What did you think of CSI: New York episode Taxi? It was very fast paced and exciting, that’s for sure.

• Did some of the city shots and action remind anyone else of the film Summer of Sam? I thought it sometimes went beyond the superficial, obvious “serial killer in New York City” connection between the show and the movie.
• Last week, magnets used only at one cab company. This week, motor oil used at only one cab company. When you commit a crime, I guess, make sure you don’t work somewhere that is the only place that uses some obvious technique or product.
• Those vigilantes make me so angry.
• Any other computer/IT people concerned by the way Lindsay said she was going to use “Visual Basic” to create a GUI interface to track the IP address?
• Reed had lost a lot of blood. They definitely made that extreme, considering they didn’t kill him off. But then, maybe it’s not as uncommon to survive that kind of trauma, as I had thought.

4.20 Taxi
Air Date: May 14, 2008

This is a great episode that finally closes the book on the Cabbie Killer story.

As Don wrestles with a suspect trying to escape, Jennifer pushes them out of the way when a taxi speeds by them. The taxi dumps a body, and speeds off onto the sidewalk, and around the corner, with Don in pursuit on foot. The dead man is Jimmy Komitis, a Jersey City police officer. The body has scratch marks on the neck. Ants in some leaked oil indicate that it’s derived from animal fat –G Oil.

Stella and Don follow up at Five Brothers, the only cab company in town that uses G Oil. The workers there are belligerent.

Autopsy indicates that Komitis suffered from carbon monoxide poisoning, but carvings on Komitis don’t match those of the other Cabbie Killer victims. He also had blows from three separate objects. Komitis was beaten by three people, then marked to look like a Cabbie Killer victim. The markings were never released to the public, though, so how did these people know about them?

Police recover the cab that leaked the G Oil. They discover that Komitis drove that cab, moonlighting in the City. The cab belongs to Five Brothers, but was not accounted for in the documents that Don examined at the dispatch office.

Jordan comes down and tells the team that the mayor wants to know who leaked the unreleased information about the Cabbie Killer markings. It had turned up on a blog –Reed Garrett’s blog. The blog also indicated that the killer was a cabbie named Jimmy.
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