The BEST episodes of CSI: NY season 6

Every episode of CSI: NY season 6, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of CSI: NY season 6!

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.

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Dead Reckoning
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7.58
801 votes

#1 - 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.

Directors: Scott White
Writer: John Dove
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Hammer Down (II)
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7.58
846 votes

#2 - 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.

Directors: Scott Lautanen
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Blacklist
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7.53
728 votes

#3 - Blacklist

Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/30/2009

(Featuring Grave Digger) 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.

Directors: Duane Clark
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Cuckoo's Nest
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7.51
775 votes

#4 - Cuckoo's Nest

Season 6 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/18/2009

The Compass Killer is back, and adds yet another to his circle of victims -- but this time the CSI squad knows his name; Flack's alcoholism threatens to derail his career...

Directors: Jeffrey G. Hunt
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Death House
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7.46
784 votes

#5 - Death House

Season 6 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/9/2009

A frantic 911 call sends the CSIs into a vacant penthouse; however, instead of finding the caller, they unearth a nearly 100-year-old corpse and find themselves navigating their way through a booby-trapped house.

Directors: Norberto Barba
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Manhattenhenge
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7.44
777 votes

#6 - Manhattenhenge

Season 6 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/25/2009

In the culmination of a multi-episode mystery, Mac and his team uncover the dark lair of a murderous madman, the Compass Killer. But as they race to save his fourth victim, the sunrise presents one final surprise that no one ever expected.

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Second Chances
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7.44
744 votes

#7 - Second Chances

Season 6 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/16/2009

A reformed drug addict with everything to live for is found dead in an alley. The CSI's discover he was the victim of a premeditated plot.

Directors: Eric Laneuville
Writer: John Dove
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Pot of Gold
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7.43
984 votes

#8 - Pot of Gold

Season 6 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/10/2010

it's St. Patrick's day, and all of New York City is ablaze with a hundred shades of green -- except for an abandoned warehouse in Brooklyn, where two corpses have left a tiny part of the city drenched in red...

Directors: Eriq La Salle
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Criminal Justice
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7.42
824 votes

#9 - Criminal Justice

Season 6 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/13/2010

Mac is shocked when a long-time friend and associate winds up the chief suspect in a murder investigation...

Directors: Christine Moore
Writer: Bill Haynes
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Epilogue
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7.36
808 votes

#10 - Epilogue

Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/2009

Danny and Mac have yet to get any leads on a cop killing when Danny gets an impromptu call from a young woman who claims she's got information about the case...

Directors: David Von Ancken
Writer: Pam Veasey
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Point of View
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7.35
1091 votes

#11 - Point of View

Season 6 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/19/2010

While Mac recuperates at home after being injured, he witnesses a mysterious briefcase exchange that leads to a murder, and unexpectedly brings him in contact with his former girlfriend, Peyton Driscoll.

Directors: Alex Zakrzewski
Writer: Pam Veasey
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Flag on the Play
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7.34
768 votes

#12 - Flag on the Play

Season 6 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/20/2010

When a beautiful star quarterback of the Lingerie Football League is found murdered in the locker room hot tub with traces of lidocaine in her system, the CSIs are called in to find out who wanted her dead.

Directors: Jeffrey G. Hunt
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Lat 40° 47' N/Long 73° 58' W
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7.34
770 votes

#13 - Lat 40° 47' N/Long 73° 58' W

Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/7/2009

When two bodies are discovered at the North and South ends of the city, Mac and the team deftly begin to navigate the trail of evidence left behind by the killer.

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It Happened to Me
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7.33
693 votes

#14 - It Happened to Me

Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/4/2009

Hawkes responds to an emergency call in Central Park, but dismisses the case as just a drunk with a nosebleed, a complete waste of his time. When the man later bleeds out and expires, Hawkes bitterly blames himself and sets out to trace the circumstances of the man's mysterious and untimely death...

Directors: Alex Zakrzewski
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Sanguine Love
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7.33
717 votes

#15 - Sanguine Love

Season 6 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/3/2010

After a young woman is found dead in the Central park snow with a puncture wound in her neck and the blood drained from her body, the CSI team works to find out who stopped her from ever seeing another new moon...

Directors: Norberto Barba
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Uncertainty Rules
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7.26
802 votes

#16 - Uncertainty Rules

Season 6 - Episode 16 - Aired 3/3/2010

The team investigates the particularly gruesome outcome of a 21st birthday where the party plans became all but anything worth celebrating. With just a few and not easy answers as their only lead in the case, the CSis are challenged to stretch their abilities to the limit.

Directors: Jeff T. Thomas
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Unusual Suspects
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7.25
971 votes

#17 - Unusual Suspects

Season 6 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/12/2010

When Mac and Aubrey come across the scene of a 14-year-old boy who has been shot in front of his 12-year-old brother, it takes Mac's drive for justice to another level.

Directors: Marshall Adams
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Tales from the Undercard
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7.24
952 votes

#18 - Tales from the Undercard

Season 6 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/5/2010

When a slab of concrete starts bleeding in midtown, the CSIs' investigation takes them into the underground world of hardcore fighting, where men moonlight as "weekend warriors" for the pleasure of a live viewing audience.

Directors: Skipp Sudduth
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Rest In Peace, Marina Garito
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7.22
1007 votes

#19 - Rest In Peace, Marina Garito

Season 6 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/7/2010

After MARINA GARITO is found dead, an apparent suicide, Stella Bonasera is convinced that the dead woman has been murdered, and she painstakingly assembles a mass of forensic evidence to support her gut instinct...

Writer: Pam Veasey
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Vacation Getaway
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7.16
1138 votes

#20 - Vacation Getaway

Season 6 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/26/2010

The CSIs follow a trail left by Shane Casey and realize that he is targeting Danny, who is vacationing out of town with Lindsay and their daughter, on the sixth season finale of CSI: NY.

Directors: Duane Clark
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Redemptio
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7.15
1086 votes

#21 - Redemptio

Season 6 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/14/2010

A death row inmate's final request brings Dr. Hawkes to a Pennsylvania prison and face-to-face with a tragic incident that he has kept secret for many years, just as a prison riot erupts and traps Hawkes inside.

Directors: Steven DePaul
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Battle Scars
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7.15
765 votes

#22 - Battle Scars

Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/21/2009

A street dancer who wins $10,000 in a dance battle is seemingly robbed and killed in his hotel room while celebrating with his girlfriend, but the money is left untouched...

Directors: Jeff T. Thomas
Writer: Bill Haynes
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The Formula
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7.06
796 votes

#23 - The Formula

Season 6 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/10/2010

The CSIs get immersed in the world of F1 racing to investigate the death of a pilot in the Seraphim Racing Team. Soon they'll discover that speed, adrenaline and sponsors aren't always all that comes into play.

Watch Now:Apple TV