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The Best Episodes of CSI: NY Season 5

Every episode of CSI: NY Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of CSI: NY Season 5!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    CSI: NY Season 5 Episode 1 - Veritas
    7.7/10(358 votes)

    #1 - Veritas

    S5:E1

    Picking up where the season 4 finale left off. The team is investigating the death of a woman named Lauren Santana whom is linked to the bank robbery. She is a friend of Flack's sister Samantha. Also Mac has escaped the robber but the bodies are still piling up. So the team must quickly find the bank robber before he is able to get away.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Pam Veasey

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  2. CSI: NY Season 5 Episode 2 - Page Turner
    7.6/10(334 votes)

    #2 - Page Turner

    S5:E2

    A series of deaths from radiation poisoning may be related to a deadly tome in the New York library.

    Director:Frederick E. O. Toye
    Writer:Trey Callaway

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  3. CSI: NY Season 5 Episode 3 - Turbulence
    7.9/10(343 votes)

    #3 - 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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  4. CSI: NY Season 5 Episode 4 - Sex, Lies and Silicone
    7.6/10(324 votes)

    #4 - Sex, Lies and Silicone

    S5:E4

    The team investigates the puzzling death of a woman named Ann Steele. To solve the case, the team must look for a life size silicone doll. When the team runs into the factory that makes them, it prompts some amusement for some of the team. Meanwhile, Hawkes meets up with an old college friend who later asks him to compromise some evidence in the case.

    Director:Jonathan Glassner
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. CSI: NY Season 5 Episode 5 - The Cost Of Living
    7.7/10(320 votes)

    #5 - The Cost Of Living

    S5:E5

    The CSI team investigates the shooting death of an archaeologist whose secret life may have caught up to him.

    Director:Rob Bailey
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. CSI: NY Season 5 Episode 6 - Enough
    7.8/10(311 votes)

    #6 - Enough

    S5:E6

    Three drug dealers set to stand trial are found dead in separate places. They were all trying to get rid of witnesses in their crime, but it looks like someone got them first.

    Director:Alex Zakrzewski
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. CSI: NY Season 5 Episode 7 - Dead Inside
    7.3/10(304 votes)

    #7 - Dead Inside

    S5:E7

    The team investigates the brutal murder of a house relocator who was found dead inside a Victorian house that he was about to move from Staten Island to The Upper East Side.

    Director:Christine Moore
    Writer:Pam Veasey

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  8. CSI: NY Season 5 Episode 8 - My Name is Mac Taylor
    7.9/10(351 votes)

    #8 - My Name is Mac Taylor

    S5:E8

    In the one hundredth episode of CSI: NY Mac faces his most deadly foe yet. There is a serial killer loose in New York City killing people with the name Mac Taylor making Mac a target.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Pam Veasey

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  9. CSI: NY Season 5 Episode 9 - The Box
    7.8/10(344 votes)

    #9 - The Box

    S5:E9

    A woman is found in the trunk of a crushed car at an auto wrecking yard, the autopsy reveals that she was pregnant, the team needs to find out who she is so they can find the baby.

    Director:Oz Scott
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. CSI: NY Season 5 Episode 10 - The Triangle
    7.7/10(311 votes)

    #10 - The Triangle

    S5:E10

    The team is forced to investigate two crimes at once when a mysterious energy field seems to be the cause of a billionaire's disappearance and the death of his limo driver.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Trey Callaway

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  11. CSI: NY Season 5 Episode 11 - Forbidden Fruit
    7.6/10(337 votes)

    #11 - Forbidden Fruit

    S5:E11

    Mac runs into Ella McBride who could cost him time in figuring out if Isabelle Vaughn died by eating the miracle fruit. Stella gets in trouble with Mac while investigating another murder linked to the Greek diplomat that attacked her.

    Director:John Behring
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. CSI: NY Season 5 Episode 12 - Help
    7.8/10(311 votes)

    #12 - Help

    S5:E12

    Young brides-to-be fight over a killer dress at the biggest wedding gown sale of the year and one of the shoppers winds up dead. The unusual clues of this case force Dr. Hawkes to confront a painful chapter from his past.

