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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    CSI: NY Season 3 Episode 1 - People With Money
    5.7/10(7 votes)

    #1 - People With Money

    S3:E1

    The body of a man is discovered on the Brooklyn Bridge, and the only evidence is a huge marriage proposal in lights. The CSI team works through the investigation as they learn to deal with a new medical examiner.

    Director:Rob Bailey
    Writers:Peter M. Lenkov, Pam Veasey

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  2. CSI: NY Season 2 Episode 10 - Jamalot
    5.9/10(7 votes)

    #2 - Jamalot

    S2:E10

    Mac and Stella work on the case of a female roller derby player. Danny and Hawkes look into the murder of one of New York's upcoming crop of writers.

    Director:Jonathan Glassner
    Writer:Andrew Lipsitz

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  3. CSI: NY Season 2 Episode 13 - Risk
    5.9/10(7 votes)

    #3 - Risk

    S2:E13

    Danny is on his way home after a long shift and finds Randy Williams subway surfing. Mac and Lindsay arrive on the scene and begin to wonder if Randy Williams died from riding on top of the subway. His death is even more suspicious after they examine the body more closely.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Anthony E. Zuiker

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  4. CSI: NY Season 3 Episode 14 - The Lying Game
    6.1/10(7 votes)

    #4 - The Lying Game

    S3:E14

    Can knowing a secret be a motive for murder? The CSI team must figure out if a change in gender is cause for the death of a showgirl. Also Lindsay goes back to Montana to try to put the person who committed the murder of four friends behind bars.

    Director:Anthony Hemingway
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. CSI: NY Season 4 Episode 4 - Time's Up
    6.1/10(8 votes)

    #5 - Time's Up

    S4:E4

    Is it possible to solve a murder 24 hours before it happens? Mac wonders if the suspect traveled through time to know about the murder in advance.

    Director:Rob Bailey
    Writer:Trey Callaway

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  6. CSI: NY Season 1 Episode 18 - The Dove Commission
    6.2/10(8 votes)

    #6 - The Dove Commission

    S1:E18

    When the chief investigator of a controversial report documenting corruption within the NYPD is gunned down the day before his findings are published, Mac and Stella must find the killer, launching a massive search that makes every officer listed in the report a suspect. Meanwhile, Danny and Aiden investigate the murder of a gypsy cab driver.

    Director:Emilio Estevez
    Writers:Anthony E. Zuiker, Andrew Lipsitz, Eli Talbert

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  7. CSI: NY Season 2 Episode 22 - Stealing Home
    6.3/10(9 votes)

    #7 - Stealing Home

    S2:E22

    Two women both claim to be the wife of a murder victim surprise Mac and Stella at the circumstances of their relationships. Both women have been in a trinogamous marriage with the victim. Meanwhile, Danny and Lindsay investigate the murder of a young woman who is found off a dock tangled up in kelp while she is dressed as a mermaid.

    Director:Oz Scott
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. CSI: NY Season 3 Episode 21 - Past Imperfect
    6.3/10(7 votes)

    #8 - Past Imperfect

    S3:E21

    Trouble begins for Mac when Clay Dobson becomes a free man due to a mistake he made. Stella learns the results of her HIV test from Adam.

    Director:Oz Scott
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. CSI: NY Season 1 Episode 10 - Night, Mother
    6.4/10(8 votes)

    #9 - Night, Mother

    S1:E10

    Mac and Stella investigate the murder of a woman who was stabbed in the heart with a wooden stake. The police arrest a woman who was kneeling over the body with blood on her, but Mac isn't convinced that she committed the crime.

    Directors:Deran Sarafian, Greg Yaitanes
    Writers:Janet Tamaro, Andrew Lipsitz, Eli Talbert

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  10. CSI: NY Season 1 Episode 13 - Tanglewood
    6.4/10(8 votes)

    #10 - Tanglewood

    S1:E13

    The detectives investigate a murder at a grocery store that is also connected to the death of a young man with the tattoo "Tanglewood" on his back. A third case involves a woman who was killed in a hit-and-run auto accident.

    Directors:Karen Gaviola, Scott Lautanen
    Writers:Anthony E. Zuiker, Ann Donahue, Carol Mendelsohn, Eli Talbert

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  11. CSI: NY Season 3 Episode 5 - Oedipus Hex
    6.4/10(9 votes)

    #11 - Oedipus Hex

    S3:E5

    The CSI's handle to puzzling cases; Carensa is a young Suicide Girl who at 17, wanted a change of scenery and to become a Suicide girl, at 18 she gets her wish only to lose her life. Chopper, a rising street basketball star, a homeless man trying to change his life for the better is killed and leaves a painful trail of blood which leaves Mac to figure out where and how he died.

    Director:Scott Lautanen
    Writer:Anthony E. Zuiker

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  12. CSI: NY Season 3 Episode 10 - Sweet Sixteen
    6.4/10(8 votes)

    #12 - Sweet Sixteen

    S3:E10

    The team is led to a crime scene in the middle of the city involving a parachute jumper whose parachute apparently failed. And one CSI is injured when a snake is found at a crime scene.

    Director:David Jackson
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. CSI: NY Season 1 Episode 1 - Blink
    6.5/10(10 votes)

    #13 - Blink

    S1:E1

    The team finds three young women, all of whom appear to have been brutalized in the same way. The only witness they have is the surviving young woman, who can communicate only through blinking. Photographs found at one of the crime scenes lead the team to a couple that had sponsored one of the victims, and the boyfriend who claims he hasn't spoken to her in weeks.

