CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Season 9
Season 9 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 8.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 9 Progress Shield
For Warrick
Oct 9, 2008 · 45 min
After Warrick is shot in a Las Vegas alley, the CSI team comes together to deal with the aftermath.
The Happy Place
Oct 16, 2008 · 44 min
A hypnotist bank robber becomes the prime suspect in a murder investigation.
Art Imitates Life
Oct 23, 2008 · 45 min
After several victims are found dead while performing normal, everyday activities, the CSIs must find the reason as to why each of the victims remain upright after dying.
Let It Bleed
Oct 30, 2008 · 44 min
The team investigates the death of a woman who turns out to be the daughter of a wanted criminal.
Leave out All the Rest
Nov 6, 2008 · 44 min
Grissom asks Lady Heather for help when the team investigates a case connected to the world of domination.
Say Uncle
Nov 13, 2008 · 44 min
The team has a hard time investigating a shooting in Koreatown when none of the witnesses will talk about the crime.
Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda
Nov 20, 2008 · 41 min
The murder of a mother and her child seems to be connected to a murder case from 12 years earlier.
Young Man with a Horn
Dec 4, 2008 · 44 min
A popular young singer is found dead outside an infamous Las Vegas nightclub, leading the CSI team to uncover a link between that crime and a murder 50 years earlier.
CSI-19 down
Dec 11, 2008 · 45 min
When the team discovers a connection between a new murder and a serial killer, Grissom secretly joins the class of a criminal pathologist (Laurence Fishburne) to help crack the cas
One to Go
Jan 15, 2009 · 44 min
The CSI team is shocked and saddened when, after working with Dr. Raymond Langston (Fishburne) on the "Dick & Jane" murders, Grissom announces that his time as a CSI has come to an
The Grave Shift
Jan 22, 2009 · 44 min
The first day on the job for Dr. Langston turns from bad to worse when a simple burglary case quickly overlaps with a complicated arson and homicide case.
Disarmed and Dangerous
Jan 29, 2009 · 44 min
The detectives search for the murderer of FBI agent Billy Ray Jackson, only Billy Ray isn't really an FBI agent, and neither are his impressively capable partners, Miles Baker and
Deep Fried and Minty Fresh
Feb 12, 2009 · 44 min
Langston and Nick are called to investigate a murder at a fast food restaurant and have quite a task ahead of them when they discover that much of the evidence is coated in cooking
Miscarriage of Justice
Feb 19, 2009 · 43 min
While Langston testifies in the trial of a respected Congressman, new evidence sends the CSIs back to the lab to reopen the investigation.
Kill Me If You Can
Feb 26, 2009 · 45 min
The CSI are called to three different crime scenes in one night that are seemingly unrelated, but each case's forensic evidence reveals a common link
Turn, Turn, Turn
Mar 5, 2009 · 45 min
When the CSIs are called to a murder scene at a familiar motel, Nick is thrown for a loop as he pieces together three separate murder investigations that all took place at the same
No Way Out
Mar 12, 2009 · 43 min
Langston and Riley are taken hostage during the aftermath of a shootout in an usually calm Las Vegas community.
Mascara
Apr 2, 2009 · 44 min
Langston is shocked when his former student is found murdered and becomes the focus of a CSI investigation into the world of Mexican wrestling.
The Descent of Man
Apr 9, 2009 · 43 min
When a seasoned sky diver is paralyzed after free falling to earth when his parachute doesn't deploy, he turns out to be linked to the strange death-by-airborne-toxins of two wealt
A Space Oddity
Apr 16, 2009 · 43 min
When the producer of the reboot of a classic SF show is murdered at a Las Vegas science-fiction convention attended by both Hodges and Wendy (both, unknown to each other, fans of t
If I Had A Hammer
Apr 23, 2009 · 45 min
Catherine revisits one of the very first cases she worked as a CSI when the convicted felon in the murder claims the verdict was based on faulty evidence.
The Gone Dead Train
Apr 30, 2009 · 45 min
A series of indeterminate deaths test the deductive powers of the CSI team, who fear that a public health emergency may be in the offing. Meanwhile, a friendly rivalry over who wil
Hog Heaven
May 7, 2009 · 44 min
A band of vicious bikers is given the go-ahead to take down one of their own when it's discovered that the guy is an undercover cop.
All In
May 14, 2009 · 45 min
A cache of missing chips from a closed down casino turn up in Vegas and a string of murders follow, leading Langston to use deadly force for the first time in his career as a CSI.