CSI: NY: Season 5
2008 · 25 episodes · ★ 8.1
What Season 5 of CSI: NY
Season 5 of CSI: NY follows the crime lab team of the New York Police Department, led by Detective Mac Taylor, a former Marine played by Gary Sinise. Working alongside him are Stella Bonasera, Danny Messer, Don Flack, Lindsay Monroe and Dr. Sheldon Hawkes, each with their own approach to reading evidence. The cases start with strange scenes: a concert in Central Park that ends in a riot, a flight with a federal agent on board, an armored truck or an auction. The investigators reconstruct each scene and combine forensic deduction with criminal profiling. Mac, meanwhile, has to answer to the FBI, while the investigations uncover secrets of powerful people.
Season 5 Episodes
5x01 Veritas
Picking up where the season 4 finale left off. The team is investigating the death of a woman named Lauren Santana whom is linked to the bank robbery. She is a friend of Flack's sister Samantha.Also Mac has escaped the robber but the bodies are still piling up. So the team must quickly find the bank robber before he is able to get away.
Written by: Pam Veasey · Starring: Dayo Ade, Elias Koteas
5x02 Page Turner
A series of deaths from radiation poisoning may be related to a deadly tome in the New York library.
Directing: Frederick E. O. Toye · Writing: Trey Callaway · Starring: Edward Kerr, Adam Levine, Jonathon Trent, James Valentine
5x03 Turbulence
When a supposed air marshal is murdered on a flight to the District of Columbia, Mac searches the plane for the killer and the murder weapon.
Directing: Matt Earl Beesley · Starring: Michaela McManus, Ethan Erickson, Nelly, Justin Shilton
5x04 Sex, Lies and Silicone
The team investigates the puzzling death of a woman named Ann Steele. To solve the case, the team must look for a life size silicone doll. When the team runs into the factory that makes them, it prompts some amusement for some of the team.Meanwhile, Hawkes meets up with an old college friend who later asks him to compromise some evidence in the case.
Directing: Jonathan Glassner · Starring: Devon Gummersall, Andrew Kevin Walker, Brian Poth, Andrew W. Walker
5x05 The Cost Of Living
The CSI team investigates the shooting death of an archaeologist whose secret life may have caught up to him.
Directing: Rob Bailey · Starring: Adoni Maropis, Chad Faust, Katie Cleary, Tania Raymonde
5x06 Enough
Three drug dealers set to stand trial are found dead in separate places. They were all trying to get rid of witnesses in their crime, but it looks like someone got them first.
Directing: Alex Zakrzewski · Starring: Nikki Griffin, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Teddy Dunn, Kat Coiro
5x07 Dead Inside
The team investigates the brutal murder of a house relocator who was found dead inside a Victorian house that he was about to move from Staten Island to The Upper East Side.
Directing: Christine Moore · Written by: Pam Veasey · Starring: Marguerite MacIntyre, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Mirelly Taylor, Christopher Halsted
5x08 My Name is Mac Taylor
In the one hundredth episode of CSI: NY Mac faces his most deadly foe yet. There is a serial killer loose in New York City killing people with the name Mac Taylor making Mac a target.
Written by: Pam Veasey · Starring: Rumer Willis, Julia Ormond, Chris Daughtry, Nelly
5x09 The Box
A woman is found in the trunk of a crushed car at an auto wrecking yard, the autopsy reveals that she was pregnant, the team needs to find out who she is so they can find the baby.
Directing: Oz Scott · Starring: Lisa Darr, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Erin Cardillo, Kevin Weisman
5x10 The Triangle
The team is forced to investigate two crimes at once when a mysterious energy field seems to be the cause of a billionaire's disappearance and the death of his limo driver.
Writing: Trey Callaway · Starring: Neil Hopkins, Chris Mulkey, Parisa Fakhri
5x11 Forbidden Fruit
Mac runs into Ella McBride who could cost him time in figuring out if Isabelle Vaughn died by eating the miracle fruit. Stella gets in trouble with Mac while investigating another murder linked to the Greek diplomat that attacked her.
