Episode 6.01: Epilogue
Air Date: September 23, 2009

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• The season 6 season premiere of CSI: NY began with a review of the final scene in season 5. The CSIs were having a toast to Jessica Angell, who had been killed. Just then, a car drove by and sent a shower of machine gun bullets through the group as they all hit the floor.
• A month later, we see Mac in the office, going over evidence, Flack with a pretty new girl and Stella getting dressed while an undressed Adam watches from the bed. [Wow! I didn’t see that coming!]
• Mac gets a phone call and joins Danny (in a wheelchair) at a dark room with very large crystal chandeliers. Soon, a woman joins them. She tells them that her brother is just a scared kid caught up with two others in something. They try to get her to tell them what she knows.
• Just then, the elevator doors open and a man in the shadows fires a machine gun at them. They all hit the floor. Danny pulls himself to help the injured woman as Mac goes after the gunman. She dies before she can tell them anything. The gunman gets away.
• When Stella & Hawkes show up at the scene, Danny fills them in. the only thing they learned from the woman was a name…Jake.
• Flack shows up, just back from a leave of absence and says he’s going to help. He and Mac go over security camera footage…no camera in the elevator.
• At the crime scene, Danny flashes back to the night of the bar shooting. Lindsay reminds him that there’s no permanent damage to his spine. He may regain the use of his legs eventually. He’s not so optimistic.
• At the office, Stella scolds Mac for taking Danny and going without backup to talk to the woman. He quotes Shakespeare: “Tempt not a desperate man.”
• Another phone call and Mac tells Stella that it’s happened again.
• The team arrives at the scene where a car drove past a large group of people waiting to get into a club. A car had driven by and fired a machine gun at the crowd. Everyone looks up at a large lighted billboard that reads, “Do we have your attention? Pay us and we’ll stop.”
• A reporter at the scene had tipped them to another similar shooting at a closed restaurant two weeks before. The team goes over everything so far and determines that the shootings are not targeting cops, not with the intent to kill because there had only been one fatality and one of the locations was closed. They want to scare people.
• Just then, a clean-up crime scene technician tells the CSIs that she found an unreported bloody fingerprint on the ceiling of the elevator at the crime office building. Adam gets defensive because he says that he checked everything.
• They realize that Mac must have injured the gunman and that now they may have DNA to identify him.
• Haylen, the cleanup tech tells Adam that she wants to work in the lab and he tells her that the job she’s after is his, so he won’t help her.
• Sid pulled a piece of tempered glass from the woman’s shoulder that Hawkes examined and found that it put her in the bar, the night of the shooting when they were all there.
• Flack shows Stella the body of the missing security guard from the night in the office building. They look at the blood trail to see that the killer tracked the guard there and killed him. The killer was also wounded and took the guard’s sleeve to bandage the wound.
• At the lab, they determine that the woman had worked in the building, so they got copies of the voicemail greetings to compare to the tip line for identification.
• The blood from the elevator matched the blood on the front of the dead guard’s shirt and Hawkes’ investigation told them that the guard had stabbed the killer with the same knife that killed him. They had an identification of the killer.
• The voice recognition software helped them identify the woman as Risa Calaveras. That means that her brother must be Jake Calaveras.
• Stella tells Mac that the shooter was dumped at the hospital and died soon after. They decide to study the hospital security camera footage. They got a license plate number and a suspect’s identity.
• They show up at the suspect’s apartment in time to see Jake Calaveras pointing a gun at him for killing his sister. They tell him that he shouldn’t shoot him and they will take care of him. Jake tells them it’s too late and shoots the other man. They take him into custody.
• In the interrogation room, Jake explained to Mac that the other two had wanted to get the city to “work for them.” He said that Risa had talked him out of going with them the night of the bar shooting. He didn’t know she had been there to try to stop him.
• Adam caught up to Stella in the office to talk about the night they were together. She blurted out that it had been wonderful and stupid and memorable and something they should never do again. He acted relived and agreed with her.
• The episode ended with Stella helping Mac pack up the case files, Lindsay holding her baby and Danny in the wheelchair trying to move his legs. Suddenly, one of his feet barely moved. He looked up and smiled.

Discussion Points:

1. What do you think of the hookup between Stella & Adam? Did you see it coming?
2. I really liked how supportive and optimistic Lindsay was about Danny’s injury. What are your thoughts about them?
3. What was your opinion of this episode? Was it a satisfying result after the shooting and the cliffhanger?
4. Do you like the new character, Haylen?

Leave a comment to share your thoughts about it!

