Season 5

Episode Guide

Viva Las Vegas

S5 E1
Sep 24, 2004
A feverish night in Las Vegas results in one dead male in an alien suit, one more dead male in a bathtub, one dead female with two suspicous men at the scene, and another dead male with a polaroid of yet another dead male.

Down The Drain

S5 E2
Oct 8, 2004
Heavy rains in Vegas wash up a body in the storm drains. As the team investigates, they find bones in the sewer system that could only be murder.

Harvest

S5 E3
Oct 15, 2004
A young girl is abducted from outside a convenience store, triggering an Amber alert.

Crow's Feet

S5 E4
Oct 22, 2004
A woman is found dead in a hotel suite with symptoms of the ebola virus.

Swap Meet

S5 E5
Oct 29, 2004
Grissom and Sara investigate the murder of a woman after a swap party where the married couples in the neighborhood meet and switch partners.

What's Eating Gilbert Grissom?

S5 E6
Nov 5, 2004
The killer from The Execution of Catherine Willows returns with deadly results.

Formalities

S5 E7
Nov 12, 2004
Grissom is called to a murder of a 17-year-old in a casino penthouse. The entire team gets involved when its discovered that a kidnapping took place along with the murder.

Ch-Ch-Changes

S5 E8
Nov 19, 2004
A woman who was pulled over by police is found murdered two miles up the road from the stop. It's not long before Robbins determines that the woman is, genetically speaking, not a woman.

Mea Culpa

S5 E9
Nov 26, 2004
Grissom is confronted with new evidence while on the stand of a murder trial of a restaurant owner.

No Humans Involved

S5 E10
Dec 10, 2004
Grissom and his team investigate the starving death of a five year old boy. They discover the boy has siblings who are in danger too.

Who Shot Sherlock?

S5 E11
Jan 7, 2005
Greg, for his final proficiency, has to determine how the Sherlock Holmes of a Sherlock Holmes club was killed.

Snakes

S5 E12
Jan 14, 2005
Warrick looks into the murder of man by someone who apparently needs a wheelchair. Nick looks into the murder of woman in the subculture of the narcocorrido, songs about drug murders.

Nesting Dolls

S5 E13
Feb 4, 2005
Catherine, Warrick and Nick find the body of two women at a construction site buried under tar.The swing shift are brought into the world of foreign "mail-order" brides.

Unbearable

S5 E14
Feb 11, 2005
Grissom, Sofia, Sara and Greg investigate the disappearance of a woman coming home from a night out with a friend after her abandoned car is found on the edge of a highway.

King Baby

S5 E15
Feb 18, 2005
When a major Las Vegas player is found dead, Ecklie orders both teams to investigate the case. The man who had secrets on everyone in Vegas had a very big one of his own.

Big Middle

S5 E16
Feb 25, 2005
Catherine, Nick, and Warrick investigate a badly mutilated body in the woods. Grissom, Sarah, and Greg try to determine how a man was killed in a hotel room. It leads them to a convention of big women.

Compulsion

S5 E17
Mar 11, 2005
A serial killer strikes again, and the CSI team tries new technology using evidence from a prior killing.

Spark of Life

S5 E18
Apr 1, 2005
Grissom, Sara, and Greg investigate a wildfire that killed one man and badly burned a woman. Catherine, Nick, and Warrick get the case of a family of three murdered in their home.

4x4

S5 E19
Apr 15, 2005
One night, four cases. Grissom and Brass get a stolen hummer and a taco stand. Warrick gets a dead car show girl. Sara and Greg get a dead bodybuilder. Nick gets a dead boy found on a bench.

Hollywood Brass

S5 E20
Apr 22, 2005
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.

Committed

S5 E21
Apr 29, 2005
Grissom and Sara investigate the murder of a mental-hospital patient and quickly narrow down the suspects to a handful of other patients and staff members.

Weeping Willows

S5 E22
May 6, 2005
A man (Alan Rosenberg) whom Catherine flirted with at a bar reappears in her life as a suspect in a murder investigation of a woman who was shot and killed.

Iced

S5 E23
May 13, 2005
Two amorous freshmen are found dead in a sleeping bag in a dorm room, and Sara and Greg run into one dead end after another as they try to determine why the students were killed.

Grave Danger Part 1

S5 E24
Nov 12, 2004
Anthony E. Zuiker says, 'This truly was the 'Quentissential' episode in our franchise's history. It started as a one hour finale, but Quentin Tarantino and I hung out in a Vegas club after a UFC fight and the next thing you know he wrote another hour in his head in the desert. What goes on in Vegas... stays on the screen... as they say. And the rest is history.'

Grave Danger Part 2

S5 E25
Nov 12, 2004
Anthony E. Zuiker says, 'This truly was the 'Quentissential' episode in our franchise's history. It started as a one hour finale, but Quentin Tarantino and I hung out in a Vegas club after a UFC fight and the next thing you know he wrote another hour in his head in the desert. What goes on in Vegas... stays on the screen... as they say. And the rest is history.'