With references to 9/11 and the Iraq wars, the New York edition of “CSI” is notably darker than the Miami and Las Vegas dramas. Gary Sinise (“Forrest Gump”) is the obsessive leader. Stella Bonasera (Maria Kanakaredes) and Danny Messer (Carmine Giovinazzo) are part of the forensic team charged with investigating dealing with mysterious deaths and assaults.
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
When Stella discovers that New Yorkers are being murdered over ancient Greek artifacts, she hands over her badge to follow a clue that leads to Greece and, together with Mac, she uncovers one of the greatest mysteries in history
Mac informs an ex-con that he served time for a crime he didn't commit, and Anna tells Danny 'it's time' for the first CSI baby to be born
The most exclusive jewelry auction of the year ends abruptly when an appraiser is killed during the event
A Russian tourist is found stabbed to death and the CSIs come face to face with the frightening realities of human trafficking
When the Mayor's dead body falls from the ceiling, along with hundreds of balloons, at a charity fundraiser, Stella and her date find themselves in the middle of the crime scene and Mac goes head to head with Robert Dunbrook
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
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
When a former medical examiner is found murdered, a white powder found at the scene provides the CSIs with a major lead in tracking the killer when it is discovered that the powder is heroin made from human bodies
When a Native American chief is shot on the subway, the CSIs struggle to translate which one of the several foreign suspects may have caused his death
While investigating the shooting of a man in an empty theater, Stella realizes that the crime scene is oddly familiar and staged
When a man falls 52 stories to his death, and his body goes missing after it hits the ground, with no body to process, the CSIs must treat this strange development as a missing persons case
The CSIs must piece together a human jigsaw puzzle when a beloved wrestling coach's severed body parts are found buried throughout the city
Young brides-to-be fight over a killer dress at the biggest wedding gown sale of the year and one of the shoppers winds up dead
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