The BEST episodes written by Carol Mendelsohn

#1 - The Big Bang Theory (2)

Melrose Place - Season 3 - Episode 32

Alison returns from Hong Kong, but is unable to dissuade Billy from marrying Brooke. Jo is disturbed when Jess continues to push her to marry him. Jess explodes with rage when Jo breaks up with him. Jane seduces Richard, much to the chagrin of his ex-wife, MacKenzie. Peter is allowed to keep his medical license. Kimberly finds it difficult to control her demons after realizing that Peter was only interested in her as a character witness. Paul asks Matt to go to his house to prepare dinner. Matt triggers the alarm, and the police find him over Carol's dead body. His fingerprints are also on the murder weapon (a candlestick he had handled during a previous date). Jake returns from Billy's wedding to find the battered Jo. He tracks down Jess at his construction site to fight him, and they end up toppling hundreds of feet off a platform. Sydney follows Kimberly and observes her bizarre behavior. She trails her to the apartment building's laundry room. Kimberly ties her up and details a pla

#2 - The Big Bang Theory (1)

Melrose Place - Season 3 - Episode 31

Peter bails Michael out of jail. He explains that he only served a few days of jail time, and asks Michael to testify on his behalf before the medical board. The demon tries to goad Kimberly into committing acts of violence against her enemies. Sydney breaks into Kimberly's motel room and discovers a grotesque photo collage of Syd and others. Sydney and Michael's warnings about Kimberly are ignored by the police. Kimberly confronts Peter about his alliance with Michael, and he expresses a romantic interest in her. Amanda tells Alison that Billy and Brooke are getting married. Alison realizes that Hayley hired her to get her out of Brooke's way. Jo rejects Jess's hasty marriage proposal. Jane's firm faces foreclosure. Jane aggressively pursues a famous designer named Richard Hart, and is hired by his ex-wife's firm. Paul tells Matt that Carol has moved out, but she is actually just out of town for the weekend.

#3 - 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.

#4 - Just Say No

Melrose Place - Season 3 - Episode 13

Bruce learns that D&D has been purchased by a consortium of doctors. Peter fires Bruce and appoints Amanda president. Amanda gives Billy a promotion and orders him to fire Alison, who has begun to experience blackouts. Bruce hangs himself in Amanda's office. Matt tells Billy that he can save Alison's job by checking her into rehab. They conduct an intervention, and Alison agrees to seek treatment. She escapes when the trio stops for gas, but later checks herself into the clinic. Sydney decides that she doesn't mind being a hostage when Chris buys her expensive gifts and gives her unlimited use of his credit cards. She finally calls Jake and asks for help after Chris loses all of Jane's money and becomes abusive. Michael, Jane and Jake fly to Las Vegas, where Jake expresses his doubts about Sydney's behavior. Jane and Michael learn that all the money is gone, and sleep together. Michael demands to know why Kimberly suddenly has a child. Jo struggles to prove that her son is alive.

#5 - Grave Danger (2)

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 5 - Episode 25

#6 - Trash Radio

Midnight Caller - Season 1 - Episode 8

Jack finds himself being raked over the coals by a jealous competitor who has insider information on an Internal Affairs investigation, which found Jack not guilty of the charges.

#7 - Dead Sisters Walking (1)

Melrose Place - Season 4 - Episode 33

Peter is saved from the lobotomy when Michael and Amanda break into the hospital, but ""Betsy"" captures them and locks them in the boiler room. Nurse Benson realizes that Kimberly is crazy, and tries to release the trio. ""Betsy"" stops them from escaping, but Michael is able to talk Kimberly back to reality. An orderly suspects that Michael has brainwashed Kimberly, and tries to attack him. Kimberly rescues Michael, but falls off a twenty-foot platform in the scuffle. Syd tries to dissuade Jane from continuing her murder plot. Jane offers Samantha a job and apartment in exchange for information on other offers on the store. Jane embezzles money from Richard to buy the space. Matt begins to recover from his illness. Jo is stunned when Dominick proposes. Jake tries to push Alison away when she expresses a romantic interest in him.

