At the start of the trial of Lorenzo Escalante, husband of city councilor Mercedes, for the murder of their equally Cuban housemaid Carmen Abregon, Horatio delays testifying while the hastily summoned team urgently examines a new corps. It's Bonita Cruz, another Latina maid, recruited and shot in almost exactly the same way, only while Lorenzo was in police custody. It looks like a copy cat or an actual serial killer, but neither theory works out, while the trail leads to the Escalante's devoted attorney and friend, Carl Galaz.

A drugs transport to incineration is attacked by a well-armed gang, but a woman shouting for help for her baby rather distracts Horatio and Speed, whose gun is jammed, but a bullet-proof vest saves his life. Only SWAT sergeant Hollis is killed, but as ballistics later establishes from a distant spot. Horatio finds the woman isn't the baby's mother, she was hired by a drugs gang. CSI is suspected of tipping them off, especially after Calleigh tests positive for cocaine, but Horatio traces that to a nearby spot suitable for the sniper. The fiends even left one of their own, badly wounded Lester Cassidy, behind to die in Paul Tomassi's workshop after consulting suspended MD Guillermo Santoyo.

The murder of a woman at a posh hotel has ties to the drug cartel, a bank robbery, and the witness protection program.

Ex-con Pete Wilton begs Horatio to use the skill that got him arrested to find his missing son Jeff. The knave is found to be a habitual marijuana user and fired over 200 bullets on the yard tree with mates Nick Gordon and Jared Hatch, calling themselves 4.20 boys. Pete forfeits his parole to cover for Jeff, but Horatio and Delko soon discover sinister indications in the boys' lockers, which turn out sadly prophetic, yet prevent an ultimate tragedy.

Two teenagers die during a Spring Break trip to the Miami beach.

Three prisoners break out of prison. One of them is a child molester, previously caught by the CSI team, who is looking for his new victim as the detectives race against time to stop him. Another is out to get revenge against the people who got him convicted, one of whom is detective Calleigh Duquesne.

The investigation of the murders of 2 young models hit a sudden stop when the two perpetrators have diplomatic immunity from the US government.

The body of a man involved in recovering sunken treasure is discovered pinned to the wall of his new cabin cruiser by a spear fired from a spear gun at close range.

Maggots dropping down to the neighbor below from an apartment being renovated allow discovery of the body of Peg Donovan. Her skull was smashed with lumber, but she survived. Horatio's only logical suspect is Mason Shaw, who was convicted for raping her, and maybe planning from jail to prevent her testimony ruining his up-coming parole hearing. The team must find proof beforehand if he orchestrated everything from his Georgia prison somehow manipulating his own son - Chuck Shaw.

A young girl is kidnapped from her bedroom in the dead of night, and when an arm shows up without the body attached Horatio must determine if it belongs to his victim or a new one.

The two young owners of a city bar are gunned down after hours and another man is wounded in the attack, which was allegedly committed by a masked gunman. Calleigh's dad announces he is now a public defender and needs her help with a murder case.

Three murder cases are investigated after Hurricane Anthony hit Miami.

A fuel man lights up on fire during a race and burns to death despite wearing a fire-proof suit.

A man is found dead, his throat slit, in his office. Meanwhile, Raymond Caine's case is re-opened and eventually solved when Horatio Caine finds more evidence about the murder.

In the marina, a shark fatally bites Cindy Castiano, attracted by a bleeding earlier shot wound. She worked for P.I. Bruno Gomez to entrap wealthy men. So the suspects include victimized adulterers Carl Purdue, who as ruined and threatened her life, and Matthew Warner, who believes she loved him. Eric tries to pussyfoot after finding MPD detective Frank Tripp's fingerprints and his name on a client list.

The body of a young woman is dropped over railing. It appears that she has been dead prior to the fall.

A plastic surgeon is found dead, hanged in his own apartment. Meanwhile, a husband of his former patient, who died from complications during a routine surgery, is suing the clinic for the death of his wife.

The body of a teenage girl is lost during its transportation to the crime lab. Someone has bought the corpse.

An ex-torturer who once worked for the government of Cuba is found dead, bound to a chair, showing signs of gruesome torture.

A slow burn in the Everglades that turns on itself yields a body different than the one Eric and Alexx were brought out for, and endangers their lives; Horatio thinks he's found a sexual predator, but now he must prove it.

A paparazzi's death leads the investigators to another death of a young woman.

A masked man breaks in and trashes a house before shooting the father. The son is later found by the CSI team in a freezer.

