
The third permutation of the "CSI" franchise sets up shop in the Big Apple, where taciturn detective Mac Taylor and his new partner, Jo Danville, lead a crime-solving team. Taylor, a retired Marine who believes evidence holds the truth that people may try to cover up, finds balance in Jo's empathy-driven investigative style. Their team includes spirited investigators like Danny Messer and wife Lindsay Monroe Messer, former coroner Sheldon Hawkes, and edgy detective Don Flack.
The team feels conflicted about pursuing the killer when a serial rapist is found dead and restrained in the same manner as his victims were.
When a conspiracy theorist is found dead, the team discovers that her beliefs may not have been too far off base.
The team becomes immersed in the competitive world of privileged youth when a popular student at a private school is murdered.
Jo must balance her home and work when her daughter is the key witness in a murder investigation.