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The Best Episodes of CSI: NY

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    CSI: NY Season 3 Episode 24 - Snow Day
    8.8/10(638 votes)

    #1 - Snow Day

    S3:E24

    After Flack makes an enormous drug bust, and locks it up at CSI, the drug lords infiltrate the building at gunpoint to get them back. Now the team must resolve the hostage situations, all the while with Mac, Stella, and Hawkes trapped inside.

    Director:Duane Clark
    Writers:Peter M. Lenkov, Pam Veasey

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  2. CSI: NY Season 5 Episode 22 - Yahrzeit
    8.7/10(552 votes)

    #2 - Yahrzeit

    S5:E22

    The most exclusive jewelry auction of the year ends abruptly when an appraiser is killed during the event. The investigation takes an emotional turn when the CSIs must confront one of the greatest tragedies in human history - the Holocaust.

    Director:Norberto Barba
    Writer:Peter M. Lenkov

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  3. CSI: NY Season 6 Episode 10 - Death House
    8.6/10(489 votes)

    #3 - Death House

    S6:E10

    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.

    Director:Norberto Barba
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. CSI: NY Season 5 Episode 25 - Pay Up
    8.5/10(382 votes)

    #4 - Pay Up

    S5:E25

    When transferring Robert Dunbrook's son from prison to court, the NYPD is ambushed by a group of professional kidnappers who kill a member of the team and one of the CSI's lives hangs in the balance.

    Director:Rob Bailey
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. CSI: NY Season 9 Episode 17 - Today Is Life
    8.4/10(382 votes)

    #5 - Today Is Life

    S9:E17

    Community unrest over the police shooting of an unarmed man forces Mac and the team to move quickly to solve the case.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. CSI: NY Season 8 Episode 1 - Indelible
    8.3/10(464 votes)

    #6 - Indelible

    S8:E1

    On the 10th anniversary of 9/11, Mac and the team remember specific moments from that day that were indelibly burned in their mind.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. CSI: NY Season 4 Episode 21 - Hostage
    8.2/10(385 votes)

    #7 - Hostage

    S4:E21

    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.

    Director:Rob Bailey
    Writer:Peter M. Lenkov

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  8. CSI: NY Season 4 Episode 10 - The Thing About Heroes
    8.1/10(372 votes)

    #8 - The Thing About Heroes

    S4:E10

    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.

    Director:Anthony Hemingway
    Writer:Pam Veasey

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  9. CSI: NY Season 6 Episode 9 - Manhattanhenge
    8.1/10(327 votes)

    #9 - Manhattanhenge

    S6:E9

    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.

    Director:Matt Earl Beesley
    Writer:Trey Callaway

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  10. CSI: NY Season 6 Episode 16 - Uncertainty Rules
    8.1/10(323 votes)

    #10 - Uncertainty Rules

    S6:E16

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. CSI: NY Season 6 Episode 19 - Redemption
    8.1/10(356 votes)

    #11 - Redemption

    S6:E19

    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.

    Director:Steven DePaul
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. CSI: NY Season 6 Episode 23 - Vacation Getaway
    8.1/10(326 votes)

    #12 - Vacation Getaway

    S6:E23

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. CSI: NY Season 7 Episode 21 - Life Sentence
    8.1/10(293 votes)

    #13 - Life Sentence

    S7:E21

    After a hail of gunfire tears through the crime lab, Mac and his ex-partner become part of a vendetta 17 years in the making.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Adam Targum

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  14. CSI: NY Season 7 Episode 22 - Exit Strategy
    8.1/10(331 votes)

    #14 - Exit Strategy

    S7:E22

    Following a near-death experience, Mac becomes determined to close his last remaining unsolved case.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. CSI: NY Season 3 Episode 4 - Hung Out to Dry
    8.0/10(450 votes)

    #15 - Hung Out to Dry

    S3:E4

    The body of a beheaded woman found in a fraternity house is a mystery to the CSIs. Now they must sort through twisted clues and crime scene after crime scene to find the killer that has them trapped in his own little game.

