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Dr. Gilbert "Gil" Grissom

Played by: William Petersen

• Berserk Button: Drug dealers, especially those who sell to young people, and scientists who sell their integrity for personal gain.
  • Anyone who tries to hurt Sara. Pity that didn't include him.
  • In-Universe, he cites three Berserk buttons:
    Grissom: "There's three things I got a real problem with: Guys that hit their wives, sexual assault on children and the scum that deal death to kids."
• Broken Pedestal: Both his old professor and a colleague he wrote a study with became, to quote him, "guns for hire," selling their forensic skills to help rich guilty clients beat the rap.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: He quotes Shakespeare, loves crossword puzzles, and races cockroaches for fun.
• The Bus Came Back: He returns to the show after a while off-camera for the Grand Finale.
• Cannot Spit It Out: His feelings for Sara in the first couple of seasons, even being so unsure about a possible commitment to the point where he rejects her initial advances. He's likewise extremely secretive about his hearing difficulties when he began to develop his mother's condition.
• Casual Kink: Sara asks Grissom to restrain her with duct tape (as part of testing a theory about a crime); before joining her in the lab, Grissom cheerfully asides, "I love my job!" His close but platonic friendship with Lady Heather doesn't make things any better.

• Dramatic Irony: In the first PC game’s fifth case, Leda’s Swan Song, Gil is left in a storage locker to be consumed by flesh-eating larvae. The irony comes in when you add Grissom’s profession in entomology.
• Early-Installment Weirdness: He's noticeably different in the first half of season 1, shown to be more light-hearted and emotional. It takes until "Face Lift" late in season one for it to really be shown he's not great with people; and then in season 2 he starts developing into his The Stoic persona more. To the show's credit, they worked this into Grissom's Character Development, changing the character more as they delved deeper into his hearing loss.
• A Father to His Men: His paternal leadership style, especially visible with Greg, Nick and Warrick especially right before Warrick gets killed, and afterwards.
• Flanderization: In regards to his stoicism. In the first season, he was prone to bouts of anger (once slapping a coffee pot out of Ecklie's hand, enraged) and happiness (even—gasp—smiling! With teeth and all!). By Season 3, his character was shaped into being level-headed at all times, even in normal conversation. Justifiable in that he starts to retreat emotionally during his struggle with his hearing loss.
• Friend to Bugs: He's an entomologist who not only studies bugs, but also protects them. He has four roaches named John, Paul, George and Ringo, and races them for fun. In one ep, he tells a subordinate to be sure and feed the bugs they collected at a scene. In another case, he asks two exterminators if it bothers them that their job requires them to kill living creatures. One just stares at him; the other replies, "What kind of question is that?"
• Game of Nerds: He's a scientist who likes baseball.
• Jar of the Bizarre: He eeps various insect specimens in his office, but among his collection is also an irradiated fetal pig in a jar. When he leaves the Crime Lab, he gifts it to David Hodges, who later returns it to Gil's office (which a few of the other CSIs are sharing by then) and says "This belongs in here."
• Innocently Insensitive: His distant approach to social life leads him to sometimes saying the wrong things without realizing it, specifically to Sara before they dated, much to her frustration (she nearly quits over it).
• Intelligence Equals Isolation: Especially in the earlier seasons. Despite his intelligence and expert grasp of human nature, Grissom leads a very isolated life, and rebuffed most opportunities of interaction outside of the workplace. He even turned down Sara's initial dating requests in Season 3.

• Married to the Job : For most of the series, at least until he marries Sara. Catherine used to tell him to take his head out of his microscope once in a while.
• Not That Kind of Doctor: He's an entomologist, not a medical doctor.
• Papa Wolf: Pretty much the only way to get him riled up is to either threaten one of his teammates, especially Sara, or do anything to endanger children
• Platonic Life-Partners: With Catherine. They are obviously best friends, but there's also no hint of sexual chemistry between them.
• Put on a Bus: After season 9.
  • The Bus Came Back: He does have a cameo in season 12's "The Two Mrs. Grissoms," and returns at last for the series finale, which originally aired in September 2015.
• Quip to Black: Famous for it — used to be the Trope Namer

• Serious Business: Racing cockroaches. One of the first times we see him take some time off and put Catherine in charge is when he goes to an entomology conference, and he's most excited about the cockroach races. It doesn't go so well ("Stage fright").
• Sex Is Interesting: Grissom tells Lady Heather he finds all kinds of non-traditional sexual practices fascinating.
• Silver Fox: Despite his nerdiness and aloofness, he still gathers a lot of female admirers (in-universe and out), even when he shies away from the unwanted attention. He had no problems getting dinner dates when he actually sought them out.

• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: One early episode has him investigate a friend of the sheriff's as a murder suspect in an apparent suicide, wrongly as it turns out. Grissom swiftly finds out that no amount of being the force's Bunny-Ears Lawyer will excuse his political cluelessness.
  Sheriff Brian Mobley: In other words, you made a suspect out of an innocent man.
  Grissom: Obviously, that wasn't my intent.
  Mobley: Oh, good. Then maybe you'll want to bring that up in the newspaper article.
  Grissom: What are you talking about? What newspaper article?
  Mobley: The one I'm arranging for your public apology.
  Grissom: I'm not making an apology.
  Mobley: Oh yes, you are! You don't go after a friend of mine, sully his reputation and then walk away. Actions have consequences, Gil. Even yours.
• Team Dad: To the boys more than Sara (obviously), but especially to Warrick and Nick.
• Wham Line: For seven years, fans noticed an underlying degree of tension between Grissom & Sara, leading them to devise a term for it, "GSR," short for Grissom Sara Romance. In the Season 7 finale, it finally comes to the forefront when he realizes the extent of the Miniature Killer's revenge:

"This girl holds me responsible for the death of Ernie Dell. I took away the only person she ever loved, so she's gonna do the same thing to me.'"

Catherine Willows

Played by: Marg Helgenberger

• Action Girl: She can stand up for herself when she needs to.
• Alpha Bitch: She reveals in one episode she was like this in high school. Even as an adult she's a bit of a Lovable Alpha Bitch.
• Big Sister Instinct:
  • While they aren't related, she seems to feel this way towards Greg (who's about 20 years younger). For one, she seems the most upset when he is nearly beaten to death in "Fannysmackin."
  • When she comes back for Season 2 of the revival, she takes young CSI Penny Gill under her wing, convincing her to express her ideas more often as they are usually good ones.
• The Bus Came Back: Like Grissom, comes back to Vegas for the series finale case, which starts at the casino she inherited, and decides to stay.

