CSI: Crime Scene Investigation season 2
season of television series
The second season of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation premiered on CBS on September 27, 2001, and ended May 16, 2002. The series stars William Petersen and Marg Helgenberger.
Plot
The murder of a Police Chief leads Willows and Brown to Miami ("Cross Jurisdictions"), in the second season of CSI. The Las Vegas CSIs investigate another series of gruesome, unprecedented, and unsolvable crimes, including the murder of the son of a Las Vegas mogul ("Burked"), the disappearance of a university student ("Chaos Theory"), the death of a construction worker ("Overload"), the discovery of a decomposed body in a bag ("Bully for You"), a scuba diver discovered up a tree in the desert ("Scuba Doobie-Doo"), a fetish murder ("Slaves of Las Vegas"), and a death at a spa ("Alter Boys"). Meanwhile, Catherine and Sara investigate both a suspected suicide-by-train ("Caged") and a homicide at a remote convenience store ("And Then There Were None"), Warrick is allowed to head the crime lab ("Ellie"), Grissom and Willows come to face to face with a serial killer in a courtroom ("Identity Crisis"), and Nick studies the death of a woman who drowned in the desert ("Anatomy of a Lye"), after finding himself the target of a stalker ("Stalker").
Cast
Main cast
William Petersen as CSI Level 3 Night Shift Supervisor Dr. Gil Grissom
Marg Helgenberger as CSI Level 3 Assistant Night Shift Supervisor Catherine Willows
Gary Dourdan as CSI Level 3 Warrick Brown
George Eads as CSI Level 3 Nick Stokes
Jorja Fox as CSI Level 3 Sara Sidle
Paul Guilfoyle as LVPD Homicide Unit Captain Jim Brass
Recurring cast
Crossover stars
David Caruso as MDPD CSI Level 3 Day Shift Supervisor CSI Lieutenant Horatio "H" Caine (Crossing over with CSI: Miami)
Emily Procter as MDPD CSI Level 3 Detective Calleigh Duquesne (Crossing over with CSI: Miami)
Adam Rodriguez as MDPD CSI Level 3 Detective Eric Delko (Crossing over with CSI: Miami)
Khandi Alexander as Miami-Dade County Medical Examiner Alexx Woods (Crossing over with CSI: Miami)
Rory Cochrane as MDPD CSI Level 3 Detective Tim Speedle (Crossing over with CSI: Miami)
Episodes
References
External links
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation season 2 at IMDb
DVD Release Dates at TVShowsOnDVD.com.
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