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If you are a fan of Danny/Lindsay on CSI: NY, here’s the spoiler you’ve been waiting to see:

Spoiler:
Question: There’s an official law in the NYPD that married couples are forbidden from working together. Someone in the couple has to transfer to another department/precinct. So, if Danny and Lindsay are getting married on CSI: NY, how are they going to work together at all if they’re breaking an official law? Does this mean one of them is going to leave the lab for good? — K.C.
Ausiello: You may want to double-check your facts, KC. While it’s true that such a rule existed at one time, it has since been dropped, according to CSI: NY executive producer Pam Veasey. “Our former NYPD Detective John Dove, based on his own experiences and confirming with The Chief’s office, says there is no department law that two detectives can’t work in the same department and be married. This was our belief when we started this story.” Is it just me or did Ms. Veasey just confirm that Danny and Lindsay will eventually tie the knot?

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CSI: NY – Episode 5.10 The Triangle
Air Date: December 10, 2008

This one looks like fun…there’s an unknown energy field around the Empire State Building and two murders to investigate.

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Press Release:
WHEN A MYSTERIOUS ENERGY FIELD NEAR THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING APPEARS TO BE THE CAUSE OF BOTH A BILLIONAIRE’S DISAPPEARANCE AND HIS LIMO DRIVER’S DEATH, THE CSIs INVESTIGATE TWO CRIMES AT ONCE, ON “CSI: NY” WEDNESDAY, DEC. 10

“The Triangle” – The CSIs are forced to investigate two crimes at once when a mysterious energy field near The Empire State Building appears to be the cause of both a billionaire’s disappearance and his limo driver’s death, on CSI: NY Wednesday, Dec. 10 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

SERIES REGULARS:
Det. Mac Taylor…………………… …. Gary Sinise
Det. Stella Bonasera……… Melina Kanakaredes
Danny Messer………………. Carmine Giovinazzo
Dr. Sheldon Hawkes………………….. Hill Harper
Det. Don Flack……………………….. Eddie Cahill
Lindsay Monroe……………………. Anna Belknap
Adam Ross……………………………… AJ Buckley
Dr. Sid Hammerback…………………. Robert Joy

GUEST CAST:
Bernie Benton……………………….. Chris Mulkey
Greg Hufheinz………………………….. Brian Gross
Jamie Sunderland………………. Anastasia Ganias
Yert Yawallac……………………….. Neil Hopkins
FBI Agent Washington………………. Leith Burke
Uni………………………………………. Paris Afakhri
Newstand Owner………………………. Chris Hartl
FBI Agent Walsh…………………….. Brian Oblak
Carl Custer……………………………. Shawn Nash

Written by: Trey Callaway
Directed by: Jeff Thomas [Source: CBS]

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Tonight we will see the CSI: NY episode 5.04: Sex, Lies & Silicone. And to get us ready for it, CBS just released these two spoiler clips. In this one, Mac gets into a budget disagreement with the chief. (How many of us have had a similar discussion with our bosses?) Then he tries to get the chief to explain his connection with the murder victim Mac and the team is investigating.

And in this clip, Mac, Danny and Flack show up to investigate a victim during a strange celebration called a “renegade street party.”

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CSI: NY – Episode 5.02: Page Turner
Original Air Date: September 24, 2008

At the Maroon 5 concert in the park, a fight in the excited crowd becomes a small riot. The police use soft rounds to take down the fighters. Eliza Carpenter, a college student fleeing the action, collapses and dies, right in front of a city bus. She appears to have suffered a blow to the trachea, probably from a stray riot control soft round. The woman has a lot of face and body paint.

Listening to Mac and Stella assess what might have killed Carpenter, Don seems disturbed that the police may end up taking the blame. They were just doing their job.

Sid, examining the victim’s body, discovers signs of radiation poisoning, marks on her skin beneath the paint, and hair loss. Measuring high levels of radiation on the body, he shuts down the exam room. It isn’t airborne, though, likely transdermal…from the paint. Though Mac and Stella weren’t likely exposed enough to worry, Sid collapses. The CDC rushes in to contain the body and Sid.

Adam matches the writing…shriiimping…on the victim to the graffiti of Kenneth Bamford, aka KA-BLAM. Stella and Danny visit KA-BLAM. They find no signs of radiation, and ask him about his contact with the victim. He remembers her, but not that she complained of any discomfort or pain.
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Mac and Lindsay visit Sid, who is still unconscious. They worry that he won’t last long, if they don’t figure out how to counteract the radiation.

Hawkes finds high levels of radiation in Eliza’s liver…600 Rem…but the level is twice as high on her skin. Lindsay comments that she was a “walking ghost”. She could have survived only about a week. She also notes that the radiation would have induced dementia. Toxocology reports indicate high traces of thallium 201. Thallium is highly toxic, but this is also radioactive. At finding this, Hawkes quickly alerts the hospital radiology team to treat Sid with a nasal intubation of Prussian Blue…aka radiogardase…the only treatment for radioactive thallium poisoning.

