CSI New York Season 1

CSI New York Season 1 :
The first season of CSI: NY originally aired on CBS between September 2004 and May 2005. It consisted of 23 episodes. Its regular time slot was Wednesdays at 10pm/9c. CSI: NY The Complete First Season was released on DVD in the U.S. on October 18 2005.

CSI New York Season 1 Episode 1

Episode 1 - [Blink]
Details : The team finds three young women all of whom appear to have been brutalized in the same way. The only witness they have is the surviving young woman who can communicate only through blinking. Photographs found at one of the crime scenes lead the team to a couple that had sponsored one of the victims and the boyfriend who claims he hasn't spoken to her in weeks.
Guest Cast and Crew : Ajay Mehta | Andy Comeau | Director : Deran Sarafian | Writer : Anthony Zuiker |
Air Date : Sep. 22, 2004 | Rating ★★★★★★★

CSI New York Season 1 Episode 2

Episode 2 - [Creatures Of The Night]
Details : Junkie Jordy Thompkins was shot dead in an alleyway but the bullet that killed him is missing. Taylor and Hawkes soon realise that a rat may have eaten the bullet and finding the rat leads them to a robbery that occurred earlier that day. After Robin Prescott is found raped and beaten in Central Park with only a peony leaf on her clothing Stella and Flack have the daunting task of trying to find the man who raped her but Prescott has no memory of the crime.
Guest Cast and Crew : Michele Hicks | Josh Hammond | David Marciano | William Russ | Fred Koehler | Paul Greene | Trae Ireland | Carol Kiernan | Nick Damici | Director : Tim Hunter | Writer : Pam Veasey |
Air Date : Sep. 29, 2004 | Rating ★★★★★★

CSI New York Season 1 Episode 3

Episode 3 - [American Dreamers]
Details : After a skeleton is found on a tour bus and turns out to be over a decade old Mac and the team use the backpack they have found to track the belongings to a young man named Aaron Moreland only to learn that the body they have cannot possibly belong to him. By tracing the victim's shirt detectives are led to a youth center worker who claims not to remember the boy but is hiding an old secret of his own.
Guest Cast and Crew : Johnny Sneed | John Ross Bowie | Susan Ruttan | Thomas Kopache | Frank Medrano | Director : Kevin Bray | Writer : Eli Talbert | Director : Rob Bailey |
Air Date : Oct. 06, 2004 | Rating ★★★★★★

CSI New York Season 1 Episode 4

Episode 4 - [Grand Master]
Details : On the very night that he wins a D.J. competition DJ Banner is found dead in an alleyway outside the club where the contest is being run prompting Mac and Flack to investigate not only the club but also Banner's primary competition who was jealous that his girlfriend's voice was part of Banner's act. Stella and Danny investigate the death of fashion designer Deborah Gayle found face-down in the pool at her apartment by her assistant who isn't concerned by her boss's demise. An autopsy reveals that the cause of death was poisoning by tetrodotoxin a poison found in blowfish which leads Stella and Danny to Fuqua Sushi.
Air Date : Oct. 27, 2004 | Rating ★★★★★★★★

CSI New York Season 1 Episode 5

Episode 5 - [A Man A Mile]
Details : Stella and Aiden investigate after finding the body of a teenage girl in a creek. They soon realize that she was a middle-class girl attending a fancy school who was trying to make it seem like her family had more money than they did and trace her movements to a nightclub. Mac and Danny investigate when a body is found in the tunnels without any protective gear on and end up running into a brick wall when the Sandhogs union blocks many of their attempts to get information about the victim.
Guest Cast and Crew : Olivia Burnette | Terry Kinney | Mike Pniewski | Dorian Missick | Billy Aaron Brown | Mel Rodriguez | Matias Masucci | John DiMaggio | Master P | Shashawnee Hall | Sarah Foret | Joshua Leonard | Director : Kevin Bray | Writer : Andrew Lipsitz | Director : David Grossman |
Air Date : Nov. 03, 2004 | Rating ★★★★★★★★

CSI New York Season 1 Episode 6

Episode 6 - [Outside Man]
Details : Two cases. One involves multiple homicides at a restaurant and the other starts with an amputated leg found in a dumpster.
Guest Cast and Crew : Michael B. Silver | Jacob Vargas | Paul Perri | De'Angelo Wilson | Patrick Bauchau | Writer : Pam Veasey | Director : Rob Bailey | Director : David Grossman |
Air Date : Nov. 10, 2004 | Rating ★★★★★★★★

