More deliciously bizarre situations for the problem-solving sleuths: cannibalism, snuff movies, dwarfs, death while drag racing, bodies falling from the sky, and various dismemberments all tax the team's acumen.
These are all double or multiple-case episodes, though in a characteristic trick of the writing sometimes apparently unrelated murders turn out to be connected.
Grissom has a degenerative hearing disorder that begins to affect his work and has another encounter with Lady Heather. Warwick struggles with the murder of a young girl, the daughter of a mentor from his old neighborhood.