Horatio Caine untersucht mit seinen Leuten einen Flugzeugabsturz in den Everglades. Es stellt sich heraus, dass das Flugzeug einem gewissen Mr. Summer gehörte, einem der erfolgreichsten Versicherungsagenten der östlichen USA. Indizien an der Unfallstelle deuten darauf hin, dass der Absturz kein einfaches Unglück war.

A serial bomber is on the loose. Will the team with the help from Caine's old bomb squad mentor be able to work out the puzzle and find the bomber?

An arm in a shark's gullet and a girl who was shot at sea lead the team to a smuggler who was running Cuban refugees and cocaine in a foundering ship.

Die Leiche des Barkeepers Estevan Ordonez wird mit durchtrennter Kehle am Strand von Miami gefunden, sein Gesicht ist teilweise verbrannt. Ganz in der Nähe liegt eine schwer verletzte Frau, die offenbar vergewaltigt und anschließend ins Wasser geworfen wurde. Die junge Frau war Besucherin einer Party, die von dem Spross einer äußerst einflussreichen Familie gegeben wurde ...

When a priest is found dead in his rectory after being brutally shot, Megan, Calleigh and Speedle must untangle a messy web of familial issues that lead to his death. Elsewhere, Horatio and Eric attempt to solve the emotional case of an exploded vehicle, which was home to a mother with child.

Die Leiche eines Mädchens wird auf einer Restauranttoilette gefunden. Der Mörder hat sich offenbar bewusst außerhalb des Schwenkbereichs der Überwachungskamera aufgehalten. Außerdem hat er seine Fingerabdrücke mit einem Trick unkenntlich gemacht. Horatio Caine und sein Team versuchen, aus den vorhandenen Spuren dennoch die richtigen Schlüsse zu ziehen.

Horatio, Calleigh and Speedle investigate the death of an exotic male dancer found dead after a sexual party, and must dig through the evidence to discover a motive. Meanwhile, Eric and Megan investigate the death of a man involved in diving that mysteriously died after climbing onto a random boat.

Horatio und seine Leute werden zu einem Tatort gerufen, an dem sich eine grausame Bluttat ereignet hat: Eine Familie wurde in ihren eigenen Haus praktisch hingerichtet. Nur ein blutüberströmtes Kleinkind und der schwer verletzte Familienvater haben das Gemetzel überlebt. Es scheint, als habe die Mutter ihre eigenen Kinder mit einer Schrotflinte getötet.

During a typical morning rush hour in downtown Miami, an unseen sniper chooses three victims at random and opens fire, killing each with a single shot to the head. Horatio and his crew rush to the scene, which is quickly mobbed by TV news reporters eager to spin the murders into a national story. The initial investigation doesn't reveal much, as there were no witnesses and little evidence remains. But the case heats up when the sniper strikes again, killing two more innocent people.

Der umstrittene Universitätsprofessor Adam Metzger wird auf grausame Art und Weise ermordet. Da seine Leiche dreizehn verschiedene Wundtypen aufweist, glaubt Horatio an einen Ritualmord. Ist einer von Metzgers Studenten der Täter? Derweil wird im Kofferraum eines aus einem Kanal geborgenen Autos eine weitere Leiche gefunden.

The team investigates the death of a young model, whose body was found near a juvenile detention camp for girls. Across town, Delko and Speedle probe the bizarre death of a man who was apparently burned from the inside.

Horatio and Speedle investigate the slaying of a hooker who is found dead under a bed in a plush beachside cottage, her naked body having been stabbed 23 times. But the crime scene yields few traces of blood because the killer bathed the victim in the cottage's tub with cardamom soap. Across town at an urban gas station, Calleigh and Delko attempt to uncover why a German tourist was gunned down in an apparent carjacking. They learn that a masked assailant approached a vacationing couple's rental car, shot and killed the husband, but left the wife unharmed and then fled the scene.

