CSI: NY: Season 5
Alliance Atlantis (2008)
Action, Crime, Mystery
In Collection
#3276
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Seen ItYes
097368937949
IMDB   7.0
17 hr 43 mins USA / English
DVD  Region 1   NR
Gary Sinise Detective Mac Taylor
Melina Kanakaredes Detective Stella Bonasera
Carmine Giovinazzo Detective Danny Messer
Anna Belknap Detective Lindsay Monroe
Hill Harper Dr. Sheldon Hawkes
A.J. Buckley Adam Ross
Eddie Cahill Detective Don Flack
Robert Joy Dr. Sid Hammerback
Sela Ward Jo Danville
Emmanuelle Vaugier Jennifer Angel
Claire Forlani Peyton Driscoll
Vanessa Ferlito Aiden Burn
Dianna Agron Jessica Grant
Director
Oz Scott
Rob Bailey
Producer Jerry Bruckheimer
Gary Sinise
Writer Anthony E. Zuiker
Ann Donahue


The third edition of the "CSI" franchise sets up shop in the Big Apple, where taciturn Detective Mac Taylor (Gary Sinise) and his partner, Detective Stella Bonasera (Melina Kanakaredes), lead a crime-solving team. Like his counterparts in Las Vegas and Miami, Taylor knows that people may lie, but the evidence rarely does.
Episodes
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    9/24/2008  1.  Veritas
Picking up where the season 4 finale left off. The team is investigating the death of a woman named Lauren Santana whom is linked to the bank robbery. She is a friend of Flack's sister Samantha. Also Mac has escaped the robber but the bodies are still piling up. So the team must quickly find the bank robber before he is able to get away.
Director:  Rob Bailey  Writer:  Pam Veasey 
Guest starring:  Dayo Ade,  Deena Dill, Andy Hopper, Cynthia Silver, Julia Barnett, Ray Cyrus Shams, Elisha Skorman,  Elias Koteas, Annika Boras
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    10/1/2008  2.  Page Turner
A series of deaths from radiation poisoning may be related to a deadly tome in the New York library.
Director:  Frederick E.O. Toye  Writer:  Trey Callaway 
Guest starring:  Maroon 5,  Jonathon Trent, Edward Kerr,  Ramon De Ocampo, Tyler Poelle, Matt Zogaric, Heidi Johanningmerier, Helena Barrett
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    10/8/2008  3.  Turbulence
When a supposed air marshal is murdered on a flight to the District of Columbia, Mac searches the plane for the killer and the murder weapon.
Director:  Matt Earl Beesley  Writer:  Gary Sinise  / Jeremy Littman 
Guest starring:  Justin Shilton, Roxanne Day,  Michaela McManus, Ben Youcef, Scott Connors, Ethan Erickson, Nelly, Kincaid Walker
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    10/22/2008  4.  Sex, Lies and Silicone
The team investigates the puzzling death of a woman named Elaine Steele. To solve the case, the team must look for a life size silicone doll. When the team runs into the factory that makes them, it prompts some amusement for some of the team. Meanwhile, Hawkes meets up with an old college friend who later asks him to compromise some evidence in the case.
Director:  Jonathan Glassner  Writer:  Wendy Battles 
Guest starring:  Mykelti Williamson, Amber Mead, Andrew Walker, Stephen Sowan,  Devon Gummersall, Christopher Stapleton, Kelly Noonan,  Brian Poth
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    10/29/2008  5.  The Cost of Living
The CSI team investigates the shooting death of an archaeologist whose secret life may have caught up to him.
Director:  Rob Bailey  Writer:  John Dove 
Guest starring:  Tania Raymonde, Katie Cleary,  Chad Faust, Paul Papadakis, Joshua Snyder,  Adoni Maropis, Vincent Wright, Victor Togunde
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    11/5/2008  6.  Enough
Three drug dealers set to stand trial are found dead in separate places. They were all trying to get rid of witnesses in their crime, but it looks like someone got them first.
Director:  Alex Zakrzewski  Writer:  Zachary Reiter 
Guest starring:  Heather Mazur, Anthony Nacarato, Bryan Clark, J.R. Cacia, Joshua Levine, Katherine Cunningham-Eves, Moe Irvin,  Nikki Griffin, Shauna Stoddart
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    11/12/2008  7.  Dead Inside
The team investigates the brutal murder of a house relocator who was found dead inside a Victorian house that he was about to move from Staten Island to The Upper East Side.
