CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (season 11)

The eleventh season of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation premiered on CBS on September 23, 2010 and ended May 12, 2011. The season stars Marg Helgenberger and Laurence Fishburne.

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Season 11
Season 11 U.S. DVD cover
Starring	Laurence Fishburne Marg Helgenberger George Eads Jorja Fox Eric Szmanda Robert David Hall Wallace Langham David Berman Paul Guilfoyle
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	22
Release
Original network	CBS
Original release	September 23, 2010 – May 12, 2011
Season chronology

Plot

Langston fights for his life ("Shockwaves") as Catherine meets a man from her past ("Pool Shark"), in the eleventh season of CSI. Willows and her team face both personal and professional demons this season, as they investigate cases including a decapitation ("Blood Moon"), the knife attack of a Vegas icon ("Sqweegel"), a woman with a hoarding condition ("House of Hoarders"), a T-Rex attack ("Cold Blooded"), a human shredding ("Bump & Grind"), a death connected to fracking ("Fracked"), a murder committed by a cat and a parrot ("Wild Life"), a body in a bin ("Man Up"), and the death of an FBI Agent ("418/427"). Meanwhile, Greg tries to romance a burlesque dancer ("A Kiss Before Frying"), Sara comes face-to-face with her mother-in-law ("The Two Mrs. Grissoms"), Ray's wife comes to Vegas ("All That Cremains"), Nick is forced to shoot and kill a suspect ("Targets of Obsession"), Sofia returns to the CSI team ("Father of the Bride"), and Catherine loses control of her team in Los Angeles ("Cello and Goodbye").

Cast

Main

• Laurence Fishburne as Raymond Langston, a CSI Level 2
• Marg Helgenberger as Catherine Willows, a CSI Level 3 Supervisor
• George Eads as Nick Stokes, a CSI Level 3 Assistant Supervisor
• Jorja Fox as Sara Sidle, a CSI Level 3
• Eric Szmanda as Greg Sanders, a CSI Level 3
• Robert David Hall as Al Robbins, the Chief Medical Examiner
• Wallace Langham as David Hodges, a Trace Technician
• David Berman as David Phillips, an Assistant Medical Examiner
• Paul Guilfoyle as Jim Brass, a Homicide Detective Captain

Recurring

• Jon Wellner as Henry Andrews
• Archie Kao as Archie Johnson
• Katee Sackhoff as Frankie Reed
• Marc Vann as Conrad Ecklie
• Alex Carter as Lou Vartann
• Bill Irwin as Nate Haskell

Guest stars

• Liz Vassey as Wendy Simms
• William Petersen as Gil Grissom
• Melinda Clarke as Heather Kessler
• Louise Lombard as Sofia Curtis
• Elisabeth Harnois as Morgan Brody
• Method Man as Drops
• Ann-Margret as Margot Wilson
• Dita Von Teese as Ellen Whitebridge
• Justin Bieber as Jason McCann

Changes

Liz Vassey departs the cast in episode two of the season, while Jorja Fox rejoins the regular cast in the season premiere. Laurence Fishburne departs at the season's end. Former cast members William Petersen and Louise Lombard guest star. Elisabeth Harnois makes her series debut.

