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A serial killer taunts the CSIs by leaving them cryptic hints, and the longer it takes them to decode these puzzles, the higher the death toll rises, on the eighth season finale of CSI: MIAMI.

In this thrilling season finale, the loss of one of their own is the first hit the lab will take. Getting back to the lab to process the evidence, they find it has been taken over by Federal Agents looking for stolen money from a previous case.

The Mala Noche gang trial is obstructed when the defendant goes free with the help of the witness who is testifying. When a hit ordered by the Mala Noche gang on Horatio finds the people he loves lives are in danger. Delko finds that an ex-lover is disturbing any woman who he is now close to.

While investigating the murder of man hired to make dirty bombs that terrorists intend to set off in Miami, Horatio finds the bloody fingerprint of his brother, Raymond, who he believed to be dead. However, when Raymond's son is kidnapped, he emerges from deep undercover and the estranged brothers must work together to save the boy. Meanwhile, while processing a crime scene, an unknown assailant holds a gun to Calleigh's head and, after a deadly confrontation in her gun lab, she is left doubting that she can continue as a CSI.

A diamond broker carrying two million dollars in merchandise is murdered after his car is hit by another vehicle and he gets out to confront the driver. The only witness to the crime is a developmentally challenged man who says the killer is someone named Colton. Meanwhile, outside of town, Speedle and Delko investigate the death of a teenage girl discovered at a rest stop with a broken neck. Shortly after the victim is taken from the scene, her body disappears during transport to Miami.

Every member of CSI is a suspect when one of the team's enemies is murdered. When the investigation becomes deadly, Samantha Owens ends up having to be rescued.

An adult film actress is found strangled in the park and the CSIs must find the killer. Blood and human tissue are found under Ashley Anders' nails and the DNA matches that of the CEO of the company that distributes her films – and he's a registered sex offender. Also, Calleigh discovers his answering machine audiotape on which he makes a threat against Ashley. However, there is an accident back at the lab with this crucial piece of evidence and Delko was the last person to handle it. Now, IAB's Rick Stetler is put on the case, much to Horatio's dismay, as the CSIs try to uncover further evidence in order to find the girl's killer.

When a beloved tennis coach is nearly killed, Calleigh discovers a personal connection to the case.

A corruption scandal is uncovered by the CSI team which forces Horatio to face an old adversary. Malcolm McDowell returns as Darren Vogel.

As the first new medical examiner they have is shot, the CSIs learn the streets of Miami got more dangerous. Horatio must keep his team alive and restore order to his son's life. The clock runs out when one of their own is gunned down.

When the Miami Taunter strikes again, Horatio meets with the matriarch of the suspected killer's family.

Horatio and Speedle's case hinges on the testimony of a forensic-evidence enthusiast who stole a blood-drenched latex glove from the scene of the murder of a man who was stabbed to death with a butterfly knife. When Speedle tracks him down, the CSI wannabe is impressed by the ease with which Speedle was able to locate him, and the two begin to develop a slight bond when he shows up at the crime lab the night before he is set to testify. However, their relationship is cut short when the young man is found dead in his forensics-shrine of a home. Meanwhile, Delko and Calleigh probe the shooting death of a young woman whose body is found wrapped in a plastic garbage bag in a dumpster near the ritzy Miami club where she worked.

In the second part of the two part episodes, Horatio deals with his past and the rest of the team works to rescue Calleigh from kidnappers.

When the investigation of a dead millionaire leads the CSIs to an elite dating service, Ryan poses as a wealthy businessman to expose the matchmaker's lies.

A lawyer is run down by a car, then a man is shot down in a cafe. The only common link was that they were both caught on camera in a pedophile sting, and the team hunts for a vigilante.

The CSI's must catch a madman causing havoc all over Miami and the team has to mourn one of their own.

When strange accidents occur in the lab, the CSI team is spooked during a death investigation involving voodoo. As Halloween is near everyone starts to think that the lab is cursed.

When Horatio's ex-girlfriend is killed in an explosion, the team looks within their own department to find the killer.

Memmo makes a return, bringing chaos to Miami and pitting him against Horatio in a final showdown.

