- 1X02, Cool Change, original air date on CBS, Oct. 13, 2000. Written by Anthony E. Zuiker, directed by Michael Watkins.

- 1X03, Crate 'N Burial, original air date on CBS, Oct. 20, 2000. Written by Ann Donahue, directed by Danny Cannon.
Note the differences between writers and directors in most cases. This lends weight to our goal of furnishing the producer and director teams with a platform for automatically or semi-automatically assessing quality of product. We will refer to these scripts as CSI-101, CSI-102 and CSI-103. All film scripts were obtained from TWIZ TV (Free TV Scripts & Movie Screenplays Archives),
http://twiztv.com From series 3, we took another three scripts.

- 3X21, Forever, original air date on CBS, May 1, 2003. Written by Sara Goldfinger, directed by David Grossman.

- 3X22, Play With Fire, original air date on CBS, May 8, 2003. Written by Naren Shankar and Andrew Lipsitz, directed by Kenneth Fink.

- 3X23, Inside The Box, original air date on CBS, May 15, 2003. Written by Carol Mendelsohn and Anthony E. Zuiker, directed by Danny Cannon.
We will refer to these as CSI-321, CSI-322 and CSI-323.

An example of a very short scene, scene 25 from CSI-101, follows.

[INT. CSI - EVIDENCE ROOM -- NIGHT] (WARRICK opens the evidence package and takes out the shoe.)
(He sits down and examines the shoe. After several dissolves, WARRICK
opens the lip of the shoe and looks inside. He finds something.) WARRICK BROWN: Well, I'll be damned. (He tips the shoe over and a piece of toe nail falls out onto the table. He picks it up.) WARRICK BROWN: Tripped over a rattle, my ass.

We see here scene metadata, characters, dialog, and action information, all of which we use. Frontpiece, preliminary or preceding storyline information, and credits were ignored by us. We took the labeled scenes. The number of scenes in each movie, and the number of unique, 2-characters or more, words used in the movie, are listed in Table 1. All punctuation was ignored. All upper case was converted to lower case. Otherwise there was no pruning of stopwords.

The top words and their frequencies of occurrence were: