CSI: NY Recap Episode 4.21 Hostage
4.21 Hostage
Air Date: May 21, 2008
Mac enters a bank from the back, and up the stairwell. He meets a bank robber at the door to the lobby level, who inspects Mac’s kit, removing a carpet (razor) knife, before returning the case to Mac. Hostages cover the floor of the bank lobby. The gunman frees one of the hostages, once Mac is inside. In the vault, a man lies dead, in a pool of blood. The gunman tells Mac to handcuff himself to a weighted money bag. He tells Mac that he found the man already dead, and wants his help proving that he didn’t kill him.
The gunman had arrived as the employees were coming to work. He fires his gun in the air, makes everyone get on the floor, then heads to the vault. That’s when the teller tripped the silent alarm. When police arrived, he took them hostage. The man had three demands: an unmarked police car, no press, and someone from CSI.
The robber lets Mac use a computer to send crime scene photos back to the lab. He tells Mac his name is “Joe”. A cameraman runs into the blocked off street and to the bank’s front door. He manages to get footage of Joe and Mac, before the police chase him off.
Joe receives a phone call. Mac watches as Joe has an obviously aggravated call. The caller must be upset over the video footage that has made its way onto television coverage. An employee outside identifies the man as the bank manager, Walter Sutherford. None of the released hostages saw the gunman shoot the bank manager. Jackson, the hostage rescue team leader wants to shut off the power to the building, but Stella says they need the A/C left on, or the body will decompose, and much of the evidence will be rendered useless.
Mac looks for DNA, and finds the manager has defensive wounds. When Mac asks to do a GSR swab, Joe says he had shot his weapon, but only once, into the air. Mac wonders if the shot ricocheted and struck the bank manager. Mac needs to autopsy the body, but Joe won’t let anyone leave. In lieu of removing the body, Mac asks for a CT scanner to examine the body. Mac convinces Joe to let him remove the money bag.
CT scan data shows the paths of two medium caliber rounds (.45 or .38) into the body cavity, at different angles, but from only one entry wound. They can’t see how that’s possible that two bullets entered exactly the same place. There are no powder burns on the victim, so it wasn’t from close range.
Joe won’t tell Mac who else is involved, though Joe insists he only shot once, and no one else heard three shots. Mac needs the bullets in the body, but Joe will only let him do it in the bank, telling him he can use the razor knife. Sid talks Mac through the procedure to remove the bullets from the victim’s chest.
Joe allows the hostages to search the floor for the bullet from his weapon. One of them finds the spent bullet. Joe receives another call. Mac watches as Joe talks to the caller, who must be very anxious about something. Mac notices blood on the back of Joe’s phone, in a shape that seems to match a void in the pool of blood from the victim.
Agent Dunbar tells Stella that a new and unique rifle, the Kriss Super V, is specially designed to virtually eliminate recoil issues, allowing an accurate shot each time. [As accurate as the first shot, anyway.]
The bullets from the manager are too badly damaged to identify. Joe is angered by this news, but Mac convinces him to let him view the surveillance footage. The footage cuts off though, over an hour before Joe arrived.
Mac finds blood spattered on some cash in the vault, and a portion of the cash missing. No blood is in the void by the blood-spattered cash. He asks the employees if they saw Joe leave the vault with cash. He hadn’t, so the money must have been taken before Joe arrived, as well. Mac wonders
On a conference call, Stella tells the team about the Kriss Super V, asking Lindsay to find out from the manufacturer who might have access to it. She asks Sid to send over the CT images, in order to match the bullet wound pattern to the characteristics of the weapon. Flack tells the team that police, who went to the manager’s house to notify his wife, found her dead. The team arrives, and finds that she had been killed within the past couple of hours, indicating that someone other than Joe had done it.
Mac spots a hair on the phone. Joe allows Mac to send the bullets, carried by a hostage, to the team across the street. At the lab, they discover that he has included the hair from the scene. The hair indicates a white man, but doesn’t match anyone in the database.
The ballistics on the bank manager bullets, and that used on his wife, match. Prints on the duct tape holding Mrs. Sutherland, though, match Derrick James, a former employee of Ridgeline Defense Services. He has no criminal record, but spent three years in Iraq.
The power goes out inside the bank. Mac surprises Joe, and and wrestles his gun away. Joe is upset, crying, “You can’t walk me out there. They’re watching. They’ll kill my family.”
Joe’s real name is Douglas Anderson, and he works for an insurance company. He lives across the street from the bank manager, Sutherland. He says two men, this morning, tied up his family. They said Walter tried to play hero. Then, they sent Douglas in to retrieve the phone. “I need for them to see me get out of here. Help me. Please.” Douglas and Mac –as hostage and shield- exit and get into a car.
The police go to Douglas’ house, and find it empty. As Mac drives, Douglas loads his gun with a round he had concealed. He pulls the gun on Mac. “It was all a lie, wasn’t it.”
Tags: 4.21, 4x21, cliffhanger, CSI: NY, csi:-new-york, hostage, mac, recap, review, season-finale
2 opinions for CSI: NY Recap Episode 4.21 Hostage
Marlene
May 22, 2008 at 3:39 am
At least no one was killed!!!!!!!
allex radu
May 27, 2008 at 5:10 am
not yet, i think the kid will be killed in the next season
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