• Good Bad Girl: Mostly an Informed Attribute, as we only see her have a one night stand once, and she ends up calling it off before they actually have sex.
• Heroic Bastard: It's established early on that she was raised by a single mother, but it's only later that she learns her father is Sam Braun, who leaves her a chunk of his casino after he dies.
• Mama Bear: Messing with her daughter? Big mistake. The same applies to her team members.
• Ms. Fanservice: She used to be a stripper, way back in the day (and not an Old Shame for her, even when a DA tries to use it against her in court). She has a couple of Toplessness from the Back scenes and an interrogation where she unbuttons her blouse every time her suspect gives her an answer.

• Put on a Bus: Season 12, when she joins the FBI.
• Revenge Before Reason: Her automatic hatred towards registered sex offenders and anyone she even suspects of being a child abuser.
  • The long version: Catherine has several times had a very strong reaction to cases where a little girl is the victim, to the point where she will allow her own emotions to cloud her judgement. It is hinted this is because she is the mother of a young girl. Her emotions have caused her to severely jump the gun when it comes to a suspect and showing no hesitation to add her own verbal disgust and disbelief towards a suspect when they tell her their side of the story. Sara even once lampshaded this by snarking that it was "fun" to hear Catherine's theories rather than process the actual evidence. Ironically, every time she has let her emotions take control of a case like this, whom her hatred is focused towards has always turned out to be a mere victim of "being at the wrong place at wrong time," shown by the evidence they were in no way involved with the case, but by the time that is revealed she often has completely ruined said guy's life.
  • Brutal case in point being Leo Finley from "A Thousand Days on Earth." She believes he is a child molester because of his name on the Sexual Predator Watch List though he was only there because of an incident where he got high on hallucinogenics and walked out naked in front of a bus full of children. After the man's fiance finds out about his past (through Catherine vindictively outing him) and that he is using an assumed name, she kicks him out of the house and then gets him fired by telling his boss. The man walks up to Catherine in the parking lot after this, threatening to shoot himself in the head on her front lawn one day, even calling her a "blonde Nazi bitch" when she insists she was just doing her job. In her defense though, Finley did build his relationship with his girlfriend on a lie and lying on a job application about your name and being a felon warrants being fired.
• Scare 'Em Straight: In response to Lindsey's reckless hitchhiking, her mom drags her into the morgue to view a dead hitchhiker (to Dr. Robbins' disapproval).
• Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: Her being Sam Braun's daughter has gotten things done with her superiors at least once, even after his death.
  Brass: Unbelievable! Sam Braun has more influence dead than I do alive!
• Ship Tease: With Warrick, up until his marriage. She even refers to the event as the "end of a fantasy".

• Stacy's Mom: Gets attention from younger men as well as those her own age.

• Unwitting Pawn: Catherine meets an old friend of hers who believes that her abusive husband (who is the president of a private military contractor) is targeting her. Knowing the husband's shady deals overseas, Catherine recommends her friend a lawyer who can protect her. Weeks later, the lawyer's firm is attacked by a group of hitmen and Catherine's friend as well as the FBI agent assigned to protect her are killed and Catherine herself is eventually targeted. It is then revealed that the whole thing was set up by the friend who faked her death in order to frame her husband and Catherine (who will have the motive to do so) will be the scapegoat.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Downplayed, but she seems to have a fair amount of friction with Sara, especially in the early seasons. The reason for this isn't entirely clear, but it's implied they both have feelings for Grissom. Despite this, they are still basically friends, and it shows even in the early episodes, as there's one where Catherine is notably disturbed by the crime of the week and Sara makes sure she's ok.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: Old-school casino owner Sam Braun, who is shifty to say the least.

Nick Stokes

Played by: George Eads

• Berserk Button: Harming children in general, though sexual assault especially gets to him since he was molested by his babysitter as a kid.
• Buried Alive: Happens to him when he's kidnapped in "Grave Danger."
• Curtains Match the Window: Dark brown hair and eyes.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Was molested by his babysitter
• Friend to All Children: To the point that the other CSIs automatically defer to him when a child becomes involved.
• Heroes Love Dogs: He adopts a former police dog in Season 13.
• Hollywood Healing: He doesn't wind up with any scars after having had lots of fire ant bites.
• Manly Tears: Nick cries several times over the course of the show, and it serves to highlight his empathetic nature.

• Porn Stache: For a while, before he has enough of everyone's justified ribbing.
• Put on a Bus: To run the San Diego crime lab in the season 15 finale, though it takes him a while to decide what with Finley in a coma and all, but DB assures him it's what she would want.

• Taught by Television: "I watch the Discovery Channel," was one of his regular comments, back in the days when you learned things from the Discovery Channel. He switches to Animal Planet once or twice.

Warrick Brown

Played by: Gary Dourdan

• Fatal Flaw: His gambling addiction and all of the problems that come with it.
• The Gambling Addict: His addiction gets him into trouble early in the series, though he gets better.
• Genius Bruiser: He's the largest and most physical of the original team, but that doesn't stop him from being a trained Audio/Visual expert who can count cards in his head.
• Killed Off for Real: Shot in the throat by Undersheriff Jeffrey McKeen.
• Out of Focus: Gets hit with this hard and ends up being one of the least developed members of the cast.

• Token Minority: He's the only non-Caucasian on the main team.

Sara Sidle

Played by: Jorja Fox

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• Age-Gap Romance: With Grissom; the actors are 16 years apart in real life. Not that it matters to Sara, who openly admits to having a thing for silver foxes.
• Alliterative Name: Sara Sidle.
• Boyish Short Hair: In most seasons she has rather short hair, with a bit of a 60's aesthetic.
• Berserk Button: Domestic violence, especially spouses murdering each other.

• Commuting on a Bus: As of Season 10, she's on the line...she's listed as a series regular, but only appears in a certain number of episodes per season.
  • The Bus Came Back: Returns to C.S.I. full-time in Season 11, and remains aboard for the rest of the show's run.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Her mother killed her father, who was abusive to both her and her mother. She ended up in foster care.

