The Best CSI: Miami Episodes

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List of the best CSI: Miami episodes, as determined by voters like you. With all the amazing episodes of the show that exist, it's hard to trust just one person's opinion of what the top CSI: Miami episodes of all time are. One of the best crime dramas of all time, CSI: Miami also featured many famous guest stars and cameos. Fans of CSI: Miami are very passionate about the show, and there are often debates over which episodes are the greatest. That's why this list exists- so you can vote for your favorites and we can find out once and for all what everyone thinks the best episode is.

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  • Broken
    1

    Broken

    CSI: Miami - Season 1
    99 votes
    The whole team investigates the crime scene of an indoor amusement park when a young girl is found dead in the bathroom. They must track down the relentless man responsible for the heinous crime quicker than usual, as everyone on location has been detained until they can be cleared. What looks to be like a regular attempted kidnapping turns out to be much more than any of the detectives had bargained for.
  • Nailed
    2
    CSI: Miami - Season 4
    40 votes
    The CSI's are called out to investigate the murder of a young woman who was about to sign her divorce papers. Soon the husband turns out to be the ideal suspect. The only strange thing about the case is the murder weapon: a nailgun. The case becomes complicated when one of the CSI's is attacked when he returns to the crime scene and ends up in hospital.
  • Double Jeopardy
    3
    CSI: Miami - Season 4
    105 votes
    After a man is found not guilty of his wife's murder the CSI team finds evidence to the contrary.
  • Internal Affairs
    4
    CSI: Miami - Season 5
    33 votes
    After Nick is found to have been killed with all the evidence pointing to Natalia as the killer the rest of the team has been sidelined by the Internal Affairs investigation. Horatio with the help of the night shift lab and Calleigh’s ex-boyfriend have to find the evidence to clear Natalia.
  • Witness To Murder
    5
    CSI: Miami - Season 2
    19 votes
    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.
  • MIA/NYC - NonStop
    6
    CSI: Miami - Season 2
    22 votes
    "MIA/NYC NonStop" is the twenty-third episode in Season 2 of the American crime drama CSI: Miami and the pilot of the CBS drama CSI: NY. The episode aired on May 17, 2004.
  • Lost Son
    7
    CSI: Miami - Season 3
    35 votes
    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.
  • Rampage
    8
    CSI: Miami - Season 4
    35 votes
    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.
  • Under Suspicion
    9
    CSI: Miami - Season 4
    18 votes
    The CSIs must race against time when all evidence in a murder case points to Horatio. When a murdered woman is discovered, Horatio admits that he was seeing her and that he was the last person to see her alive. Although the evidence logically points to Horatio as the killer, our CSIs must now dig deeper to find the real killer and learn who would have the motive and the method to frame him.
  • Under the Influence
    10
    CSI: Miami - Season 3
    24 votes
    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.
  • Tinder Box
    11
    CSI: Miami - Season 1
    26 votes
    Speedle and Delko are present when a trendy nightclub catches fire, apparently from a DJ's pyrotechnics display, killing sixteen people and injuring dozens of others. But the ensuing investigation reveals it may have been arson to cover up a murder. Meanwhile, Horatio probes the death of a prostitute whose body is found in the bathroom of a judge's home and evidence suggests that she was in the club during the fire.
  • Blood In The Water
    12
    CSI: Miami - Season 4
    48 votes
    The team investigates the death of a foreign exchange student, the search for two missing teenagers, and the robbery of 10 million dollars in golden bars.
  • Nothing To Lose
    13
    CSI: Miami - Season 3
    22 votes
    Evidence leads the CSIs to believe that someone started a massive fire in the Everglades in order to cover up a murder. Local prisoners are brought in as free manpower to help fight the wild fire in the Everglades. However, when a serial killer escapes the scene, Horatio must track him down before he strikes again. Meanwhile, the body of a local college student is found shot to death and the fire has destroyed the crime scene and the evidence. However, when the team uncovers an illegal moonshine operation and homemade ammunitions in the vicinity, the CSIs uncover the real reason why the boy was out there.
  • Rio
    14
    CSI: Miami - Season 5
    20 votes
    The episode picks up straight where "One of Our Own" left off. Horatio and Delko have arrived in Rio de Janeiro to hunt down Antonio Riaz, who ordered the hit on Marisol. The problem is that Horatio can't stop thinking about his late wife, and Brazilian authorities aren't being very cooperative. While there, Horatio runs into Yelina and finds out that Raymond is missing again. Ray Jr., now fourteen, teams up with Brazilian authorities and will stop at nothing to bring his father home safe, until Horatio learns the terrible truth... Raymond is already dead. Now Horatio must stop his nephew from getting himself killed trying to chase a ghost.
  • Recoil
    15