A money van carrying $3.2 million is robbed. One of the two drivers is shot dead. Caine manages to track the stolen money, which turns out to be counterfeit.

A CSI wannabe steals crucial evidence from a murder scene and compromises the case.

A journalist witnesses a homicide and leaves the scene uninjured. The detectives, however, believe that there is more to this suspicious man.

A police officer literally drops down dead besides a car he pulled over.

A plane crashes on a beach because it was out of fuel. The pilot, however, was dead prior to the crash.

Examining the bloody murder of a Miami father and his wife, which the teenage daughter survived, Horatio's team soon finds trails to a car rented by a man who flew in from New York City. There Horatio teams up with his CSI counterpart Mac Taylor, who is examining a cop-killing, possibly by the same murderer. Together they follow him, work out what erroneously drove him to Miami and arrive at an analogous crime scene, where rich Michael Hanover and his wife were killed, badly stabbed adolescent son Mike Jr. The matter of key access suggests some involvement of the janitor.

A porn star is strangled to death. Evidence points to the owner of her studio as a primary suspect.

A boat crashes into a bridge. On it is a dead body of a man. He was killed while delivering ransom money to his son's kidnapper.

Horatio's attempt to protect the young witness of a drive-by boat shooting at a party may put Yelina's life at risk when the suspect finds out about the boy.

A woman falls from the sidewalk and is hit by a speeding bus. She dies instantly. A hand-shaped bruise on her back convinces both Alexx and Horatio she was murdered. Horatio wants someone with no biases to work on the case and assigns the rookie Ryan to the case. Horatio just hired him because he is impressed by how clean Ryan's guns are. Calleigh's father thinks he may have killed someone while driving drunk.

A group of teenagers gather at a golf course at a specified time. After the flash mob disperses, a body is found near the site. The CSIs follow the mob to a very prestigious prep school. They manage to trace the origin of the text messages telling the receivers to meet at the golf course to the son of one of Florida's most famous defense attorneys. At the same time, Horatio and Yelina are working to find the killer of a woman found in a dumpster.

A young girl is stabbed to death in a trendy night club. Jenny was an undercover investigative aide working for the Alcoholic Beverage Control. Her target was the club owner. As Horatio is questioning him, a loud noise draws him outside where a car speeds up and crashes into the door. The body at the back of the car leads the detectives to a spa where they suspect that there is something illegal going on.

The jury of a brutal murder of a woman visits the crime scene and a juror falls down with a seizure. After the initial chaos, the defendant, the victim's husband, is found dead with a knife stuck in the back of his head.

An impending tsunami is the backdrop for a heist gone wrong and bodies keep stacking up as Horatio and his team struggle to pin down the man behind everything.

After speed-dating 15 women, each 5 minutes, in a South Beach club, Richard Laken is found murdered in his vandalized car. The stylist date who poured the acetone -accessible in her trade- over it admits so, but did so well before the murder, so her story that Laken left early is believed. Indeed, the club's dates record shows Richard left after talking to Rebecca Briggs, who claims he was systematically using their information to commit robberies, but that proves to be the club manager's scam. However at least someone else in the club had a murder motive...

After a just married couple finds 5 dead men while diving it looks like a ship has been pirated and Horatio and his team have yet another murder case.

A man is seen falling from an apartment building, yet the corpse found there is not his but Michael Johnson, a resident, who was deeply wounded by an unidentified round object. First subject is junkie Doug Ramsey, who is arrested by Horatio for probably abseiling to break in and steal the $100,000 heirloom ring of the condo owner, Edward Mathis, who is however found taking it back after its sale, insurance fraud. The wounding object is found, a CD recording kinky sex scenes of missing Donna Scott and reputedly strict criminal judge Isaac Greenhill, whose former court clerk is Mathis, who apparently blackmails him. Ramsay claims police abuse, IAB Sergeant Rick Stetler investigates Horatio, but Ramsay's X-rays... Speculating on a link with the judge's major cases, the team finds Donna's corps in a strangler's peat swamp dumping ground, with vomit which allows a DNA trace to Mathis, but Horatio now considers him a mere pawn...

A husband and wife are carjacked and she later ends up dead and her husband is wounded. The husband is the oldest brother of a family that owns a very good business.

A presumed retaliation shooting in an ER turns out to be a bit more complicated, and Ryan begins to suspect a mother of abusing her baby.

During a routine traffic stop, a cop gets killed and the civilian who drove along with the cop is missing. Horatio and his team find out a 16-year old girl has got something to do with it.

The team investigates the murder of a bellman at a hotel. A man asks Calleigh to look for his wife who is missing.

