CSI: Miami season 8

The continuation of last season's story; the team searches for Delko. Meanwhile, there is a flashback to 1997 when H brought the team together.

• This episode marks the debut appearance of Eddie Cibrian (Jesse Cardoza).

A gunman attacks the Miami lab and holds four people, including Cardoza, hostage. Horatio is to serve as the negotiator, where the gunman has a rather unique request in exchange for the hostages.

Calleigh's testimony before IA may threaten Delko's future. Meanwhile three volleyball players mysteriously die during a game, and a lab tech from Louisiana proves pivotal in cracking the case.

• This episode marks the debut appearance of Omar Miller (Walter Simmons).

The CSI team investigate when a businessman who swindled millions out of people is found dead inside his private plane whilst it was being repossessed. However, things become complicated when a second repoman shows up with the same documentation as the first one.

A lethal outbreak in Miami that is linked to deadly farming practices is investigated as murder. Alexx returns to help the team with the case and Delko questions whether he still wants to be a CSI.

• This episode marks the last appearance of Adam Rodríguez (Eric Delko) as a main cast member.

A groom goes missing, and the CSIs recreate his debauched bachelor party to solve the case and a murder. In the meantime, Simmons officially joins the group as a new CSI.

• This is the first episode to have Omar Miller (Walter Simmons) now credited as a series regular.

Raymond Langston (Laurence Fishburne) from Las Vegas travels to Miami to aid a murder with possible ties to a human leg that was discovered in Vegas.

• This episode begins a crossover with CSI: NY and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation that continues on "Hammer Down" and concludes on "The Lost Girls".

The CSIs investigate a horrible car crash to discover who or what caused it. The probe reveals the darkest secrets of the drivers involved.

Horatio and his team investigate when a man is pushed and falls into a tank containing box jellyfish, as the investigation continues the team are led to believe that a company are killing their own employees for their life insurance policies. Meanwhile, a mysterious woman from Jesse's past unexpectedly shows up.

The CSIs investigate when the body of a census worker is found in a car involved in a high speed car chase. The investigation leads to the discovery of a meth lab, which puts Ryan and Natalia's lives in danger when it explodes.

The team discovers that Delko is working for an attorney defending a homeless man accused of raping and killing a wealthy woman.

• This episode marks the first appearance of Adam Rodríguez as a recurring cast member.

When America's sweetheart, Phoebe Nichols, bursts into flames during a concert, the CSIs expose the dark side of pop stardom. Calleigh is questioned by Stetler over her mileage discrepancies.

A man is chopped in half, and the lab tries to tie the case to a Japanese mobster, who seeks custody of his biological son, who was adopted by the victim. Meanwhile, Natalia's hearing loss nearly makes her a victim during the investigation.

Horatio and the CSIs have just 24 hours to find out if a man on death row is truly guilty of killing his wife and young daughter.

A dead body falls from the sky, and the team discovers that he had been a passenger on a private commercial space flight.

Horatio and Delko travel to Los Angeles to clear Cardoza of an evidence tampering allegation that threatens the prosecution in a current Miami murder case.

The team does not have any difficulty finding suspects when a hated receptionist is murdered with an axe and her body is pushed down an elevator shaft. The real difficulty is finding out who did it.

Horatio's son, Kyle, seeks his father's help in solving a murder when he discovers a burning body in his best friend's garage. The investigation uncovers a family caught in a love affair.

The CSIs work on solving three separate homicides that occurred during Spring Break vacation: a wet t-shirt contestant (Alan Ritchson) who was found buried in the sand (investigated by Ryan and Jesse), a girl discovered in an industrial washing machine (investigated by Calleigh), and a man who was found impaled on a pool cabana (investigated by Horatio and Walter). The team discovers that all three cases are connected.

The spirit of a victim haunts Calleigh until she is able to solve his murder.

The team investigates a murder that happened during a diamond heist. However, things get complicated when evidence is stolen from the lab and Eric Delko returns.

When a suburban soccer mom is murdered, the CSIs uncover her family's dark past, while Delko continues his undercover mission. At the end of the episode, Delko is about to hand his evidence to the state attorney, when an explosion by her car kills her and knocks Delko to the ground.

When Horatio's ex-girlfriend is killed in an explosion, the team looks within their own department to find the killer. The team is uneasy as Eric returns to do some undercover investigation and evidence leads to the discovery of stolen diamonds in Ryan's house. They must find the real culprit and exonerate Ryan before things get out of hand.

Delko returns to the lab in time to help catch a serial killer who taunts the CSIs by leaving them cryptic hints, and the longer it takes them to decode these puzzles, the higher the death toll rises. In the opening sequence the daughter of the first victim can be heard singing the nursery rhyme "Ring Around the Rosie."

• This is the final episode to have Eddie Cibrian (Jesse Cardoza) credited as a series regular.