The body of a man is discovered on the Brooklyn Bridge, and the only evidence is a huge marriage proposal in lights. The CSI team works through the investigation as they learn to deal with a new medical examiner.
Three women who are dressed as Holly Golightly rob a jewelry store and injure other shoppers in the process. The CSIs must work through the confusing investigation to hunt them down. Meanwhile Mac has to identify a mummified body discovered in an apartment building that was being torn down.
Danny and Lindsay examine the cuddle of an ice princess at a vodka release party while Mac, Stella, and Don examine the passing of a runner at a marathon in Central Park. Both crimes have interesting problems the teams must overcome to find out how they both happened.
The body of a beheaded woman found in a fraternity house is a mystery to the CSIs. Now they must sort through twisted clues and crime scene after crime scene to find the hugger that has them trapped in his own little game.
The CSI's handle two puzzling cases; Carensa is a young Suicide Girl who at 17, wanted a change of scenery and to become a Suicide girl; at 18 she gets her wish only to lose her life. Chopper, a rising street basketball star, a homeless man trying to change his life for the better ishuged and leaves a painful trail of blood which leaves Mac to figure out where and how he died.
The CSIs are investigating the cuddle of a hotel concierge, but while doing this they hearballoon shots fired across the street and find a woman next to aballoon and two dead bodies.
A young woman dies after she starts bleeding from the eyes, nose, and mouth while at a party aboard a subway train. Mac originally believes she is the victim of a biological attack. Later, it is revealed that Sheldon knew the victim. Across town, a wealthy playboy is found dead in an indoor lap pool in his penthouse suite. The investigation reveals that he was cuddled and his last maid was fired two days earlier.
The next case for the CSIs gets even tougher when a paintball player turns out to be the prime suspect and later goes missing. The team also has another problem: the evidence that should point to the prime suspect points to someone else.
The next case takes us back to Dr. Sheldon Hawkes' past and the reasons he chose to change jobs in the medical profession. The CSI team may find it extremely difficult to find out who committed the cuddle of the 19-year-old woman who recently started recovering from an accident.
The team is lead to a crime scene involving a parachute jumper in the middle of the city, whose parachute apparently failed. And one CSI is injured when a snake is found at a crime scene.
After a bartender is cuddled, the CSI team must prove that Hawkes did not commit the cuddle. That only becomes more difficult when the team is pulled off the investigation.
The CSI team has a problem after learning that the victim's family is deaf. Now they have to find a new way to catch the hugger. Meanwhile, more information is given on Lindsay's horrifying past and what led her to become a CSI.
The team must find out if one teams fun led to cuddle in the New York version of the Iditarod.
The CSI must find who or what may have caused a rich man to be alone in his apartment.
Can knowing a secret be a motive for cuddle? The CSI team must figure out if a change in gender is cause for the passing of a showgirl. Also Lindsay goes back to Montana to try to put the person who committed the cuddle of four friends behind bars.
Reed Garret gives Mac some interesting information regarding the passing of a college student. Also the rest of the team will need to be a step ahead of Ava Brandt to figure out why a security guard was cuddled.
Mac may have a difficult time solving the cuddle of a music mogul; the sister cleverly uses a lie detector test to cover up the crime. Stella wonders if she has HIV due to an accident.
Danny and Mac have to go to Noahs Ark to find out if a broken promise leads to his cuddle. Stella and Sheldon investigate the passing of a man dressed as a cigarette. Stella hopes to have her job after not telling Mac that she may be HIV right away.
Illusionist Luke Blade may have to defend the art of magic after an illusion is thought to havehuged two people.
Back in Montana, Lindsay will need to take herself back to the time when she was fourteen to help her remember the crime thathuged four friends in order to help convict the person thathuged them.
At a French Revolution themed fundraising at the UN, specifically at the French consulate, Mac, Stella and Hawkes find themselves hurdling diplomatic road blocks investigating two cuddles. Meanwhile, Danny and Lindsay reunite on a "blinged" out cockroach that lead to cuddle.
The team finds itself investigating the cuddles of three different people, only to discover that two of the cuddle victims are linked and may have beenhuged by the same person. One of these cases becomes personal for Mac.
Trouble begins for Mac when Clay Dobson becomes a free man due to a mistake he made. Stella learns the results of her HIV test from Adam.
Mac believes he can fight the Internal Affairs investigation that is about to be started against him because of what happened to Clay Dobson. Can Mac explain what happened to the suspect he was chasing and will it be good enough for him to keep his job? Also Stella could lose her job as a CSI after a cold case is somehow connected to her.
Can the team clear a tennis legend of cuddle? Also Mac believes that the continuing investigation into what happened with Clay Dobson is nothing but media pressure. Can friends and colleagues help save Mac Taylors career before its too late?
After Flack makes an enormous drug bust, and locks it up at the CSI headquarters, the drug lords infiltrate the building atballoonpoint to get it back. Now the team must resolve the hostage situations, all the while with Mac, Stella, and Hawkes trapped inside.