#8 - For Warrick (2)

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 9 - Episode 1

After Warrick is shot in a Las Vegas alley, the CSI team comes together to deal with the aftermath.

#9 - If You Could See What I See

Hardcastle and McCormick - Season 3 - Episode 13

Not wanting to continue cleaning up the estate, Mark hires Millie Denton, his former prison cellmate's widow, as a maid. Meanwhile, Hardcastle begins looking into the suspicious death of a lawyer named Charlie Clarkson. Taking over Charlie's practice, Hardcastle interviews Loni Summers, a model that had previously hired Charlie to handle her divorce. Discovering the divorce is now off, Hardcastle checks into the background of actor Dex Falcon, Loni's husband. Investigating, the judge discovers that Falcon had secretly been receiving millions of dollars from an attorney named Wendell Price. In the meantime, Millie, who claims to be a psychic, has a vision of Mark's murder. Ignoring Millie's warning, Mark proceeds with the case. To Mark's regret, he is captured by Price, shot and left for dead. Thanks to Millie, Hardcastle locates Mark in time to save his life. Next, based on the evidence Mark had gathered, Hardcastle and the police, having already taken Falcon into custody, movie in and arrest Price. As the episode ends, Millie, shaken up by her visions, decides to quit and move in with her sister.

#10 - Boom

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 1 - Episode 13

A bomb explodes in an office building, and the chief suspect is a security guard. Nick helps his prostitute friend again but, after giving in to his passion, she is found dead the next morning.

#11 - 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.

#12 - Blood Lust

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 3 - Episode 9

A taxi driver feels his cab strike something, then finds a teenage boy pinned beneath the left rear tire, apparently killed on impact. When Grissom arrives on the scene, he discovers that the teen has been eviscerated and has stab wounds, but shows no signs of having been struck by the taxi.

#13 - Lady Heather's Box

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 3 - Episode 15

Grissom's investigation into the murder of two men leads him to a new encounter with Lady Heather. Catherine is desperate to discover what lead to the near-death of her daughter and why her ex-husband disappeared.

#14 - One to Go (2)

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 9 - Episode 10

The CSI team is shocked and saddened when, after working with Dr. Raymond Langston on the 'Dick & Jane' murders, Grissom announces that his time as a CSI has come to an end and offers Langston a permanent position on the CSI team.

#15 - 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.

#16 - Games People Play

Hardcastle and McCormick - Season 3 - Episode 7

Mark surprises the judge when he not only qualifies for, but becomes a winner on, The 1 Million Dollar Trivia Master, a television game show. Unbeknownst to Mark, veteran game show producers Harry Baxter and Art Healy, envisioning big ratings, decide to help the ex-race car driver along once they discover that the audience is cheering for him to succeed. To guarantee a winning streak, the producers have Hardcastle's estate bugged and begin basing their questions on Mark's home practice sessions. Although Hardcastle quickly realizes that something is amiss, Mark is unwilling to accept that the game is rigged. After Diane Templeton, one of the trivia show's employees, dies under mysterious circumstances, Mark turns around and admits that something is seriously wrong. Searching the show's offices, Hardcastle finds out why Diane was killed: She had obtained a tape proving the show is fixed. Meanwhile, Baxter and Healy discover that Bryce Benson, the shows host, had taken their plan to a deadly conclusion by killing Diane. Not wanting to face murder charges, the producers decide to tell Hardcastle everything. During the taping of the show's final round, Mark, giving up his chance to be a big winner, reluctantly helps the police stop Benson. Hinting at the series eventual conclusion, Mark jokes about going to law school in this episode.

#17 - 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.

#18 - Fish in a Drawer

Two and a Half Men - Season 5 - Episode 17

CSI's investigate a death at Charlie's house.

#19 - The Finger

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 2 - Episode 14

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.

#20 - 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.

#21 - 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

#22 - I-15 Murders

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 1 - Episode 11

A woman is abducted from a supermarket, and Grissom discovers chilling news on a bathroom stall door. Warrick is caught in a casino on duty, and is then paired with Sara to investigate the suspected murder and robbery of a man who is identified as Warrick 's brother.

