The BEST episodes of CSI: NY season 4

Every episode of CSI: NY season 4, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of CSI: NY season 4!

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: 3/4/2024Network: CBSStatus: Ended
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Down the Rabbit Hole
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7.61
380 votes

#1 - 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.

Directors: Christine Moore
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Hostage
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7.61
494 votes

#2 - Hostage

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.

Directors: Rob Bailey
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Right Next Door
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7.54
408 votes

#3 - Right Next Door

Season 4 - Episode 16 - Aired 4/9/2008

Stella's life is in danger after her apartment is on fire; she must try to save everyone in the building. The team also has a mystery to solve after finding a dead body in Stella's apartment building.

Directors: Rob Bailey
Writer: Pam Veasey
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You Only Die Once
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7.51
452 votes

#4 - You Only Die Once

Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/10/2007

After a series of heists in the city (one including Det. Chief Sinclair's house) one of the "super spies" involved is robbed of his life. The team works to solve the robberies and the murder, as both are obviously connected.

Writer: Sam Humphrey
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Admissions
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7.48
367 votes

#5 - Admissions

Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/30/2008

When a guidance counselor is murdered at a private school, the mayor orders Mac and his team to drop everything to find out what happened. Mac is frustrated because he can't devote the man hours or the personnel to finding the "Taxi Cab Killer".

Directors: Rob Bailey
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Like Water for Murder
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7.44
415 votes

#6 - Like Water for Murder

Season 4 - Episode 17 - Aired 4/16/2008

The team must figure out how a young woman and a shark end up dead on the beach at the same time. This case gets even more interesting when a second body washes up on the beach. Quinn Shelby observes the team at work to determine if the lab should get their annual accreditation.

Writer: Sam Humphrey
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Buzzkill
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7.38
286 votes

#7 - Buzzkill

Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/14/2007

New York City has everything: Times Square, billboards, parties, and a dead model in a giant martini glass. Now the team must find a party crasher who crashed one party too many.

Directors: Jeffrey G. Hunt
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Boo
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7.37
375 votes

#8 - Boo

Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/31/2007

The CSI team goes to a haunted house to solve more than just the latest case. Before they can solve the crime Lindsay is told something will happen to her if she doesn't leave soon.

Directors: Joe Dante
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Personal Foul
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7.31
467 votes

#9 - Personal Foul

Season 4 - Episode 19 - Aired 5/7/2008

As the search for the taxi cab killer continues riding a cab gets very deadly. The team must figure out how to keep New York City safe. Also Danny, Lindsey, and Flack investigate the murder of a man who made a half court shot during a game that both Danny and Flack were attending.

Directors: David Von Ancken
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DOA for a Day
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7.30
338 votes

#10 - DOA for a Day

Season 4 - Episode 15 - Aired 4/2/2008

After the CSI's receive an anonymous tip they're led to an old warehouse hoping to catch one of New York's most-wanted criminals.

Directors: Christine Moore
Watch Now:Apple TV
Commuted Sentences
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7.27
422 votes

#11 - Commuted Sentences

Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/7/2007

The team has two cases tonight and two great tourist locations: Madison Square Park where a man is stabbed to death, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where a woman is shot dead on the steps. What is even more perplexing about these cases is that the team soon realizes that these two victims hold something criminal in common.

Directors: Oz Scott
Writer: John Dove
Watch Now:Apple TV
Time's Up
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7.26
374 votes

#12 - Time's Up

Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/17/2007

Is it possible to solve a murder 24 hours before it happens? Mac wonders if the suspect traveled through time to know about the murder in advance.

Directors: Rob Bailey
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All in the Family
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7.25
421 votes

#13 - All in the Family

Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/23/2008

In this episode Mac and his team must figure out how a woman's death and a judge's murder are connected. Danny has trouble dealing with Ruben Sandoval's death.

Directors: Rob Bailey
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Playing with Matches
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7.22
398 votes

#14 - Playing with Matches

Season 4 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/6/2008

The team must figure out how a self-cleaning restroom leads to a drowning. The team also investigates the death of a man who was set on fire and flew into a fire truck.

Directors: Christine Moore
Writer: Bill Haynes
Watch Now:Apple TV
Happily Never After
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7.17
383 votes

#15 - Happily Never After

Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/9/2008

Mac and the team feel they're headed back to Kansas when they find the victim's body with red shoes on her feet crushed to death under an unusual object. The team learns about pop up parties after finding a body.

Directors: Marshall Adams
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One Wedding and a Funeral
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7.15
402 votes

#16 - One Wedding and a Funeral

Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/21/2007

What would otherwise be a happy wedding goes sour when the groom... turns up dead: inside a wedding present. After Stella finds bloody puzzle pieces inside a box on her car, Mac heads home to Chicago to solve what could be the murkiest mystery of his life.

Directors: Rob Bailey
Watch Now:Apple TV
Can You Hear Me Now?
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7.14
400 votes

#17 - Can You Hear Me Now?

Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/26/2007

As the fourth season begins the team find themselves investigating something that isn't usually on the Statue of Liberty. Can a musician's life be saved before time runs out?

Directors: David Von Ancken
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The Thing About Heroes...
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7.12
400 votes

#18 - The Thing About Heroes...

Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/28/2007

While in Chicago Mac uncovers more clues about his stalker and reveals his troubled past. Meanwhile, in New York the rest of the team is in danger. The hunt is on to figure out the identity of the 333 stalker before time runs out.

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Child's Play
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7.08
441 votes

#19 - Child's Play

Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/12/2007

Danny is devastated when a young boy he knows is killed in the midst of a bodega robbery. Meanwhile, Lindsay, Stella and Flack investigate the death of a man killed by an exploding cigar that is connected to a joke shop proprietor and another tragedy that occurred years before.

Directors: Jeffrey G. Hunt
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Taxi
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7.03
446 votes

#20 - Taxi

Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/14/2008

Mac and his team finally believe they have captured the taxi cab killer but there is one problem - he is found dead. Mac must figure out how to keep the streets of New York City safe while continuing to track the elusive taxicab killer

Directors: Christine Moore
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The Deep
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6.78
420 votes

#21 - The Deep

Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/3/2007

Sheldon Hawkes goes under water to gather clues but could be in danger when he can't come up for air. Mac learns of something else under water.

Directors: Oz Scott
Watch Now:Apple TV