It’s Christmas time in New York City, but the CSIs aren’t getting their vacations yet, as they need to first solve a crime in which a young man was found dead in an alley brutally killed, or so it seems. Further investigation proves that the victim was only struck by a car, but he has a history of being a former drug addict, with a large amount of heroin in his system before his death. However, the investigation changes when the CSIs uncover a $2.5 million dollar insurance policy, as one of the suspects is the victim’s girlfriend, who cashed in on the insurance, making it an insurance scam of the worst kind.