#23 - The Merchant of Death

Wiseguy - Season 1 - Episode 16

When some of his munitions contacts begin drying up, Mel decides to blackmail a French Deputy Minister of Defense into supplying him with the weapons he needs. After setting Vinnie up to be arrested for espionage, Susan makes it up to him by letting him go to bed with her. When Vinnie mysteriously comes up with the documents Mel needs, he arouses Roger's suspicions.

#24 - A Bullet Runs Through It (2)

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 6 - Episode 8

The CSIs sift through the overwhelming evidence from a shootout with drug dealers, to determine who was responsible for the death of a police officer killed during the incident.

#25 - 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.

#26 - A Chip off the Ol' Milt

Hardcastle and McCormick - Season 3 - Episode 22

As the final episode begins, Mark, who has secretly begun attending law school, is offered a paralegal job by Kenneth Malcolm, one of his professors. Meanwhile, Hardcastle, realizing that Mark's parole is up, decides to buy a car repair business, as a surprise gift for his friend. Upon hearing about Mark's job offer, Hardcastle, not wanting to stand in his friend's way, lies and tells his friend that he bought the company for himself. For his first assignment at law firm Malcolm, Hughes and Dewitt, Mark is asked to reclaim the possessions of Elsey, a resident of the Sunset Acres Retirement Home. Arriving at the home, Mark makes the acquaintance of Mimi LeGrand, a retired actress. Immediately liking Mimi, Mark is more than willing to comply when the former actress asks him to open a bank account for her. To Mark's surprise, he discovers that someone has already opened an account in Mimi's name. Concerned, Mark decides to go to Hardcastle for help. Before the two men are able to really learn anything in the case, they end up in jail as a result of a mistake made by Leroy, Hardcastle's assistant at the car company. While awaiting their release, Hardcastle decides to tell his friend the truth about why he bought the company. In response, Mark reveals that he has been going to law school in an attempt to follow in his friend's footsteps. Once released, Hardcastle and McCormick discover evidence that Malcolm and resident home manager Leonard Porter have been killing the residents and stealing their money. (They were able to move the money by secretly creating bank accounts in the seniors' names.) Armed with sufficient evidence, the crime fighting duo stop Malcolm and Porter. Despite the fall of his professor, Mark vows to continue attending law school. After selling the car business, Hardcastle makes a generous bet with Mark: If the ex-race car driver can beat him in a game of basketball, the judge will pay the law school bill. Due in the most part to Hardcastle's generos

#27 - Law of Gravity

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 7 - Episode 15

Grissom returns from his sabbatical; Keppler is put into a compromising position when the bodies of a Trenton police officer and a hooker are found in a hotel room. The man who found them is a retired New Jersey cop and close friend to Keppler, who doesn't reveal their relationship.

#28 - Toe Tags

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 7 - Episode 3

Coming straight from the perspectives of five people: Donna, Rebecca, Jack, Lou and Ray. All with one thing in common. They’re all dead. Brass and Catherine get to handle the case of Donna, who’s a cop from San Francisco, moonlighting as a bodyguard. Warrick and Greg work the case of Rebecca. Nick and Sofia handle the case of Jack, a returning veteran from Iraq. Grissom and Sara take the case of Lou and Ray whose bodies were found in Lou’s garage.

#29 - And Then There Were None

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 2 - Episode 9

Grissom and his team investigate a casino heist during which innocent victims were shot, while Catherine and Sara are called to the scene of a murder in a remote part of the desert.

#30 - All for Our Country (2)

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 4 - Episode 2

When the lead suspects in Grissom's serial killer case are murdered, he suspects an inside job. Catherine and Sara investigate when a college football fan's body is found in a bathtub.

#31 - 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.

#32 - The Prodigal Son

Wiseguy - Season 1 - Episode 7

Vinnie decides he must tell his mother the truth about his work when she is hospitalized after being mugged. Frank has Lifeguard bug Carlotta's hospital room, then has a change of heart when Carlotta charms Sonny by telling him how much Vinnie loves him. Vinnie's admiration for Sonny lessens when his own informal investigation into his mother's mugging leads directly back to Sonny's empire.

