
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.

The team investigates when a hip-hop artist is killed just days after winning a DJ contest and signing a record contract with industry mogul Kevin Smith (Master P).

The team meets the "Sandhogs," a union of construction workers who build tunnels, while investigating the death of a worker who died on the job.

Investigating the brutal massacre of employees in a Brooklyn restaurant tests Danny and Aiden's limit.

While investigating a botched robbery at a bank in Chinatown, Stella uncovers a kidnapping plot involving the bank manager, but her progress is hampered by an unannounced police terrorist response drill.