Minor characters in CSI: NY

The following is a listing of recurring and minor characters from the popular CBS television drama, CSI: NY.

Recurring characters

• Haylen Becall (Sarah Carter) (Season 6 - present), a crime scene cleanup contractor who had always wanted to work at the NYPD crime lab ever since a neighbor poisoned her cat as a child. Despite budget cuts resulting a hiring freeze, she obtained a New York State Police grant to get her hired as a part-time entry-level lab technician. Adam Ross is afraid she might ultimately replace him.

• Terrance Davis (Nelly) (Season 5 - Present), a former gang member turned confidential informant for Flack. Flack has utilized Terrance's services many times until he signed off Terrance as his CI following the death of his girlfriend, Jessica Angell. Jess's death drove Flack down a path of alcoholism and while Flack got into a drunken fight with some thugs on the subway, Terrance showed up and saved Flack's life. Terrance later turned him over to Mac to get him some help ("Cuckoo's Nest").

• Samantha Flack (Kathleen Munroe) (Season 4 - present), Flacks troubled sister whom often gets mixed up in illegal activities. Flack has tried numerous times to connect with her but Sam always pushes him away.

• Chief Brigham Sinclair (Mykelti Williamson) (Season 3 - present), The chief of detectives who first appeared in "Cold Reveal" where he and Stanton Gerrard lead an internal investigation of Mac Taylor when Mac allegedly threw a serial killer, Clay Dobson, off the roof of a building.

• Reed Garrett (Kyle Gallner) (Season 3 - present), the son of Claire Conrad Taylor, Mac's late wife. Claire had given birth to Reed when she was very young, and had put him up for adoption long before she met Mac. At first, Reed had mistakenly believed that Stella Bonasera was Claire, having observed the close friendship between Mac and Stella. After he learned the truth, Reed was reluctant to connect with Mac, because Mac is not his biological father. Still, Reed knows that Mac is the only link he has to knowing more about his mother. In "Sweet 16", Mac visits Reed at his home for Thanksgiving, and gives him photos of Claire. Reed and Mac bond further during the events of "Some Buried Bones", in which Reed's friend at college is murdered and Reed himself is assaulted. Reed also learns that the body of his mother has, to date, never been recovered from the World Trade Center site. During season 4, Reed is shown to have become interested in journalism, putting him at odds with Mac while trying to follow a case where a serial killer goes on the loose killing victims in a taxicab. He is shown getting unknowingly into the killer's cab at the end of the episode "Personal Foul", but the driver doesn't kill him and instead gives him information on the "cabbie killer" to post on his blog. In the episode "Taxi", he is kidnapped by the "cabbie killer", who wishes to use Reed to get his message across, but by leaving hints in his online blog, Mac and the team are able to find him. Mac is seen coming out of the hospital with Reed when he is released and Mac calls for a taxi.

• Shane Casey (Edward Furlong) (Season 3 - present), a young man embroiled in a case where a serial killer uses the codes and stories found on a series of trendy t-shirts as inspiration for his grisly killings. Shane is believed to be targeting Hawkes and the prosecutors who put his brother, Ian, away for a crime that Shane thought he was innocent of. On the day of the sentencing, Ian hanged himself. Introduced in the fourth episode of season 3, "Hung Out To Dry".[3] In the season 3 episode "Raising Shane", Shane frames Hawkes for a robbery and murder, saying he will give the evidence to clear Hawkes if the team will prove Ian was innocent. He demands to talk to Danny Messer alone, and during this confrontation, Danny brings proof that Ian did indeed commit the crime for which he was arrested. Thoroughly devastated, Shane was then easily arrested for murdering the man he had hired to impersonate Hawkes. His print was found on Danny Messer's father's dogtags in the 6th season episode Flag on the Play.

Former recurring characters

• Jessica Angell (Emmanuelle Vaugier) (Season 3 - 5), a NYPD detective and long-time love interest of Don Flack. She was the third generationin a family of police officers, and the first female one. In the season 5 finale, Pay Up, she was shot during a kidnapping and died in surgery soon after, leaving Don heartbroken, eventually causing his breakdown a few episodes later. At the time of her death she was 27 years old

• Kendall Novak (Bess Wohl) (Season 4) A technician in the lab. She has a close relationship with Adam Ross.

• Jordan Gates (Jessalyn Gilsig) (Season 4), The New York City mayor's Criminal Justice Coordinator. Her funding helped to rebuild the lab after it was destroyed in a bomb explosion in the episode "Snow Day". She has had a good relationship with Mac ever since he helped keep her abusive ex-husband from stalking her ("DOA For A Day"). Her ex-husband hired an expert serial killer known as "Serial Killer X" to kill Jordan but Mac and his team where able to stop her from succeeding ("DOA For A Day").

