When a software company executive bleeds to death on a Manhattan street, the CSIs must delve into the wet and messy world of food "sploshing" parties - where groups of people experience food in an sensual way - to find his killer.

After a body falls from the 59th Street Bridge, the CSI team finds a compass near the body pointing east, and realizes it's the third victim of the Compass Killer. Meanwhile, detective Flack, still dealing with Angell's death, goes AWOL.