Spoilers for Season 8!!!

8x01 Dead Doll - Sept. 27, 2007
The eighth season of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation picks up right where the previous season left off, and fans will finally learn Sara's fate.

The seventh season of CSI ended with a cliffhanger. The team finally captured the elusive miniature killer, Natalie, and discovered that one of their own was missing. Natalie's final miniature revealed that Sara had been kidnapped and was trapped somewhere in the desert, alive but clearly in danger. Grissom questioned Natalie but was unable to determine Sara's location, and so "Living Doll" ended with Sara's life hanging in the balance.

According to CSI Files sources, the first episode of season eight begins where "Living Doll" ended: the team is searching for Sara. Catherine and Greg go to the parking structure where Sara was abducted and speak to the security guard. Catherine has no patience as she questions him, clearly worried about Sara and knowing that their time is running out. He is able to give them a time frame for when Sara had been in the structure, and Greg tells Catherine that he will check the surveillance video for clues.

Meanwhile, Sofia is with a wounded Natalie. They are in an interrogation room, but Sofia won't be getting any information out of the woman. A police psychiatrist explains that Natalie has had a psychotic break. Sofia has Hodges swab the wound on Natalie's scalp and scrape under her fingernails to gather evidence. She is adamant that nothing prevent Natalie from going to jail for what she's done. Every minute that passes lessens their chances of finding Sara in time. The team races against the clock to ensure that their friend and colleague makes it home alive. Things take a turn in a positive direction when they get a lead from the auto salvage yard where Natalie acquired the red Mustang.


8x2 A La Cart - Oct. 4, 2007
The second episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation involves a case where even the witnesses didn't see a thing. According to CSI Files sources, "À La Cart" follows the case of a man murdered in a restaurant where the lights are turned off. Restaurant owner Pippa Sanchez explains that when the patrons are deprived of sight, their other senses are heightened, creating a sensual eating experience. The very thing that makes the restaurant unique makes the murder investigation more difficult. Despite the room being full of people, nobody actually saw the murder take place. Warrick, Catherine and Brass try to piece together what happened to the victim, Hampton Huxley. Huxley was stabbed in the temple at his table. The three young women who were dining with him had no idea that he was dead until they were getting ready to leave the restaurant. April Kissimee, who has blood on her shirt, explains that she thought Huxley, an older man, had just fallen asleep after their meal.

Pink angora fibers from April's dress lead the CSIs to Frankie Vannucci, who was dining in the restaurant with his brothers at the same time as Huxley's group. When Brass questions him about the fibers, Vannucci admits that he used the darkness as a chance to get close to Huxley's table and play a perverse joke on one of the "kitties" who were dining with the older man. The waiter, a blind man named Michael Bowie, tells Brass that he escorted Vannucci back to his table. Bowie explains that he has an advantage working in the restaurant since other people rely on their eyes and need help getting around. Brass asks whether Bowie heard anything unusual, but he says that he didn't know that anything had gone wrong until April couldn't wake Huxley up and called for help. In the restaurant, Warrick and Catherine examine the rest of the room and find evidence of a struggle at a different table.

Meanwhile, Nick and Greg investigate the decapitation of Peter Bastille. They visit a go-cart track where the young man had been racing the day before. When they get a list of the race results, they discover that Peter had consistently beat 19-year-old Rodney "Hot Rod" Anderson. Nick goes to talk to Rodney and notices that he is wearing an Army Ranger belt--a belt that belonged to Peter Bastille.


8x3 Go To Hell - Oct. 11, 2007
In "Go to Hell", a couple is found dead in a hotel room, and the team finds fingerprints that belong to a pedophile at the scene--bad news for the couple's missing daughter.

According to CSI Files sources, the episode opens with footage of the seedier side of Las Vegas. Desperate souls--hookers, drunkards, homeless people--line the street on a sweltering hot day. One homeless man staggers, making his way into an alley, but he can't go any farther. He falls to the ground. Meanwhile, Reverend Johnnie Rhodes gives a sermon. His voice is strong as he speaks of judgment. Hell will not come when we die, he says, because Hell is already here--in Las Vegas. Sex, drinking, gambling--mankind imbibes but does not even realize that judgment isn't waiting for death. The human race, he says, is already damned.

That night, Warrick and Catherine are on their way to a crime scene. They must park two blocks from the hotel where the murders took place because of Sanitation work. As they walk by an alley on their way to where they really need to be, Warrick notices something strange. When he goes to investigate, he finds the body of the homeless man. Confirming that the man is dead--the body count is forever rising--Catherine calls it in and leaves a uniformed officer to wait with the body.

A hotel is the site of a double murder. A man and his wife, the Macalinos, are dead, and Brass questions the desk clerk. They paid in advance for a week, he says. He hands over a register with the license plate number of the car, but Brass is unable to read the handwriting--and so is the clerk. He can decipher only enough of his own writing to see an "N" and a "V", which he is sure must mean "Nevada". This isn't terribly helpful.

The team discovers that couple's youngest daughter, Elizabeth, has been killed in their home, shot in the head. Their other daughter, however, is missing. This is no longer just about murder--now they have the kidnapping of Amy Macalino to deal with. As if the news could get any worse, the fingerprints they lifted from the hotel room come back to a convicted pedophile: Reverend Johnnie Rhodes.

Catherine works the case of the dead homeless man, Eddie Kaye, with her new swing-shift partner Vivian Lee. A 20-something CSI level one, Vivian is extremely curious and talkative--to the point that Catherine announces that she is limiting the other woman to 20 questions per case. Together, they have to discover what happened to the old man. He has clean socks, the cellophane wrapper to a sandwich, and a bundle of papers wrapped in rubber bands. Although the license that they find in Eddie's pocket is his own, the man in the picture seems worlds away from the man they see laying in front of them. They hope that fingerprints found on the license will lead them to their killer, but instead the prints come back to a police officer.


*Please note that the above plot details have not been confirmed by CBS, Alliance Atlantis or Bruckheimer Films, and until such time you should treat this information as you would any other rumour. The above information comes from early script drafts and the details of the episodes are liable to change before the episodes are shown.

Okay, so I got the title of the third episode wrong.
>:/
EW. VIVIAN.
They even had to choose a POISONOUS sounding name.
Like.
Wth.
Oh wells.
At least Catherine isn't as nice to her as she is with Sara! :DDDD

GREG.
WATCH OUTTTTT.
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