CSI: Case Closed


After 335 episodes, television’s most cutting-edge crime procedural series, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, comes to an end on Sept. 27. For fans of the groundbreaking series, the end of the show’s 15-year run feels bittersweet, but no one has shed more tears than series creator, writer and executive producer Anthony E. Zuiker, who penned the series’ final script. “I was all over the place,” he admits. “I was laughing out loud. I was crying every day. Not necessarily crying because it was over, but just touched, kind of touched by the characters and touched by the moments and hearing the voices again.”

He also shared the surreal moment when he completed the final script. “I remember I typed the words ‘End of Series’ at the end of the second hour’s script. I just kind of stood up, I pressed print and I just left because it was so bizarre and I went down to a deli, sat down, I had a sandwich and like, ‘I can’t believe I just typed the words “End of Series!”’ It was really bizarre. Tons and tons of tears, I’ll tell you that, and tons of laughs.”

Zuiker calls the two-hour finale “a love letter to the fans,” and says, “It’s going to be intense, it’s going to be hilarious, it’s going to shed tears and have brand-new science, a really complex, rich mystery, and just really take you back to some of the old-school stuff and kind of push it forward to the new-school stuff. And leave there, I believe, satisfied with all the time and investment that you’ve had in the franchise if you were a fan. If you’re not a fan, and you come in for the first time, you’ll still have a wild ride too.”