#33 - 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.

#34 - Who Are You?

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 1 - Episode 6

Catherine violates department protocol when she takes the case of a rape accusation against her ex-husband. Warrick and Sara search for the missing bullet that will either exonerate or indict a cop for murder. Grissom and Nick investigate when a female skeleton is found buried in cement under a house.

#35 - 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.

#36 - Bloodlines

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 4 - Episode 23

A casino employee is beaten and raped on her way home from work, but she survives and identifies her attacker. When a DNA test sets him free, Grissom wrestles with his belief that evidence can never lie.

#37 - Hollywood Brass

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 5 - Episode 20

Brass travels to Hollywood, California to try to track down his estranged daughter's friend, meanwhile trying to rekindle some kind of relationship with her.

#38 - 19 Down... (1)

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 9 - Episode 9

When the team discovers a connection between a new murder and a serial killer, Grissom secretly joins the class of a criminal pathologist to help crack the case.

#39 - Viva Las Vegas

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 5 - Episode 1

A wild night in Las Vegas has the CSIs simultaneously investigating four fatalities. Greg Sanders' first day in the field has him assisting Grissom's investigation of a fatal nightclub shooting. Meanwhile, Catherine probes into the death of a stripper found dead in a hotel room, while Sara and Nick look into the strange case of an "alien" body found near Area 51.

#40 - Ghost Town

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 10 - Episode 2

The son of a notorious killer is arrested on suspicion of murder, and the CSI team must overcome their natural prejudices against the boy's antecedents in order to track the true culprit.

#41 - Caged

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 2 - Episode 7

Grissom and Nick investigate the death of a book restorer while Catherine and Sara are called to the scene of a fatal train crash.

#42 - The Execution of Catherine Willows

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 3 - Episode 6

15 years previously, Catherine helped put a man on death row for the rape and murder of a college co-ed. Just as he is abut to be executed, another girl at the same school is murdered in similar circumstances.

#43 - Unbearable

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 5 - Episode 14

Grissom, Sofia, Sara and Greg investigate the disappearance of a woman coming home from a night out with a friend, her abandoned car found on the edge of a highway. Catherine, Warrick and Nick investigate the deaths of a hunter and his prey, a Kodiak bear.

#44 - 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.

#45 - 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.

#46 - Farewell Mike's Concubine

Melrose Place - Season 5 - Episode 9

Kimberly orders Megan to stop ""servicing"" Michael, but he refuses to stay away from her. Michael cuts off Megan's relationship with her clients. Kimberly tells Megan that she is dying, and asks her to take care of Michael. Michael asks Peter to recommend him for chief-of-staff, but Peter decides to apply for the job. Kyle forbids Taylor from seeing Peter. Alison takes a temporary assignment at D&D, much to Jake's chagrin. Jake offers to make her a partner in Shooters. Craig tries to move too quickly in his relationship with Samantha. While snooping through his father's files, he discovers that he holds a controlling interest in D&D. A disoriented Jane decides to go home to Chicago for a few days. Dan suggests that he and Matt slow down their relationship.

#47 - No More Bets

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 4 - Episode 22

Grissom and Warrick investigate the murder of two men who had scammed Sam Braun's casinos.

#48 - A Bullet Runs Through It (1)

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 6 - Episode 7

The team investigates the death of a police officer who died during a shootout, leaving hundreds of bullets on the crime scene. Sofia wonders if it was her who fired the fatal shot.

#49 - Jackpot

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 4 - Episode 6

When a severed head is shipped to Dr. Robbins from Jackpot, Nevada, Grissom goes to Jackpot to find the rest of the body but gets very little cooperation from the locals. Catherine gets an unexpected gift from her father.

#50 - Swap Meet

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 5 - Episode 5

Grissom and Sara investigate the murder of a woman after a swap party. The married couples in the neighborhood meet and switch partners. With the help of a crime scene cleaner, Nick and Warrick find there was more to their crime scene than they first thought. Catherine wants a promotion to day shift supervisor.