When a teenage girl returns home from a big party night at an underage nightclub to find her parents murdered, the search for the killer leads Horatio to New York City. Before he arrives, the New York detectives, led by Detective Mac Taylor, are called out to investigate the shooting of an undercover police officer – who, it turns out, is the lead suspect in the Miami case. However, the medical examiner determines that he has been dead for 72 hours and could not even have been alive at the time of the double-murder in Miami. After further investigation, Horatio and Mac determine that the real killer murdered the New York cop, then used his ID to get to Miami, and is still on the loose.

Horatio fights to save Yelina and when Delko goes against Calleigh's plea and helps his dangerous father, his life is put in jeopardy.

When a savage killer runs rampant in Miami, Horatio must intervene to stop a member of the police force from getting too close to the case.

Wolfe faces a terrible dilemma when he's forced by an unknown assailant to cover up evidence in a murder/robbery, or else the kidnapped Billy Gantry will be killed....

The investigation into a drug heist offers brief glimpses into the private lives of the CSIs, whose nerves are on edge when they become suspects in the crime they're trying to solve. A police convoy headed across town includes an unmarked truck filled with confiscated drugs being taken to an incinerator to be destroyed. The trip ends abruptly when thieves hijack the vehicle, kill its driver and shoot Speedle, who was riding shotgun. It's hard for Horatio when the media draw comparisons to a similar case several years ago in which his brother, an undercover cop, was killed. But it's worse for his team when Internal Affairs decides that one of them tipped off the robbers about the delivery.

Miami's wealthiest appear to be targeted in a series of stabbings and robberies, and evidence leads back to Russian mobster Ivan Sarnoff, who was last seen in prison, mocking Horatio.

A man is murdered when someone drops a piece of slate off a bridge. The team tracks the slate to one of their own and Alexx's son becomes a suspect. Then to make matters worse Alexx finds him in a warehouse holding a bloody knife over his friend who happened to be the other suspect.

An escaped prisoner takes Natalia hostage and tells her a shocking secret about his crimes.

When the CSIs find a woman swallowed whole and killed by a gigantic snake, they uncover a covert drug smuggling operation. Evidence leads Horatio and the team to a drug smuggling operation where large snakes are suspected of be being used to bring illegal drugs into the country to avoid detection by customs. However, when Horatio finds that Clavo Cruz, a nemesis of Horatio's who hides behind his diplomatic immunity, may be behind the operation, the team must find a legal way to put the criminal behind bars. Meanwhile, Wolfe must find the truth when two women each claim that they are the real victim of identity theft and the other is the culprit.

Horatio and the team go head-to-head with a defense attorney who may be involved in a murder cover-up.

On the 200th episode Horatio must find an attacker and save a pregnant woman and hope he has an idea as to why she was attacked.

A truck carrying weapons that were confiscated from previous crimes are now back on the streets of Miami. An old enemy of Horatio's puts the lives of two CSI's in harms way after a confiscated missile is launched into courthouse allowing Clavo Cruz to escape during his arraignment and injuring one CSI and the fatality of another CSI.

A former high school football star is murdered at a reunion, the CSIs must find the killer. The victim was the big man on campus in high school and there are a lot of guests at the reunion with reasons to resent him all these years. Now, the team must investigate everyone, from the head cheerleader to the school misfit, to see who held a decade-old grudge big enough to kill. Meanwhile, Horatio and Delko arrive at a crime scene and discover that it's already been processed, leading Horatio to uncover further information about his brother possibly being alive.

The CSIs must find the killer after a young woman is pushed in front of a moving bus. Alexx finds a bruise shaped like a hand imprint on the victim's back, proving that she was pushed in front of the bus, and her boyfriend, Jay Seaver, is the prime suspect. When one of Jay's office rivals also turns up dead, Jay reveals that he has a psychotic stalker, Claudia, who he thinks might kill to please him. However, when Jay hires a lawyer to protect Claudia, Horatio suspects that Jay may be more involved than they thought. Later, a man's body is discovered down an elevator shaft in a nearby building, and there is evidence to link the victims to a common killer. Meanwhile, Calleigh's father seeks her help when he fears that he may have killed someone after a night of drinking, and Horatio assigns a new CSI, Ryan Wolfe, to the case.