    Director:Deran Sarafian
    Writer:Anthony E. Zuiker

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  14. CSI: NY Season 1 Episode 8 - Three Generations are Enough
    6.5/10(8 votes)

    #14 - Three Generations are Enough

    S1:E8

    Danny and Mac investigate after a briefcase belonging to Luke Sutton is found left in the NYMEX with a bloody note inside. Their investigation into Sutton's activities lead them to Nick Lawson, whom Sutton had been investigating for illegal trades, but who swears he had nothing to do with his disappearance. Stella and Flack investigate the death of Trina Rolston, a young pregnant women who fell to her death from the roof of a church. With Hawkes help, Stella realises that the body was thrown off the roof to mask the true cause of death. The detectives soon realise that their two cases are connected.

    Director:Alex Zakrzewski
    Writer:Andrew Lipsitz

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  15. CSI: NY Season 2 Episode 21 - All Access
    6.5/10(8 votes)

    #15 - All Access

    S2:E21

    Mac and Lindsay question Kid Rock because he was the last person to see his limo driver alive when the driver is found dead in the alley just before Kid Rock’s encore performance concert.

    Director:Norberto Barba
    Writer:Anthony E. Zuiker

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  16. CSI: NY Season 6 Episode 11 - Second Chances
    6.5/10(4 votes)

    #16 - Second Chances

    S6:E11

    A reformed drug addict with everything to live for is found dead in an alley. The CSI's discover he was the victim of a premeditated plot.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. CSI: NY Season 2 Episode 18 - Live or Let Die
    6.6/10(7 votes)

    #17 - Live or Let Die

    S2:E18

    The life of a transplant patient hangs in the balance as the team tries to find the hijacked plane carrying the liver.

    Director:Rob Bailey
    Writer:Pam Veasey

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  18. CSI: NY Season 2 Episode 20 - Run Silent, Run Deep
    6.6/10(7 votes)

    #18 - Run Silent, Run Deep

    S2:E20

    Mac receives a phone call confessing to an old murder before the caller commits suicide. The call leads the team to a football stadium to uncover a body and they learn the suicide victim belongs to the Tanglewood gang. They also find a cigarette that puts Danny's job on the line after his DNA is found on it. Stella and Danny investigate the death of a businessman who used the services of an expensive call girl service.

    Director:Rob Bailey
    Writer:Anthony E. Zuiker

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  19. CSI: NY Season 4 Episode 1 - Can You Hear Me Now?
    6.6/10(7 votes)

    #19 - Can You Hear Me Now?

    S4:E1

    The team find themselves investigating something that isn't usually on the Statue of Liberty. Can a musician's life be saved before time runs out?

    Director:David Von Ancken
    Writer:Pam Veasey

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  20. CSI: NY Season 6 Episode 19 - Redemption
    6.8/10(5 votes)

    #20 - Redemption

    S6:E19

    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:Unknown

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  21. CSI: NY Season 1 Episode 2 - Creatures of the Night
    6.9/10(8 votes)

    #21 - Creatures of the Night

    S1:E2

    Junkie Jordy Thompkins was shot dead in an alleyway, but the bullet that killed him is missing. Taylor and Hawkes soon realise that a rat may have eaten the bullet, and finding the rat leads them to a robbery that occurred earlier that day. After Robin Prescott is found raped and beaten in Central Park with only a peony leaf on her clothing, Stella and Flack have the daunting task of trying to find the man who raped her, but Prescott has no memory of the crime.

    Director:Tim Hunter
    Writer:Pam Veasey

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  22. CSI: NY Season 1 Episode 3 - American Dreamers
    7.4/10(7 votes)

    #22 - American Dreamers

    S1:E3

    After a skeleton is found on a tour bus and turns out to be over a decade old, Mac and the team use the backpack they have found to track the belongings to a young man named Aaron Moreland, only to learn that the body they have cannot possibly belong to him. By tracing the victim's shirt, detectives are led to a youth center worker who claims not to remember the boy, but is hiding an old secret of his own.

    Directors:Kevin Bray, Rob Bailey
    Writer:Eli Talbert

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  23. CSI: NY Season 3 Episode 7 - Murder Sings the Blues
    7.5/10(6 votes)

    #23 - Murder Sings the Blues

    S3:E7

    A young woman dies after she starts bleeding from the eyes, nose, and mouth while at a party aboard a subway train. Mac originally believes she is the victim of a biological attack. Later, it is revealed that Sheldon knew the victim. Across town, a wealthy playboy is found dead in an indoor lap pool in his penthouse suite. The investigation reveals that he was murdered and his last maid was fired two days earlier.

    Director:Oz Scott
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. CSI: NY Season 5 Episode 16 - No Good Deed
    7.5/10(4 votes)

    #24 - 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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  25. CSI: NY Season 7 Episode 7 - Hide Sight
    7.6/10(5 votes)

    #25 - Hide Sight

    S7:E7

    Mac is on the hunt for a sniper who is using nitroglycerin in his bullets to explode on impact, and the prime suspect was once a missing boy from one of Mac's old cases.

    Director:Alex Zakrzewski
    Writer:Bill Haynes

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Worst Episodes Summary

"People With Money" is the worst rated episode of "CSI: NY". It scored 5.7/10 based on 7 votes. Directed by Rob Bailey and written by Peter M. Lenkov, Pam Veasey, it aired on 9/20/2006. This episode scored 0.2 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Jamalot".