
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 quarterback of a women's football team is found dead in the locker room with traces of lidocaine in her system.

When a woman's body, drained of blood, is found in Central Park, the CSIs jump-start an investigation that takes them into a subculture of vampirism.

The CSIs discover that car tampering led to the explosion that killed a racing legend on the streets of Manhattan.

After a young man's friends turn up dead while celebrating his 21st birthday, he is found walking in the street covered in their blood and wielding an axe.