    Director:Anthony Hemingway
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. CSI: NY Season 8 Episode 9 - Means To An End
    8.0/10(272 votes)

    #16 - Means To An End

    S8:E9

    When an important witness turns up dead, Jo is caught up in the dangerous investigation of the suspected rapist who was freed on her watch in D.C.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. CSI: NY Season 1 Episode 23 - What You See Is What You See
    7.9/10(397 votes)

    #17 - What You See Is What You See

    S1:E23

    While Mac dines at his local breakfast spot, a gunman opens fire, leaving a waitress critically injured and a man dead, and Mac having to choose whether to chase after the suspect or save the life of the young woman. Meanwhile, before the chaos, Mac was approached by a shy patron who awkwardly engaged him in conversation. After feeling that he saved her life during the shoot out, she asks him to join her for a drink and Mac must decide if he is ready to start dating after his wife's tragic death.

    Director:Duane Clark
    Writer:Andrew Lipsitz

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  18. CSI: NY Season 2 Episode 7 - Manhattan Manhunt (II)
    7.9/10(491 votes)

    #18 - Manhattan Manhunt (II)

    S2:E7

    Horatio Caine follows Henry Darius to New York so that he can keep his promise to a young boy in Miami, but by the time he and Mac are able to locate Darius he has disappeared again, leaving behind six more bodies. The crossover starts on CSI: Miami S04E07 Felony Flight (I).

    Director:Rob Bailey
    Writers:Anthony E. Zuiker, Elizabeth Devine, Ann Donahue

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  19. CSI: NY Season 2 Episode 23 - Heroes
    7.9/10(404 votes)

    #19 - Heroes

    S2:E23

    Mack and Danny investigate a Marine found dead in Central Park during Fleet Week. The evidence doesn't add up and who is Ellie? Stella, Lindsay, and Hawkes investigate a dead body found in a burnt out car. The results of their investigation leads to a devastating loss for the whole team.

    Director:Anthony Hemingway
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. CSI: NY Season 2 Episode 24 - Charge of this Post
    7.9/10(385 votes)

    #20 - Charge of this Post

    S2:E24

    After a routine call leads two of the team into finding a bomb, they evacuate but a few are still in the building along with Mac and Flack when the bomb detonates. After the explosion the CSI's face a race against time to find the bomber and the possibility of losing one of their own. Mac must come to grips with having let a Marine die in Beirut in 1983.

    Director:Rob Bailey
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. CSI: NY Season 4 Episode 20 - Taxi
    7.9/10(354 votes)

    #21 - Taxi

    S4:E20

    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

    Director:Christine Moore
    Writer:Barbie Kligman

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  22. CSI: NY Season 5 Episode 3 - Turbulence
    7.9/10(341 votes)

    #22 - Turbulence

    S5:E3

    When a supposed air marshal is murdered on a flight to the District of Columbia, Mac searches the plane for the killer and the murder weapon.

    Director:Matt Earl Beesley
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. CSI: NY Season 5 Episode 14 - She's Not There
    7.9/10(316 votes)

    #23 - She's Not There

    S5:E14

    A Russian tourist is found stabbed to death and the CSIs come face to face with the frightening realities of human trafficking. Solving this case becomes personal when it directly affects a prominent member of the NYPD

    Director:Nelson McCormick
    Writer:Pam Veasey

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  24. CSI: NY Season 5 Episode 17 - Green Piece
    7.9/10(322 votes)

    #24 - Green Piece

    S5:E17

    A lethal pipe-bomb blows a Manhattan townhouse and valuable evidence to pieces, forcing the CSIs to get creative in reconstructing the damaged clues that ultimately lead to the bomber.

    Director:Jeffrey G. Hunt
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. CSI: NY Season 6 Episode 8 - Cuckoo's Nest
    7.9/10(304 votes)

    #25 - Cuckoo's Nest

    S6:E8

    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...

    Director:Jeffrey G. Hunt
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"Snow Day" is the best rated episode of "CSI: NY". It scored 8.8/10 based on 638 votes. Directed by Duane Clark and written by Peter M. Lenkov, Pam Veasey, it aired on 5/16/2007. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Yahrzeit".