
The third permutation of the "CSI" franchise sets up shop in the Big Apple, where taciturn detective Mac Taylor and his new partner, Jo Danville, lead a crime-solving team. Taylor, a retired Marine who believes evidence holds the truth that people may try to cover up, finds balance in Jo's empathy-driven investigative style. Their team includes spirited investigators like Danny Messer and wife Lindsay Monroe Messer, former coroner Sheldon Hawkes, and edgy detective Don Flack.

When a badly decomposed body is found in an abandoned car, the team must face a killer who is using his victims' parents to manipulate crime scenes.

With a sniper on the prowl, Mac is forced to relive a brutal abduction that produced a deadly foe.

The CSIs experience eerie occurrences when they find a female who appears to have been, literally, scared to death, then the case takes an odder turn when Mac discovers a second victim.

When a woman's body washes ashore at a seaport, the CSIs uncover a secret about the deputy chief's past that threatens to ruin his stellar reputation and close-knit family.