The BEST episodes of CSI: NY season 3

Every episode of CSI: NY season 3, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of CSI: NY season 3!

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.

Last Updated: 8/25/2024Network: CBSStatus: Ended
Sleight Out of Hand
star
7.55
311 votes

#1 - Sleight Out of Hand

Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/28/2007

Illusionist Luke Blade may have to defend the art of magic after an illusion is thought to have killed two women. Back in Montana Lindsay will need to take herself back to the time when she was fourteen to help her remember the crime that killed four friends in order to help convict of the person that killed them.

Directors: Rob Bailey
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Murder Sings The Blues
star
7.54
157 votes

#2 - Murder Sings The Blues

Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/1/2006

A young woman dies after she starts bleeding from the eyes, nose, and mouth while at a party aboard a subway train. Mac originally believes she is the victim of a biological attack. Later, it is revealed that Sheldon knew the victim. Across town, a wealthy playboy is found dead in an indoor lap pool in his penthouse suite. The investigation reveals that he was murdered and his last maid was fired two days earlier.

Directors: Oz Scott
Writer: Sam Humphrey
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Snow Day
star
7.49
334 votes

#3 - Snow Day

Season 3 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/16/2007

After Flack makes an enormous drug bust, and locks it up at CSI, the drug lords infiltrate the building at gunpoint to get them back. Now the team must resolve the hostage situations, all the while with Mac, Stella, and Hawkes trapped inside.

Directors: Duane Clark
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Oedipus Hex
star
7.47
293 votes

#4 - Oedipus Hex

Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/18/2006

The CSI's handle to puzzling cases; Carensa is a young Suicide Girl who at 17, wanted a change of scenery and to become a Suicide girl, at 18 she gets her wish only to lose her life. Chopper, a rising street basketball star, a homeless man trying to change his life for the better is killed and leaves a painful trail of blood which leaves Mac to figure out where and how he died.

Directors: Scott Lautanen
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Not What It Looks Like
star
7.43
277 votes

#5 - Not What It Looks Like

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/27/2006

Three women who are dressed as Holly Golightly rob a jewelry store and injure other shoppers in the process. The CSI’s must work through the confusing investigation to hunt them down. Meanwhile Mac has to identify a mummified body discovered in an apartment building that was being torn down.

Directors: Duane Clark
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Love Run Cold
star
7.41
193 votes

#6 - Love Run Cold

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/4/2006

Danny and Lindsay examine the murder of an ice princess at a vodka release party while Mac, Stella, and Don examine the death of a runner at a Marathon in Central Park. Both crimes have interesting problems the teams must overcome to find out how they both happened.

Directors: Tim Iacofano
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Raising Shane
star
7.41
340 votes

#7 - Raising Shane

Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/29/2006

After a bartender is murdered The CSI team must prove that Hawkes did not commit the murder. That only becomes more difficult when the team is pulled off the investigation.

Directors: Christine Moore
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Cold Reveal
star
7.41
368 votes

#8 - Cold Reveal

Season 3 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/2/2007

Mac believes he can fight the internal affairs investigation that is about to be started against him because of what happened to Clay Dobson. Can Mac explain what happened to the suspect he was chasing and will it be good enough for him to keep his job? Also Stella could lose her job as a CSI after a cold case is somehow connected to her.

Directors: Adam Marshall
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Consequences
star
7.40
293 votes

#9 - Consequences

Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/8/2006

The next case for the CSI’s gets even tougher when a paintball player turns out to be the prime suspect and later goes missing the team also has another problem the evidence that should point to the prime suspect points to someone else.

Directors: Rob Bailey
Writer: Pam Veasey
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Some Buried Bones
star
7.39
388 votes

#10 - Some Buried Bones

Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/7/2007

Reed Garret gives Mac some interesting information regarding the death of a college student. Also the rest of the team will need to be a step ahead of Ava Brandt to figure out why a security guard was murdered.

Directors: Rob Bailey
Writer: Noah Nelson
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Open and Shut
star
7.39
264 votes

#11 - Open and Shut

Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/25/2006

The CSIs are investigating the murder of a hotel concierge, but while doing this they hear gun shots fired across the street and find a woman clutching a gun over two dead bodies.

