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Episode Power Rankings

The peaks and the valleys. Find the essential episodes — and the ones to skip.

#1
S3E24 8.8
Snow Day

After Flack makes an enormous drug bust, and locks it up at CSI, the drug lords infiltrate the building at gunpoint to get them back. Now the team must resolve the hostage situations, all the while with Mac, Stella, and Hawkes trapped inside.

#2
S5E22 8.7
Yahrzeit

The most exclusive jewelry auction of the year ends abruptly when an appraiser is killed during the event. The investigation takes an emotional turn when the CSIs must confront one of the greatest tragedies in human history - the Holocaust.

#3
S6E10 8.6
Death House

A frantic 911 call sends the CSIs into a vacant penthouse; however, instead of finding the caller, they unearth a nearly 100-year-old corpse and find themselves navigating their way through a booby-trapped house.

#4 Pay Up S5E25 8.5
#5 Indelible S8E1 8.3
#6 Today Is Life S9E17 8.3
#7 Hostage S4E21 8.2
#8 The Thing About Heroes... S4E10 8.1
#9 Manhattanhenge S6E9 8.1
#10 Uncertainty Rules S6E16 8.1

Lowlights

#197 S3E13 Obsession 6.9

The team must find out if one team’s fun led to murder in the New York version of the Iditarod. Another case involves the death of a kidnapper in an empty apartment and where is the kidnap victim?

#196 Three Generations Are Enough S1E8 6.9
#195 The Lying Game S3E14 7.0
#194 Wasted S2E12 7.0
#193 Recycling S1E12 7.0

The Quality Arc

Each point is an episode, plotted in order. Colored bands mark season boundaries. Look for the rise, the plateau, or the decline.

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Episode Engagement

High votes + high rating = beloved classic. High votes + low rating = notorious stinker. Low votes + high rating = hidden gem.

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Series Trajectory

One point per season. Smooths out the episode-to-episode noise to reveal the bigger arc.

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Season Momentum

Did each season build or fizzle? Green means the finale outscored the premiere. Red means the opposite. Longer arrows, bigger swings.

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Season Consistency

How steady is each season? Tightly clustered dots mean reliable quality. Scattered dots mean a wild ride.

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