Season 6

Starring Gary Sinise as Mac Taylor, the head of the New York City crime lab, comes the sixth season series in executive producer Jerry Bruckheimer's CSI (Crime Scene Investigation) franchise. A Chicago native, Mac had gotten his police job as the result of his bravery under fire as a U. S. Marine; and like most of major CSI characters, he harbored quite a few personal demons, most of them stemming from the death of his wife in the Twin Towers on 9/11. Taylor's team of forensic specialists included Stella Bonasera (Melina Kanakaredes), an outspoken female cop who'd pulled herself up from a murky background; Don Flack (Eddie Cahill), Yonkers-born scion of a family of cops; Mac's protTgT Danny Messer (Carmine Giovinazzo; Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Sheldon Hawkes (Hill Harper), a Harlem native who'd graduated from college at 18 and became a licensed surgeon at 24; and flirtatious, streetwise forensic analyst Aidan Burn (Vanessa Ferlito).