Episodes

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	US viewers (millions)
230	1	"Shockwaves"	Alec Smight	David Weddle & Bradley Thompson	September 23, 2010	14.69[1]
Ray Langston fights for his life after being stabbed by psychopath Nate Haskell, and the other CSIs try to catch an anti-government bomber who is responsible for a series of explosions at a funeral that they attended.
231	2	"Pool Shark"	Michael Nankin	Dustin Lee Abraham	September 30, 2010	13.41[2]
A woman is attacked by a shark at the Golden Nugget Casino pool. The main suspect is the owner of the rival casino. Also, a scuba diver is found dead in a shark aquarium.
232	3	"Blood Moon"	Brad Tanenbaum	Treena Hancock & Melissa R. Byer	October 7, 2010	12.50[3]
A convention of vampires and werewolves is featured. A member of the Vampire Cult is decapitated and the CSIs plunge into a world of creeds and a legendary rivalry between these mythological creatures.
233	4	"Sqweegel"	Jeffrey Hunt	Story by : Anthony E. Zuiker & Duane Swierczynski Teleplay by : Anthony E. Zuiker & Carol Mendelsohn	October 14, 2010	14.45[4]
Sqweegel is the forensic-proof serial killer from the first Level 26 novel, Dark Origins (by CSI creator Anthony E. Zuiker), who kills people who have secrets and tries to get them to confess to something they have done in order to stay alive. Although the final attack is averted, Sqweegel escapes and the case remains unsolved.
234	5	"House of Hoarders"	Alec Smight	Christopher Barbour	October 21, 2010	14.96[5]
In this episode, the CSIs visit a hoarder's house, where they find more than one body.
235	6	"Cold Blooded"	Louis Shaw Milito	Tom Mularz	October 28, 2010	14.27[6]
A body of a college student is found in the desert and appears to have been punctured by dinosaur teeth, meanwhile the shooting of a business man leads the CSIs to two teen murders that happened five years ago. The CSIs visit the touring Walking With Dinosaurs Live production and find blood on the teeth of the animatronic T-rex.
236	7	"Bump & Grind"	Michael Nankin	Don McGill	November 4, 2010	13.96[7]
The CSIs try put a body back together, after it is literally shredded.
237	8	"Fracked"	Martha Coolidge	Bradley Thompson & David Weddle	November 11, 2010	12.99[8]
The CSIs investigate after several sources for a newspaper article of illegal natural gas dumping are found dead. The murderer is found dead, a victim of a hit and run, and they are unable to find who did it, leaving the case unsolved.
238	9	"Wild Life"	Charles Haid	Melissa R. Byer & Treena Hancock	November 18, 2010	14.15[9]
The sky is falling, or at least people are. Ray, Catherine, and Nick try to figure out if it was murder or suicide when a man is found dead after falling from a hotel. Across town, Sara and Greg investigate a case where an elderly woman falls through her table and her husband dead in the shower. The only two witnesses to the crime are an uncooperative cat and a parrot who pleads the Fifth.
239	10	"418/427"	Frank Waldeck	Michael Frost Beckner	December 9, 2010	13.17[10]
The wife of an FBI agent is murdered. The FBI agent had been chasing a serial pedophile, who is suspected of kidnapping the agent's children.
240	11	"Man Up"	Alec Smight	Michael F.X. Daley	January 6, 2011	14.22[11]
A prostitute is found dead at the same site where a staged photo of the same dead person was taken and posted on a website days earlier, and Hodges theorizes that the parts on his new motorbike were in a fatal accident.
241	12	"A Kiss Before Frying"	Brad Tanenbaum	Evan Dunsky	January 20, 2011	14.34[12]
While the team searches for a killer who is killing his victims with an electric chair, Greg falls for a classic film noir "femme fatale" who may be connected to the case.
242	13	"The Two Mrs. Grissoms"	Steven Felder	Story by : Christopher Barbour Teleplay by : Treena Hancock & Melissa R. Byer	February 3, 2011	13.98[13]
A night full of celebration ends with a bang when the director of a scholarship foundation for the deaf is killed by a deadly car bomb, prompting Sara to interrogate the students and faculty of the college where her mother-in-law works.
243	14	"All That Cremains"	Jeffrey Hunt	Dustin Lee Abraham	February 10, 2011	12.64[14]
The Crime Scene crew investigates the gruesome murder of a high-powered, widowed lawyer, while Ray faces that it is time to move on from his old life when his wife comes to Vegas.
244	15	"Targets of Obsession"	Alec Smight	David Weddle & Bradley Thompson	February 17, 2011	13.29[15]
While Langston testifies against Nate Haskell (Irwin), Nick is warned that he is in danger, but cannot tell him who or why without putting himself in even more danger. The team gets trapped in a rigged warehouse, and the bomb is disarmed. However a secondary bomb goes off. Realizing it was set by Jason McCann (Justin Bieber), they set up a road block for his escaping vehicle. In the stand-off that ensues, McCann is killed while during the trial, Nate Haskell escapes from prison.
245	16	"Turn On, Tune In, Drop Dead"	Paul McCrane	Tom Mularz	February 24, 2011	12.41[16]
The CSIs must deal with two bodies which are not dead after all.
246	17	"The List"	Louis Shaw Milito	Richard Catalani	March 10, 2011	13.39[17]
The team investigates the prison murder of a cop, Vance, who was incarcerated for murdering his wife, but believed he was framed.
247	18	"Hitting for the Cycle"	Alec Smight	Daniel Steck & Richard Catalani	March 31, 2011	12.76[18]
For the CSIs, "the cycle" consists of a homicide, a suicide, an accidental death, and a death by natural causes in a single shift. When the first three happen, the CSIs compete to complete the cycle by finding a death by natural causes. They must also deal with an obnoxious new employee from Los Angeles.
248	19	"Unleashed"	Brad Tanenbaum	Ed Whitmore & Anthony E. Zuiker	April 7, 2011	13.06[19]
Ray and Sara visit Grissom's friend, "Lady Heather", to solve a strange case involving a woman who is mauled to death by a mountain lion; Meanwhile, Nick and Brass investigate the suicide of a 17-year-old pregnant woman who was a victim of severe cyberbullying.
249	20	"Father of the Bride"	Frank Waldeck	Evan Dunsky	April 28, 2011	10.84[20]
As the notorious Nate Haskell (Irwin) sends a threatening video to the father of one of his brides threatening to kill her, the CSI team must catch him. Sofia Curtis returns to help out, as she is now the Deputy Chief.
250	21	"Cello and Goodbye"	Alec Smight	Christopher Barbour & Don McGill	May 5, 2011	10.67[21]
While the LV CSI continues to search for Haskell (Irwin), Ray's ex-wife (Tracee Ellis Ross) is kidnapped and Haskell leaves a message written in blood drawing the team to Los Angeles.
251	22	"In a Dark, Dark House"	Jeffrey Hunt	Tom Mularz	May 12, 2011	11.77[22]
Ray has tracked Haskell (Irwin) back to his childhood house and now squares off against the notorious "Dick & Jane" Killer. Desperate to save his ex-wife (Ross) before it is too late, Ray prepares to settle his score with Haskell once-and-for-all.