Director:  Christine Moore  Writer:  Pam Veasey  / Daniele Nathanson 
Guest starring:  Emmanuelle Vaugier, Christopher Halsted,  Mirelly Taylor, Casey LaBow, Marguerite MacIntyre,  Kathleen Munroe, Bradley Dodds,  Jake Muxworthy
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    11/19/2008  8.  My Name is Mac Taylor
In the one hundredth episode of CSI: NY Mac faces his most deadly foe yet. There is a serial killer loose in New York City killing people with the name Mac Taylor making Mac a target.
Director:  Rob Bailey  Writer:  Pam Veasey 
Guest starring:  Chris Daughtry, Nelly,  Julia Ormond, Marshall Faulk,  Rumer Willis, Scott Wolf, David Haley, Mark Musashi, Kelvin Yu, J. J. Dashnaw, Lauren Kim, Ryan Happy
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    11/26/2008  9.  The Box
A woman is found in an auto wrecking yard and a man is found in a trunk, two separate cases for the CSI team to investigate.
Director:  Oz Scott  Writer:  Peter M. Lenkov  / Bill Haynes 
Guest starring:  Emmanuelle VaugierKevin WeismanJoe Egender, Guy Nardulli,  Lisa DarrJon Gries, Erin Cardillo, Marcus Chait,  Michael Kenneth Williams, Alaina Huffman, Jonna Walsh,  Flaco Navaja
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    12/10/2008  10.  The Triangle
The team is forced to investigate two crimes at once when a mysterious energy field seems to be the cause of a billionaire's disappearance and the death of his limo driver.
Director:  Jeff Thomas  Writer:  Trey Callaway 
Guest starring:  Chris Mulkey, Brian Gross, Anastasia Ganias, Neil Hopkins, Leith Burke, Parisa Fakhri, Chris Hartl, Brian Oblak, Shawn Nash
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    12/17/2008  11.  Forbidden Fruit
Mac runs into Ella McBride who could cost him time in figuring out if Isabelle Vaughn died by eating the miracle fruit. Stella gets in trouble with Mac while investigating another murder linked to the Greek diplomat that attacked her.
Director:  John Behring  Writer:  Peter M. Lenkov  / Jill Abbinanti 
Guest starring:  Chris Carmack, Alvin Zalamea,  Jack McGee, Casey LaBow, Kristin Cavallari, Alex Schemmer, Tahyna Tozzi, Morgan Hewitt, Paul Papadakis,  Louis Lombardi
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    1/14/2009  12.  Help
Young brides-to-be fight over a killer dress at the biggest wedding gown sale of the year and one of the shoppers winds up dead. The unusual clues of this case force Dr. Hawkes to confront a painful chapter from his past.
Director:  David Barrett  Writer:  Sam Humphrey 
Guest starring:  Emmanuelle Vaugier, Meg Cionni, Ashley Cusato,  Eyal Podell, Bonnie McKee, Nichole Galicia, Alex Band,  Mackenzie Firgens, Scott Sacks, Sharon June Little
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    1/21/2009  13.  Rush to Judgement
The CSIs must piece together a human jigsaw puzzle when a beloved wrestling coach's severed body parts are found buried throughout the city. Meanwhile, Detective Flack is in the hot seat when a teenage suspect dies in his custody.
Director:  Rob Bailey  Writer:  Wendy Battles 
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    2/11/2009  14.  She's Not There
A Russian tourist is found stabbed to death and the CSIs come face to face with the frightening realities of human trafficking. Solving this case becomes personal when it directly affects a prominent member of the NYPD
Director:  Nelson McCormick  Writer:  Pam Veasey  / John Dove 
Guest starring:  Julia Ormond, Shantel Van Santen, Tamara Feldman, Michelle Lee, Michael Hake,  Mykel Shannon Jenkins, Tina Ivlev, Brian Cousins, Monte Franks, Alyssa Diaz, Bryan Friday,  Michael Papajohn
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    2/18/2009  15.  The Party's Over
When the Deputy Mayor's dead body falls from the ceiling, along with hundreds of balloons, at a charity fundraiser, Stella and her date find themselves in the middle of the crime scene and Mac goes head to head with Robert Dunbrook.
