CSI: Miami: Season 3
CSI: Miami Season 3 continues the overarching saga across 24 episodes. The series follows Crime Scene Investigators working for the Miami-Dade Police Department as they use physical evidence to investigate crimes. The team of criminalists from Miami, operating under the leadership of David Caruso, works to solve murder cases that other laboratories might abandon due to their difficulty. The season's narrative arc foc
Season 3 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- The series follows Crime Scene Investigators working for the Miami-Dade Police Department.
- The team specializes in utilizing physical evidence to solve complex crimes.
- The Miami criminalists are led by David Caruso.
- The unit handles difficult murder cases that other laboratories might abandon due to their complexity.
Season overview
CSI: Miami Season 3 continues the overarching saga across 24 episodes. The series follows Crime Scene Investigators working for the Miami-Dade Police Department as they use physical evidence to investigate crimes. The team of criminalists from Miami, operating under the leadership of David Caruso, works to solve murder cases that other laboratories might abandon due to their difficulty. The season's narrative arc focuses on the ongoing investigative work and professional challenges faced by the forensic science personnel in Miami as they process evidence and solve complex criminal cases within their jurisdiction.
Episode Guide
Season 3 Progress Shield
Lost Son
Sep 20, 2004
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
Pro Per
Sep 27, 2004
A woman is killed during a posh party at an exclusive waterfront estate when a man opens fire on the proceedings from a cigarette boat. When a former con is arrested, he acts as hi
Under the Influence
Oct 4, 2004
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 pus
Murder In A Flash
Oct 11, 2004
E-mails and text messages trigger a mass gathering of students to perform a random task on a golf course. However, as the crowd disperses, the body of a high school student is foun
Legal
Oct 18, 2004
An 18-year-old girl is stabbed to death in a bathroom of a popular Miami nightclub. Horatio learns that the victim was an investigative aide working for Alcohol Beverage Control an
Hell Night
Oct 25, 2004
The wife of a famous baseball player is brutally killed in her home and her philandering husband is charged with the crime. The jury on the case, as well as the accused and his def
Crime Wave
Nov 8, 2004
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 th
Speed Kills
Nov 15, 2004
A murder investigation takes Horatio and the team into the world of speed dating. Richard Laken is found killed by a tire iron outside a lounge following an evening of speed-dating
Pirated
Nov 22, 2004
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 hijac
After The Fall
Nov 29, 2004
The CSIs must investigate when a pedestrian is killed after a man falls from a building and lands on him. Horatio and the team find that the victim found on the sidewalk is not the
Addiction
Dec 13, 2004
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
Shootout
Jan 3, 2005
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 recogni
Cop Killer
Jan 17, 2005
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 ri
One Night Stand
Feb 7, 2005
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 w
Identity
Feb 14, 2005
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 o
Nothing to Lose
Feb 21, 2005
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 figh
Money Plane
Mar 7, 2005
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 re
Game Over
Mar 21, 2005
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 reflecti
Sex & Taxes
Apr 11, 2005
An IRS agent is killed while trying to repossess a delinquent taxpayer's yacht soon after the CSIs discover a second IRS agent shot to death. Now, just when everyone has a reason t
Killer Date
Apr 18, 2005
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, R
Recoil
May 2, 2005
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 no
Vengeance
May 9, 2005
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
Whacked
May 16, 2005
An axe murderer on death row is given a stay of execution just moments before it was to take place, on the grounds that there may have been tainted DNA analysis used at his trial.
10-7
May 23, 2005
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 bel