• Hint Dropping: Tries this as a tactic while attempting to court Grissom. She once tells Hodges (who is fretting about a possible grey hair) that she finds grey hair rather sexy, while standing next to Grissom. Eventually, she point-blank asks him out, which he refuses. After a couple of more years, he eventually comes around to Glad You Thought of It.

• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She often comes across as gruff and bad tempered, but she cares a lot about the victims and her friends.

• The Maiden Name Debate: She still uses "Sidle" now that she is married to Grissom. They separate in Season 13, making the question seem moot, but get back together again in the finale.
• Married to the Job: At least until she marries Grissom. Divorced by the time the bus comes back; back with him by the end of the series finale.
• Put on a Bus: She's taken a round trip, having come back to assist the team when they're short-staffed in season 10.

• Second Episode Introduction: Comes in to help the team per request of (who else?) Grissom in the second episode following the death of the Naïve Newcomer and stays on board.
• UST: For YEARS with Grissom before Season 6 ends with the above trope.

Greg Sanders

Played by: Eric Szmanda

• Ascended Fanboy: From "CSI Wannabe" to actual CSI. He started working as the DNA tech before going into the field.
• Break the Cutie: He becomes noticeably more mature after getting beaten to near death in "Fannysmackin'".
• Casual Kink: Has dabbled in every fetish under the sun, including latex wear, S&M, and even plus-size women. This is a man who likes variety.
• Cool Teacher: Tries to be this in his revival appearances, despite the CSIs already knowing much of what he tells them

• Expository Hairstyle Change: Shortly after becoming a CSI he stops sporting his normally wacky hairstyles, to show how he's matured.
• Genius Ditz: In earlier seasons. While he does act like an idiot, he's very good at his job and has extended knowledge on coin collection and Old Vegas.
• Heh Heh, You Said "X": In "A Bullet Runs Through It", an otherwise very serious episode, Grissom tells him to analyze the position of skid marks. The second Grissom leaves Greg chuckles, "He said skid marks."
• He's Back!: Returns to CSI work in Series 2 of the revival, specifically thye second half when Max needs an extra hand at the lab.
• The Intern: He was sort of a trainee in seasons 4 and 5 until passing his field exam.

• Likes Older Women: If his apparent attractions to a Dolly Parton-lookalike gambling maven ("Revenge Is Best Served Cold") and a fading ex-showgirl legend ("Kiss Kiss, Bye Bye") are any indication...
• Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: His grandmother had "the Sight" and the psychic who sensed his grandma tells him he has it too. One the one hand he can't detect anything when he's in the "haunted" slaughterhouse with the killer, on the other one could argue the spirits are being really quiet so he can hear the killer's ringtone, which was caught on tape by the psychic before she was killed.
• My Beloved Smother: She took him to the ER for a bloody nose.

Dr. Raymond "Ray" Langston

Played by: Laurence Fishburne

• Enemy Within: He possesses the same "serial killer" gene that Nate Haskell has.

• Freudian Excuse: Played with. His father was apparently violent, and Raymond worries that he may become that way himself. He also has a gene that has been associated with violent behaviour. On the other hand, when faced with Serial Killer Nate Haskell, who has the same gene and his own abusive father, he testifies in open court against his attempt to use this card, and afterwards Haskell admits to him that he decided in his youth he'd blame it on those things if he were ever caught.
• I Am Not My Father: Due to his father's violent outbursts when Ray was growing up, he's now trying his best *not* to be like the man.
• Not That Kind of Doctor: Inverted, he is that kind of doctor.
• The Professor: Is teaching college just before he takes the job as a CSI.
• Put on a Bus: After killing Haskell, he is discharged from CSI by IAB and sent back to the east coast with his former ex-wife. He's mentioned once in the Season 12 opener, but is completely dropped from the series afterwards, essentially completing his character arc. He's one of a handful of living characters that doesn't return for the series finale.
• Token Minority: The only non-Caucasian main character during his time with the team.

Riley Adams

Played by: Lauren Lee Smith

• Dark and Troubled Past: Considering her reaction to suicides, something unpleasant has happened in her past.

• Put on a Bus: In universe: can't handle Catherine's leadership, and only spends one year in the lab.

D.B. Russell

Played by: Ted Danson

• Beware the Nice Ones: He's usually pretty easy to get along with and a decent boss. But threatening his CSIs or his family is a big mistake.

• Do Not Call Me "Paul": Can't stand his given name. See spoiler immediately below for why.
• Embarrassing First Name: Diebenkorn Russell.
• Faking the Dead:
  • Does it with Catherine to escape the posse of hitmen after them.
  • Also in his premiere as he poses as a dead body for "investigative purposes".
• Foil: He serves as one to Grissom: While Grissom distained the politics of the Supervisor position and made enemies by deliberately refusing to play, DB is much more political and willing to cooperate and play at appeasement. Grissom had an antagonistic relationship with Ecklie at the worst of times, but DB was hired by Ecklie and has a friendly rapport with him. Grissom tended to allow his team their rogue vendettas and Cowboy Cop moments as long as they achieved results and avoided crossing certain lines, while DB was hired specifically so he could reign in their wilder actions, and often calls for characters to calm down and rethink things logically.
• I Have Your Wife: McKeen's people do this to him with his granddaughter in the Season 12 finale.
• Happily Married: The only CSI to be this from the beginning, although things get strained later on when his granddaughter is kidnapped (There's Grissom and Sara, but that comes several seasons into the show).
  • In CSI: Cyber he's divorced.
• Shipper on Deck: Seems to be one for Morgan and Greg. In one episode, he tells Morgan to go back to the crime scene and take "boyfriend Greg" with her.

• Team Dad: Picking up where Grissom left off, but in a different kind of way since D.B. is a literal father as well. He's especially this way towards Greg and Morgan, the two youngest CSIs. (Morgan's actual father, Ecklie, practically states this trope directly in CSI Down.) He also acts as this on the fourth series, CSI: Cyber.
• True Companions: He regards the CSI team as this. They're a little weirded out by it.

Morgan Brody

Played by: Elisabeth Harnois

• Heroic BSoD: She shows some signs of this following her abduction and shooting in season 14.
• Ms. Fanservice: Wears more makeup than the other team members and her clip in the titles involves her running in a tight white T-shirt.
• Parental Abandonment: Ecklie left when she was 14. She uses the surname of her stepfather.
• Ship Tease: Several moments with Greg and, believe it or not, Hodges, whom she pretends to date to impress his mother.
• Vitriolic Best Buds:

• Absolutely has this with Hodges. They bicker frequently, but clearly care about each other. Morgan actually flat-out refers to him as her best friend, and even once agrees to pretend to date him in order to get his mother off his back. (And once her father begins dating his mother, well, both the bickering and the caring get more interesting.)

