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The Best Episodes of CSI: NY

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

Follow the investigations of a team of NYPD forensic scientists and police officers identified as "Crime Scene Investigators".
Genres:CrimeDramaMystery
Network:CBS

Best Episodes Summary

"Snow Day" is the best rated episode of "CSI: NY". It scored 8.7/10 based on 617 votes. Directed by Duane Clark and written by Pam Veasey, Peter M. Lenkov, it aired on 5/16/2007. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Yahrzeit".

  • Snow Day
    8.7/10617 votes
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    #1 - Snow Day

    Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 5/16/2007

    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

    Writer: Pam Veasey, Peter M. Lenkov

  • Yahrzeit
    8.6/10532 votes
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    #2 - Yahrzeit

    Season 5 Episode 22 - Aired 4/29/2009

    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

  • Death House
    8.6/10471 votes
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    #3 - Death House

    Season 6 Episode 10 - Aired 12/9/2009

    A frantic 911 call sends the CSIs into a vacant penthouse; however, instead of finding the caller, they unearth a nearly 100-year-old corpse and find themselves navigating their way through a booby-trapped house.

    Director: Norberto Barba

    Writer: N/A

  • Pay Up
    8.5/10369 votes
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    #4 - Pay Up

    Season 5 Episode 25 - Aired 5/14/2009

    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: N/A

  • Today Is Life
    8.3/10364 votes
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    #5 - Today Is Life

    Season 9 Episode 17 - Aired 2/22/2013

    Community unrest over the police shooting of an unarmed man forces Mac and the team to move quickly to solve the case.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Indelible
    8.2/10439 votes
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    #6 - Indelible

    Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/2011

    On the 10th anniversary of 9/11, Mac and the team remember specific moments from that day that were indelibly burned in their mind.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Thing About Heroes
    8.1/10355 votes
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    #7 - The Thing About Heroes

    Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 11/28/2007

    While in Chicago Mac uncovers more clues about his stalker and reveals his troubled past. Meanwhile, in New York the rest of the team is in danger. The hunt is on to figure out the identity of the 333 stalker before time runs out.

    Director: Anthony Hemingway

    Writer: Pam Veasey

  • Hostage
    8.1/10373 votes
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    #8 - Hostage

    Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 5/21/2008

    When a man takes hostages during a failed attempt to rob a bank, Mac offers himself in exchange for a hostage. Only condition is that he must prove that the bank robber did not kill the bank manager, whose body is found lying in a pool of blood in the vault. On the outside of the bank, the rest of the team works to process the evidence that Mac finds and stop the SWAT team from making matters worse.

    Director: Rob Bailey

    Writer: Peter M. Lenkov

  • Manhattanhenge
    8.1/10314 votes
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    #9 - Manhattanhenge

    Season 6 Episode 9 - Aired 11/25/2009

    In the culmination of a multi-episode mystery, Mac and his team uncover the dark lair of a murderous madman, the Compass Killer. But as they race to save his fourth victim, the sunrise presents one final surprise that no one ever expected.

    Director: Matt Earl Beesley

    Writer: Trey Callaway

  • Uncertainty Rules
    8.1/10307 votes
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    #10 - Uncertainty Rules

    Season 6 Episode 16 - Aired 3/3/2010

    The team investigates the particularly gruesome outcome of a 21st birthday where the party plans became all but anything worth celebrating. With just a few and not easy answers as their only lead in the case, the CSis are challenged to stretch their abilities to the limit.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Redemption
    8.1/10342 votes
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    #11 - Redemption

    Season 6 Episode 19 - Aired 4/14/2010

    A death row inmate's final request brings Dr. Hawkes to a Pennsylvania prison and face-to-face with a tragic incident that he has kept secret for many years, just as a prison riot erupts and traps Hawkes inside.

