CSI: Miami: Season 5
CSI: Miami Season 5 continues the overarching saga across 24 episodes. The show follows Crime Scene Investigators working for the Miami-Dade Police Department as they use physical evidence to investigate crimes, solve murder cases that other laboratories might find too difficult, and handle the unique challenges faced by the team of criminal investigators in Miami under leadership.
Season 5 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 investigators use physical evidence to solve cases.
- The team of criminal investigators in Miami is led by David Caruso.
- The team is capable of solving murder cases that other laboratories would give up on due to their difficulty.
Season overview
CSI: Miami Season 5 continues the overarching saga across 24 episodes. The show follows Crime Scene Investigators working for the Miami-Dade Police Department as they use physical evidence to investigate crimes, solve murder cases that other laboratories might find too difficult, and handle the unique challenges faced by the team of criminal investigators in Miami under leadership.
Episode Guide
Season 5 Progress Shield
Rio
Sep 18, 2006
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 probl
Going Under
Sep 25, 2006
Calleigh is run off of the road in to a canal and causes freshly collected evidence to be compromised. The team must work to find new evidence, as most of the water-damaged eviden
Death Pool 100
Oct 2, 2006
The dead body of a celebrity is found at an A-list party. They soon discover that the murder is linked to a “death pool,” where gambling occurs on an offshore ship. A counterfeit
If Looks Could Kill
Oct 9, 2006
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.
Death Eminent
Oct 16, 2006
The body of a local politician is found in an empty house. The entire neighborhood was upset that he was backing the use of eminent domain, allowing the government to force them o
Curse Of The Coffin
Oct 23, 2006
When strange accidents occur in the lab, the CSI team is spooked during a death investigation involving voodoo. As Halloween is near everyone starts to think that the lab is curse
High Octane
Nov 6, 2006
After an accident where the driver was decapitated during a dangerous stunt, the evidence leads the CSI’s to believe it was more than an accident. While gathering the evidence, th
Darkroom
Nov 13, 2006
A murder and kidnapping becomes personal when DNA from a crime scene reveals that Natalia’s sister Anya is one of the kidnapped women they are looking for. The team finds a safe f
Going, Going, Gone
Nov 20, 2006
After a young woman is found dead shortly after she was auctioned off for charity, the team finds that the woman was trying to uncover the true nature of the event’s host. As the
Come As You Are
Nov 27, 2006
A Marine recruiter is found dead on a civilian shooting range with various bullet holes in him, but there is no blood at the scene. The investigators uncover that the victim was de
Backstabbers
Dec 11, 2006
When terror suspect Sonya Barak is targeted by her own people for assassination, she goes on the run, and Horatio sets out to capture her, both to protect her and bring her to just
Internal Affairs
Jan 8, 2007
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. Hora
Throwing Heat
Jan 22, 2007
After Frank steps on a land mine at a crime scene Horatio and the Bomb Technicians must deactivate the bomb. Delko gets hit with a large lawsuit after breaking up a domestic dispu
No Man's Land
Feb 5, 2007
A truck carrying weapons that were confiscated from previous crimes are now back on the streets of Miami. An old enemy of Horatio's puts the lives of two CSI's in harms way after
Man Down
Feb 12, 2007
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.
Broken Home
Feb 19, 2007
The CSIs investigate when the parents of a baby sitter in an upscale neighborhood are murdered. As the team sorts through the neighbors' secrets and lies, they find an unexpected l
A Grizzly Murder
Feb 26, 2007
Evidence suggests a victim may have been set up as bait, after he's found to have been attacked and killed by a black bear. It's discovered the killer may have been trying to hide
Triple Threat
Mar 19, 2007
After a wealthy businessman is killed at a charity event the CSI's first suspect his wife who was hosting the event. The blood evidence is thought to belong to the wife or her two
Bloodline
Apr 9, 2007
After a scalped body is found near a Native American casino, Horatio believes that the owners of the Casino and the County Supervisor may have had some involvement in the murder.
Rush
Apr 16, 2007
After a movie star is killed at a celebrity rehab center, the CSI's investigate the secrets that the star was about to reveal and if this is what caused him to have been killed.
Just Murdered
Apr 23, 2007
When the mistress involved with the husband in Miami's ugliest divorce battle is found to have been killed the divorce battle intensifies and the body count rises.
Burned
Apr 30, 2007
When one of Horatio's team lets their personal problems contaminate the investigation involving a spurned ex-lover, Horatio has to fire that team member.
Kill Switch
May 7, 2007
After the murder of a suspected carjacker the team discovers that he may have been involved with a formidable drug lord and was suspected of drug running off Miami's shores.
Born to Kill
May 14, 2007
There's a serial killer on the loose marking all of his victims with a Y on their chests and one or more of the csi's lives are in danger in this season 5 finale