Julie 'Finn' Finlay

Played by: Elisabeth Shue

• Berserk Button: Corporate crime, and especially powerful people who get away with crimes due to connections.
• Convenient Coma: Ends Season 15 in this spot after being brutally beaten and stabbed by the Gig Harbor Killer. With Elisabeth electing not to come back for the series finale movie, it seems unlikely she's ever going to wake up. The Grand Finale confirms she died.
• Didn't Think This Through: She has a really bad habit of running off on her own to confront suspects when she's especially angry. It repeatedly gets her into trouble, ranging from being fired from the Seattle Police Department to being beaten into a coma.
• Do Not Call Me "Paul": D.B. is the only person who'll call her 'Jules' and she doesn't like it. She prefers Finn. Interestingly, D.B.'s wife also calls her 'Jules', and she doesn't even react.

• Sleeves Are for Wimps: The most likely of the final female team to not wear sleeves.

Holly Gribbs

Played By: Chandra West

• Decoy Protagonist: The pilot of the show focuses on her, but she gets shot at the end of the episode and dies on the operating table in the next episode.
• Naïve Newcomer/New Meat: The Pilot shows her first day on the job...and her last.
• Sacrificial Lamb: The first of the CSI to die.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: She literally dies in the second episode.

Michael Keppler

Played By: Liev Schreiber

• Broken Ace: He has promotion after promotion and enough commendations to fill the Marina Trench...and has an utterly screwed up life to go with it.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: He serves as a temporary replacement for Grissom both In-Universe and out, since William Petersen needed time off to star in a play.
• Taking the Bullet: He dies doing this to save a hooker from Frank McCarthy.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Only around for four episodes before being shot and killed.

Maxine "Max" Roby

Played by: Paula Newsome

• Academic Athlete: She attended university on a basketball scholarship and has her uniform framed in her office.
• Amicable Exes: While they don't speak often, Max's relationship with her ex husband is still strong enough that he was willing to get on a plane to Vegas the moment he heard her life was in danger from a serial killer
• Mama Bear: Max will not take it well if the safety of any of her CSIs are threatened. For example, after Folsom is hurt by what appeared to be an undetected second bomb at an explosion scene, she goes straight to the bomb squad officer who cleared the scene as supposedly safe to verbally eviscerate him.

Joshua Folsom

Played by: Matt Lauria

• Fallen Hero: Possibly. After his mother is killed, Josh bails out his childhood friend Trey and kidnaps a man they think can tell them about who killed her. After tricking him into thinking Josh slit his wrists and would bleed out if he didn't tell the truth, Josh finds scratch marks on the mans arm, matching the spot his mom clawed at before she died. This causes Josh to realize he killed her, and while what happens next is intentionally vague, the CSI's find the man's body dead in a dumpster, the kidnapping scene all but wiped clean, and Max and Chavez are forced to arrest him for the man's murder.
• Ship Tease: Most of his interactions with Rajan. This becomes complicated in S2 now that he's in a relationship.

Ahalaya "Allie" Rajan

Played by: Mandeep Dhillon

• Ms. Fanservice: "Long Pig" has her end the episode swimming in a black one-piece.
• Unwitting Test Subject: Has a tendency to end up doing this for Folsom's various efforts to physically re-enact aspects of a crime, especially in the role of a dead body. This generally leads to very blatant Ship Tease.

Christopher "Chris" Park

Played by: Jay Lee

• Ascended Extra: Goes from a recurring tech to a regular cast member in Season 2.
• Bad Influencer: Albeit unintentionally. His pre-CSI crime solving TikTok videos get a seeminly innocent person released, only for it to turn out years later he was wrong and he helped release a murderer.

Beau Finado

Played by: Lex Medlin

• Expansion Pack Past: Comes to the crime lab after a long career as a chemist at various chemical companies. His knowledge from various past jobs and projects proves useful many times
• Heroic BSoD: After a particularly traumatising case involving children drowning in a basement, Beau refuses to go into the field for several episodes
• Motormouth: Has a habit of this when he makes a significant discovery

Penelope "Penny" Gill

Played by: Sarah Gillman

• Beware the Quiet Ones: Penny might be a bit hesitant to speak her mind at times, but more often than not her ideas have proven extremely helpful
• Eager Rookie: While she at first hesitates to voice her ideas, once she finds her voice, she can be very excitable if she finds a lead

Medical Examiners

Dr. Albert "Al" Robbins

Played by: Robert David Hall

• Berserk Button:
  • He absolutely HATES rats, even if it only shows in one episode, aptly titled "Lab Rats."
  • More commonly seen is his tendency to get incredibly testy when he sees evidence of another medical examiner (or a paramedic, or a police officer) cutting corners or not following protocol. And don't even think about suggesting that he was less than thorough about doing his own job.
• Cool Old Guy: He's the oldest of the cast, but is still known to rock out in autopsy on occasion and plays in a band himself.
• The Coroner: He's the Medical Examiner at the LVPD Crime Lab.
• Famous Ancestor: He is revealed to be distantly related to William "Buffalo Bill" Cody in the season 12 episode "Genetic Disorder."
• Genius Cripple: He's a medical professional who just happens to be a double amputee with two prosthetic legs.
• Handicapped Badass: He might need a cane to get around, but he can be a pretty mean fighter when he has to be.
• Happily Married: Besides a few issues, he's one of two CSI employees, the other being D.B. Russell, to be this.
• The Lab Rat: Sort of, although he's a mortuary rat rather than a lab rat.
• Mr. Exposition: His autopsies often reveal further background on the murder victims.
• Not That Kind of Doctor: Played with. He obviously has a medical degree, but he doesn't practice medicine as his "patients" are dead. Well, but for that one time...
• Sympathetic Adulterer: Reveals in season 12 that he cheated once, essentially just to see if he had the guts to. It nearly ruined him and his wife, and they've been faithful ever since. It's really kind of adorable.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Rats. On the one occasion when a rat ventures into the Morgue, he flat-out screams at it and tries to beat it with his cane.
• Written-In Infirmity/Disabled Character, Disabled Actor: Both Robert David Hall and Albert Robbins are double amputees.