Directors: Joe Ann Fogle
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Heart of Glass
star
7.35
343 votes

#12 - Heart of Glass

Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/14/2007

Mac may have a difficult time solving the murder of a music mogul the sister cleverly uses a lie detector test to cover up the crime. Stella wonders if she has HIV due to an accident.

Directors: David Jackson
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Silent Night
star
7.32
341 votes

#13 - Silent Night

Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/13/2006

The CSI team has a problem after learning the family is deaf: now they have to find a new way to catch the killer. Meanwhile, more information is given on Lindsey's horrifying past and what led her to become a CSI.

Directors: Rob Bailey
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And Here's To You, Mrs. Azrael
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7.32
239 votes

#14 - And Here's To You, Mrs. Azrael

Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/15/2006

The next case takes us back to Dr. Sheldon Hawks' past and the reasons he chose to change jobs in the medical profession. The CSI team may find it extremely difficult to find out who committed the murder of the 19-year-old woman who recently started recovering from an accident.

Directors: David Von Ancken
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Comes Around
star
7.31
305 votes

#15 - Comes Around

Season 3 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/9/2007

Can the team clear a tennis legend of murder? Also Mac believes that the continuing investigation into what happened with Clay Dobson is nothing but media pressure. Can friends and colleagues help save Mac Taylor’s career before it’s too late?

Directors: Rob Bailey
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Sweet Sixteen
star
7.31
267 votes

#16 - Sweet Sixteen

Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/22/2006

The team is lead to a crime scene imvolving a parachute jumper in the middle of the city, whos parachute aparently failed. And one CSI is injured when a snake is found at a crime scene

Directors: David Jackson
Writer: Ken Solarz
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Hung Out To Dry
star
7.30
301 votes

#17 - Hung Out To Dry

Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/11/2006

The body of a beheaded woman found in a fraternity house is a mystery to the CSIs. Now they must sort through twisted clues and crime scene after crime scene to find the killer that has them trapped in his own little game.

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Past Imperfect
star
7.26
338 votes

#18 - Past Imperfect

Season 3 - Episode 21 - Aired 4/25/2007

Trouble begins for Mac when Clay Dobson becomes a free man due to a mistake he made. Stella learns the results of her HIV test from Adam.

Directors: Oz Scott
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What Schemes May Come
star
7.21
360 votes

#19 - What Schemes May Come

Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/11/2007

The team finds itself investigating the murders of three different people, only to discover that two of the murder victims are linked and may have been killed by the same person. One of these cases becomes personal for Mac.

Directors: Christine Moore
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The Lying Game
star
7.16
370 votes

#20 - The Lying Game

Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/24/2007

Can knowing a secret be a motive for murder? The CSI team must figure out if a change in gender is cause for the death of a showgirl. Also Lindsay goes back to Montana to try to put the person who committed the murder of four friends behind bars.

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Obsession
star
7.16
360 votes

#21 - Obsession

Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/17/2007

The team must find out if one team’s fun led to murder in the New York version of the Iditarod.The CSI must find who or what may have caused a rich man to be alone in his apartment.

Directors: Jeffrey G. Hunt
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People With Money
star
7.15
392 votes

#22 - People With Money

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/20/2006

The body of a man is discovered on the Brooklyn Bridge, and the only evidence is a huge marriage proposal in lights. The CSI team works through the investigation as they learn to deal with a new medical examiner.

Directors: Rob Bailey
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A Daze Of Wine And Roaches
star
7.11
354 votes

#23 - A Daze Of Wine And Roaches

Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/21/2007

At a French Revolution themed fundraiser at the UN, specifically at the French consulate, Mac, Stella and Hawkes find themselves hurdling diplomatic road blocks investigating two murders. Meanwhile, Danny and Lindsay reunite on a “blinged” out cockroach that lead to murder.

Directors: Oz Scott
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The Ride In
star
7.09
337 votes

#24 - The Ride In

Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/21/2007

Danny and Mac have to go to Noah’s Ark to find out if a broken promise leads to his murder. Stella and Sheldon investigate the death of a man dressed as a cigarette. Stella hopes to keep her job after not telling Mac that she may be HIV-positive right away.

Directors: Steven DePaul
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