7.1/10448 votes#1 - Rio
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/18/2006
The episode picks up straight where "One of Our Own" left off. Horatio and Delko have arrived in Rio de Janeiro to hunt down Antonio Riaz, who ordered the hit on Marisol. The problem is that Horatio can't stop thinking about his late wife, and Brazilian authorities aren't being very cooperative. While there, Horatio runs into Yelina and finds out that Raymond is missing again. Ray Jr., now fourteen, teams up with Brazilian authorities and will stop at nothing to bring his father home safe, until Horatio learns the terrible truth... Raymond is already dead. Now Horatio must stop his nephew from getting himself killed trying to chase a ghost.
Director: Joe Chappelle
Writer: Sunil Nayar
7.1/10369 votes#2 - Going Under
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 9/25/2006
Calleigh is run off of the road in to a canal and causes freshly collected evidence to be compromised. The team must work to find new evidence, as most of the water-damaged evidence is unusable.
Director: Matt Earl Beesley
Writer: N/A
7.1/10364 votes#3 - Death Pool 100
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 10/2/2006
The dead body of a celebrity is found at an A-list party. They soon discover that the murder is linked to a “death pool,” where gambling occurs on an offshore ship. A counterfeit ring is also discovered where 100-dollar bills are produced in this 100th episode of CSI: Miami.
Director: N/A
Writer: Ann Donahue, Elizabeth Devine
6.8/10380 votes#4 - If Looks Could Kill
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 10/9/2006
The CSI’s investigate the murder of a male model and have to figure out the inner workings of the modeling world in order to find his killer.
Director: Scott Lautanen
Writer: Ildy Modrovich, Barry O'Brien
7.2/10353 votes#5 - Death Eminent
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 10/16/2006
The body of a local politician is found in an empty house. The entire neighborhood was upset that he was backing the use of eminent domain, allowing the government to force them out of their homes.
Director: N/A
Writer: C-Murder
7.4/10369 votes#6 - Curse Of The Coffin
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 10/23/2006
When strange accidents occur in the lab, the CSI team is spooked during a death investigation involving voodoo. As Halloween is near everyone starts to think that the lab is cursed.
Director: Joe Chappelle
Writer: Sunil Nayar
6.9/10352 votes#7 - High Octane
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 11/6/2006
After an accident where the driver was decapitated during a dangerous stunt, the evidence leads the CSI’s to believe it was more than an accident. While gathering the evidence, the CSI’s find they must go into the world of “sideshows.”
Director: N/A
Writer: Marc Dube
7.2/10361 votes#8 - Darkroom
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 11/13/2006
A murder and kidnapping becomes personal when DNA from a crime scene reveals that Natalia’s sister Anya is one of the kidnapped women they are looking for. The team finds a safe full of photos of missing women and they must find the photographer who was using his camera to lure the unsuspecting women.
Director: Karen Gaviola
Writer: N/A
7.1/10341 votes#9 - Going, Going, Gone
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 11/20/2006
After a young woman is found dead shortly after she was auctioned off for charity, the team finds that the woman was trying to uncover the true nature of the event’s host. As the team delves deeper into the investigation they soon discover a larger plot that could put Miami in danger.
Director: Matt Earl Beesley
Writer: Elizabeth Devine
6.8/10350 votes#10 - Come As You Are
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 11/27/2006
A Marine recruiter is found dead on a civilian shooting range with various bullet holes in him, but there is no blood at the scene. The investigators uncover that the victim was dead before he was shot and that his body was pulled onto the range. As the case advances, Horatio determines the murder may be tied to the death of a marine in Iraq who was killed in combat. Likewise, Natalia is shocked to learn that Nick asked Valera out and that she accepted.
Director: Joe Chappelle
Writer: N/A
7.1/10330 votes#11 - Backstabbers
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 12/11/2006
When terror suspect Sonya Barak is targeted by her own people for assassination, she goes on the run, and Horatio sets out to capture her, both to protect her and bring her to justice.
Director: N/A
Writer: Barry O'Brien
7.3/10359 votes#12 - Internal Affairs
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 1/8/2007
After Nick is found to have been killed with all the evidence pointing to Natalia as the killer the rest of the team has been sidelined by the Internal Affairs investigation. Horatio with the help of the night shift lab and Calleigh’s ex-boyfriend have to find the evidence to clear Natalia.