David Phillips

Played by: David Berman

• Cast the Expert: The actor actually was a coroner’s assistant for a time. He also served as a consultant for the writing team.
• Catchphrase: "Sorry I'm late..."
• The Coroner: Though he's only an assistant to the actual ME, Dr. Robbins.

• Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: He's not bad looking but compared to his absolutely beautiful (and very pregnant) wife in one episode where he goes to his high-school reunion.

Dr. Sylvia Sloane

Played by:Bahar Soomekh

• The Coroner: She fulfills this trope on the Lab's unseen Day Shift.
• Not That Kind of Doctor: Just like Doc Robbins, she's an MD, but she doesn't practice medicine.
• One-Shot Character: Since she's the Day Shift Coroner, she usually isn't involved in the cases of the Night Shift. Her one appearance in "Genetic Disorder" came about because the Victim of the Week was found in Doc Robbins' house and neither he nor David Phillips could autopsy said victim without inviting suspicions about inconvenient facts being covered up.

Dr Hugo Ramirez

Played by: Mel Rodriguez

• Passing the Torch: Was trained under Doc Robbins himself, who has since retired and handed him the post
• Put on a Bus: After the first season

Dr. Sonya Nikolayevich

Played by: Sara Amini

• Big Sister Bully: Is always putting Jack down, although she still cares for him when it counts.
• Big Sister Instinct: Never threaten or hurt Jack around her if you know what's good for you.

Dr. Jack Nikolayevich

Played by: Joel Sohnstone

• Big Brother Instinct: Despite Sonya's bullying, he hardly leaves her bedside when she nearly dies after bring poisoned.

• The Lancer: Assists his sister in the morgue

Dr. Milton Hudson

Played by: Derek Webster

• Temporary Substitute: In-universe example. Dr. Webster fills in for Jack and Sonia in the morgue twice in Season 2. Once when they attend a medical conference and then while Sonia is recovering from being poisoned.

Lab Technicians

David Hodges

Played by: Wallace Langham

• Born Lucky: But only on a single day: April 7th. It's his lucky day. On this day, nothing has ever gone wrong for him, ever. In "Lab Rats," he takes advantage of it being his lucky day to help crack a case that even Grissom couldn't figure out.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: Unlike most Lab Rat characters on the CSI shows, Hodges is quite content to remain indoors and hates going into the field.

• Dirty Cop: Averted. The first episode of the revival uncovers evidence that, during his time at the lab, he faked results by the truckload, putting any conviction resulting from said fake lab results in jeopardy. Sara believes it to be a Frame-Up, but the DA wants Hodges arrested anyway, and every one of the cases he was involved in is now under scrutiny. Sara, Gil, and the new CSI team manage to fully clear his name by the finale, thus saving the crime lab's integrity as well.
• Hidden Depths: Among other things he's a big sci-fi geek, with an undying love for "Astro Quest" (fictional couterpart of Star Trek: The Original Series).
• Large Ham: Has his moments, but the "Astro Quest" episode (and the dream sequences that have Hodges as The Captain of the Show Within a Show) are pretty much a chance for Langham to unleash his inner William Shatner in a homage to "The Gamesters Of Triskelion."
• Momma's Boy: He is living with his mother when he first starts working at the lab. When she finally appears on-screen, we learn that she's a surprisingly attractive and classy lady, and far from the typical My Beloved Smother that most mothers involved in this trope are.
• The Nose Knows: Has an incredibly accurate sense of smell. In "In Vino Veritas," he leans into a wine barrel that had held a corpse for a few days and deeply inhales, grossing out a co-worker. He explains that he can determine the source of the wine from the various ingredients he detects...over the smell of decomp. In "The Theory of Everything", Catherine has him get down on the floor of a victim's bedroom and smell the carpet for evidence, as he possesses the genetic makeup that lets him smell the presence of cyanide.
• Pet the Dog/Establishing Character Moment: For the first couple of his seasons, he is portrayed as a through-and-through Jerkass Professional Butt-Kisser with no redeeming qualities whom all his co-workers hate. In Season 7, however, he gets a surprising amount of Character Development in a scene where he has to break bad news to a victim's family, and he's portrayed as a sympathetic character ever since and even joins the main cast. He even gets a wife and by the end of season 1 of the revival, a child.

• Small Name, Big Ego: He acts like he's much more important than everyone else. Can occasionally cross into Insufferable Genius.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: He has an inordinate fear of birds.

Wendy Simms

Played by: Liz Vassey

• Ms. Fanservice: Particularly in Hodges' fantasies of her. In one she's only wearing a bikini.

• Put on a Bus: In universe: Left for Portland's lab.

Mandy Webster

Played by: Sheeri Rappaport

• Really Gets Around: Some of her comments in the lab rats' Day in the Limelight episodes hint at this.

Archie Johnson

Played by: Archie Kao

• Asian and Nerdy: He's a computer analyst and a Star Trek geek. Could be subverted since he does have 'cool' hobbies like surfing and snowboarding.

Ronnie Litra

Played by: Eric Stonestreet

• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Just vanishes after Season 4 or so.

Police

Captain James "Jim" Brass

Played by: Paul Guilfoyle

• All of the Other Reindeer: "A Bullet Runs Through It," where the other cops shun him at the dead officer's funeral.
• Berserk Button: Bad fathers, likely because he wishes he could've been a better one.
• Blind People Wear Sunglasses: In the revival, he’s wearing them before revealing his eyes which were damaged in an attack. He’s not completely blind but can’t see very well.
• The Bus Came Back: Comes back for the finale, and for a few appearances in the revival.

• Deadpan Snarker: On Vegas' staggeringly-high murder rate: "We're very competitive!"
• Dirty Cop : Originally a big subversion of this, stating how he refuses to be bought or get dirty, but drifts into that territory as of the end of season 11. He covers for Ray when Ray kills Nate Haskell, and is reluctant to help catch a killer who was killing other killers.
• Et Tu, Brute?: In "A Bullet Runs Through It," he feels this way when one by one, all of the other officers walk away from him at the dead officer's funeral.
• Handicapped Badass: He's in his 70s and half-blind come the revival series, but it opens with him kicking and killing the ass of a man sent to kill him.
• Hidden Disdain Reveal: Despite trying to help his daughter, even knowing she isn't actually his, every time she gets herself into trouble. After a crime of hers gets her mother killed, he flatly tells her that she killed the only person who cared about her.