Directing: John Behring · Starring: Tahyna Tozzi MacManus, Kristin Cavallari, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Chris Carmack
5x12 Help
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. The unusual clues of this case force Dr. Hawkes to confront a painful chapter from his past.
Directing: David Barrett · Starring: Eyal Podell, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Bonnie McKee, Mackenzie Firgens
5x13 Rush to Judgement
The CSIs must piece together a human jigsaw puzzle when a beloved wrestling coach's severed body parts are found buried throughout the city. Meanwhile, Detective Flack is in the hot seat when a teenage suspect dies in his custody.
Directing: Rob Bailey · Starring: George Newbern, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Mayte Garcia, Edyta Śliwińska
5x14 She's Not There
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
Directed by: Nelson McCormick · Written by: Pam Veasey · Starring: Michelle Lee, Alyssa Diaz, Julia Ormond, Amara Zaragoza
5x15 The Party's Over
When the Deputy 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.
Directing: Oz Scott · Written by: Barbie Kligman · Starring: Donnie Jeffcoat, Ethan Erickson, Julia Ormond, David Chisum
5x16 No Good Deed
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.
Directing: Matt Earl Beesley · Starring: Daphnée Duplaix Samuel, Danay García, Casey LaBow, Graham Shiels
5x17 Green Piece
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.
Directing: Jeffrey G. Hunt · Starring: Robert Gant, Sarah Butler
5x18 Point of No Return
When the wife of 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.
Directing: Rob Bailey · Written by: Peter M. Lenkov · Starring: Adoni Maropis, Tony Amendola, Jonah Lotan, Emmanuelle Vaugier
5x19 Communication Breakdown
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.
Written by: Trey Callaway · Starring: Kavi Ladnier, Emmanuelle Vaugier
5x20 Prey
While investigating the shooting of a voice coach in an empty theater, Stella realizes that the crime scene is oddly familiar and staged.
Starring: Tony Amendola, Katharine McPhee, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Sam Ball
5x21 The Past, Present and Murder
When a man falls 20 stories to his death, and his body goes missing after it hits the ground, with no body to process, the CSI's must treat this strange development as a missing persons case.
Directing: David Von Ancken · Starring: Thad Luckinbill, Ian Anthony Dale, Craig T. Nelson, Mykelti Williamson
5x22 Yahrzeit
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.
Directing: Norberto Barba · Writing: Peter M. Lenkov · Starring: Shelley Berman, Scott Cohen, Summer Altice, Ed Asner
5x23 Greater Good
Mac informs an ex-con that he served time for a crime he didn't commit, and Lindsay tells Danny "it's time" for the first CSI baby to be born.
Directing: Alex Zakrzewski · Written by: Pam Veasey · Starring: Charles S. Dutton, Brendan Kelly, Mare Winningham, Geoff Meed
5x24 Grounds for Deception
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.
Directing: Duane Clark · Starring: Tony Amendola, Louis Mandylor, Sofya Skya
5x25 Pay Up Season Finale
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.
Directing: Rob Bailey · Starring: Thad Luckinbill, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Nelly, Craig T. Nelson
Season 5 Cast
Melina KanakaredesStella Bonasera25 episodes
Anna BelknapLindsay Monroe25 episodes
Carmine GiovinazzoDanny Messer25 episodes
A.J. BuckleyAdam Ross25 episodes
NellyTerrence Davis3 episodes
Casey LaBowElla McBride3 episodes
Adoni MaropisSebastian Diakos2 episodes
Thad LuckinbillConnor Dunbrook2 episodes
Ethan EricksonBrendon Walsh2 episodes
Nikki GriffinVivian KnoxEpisode 1
Neil HopkinsYert YawallacEpisode 1
Shelley BermanGeorge SavarEpisode 1
Marguerite MacIntyreAnnie McBrideEpisode 1All Seasons
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Frequently Asked Questions
How many episodes are in season 5 of CSI: NY?
Season 5 of CSI: NY has 25 episodes.
When did season 5 of CSI: NY premiere?
Premiered on September 24, 2008.
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