    Director:David Barrett
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. CSI: NY Season 5 Episode 13 - Rush to Judgement
    7.5/10(297 votes)

    #13 - Rush to Judgement

    S5:E13

    The CSIs must piece together a human jigsaw puzzle when a beloved wrestling coach's severed body parts are found buried throughout the city. Meanwhile, Detective Flack is in the hot seat when a teenage suspect dies in his custody.

    Director:Rob Bailey
    Writer:Unknown

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

    #14 - 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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  15. CSI: NY Season 5 Episode 15 - The Party's Over
    7.6/10(304 votes)

    #15 - The Party's Over

    S5:E15

    When the Deputy Mayor's dead body falls from the ceiling, along with hundreds of balloons, at a charity fundraiser, Stella and her date find themselves in the middle of the crime scene and Mac goes head to head with Robert Dunbrook.

    Director:Oz Scott
    Writer:Barbie Kligman

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  16. CSI: NY Season 5 Episode 16 - No Good Deed
    7.5/10(296 votes)

    #16 - No Good Deed

    S5:E16

    When a buzzard flying over Manhattan drops a human eyeball from its claw, the race is on to find the body it belongs to before the avian saboteur flies away with the rest of the evidence.

    Director:Matt Earl Beesley
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. CSI: NY Season 5 Episode 17 - Green Piece
    7.9/10(325 votes)

    #17 - 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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  18. CSI: NY Season 5 Episode 18 - Point of No Return
    7.6/10(303 votes)

    #18 - Point of No Return

    S5:E18

    When the wife of a former medical examiner is found murdered, a white powder found at the scene provides the CSIs with a major lead in tracking the killer when it is discovered that the powder is heroin made from human bodies.

    Director:Rob Bailey
    Writer:Peter M. Lenkov

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  19. CSI: NY Season 5 Episode 19 - Communication Breakdown
    7.4/10(296 votes)

    #19 - Communication Breakdown

    S5:E19

    When a Native American chief is shot on the subway, the CSIs struggle to translate which one of the several foreign suspects may have caused his death.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Trey Callaway

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  20. CSI: NY Season 5 Episode 20 - Prey
    7.8/10(308 votes)

    #20 - Prey

    S5:E20

    While investigating the shooting of a voice coach in an empty theater, Stella realizes that the crime scene is oddly familiar and staged.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. CSI: NY Season 5 Episode 21 - The Past, Present and Murder
    7.7/10(296 votes)

    #21 - The Past, Present and Murder

    S5:E21

    When a man falls 20 stories to his death, and his body goes missing after it hits the ground, with no body to process, the CSI's must treat this strange development as a missing persons case.

    Director:David Von Ancken
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. CSI: NY Season 5 Episode 22 - Yahrzeit
    8.7/10(549 votes)

    #22 - 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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  23. CSI: NY Season 5 Episode 23 - Greater Good
    7.8/10(317 votes)

    #23 - Greater Good

    S5:E23

    Mac informs an ex-con that he served time for a crime he didn't commit, and Lindsay tells Danny "it's time" for the first CSI baby to be born.

    Director:Alex Zakrzewski
    Writer:Pam Veasey

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  24. CSI: NY Season 5 Episode 24 - Grounds for Deception
    7.8/10(315 votes)

    #24 - Grounds for Deception

    S5:E24

    When Stella discovers that New Yorkers are being murdered over ancient Greek artifacts, she hands over her badge to follow a clue that leads to Greece and, together with Mac, she uncovers one of the greatest mysteries in history.

    Director:Duane Clark
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. CSI: NY Season 5 Episode 25 - Pay Up
    8.5/10(372 votes)

    #25 - 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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Season 5 Ratings Summary

"Veritas" is the best rated episode of "CSI: NY" season 5. It scored 7.7/10 based on 358 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Pam Veasey, it aired on 9/24/2008. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Page Turner".