are published, Mac and Stella must find the killer, launching a massive search that makes every officer listed in the report a suspect. Meanwhile, Danny and Aiden investigate the murder of a gypsy cab driver.

#42 - Blink

CSI: NY - Season 1 - Episode 1

The team finds three young women, all of whom appear to have been brutalized in the same way. The only witness they have is the surviving young woman, who can communicate only through blinking. Photographs found at one of the crime scenes lead the team to a couple that had sponsored one of the victims, and the boyfriend who claims he hasn't spoken to her in weeks.

#43 - Run Silent, Run Deep

CSI: NY - Season 2 - Episode 20

Mac receives a phone call confessing to an old murder before the caller commits suicide. The call leads the team to a football stadium to uncover a body and they learn the suicide victim belongs to the Tanglewood gang. They also find a cigarette that puts Danny's job on the line after his DNA is found on it. Stella and Danny investigate the death of a businessman who used the services of an expensive call girl service.

#44 - Officer Blue

CSI: NY - Season 1 - Episode 9

After mounted officer Valasquez is shot down in the park, Mac goes looking for the bullet that killed the officer only to learn that it is lodged in the horse's spine and cannot be removed without being fatal to the horse. The investigation leads them to a local street vendor, but stalls when the D.A. asks Mac not to do anything to risk the horse until after the woman who donated it has a chance to say goodbye. Aiden investigates the body of a young man, Lenny Starks, who was found face-down, dead in the street. Aiden traces the young man to a local pizza parlor where she faces intimidation from the bookies who use it as a gambling front.

#45 - Risk

CSI: NY - Season 2 - Episode 13

Danny is on his way home after a long shift and finds Randy Williams subway surfing. Mac and Lindsay arrive on the scene and begin to wonder if Randy Williams died from riding on top of the subway. His death is even more suspicious after they examine the body more closely.