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 cuddle staged to look like a sleeping 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 passing. Nick talks to a man who picked up a woman who drugged and robbed him.

Episode Viewers and Ratings

Season 1 Episode 1 of CSI resulted in a 0.00 rating in the 18-49 demographic.

CSI Season 1 Episodes...

• s01e01 - Pilot
• s01e02 - Cool Change
• s01e03 - Crate 'n Burial
• s01e04 - Pledging Mr. Johnson
• s01e05 - Friends & Lovers
• s01e06 - Who Are You?
• s01e07 - Blood Drops
• s01e08 - Anonymous
• s01e09 - Unfriendly Skies
• s01e10 - Sex, Lies and Larvae
• s01e11 - I-15 Murders
• s01e12 - Fahrenheit 932
• s01e13 - Boom
• s01e14 - To Halve and to Hold
• s01e15 - Table Stakes
• s01e16 - Too Tough to Die
• s01e17 - Face Lift
• s01e18 - K O.B.O.
• s01e19 - Gentle, Gentle
• s01e20 - Sounds of Silence
• s01e21 - Justice is Served
• s01e22 - Evaluation Day
• s01e23 - The Strip Strangler

CSI Show Summary

In the city of Las Vegas, Nevada, its reputation for providing instant success for those willing to try their luck draws in the hopeful and the naive. This constant influx of visitors also provides ripe targets for criminals of all varieties, confident they will never be caught. Unfortunately for them, most are proven wrong by the Las Vegas Police Department's night shift Crime Scene Investigations unit led by ex-stripper and single parent Catherine Willows.

With almost obsessive dedication towards her quest for the facts, she and her elite team of investigators work various perplexing cases using scientific skills and equipment that are capable of finding valuable clues from the most seemingly unlikely sources.

Her team includes second-in-command Nick Stokes, who was Texas-born and -bred; Sara Sidle, who recently returned from a leave of absence; Greg Sanders, a former DNA Tech, and Morgan Brody, daughter of the under-sheriff and new transfer from Los Angeles, California. Assisting them are Jim Brass, an experienced LVPD Captain; Al Robbins and David Phillips, the Chief ME and his assistant; and David Hodges, a trace technician who hates field work.