CSI: Crime Scene Investigation kicked off an period of tv reveals that targeted on forensics and the investigative course of surrounding crimes as an alternative of being a authorized drama or a straight-up police procedural. CSI nonetheless had its justifiable share of investigators who analyzed and experimented with proof, although.
The unique sequence, set in Las Vegas, premiered in 2000 and was adopted by CSI: Miami, CSI: New York, CSI: Cyber, and, extra not too long ago, a revival sequence in CSI: Vegas. The CSI franchise timeline covers greater than 20 years. Every present featured a distinct solid of investigators getting down to resolve grisly murders.
These investigators are the most effective the CSI franchise has to supply, due to their specialised talent units and their capacity to pursue proof each out and in of a lab.
Mac Taylor (Performed By Gary Sinese)
CSI: New York
Mac Taylor is the supervisor for the principle CSI workforce highlighted within the New York spinoff sequence. Whereas the primary two sequence made a degree of how science-leaning the workforce leaders have been, New York is totally different.
Mac truly appears much less suited to work in a lab and way more suited to the interrogations and witness assertion classes that the police detective accountable for the circumstances could be dealing with. Consequently, he looks as if he’s in a superb place as a supervisor, however not essentially somebody who can do the entire detailed work.
That being mentioned, he runs his workforce like a good ship. He is aware of which elements of the investigation every member of his workforce is best-suited for, and Mac makes certain that CSI: New York doesn’t see any main proof errors.
Mac is meticulous and somebody who can see the massive image whereas everybody else is trying on the smaller elements of it.
Raven Ramirez (Performed By Hayley Kiyoko)
CSI: Cyber
CSI: Cyber is the anomaly within the franchise in that the work isn’t completed with a neighborhood police division. As a substitute, the work is completed as a part of the FBI. Laptop forensics can also be very totally different from bodily forensic investigation, however that doesn’t imply there usually are not expert investigators on the workforce.
Haley Kiyoko plates Raven Ramirez, one of many youngest members of the workforce. She is a former hacker who begins utilizing her expertise to catch those that put different individuals at risk.
She additionally turns into an professional in cyber traits, social media investigations, and turns into the worldwide relations consultant for the workforce. Raven wears plenty of hats within the short-lived chapter of the CSI franchise, and no side of her work ever suffers for it.
Raven makes coming via the large web of social media and on-line traits look straightforward all whereas she makes use of the very issues we take as a right to convey down criminals.
Sara Sidle (Jorja Fox)
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Vegas
Sara is without doubt one of the rookie investigators when the unique CSI sequence premieres, in comparison with the remainder of the workforce. She is initially very scientific in her strategy to coping with forensic proof, however progressively reveals extra empathy and understanding for these affected by the entire proof she gathers.
Sara reveals a number of the most development throughout her preliminary time within the franchise. She has an amazing understanding of many various types of forensics work and is detail-oriented in a approach that’s nearly unbelievable.
Regardless of being so good at her job, Sara by no means has one particular space through which she excels. She does, nevertheless, know when to step away from the work that may develop into an excessive amount of. She leaves the sector for a time to give attention to her life outdoors of her profession earlier than finally returning to work in forensics.
Sara additionally seems as a recurring character within the CSI: Vegas revival sequence, nonetheless working within the area over a decade later.
Stella Bonasera (Performed By Melina Kanakaredes)
CSI: New York
Stella isn’t the supervisor in CSI: New York, however she is Mac’s proper hand. She is, additionally, nevertheless, a greater investigator than Mac is.
Stella is the one who appears to excel when investigations result in puzzles. In a single episode, she even reassembles shards of glass to get an entire image of what the glass was and the way it pertains to the homicide at hand.
Stella is ready to stability the precise science of the forensics with the extra boots on the bottom investigative work. She is equally adept within the lab and on the road with Detective Flack (Eddie Cahill).
Stella finally leaves CSI: New York, however when the character is written out of the present, it’s to not abandon a lifetime of crime-solving. As a substitute, she will get a proposal to go her personal forensic lab in one other state. Followers wished that may have meant her own CSI spinoff series.
Calleigh Duquesne (Performed By Emily Procter)
CSI: Miami
Calleigh Duquesne is an enchanting character, juxtaposing the put-together Southern belle with somebody who has no downside placing her heels within the mud to dig out bullet fragments within the swamp.
Whereas Horatio Caine is accountable for the CSI: Miami workforce, Callie turns into the day shift supervisor throughout her time on the present. She additionally has an important space of experience in a present like CSI: Miami, the place so lots of the circumstances within the sequence contain shootings.
