The worst episodes of CSI: Miami
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- 01
CSI Wolfe is a suspect when one of the team's enemies, ASA Josh Avery, is murdered. When the investigation becomes deadly, Samantha Owens ends up having to be rescued. The episode ends with Ryan's discovering that Sam is the one responsible for killing Josh. Also, Calleigh ends up adopting Austin and Patty North.
- 02
The investigation into an explosion at a sugar refinery exposes a shocking secret among the refinery's employees.
- 03
The CSIs investigate when three convicted murderers are released from prison and someone starts killing them one by one.
- 04
Insurance agent Scott Eric Sommer's private plane crashes in the Everglades after his pilot was shot. Only Sommer himself is found alive. His accountant seems to have struggled and jumped out. The firm was under SEC investigation.
- 05
The continuation of last season's story; the team searches for Delko. Meanwhile, there is a flash back to 1997 when H brought the team together.
- 06
The CSI investigates a murder that will lead the team into the world of gigolos.
- 07
The CSIs expose the seedy underbelly of children's beauty pageants when a contestant's mother is murdered. But as one of the girls goes missing, the team makes a shocking discovery.
- 08
When Ryan is kidnapped and tortured by the Russian mob, he is forced to clean up a crime scene and frame a man for murder in order to save the life of a young boy who the Mob have taken prisoner. It is up to Horatio and the team to find their location and save the hostage before time runs out.
- 09
Horatio and the team work to figure out why a seemingly normal family was targeted in a brutal grenade attack in a restaurant. As they dig through the family's and restaurant employees' backgrounds, they find more to the story than meets the eye. Meanwhile, Ryan catches Tara doing something suspicious.
- 10
After Horatio heroically saves Natalia, our CSIs must race against time to find wanted fugitives Jack Toller and Randy North. As the team stages an elaborate trap to lure North from hiding, Toller sells his two remaining engraving plates in exchange for some cash and a young woman he plans on making his next victim. CSIs then capture North and use him to lure out Toller so they can save the girl he plans to kill. But when the setup goes south, and Toller vanishes, the team is forced to reexamine Toller's original case files for any last minute clues to his whereabouts.
- 11
Fishermen find a human torso inside a tiger shark's stomach.
- 12
Horatio, Speedle and Calleigh root through the evidence in the homicide of a strange, unorthodox college professor when they find him tortured and hung onto a tree. Their suspicions are immediately directed towards his thirteen cult-like students. Elsewhere, Delko and Megan investigate a car found in the water with a dead body in the trunk, and immediately suspect an insurance scam.
- 13
During the reality show Marrying Kind, the woman chosen by the Prince Charming to be his wife is murdered. The main suspect is the one who was rejected. Then, the CSIs delve into the scandalous world of TV dating shows. They discover that some of the contestants weren't in the program to find a husband. Also, Horatio tries to protect one of the women from a man who was spying on them by a window.
- 14
The CSIs investigate the case of a man boiled alive in Ron Saris's pool. Julia spirals out of control and one of the team's darkest secrets comes to light.
- 15
Russian mob boss Ivan Sarnoff escapes from prison after being poisoned. Meanwhile, Yelina's undercover role is discovered and Horatio fights to save her; Delko considers helping his criminal father who was involved in Ivan's escape, even though Calleigh pleads with him not to. Story continues in the first episode of season eight.
- 16
A connection involving the murder of a delivery truck driver and a housewife must be solved, on why both of them were murdered on a particular route.
- 17
The CSIs uncover a female victim on the Navarro estate that matches Esteban's MO. Vina Navarro, Esteban's grandmother, comes forward to help solve the case. However, things take a twist when the team also discovers the three-decade-old remains of a male victim, with evidence linking Diego to the murder. Before he can be arrested, Vina shoots Diego in what appears to be self-defense. Later, the team decodes a microchip disguised as a lollipop in Diego's pocket, which leads them to Esteban's murder lair and the evidence needed to put him away for good.
- 18
Two men found dead in the Everglades, with one showing signs of being the victim of a cannibal, may be connected to a Mixed Martial Arts gym run by a shadowy Russian.
- 19
Delko and Calleigh investigate when a murder is committed at a horse race. Meanwhile, Horatio is brought back into conflict with the Russian mob after one of Ryan's friends is attacked.
- 20
A Colombian importer is found with a 'necklace bomb' around his neck. The bomb explodes, killing a bomb squad officer, Al, who is Horatio's friend.
- 21
When a shooter targets the motel where Delko is staying, Horatio must look into Delko's past to find the killer.
- 22
Ron Saris returns, seeking revenge on Julia, after Horatio discovers him in connection with a murder tied to extreme plastic surgery.
- 23
When a woman who is eight months pregnant is found beaten, Horatio and the team hunt down the attacker. [8]
- 24
The CSIs investigate the murder of a woman who rode her horse at a local stable and was a former sorority queen in college. At first they suspect a sorority sister, but when she too is murdered, the team realizes the killer is sending a message. After the CSIs discover that the two murdered women kicked the stable owner's daughter out of the same sorority years ago, they suspect the woman finally got her revenge on her harassers. However, when the killer's DNA is found on the first victim's horse, it's revealed to be the woman's father, who couldn't stand the way the sorority girls broke his daughter's confidence years ago and then resumed their torment at the stable. After he is arrested, the daughter tries to hang herself, but Horatio gets there in time to save her. In the end, Horatio gives her the hope and confidence to start a new life.
- 25
The team's discovery that they are being targeted by the Russian Mob shows a simple home invasion in a new light. At the end, it is revealed that the Mob kidnapped Ryan and are holding him hostage while also torturing him.
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