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CSI: Miami: Season 8

24 episodes Premiered Sep 21, 2009 Updated Sep 27, 2026
Previously on CSI: Miami

Season 8 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Picks up essential narrative continuity directly following the events of CSI: Miami Season 7.
  • ⚡ Character alliances, factions, and personal loyalties undergo significant shifts under escalating stakes.
  • ⚡ Addresses unresolved cliffhangers and thematic mysteries introduced during previous seasons.
  • ⚡ Establishes the primary seasonal conflict that drives serialized character arcs toward the finale.
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Season 8 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 8: Filler vs. Essential Canon

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Mytharc (5): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (19): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S8·E1 Mytharc

Out of Time

Sep 21, 2009 · 45 min

Delko is found comatose, and we are taken back to the year 1997 to when the team first formed.

S8·E2 Core

Hostile Takeover

Sep 28, 2009 · 44 min

Horatio takes point as the negotiator when an armed gunman storms CSI headquarters and takes hostages.

S8·E3 Core

Bolt Action

Oct 5, 2009 · 45 min

Three volleyball players mysteriously drop dead on the court while Calleigh's testimony against Delko threatens his future as a CSI.

S8·E4 Mytharc

In Plane Sight

Oct 12, 2009 · 44 min

When the most hated man in Miami is murdered, the CSIs go on the hunt for his killer and his hidden treasure.

S8·E5 Core

Bad Seed

Oct 19, 2009 · 44 min

Alexx Woods and Eric Delko return to help the CSIs stop a deadly outbreak in Miami.

S8·E6 Core

Dude, Where's My Groom?

Nov 2, 2009 · 44 min

Two groomsmen wake up handcuffed together and covered in blood, with no memory of the raucous bachelor party the night before. Worse, the groom is missing...

S8·E7 Core

Bone Voyage (I)

Nov 9, 2009 · 44 min

Horatio Caine calls Las Vegas CSI Ray Langston to come to Miami when a severed leg found in the Everglades is discovered to belong to a girl who went missing in Las Vegas a week e

S8·E8 Core

Point of Impact

Nov 16, 2009 · 43 min

When the CSIs investigate who or what caused a horrific car accident, both drivers' darkest secrets are revealed.

S8·E9 Core

Kill Clause

Nov 23, 2009 · 45 min

Deadly jellyfish are used as a murder weapon, and a mysterious woman from Jesse's past returns.

S8·E10 Core

Count Me Out

Dec 7, 2009 · 43 min

A young man gets involved with a dangerous operation in an effort to rescue his girlfriend who's been brought to this country to work as an indentured servant...

S8·E11 Core

Delko for the Defense

Dec 14, 2009 · 44 min

Eric Delko returns as an expert witness for the defense, pitting himself against his old team.

S8·E12 Core

Show Stopper

Jan 11, 2010 · 43 min

When America's sweetheart, Phoebe Nichols, bursts into flames during a concert, the CSIs expose the dark side of pop stardom.

S8·E13 Core

Die By The Sword

Jan 18, 2010 · 43 min

The bizarre case of a man chopped in half baffles the CSIs, while Natalia's injury puts her and Ryan in jeopardy.

S8·E14 Core

In The Wind

Feb 1, 2010 · 44 min

When doubt is cast on his murder conviction, a man receives a 24 hour stay of execution very little time for Horatio and the team to reaffirm his guilt or establish his innocence.

S8·E15 Core

Miami, We Have a Problem

Feb 8, 2010 · 42 min

The C.S.I. crew try to figure out exactly how and why a passenger on a private space shuttle trip died in space after his body is found having plummeted out of the sky...

S8·E16 Core

L.A.

Mar 1, 2010 · 44 min

Horatio heads to Los Angeles to hopefully clear Jesse's name, all while a former sports superstar is being investigated after a girl is found dead in his home...

S8·E17 Core

Getting Axed

Mar 8, 2010 · 43 min

The team investigates the axe murder of an office receptionist who was not well liked by her colleagues...

S8·E18 Core

Dishonor

Mar 22, 2010 · 44 min

One of Kyle's army friends tries to protect his girlfriend from an "honor killing" and winds up as the number-one suspect in a murder...

S8·E19 Core

Spring Breakdown

Apr 12, 2010 · 43 min

Three hard partying, callous and seemingly unconnected young 20-somethings head to Spring Break for a wild time and end up in the morgue...

S8·E20 Core

Backfire

Apr 19, 2010 · 43 min

A victim's spirit won't leave Calleigh alone until she finds justice for his murder.

S8·E21 Core

Meltdown

May 3, 2010 · 42 min

A seemingly perfect jewelry heist ends in murder and when crime scene evidence is stolen from the lab, and Delko returns to find the culprit.

S8·E22 Mytharc

Mommie Deadest

May 10, 2010 · 44 min

When a suburban soccer mom is murdered, the CSIs uncover her family's dark past, while Delko continues his undercover mission.

S8·E23 Mytharc

Time Bomb

May 17, 2010 · 44 min

When Horatio's ex-girlfriend is killed in an explosion, the team looks within their own department to find the killer.

S8·E24 Mytharc

All Fall Down

May 24, 2010 · 42 min

A serial killer taunts the CSIs by leaving them cryptic hints, and the longer it takes them to decode these puzzles, the higher the death toll rises, on the eighth season finale of

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