• Rikki Sandoval (Jacqueline Piñol) (Season 4), Danny's next-door neighbor. They never knew each other that well but while Danny took her son, Ruban, to the church to have his bicycle blessed, they came across an armed robbery in progress at a bodega. In the gunfire, Ruban was shot and killed ("Child's Play"). Soon the grief brought them together when they began a relationship. This caused major problems in Danny's relationship with Lindsay up until Rikki announced to Danny that she was moving to a new place to start a new life ("Personal Foul").

• Quinn Shelby (Kristen Dalton) (Season 4), An employee of the New Jersey CSI. It was revealed that she had a thing for Mac Taylor but she never acted on it when he was with his wife, Claire.

• Andrew "Drew" Bedford (Kerr Smith) (Season 4), a wealthy but charming man whom met Stella while working on a case involving antique coins ("The Deep"). Since then, Drew has pursued Stella to many locations as well as sent her gifts such as parachutes all with the theme of "taking a chance". Stella made numerous attempts to inform Drew that she wasn't interested in him. One day a box full of puzzle pieces ended up on Stella's car. Stella immediately suspected Drew until she talked with him and Drew convinced her he wasn't involved. Later, the puzzle pieces turned out to be linked to Mac's past ("One Wedding And A Funeral"). As Mac and the team later find out, Drew Bedford is actually the brother of one of Mac's childhood friends whom was killed right in front of him and Mac was too afraid to help him. Drew began calling Mac every morning at 3:33AM and leaving methodically planned out clues all to lead Mac to his hometown of Chicago to face his past ("The Thing About Heroes..."). Drew was later apprehended after kidnapping Mac.

• NYPD Inspector Stanton Gerrard (Carmen Argenziano) (Season 3 - 4), A tough cop who takes no guff. He is promoted to chief inspector and uses his position to occasionally interfere with and/or browbeat Mac and his team (episodes 319, "A Daze of Wine and Roaches;" 321, "Past Imperfect"). In episode 418, "Admissions", Gerrard shot and killed a suspect who admitted to raping his 17-year-old daughter.

• Doctor Peyton Driscoll (Claire Forlani) (Season 3), Peyton joined the cast in the beginning of the third season as a medical examiner originally from London and love interest for Mac (Sinise's character) . Her character has a past connection with Sheldon Hawkes when he was still in the ME's Office. Peyton feels guilty in the episode "Murder Sings the Blues" when she accidentally lets it slip to Mac that Sheldon knew a murder victim which resulted in Sheldon being reprimanded and kicked off the case. In What Schemes May Come, Peyton was assaulted at the morgue by two people who stole one of the bodies. Peyton and Mac later end up going to London together to meet Peyton's family. In the show's 4th season, she returned to London full-time, leaving Mac with a letter saying goodbye.

• New York Medical Examiner Dr. Marty Pino (Jonah Lotan) (Seasons 2, 5), who appeared in 3 episodes ("Trapped"(211), "Super Men"(219) and "Run Silent, Run Deep"(220)) as a night shift coroner. Most known for wearing a New York Giants American football jersey under his scrubs. He was heavily involved in gambling and had many financial debts. His co-worker and boss, Dr. Sid Hammerback, convinced him to marry his then-girlfriend Anabel, who thanked Sid at their wedding. Pino's debts got the best of him, and Sid was forced to fire him after he was forging overtime slips. In Point of No Return, Anabel is found shot dead. The investigation leads to a drug scheme that Marty was running by creating heroin from dead drug addicts who died of overdose. In a hostage stand-off, Pino eventually surrendered after being talked down by Sheldon and ultimately persuaded by Sid and was arrested for drug trafficking.

• Frankie Mala (Ed Quinn) (Season 2), Stella's former boyfriend, sculptor, and art collector. Stella found out that Frankie was taping them having sex and posting it online so she ended things with him ("Run Silent, Run Deep"). Frankie began stalking Stella and later broke into her apartment where he tied her up and planned to kill her. Stella was able to escape and in the ensuing fight with Frankie, Stella was forced to shoot and kill Frankie in self-defense ("All Access")

• Laboratory Technician Zack Shannon (David Julian Hirsh) (Season 2), a tech in the Trace Lab.

• New York Medical Examiner Dr. Evan Zao (Ron Yuan) (Season 2), He was supposed to replace Dr. Sheldon Hawkes as Medical Examiner after he took field work, but only appeared in 4 episodes, 201-204. He revealed that as a teenager he would bus tables at debutante functions ("Zoo York")

• Laboratory Technician Jane Parsons (Sonya Walger) (Season 1 - 2), head of the DNA Lab.

• NYPD Homicide Detective 1st Grade Kaile Maka (Kelly Hu) (Season 1 - 2), sometimes accompanies the CSIs on investigations. In her first appearance with Danny, Kaile had just returned to the force after being shot in the arm, claiming it "still sets off metal detectors" ("Tri-Burough").

• Laboratory Technician Leonard Giles (J. Grant Albrecht) (Season 1), head of the tech lab, former runner now paralyzed from the waist down.

• Laboratory Technician Chad Willingham (Chad Lindberg) (Season 1), a lab technician.

See also

• List of CSI: NY characters