Callie is a ballistics professional. There is no such thing as a firearm she isn’t conversant in, keen to take aside, and keen to check at a taking pictures vary. Although that may be a very area of interest a part of forensics work, Callie can also be adept at practically some other side of dissecting proof as nicely.
Eric Delko (Performed By Adam Rodriguez)
CSI: Miami
Lengthy earlier than Adam Rodriguez was an FBI profiler on Legal Minds, he was a forensics investigator on CSI: Miami. He was additionally the workforce’s renaissance man.
Eric Delko by no means met a sample comparability he was not fascinated about. If the workforce wanted somebody to look at tire treads, determine drug compounds, or take a look at fingerprints, Delko was their man. He may additionally discover a wide range of artistic methods to retrieve fingerprints from surfaces different investigators might need thought they may not.
The CSI: Miami workforce locations a heavy emphasis on the significance of science as nicely. Lots of the workforce members have levels in chemistry, together with Delko.
The draw back to Delko’s work is that he’s a little bit of a scorching head, and his feelings can typically get in the way in which of him doing his investigative work.
Raymond Langston (Performed By Laurence Fishburne)
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Raymond Langston is exclusive among the many CSI investigators throughout the franchise as a result of he doesn’t begin out in that line of labor – or in legislation enforcement. As a substitute, he begins out as a medical physician.
Langston is an achieved physician who focuses on forensic pathology. He’s additionally a printed writer. His profession, lengthy earlier than he turns into a forensic investigator, offers him a singular perspective on circumstances.
Whereas that perspective is useful when coping with the physique, Langston is not a medical examiner. Which means extra of his work goes to be with bodily proof. His work within the medical area has given him the attention for element {that a} forensic investigator wants, however he doesn’t have the identical form of expertise.
Which means Langston narrowly misses out on being one of many high three investigators within the CSI franchise.
Gil Grissom (William Petersen)
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Vegas
Gil Grissom is the very first supervising investigator within the CSI franchise. Consequently, he’s a fan-favorite and may be very memorable. Lengthy after he left the unique sequence, followers longed for him to return again, and he did in a number of visitor appearances, together with within the revival sequence.
Grissom is the most effective within the authentic sequence in relation to combining the science of the forensics with the detective work, very similar to Stella in CSI: New York. Grissom doesn’t initially have the identical degree of empathy as Stella, however he turns into higher capable of join with individuals over the course of the sequence.
That capacity begins to help him in his investigations. Additionally aiding him is the truth that he has a Biology diploma, an curiosity in a seemingly encyclopedic degree of topics, and has studied beneath a criminologist.
Grissom has the tutorial market of forensics really cornered.
Catherine Willows (Marg Helgenberger)
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Vegas
Like Sara and Grissom, Catherine Willows additionally returned for the CSI revival sequence. She outranks them each as an investigator as a result of she didn’t go the tutorial route when it got here to forensics work, however a sensible one.
Catherine started her profession in Las Vegas as an unique dancer and fell in with a foul crowd, however she turned her life round and targeted on a profession that allowed her to assist individuals. Catherine additionally discovered an attention-grabbing space of examine inside her forensics work – blood splatter. Catherine turned her workforce’s professional on it.
Catherine additionally began her profession as a forensic investigator within the Eighties, making her one of many longest-running investigators within the franchise since she continues to be energetic within the area and as a supervisor within the 2020s.
Catherine has no downside navigating a lab, working each inch of a criminal offense scene, or speaking to witnesses herself. She is the whole forensic investigator bundle.
Horatio Caine (David Caruso)
CSI: Miami
Horatio Caine narrowly edges out Catherine Willows and Gil Grissom as the most effective investigator within the CSI franchise. He appears to mix features of each of their talent units.
Horatio is the workforce chief of the CSI: Miami investigators. Like a lot of his workforce members, he additionally has a level in chemistry. That diploma turns out to be useful since he additionally occurs to be an professional in explosives.
That’s a harmful area to work in, and it’s not one which comes up typically within the sequence. That works within the present’s favor, nevertheless, as a result of he is ready to put the entire totally different items of the puzzle his workforce brings to him collectively to typically resolve the case.
Horatio additionally spends extra time speaking with each detectives and witnesses in comparison with different forensic investigators. His glorious communication expertise in English, Spanish, and French imply that he’s typically capable of learn between the traces of what a witness is hiding and get the reality out of them.
Horatio Caine’s one-liners, dramatic supply, and iconic sun shades are simply bonuses that endear him to the viewers of the CSI franchise.
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