It’s about detectives Sabrina Bailey and Leah Woodsen who fight crime with Katrina and the rest of the CSI team. Most of the mysteries were unrelated adventures that took a few episodes to solve. However, the conclusion of the series told one large, consecutive story and the mystery took much longer to solve.
The show began on June 22nd of 2008 and concluded on September 25th of 2010. It had two seasons and 23 total episodes.
You can watch season one here
and season two here.
Tropes:
- Big Bad:
- Heather is this for the season one finale.
- Nick is this for season two.
- Big Damn Heroes: The season finale has the rest of the CSI team come in and saving Katrina and Bailey from Heather and her goons.
- The Butler Did It: The person behind Crystal’s, and all the other missing children disappearances? The coffee shop guy.
- Call-Back: Heather says that the shot Woodsen referencing will be worse than a shot to the leg, her injury she only just recovered from.
- Cliffhanger:
- The first episode ends with Lucy exclaiming the unidentified body is her sister.
- Episode two has the Power Trio being sure they’ve caught their killer...then another member comes in exclaiming them to wait.
- Parodied in episode seven. The coffee shop guy sneaks up on the CSI team with an armed gun... then it says to wait for the next episode of CSI: LPS before going “haha, jk” and continuing on with the episode.
- Episode eleven ends with London’s heart monitor slowly beeping out.
- Episode fifteen stops right before Woodsen shows Bailey what’s on the flash drive.
- Episode seventeen ends with Heather telling Bailey that Woodsen is going to be shot, and it’s going to be worse than a shot in the leg.
- The season finale announces that Katrina is “gone.” What seems like a case of Never Say "Die" is important later on.
- The end of episode 19 shows that Katrina is alive and being held hostage by a sociopath planning to murder her.
- Episode 22 ends with Katrina being shot.
- Continuity Nod:
- In episode 14, Katrina claims the fur sample is of a black schnauzer. Bailey jokingly asks if Fred escaped from jail.
- The people at Katrina’s make believe funeral consist of people they helped in cases. This includes the mother of the missing daughter, London’s parents, and the woman whose money got stolen.
- Cop Show: The series is about them fighting crime as the CSI team.
- Despair Event Horizon:
- After losing leads in finding Crystal, Bailey starts becoming stressed and losing sleep in frustration.
- A similar case happens in episode 21 with Katrina. Not only does Bailey become stressed and lose sleep, but she loses her appetite and fights with Woodsen.
- Disney Death: Bailey is pronounced dead by the doctors. When her daughter goes to say her last goodbyes to her, she wakes up.
- Disney Villain Death: Nick falls off a roof to his death, and we see his body turn to bones to prove it.
- Deus ex Machina: The end of the series has Bailey be brought back to life by her daughter begging her to wake up.
- Dumb Blonde: When a bank is being robbed, a blonde thinks a gun is a hair dryer.
- Downer Ending:
- Episode eleven ends with Paris dying. Keep in mind she was a teenage girl and her parents and pet are right there.
- Episode sixteen has Bailey and Katrina covered in blood, one incredibly weak, with no hope of getting out. And to top it all off, Heather says Woodsen will die.
- Subverted in the season finale. A nurse calls Bailey and says that Katrina is “gone”. Then we learn that Katrina was literally gone; as in she disappeared. Granted, that’s not good, but at least there’s hope she’s alive.
- Episode nineteen and twenty end with Katrina being held hostage by a sociopath planning to kill her.
- Episode 21 has Nick kidnap Max as well.
- Episode 22 has Katrina getting shot.
- Up until the last two minutes of the series finale, it seems the ending of the series will be Bailey dying. Then she miraculously comes back to life!
- Foreshadowing:
- Both the driver and Lucy are Siamese cats. This foreshadows that they’re related.
- The coffee shop guy claims someone stole his car. The case the CSI is dealing with in that episode involves a car.
- The fur in relation to the kidnapping case was of a brown dog... what color and breed is the coffee shop cashier again?
- The days the kids disappeared are every seven days. The coffee shop manager says that a certain day of the week is “his day off.”
- Furry Reminder:
- Besides referring to themselves as animals, the characters in the series are indistinguishable from humans...that is until episode twenty where a dog claims he enjoys the taste of blood. He then reveals in the world of CSI: LPS, the animals apparently used to be feral, as he claims his craving for blood goes back to when dogs used to eat their prey raw.
- In episode 21, Bailey, a cat, is eating fish.
- Good Parents: The love Bailey and her daughter share for one another is strong enough to bring back the dead.
- Howl of Sorrow: When Bailey is hallucinating Katrina’s funeral, Max howls during the ceremony.
- Improbably Female Cast: The entire CSI team is female.
- Last-Name Basis: Bailey and Woodsen are never called by their first names Sabrina and Leah.
- Later-Installment Weirdness:
- The season one finale and season two were all the same story, unlike majority of season one.
- The series finale was on a different channel and was much higher quality than the rest of the series.
- Woodsen goes from a brown cat to a white cat in season two.
- Never Found the Body: Nick’s body rots at the bottom of the cliff and is never recovered.
- No One Could Survive That!: Woodsen almost says this word for word when talking about how Nick fell of a cliff.
- Pun: The theme song has celebrity names with animal puns in them.
- Red Herring: Paris Hamilton is the stabbing case.
- Ridiculously Cute Critter: Max is so cute, the CSI team decided to adopt him after London’s death.
- Same-Sex Triplets: The first case involves a group of these. Unlike most versions of this trope, they’re all fraternal.
- Signing Off Catchphrase: After a case is solved, Bailey says “This case is closed.”
- Strong Family Resemblance: Katrina and her cousin look so much alike, all they have to do is claim they got contacts and dyed their fur to be unmistakable.
- Spoiled Brat: Paris Hamilton is a selfish teenage superstar who treats her staff like dirt. When London gets stabbed, her biggest concern is getting on her tour bus in time.
- Time-Passes Montage:
- After they lose leads in finding Crystal, time passes of them in despair and fruitless searching.
- A similar one happens in episode 21, except this time with Katrina. This one is implied to be longer, as we see multiple nights and days pass.
- The final shot of the series is Nick’s body turning to bones.
- This Cannot Be!: This is Nick’s reaction when he realizes Woodsen has trapped him on the roof with a gun.
- Together in Death: Nick tells Woodsen that she’ll be reunited with her friends after he kills her.
- You Have to Believe Me!: London’s dying words are that Paris isn’t the killer.