Director:  Oz Scott  Writer:  Barbie Kligman 
Guest starring:  Craig T. NelsonJulia Ormond, Ethan Erickson,  Skyler GisondoDavid ChisumMaury Sterling, Donnie Jeffcoat,  Jack McGee, Craig Woolson, Ramona DuBarry, Marta McGonagle, Rudy Dobrev, Al Vincente
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    2/25/2009  16.  No Good Deed
When a buzzard flying over Manhattan drops a human eyeball from its claw, the race is on to find the body it belongs to before the avian saboteur flies away with the rest of the evidence.
Director:  Matt Earl Beesley  Writer:  Rusty Cundieff  / Floyd Byars 
Guest starring:  John Bailey, Larkin Campbell,  Daphne Duplaix, Danay Garcia, Nick Grosvenor, Casey LaBow, Luis Jose Lopez, Graham Shiels
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    3/11/2009  17.  Green Piece
A lethal pipe-bomb blows a Manhattan townhouse and valuable evidence to pieces, forcing the CSIs to get creative in reconstructing the damaged clues that ultimately lead to the bomber.
Director:  Jeffrey Hunt  Writer:  Zachary Reiter 
Guest starring:  Grant Alan, Matt McTighe, John Sloan Theodore Wicks, Sarah Butler, Asia DeMarcos,  Robert Gant, Dinora Walcott, Mark Englehardt
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    3/18/2009  18.  Point of No Return
When the wife of a former medical examiner is found murdered, a white powder found at the scene provides the CSIs with a major lead in tracking the killer when it is discovered that the powder is heroin made from human bodies.
Director:  Rob Bailey  Writer:  Peter M. Lenkov  / Bill Haynes 
Guest starring:  Emmanuelle Vaugier, Ashlee Simpson-Wentz, Holly Lynch,  Tony Amendola, Jonah Lotan, Paul Papadakis, Tracy Silver, Emilio Rivera, Pete Wentz, Shawn Woods,  Adoni Maropis
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    3/25/2009  19.  Communication Breakdown
When a Native American chief is shot on the subway, the CSIs struggle to translate which one of the several foreign suspects may have caused his death.
Director:  John Keris  Writer:  Trey Callaway 
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    4/8/2009  20.  Prey
While investigating the shooting of a voice coach in an empty theater, Stella realizes that the crime scene is oddly familiar and staged.
Director:  Marshall Adams  Writer:  Wendy Battles  / Noah Nelson 
Guest starring:  Emanuelle Vaugier,  Tony Amendola, Sam Ball, Eddie Mills, Michael Trevino, Katherine McPhee
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    4/15/2009  21.  The Past, Present and Murder
When a man falls 20 stories to his death, and his body goes missing after it hits the ground, with no body to process, the CSI's must treat this strange development as a missing persons case.
Director:  David Von Ancken  Writer:  Sam Humphrey & Danielle Nathanson  / Sam Humphrey 
Guest starring:  Craig T Nelson
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    4/29/2009  22.  Yahrzeit
The most exclusive jewelry auction of the year ends abruptly when an appraiser is killed during the event. The investigation takes an emotional turn when the CSIs must confront one of the greatest tragedies in human history - the Holocaust.
Director:  Norberto Barba  Writer:  Peter Lenkov & Barbie Kligman  / Peter Lenkov  / Barbie Kligman 
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    5/6/2009  23.  Greater Good
Mac informs an ex-con that he served time for a crime he didn't commit, and Anna tells Danny "it's time" for the first CSI baby to be born.
Director:  Alex Zakrzewski  Writer:  Pam Veasey 
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    5/13/2009  24.  Grounds for Deception
When Stella discovers that New Yorkers are being murdered over ancient Greek artifacts, she hands over her badge to follow a clue that leads to Greece and, together with Mac, she uncovers one of the greatest mysteries in history.
Director:  Duane Clark  Writer:  Melina Kanakaredes 
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    5/14/2009  25.  Pay Up
When transferring Robert Dunbrook's son from prison to court, the NYPD is ambushed by a group of professional kidnappers who kill a member of the team and one of the CSI's lives hangs in the balance.
Director:  Rob Bailey  Writer:  Peter M. Lenkov 
Edition Details
Series CSI: NY
Distributor Paramount
Release Date 9/29/2009
Packaging Custom Case
Screen Ratio Theatrical Widescreen (2.35:1)
Subtitles English; English (Closed Captioned)
Audio Tracks Dolby Digital 5.1 [English]
Layers Single Side, Dual Layer
No. of Disks/Tapes 7

Features
Disc 01 - Pre-Production: Planning the Perfect Murder - Production: Shoot to Kill - Post-Production: Crime Scene Cleanup - Celebrating 100: Evidence of a Hit