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The Best Episodes of CSI: NY Season 3

Every episode of CSI: NY Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of CSI: NY Season 3!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    CSI: NY Season 3 Episode 1 - People With Money
    7.1/10(382 votes)

    #1 - People With Money

    S3:E1

    The body of a man is discovered on the Brooklyn Bridge, and the only evidence is a huge marriage proposal in lights. The CSI team works through the investigation as they learn to deal with a new medical examiner.

    Director:Rob Bailey
    Writers:Peter M. Lenkov, Pam Veasey

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  2. CSI: NY Season 3 Episode 2 - Not What It Looks Like
    7.6/10(392 votes)

    #2 - Not What It Looks Like

    S3:E2

    Three women who are dressed as Holly Golightly rob a jewelry store and injure other shoppers in the process. The CSI’s must work through the confusing investigation to hunt them down. Meanwhile Mac has to identify a mummified body discovered in an apartment building that was being torn down.

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

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  3. CSI: NY Season 3 Episode 3 - Love Run Cold
    7.1/10(357 votes)

    #3 - Love Run Cold

    S3:E3

    Danny and Lindsay examine the murder of an ice princess at a vodka release party while Mac, Stella, and Don examine the death of a runner at a Marathon in Central Park. Both crimes have interesting problems the teams must overcome to find out how they both happened.

    Director:Tim Iacofano
    Writer:Unknown

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

    #4 - 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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  5. CSI: NY Season 3 Episode 5 - Oedipus Hex
    7.2/10(386 votes)

    #5 - Oedipus Hex

    S3:E5

    The CSI's handle to puzzling cases; Carensa is a young Suicide Girl who at 17, wanted a change of scenery and to become a Suicide girl, at 18 she gets her wish only to lose her life. Chopper, a rising street basketball star, a homeless man trying to change his life for the better is killed and leaves a painful trail of blood which leaves Mac to figure out where and how he died.

    Director:Scott Lautanen
    Writer:Anthony E. Zuiker

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  6. CSI: NY Season 3 Episode 6 - Open and Shut
    7.3/10(350 votes)

    #6 - Open and Shut

    S3:E6

    The CSIs are investigating the murder of a hotel concierge, but while doing this they hear gun shots fired across the street and find a woman clutching a gun over two dead bodies.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. CSI: NY Season 3 Episode 7 - Murder Sings the Blues
    7.1/10(354 votes)

    #7 - Murder Sings the Blues

    S3:E7

    A young woman dies after she starts bleeding from the eyes, nose, and mouth while at a party aboard a subway train. Mac originally believes she is the victim of a biological attack. Later, it is revealed that Sheldon knew the victim. Across town, a wealthy playboy is found dead in an indoor lap pool in his penthouse suite. The investigation reveals that he was murdered and his last maid was fired two days earlier.

    Director:Oz Scott
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. CSI: NY Season 3 Episode 8 - Consequences
    7.5/10(342 votes)

    #8 - Consequences

    S3:E8

    The next case for the CSI’s gets even tougher when a paintball player turns out to be the prime suspect and later goes missing the team also has another problem the evidence that should point to the prime suspect points to someone else.

    Director:Rob Bailey
    Writer:Pam Veasey

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  9. CSI: NY Season 3 Episode 9 - And Here's To You, Mrs Azrael
    7.7/10(383 votes)

    #9 - And Here's To You, Mrs Azrael

    S3:E9

    The next case takes us back to Dr. Sheldon Hawks' past and the reasons he chose to change jobs in the medical profession. The CSI team may find it extremely difficult to find out who committed the murder of the 19-year-old woman who recently started recovering from an accident.

    Director:David Von Ancken
    Writer:Peter M. Lenkov

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  10. CSI: NY Season 3 Episode 10 - Sweet Sixteen
    7.3/10(356 votes)

    #10 - Sweet Sixteen

    S3:E10

    The team is led to a crime scene in the middle of the city involving a parachute jumper whose parachute apparently failed. And one CSI is injured when a snake is found at a crime scene.

    Director:David Jackson
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. CSI: NY Season 3 Episode 11 - Raising Shane
    7.8/10(395 votes)

    #11 - Raising Shane

    S3:E11

    After a bartender is murdered The CSI team must prove that Hawkes did not commit the murder. That only becomes more difficult when the team is pulled off the investigation.

    Director:Christine Moore
    Writer:Pam Veasey

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  12. CSI: NY Season 3 Episode 12 - Silent Night
    7.6/10(410 votes)

    #12 - Silent Night

    S3:E12

    The CSI team has a problem after learning the family is deaf: now they have to find a new way to catch the killer. Meanwhile, more information is given on Lindsey's horrifying past and what led her to become a CSI.