CSI New York Season 1 Episode 7

Episode 7 - [Rain]
Details : When the charred bodies of two men who had been robbing a Chinatown bank are found the entire team investigates the crime which leads them to Doris the missing infant of the bank's manager. The team realises that Joanna Cho assisted with the robbery out of fear for her daughter's life. Mac and Stella finally manage to track down the third robber only to find him lying in a pool of blood with a trail of bloody baby handprints leading away from the body.
Guest Cast and Crew : Matt Bushell | Mark Kelly | Andre Ware | J. Scott Shonka | Writer : Andrew Lipsitz | Writer : Pam Veasey | Director : Alex Zakrzewski | Director : David Grossman |
Air Date : Nov. 17, 2004 | Rating ★★★★★★★★

CSI New York Season 1 Episode 8

Episode 8 - [Three Generations Are Enough]
Details : Danny and Mac investigate after a briefcase belonging to Luke Sutton is found left in the NYMEX with a bloody note inside. Their investigation into Sutton's activities lead them to Nick Lawson whom Sutton had been investigating for illegal trades but who swears he had nothing to do with his disappearance. Stella and Flack investigate the death of Trina Rolston a young pregnant women who fell to her death from the roof of a church. With Hawkes help Stella realises that the body was thrown off the roof to mask the true cause of death. The detectives soon realise that their two cases are connected.
Guest Cast and Crew : Peter O'Meara | Sarah Aldrich | Steven Flynn | Larry Clarke | Writer : Andrew Lipsitz | Director : Alex Zakrzewski |
Air Date : Nov. 24, 2004 | Rating ★★★★★★★★

CSI New York Season 1 Episode 9

Episode 9 - [Officer Blue]
Details : After mounted officer Valasquez is shot down in the park Mac goes looking for the bullet that killed the officer only to learn that it is lodged in the horse's spine and cannot be removed without being fatal to the horse. The investigation leads them to a local street vendor but stalls when the D.A. asks Mac not to do anything to risk the horse until after the woman who donated it has a chance to say goodbye. Aiden investigates the body of a young man Lenny Starks who was found face-down dead in the street. Aiden traces the young man to a local pizza parlor where she faces intimidation from the bookies who use it as a gambling front.
Guest Cast and Crew : Jude Ciccolella | Terry Kinney | Elle Fanning | Sonya Walger | Jim Metzler | Allen Payne | Paul Carafotes | Gabriel Casseus | Director : Deran Sarafian | Writer : Anthony Zuiker |
Air Date : Dec. 01, 2004 | Rating ★★★★★★★★

CSI New York Season 1 Episode 10

Episode 10 - [Night Mother]
Details : Mac and Stella investigate the murder of a woman who was stabbed in the heart with a wooden stake. The police arrest a woman who was kneeling over the body with blood on her but Mac isn't convinced that she committed the crime.
Guest Cast and Crew : Scott Valentine | Michael Irby | Bradley Stryker | Kelly Hu | Ray Abruzzo | Jay Acovone | Peter Giles | Carter Jenkins | Kellan Lutz | Derek Mears | Dennis Keiffer | Corin Nemec | Heather Kafka | Writer : Janet Tamaro | Director : Greg Yaitanes | Director : Deran Sarafian | Writer : Andrew Lipsitz | Writer : Eli Talbert |
Air Date : Dec. 15, 2004 | Rating ★★★★★★★★

CSI New York Season 1 Episode 11

Episode 11 - [Tri-Borough]
Details : A young John Doe nicknamed 'Slick' is found lying across the rails of an underground subway. At first he appears to have died from third-rail electrocution but an autopsy suggests that he may have met his end by other means of electrocution. Meanwhile Leo Whitefield is found shot dead at close range in a gallery he owns with no sign of break in or theft and a construction worker turns up with a fatal injury to the head.
Guest Cast and Crew : Carter Jenkins | Kellan Lutz | Director : Greg Yaitanes | Director : Alex Zakrzewski |
Air Date : Jan. 05, 2005 | Rating ★★★★★★★★

CSI New York Season 1 Episode 12

Episode 12 - [Recycling]
Details : Mac Aiden and Flack investigate when Elaine Curtis is found dead at a dog competition a knitting needle sticking out of her chest and no shortage of suspects ranging from judges to trainers to contestants. Stella and Danny investigate the death of bicycle messenger Michael Starling but the crime scene may have been anywhere along his route.
Guest Cast and Crew : Hira Ambrosino | Desi Lydic | Aisha Hinds | Zach Grenier | Robert Costanzo | Paul Carafotes | Julia Duffy | Brad Greenquist | Steve Hytner | Director : Karen Gaviola | Director : Alex Zakrzewski | Writer : Anthony Zuiker |
Air Date : Jan. 12, 2005 | Rating ★★★★★★★★