The team is sent to investigate the death of a local celebrity, who is found murdered in her bathtub. The list of suspects includes her musician boyfriend, her assistant and her rival. The search for a young abducted girl is triggered, and Horatio tells Delko of Marisol and his plans.

Delko and Alexx are nearly burned alive when they investigate the death of a hunter found shot near a supposedly controlled burn in the Everglades. The fire suddenly rages out of control and traps them, forcing them to take refuge under a tarpaulin. Later, a second body is discovered, and this time it's a young woman who looks to have been beaten to death. After bite marks are found on the victim's breasts, Horatio is led to believe a sex offender is behind the attack – and the fire.

When pirates take over a luxury yacht, Delko's future as a CSI is threatened just as his relationship with Calleigh moves to the next level.

The team investigates the puzzling death of a student and find evidence that Tim Speedle may not be dead.

Josh Dalton, a hot, young reporter for the Miami Sun, witnesses the murder of his friend, a city councilman's aide, in Miami's drug district, the Golden Triangle. Josh, who was suspiciously unharmed in the attack, claims that they were only down there on a story, but Horatio believes that there's more to the situation. Later, another writer from the same paper is found shot to death inside the trunk of her car, which was reported stolen. Now, as the evidence rejects Josh's version of what happened, the CSIs find themselves entangled in the world of fast-paced journalism and learn that there is a dangerously fine line between the truth and what sells newspapers.

The body of a local politician is found in an empty house. The entire neighborhood was upset that he was backing the use of eminent domain, allowing the government to force them out of their homes.

An inmate at a massive Miami prison complex is stabbed to death in the prison yard. Shortly after Horatio arrives on the scene, a helicopter appears above the correctional facility. He immediately fears that the murder was a decoy to set up an escape. That's confirmed as three prisoners hop aboard the chopper and flee. As the investigation gets underway, the identities of the fugitives become known and a horrible realization sweeps over Horatio: two of the escapees are cold-blooded killers who already have their next victims picked out, and the other is a child molester who he recently put away.

Horatio is quick on the scene when an armored truck carrying $3.2 million is robbed in a daring downtown heist. During the holdup, the driver is killed and Horatio guns down one of the two thieves. The other escapes with the loot, but the money turns out to be counterfeit. The team must figure out what happened to the bank's money before it was replaced with fake bills. Making the day even worse for Horatio, Yelina spies him with his niece and assumes the girl is his illegitimate child, not her own late husband's daughter.

A murder and kidnapping becomes personal when DNA from a crime scene reveals that Natalia’s sister Anya is one of the kidnapped women they are looking for. The team finds a safe full of photos of missing women and they must find the photographer who was using his camera to lure the unsuspecting women.

When a neighborhood do-gooder is murdered, Horatio and the CSIs discover that he was planning to blow the whistle on something big.

After a large yacht slams into a major Miami bridge, the team finds that the man steering the boat was shot and killed before the accident. The victim's wife reveals that their son had been kidnapped and her husband was handing over the ransom – three million dollars worth of jewels. But when the team learns that the jewels were fake, the investigation leads them into a dangerous situation at a jewelry shop that may contain crucial evidence, where Horatio must face the unimaginable when one of the team is killed in the line of duty.

An explosion in an upscale Miami eatery has the CSI team scrambling to figure out who would target a family enjoying a dinner out, and why...

When a man is killed due to a fake 911 call, Horatio must face off with a private investigator who is systematically destroying the team. The PI also digs into the team's personal lives and gets both Calleigh and Eric pulled off the case.

The team must figure out why a fisherman is being targeted and keep him from being killed.

A baby is taken from her mother's arms in broad daylight, and the team must race against time to find her.

When the mistress involved with the husband in Miami's ugliest divorce battle is found to have been killed the divorce battle intensifies and the body count rises.

Eric Delko returns as an expert witness for the defense, pitting himself against his old team.

