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In the city of Las Vegas, Nevada, its reputation for providing instant success for those willing to try their luck draws in the hopeful and the naive. This constant influx of visitors also provides ripe targets for criminals of all varieties, confident they will never be caught. Unfortunately for them, most are proven wrong by the Las Vegas Police Department's night shift Crime Scene Investigations unit led by ex-stripper and single parent Catherine Willows. With almost obsessive dedication towards her quest for the facts, she and her elite team of investigators work various perplexing cases using scientific skills and equipment that are capable of finding valuable clues from the most seemingly unlikely sources. Her team consists of Nick Stokes, Greg Sanders, Sara Sidle and Raymond Langston, who was hired by Gil Grissom following his departure half-way through season nine. They are assisted by Coroners Al Robbins and David Phillips, hard-nosed Captain Jim Brass, and Trace Technician David Hodges. The Team have solved cases other labs render unsolvable, and taken down some of the most corrupt cops in the LVPD, such as McKeen, an undersheriff who killed Warrick Brown. Detective Sofia Curtis departed during the season 8 premiere, along with CSI Riley Adams, who left somewhere between seasons 9&10, to take a "Law enforcement position in the south-west" and Wendy Simms, a DNA technician who finally followed her dream of becoming a "Field Mouse" in San Francisco in Season 11, the LVPD CSI Team is never out-done.

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In the city of Las Vegas, Nevada, its reputation for providing instant success for those willing to try their luck draws in the hopeful and the naive. This constant influx of visitors also provides ripe targets for criminals of all varieties, confident they will never be caught. Unfortunately for them, most are proven wrong by the Las Vegas Police Department's night shift Crime Scene Investigations unit led by Gill Grissom. With almost obsessive dedication towards his quest for the facts, he and his elite team of investigators work various perplexing cases using scientific skills and equipment that are capable of finding valuable clues from the most seemingly unlikely sources. In a city of empty dreams and false fronts, Gill Grissom leads the quest for the one thing that can cut through the lies to the truth and justice, the evidence.

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Las Vegas criminologists use scientific methods to solve grisly murders in this unusually graphic (and hugely popular) drama, which inspired a host of other cop-show 'procedurals.' An immediate ratings smash for CBS, the series adroitly mixes painstaking deduction, gritty subject matter and intriguing characters. The network quickly capitalized on its megahit with spin-offs 'CSI: Miami' and 'CSI: NY.'

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CSI is an innovative, new type of crime drama because the characters use cutting-edge forensic tools to examine the evidence to solve the case. Rather than a 'whodunnit' cop show (investigating witnesses/suspects), CSI explores the 'howdunnit'. CSI has been the number one scripted series in the Neilsen ratings for four years running. In 2007 nearly 84 million people watched CSI, making it the most watched show in the world. CSI is now in its 10th amazing season.

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Initial cast, pictured: (l to r): Nick Stokes (actor is George Eads), Greg Sanders (actor is Eric Szmanda), Sara Sidle (actress is Jorja Fox), Gil Grissom (actor is William Petersen), Catherine Willows (actress is Marg Helgenberger), Warrick Brown (actor is Gary Dourdan), Capt. Jim Brass (actor is Paul Guilfoyle) and Dr. Al Robbins (actor is Robert David Hall).This series has two spin-offs:CSI: Miami and CSI: New York.CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is an innovative, fast-paced drama that follows a crew of forensic investigators on the appropriately named "graveyard" shift at the top non-FBI Forensics lab in the country, located in Las Vegas, as they solve crimes by analyzing evidence with advanced forensic tools. Many of the shows are loosely based on real-life events, police cases, and situations.
The crew, headed by Gil Grissom, the senior investigator and the shift supervisor devoted to finding the truth through the latest forensic methods combined with old-fashioned research and intuition. Alongside Gil is Catherine Willows, a single mother struggling to balance her home life with the rigors of her demanding job as Gil's second-in-comand; Warrick Brown, whose knowledge of the gambling world helps the Las Vegas based crew, even as his addiction to it occasionally gets him into troubles; Nick Stokes, a self-proclaimed ladies man with an objective to find the wrong-doers; and Sara Sidle, the newest, outspoken member who often lets her troubled past get in the way of her job. The crew works along side Captain Jim Brass, the former head of the graveyard shift turned captain; Greg Sanders, a quirky lab tech (later switching to a field operative); and medical examiner Dr. Al Robbins.
This cutting-edge drama recently began its 10th season on the air, and has been the number one scripted series for four years running, and shows no sign of slowing down any time soon. Changes introduced with/during the ninth season are the loss of three cast members (Gary Dourdan as Warrick Brown, Jorja Fox as Sara Sidle, and William Petersen as Gil Grissom) and the inclusion of another in the person of Dr. Raymond Langston(Laurence Fishburne), a medical doctor with an interest in forensic medicine, who decides to take a major pay cut and join the hands-on side of the job as a CSI. With the beginning of the tenth season, Jorja Fox rejoins the cast on a steady "guest starring" basis