CSI: NY Episode 5.11: Forbidden Fruit
Air Date: December 17, 2008

While cruising down a dark road, patrolmen spot a man pulling a woman’s body from the trunk of a car. They drive up, and he runs. As the officers catch up to him on foot, he falls from a fence and impales himself on a piece of rebar.

At the grocery store, Mac runs into Ella McBride, the owner of the confessions website SecretsU from episode 5.07 Dead Inside. Ella invites Mac to breakfast, but he gets a text, though, about the new case.

At the scene, Don tells Mac that the man is Tony Clark, a department store buyer. The woman has no identification, no signs of trauma, defensive wounds, no missing or disturbed clothing, or any of the usual clues to what happened. Her mouth does show internal bleeding. Danny hears Clark’s cell phone. He is receiving a text from a blocked number:

“Is it done yet?”

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

On the street, near the Empire State Building, a man is walking about, frantically talking to himself…or his cellphone…about the “airwaves”. At the same time, several people talking on their phones or listening to radios all suffer horrible interference. This includes Danny, who has just been talking on his phone to Lindsay about the baby. His phone goes out as he’s heading into the 34th Street Station. The strange man talking about the “airwaves” announces to himself the arrival of “The Bermuda Triangle.” An armored car nearby is stalled at an intersection. The driver can’t reach anyone on his radio or his phone. When he slides the peephole open to check on Carl in back, Carl is suffering from a rain of sparks, and is apparently being electrocuted as a result of the phenomenon hitting the whole block. The driver seems unable to exit the cab, and bangs the glass crying out for help. The back door swings open.

The driver, Greg Hufheinz, tells the team about the incident. They ask if he had opened the door to help, but he tells them that drivers are instructed to stay in the cab until emergency assistance arrives.

Stella and Mac examine the irregularly shaped “bullet” wound on Carl Custer’s chest. There’s no GSR, exit wound, or apparent bullet. He has burns around his eyes, as well as on his wrist near his watch. Stella spots a small, black pineapple sticker on the guards cuff. She asks Mac if the crime scene seems strange, but Mac has already walked away from the body.
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Episode 5.09 - The Box
Air Date: November 26, 2008

Danny appears to be talking to a therapist of some kind. He’s telling of how his baseball career ended when he shattered his wrist in a game. He changed careers, no big deal, but now, ten years later, he has another life-changing moment, and he’s scared. A flashback of a recent case begins.

A group breaks into a junk yard. Clad in padding and helmets, they climb atop stacks of vehicles to “fight”. Afterwards, they’re all joking, laughing, and enjoying some beers. One of them, too close to the trunk of a car, is surprised by his friends and put into the unlatched trunk. After closing the lid, they’re interrupted by a vehicle entering the lot. They tell their friend to relax and keep quiet, promising to return for him. They flee.

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On November 1, the cast of CSI: NY held a party at the Edison Hotel to celebrate their 100th episode. They all looked like they had a great time and there’s even a photo of Anna Belknap showing her baby bump!

[Photo: courtesy of newscom.com]

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CSI: NY - Episode 5.07: Dead Inside
Air Date: November 12, 2008

Mac walks across a vacant lot. He descends into a hole to catch up to Hawkes, who is photographing the body and scene. Don identifies the victim as Kevin McBride. He says some BMXers were doing trick on the lot, when one of them fell into the hole, and found the body. Mac and Hawkes note that the victim’s core body temp of 55 degrees (Fahrenheit), makes the time of death about 36 hours earlier, around 9-10 AM, the day before. Skull fractures and marks on the face indicate strong blunt force trauma. Mac follows a trail of blood up the steps. It ends at the top step. The perp must have dragged the body down from the surface.

Stella is at another scene, where she has found a cleaned up blood trail that goes to a doorway, and stops. When he asks where she is, she says she’s in the middle of the East River. She’s in a house, on a barge, traveling in the river.

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CSI: NY - Episode 5.06: Enough
Air Date: November 05, 2008

In montage, we see three people; a man with a bong and a huge stash in his apartment, a man snorting drugs directly on a woman he has in the back of his sports car, and a well-dressed man snorting in a club restroom before returning to the dance floor to pass a drug capsule to a woman, while kissing her. As if timed together, they all are gunned down. The man in his apartment answers his door. The others are shot suddenly, where they are.

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CSI: NY Episode 5.05: Cost of Living
Air Date: October 29, 2008

A young man, who looks like he robbed the Indiana Jones wardrobe room, wrestles a railcar from its position to unearth some treasure buried beneath it. As guards enter the tunnel or building, he takes to the ceiling and clings to a steam pipe. After a daring escape, he appears to be telling the story to some interested friends in a club. After an exchange of remarks, “Indy” exits.

The team is overlooking his dead body in the alley. He has a gunshot wound surrounded by GSR, indicating a shot at close range. Don IDs the victim as James Sutton, an archaeologist. His friend, Laura Roman, had heard the shot, found Sutton, and called the police.

Blue liquid is spattered . On Sutton, Mac and Stella find his credit cards, jewelry, and $500 cash on the body, seemingly ruling out a robbery. Mac finds the leather he had wrapped around his find at the dig. Non-bleeding marks on his neck seem to imply a necklace pulled off post-mortem.

Laura Roman tells Don that all the women in the club wanted Sutton, and all the men wanted to be Sutton. She couldn’t imagine anyone wanting him dead, but Don replies that those are the two top motives for murder.
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CSI: NY - Episode 5.04: Sex, Lies & Silicone
Air Date: September 24, 2008

As street performers go about their business, a woman comes out of the shadows, bleeding from her eyes. She makes her way to a man on stilts and collapses.

The team arrives. Don tells Mac it was a renegade street party, one of several that have occurred as a result of the city’s putting restrictions on public gatherings. The woman is in a suit, but has no ID. With multiple lacerations to her face and skull, she appears to have died from blunt force trauma.

Danny finds plastic shards lie scattered near the body. Stella and Mac note bloody tissue on her bracelet, and no defensive wounds. Canvassers find her wallet and Blackberry. Her name is Ann Steele. Membership cards in her expensive wallet, and a business card that indicates she’s a “professional consultant”…no specific type of consultant…indicate she has significant cash flow and a ritzy clientele. They ponder why she has no cash or credit cards. Theft? Then, why did they leave the Blackberry and expensive wallet?
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CSI: NY - Episode 5.03: Turbulence
Air Date: October 08, 2008

This is another detail-heavy episode. If you’re into the details, it certainly helps if you recorded the episode, just in case…

On a commercial airliner running into mild turbulence, Mac tries to calm the man sitting next to him. The young man, Ed Riley, is on his way to file for a patent, and shows Mac his invention: The Wig Lock, that holds his toupée down. Mac finds a flight attendant’s brisk movement to the back of the plane curious, and follows her to the galley.
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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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