CSI New York Season 1 Episode 13

Episode 13 - [Tanglewood]
Details : The detectives investigate a murder at a grocery store that is also connected to the death of a young man with the tattoo Tanglewood on his back. A third case involves a woman who was killed in a hit-and-run auto accident.
Guest Cast and Crew : Marco Sanchez | Anjul Nigam | Irene Tsu | Jim Pirri | Katie Chonacas | Michael Maize | Anthony Crivello | Michael Cornacchia | Sarah Lafleur | Victor Browne | Brian Tahash | Stacy Edwards | Michael DeLuise | Fredric Lehne | Jordana Spiro | Cyia Batten | Michael O'Hara | Bret Ernst | Writer : Carol Mendelsohn | Writer : Ann Donahue | Director : Karen Gaviola | Director : Scott Lautanen | Writer : Eli Talbert | Writer : Anthony Zuiker |
Air Date : Jan. 26, 2005 | Rating ★★★★★★★★

CSI New York Season 1 Episode 14

Episode 14 - [Blood Sweat And Tears]
Details : The body of a young contortionist is found folded into a box on Coney Island leading Mac and Stella to the circus where they find themselves embroiled in a real-life Romeo and Juliet story between the dead contortionist Lukas and a trapeze artist Anasuya. Danny and Flack find a woman's body in a laundry chute and learn that she was actually the former sorority sister of the woman who lived in that building and turn their suspicion to the abusive husband the woman was hiding from.
Guest Cast and Crew : Sarah Lafleur | Brian Tahash | Kendra Waldman as Lita Cartey | Director : Nelson McCormick | Writer : Pam Veasey |
Air Date : Feb. 09, 2005 | Rating ★★★★★★★★

CSI New York Season 1 Episode 15

Episode 15 - ['til Death Do We Part]
Details : The team's investigation into the death of Hannah Bloom who died at her own wedding is put on hold when her father refuses to allow them to perform an autopsy until after his daughter's body is blessed by a rabbi. Danny and Mac turn their attention to the woman who trained the doves who were supposed to be released but cannot tie her directly to Bloom who died from formaldehyde poisoning. Stella Flack and Aiden investigate when a hand is found deep underground and soon realise that the dead man Rick Amadori chewed off his own hand. It seems like a slam dunk when the son of a man Amadori killed three years earlier confesses to the crime but things aren't as easy as they seem.
Guest Cast and Crew : Rick D. Wasserman | Robin Thomas | Kelly Hu | Bess Wohl | Sam Huntington | Jeffrey Vincent Parise | Diva Zappa | David DeLuise | Andy Milder | Director : Nelson McCormick | Director : Deran Sarafian | Writer : Pam Veasey | Writer : Anthony Zuiker |
Air Date : Feb. 16, 2005 | Rating ★★★★★★★★

CSI New York Season 1 Episode 16

Episode 16 - [Hush]
Details : A woman's death leads our detectives to a school for sexual fetishes such as bondage and spanking.
Guest Cast and Crew : Stacey Travis | Ted Raimi | Rose Abdoo | Tory Kittles | Clark Gregg | Albie Selznick | Patrick Fischler | Brad Grunberg | Jack Gwaltney | Casey Strand | William Wallace | Ed O'Ross | Kim Coates | Bumper Robinson | Laura Leigh Hughes | Director : Deran Sarafian | Director : Norberto Barba | Writer : Anthony Zuiker |
Air Date : Feb. 23, 2005 | Rating ★★★★★★★★

CSI New York Season 1 Episode 17

Episode 17 - [The Fall]
Details : When young gang members murder the owner of an upscale Bronx wine store the CSI’s must work to find evidence that ultimately ties someone to the crime. Tempers flare when the murder investigation reunites Detective Flack with his long-time mentor and friend Sergeant Gavin Moran who was the first to arrive at the crime scene. Meanwhile Danny and Aiden investigate the death of an influential movie producer found dead on the canopy of his Chelsea apartment building.
Guest Cast and Crew : Stacey Travis | Rose Abdoo | Clark Gregg | Patrick Fischler | Director : Norberto Barba | Director : Emilio Estevez | Writer : Anthony Zuiker |
Air Date : Mar. 02, 2005 | Rating ★★★★★★★★

