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The Best Episodes of CSI: Miami

Every episode of CSI: Miami ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of CSI: Miami!

CSI: Miami follows Crime Scene Investigators working for the Miami-Dade Police Department as they use physical evidence, similar to their Las Vegas counterparts, to solve...
Genres:DramaMysteryCrime
Network:CBS

Best Episodes Summary

"All Fall Down" is the best rated episode of "CSI: Miami". It scored 8.2/10 based on 406 votes. Directed by Joe Chappelle and written by Marc Dube, Barry O'Brien, it aired on 5/24/2010. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Going Ballistic".

  • All Fall Down
    8.2/10406 votes
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    #1 - All Fall Down

    Season 8 Episode 24 - Aired 5/24/2010

    A serial killer taunts the CSIs by leaving them cryptic hints, and the longer it takes them to decode these puzzles, the higher the death toll rises, on the eighth season finale of CSI: MIAMI.

    Director: Joe Chappelle

    Writer: Marc Dube, Barry O'Brien

  • Going Ballistic
    8.1/10434 votes
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    #2 - Going Ballistic

    Season 6 Episode 21 - Aired 5/19/2008

    As the first new medical examiner they have is shot, the CSIs learn the streets of Miami got more dangerous. Horatio must keep his team alive and restore order to his son's life. The clock runs out when one of their own is gunned down.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: C-Murder

  • Ambush
    7.9/10362 votes
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    #3 - Ambush

    Season 6 Episode 15 - Aired 3/31/2008

    In the first of a two part episode, Horatio once again has to tangle with his ex, Julia, who has it out for him. Someone is out for Calleigh, and is compromising their investigation in the process.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • All In
    7.9/10358 votes
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    #4 - All In

    Season 6 Episode 16 - Aired 4/1/2008

    In the second part of the two part episodes, Horatio deals with his past and the rest of the team works to rescue Calleigh from kidnappers.

    Director: Joe Chappelle

    Writer: N/A

  • Smoke Gets in Your CSI's
    7.9/10368 votes
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    #5 - Smoke Gets in Your CSI's

    Season 7 Episode 14 - Aired 2/2/2009

    Calleigh and Ryan come close to being murdered while investigating a home in which they find the corpse of a doctor who's been performing illegal transplant operations in his garage...

    Director: Joe Chappelle

    Writer: N/A

  • Out of Time
    7.9/10429 votes
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    #6 - Out of Time

    Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/2009

    Delko is found comatose, and we are taken back to the year 1997 to when the team first formed.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Time Bomb
    7.9/10335 votes
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    #7 - Time Bomb

    Season 8 Episode 23 - Aired 5/17/2010

    When Horatio's ex-girlfriend is killed in an explosion, the team looks within their own department to find the killer.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Fallen
    7.9/10378 votes
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    #8 - Fallen

    Season 9 Episode 1 - Aired 10/3/2010

    The CSI's must catch a madman causing havoc all over Miami and the team has to mourn one of their own.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Habeas Corpse
    7.9/10394 votes
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    #9 - Habeas Corpse

    Season 10 Episode 19 - Aired 4/8/2012

    Every member of CSI is a suspect when one of the team's enemies is murdered. When the investigation becomes deadly, Samantha Owens ends up having to be rescued.

    Director: Sam Hill

    Writer: N/A

  • MIA/NYC - NonStop
    7.7/10546 votes
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    #10 - MIA/NYC - NonStop

    Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 5/17/2004

    When a teenage girl returns home from a big party night at an underage nightclub to find her parents murdered, the search for the killer leads Horatio to New York City. Before he arrives, the New York detectives, led by Detective Mac Taylor, are called out to investigate the shooting of an undercover police officer – who, it turns out, is the lead suspect in the Miami case. However, the medical examiner determines that he has been dead for 72 hours and could not even have been alive at the time of the double-murder in Miami. After further investigation, Horatio and Mac determine that the real killer murdered the New York cop, then used his ID to get to Miami, and is still on the loose.

    Director: Danny Cannon

    Writer: Ann Donahue, Anthony E. Zuiker, Carol Mendelsohn

  • Lost Son
    7.7/10512 votes
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    #11 - Lost Son

    Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/20/2004

    After a large yacht slams into a major Miami bridge, the team finds that the man steering the boat was shot and killed before the accident. The victim's wife reveals that their son had been kidnapped and her husband was handing over the ransom – three million dollars worth of jewels. But when the team learns that the jewels were fake, the investigation leads them into a dangerous situation at a jewelry shop that may contain crucial evidence, where Horatio must face the unimaginable when one of the team is killed in the line of duty.

    Director: Duane Clark

    Writer: Ann Donahue, Elizabeth Devine

  • Bang, Bang, Your Debt
    7.7/10443 votes
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    #12 - Bang, Bang, Your Debt

    Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 10/15/2007

    The team investigates the puzzling death of a student and find evidence that Tim Speedle may not be dead.

