• Air date: 24 Sep '08 25 episodes
      The fifth season of CSI: NY originally aired on CBS between September 2008 and May 2009. It consisted of 25 episodes. Its regular time slot continued on Wednesdays at 10pm/9c. The premiere, "Veritas", concluded the story from the previous season's cliffhanger finale, "Hostage". CSI: NY The Fifth Season was released on DVD in the U.S. on September 29, 2009.
  • List of Episodes (25)
    • 1. Veritas

      24 Sep '08
      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.
    • 2. Page Turner

      01 Oct '08
      A series of deaths from radiation poisoning may be related to a deadly tome in the New York library.
    • 3. Turbulence

      08 Oct '08
      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.
    • 4. Sex, Lies and Silicone

      22 Oct '08
      The team investigates the puzzling death of a woman named Elaine 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.
    • 5. The Cost Of Living

      29 Oct '08
      The CSI team investigates the shooting death of an archaeologist whose secret life may have caught up to him.
    • 6. Enough

      05 Nov '08
      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.
    • 7. Dead Inside

      12 Nov '08
      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.
    • 8. My Name is Mac Taylor

      19 Nov '08
      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.
    • 9. The Box

      26 Nov '08
      A woman is found in an auto wrecking yard and a man is found in a trunk, two separate cases for the CSI team to investigate.
    • 10. The Triangle

      10 Dec '08
      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.
    • 11. Forbidden Fruit

      17 Dec '08
      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.
    • 12. Help

      14 Jan '09
      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.
    • 13. Rush to Judgement

      21 Jan '09
      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.
    • 14. She's Not There

      11 Feb '09
      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
    • 15. The Party's Over

      18 Feb '09
      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.
    • 16. No Good Deed

      25 Feb '09
      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.
    • 17. Green Piece

      11 Mar '09
      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.
    • 18. Point of No Return

      18 Mar '09
      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.
    • 19. Communication Breakdown

      25 Mar '09
      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.
    • 20. Prey

      08 Apr '09
      While investigating the shooting of a voice coach in an empty theater, Stella realizes that the crime scene is oddly familiar and staged.
    • 21. The Past, Present and Murder

      15 Apr '09
      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.
    • 22. Yahrzeit

      29 Apr '09
      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.
    • 23. Greater Good

      06 May '09
      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.
    • 24. Grounds for Deception

      13 May '09
      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.
    • 25. Pay Up

      14 May '09
      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.