• Mr. Exposition: He's the man who gives both the team and the audience information on the latest victim of the week.
• Outranking Your Job: Spends a lot of time personally investigating crime scenes and chasing down suspects for a police captain.
• Parental Issues: He still loves his daughter despite knowing that she's not genetically his. Her...not so much, to the point that when Brass is shot he gives power of attorney to Grissom rather than to her. Another contributing factor is probably that she has been addicted to drugs and worked as a prostitute for a time, so it would be understandable for Brass to doubt her judgment in general.
• Put on a Bus: Takes a leave of absence for season 15 after his daughter fakes her kidnapping with the help of a boyfriend, gets Brody involved and almost kills her, kills the boyfriend, and kills her mother (whom she didn't expect to come to Las Vegas) because she would have recognized the boyfriend. Amazingly Brass is helping her with her trial.
• Semper Fi: Vietnam Marine vet.

Sofia Curtis

Played by: Louise Lombard

• Action Girl: Oh yeah. And given her profession, it's absolutely necessary for her survival.
• The Bus Came Back: Returns late in Season 11. She's Deputy Chief now.
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome/Put on a Bus: Is a semi regular for three seasons, a regular character in one season, and then vanishes without a trace, or explanation.

• Heroic BSoD: In "A Bullet Runs Through It," when she believes she shot a fellow cop.

• Rank Up: She starts out as his subordinate but ends up being Captian Brass' boss.

Conrad Ecklie

Played by: Marc Vann

• A Day in the Limelight: The B-plot of one episode features Ecklie handling the investigation himself when the main characters are unavailable.
• Ambition Is Evil: The real reason he is such an ass to Grissom and the team was because he thinks that Grissom has the same ambitions he does. Once he realizes that Grissom and the team won't keep him from fulfilling his goals, he eases off considerably.
  • His behavior in the Season 14 episode "Consumed," though, suggests that running for sheriff may cause him to relapse.
• Big Bad: Arguably, of Season 5. He never does anything illegal, but his antagonistic actions drive the overarching plot of that season.
• Character Development: A fairly significant example of this. He's almost a completely different person now than he was in season 1. He makes a pretty seamless transition from Jerkass to Jerk with a Heart of Gold. After 13 seasons he's still a bit nasty at times, but he has the respect of the team and the department as a whole, and he has absolutely become a Reasonable Authority Figure. (He's aware of it, too: when he talks to Morgan about being offered the sheriff position, he admits that part of the reason he isn't sure about it is because he's afraid he'll revert to the manipulative asshole he used to be.)
• Da Chief: He starts out as the day shift supervisor, then becomes director of the lab, and is later promoted to undersheriff of the entire department. By mid-Season 13 he's the new sheriff. He almost doesn't take it at first, because he's worried that he'll revert to the Jerkass he used to be.
• Diabolus ex Machina: Supplies a rather nasty and completely out-of-nowhere one in "Fracked". (Though, granted, it's fairly clear that there's not much he can do.)
• Heroic BSoD: This is debatably the cause of his considering leaving his job in Season 13. He doesn't show any signs of being tired of his job until the corruption of the department and his shooting.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He goes out of his way to make Grissom and the team look bad, particularly when investigating Gil and Sara's relationship after her kidnapping. However, he develops a "Heart of Gold" and becomes a Reasonable Authority Figure pretty nicely afterwards. His statement that he would've helped Grissom and Sara avoid any conflicts because of their relationship certainly sounded genuine, and he's been mostly a lot nicer to the team while still keeping his prickly attitude. Come the later seasons, he's been even better with Morgan around.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Despite being rude, unpleasant, and power-hungry, he is accurate about Grissom's leadership in Season 5, especially in the way he handled Sara. By that point, she has become very unprofessional, culminating in Sara mouthing off to Catherine (at the time, a superior) in front of coworkers and to Ecklie himself. He was absolutely right to suspend her, something Grissom would not have done due to their relationship.
• Obstructive Bureaucrat: He's extremely ambitious, and originally sees Grissom as competition. At different points, he would try and undermine the team's work.
• Parental Abandonment: He left when Morgan was 14.

• Reasonable Authority Figure: When Nick is Buried Alive, Ecklie pulls some strings to gather the ransom his kidnapper demands, and relations between him and the night shift have mostly thawed since then. Ecklie comes into his own as Asst. Director, where his talent for juggling the top brass and news media have proven to be an asset to the team.
  • Once he's the new sheriff, he seems to have kept his reasonableness. The only time that he really pushes back against the team is when he's faced with having to give permission for his own daughter to be used as bait for a serial killer. A perfect example of his reasonable attitude is when Finn and Nick clash with a fire investigator at an arson scene. The investigator calls in Ecklie with "concerns" about their methods, and before passing any judgements, Ecklie hears Nick and Finn out and even takes his jacket off and helps them dig through a burnt-out building to prove their theory.

• Smug Snake: Pre-"Grave Danger." He took utmost pleasure in seeing Grissom's team humiliated, and even worked to get Nick convicted of murder once purely out of spite.
• Taking the Bullet: For his daughter when he gets gunned down in Homecoming. It's possible that they had been aiming intentionally for him, but given that he shot McKeen's son, it seems likely that Morgan was the target.

Jeffrey McKeen

Played by: Conor O'Farrell

• Ambition Is Evil: Brass recalls that when he was made a detective, McKeen invited all of the new detectives over to his (suspiciously large) house for a barbecue. When Brass let him know that he wasn't such a careerist that could be bought like that, he was never invited again, and had to watch over the years as all the others at that barbecue were promoted above him.

• Clueless Detective: Doesn't always get or appreciate the abilities of the CSIs or what they do which bites him in the ass when he tries to frame someone else for murder.

• Implacable Man: Crashes his car at high speed when shot by his paranoid passenger, and drags himself away from the wreckage to bleed out...and lives,despite his best efforts.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold:Subverted. He seems like that at times...until he murders Warrick in cold blood.
• Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All: "Homecoming" reveals that he's still running his criminal machinations from prison.

Brian Mobley

Brian Mobley

Played by: Glenn Morshower

• Demoted to Extra: After being a major recurring character throughout the first season, he only appeares once in the second season before disappearing from the show entirely.
• What the Hell, Hero?: He gives Grissom a major tongue lashing for turning his friend into a murder suspect for an apparent suicide, and wrongly, as it turned out, and forces him to issue a public apology.