    Director: Karen Gaviola

    Writer: Barry O'Brien

  • Down to the Wire
    7.7/10348 votes
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    #13 - Down to the Wire

    Season 6 Episode 20 - Aired 5/12/2008

    When a man is killed due to a fake 911 call, Horatio must face off with a private investigator who is systematically destroying the team. The PI also digs into the team's personal lives and gets both Calleigh and Eric pulled off the case.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Sunil Nayar

  • Resurrection
    7.7/10419 votes
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    #14 - Resurrection

    Season 7 Episode 1 - Aired 9/22/2008

    The evidence on who shot Horatio leads the team to some of most Miami's dangerous including one of their own.

    Director: Joe Chappelle

    Writer: Barry O'Brien

  • Gone Baby Gone
    7.7/10357 votes
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    #15 - Gone Baby Gone

    Season 7 Episode 8 - Aired 11/17/2008

    A baby is taken from her mother's arms in broad daylight, and the team must race against time to find her.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Target Specific
    7.7/10332 votes
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    #16 - Target Specific

    Season 7 Episode 19 - Aired 3/23/2009

    Miami's wealthiest appear to be targeted in a series of stabbings and robberies, and evidence leads back to Russian mobster Ivan Sarnoff, who was last seen in prison, mocking Horatio.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Dissolved
    7.7/10353 votes
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    #17 - Dissolved

    Season 7 Episode 24 - Aired 5/11/2009

    The CSIs investigate the case of a man boiled alive, Julia spirals out of control, and one of the team's darkest secrets comes to light.

    Director: Matt Earl Beesley

    Writer: N/A

  • Mommie Deadest
    7.7/10340 votes
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    #18 - Mommie Deadest

    Season 8 Episode 22 - Aired 5/10/2010

    When a suburban soccer mom is murdered, the CSIs uncover her family's dark past, while Delko continues his undercover mission.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Mayday
    7.7/10336 votes
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    #19 - Mayday

    Season 9 Episode 22 - Aired 5/8/2011

    In the season finale, Horatio must capture an escapee again when their transport plane crashes. And the team was shocked to discover that the fugitive has planned more than that.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Slaughterhouse
    7.6/10598 votes
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    #20 - Slaughterhouse

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/11/2002

    Horatio and his team must uncover the evidence in the brutal murder of an entire family in their own home. The only survivors are a blood-soaked toddler, and the father who's in surgery. The immediate assumption is that the mother is responsible – post-partum depression – but the evidence discloses a different outcome.

    Director: Richard Pearce

    Writer: Laurie McCarthy

  • Dispo Day
    7.6/10520 votes
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    #21 - Dispo Day

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 3/10/2003

    The investigation into a drug heist offers brief glimpses into the private lives of the CSIs, whose nerves are on edge when they become suspects in the crime they're trying to solve. A police convoy headed across town includes an unmarked truck filled with confiscated drugs being taken to an incinerator to be destroyed. The trip ends abruptly when thieves hijack the vehicle, kill its driver and shoot Speedle, who was riding shotgun. It's hard for Horatio when the media draw comparisons to a similar case several years ago in which his brother, an undercover cop, was killed. But it's worse for his team when Internal Affairs decides that one of them tipped off the robbers about the delivery.

    Director: David Grossman

    Writer: Ildy Modrovich, Laurence Walsh

  • Body Count
    7.6/10552 votes
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    #22 - Body Count

    Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 5/19/2003

    An inmate at a massive Miami prison complex is stabbed to death in the prison yard. Shortly after Horatio arrives on the scene, a helicopter appears above the correctional facility. He immediately fears that the murder was a decoy to set up an escape. That's confirmed as three prisoners hop aboard the chopper and flee. As the investigation gets underway, the identities of the fugitives become known and a horrible realization sweeps over Horatio: two of the escapees are cold-blooded killers who already have their next victims picked out, and the other is a child molester who he recently put away.

    Director: Joe Chappelle

    Writer: Steven Maeda

  • Blood Brothers
    7.6/10524 votes
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    #23 - Blood Brothers

    Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/22/2003

    Horatio investigates the murder of a model intentionally run down outside of a Miami hotel by a driver who fled the scene. When the evidence leads to a suspect, governmental red tape puts an unexpected twist on the proceedings. Horatio and Yelina begin to confront their feelings for one another.

    Director: Danny Cannon

    Writer: Ann Donahue

  • Hard Time
    7.6/10562 votes
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    #24 - Hard Time

    Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/6/2003

    Horatio hunts for the person responsible for a vicious attack on a woman who was lured to a vacant condo and beaten with a piece of lumber.

    Director: Deran Sarafian

    Writer: Elizabeth Devine

  • Witness To Murder
    7.6/10494 votes
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    #25 - Witness To Murder

    Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 1/12/2004

    A diamond broker carrying two million dollars in merchandise is murdered after his car is hit by another vehicle and he gets out to confront the driver. The only witness to the crime is a developmentally challenged man who says the killer is someone named Colton. Meanwhile, outside of town, Speedle and Delko investigate the death of a teenage girl discovered at a rest stop with a broken neck. Shortly after the victim is taken from the scene, her body disappears during transport to Miami.

    Director: Duane Clark

    Writer: Mike Ostrowski, Ildy Modrovich