When a former surf champion is murdered in his home, the CSIs are determined to find the killer. Ted Henderson is killed in his own home and his body is missing, while his wife and son are left beaten and bound. While searching the home, Horatio finds heroin in the son's room and learns that he is secretly a drug dealer. Meanwhile, the CSIs find a home pregnancy kit in the bathroom that reveals Ted's wife is pregnant, but Alexx finds proof that the baby could not possibly be Ted's. Now, Horatio and the team find evidence that suggests that someone at Ted's surfboard manufacturing plant was not only the son's supplier, but may have a strong motive for the murder as well.

The team hunt for a serial killer before he can take another victim - who may be one of the team.

In the season finale, Horatio must capture an escapee again when their transport plane crashes. And the team was shocked to discover that the fugitive has planned more than that.

A serial killer is on the loose with a craving, making Calleigh its next victim, which also jeopardizes her ability to do her job.

A dead junkie is found on a Miami street with a broken neck and a wad of cash in his hand. When the body is taken to the lab, Alexx notices that the victim's right hand is burned down to the muscle, even though it wasn't like that when he was found. It's deduced that he was exposed to radioactive material. The investigation leads Horatio to an environmental lawyer involved in radiation cases. Shortly thereafter, she learns that she is being eaten up inside by the deadly substance and has only days to live, but she doesn't know how she ingested it or who gave it to her.

Calleigh and Ryan come close to being murdered while investigating a home in which they find the corpse of a doctor who's been performing illegal transplant operations in his garage...

Horatio delves into Delko's past to find the killer who targets the motel Delko is staying at.

A celebrity photographer is found dead in his car following an accident, but Horatio believes he was murdered. The investigation leads to an A-list movie star who was caught in a compromising position in photos taken by the paparazzi.

After a bitter custody battle, shots are fired outside the courthouse. Bullets fly and the target is the little girl's mother. Horatio goes after the father, who he suspects may not be the girl's biological father after all. However, when the mother's shady past is uncovered, the team finds that she has a lot of enemies who would like to take a shot at her. Meanwhile, Calleigh's father returns to the crime lab for her guidance but for an unexpected reason.

Local tipsters help the CSI's fight to save their neighborhood from a violent street gang's attempt to take over the area.

Kyle's mom shows up in Miami and she is the widowed wife of a billionaire. She wants Kyle back and will do anything to get him back.

Horatio hunts for the person responsible for a vicious attack on a woman who was lured to a vacant condo and beaten with a piece of lumber.

When the man who killed Horatio's wife breaks out of prison and goes on a rampage, the team tries to determine what he is after.

After a fire hydrant washes away evidence, the team must recreate a bizarre double murder.

Horatio heads to Los Angeles to hopefully clear Jesse's name, all while a former sports superstar is being investigated after a girl is found dead in his home...

Horatio Caine calls Las Vegas CSI Ray Langston to come to Miami when a severed leg found in the Everglades is discovered to belong to a girl who went missing in Las Vegas a week earlier. The crossover continues on CSI:NY S06E07 Hammer Down (II) and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation S10E07 The Lost Girls (III).

The murder of a bride at a wedding leads the CSI team to a strip club as the investigation progresses.

As a huge tsunami heads directly towards Miami, a ten-hour warning gives citizens just enough time to evacuate the city. In the chaos, two people are killed in a parking lot and the evidence leads Horatio to discover a plot to rob a bank timed to take advantage of the evacuation. However, as the CSIs close in on the robbery already in progress, they find that it's a more elaborate crime than they previously thought. In the wake of the storm, Ryan and Alexx discover a body washed up from a local cemetery that may have a different cause of death than originally recorded. Meanwhile, Horatio suspects that Yelina is being physically abused by her boyfriend, IAB's Rick Stetler.

When the sisters of a Miami sorority are knocked off one by one, the CSIs try to end the murder spree.

The CSIs investigate the brutal murder of a man who was learning how to pick up women at a hot nightclub. Meanwhile, Horatio tries to help out Marisol, Eric Delko's sister, who was arrested on drug charges.

A high stakes poker game is disrupted by a masked assassin, leaving one player dead and the CSIs baffled.

When a woman is murdered at an exclusive club, Horatio must search through an elite guest list to find the killer.

