The pace hots up as the barometer reaches boiling point in the climactic episodes of CSI: Miami, Season 5 as the final episodes are released on DVD by Momentum Pictures on 8 September. As if all the drama and excitement of the show itself were not enough, fans are also presented with limited edition, collectors packaging, which includes a UV torch/pen and a hide and reveal crime scene, with a chance to win £10K for solving the case within.
A fast-paced forensics drama set against the lush backdrop and pulsing rhythms of the southernmost U.S. metropolis, CSI: Miami follows South Florida’s premier team of forensic investigators who use both cutting-edge scientific methods and police work to solve crimes.
This hugely popular spin-off from the original CSI produced by Jerry Bruckheimer stars David Caruso (NYPD Blue) and Emily Proctor (The West Wing). According to Eurodata’s TV Worldwide ratings CSI Miami is the second most watched drama around the globe, only runner-up to the original series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, now known as Las Vegas which garners an impressive 83.9 million viewers. In the UK, Miami has over 3.2 million viewers tuning in each week, a figure which continues to grow season on season and illustrates the series’ is continuing to gather dedicated followers gripped by the thrilling drama.
During the second part of Season Five, each member of the team faces their own life-threatening calamities, each time bringing them closer together.
The CSI team must tread lightly along the shores of Miami Beach while investigating the death of a refugee Cuban baseball player who is blown to bits by a landmine buried in the sand. A hijacked government weapons truck sparks a manhunt for escaped Baracan convict and Horatio’s longstanding foe, Clavo Cruz, while Delko clings to life.
A group of sexy triplets distort the murder investigation of a powerful real estate mogul and the death of a hot young movie star with a secret past takes the CSI team through the revolving doors of a posh celebrity rehabilitation center.
Arson takes the life of a groom-to-be, while a member of the CSI team also goes down in flames when fired for making a payoff to a suspect in the murder. In the final episode of Season Five the team tracks down a serial killer with an extra “Y†chromosome, AKA the “criminal gene,†when a party girl is found stabbed to death.
Each thrilling episode of Season Five part two is filled with the same twists and turns that keep the CSI team working at peak form in order to speak for Miami’s victims who can no longer speak for themselves.