    Director:Rob Bailey
    Writers:Peter M. Lenkov, Anthony E. Zuiker

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  13. CSI: NY Season 3 Episode 13 - Obsession
    6.9/10(333 votes)

    #13 - Obsession

    S3:E13

    The team must find out if one team’s fun led to murder in the New York version of the Iditarod. Another case involves the death of a kidnapper in an empty apartment and where is the kidnap victim?

    Director:Jeffrey G. Hunt
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. CSI: NY Season 3 Episode 14 - The Lying Game
    7.0/10(352 votes)

    #14 - The Lying Game

    S3:E14

    Can knowing a secret be a motive for murder? The CSI team must figure out if a change in gender is cause for the death of a showgirl. Also Lindsay goes back to Montana to try to put the person who committed the murder of four friends behind bars.

    Director:Anthony Hemingway
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. CSI: NY Season 3 Episode 15 - Some Buried Bones
    7.4/10(366 votes)

    #15 - Some Buried Bones

    S3:E15

    Reed Garret gives Mac some interesting information regarding the death of a college student. Also the rest of the team will need to be a step ahead of Ava Brandt to figure out why a security guard was murdered.

    Director:Rob Bailey
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. CSI: NY Season 3 Episode 16 - Heart of Glass
    7.5/10(360 votes)

    #16 - Heart of Glass

    S3:E16

    Mac may have a difficult time solving the murder of a music mogul the sister cleverly uses a lie detector test to cover up the crime. Stella wonders if she has HIV due to an accident.

    Director:David Jackson
    Writer:Pam Veasey

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  17. CSI: NY Season 3 Episode 17 - The Ride-In
    7.2/10(332 votes)

    #17 - The Ride-In

    S3:E17

    Danny and Mac have to go to Noah’s Ark to find out if a broken promise leads to his murder. Stella and Sheldon investigate the death of a man dressed as a cigarette. Stella hopes to have her job after not telling Mac that she may be HIV right away.

    Director:Steven DePaul
    Writer:Peter M. Lenkov

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  18. CSI: NY Season 3 Episode 18 - Sleight Out of Hand
    7.8/10(422 votes)

    #18 - Sleight Out of Hand

    S3:E18

    Illusionist Luke Blade may have to defend the art of magic after an illusion is thought to have killed two people. Back in Montana Lindsay will need to take herself back to the time when she was fourteen to help her remember the crime that killed four friends in order to help convict of the person that killed them.

    Director:Rob Bailey
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. CSI: NY Season 3 Episode 19 - A Daze Of Wine And Roaches
    7.2/10(353 votes)

    #19 - A Daze Of Wine And Roaches

    S3:E19

    At a French Revolution themed fundraiser at the UN, specifically at the French consulate, Mac, Stella and Hawkes find themselves hurdling diplomatic road blocks investigating two murders. Meanwhile, Danny and Lindsay reunite on a “blinged” out cockroach that lead to murder.

    Director:Oz Scott
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. CSI: NY Season 3 Episode 20 - What Schemes May Come
    7.4/10(332 votes)

    #20 - What Schemes May Come

    S3:E20

    The team finds itself investigating the murders of three different people, only to discover that two of the murder victims are linked and may have been killed by the same person. One of these cases becomes personal for Mac.

    Director:Christine Moore
    Writer:Bruce Zimmerman

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  21. CSI: NY Season 3 Episode 21 - Past Imperfect
    7.6/10(346 votes)

    #21 - Past Imperfect

    S3:E21

    Trouble begins for Mac when Clay Dobson becomes a free man due to a mistake he made. Stella learns the results of her HIV test from Adam.

    Director:Oz Scott
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. CSI: NY Season 3 Episode 22 - Cold Reveal
    7.6/10(369 votes)

    #22 - Cold Reveal

    S3:E22

    Mac believes he can fight the internal affairs investigation that is about to be started against him because of what happened to Clay Dobson. Can Mac explain what happened to the suspect he was chasing and will it be good enough for him to keep his job? Also Stella could lose her job as a CSI after a cold case is somehow connected to her.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Pam Veasey

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  23. CSI: NY Season 3 Episode 23 - Comes Around
    7.4/10(345 votes)

    #23 - Comes Around

    S3:E23

    Can the team clear a tennis legend of murder? Also Mac believes that the continuing investigation into what happened with Clay Dobson is nothing but media pressure. Can friends and colleagues help save Mac Taylor’s career before it’s too late?

    Director:Rob Bailey
    Writer:Pam Veasey

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

    #24 - 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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Season 3 Ratings Summary

"People With Money" is the best rated episode of "CSI: NY" season 3. It scored 7.1/10 based on 382 votes. Directed by Rob Bailey and written by Peter M. Lenkov, Pam Veasey, it aired on 9/20/2006. This episode is rated 0.5 points higher than the second-best, "Not What It Looks Like".