Rory Atwater

Rory Atwater

Played by: Xander Berkeley

• Dark Secret: He has an adult baby fetish.
• Kill It with Fire: Narrowly averted when he is nearly blown up by a car bomb.

Sherry Liston

Sherry Liston

Played by: Barbara Eve Harris

• Put on a Bus: Retires at the end of Season 12 out of shame over a corruption scandal.

Chris Cavaliere

Chris Cavaliere

Played by: José Zúñiga

• Nightmare Fetishist: He has a habit of taking photos of bizarre murders.
• Rabid Cop: He is very rough, once going as far as scaring a child into a confession.

Cyrus Lockwood

Cyrus Lockwood

Played by: Jeffrey D. Sams

• Killed Off for Real: Shot by a sniper during a bank robbery at the end of Season 3.

Ray O'Riley

Ray O'Riley

Played by: Skip O'Brien

• Bus Crash: After disappearing without explanation after Season 4, Season 14 shows he was killed in the line of duty.
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Disappears without explanation after Season 4. Season 14 reveals he died in the line of duty offscreen.

Other

"Lady" Heather Kessler

Played by: Melinda Clarke

• Brains and Bondage: A licensed therapist...who also happens to run an S&M club.
• The Bus Came Back: Really never appears after William Petersen/Grissom stopped starring in the show, only appearing once for a case in Season 11. She returns as a suspect yet again in one of the most massive cases to hit the show in C.S.I.'s series finale.
• Collateral Angst: Not Heather herself, but in the Grand Finale her toddler granddaughter is offhandedly revealed to have been killed in a car accident, which serves little purpose other than driving Heather across the Despair Event Horizon so she can be a murder suspect. She pulls the plug on her practice after her granddaughter dies, which helps set up the plot of the Grand Finale.
• Creepy Good: For a creepy dominatrix lady she has a surprisingly good heart.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Though she seems scary at first and is into some pretty dark stuff, she is definitely a good guy.

• Driven to Suicide: Sort of. In one episode, she hires a guy to kill her because she lost custody of her granddaughter. She lives, though.
• Drop-In Character: Cases have a weird way of tracing back to her.

• Lovable Alpha Bitch: Emphasis on the "alpha" part as she's a Dominatrix by trade.
• The Maiden Name Debate: Strangely enough, she apparently took her husband's name.
• Mama Bear: Do not mess with her daughter. She WILL perform her S&M routine on you to make it hurt before she kills you.
• Of Corsets Sexy: Wearing one when we first meet her.
• The Vamp: Used for good! In her third appearance, she sleeps with Leon Sneller, the guy who killed her daughter to get evidence from him to give the team.
• Whip of Dominance: She is a professional Dominatrix who runs an S&M club and in "Pirates of the Third Reich" she's shown to be quite skilled with the whip when she apparently managed to capture her daughter's murderer using the whip she uses for her work and by the time Grissom finds her she has him tied to the grill of a car and is planning to whip him to death. Grissom even convinces her to stop by using to safeword, to further drive home the S&M theming.

Sam Braun

Played by: Scott Wilson

• Big, Screwed-Up Family: One son is a murderer, the other a heartless casino shark, and Sam himself might possibly be both. At least there's Catherine.
• Cain and Abel: One of his sons kills the other out of jealousy.
• Luke, I Am Your Father: We're informed he was an ex-boyfriend of Catherine's mother in prior episodes, so there's some foreshadowing.

• Dirty Old Man: Definitely seems to prefer his women a full generation younger than him.

• Drop-In Character: It's apparently a small Vegas after all, because like Heather, his name comes up in a frankly absurd amount of cases. The difference, of course, being that while Heather usually takes the role of key witness, Sam being who he is is often the prime suspect.
• Karma Houdini/Not Proven: He is a suspect in a murder from decades ago, and Catherine wholeheartedly believes it was him, but there is another suspect to whom all the evidence seems to point, and Sam is never charged.
• Kick the Dog: Organizing the bank robbery that gets Detective Lockwood killed. Kept from being a full-on Moral Event Horizon-crossing by the fact that Sam doesn't intend anyone to die and the Ax-Crazy head robber foes off the rails, but the fact that he is willing to put innocent people and lovable supporting cast members in a life-threatening situation purely for his own benefit is a pretty huge dick move.
• Morality Pet: Catherine. He also expresses genuine affection for Catherine's mother and Lindsay, but is not of seen interacting with them on-screen.
• Pet the Dog: Hates himself for favoring his older son, leading to the jealous younger one killing him.
• Red Herring: No matter how good his motive or opportunity may be, he is always this.

• Vigilante Execution: ...by the domestic partner of a man Braun had financially ruined.

Criminals

Paul Millander/The Bathtub Killer

Played by: Matt O'Toole

• Big Bad: Of the pilot and a good chunk of the first two seasons.
• Chekhov's Gun: The rubber hands he makes in his shop, the hand impression his father had made for him, and the ID his son makes for Grissom all turn out to be crucial to the case.
• The Chessmaster: Far smarter than the entire team put together.
• Dark Is Evil: Before going on the run, he is the owner of a shop that sells seriously grisly Halloween props.
• Evil Counterpart: To Grissom; bonus points for being the first major C.S.I. nemesis to ever appear in the franchise.
• Freudian Excuse: He (or rather, "she" at the time) watched as his father was murdered and the death made to look like a suicide in his own home, and then his testimony was thrown out at the trial and the killers went free.

• The Heavy: For much of seasons 1 and 2.
• Karma Houdini: Of a sort; he commits suicide, in the same way he killed his victims no less, to deny Grissom the satisfaction of sending him to jail.
• Mommy Issues: His mother ostracized him after his operation. He repays her with a knife to the gut.
• That One Case: For Grissom. One of Millander's victims is the primary victim of the pilot episode.
• Pet the Dog: Revealed posthumously; he honestly loved his adopted son.
• Secret Identity: As a judge, complete with a family who know nothing of his murderous ways.
• Serial Killer: The series' first, and the setter of the standard for season-long arcs focusing on serial killers for both this and the other C.S.I. shows.
• Series Continuity Error: A major plot point in his last episode is that he and his father have the same name... except that the elder Millander's name was given as "John" in a prior episode.