When a snake is tied to drug smuggling, DNA may be the key to Clavo Cruz's father's cooperation around diplomatic immunity. Ryan and Calleigh get caught up in an identity-theft case and linked murder.

A fire in the glades complicates the search for the perpetrators of three murders, and puts a team member in the sights of an escaped killer.

When a cargo plane crashes, Horatio must determine the cause and how a corpse ended up in the hold.

The team investigates the murder of a tester who works for a skateboard empire, and Horatio moves fast to find a stolen sex video before it's marketed.

The death of two IRS agents sends the team on the hunt of three killers, meanwhile Wolfe keeps stepping on people's toes.

A woman is murdered at a bar that serves more than just drinks. After a night out, Delko's badge is missing. Horatio finds out that his brother killer is really a DEA agent under deep cover and his brother is still alive.

A shooting at the courthouse gets more and more complicated as new suspects are identified.

The man who killed Horatio's brother is found dead, which puts Caine on a trail the Feds don't want him on, and the team works to solve the murder of a popular classmate at a fifteen year reunion.

A stay of execution sends the lab scrambling to reexamine evidence in order to keep the killer on death row, but he has his own plans.

An explosion at a "Break-In Party" leads to the discovery of a bomb, and a search ensues for the person who ordered it, before it's too late. Meanwhile, Caine and Calleigh each have personal matters to deal with.

Delko and Caine follow Riaz down to Brazil, where an unexpected family connection appears. Meanwhile, Calleigh is in charge while Caine is away, and Natalia is having a rough day.

While investigating a possible arson case, Horatio discovers that Yelina is back in Miami working as a private investigator. Meanwhile, Wolfe's prior relationship with one of the suspects gets him in hot water with his superiors.

A probation officer is shot and killed, and one of the suspects turns out to be Horatio's biological son.

The body of the witness Julia Winston paid off in Horatio's son's trial is found in a swamp, but Horatio's investigation is interrupted by his extradition to Brazil to face murder charges. Meanwhile, Calleigh is kidnapped.

With the help of Wolfe and an ATF agent, Horatio stages his own death as part of a plan to get Ron Saris and a shipment of fused-alloy bullets off the street.

Defense attorney Derek Powell's fiancée is killed during a yacht heist, but the investigation may be compromised when Delko's citizenship is questioned and he is threatened with deportation to Cuba.

Ivan Sarnoff escapes an assassination attempt by the Russian mob, and is on the loose. Evidence also suggests that Delko's father was involved, while Yelina, working undercover, is asked to find Sarnoff and finish the job.

Ivan Sarnoff escapes an assassination attempt by the Russian mob, and is on the loose. Evidence also suggests that Delko's father was involved, while Yelina, working undercover, is asked to find Sarnoff and finish the job.

Delko and Caine follow Riaz down to Brazil, where an unexpected family connection appears. Meanwhile, Calleigh is in charge while Caine is away, and Natalia is having a rough day.

During a routine traffic stop, a cop gets killed and the civilian who drove along with the cop is missing. Horatio and his team find out a 16-year old girl has got something to do with it.

While investigating a possible arson case, Horatio discovers that Yelina is back in Miami working as a private investigator. Meanwhile, Wolfe's prior relationship with one of the suspects gets him in hot water with his superiors.

A probation officer is shot and killed, and one of the suspects turns out to be Horatio's biological son.

A group of teenagers gather at a golf course at a specified time. After the flash mob disperses, a body is found near the site. The CSIs follow the mob to a very prestigious prep school. They manage to trace the origin of the text messages telling the receivers to meet at the golf course to the son of one of Florida's most famous defense attorneys. At the same time, Horatio and Yelina are working to find the killer of a woman found in a dumpster.

After speed-dating 15 women, each 5 minutes, in a South Beach club, Richard Laken is found murdered in his vandalized car. The stylist date who poured the acetone -accessible in her trade- over it admits so, but did so well before the murder, so her story that Laken left early is believed. Indeed, the club's dates record shows Richard left after talking to Rebecca Briggs, who claims he was systematically using their information to commit robberies, but that proves to be the club manager's scam. However at least someone else in the club had a murder motive...

With the help of Wolfe and an ATF agent, Horatio stages his own death as part of a plan to get Ron Saris and a shipment of fused-alloy bullets off the street.

The body of the witness Julia Winston paid off in Horatio's son's trial is found in a swamp, but Horatio's investigation is interrupted by his extradition to Brazil to face murder charges. Meanwhile, Calleigh is kidnapped.

A porn star is strangled to death. Evidence points to the owner of her studio as a primary suspect.