Horatio battles the FBI and U.S. Marshals as he tries to uncover why a woman was murdered at the side of a pool at a hotel. The investigation begins shortly after the woman is found dead from two shots to the head. The evidence suggests that it was a professional hit man, which is strange enough, but the case becomes additionally puzzling when the Feds and U.S. Marshals get involved. Plus, the murder weapon is linked to a cold case that was orinially investigated by Yelina. Meanwhile, Calleigh talks to her dad about his drinking problem after she's called away from work to drag him out of a bar.

Delko's deepest secrets are threatened to be exposed when the daughter of his therapist is killed. The team rushes to find the killer before this happens.

When the most hated man in Miami is murdered, the CSIs go on the hunt for his killer and his hidden treasure.

The CSIs uncover a complex counterfeiting operation after a bellboy is found murdered at one of Miami's hottest hotels. The luggage that the deceased bellboy had been loading, as well as a heist of a special paper that money is printed on, leads the CSIs to uncover a complex counterfeiting operation. It's cruise season in Miami, which means that the population of Miami swells, giving the team even more suspects to the murder. Meanwhile, Calleigh must investigate when a woman goes missing, and is later found dead, after she and her husband attend a hot and flirty "friction" party.

The CSIs expose the seedy underbelly of children’s beauty pageants when a contestant's mom is murdered.

Deadly jellyfish are used as a murder weapon, and a mysterious woman from Jesse's past returns.

Horatio is determined to find a family that completely disappeared.

After a group of wealthy women are robbed at a luxury day spa, evidence leads the CSIs to believe that this is a part of a much larger car chopping scam and each of these women are being targeted for a home robbery. Matters become worse when Horatio discovers that Marisol was also at the spa during robbery and he must now protect her when her life is threatened. Meanwhile, Ryan must deal with the fallout after he freezes during a shootout.

A young man gets involved with a dangerous operation in an effort to rescue his girlfriend who's been brought to this country to work as an indentured servant...

When a priest is found dead in his rectory after being brutally shot, Megan, Calleigh and Speedle must untangle a messy web of familial issues that lead to his death. Elsewhere, Horatio and Eric attempt to solve the emotional case of an exploded vehicle, which was home to a mother with child.

The investigation into a runway model's death leads Horatio to his son and his nemesis.

Megan Donner returns to the CSI unit in time to work on a jet crash in the Everglades. While searching for survivors, they inexplicably discover a female victim found five miles from the crash site. When the only survivor says the woman opened the plane's hatch in order to commit suicide, Horatio is suspicious. The team must now recreate what happened on that fatal flight, especially when the pieces don't quite fit together.

In a deserted mansion, the CSIs find a body hanging that appears to have been killed by a vampire.

When a high school bully dies as a result of a stoning, the CSIs have to find out which nerd is responsible.

A victim's spirit won't leave Calleigh alone until she finds justice for his murder.

After a young woman is found dead shortly after she was auctioned off for charity, the team finds that the woman was trying to uncover the true nature of the event’s host. As the team delves deeper into the investigation they soon discover a larger plot that could put Miami in danger.

Horatio's son goes missing when a prison transport is attacked. Upon learning the identity of Kyle, he is targeted in order to get at Lt. Caine, who must find him before it is too late. Meanwhile, Ryan causes tension with his former colleagues when he is hired as an expert witness for the defense.

After a scalped body is found near a Native American casino, Horatio believes that the owners of the Casino and the County Supervisor may have had some involvement in the murder.

Calleigh and Eric are put in danger when a 200-foot crane crashes into a tall Miami building. This also destroys Horatio's best chances of catching a crime boss.

A seemingly perfect jewelry heist ends in murder and when crime scene evidence is stolen from the lab, and Delko returns to find the culprit.

Mexico's deadliest assassin is a target in Miami. Horatio's only hope is his worst enemy.

A murder case involving extreme plastic surgery leads Horatio to Ron Saris, who is alive and seeking revenge on Julia.

The search of a missing 17-year-old girl, whose trip to Miami turns into an ongoing nightmare.