    Director: Steven DePaul

    Writer: N/A

  • Vacation Getaway
    8.1/10307 votes
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    #12 - Vacation Getaway

    Season 6 Episode 23 - Aired 5/26/2010

    The CSIs follow a trail left by Shane Casey and realize that he is targeting Danny, who is vacationing out of town with Lindsay and their daughter.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Life Sentence
    8.1/10275 votes
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    #13 - Life Sentence

    Season 7 Episode 21 - Aired 5/6/2011

    After a hail of gunfire tears through the crime lab, Mac and his ex-partner become part of a vendetta 17 years in the making.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Adam Targum

  • Hung Out to Dry
    8.0/10431 votes
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    #14 - Hung Out to Dry

    Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/11/2006

    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: N/A

  • Exit Strategy
    8.0/10311 votes
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    #15 - Exit Strategy

    Season 7 Episode 22 - Aired 5/13/2011

    Following a near-death experience, Mac becomes determined to close his last remaining unsolved case.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • What You See Is What You See
    7.9/10379 votes
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    #16 - What You See Is What You See

    Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 5/18/2005

    While Mac dines at his local breakfast spot, a gunman opens fire, leaving a waitress critically injured and a man dead, and Mac having to choose whether to chase after the suspect or save the life of the young woman. Meanwhile, before the chaos, Mac was approached by a shy patron who awkwardly engaged him in conversation. After feeling that he saved her life during the shoot out, she asks him to join her for a drink and Mac must decide if he is ready to start dating after his wife's tragic death.

    Director: Duane Clark

    Writer: Andrew Lipsitz

  • Heroes
    7.9/10387 votes
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    #17 - Heroes

    Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 5/10/2006

    Mack and Danny investigate a Marine found dead in Central Park during Fleet Week. The evidence doesn't add up and who is Ellie? Stella, Lindsay, and Hawkes investigate a dead body found in a burnt out car. The results of their investigation leads to a devastating loss for the whole team.

    Director: Anthony Hemingway

    Writer: N/A

  • Charge of this Post
    7.9/10370 votes
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    #18 - Charge of this Post

    Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 5/17/2006

    After a routine call leads two of the team into finding a bomb, they evacuate but a few are still in the building along with Mac and Flack when the bomb detonates. After the explosion the CSI's face a race against time to find the bomber and the possibility of losing one of their own. Mac must come to grips with having let a Marine die in Beirut in 1983.

    Director: Rob Bailey

    Writer: N/A

  • She's Not There
    7.9/10303 votes
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    #19 - She's Not There

    Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 2/11/2009

    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

  • Green Piece
    7.9/10307 votes
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    #20 - Green Piece

    Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 3/11/2009

    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: N/A

  • Cuckoo's Nest
    7.9/10292 votes
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    #21 - Cuckoo's Nest

    Season 6 Episode 8 - Aired 11/18/2009

    The Compass Killer is back, and adds yet another to his circle of victims -- but this time the CSI squad knows his name; Flack's alcoholism threatens to derail his career...

    Director: Jeffrey G. Hunt

    Writer: N/A

  • Justified
    7.9/10273 votes
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    #22 - Justified

    Season 7 Episode 9 - Aired 11/19/2010

    When a woman's body washes up at the South Street Seaport, the CSIs unravel a dark secret from Deputy Chief Carver's past that threatens to shatter his stellar reputation and close-knit family.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Smooth Criminal
    7.9/10299 votes
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    #23 - Smooth Criminal

    Season 7 Episode 14 - Aired 2/11/2011

    When the CSIs track down a suave and charming hitman, their investigation uncovers a conspiracy with far-reaching implications.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Means To An End
    7.9/10255 votes
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    #24 - Means To An End

    Season 8 Episode 9 - Aired 12/2/2011

    When an important witness turns up dead, Jo is caught up in the dangerous investigation of the suspected rapist who was freed on her watch in D.C.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Manhattan Manhunt (II)
    7.8/10466 votes
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    #25 - Manhattan Manhunt (II)

    Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/9/2005

    Horatio Caine follows Henry Darius to New York so that he can keep his promise to a young boy in Miami, but by the time he and Mac are able to locate Darius he has disappeared again, leaving behind six more bodies. The crossover starts on CSI: Miami S04E07 Felony Flight (I).

    Director: Rob Bailey

    Writer: Anthony E. Zuiker, Ann Donahue, Elizabeth Devine