U.S. Nielsen Ratings

Ep. #	Episode title	Air date	Rating	Share	18–49	Viewers
1	Shockwaves (Part 3)	September 23, 2010	9.0	14	3.4/9	14.69 million[1]
2	Pool Shark	September 30, 2010	8.3	13	3.1/8	13.41 million[2]
3	Blood Moon	October 7, 2010	7.8	12	2.7/7	12.50 million[3]
4	Sqweegel	October 14, 2010	8.9	14	3.1/8	14.45 million[4]
5	House of Hoarders	October 21, 2010	9.0	14	3.4/9	14.96 million[5]
6	Cold Blooded	October 28, 2010	8.5	14	3.3/9	14.27 million[6]
7	Bump & Grind	November 4, 2010	8.6	14	3.3/9	13.96 million[7]
8	Fracked	November 11, 2010	8.1	13	2.8/8	12.99 million[8]
9	Wild Life	November 18, 2010	8.5	14	3.1/8	14.15 million[9]
10	418/427	December 9, 2010	7.9	13	3.0/8	13.17 million[10]
11	Man Up	January 6, 2011	8.6	14	3.3/9	14.22 million[11]
12	A Kiss Before Frying	January 20, 2011	8.5	13	3.1/8	14.34 million[12]
13	The Two Mrs. Grissoms	February 3, 2011	8.4	13	3.0/8	13.98 million[13]
14	All That Cremains	February 10, 2011	7.8	12	2.8/7	12.64 million[14]
15	Targets of Obsession	February 17, 2011	8.1	13	2.9/8	13.29 million[15]
16	Turn On, Tune In, Drop Dead	February 24, 2011	7.6	12	2.7/7	12.41 million[16]
17	The List	March 10, 2011	8.4	14	3.0/9	13.39 million[17]
18	Hitting for the Cycle	March 31, 2011	7.9	12	2.9/8	12.76 million[18]
19	Unleashed	April 7, 2011	8.2	13	2.9/8	13.06 million[19]
20	Father of the Bride (Part 1)	April 28, 2011	6.8	10	2.4/6	10.84 million[20]
21	Cello and Goodbye (Part 2)	May 5, 2011	6.7	11	2.3/6	10.67 million[21]
22	In a Dark, Dark House (Part 3)	May 12, 2011	7.2	11	2.6/7	11.77 million[22]

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External links

• Official website