CSI New York Season 1 Episode 18

Episode 18 - [The Dove Commission]
Details : When the chief investigator of a controversial report documenting corruption within the NYPD is gunned down the day before his findings are published Mac and Stella must find the killer launching a massive search that makes every officer listed in the report a suspect. Meanwhile Danny and Aiden investigate the murder of a gypsy cab driver.
Guest Cast and Crew : April Bowlby | Mark Rolston | Kevin Alejandro | Leslie Bega | Jeremy Ray Valdez | Patrice Fisher | Alanna Ubach | Dominic Fumusa | Silas Weir Mitchell | Leia Thompson | Mike Starr | David Packer | Writer : Andrew Lipsitz | Writer : Eli Talbert | Director : Emilio Estevez | Writer : Anthony Zuiker |
Air Date : Mar. 23, 2005 | Rating ★★★★★★★★

CSI New York Season 1 Episode 19

Episode 19 - [Crime And Misdemeanor]
Details : When the body of a young woman is discovered at a laundry facility the bed sheets she is wrapped in lead Mac and Stella back to an upscale New York hotel that houses diplomats from around the world when the United Nations is in special session. Meanwhile Danny and Aiden investigate the death of a homeless man found dressed as a human statue. By all accounts the prank is deemed a misdemeanor but Danny decides to delve further and his refusal to stop the investigation puts him at odds with Mac.
Guest Cast and Crew : April Bowlby | Kevin Alejandro | Director : Joe Chappelle | Director : Rob Bailey |
Air Date : Apr. 13, 2005 | Rating ★★★★★★★★

CSI New York Season 1 Episode 20

Episode 20 - [Supply And Demand]
Details : When a college student is beaten shot to death and his apartment ransacked in what appears to be a drug-related hit the team must track down his killers. After examining the evidence in the murdered student's apartment the team finds traces of pure unprocessed heroin and discovers that the victim had a female roomate who is now missing. Meanwhile Stella's aggressive interrogation tactics with a witness threaten her police badge.
Guest Cast and Crew : Jowharah Jones | Joe Morton | Taylor Sheridan | Don Wallace | Matt McCoy | Sunkrish Bala | Amy Aquino | Director : Joe Chappelle | Director : David Von Ancken |
Air Date : Apr. 27, 2005 | Rating ★★★★★★★★

CSI New York Season 1 Episode 21

Episode 21 - [On The Job]
Details : A nanny is found dead near a park while Messer is in trouble when he may have shot another police officer.
Guest Cast and Crew : Adina Porter | Octavia Spencer | Joe Morton | Alanna Ubach | Noureen DeWulf | Maurice Compte | Chris Tardio | Nick Damici | Director : David Von Ancken | Writer : Pam Veasey | Director : Emilio Estevez |
Air Date : May. 04, 2005 | Rating ★★★★★★★

CSI New York Season 1 Episode 22

Episode 22 - [The Closer]
Details : The team examines the murder of an avid Boston Red Sox fan found dead with a ruptured spleen following a tough loss against New York. Danny must put his baseball skills to the test to piece together the evidence as the CSIs try to find out how and why he was murdered. Meanwhile after testifying in a murder trial Mac is confronted by the defendant Quinn Sullivan who questions the validity of the evidence. Mac is torn between trusting science or his desire to help a man facing jail time who swears he's innocent. Also when a truck kills a barely clad woman early one morning the team investigates why she was running through the streets and from whom.
Guest Cast and Crew : Kathryn Harrold | Amaury Nolasco | Raphael Sbarge | Jason Cerbone | Andrew Bowen | Michael Clarke Duncan | Writer : Andrew Lipsitz | Director : Duane Clark | Writer : Pam Veasey | Director : Emilio Estevez |
Air Date : May. 11, 2005 | Rating ★★★★★★★★

CSI New York Season 1 Episode 23

Episode 23 - [What You See Is What You See]
Details : While Mac dines at his local breakfast spot a gunman opens fire leaving a waitress critically injured and a man dead and Mac having to choose whether to chase after the suspect or save the life of the young woman. Meanwhile before the chaos Mac was approached by a shy patron who awkwardly engaged him in conversation. After feeling that he saved her life during the shoot out she asks him to join her for a drink and Mac must decide if he is ready to start dating after his wife's tragic death.
Guest Cast and Crew : Penelope Ann Miller | Garret Dillahunt | Raphael Sbarge | Dave Power | Sandy Martin | Emily Harrison | Wil Horneff | Writer : Andrew Lipsitz | Director : Duane Clark |
Air Date : May. 18, 2005 | Rating ★★★★★★★★