Horatio, Speedle and Calleigh root through the evidence in the homocide of a strange, and unorthodox college professor when they find him tied to a tree. Elsewhere, Delko and Megan investigate a car found in the water with a dead body in the trunk, and immediately suspect an insurance scam.

Evidence suggests a victim may have been set up as bait, after he's found to have been attacked and killed by a black bear. It's discovered the killer may have been trying to hide another murder - that of a high priced hooker and her bodyguard, who were part of a prostitution ring catering to elite Miami clients.

A gas man is engulfed in invisible flames and dies during a qualifying race at the Grand Prix Americas.

The team investigates a murder at a roller derby match.

Stalkers turn an innocent teenage swimming star into a sex symbol plasting photos of her over the internet. When following her it is discovered Horatio may be in danger after his testimony in a grand jury.

An eccentric genius is assassinated with the most unique weapon the CSIs have ever seen.

An explosion in a rundown barn nearly kills Horatio and his crew just after they find a dead man inside, bound with duct tape. The case gets personal for Horatio when he discovers that the leading suspect knew his late brother. Meanwhile, Alexx is shocked to learn that her best friend's husband has been murdered, apparently the victim of a random shooting.

Someone uses a laser light to blind a pilot and bring down a jet, which carries $1.2 billion in checks to be delivered to banks on the eastern seaboard. The crime scene evidence reveals a victim, a young fundraising socialite, who was inside the plane but killed prior to the crash. Now, although the team has little to work with since the victim's wealthy family is opposing an autopsy, Horatio must follow the money trail. Meanwhile, Calleigh works on the case with her ex-boyfriend, Detective Hagen, and their romantic history could cause problems for both of them.

Horatio must protect a fighter from his brother who escaped prison.

The CSIs make a shocking discovery about their murder victim, while Horatio tries to save his son from Julia's erratic behavior.

Horatio hunts for the man responsible for a brutal rape on a woman years back, after new DNA testing technology finds the convicted rapist innocent.

When gang-related gunplay goes down in an emergency room, Horatio and the team must find the gang members responsible. The evidence suggests that an orderly in the hospital recognized the wounded gang member, who possibly killed one of the orderly's friends and alerted gang members to his location. However, the evidence doesn't match up and the CSIs discover that a cheating girlfriend, not gang retaliation, may be behind the shooting. Meanwhile, Ryan questions a mother in the emergency room after her story regarding her child doesn't add up.

Alexx Woods and Eric Delko return to help the CSIs stop a deadly outbreak in Miami.

A tornado touches down on a murder scene, damaging the evidence and putting Ryan and Walter in grave danger.

The CSIs investigate when the parents of a baby sitter in an upscale neighborhood are murdered. As the team sorts through the neighbors' secrets and lies, they find an unexpected love triangle as a motive for murder. Meanwhile, a key piece of evidence found at the crime scene leads Horatio to expose a doctor with some dirty secrets of his own.

A rare and illegal machine gun that 'vaporizes' its victims is let loose on the streets of Miami.

An arm in a shark's gullet and a girl who was shot at sea lead the team to a smuggler who was running Cuban refugees and cocaine in a foundering ship.

Horatio and Natalia's lives hang in the balance, as Horatio stands between Natalia and certain death. Meanwhile, it's a race against time for the team to capture escaped killer Jack Toller before he kills again.

After Frank steps on a land mine at a crime scene Horatio and the Bomb Technicians must deactivate the bomb. Delko gets hit with a large lawsuit after breaking up a domestic dispute.

The two young owners of a city bar are gunned down after hours and another man is wounded in the attack, which was allegedly committed by a masked gunman. Meanwhile, Calleigh's dad announces he is now a public defender and needs her help with a murder case in which a woman allegedly stabbed her boyfriend to death in his car with a screwdriver.

The team must find the connection between the two crime scenes; the killing of a drug dealer and the rape of a well-off family member.

When Horatio finds another corpse with missing eyes, everything points to his nemesis, “The Taunter” – except he has an airtight alibi.

Three volleyball players mysteriously drop dead on the court while Calleigh's testimony against Delko threatens his future as a CSI.

When a skydiver is murdered, the CSIs discover that he has more than 100 children and all of them are suspects.

