Episode Title: "The Book of Shadows" Episode Number: 1504 Synopsis: "The CSI team suspects foul play when a chemistry teacher's science experiment goes horribly wrong." Original Airdate: October 19, 2014 Written By: Gavin Harris Directed By: Brad Tanenbaum Guest Stars: Larry Mitchell (Officer Mitchell) Nathan Gamble (Mason Brewer) Mark Chadwick (Chet Messner) Annabella Avery Thorne (Hannah Hunt) Alimi Ballard (Det. Kevin Crawford) Myndy Crist (Rebecca Brewer / Witch) Marissa Jaret Winokur (Principal Dawn Meadows) Taylor John Smith (Rob "Turk" Turkla) Skipp Sudduth (Ed Lusk)
Being Pagan myself, I found many parts of this episode to be VERY offensive, but also VERY predictable. DB's take on the Wiccan aspects of the case and his calming of the other CSI's was appreciated though. At least there was ONE voice of semi-reason in the episode.
It started off as a potentially reasonable case at a school, but very quickly turned into a 'halloween special' (and a poor one at that). Shame, because the direction and special effects were good, but the rest was more or less riduculous.