Stella and Danny search Carpenter’s clothing for signs of the source of the thallium. They find black mold on her shoes. Stella gets a call that another body has shown up, in a movie theater. Film director Dante Gunther was due to receive a lifetime achievement award at the Horror Film Festival, and died in the balcony of the theater. Dante had shown up late, and was acting strangely. His death in the balcony was far enough from the crowd in the theater, that the film continued, even after the team arrived. Apparently, no one made contact with him.

In Gunther’s hotel room, though radiation levels are not unusual, they find a mylar tag fragment in the cuff of a pair of pants, showing high levels of radiation.

Hawkes shows Stella an aged-looking, torn piece of paper. It looks like a todo list: CALL AGENT; GET FESTIVAL DATES/TIMES; 7TH & WEBSTER. The paper has a wet sheen to it.

Adam tells Don and Danny that 60-70% of thallium is used in the electronic and optical lens industry, the rest in nuclear medicine.

Stella finds thallium in the mylar fragment, and that it’s part of an anti-theft tag used mostly in printed material. The paper carbon dates to the 1930s, and appears to have been freeze dried, as in after repair from water damage. Danny says the mold turned out to be black toxic mold, found commonly in water damaged buildings.

Mac and Stella head to the antiquities branch of the public library to search for the thallium. The building suffered a flood in the lower stacks, due to faulty plumbing. In the lower level, in Special Collections, they find radiation in a copy of the Tibetan Book of the Dead. The Knot of Eternity symbol on the cover matches the design on Carpenter’s forehead. Eliza must have researched the symbol before visiting KA-BLAM. They also find black mold on table legs in the room. The book is also the source of the mylar tag piece found in Gunther’s hotel room.

Doctors treat Sid with the Prussian Blue. Hawkes explains to Mac that it speeds the removal of thallium from the body. Meanwhile lawyer Paulson announces his intention to file a wrongful death suit against the city’s library. Paulson tells Mac that his wife worked in the main branch of the library…in Special Collections…and died with the same symptoms as Carpenter and Gunther. The family doctor said she had lupus, but seeing the news of radiation, led him to believe this was the actual cause. He shows Mac a painting he made of his wife, while the couple took an art class together. Paulson agrees to let Mac exhume his wife to investigate her death.

Stella is gleeful to find out that Sid is alert and responsive. Don tells Stella that none of the books can be removed from Special Collections. Carpenter and Gunther had both checked into Special Collections, within a week of each other. Only ten people have signed in, in the past six months. One of them, Timothy Pram, actually read the affected book. Pram also has a record including vandalism at chemical labs, and at Three Mile Island. He now resides at 7th and Webster, the intersection in Dante Gunther’s notes.

Stella and Don find Pram at the intersection, in a Buddhist temple. Changed, thanks to his newfound faith, he regrets his earlier protests, and claims to be innocent of any recent crimes. He denies knowing Carpenter. Gunther, however, had called him recently, asking about Buddhist views on preparations for death. He also told him to refer to the Book of the Dead.

Lindsay finds a small fleck of sea sponge in the Book of the Dead. The sponge has traces of chitin. Adam notes that it appears more consistent with an insect than with crustaceans or other sealife. Why would it be in a sea sponge?

Hawkes shows Mac the 3-D scan of Molly Paulson’s body. When exhumed, her body had pinned the radiation detectors. Enlarging the stomach image, they find lesions, indicating that Molly Paulson swallowed the thallium.

Danny and Stella deduce that, since Molly Paulson had died earlier, and from ingestion, she was the intended target. The other two victims were likely just collateral damage. Who, then, wanted Molly dead? Don shows up, and leads them to the office of Lawrence Wagner, Molly’s assistant at the library. Molly had written him three times for not showing up to work. Once she passed, he never showed up for work again. In Wagner’s office, the team finds a collection of smoke detectors, probably for their radioactive sources, as well as iodine tablets. The tablets would have protected the thyroid from absorbing too much radiation.

At Wagner’s home, they find him building a reactor. He exhibits a lot of agitation…almost paranoia…as he explains how he is searching for cheaper energy alternatives. He claims to have spent two years accumulating the supplies he needed to build a reactor. He says, though, that Molly had never been near his “work”. Among his radioactive materials, though, they don’t find thallium in his belongings.

Lindsay determines that the red chitin found in the sponge belongs to a beetle commonly used to make red paint pigments. KA-BLAM, though, uses an airbrush. Mac tells the team that there’s another artist involved.

Three years ago, Paulson represented a chemical plant in Chinatown. The plant had imported multiple radioactive agents, including thallium. Knowing his wife already had lupus, he feed her the thallium to collect the insurance money: $500,000. He also secretly painted the Book of the Dead to validate his claim that the library killed his wife. The additional victims would allow him to pursue a lawsuit, and claim much more money. Once discovered by Mac, Paulson confesses that, after working hard defending the chemical company, and looking after his sick wife, he just wanted to retire.

Mac, Hawkes, and Don visit a recoving Sid, bearing chips and water, to watch the Rangers game.

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