Director: Scott Lautanen
Writer: C-Murder
7.0/10339 votes#13 - Throwing Heat
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 1/22/2007
After Frank steps on a land mine at a crime scene Horatio and the Bomb Technicians must deactivate the bomb. Delko gets hit with a large lawsuit after breaking up a domestic dispute.
Director: Joe Chappelle
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/10369 votes
#14 - No Man's Land
Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 2/5/2007
A truck carrying weapons that were confiscated from previous crimes are now back on the streets of Miami. An old enemy of Horatio's puts the lives of two CSI's in harms way after a confiscated missile is launched into courthouse allowing Clavo Cruz to escape during his arraignment and injuring one CSI and the fatality of another CSI.
Director: Karen Gaviola, Scott Lautanen
Writer: N/A
7.5/10378 votes#15 - Man Down
Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 2/12/2007
Horatio has Eric rushed to the hospital and watches as the doctors try to revive him. The rest of the CSI team finds evidence that may lead them to Cruz.
Director: Karen Gaviola
Writer: Ildy Modrovich
7.1/10405 votes#16 - Broken Home
Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 2/19/2007
The CSIs investigate when the parents of a baby sitter in an upscale neighborhood are murdered. As the team sorts through the neighbors' secrets and lies, they find an unexpected love triangle as a motive for murder. Meanwhile, a key piece of evidence found at the crime scene leads Horatio to expose a doctor with some dirty secrets of his own.
Director: N/A
Writer: Barry O'Brien
7.1/10353 votes#17 - A Grizzly Murder
Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 2/26/2007
Evidence suggests a victim may have been set up as bait, after he's found to have been attacked and killed by a black bear. It's discovered the killer may have been trying to hide another murder - that of a high priced hooker and her bodyguard, who were part of a prostitution ring catering to elite Miami clients.
Director: N/A
Writer: Barry O'Brien
7.6/10388 votes#18 - Triple Threat
Season 5 Episode 18 - Aired 3/19/2007
After a wealthy businessman is killed at a charity event the CSI's first suspect his wife who was hosting the event. The blood evidence is thought to belong to the wife or her two secret twin sisters but leads the investigators in another direction after the victim is not who they thought he was.
Director: Scott Lautanen
Writer: C-Murder, Sunil Nayar
7.0/10332 votes#19 - Bloodline
Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 4/9/2007
After a scalped body is found near a Native American casino, Horatio believes that the owners of the Casino and the County Supervisor may have had some involvement in the murder.
Director: N/A
Writer: Marc Dube
7.0/10338 votes#20 - Rush
Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 4/16/2007
After a movie star is killed at a celebrity rehab center, the CSI's investigate the secrets that the star was about to reveal and if this is what caused him to have been killed.
Director: N/A
Writer: Ildy Modrovich
7.2/10354 votes#21 - Just Murdered
Season 5 Episode 21 - Aired 4/23/2007
When the mistress involved with the husband in Miami's ugliest divorce battle is found to have been killed the divorce battle intensifies and the body count rises.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.2/10329 votes#22 - Burned
Season 5 Episode 22 - Aired 4/30/2007
When one of Horatio's team lets their personal problems contaminate the investigation involving a spurned ex-lover, Horatio has to fire that team member.
Director: Anthony Hemingway
Writer: N/A
7.1/10333 votes#23 - Kill Switch
Season 5 Episode 23 - Aired 5/7/2007
After the murder of a suspected carjacker the team discovers that he may have been involved with a formidable drug lord and was suspected of drug running off Miami's shores.
Director: Scott Lautanen
Writer: Marc Dube
7.4/10352 votes#24 - Born to Kill
Season 5 Episode 24 - Aired 5/14/2007
There's a serial killer on the loose marking all of his victims with a Y on their chests and one or more of the csi's lives are in danger in this season 5 finale
Director: Karen Gaviola
Writer: Ann Donahue, Sunil Nayar
The Best Episodes of CSI: Miami Season 5
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Season 5 Ratings Summary
"Rio" is the best rated episode of "CSI: Miami" season 5. It scored 7.1/10 based on 448 votes. Directed by Joe Chappelle and written by Sunil Nayar, it aired on 9/18/2006. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Going Under".