CSI Season 2 Episode 23 - The Hunger Artist
Episode Name: The Hunger Artist
Episode Season/Number: Season 2, Episode 23
Originally Aired: May 16, 2002
Plot Overview:
The CSIs investigate when the body of an unidentified young woman is discovered stuffed in an overturned shopping cart near a freeway underpass. Her horribly disfigured and partially decomposed face is a nightmare of blood, scabs and scars, as if she’d been shoved into a fan. A huge circular hole dominates her left cheek. Someone not only wanted her dead, Grissom reasons, but “they wanted her ugly.” Adding to the mystery are the cart’s other contents: an expensive handbag, fashion magazines and a leather day planner with notes written in code.
CSI Season 2 Episode 22 - Cross-Jurisdictions
Episode Name: Cross-Jurisdictions
Episode Season/Number: Season 2, Episode 22
Originally Aired: May 9, 2002
Plot Overview:
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. When several motorists report seeing the girl along an access road near Miami, Catherine and Warrick fly there and meet that city’s top CSI, Horatio Caine, who aids them in the investigation.
CSI Season 2 Episode 21 - Anatomy of a Lye
Episode Name: Anatomy of a Lye
Episode Season/Number: Season 2, Episode 21
Originally Aired: May 2, 2002
Plot Overview:
Grissom and Sara investigate when a man’s body, which has been doused with lye, is found buried in a park; Nick tries to determine how a hiker apparently drowned in a desert.
CSI Season 2 Episode 20 - Cats in the Cradle
Episode Name: Cats in the Cradle
Episode Season/Number: Season 2, Episode 20
Originally Aired: April 25, 2002
Plot Overview:
Grissom and Catherine investigate the stabbing death of an 80-year-old woman who lived in a run-down house full of cats; Nick and Sara comb through the remains of a car bombing that was, apparently, a murder plot gone awry.
CSI Season 2 Episode 19 - Stalker
Episode Name: Stalker
Episode Season/Number: Season 2, Episode 19
Originally Aired: April 4, 2002
Plot Overview:
Jane Galloway is a nervous breakdown waiting to happen. She has completely shielded herself from the outside world, but that doesn’t stop a stalker in her attic from killing her. When CSI arrives, they find her hair dyed and her face shoved in the toilet. This image has a heavy impact on Nick, and they soon realize that this stalker is well acquainted with Nick, which makes the CSI the next target.
CSI Season 2 Episode 18 - Chasing the Bus
Episode Name: Chasing the Bus
Episode Season/Number: Season 2, Episode 18
Originally Aired: March 28, 2002
Plot Overview:
A bus carrying 23 passengers from Los Angeles to Las Vegas crashes less than 40 miles from its destination, killing nine people. Before he dies, the driver recalls that, moments before the wreck, the steering wheel began vibrating like a jackhammer in his hands, making it impossible for him to control the speeding vehicle. When the bus finally did come to a stop, it was on its right side on top of a sports car that was following it. At the scene, the CSIs discover that a recent parolee was on the bus, but is now unaccounted for—and that there’s evidence of foul play.
CSI Season 2 Episode 17 - Felonius Monk
Episode Name: Felonius Monk
Episode Season/Number: Season 2, Episode 17
Originally Aired: March 7, 2002
Plot Overview:
Grissom investigates the murders of four monks who were shot point blank while chanting in a Buddhist temple; Catherine reopens a cold case in which her best friend was murdered, after the man convicted of the crime claims he’s innocent shortly before he dies.
CSI Season 2 Episode 16 - Primum Non Nocere
Episode Name: Primum Non Nocere
Episode Season/Number: Season 2, Episode 16
Originally Aired: February 28, 2002
Plot Overview:
When Terry Rivers barrels into the opposing team’s goalie, a fight breaks out and Terry ends up at the bottom of a huge pile of bodies. After the players are separated, he is found dead…with a deep, bloody gash across his neck. Grissom, Catherine and Sara are called in to investigate. Across town, Warrick and Nick look into the apparent drug-related death of a sax player at a casino. While working on the case, Warrick finds himself drawn to a rising young singer who worked with the dead musician.
CSI Season 2 Episode 15 - Burden of Proof
Episode Name: Burden of Proof
Episode Season/Number: Season 2, Episode 15
Originally Aired: February 7, 2002
Plot Overview:
Grissom investigates the murder of a Las Vegas photographer whose remains were dumped at a nearby body farm where CSIs routinely study corpses, and his findings reveal that the man was apparently shot to death even though there are no bullet fragments in the body. Also, Grissom’s leadership is questioned by some members of his staff.
CSI Season 2 Episode 14 - The Finger
Episode Name: The Finger
Episode Season/Number: Season 2, Episode 14
Originally Aired: January 31, 2002
Plot Overview:
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. But when the million is paid, they learn that his mistress is already dead.
