The BEST episodes of CSI: NY
Every episode of CSI: NY ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of CSI: NY!
The third edition of the "CSI" franchise sets up shop in the Big Apple, where taciturn Detective Mac Taylor (Gary Sinise) and his partner, Detective Stella Bonasera (Melina Kanakaredes), lead a crime-solving team. Like his counterparts in Las Vegas and Miami, Taylor knows that people may lie, but the evidence rarely does.
#1 - The Real McCoy
Season 9 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/7/2012
The CSIs investigate a 1920s-inspired speakeasy when one of its owners is murdered and $10,000 goes missing. Meanwhile, Adam spends his day off in an unexpected way.
#2 - Flash Pop
Season 8 - Episode 14 - Aired 3/30/2012
Mac and the team are deeply affected as they must investigate the murder of one of their lab techs who found murdered on the stairs of a vacant brownstone. The building was the scene of an unsolved murder of a famous socialite in 1957 and the scene was staged so that everything matches the previous case. Also, Mac's relationship with Christine continues to grow as he joins her for a family party
#3 - Dead Inside
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/12/2008
The team investigates the brutal murder of a house relocator who was found dead inside a Victorian house that he was about to move from Staten Island to The Upper East Side.
#4 - Pay Up
Season 5 - Episode 25 - Aired 5/14/2009
When transferring Robert Dunbrook's son from prison to court, the NYPD is ambushed by a group of professional kidnappers who kill a member of the team and one of the CSI's lives hangs in the balance.
#5 - Prey
Season 5 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/8/2009
While investigating the shooting of a voice coach in an empty theater, Stella realizes that the crime scene is oddly familiar and staged.
#6 - Exit Strategy
Season 7 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/13/2011
Mac tries to find a little girl missing since 2002 who saw the murders that took place at the time of a burglary.
#7 - Crossroads
Season 8 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/18/2011
As the CSIs investigate the assassination of a judge, Jo comes face to face with a criminal from her past.
#8 - Means to an End
Season 8 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/2/2011
When an important witness turns up dead, Det. Jo Danville is caught up in the dangerous investigation of the suspected rapist who was freed on her and her colleague's Frank Water's watch in D.C.
#9 - Crushed
Season 8 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/11/2011
A video of a high school party causes the team to wonder if too much weight on a porch caused the death of a girl. Jo has to deal with her former partner bringing memories of her last F.B.I. case.
#10 - She's Not There
Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/11/2009
A Russian tourist is found stabbed to death and the CSIs come face to face with the frightening realities of human trafficking. Solving this case becomes personal when it directly affects a prominent member of the NYPD
#11 - My Name is Mac Taylor
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/19/2008
In the one hundredth episode of CSI: NY Mac faces his most deadly foe yet. There is a serial killer loose in New York City killing people with the name Mac Taylor making Mac a target.
#12 - Down the Rabbit Hole
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/24/2007
The latest murder case takes Detective Taylor to a whole new world and he must figure out why Cheryl Duncan looks so life-like. They also discover something shocking about the murderer while online.
#13 - Help
Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/14/2009
Young brides-to-be fight over a killer dress at the biggest wedding gown sale of the year and one of the shoppers winds up dead. The unusual clues of this case force Dr. Hawkes to confront a painful chapter from his past.
#14 - Hostage (1)
Season 4 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/21/2008
When a man takes hostages during a failed attempt to rob a bank, Mac offers himself in exchange for a hostage. Only condition is that he must prove that the bank robber did not kill the bank manager, whose body is found lying in a pool of blood in the vault. On the outside of the bank, the rest of the team works to process the evidence that Mac finds and stop the SWAT team from making matters worse.
#15 - 2,918 Miles
Season 9 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/12/2012
The CSIs race to San Francisco in search of a 16-year-old girl who may already be dead, and the case hits home for Jo.
#16 - Officer Involved
Season 8 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/14/2011
A night out for a friendly drink takes an unexpected turn when Danny and his rookie cops are caught up in a shooting.
#17 - Misconceptions
Season 9 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/26/2012
Mac investigates a 20-year-old case involving a missing boy when the prime suspect is found murdered on the anniversary of the boy’s disappearance. Meanwhile, Flack’s day off helps him deal with some lingering family issues.
#18 - Hammer Down (II)
Season 6 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/11/2009
(Crossover episode with CSI: Miami, Season 8 Episode 7 and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Season 10 Episode 7.) Which presumably seemed to be a traffic accident, turns out leading to homicide and illegal organ harvesting. The chase of those involved in the slaughter chain makes all three NY, Vegas and Miami CSI teams put their efforts together to put an end to the crimes. Hawkes, in particular, is very upset about the case.
#19 - Who's There?
Season 8 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/13/2012
A home invasion investigation becomes more complicated when the victim's family turns out to be less perfect than they originally seem.
#20 - Cavallino Rampante
Season 8 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/7/2011
When the body of a beautiful young woman is found in a stolen Ferrari, the investigation leads to a family of car thieves, but the CSIs must find the murderer before the rest of the family meets the same fate.
#21 - Keep It Real
Season 8 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/30/2011
When an awkward teen is found dead, the team discovers that his efforts to win a sexy punk rock chick's heart may have gone a step too far.
#22 - Dead Reckoning
Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/14/2009
Incriminating DNA evidence contradicts the confession of a scorned woman claiming to have brutally murdered her cheating husband.
#23 - Clue: SI
Season 9 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/9/2012
When a psychiatrist’s patients are being systematically murdered, the CSIs are forced to play along in a game of CLUE in order to catch the killer.
#24 - Unwrapped
Season 8 - Episode 17 - Aired 5/4/2012
The CSIs are called to a Brooklyn housing project to investigate the murder of a successful businessman who still felt the pull of his old neighborhood.
#25 - Blacklist
Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/30/2009
The case of a cyber killer, who appears to be targeting medical healthcare workers, turns personal when the suspect invokes the name of Mac's father who had died nearly two decades earlier.