The essential episodes of CSI: NY
Watch these 15 in order and you've got CSI: NY — each pick states its reason.
- 01
Two bodies are found, strangled to death by the same killer. Evidence from the second crime scene leads the detectives to a house with a third live victim who is paralyzed and is only able to blink.
- 02
A rape victim runs out of Central Park with no memory of the rape. The case is complicated when the semen sample found contains no sperm, leaving no DNA to link the crime to any of the suspects.
- 03
Horatio Caine arrives from Miami with Mac to help to find a dangerous criminal who has kidnapped a young girl. The truth about the killer will be shocking.
- 04
An Irish gang sets an elaborate plot to reclaim a drug shipment being held at CSI after a bust, but Mac, Stella and Hawkes are forced to take them on. Meanwhile, Danny is being held as a hostage at another location by the same gang.
- 05
A murder victim bears a striking resemblance to a well-known avatar in the online role-playing game "Second Life." Mac is forced to enter the game himself to solve the mystery surrounding her death.
- 06
CSI investigates the death of a armored truck security guard, which appears to be related to a disturbance at a so-called "Bermuda Triangle" of electric activity near the Empire State Building.
- 07
Mummified remains are found in a booby-trapped Manhattan penthouse that has been closed off for more than 80 years, and Mac and Stella race against time to find the people who discovered the body, who are still trapped in the building.
- 08
A murder is connected to suspicious behavior that Mac spies from his apartment while recovering from an injury, and his ex-girlfriend Peyton Driscoll may be connected to the case.
- 09
Shane Casey is captured by police but soon escapes. He then leaves clues for the crime lab encrypted in dollar bills that suggest that Danny is his next target.
- 10
As the CSIs investigate a case involving a woman who appears to have been scared to death in a supposedly haunted section of Central Park, Mac stumbles on another dead body buried nearby in the same part of the park.
- 11
After the woman who assumed Chief of Detectives Carver's deceased sister's identity turns up dead, and the evidence continues to mount, Mac begins to suspect that Carver may have been responsible for both murders.
- 12
After a man dressed in a clown costume kills a bakery owner, the evidence is soon connected to a man from Flack's past who reluctantly agreed to join witness protection to testify against drug dealers.
- 13
A process server is killed, and the team finds out he treats his job just like a video game of track and complete missions. The murderer is linked to competitive video games in a tournament.
- 14
The team discovers that a Dominican gang member found cut in half by a chainsaw has a connection to Flack's new partner.
- 15
A riot threatens to break out at a Manhattan precinct after an officer shoots and kills an allegedly unarmed black man during a chase.
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