CSI
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.
Gary Sinise | CSI Detective Mac Taylor | |
Melina Kanakaredes | CSI Detective Stella Bonasera | |
Hill Harper | Sheldon Hawkes | |
Eddie Cahill | Don Flack | |
Carmine Giovinazzo | CSI Detective Danny Messer | |
Anna Belknap | Lindsay Monroe | |
Robert Joy | Sid Hammerback | |
Ron Yuan | Dr. Evan Zao | |
A.J. Buckley | Adam Ross | |
Vanessa Ferlito | CSI Detective Aiden Burn | |
Ed Quinn | Frankie Mala | |
Danielle McKee | Lab Tech | |
Jonah Lotan | Dr. Marty Pino | |
David Julian Hirsh | Zack Shannon | |
John Dove | Det. John Scagnetti | |
James Badge Dale | Henry Darius | |
Kelly Hu | Detective Kaile Maka | |
David Aaron Baker | Steve Kranen | |
John Enos | Chuck White | |
Austin Highsmith | Rebecca Zernecky | |
Sonya Walger | Jane Parsons | |
Jennifer Elise Cox | Melanie Stefano | |
Eugene Robert Glazer | Dr. Burr | |
Elizabeth Ann Bennett | Regina Bowen | |
Natalina Maggio | Young Debutant |
A very skilled and famous skyscraper climber falls off the Empire State Building while attempting to scale it. Mac Taylor and Sheldon Hawkes (on his first field assignment) investigate the case. In another part of the city, Stella Bonasera and Danny Messer must solve the mysterious death of a famous designer found dead, wearing his latest creation which is a bra made of diamonds. Aiden Burn works solo on a rape case.
A plastic surgeon is found dead at Grand Central Station during rush hour. He apparently died from inhaling lye. Stella and Danny investigate the death of a blind woman. Aiden is more intent than ever to solve the rape case; so much so that she does the unthinkable, an action which forces Mac to fire her.
Detective Lindsay Monroe joins the CSI team; the first case leads her to a savaged body in a Bronx Zoo tiger cage. In the second case, the body of a young debutante is found on a carousel.
Three cases. A murder during the Feast of San Gennaro with ties to a financial services company. A body sitting upright on a Central Park bench. An apartment fire where a 10-year-old boy is dead of smoke inhalation.
A young girl lands on the windshield of the car. Her feet tell Stella that she was a dancer. Lindsay Monroe works solo on the death of an old tram driver. She soon realizes that her case is related to the first. The third case involves the death of a fish merchant. He died from a fatal wound caused by a swordfish.
A young woman gets on an elevator with an older man. When the door opens on his penthouse, he is shot by an unseen person. The girl is not hurt and the team must track her down as she is the only eye-witness to the murder. Stella and Sheldon Hawkes fish a body out of a pond in Central Park. The man, however, did not die from drowning. He suffered a fatal allergic reaction.
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.
Four men are playing poker in an apartment. When they catch a man cheating, the other men throw him out. Just a few moments later, the doorbell rings; when one of the players looks through the peephole, expecting to see the recently departed cheater, he is facing the barrel of a shotgun and is instantly killed. Meanwhile, in Central Park, a TV weather girl is found dead on the ground. Autopsy reveals that she drowned, even though there is no water near the crime scene.
A teenage boy stumbles upon a dead body in a shop full of dolls. The man was the owner of the doll hospital. The room shows signs of a great struggle with dolls scattered all over the floor. In an upscale apartment, Stella and Sheldon Hawkes examine the body of a waitress who had cancer. As opposed to the other crime scene, this room is in perfect order except for a spilled can of soup.
A female roller derby team member dies during a game. At first glance, it seems that she was trampled to death. However, autopsy reveals that she died from heating up from the inside. The other case involves the death of a writer found in a dumpster and wrapped in an expensive rug.
Danny and Stella are investigating the murder of a billionaire in a crime scene that seems to be a bedroom, but while Stella is interrogating suspects, Danny searches the room for possible evidence and accidentally pushes a button that turns the bedroom into a panic room. With Danny trapped inside, they have to find a way to get him out while a murderer is at large. Meanwhile, the body is decomposing from the heat which forces Danny to use old-school processing techniques.
A famous model drops dead on the catwalk. Though she is thin, the young model is very healthy. Mac, Danny, and Sheldon Hawkes work together to solve the mystery. At the PD, a man gives himself up and confesses that he has just killed his doctor. However, Stella does not think he is the murderer as he cannot give her specific details of the crime.
The team investigates a college student found dead on the subway tracks and a stock broker hanging out his Wall Street window.
Danny and Lindsey investigate the death of a music promoter and enter the world of ad posting wars between up-and-coming bands. A billionaire playboy is found impaled on a billboard with a model after throwing a party for an artist.
A man is found dead in a cemetery. The wound on his chest indicates that he died from a bullet wound, yet the CSIs found nothing but small pieces of paper inside it. The second case is of a dead woman found blindfolded with her hands tied behind her back in her fancy bed. The investigation leads the detectives to a restaurant that serves exotic food such as centipedes, live octopus, and cockroaches.
A doorwoman is found dead in the water tank of her apartment. All of the evidence which is readily available points to a doctor who lives in the building. However, the man swears that he had nothing to do with the dead woman. The other case is of a man found dead on a playground in Washington Heights.
The body of a woman, half eaten by beetles, is found in a museum exhibit. The only eye-witness is a young boy who refuses to talk. Danny works solo on the case of a dead urban golfer found on a construction site.
A medical helicopter is hijacked and a liver stolen. Stella and Lindsay investigate the death of a 20-year old female with an impressive collection of business cards.
A man dressed as a superhero, complete with tights and a cape, is found dead. The investigator finds that he is a patient living a home for the mentally ill. As they dig deeper, they find that someone working there is illegally selling prescription drugs. The second case is of an up-and-coming football player found dead inside his hotel room. The very healthy athlete died from a small puncture wound.
A suicide's last words lead to the New Jersey grave of a victim of the Tanglewood boys; a banker is apparently killed by a call girl.
A limousine driver is shot dead inside his car, while a concert by Kid Rock is happening inside. Lindsay and Danny work on the case. Mac hears of a shooting at Stella's address over the police radio. He rushes to the scene where Stella is on the ground unconscious, while her boyfriend, Frankie, is found dead. Gunshot residue confirms that she shot him.
The CSIs arrive to investigate the death of a man shot in front of his house. A woman runs towards the scene crying that the deceased was her husband. Moments later, another woman also claims that she is the dead man's wife. It turns out that these people were a "committed threesome." The other case starts with the discovery of a woman dressed as a mermaid found in the river.
The US Marines are staging a small show in Central Park. During one of their games, a young boy finds the body of a non-commissioned officer. The Marine was highly decorated, having served in many campaigns. The absence of any defensive wounds is puzzling to Mac Taylor as the victim was a very strong, well-trained, and combat-hardened Marine. The second case involves a burnt body inside a car. Facial reconstruction reveals a shocking answer. The victim has a familiar face.
After a routine call leads two of the team into an explosion the CSI's face a race against time to find the bomber and the possibility of losing one of their own.