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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!

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The show follows Crime Scene Investigators working for the Miami-Dade Police Department as they use physical evidence, similar to their Las Vegas counterparts, to solve grisly murders. The series mixes deduction, gritty subject matter, and

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    CSI: Miami Season 8 Episode 24 - All Fall Down
    8.2/10(427 votes)

    #1 - All Fall Down

    S8:E24

    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
    Writers:Marc Dube, Barry O'Brien

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  2. CSI: Miami Season 6 Episode 21 - Going Ballistic
    8.1/10(445 votes)

    #2 - Going Ballistic

    S6:E21

    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:Unknown
    Writer:C-Murder

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  3. CSI: Miami Season 7 Episode 14 - Smoke Gets in Your CSI's
    8.0/10(378 votes)

    #3 - Smoke Gets in Your CSI's

    S7:E14

    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:Krystal Houghton Ziv

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  4. CSI: Miami Season 8 Episode 1 - Out of Time
    8.0/10(451 votes)

    #4 - Out of Time

    S8:E1

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. CSI: Miami Season 8 Episode 23 - Time Bomb
    8.0/10(359 votes)

    #5 - Time Bomb

    S8:E23

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. CSI: Miami Season 9 Episode 1 - Fallen
    8.0/10(400 votes)

    #6 - Fallen

    S9:E1

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. CSI: Miami Season 6 Episode 15 - Ambush
    7.9/10(376 votes)

    #7 - Ambush

    S6:E15

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. CSI: Miami Season 6 Episode 16 - All In
    7.9/10(380 votes)

    #8 - All In

    S6:E16

    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:Krystal Houghton Ziv

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  9. CSI: Miami Season 10 Episode 19 - Habeas Corpse
    7.9/10(413 votes)

    #9 - Habeas Corpse

    S10:E19

    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:Unknown

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  10. CSI: Miami Season 1 Episode 8 - Slaughterhouse
    7.7/10(605 votes)

    #10 - Slaughterhouse

    S1:E8

    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

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  11. CSI: Miami Season 2 Episode 23 - MIA/NYC - NonStop
    7.7/10(546 votes)

    #11 - MIA/NYC - NonStop

    S2:E23

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

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  12. CSI: Miami Season 3 Episode 1 - Lost Son
    7.7/10(521 votes)

    #12 - Lost Son

    S3:E1

    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
    Writers:Ann Donahue, Elizabeth Devine

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  13. CSI: Miami Season 3 Episode 24 - 10-7
    7.7/10(428 votes)

    #13 - 10-7

    S3:E24

    While investigating the murder of man hired to make dirty bombs that terrorists intend to set off in Miami, Horatio finds the bloody fingerprint of his brother, Raymond, who he believed to be dead. However, when Raymond's son is kidnapped, he emerges from deep undercover and the estranged brothers must work together to save the boy. Meanwhile, while processing a crime scene, an unknown assailant holds a gun to Calleigh's head and, after a deadly confrontation in her gun lab, she is left doubting that she can continue as a CSI.

    Director:Joe Chappelle
    Writers:Ann Donahue, Elizabeth Devine

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  14. CSI: Miami Season 4 Episode 24 - Rampage
    7.7/10(417 votes)

    #14 - Rampage

    S4:E24

    The Mala Noche gang trial is obstructed when the defendant goes free with the help of the witness who is testifying. When a hit ordered by the Mala Noche gang on Horatio finds the people he loves lives are in danger. Delko finds that an ex-lover is disturbing any woman who he is now close to.

    Director:Duane Clark
    Writers:Ann Donahue, Sunil Nayar

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  15. CSI: Miami Season 4 Episode 25 - One Of Our Own
    7.7/10(426 votes)

    #15 - One Of Our Own

    S4:E25

    In this thrilling season finale, the loss of one of their own is the first hit the lab will take. Getting back to the lab to process the evidence, they find it has been taken over by Federal Agents looking for stolen money from a previous case.

    Director:Matt Earl Beesley
    Writer:Barry O'Brien

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  16. CSI: Miami Season 6 Episode 4 - Bang, Bang, Your Debt
    7.7/10(421 votes)

    #16 - Bang, Bang, Your Debt

    S6:E4

    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

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  17. CSI: Miami Season 6 Episode 20 - Down to the Wire
    7.7/10(366 votes)

    #17 - Down to the Wire

    S6:E20

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Sunil Nayar

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  18. CSI: Miami Season 7 Episode 1 - Resurrection
    7.7/10(438 votes)

    #18 - Resurrection

    S7:E1

    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

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  19. CSI: Miami Season 7 Episode 8 - Gone Baby Gone
    7.7/10(368 votes)

    #19 - Gone Baby Gone

    S7:E8

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. CSI: Miami Season 7 Episode 19 - Target Specific
    7.7/10(342 votes)

    #20 - Target Specific

    S7:E19

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. CSI: Miami Season 8 Episode 22 - Mommie Deadest
    7.7/10(357 votes)

    #21 - Mommie Deadest

    S8:E22

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Krystal Houghton Ziv

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  22. CSI: Miami Season 9 Episode 18 - About Face
    7.7/10(347 votes)

    #22 - About Face

    S9:E18

    An escaped prisoner takes Natalia hostage and tells her a shocking secret about his crimes.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. CSI: Miami Season 9 Episode 22 - Mayday
    7.7/10(354 votes)

    #23 - Mayday

    S9:E22

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. CSI: Miami Season 1 Episode 18 - Dispo Day
    7.6/10(508 votes)

    #24 - Dispo Day

    S1:E18

    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
    Writers:Laurence Walsh, Ildy Modrovich

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  25. CSI: Miami Season 1 Episode 24 - Body Count
    7.6/10(548 votes)

    #25 - Body Count

    S1:E24

    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:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"All Fall Down" is the best rated episode of "CSI: Miami". It scored 8.2/10 based on 427 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".