In einem leer stehenden Haus entdeckt ein Mann durch Zufall eine Drogenküche. Wenig später stirbt er, da er dort giftige Dämpfe eingeatmet hat. Der Hausbesitzer erklärt, nichts von der Drogenküche gewusst zu haben.

Der Schwerverbrecher Thomas Carpenter wird tot in seiner Wohnung gefunden. Sein Mörder hat ihn zunächst gefesselt und geknebelt, bevor er ihn mit einem Eisenrohr penetriert und schließlich erschlagen hat. Auf ähnliche Weise hat Carpenter sich stets seine eigenen Opfer gefügig gemacht.

Ein Junkie wird mit gebrochenem Genick gefunden. Bei den Untersuchungen stellt sich heraus, dass der Mann offenbar mit radioaktiver Strahlung in Berührung gekommen ist.

Horatio and his team investigate after a Russian immigrant is stabbed to death in a peep-show booth, and the only witness to the crime is the stripper who was performing for him.

Shortly before Horatio is set to testify at a high-profile murder case in which the defendant is the husband of a city councilwoman, he's given new facts that could prove the man is innocent. The information revolves around the discovery of a second victim who matches the profile of the first one and was killed in a similar manner. If the man on trial isn't guilty, then Horatio fears that a serial killer may be on the loose.

Beim Überfall auf einen Polizeikonvoi, in dem beschlagnahmte Drogen transportiert wurden, wird ein Polizist getötet, und Tim wird angeschossen. Horatio, der noch unter dem Tod seines Bruders leidet, ist in Zugzwang: Denn die Aufsichtsbehörde vermutet ein Mitglied seines Teams als Informant der Angreifer.

Horatio battles the FBI and U.S. Marshals as he tries to uncover why a woman was murdered at the side of a pool at a hotel. The investigation begins shortly after the woman is found dead from two shots to the head. The evidence suggests that it was a professional hit man, which is strange enough, but the case becomes additionally puzzling when the Feds and U.S. Marshals get involved. Plus, the murder weapon is linked to a cold case that was orinially investigated by Yelina. Meanwhile, Calleigh talks to her dad about his drinking problem after she's called away from work to drag him out of a bar.

Horatio is approached by a parolee he helped put away several years ago, who begs for his assistance in finding his missing teenage son. As the investigation gets underway, Horatio discovers that the boy may be planning a deadly assault at his high school. Meanwhile, as Speedle investigates a man's death, the victim's flirtatious girlfriend, who was there when he died, tries to play on Speedle's obvious attraction to her.

The team investigates the deaths of two college students who were in Miami on spring break. The first is a teenage girl found dead on a beach with her neck broken and human bite marks on her legs. The second is a young man found in the bottom of a hotel swimming pool who apparently died before he hit the water.

Speedle and Delko are present when a trendy nightclub catches fire, apparently from a DJ's pyrotechnics display, killing sixteen people and injuring dozens of others. But the ensuing investigation reveals it may have been arson to cover up a murder. Meanwhile, Horatio probes the death of a prostitute whose body is found in the bathroom of a judge's home and evidence suggests that she was in the club during the fire.

An explosion in a rundown barn nearly kills Horatio and his crew just after they find a dead man inside, bound with duct tape. The case gets personal for Horatio when he discovers that the leading suspect knew his late brother. Meanwhile, Alexx is shocked to learn that her best friend's husband has been murdered, apparently the victim of a random shooting.

An inmate at a massive Miami prison complex is stabbed to death in the prison yard. Shortly after Horatio arrives on the scene, a helicopter appears above the correctional facility. He immediately fears that the murder was a decoy to set up an escape. That's confirmed as three prisoners hop aboard the chopper and flee. As the investigation gets underway, the identities of the fugitives become known and a horrible realization sweeps over Horatio: two of the escapees are cold-blooded killers who already have their next victims picked out, and the other is a child molester who he recently put away.