    Recoil

    CSI: Miami - Season 3
    17 votes
    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.
  • Blood Brothers
    16
    CSI: Miami - Season 2
    17 votes
    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.
  • Man Down
    17
    CSI: Miami - Season 5
    22 votes
    Horatio has Eric rushed to the hospital and watches as the doctors try to revive him. The rest of the CSI team finds evidence that may lead them to Cruz.
  • Urban Hellraisers
    18
    CSI: Miami - Season 4
    45 votes
    Eric Delko is at the bank, following an ATM taking his debit card, when three robbers wearing ski masks rush in. Delko knows he can’t win against the three robbers but when one of them tries to rape a girl it ends in a shootout. The security tape leads them to Miami University and to the robbers next target and Horatio manages to arrest one of them. The trail leads to a videogame named “Urban Hellraisers” and when Ryan Wolfe starts playing it, it turns the similarities between the game and the actual crimes are very big. It’s up to the team to catch the robbers before they commit a crime much more serious than the last one.
  • Just One Kiss
    19
    CSI: Miami - Season 1
    16 votes
    A dead man with a slit throat and a partially burned face is discovered on a Miami beach, along with an unconscious young girl who was beaten and thrown into the ocean. The investigation leads Horatio to a prominent Florida family and its steely patriarch, who was once involved in a mysterious case that has plagued Horatio for years.
  • The DeLuca Motel
    20

    The DeLuca Motel

    CSI: Miami - Season 7
    16 votes
    Horatio delves into Delko's past to find the killer who targets the motel Delko is staying at.
  • Killer Date
    21
    CSI: Miami - Season 3
    14 votes
    Horatio's life is changed forever when he learns important information about his deceased brother. Horatio must now figure out what to do with this information about his brother, Raymond, and whether or not to tell Yelina. Meanwhile, the team investigates when a woman is murdered at a crowded bar after she's approached by a female employee of a service that helps men pick-up women. Also, when Delko loses his badge after some reckless behavior and it's used in a crime, he must locate the badge before it's used again.
  • Bang, Bang, Your Debt
    22
    CSI: Miami - Season 6
    16 votes
    The team investigates the puzzling death of a student and find evidence that Tim Speedle may not be dead.
  • Cop Killer
    23
    CSI: Miami - Season 3
    29 votes
    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.
  • Felony Flight
    24
    CSI: Miami - Season 4
    22 votes
    (Crossover episode with CSI: New York, Season 2 Episode 7.) A crossover episode that concludes on "CSI NY" begins with a convicted serial killer who 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 Tayor arrives to help Horatio track the killer since Mac originally arrested the man in New York.
  • If Looks Could Kill
    25
    CSI: Miami - Season 5
    24 votes
    The CSI’s investigate the murder of a male model and have to figure out the inner workings of the modeling world in order to find his killer.
  • 48 Hours To Life
    26

    48 Hours To Life

    CSI: Miami - Season 4
    15 votes
    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.
  • Shock
    27
    CSI: Miami - Season 4
    10 votes
    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.
  • Golden Parachute
    28

    Golden Parachute

    CSI: Miami - Season 1
    12 votes
    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.
  • Open Water
    29
    CSI: Miami - Season 4
    9 votes
    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.
  • Big Brother
    30
    CSI: Miami - Season 2
    13 votes
    Horatio is driven to find his brother's killer and protect the niece he never knew existed when a woman shows up with Ray's illegitimate child. The team explores a voyeuristic Internet site in connection with a stockbroker's murder.