When the CSIs investigate who or what caused a horrific car accident, both drivers' darkest secrets are revealed.

When Horatio's nemesis, Walter Resden targets someone close to him, Horatio tries to stop him. Also Eric Delko's relationship with Natalia is tested when she thinks she may be pregnant.

After a man is found not guilty of his wife's murder the CSI team finds evidence to the contrary.

A convicted serial killer escapes after sabotaging an airplane that was flying him from New York to Miami, where he allegedly buried a body. After fleeing the crash site, the man goes on a killing spree and abducts a college student. Mac Taylor arrives to help Horatio track the killer since Mac originally arrested the man in New York. The crossover concludes on CSI: New York S02E07 Manhattan Manhunt (II).

When a reality star is murdered, the CSIs delve into the scandalous, sexy world of a TV dating show.

The team investigates a modern-day piracy off the coast of Miami after six bodies are discovered floating in the ocean tied together by rope. Horatio suspects that a ship was hijacked with some of the crew killed and then dumped overboard. Evidence suggests that other crew members might have escaped on a life raft. Using radar and GPS technology, the CSIs find survivors but their stories don't match. Now, Horatio and the team must learn what really happened out in the ocean as they find themselves investigating the seamy underbelly of Miami's militias and arms dealers.

When a woman is killed in what looks like a carjacking, the CSIs talk to her husband, the oldest of the three brothers who run their lucrative family business. However, when it is revealed that the victim had a gambling addiction that could have bankrupted the company, the team must follow the evidence to find the killer. Meanwhile, Alexx hires a recovering alcoholic as a body hauler and must investigate when he is accused of stealing from the dead.

What appears to have been a horrible car accident claims the life of a woman. The evidence turns up more information and another body. During this intense murder investigation Natalia must confess a secret in order for the case to be solved.

When terror suspect Sonya Barak is targeted by her own people for assassination, she goes on the run, and Horatio sets out to capture her, both to protect her and bring her to justice.

There's a serial killer on the loose marking all of his victims with a Y on their chests and one or more of the csi's lives are in danger in this season 5 finale

After a movie star is killed at a celebrity rehab center, the CSI's investigate the secrets that the star was about to reveal and if this is what caused him to have been killed.

The murder investigation of a sports legend has complications when his body is lost by the lab.

A cruise ship that is docked in Miami is the scene for a double murder. The team investigates the long list of potential suspects but soon find that the list is dramatically decreased when the CSI's find a large amount of money is missing from the victim's stateroom. Horatio and Marisol's relationship evolves.

Horatio investigates the murder of a model intentionally run down outside of a Miami hotel by a driver who fled the scene. When the evidence leads to a suspect, governmental red tape puts an unexpected twist on the proceedings. Horatio and Yelina begin to confront their feelings for one another.

Horatio and the team are trying to figure out how to free an innocent young man after a harsh interrogation with Frank Tripp sends him to jail.

An extreme skateboarder and videogame tester is found dead on a half-pipe platform used to program extreme skateboarding video games. The CSIs discover that he was wearing reflective sensors when he was killed, so the motion-capture device used to produce these videogames recorded the murder as it happened, but not the murderer. Now the team delves into the highly competitive world of videogame programmers and testers to find the killer.

When a man claims to have dreamed of a murder before it happened, Horatio and Natalia go under cover to investigate him.

When a flight attendant is murdered, the CSIs uncover all the dirty secrets of airplane travel.

During a routine traffic stop, a police officer is murdered and now Horatio and the team must track down the killer. The only witness to the murder is a civilian who was doing a ride-along with the officer, but who is now missing. Roadside evidence leads the CSIs to Missy Marshall, a teenage girl who was with the killer at the time of the murder. However, as the team searches for the civilian and the killer, they find that Missy may have been more involved with killer and the shooting than she is admitting. Meanwhile, Horatio and Rebecca's relationship is in jeopardy when they don't see eye to eye on a case.

The CSIs investigate when three convicted murderers are released from prison and someone starts killing them one by one.

When the team is investigating the murder of a probation officer and a hostage situation, Horatio learns that the main suspect could be his son.