The Miniature Killer (contains spoilers)

Played By: Jessie Collins

• Arch-Enemy: Natalie Davis quickly becomes this to Gil Grissom, especially after she kidnaps Sara and leaves her for dead.
• Ax-Crazy: Key word: Bleach. Say this to her or make any indication of the thing and you're dead.

• The Bus Came Back: Natalie Davis returns in one of Peterson's last episodes for a hearing about whether or not to transfer her to prison, which they do. She has worked over her bleach problem by this time.
• Eidetic Memory: Can recall the minutest details of a location after a short glance, which helps in making the miniatures.
• The Heavy: Has this on Grissom long after being put in prison, only matched by Millander and later Nate Haskell for Ray Langston.
• Sibling Murder: As a child, Natalie murdered her sister Chloe by pushing her out of a treehouse, because she was jealous of the attention her sister was receiving after her mother's death. This is also what causes her thing regarding bleach, as her father used it to clean her sister's blood off of the concrete.
• That One Case: One of the most unique villains in the history of the C.S.I. franchise, their entire M.O. with creating miniatures of future murder scenes then executing the scene to exacting standards became a hot topic both in the show and in real life for the 2006-2007 TV season.
• The Unfavorite: Was this as a kid, and it's implied Natalie's first kill was her older sister, in an attempt to finally get attention.
• Villainous Breakdown: When she's finally arrested, Grissom's attempt to force Sara's location out of her drops her into a catatonic state that requires her to be institutionalized.

Nate Haskell/The Dick & Jane Killer

Played by: Bill Irwin

• Abusive Parent: His father was a drunk who would beat him and his mother.
• All Girls Want Bad Boys: This monster has a "bride" fanclub.

• Asshole Victim: After all he's done, it's hard to feel sorry for him after Raymond Langston kills him.
• Attention Whore: After being caught, he pleads not guilty, but later confesses when his defense claims that his crimes could only have been committed by multiple people working together. He is also the only murderer to accept the opportunity to speak to a class during a lecture.
• Ax-Crazy: As Brass puts it, "He's like the Joker from Batman, except without the laughs."
• Big Bad: Of Langston's intro episode halfway through Season 9 (this was also Grissom's final regular story arc as a character until the series finale), and of Season 11. His death is what ends Langston's character arc and his time at C.S.I.; Fishburne was asked to leave at that point and was replaced by Ted Danson.
• Blatant Lies: While torturing his victims, he offers them a chance to survive. They never do.
• Chick Magnet: While in prison he gets proposed to a few times.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: To the earlier Arc Villain. The Miniature Killer was an isolated individual who was a forensic challenge to the CSIs to track down, while Nate is a psychological foe who is able to manipulate others into helping with his plans even behind bars. They also contrast physically: Natalie is a young woman who looks and acts like a stiff breeze would blow her over, while Nate is a middle-aged man who can pose a physical threat.
• The Corrupter: While other aspects of his M.O. change, he consistently takes pleasure in convincing others to become killers like him, whether it's his accomplices in the original Dick and Jane killings, or the groupies who bust him out of custody and then murder each other or, in the end, Ray Langston.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Was abused by his father and listened to him kill his mother when he was eight.
• Enemy Mine: Helps the CSI team find Dr. Jekyll. He uses the whole thing to ultimately set up his escape.

• Freudian Excuse: His dad beat his mom to death and made him listen to her screams.
• The Heavy: This guy's specter hangs over the C.S.I.s from his first appearance to just past his death when his saga results in Langston being forced out and Catherine and Nick getting demoted back to their original positions from when Grissom dealt with Haskell; this leads to Catherine's own exit from the lab later.
• I Have You Now, My Pretty: Kidnaps Langston's ex-wife and rapes her, among other things.
• In the Back: Stabs Langston in the kidney area in the 10th season finale.
• Kill and Replace: "Nate Haskell" turns out to have been the name of his first victim, a traveling salesman whose identity he stole. His real name is Warner Thorpe.
• Sadist: Brass compares him to the Joker! Need we say any more?
• Seven Deadly Sins:
  • Pride: See Attention Whore above.
  • Lust: Takes sadistic pleasure in corrupting others and making them suffer.
• Torture Technician: And how! At one point he kidnaps Langston's ex wife and puts her in a torture device that would not be out of place in Hellraiser films.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Kills his final Monster Fangirl, after most of the others kill one another.

Dr. Jekyll/ Chef Charlie Dimasa

Played by: Matt Ross

• Arch-Enemy: To Ray in Season 10; he loses this position back to Nate Haskell after he's killed.

• The Heavy: Ray is really troubled by this suspect, especially when they meet in a hospital and Jekyll steals Ray's ID card, which he mails back along with prosciutto that has a Jane Doe number of an earlier botched victim on it; this is how they identify him when they match DNA he left to his father's septic appendix, which is found in his second victim (and the first one he actually killed) earlier in the season.
• Meatgrinder Surgery: Subverted; he takes great care when performing his surgeries/murders, which does not help the case at all.
• Non-Indicative Name: He is named after Dr. Henry Jekyll even though the killer does not have an evil split personality and Jekyll is supposed to be the good one. Furthermore, while most versions of Jekyll are medicinal doctors, none of them are surgeons who performed gruesome operations on innocent people and neither did Hyde.
• Secret Identity: Dr. Jekyll turns out to not be a doctor at all, but a cook in a luxurious Italian restaurant who had to drop out of medical school to assist his father. He does well as a chef, but does not take the whole thing well at all, hence his literal butchering surgery on the season's victims.
• That One Case: Jekyll's odd surgeries (starting with someone who was already dead, but moving on to actual murder thru surgery after the C.S.I. trilogy) stump Langston and Dr. Robbins throughout the show's 10th anniversary, with Langston taking his work home. They eventually have to enlist Nate Haskell, the Big Bad of Ray's introductory episodes, to finally bullseye Jekyll, but this move leads to the Season 11 plotline and the events that end in Langston and Catherine's departures from the crime lab.
• Villainous Breakdown: When Langston and Stokes find him, he finally turns on the Mr. Hyde persona for the first and only time by grabbing a shotgun, blowing the head off a cop, shooting up his restaurant and trapping everyone there.

Jason McCann

Played by: Justin Bieber

• Arch-Enemy: Temporarily becomes one to Nick via communications and bombs until he is killed.
• Asshole Victim: Jason has already killed a bomb technician friend of the team's and injured Vartaan by the time he goes on a short-lived shooting rampage against a police roadblock with Nick and Brass.