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• The season 10 premiere of CSI: Vegas began with an amazing…I mean AMAZING 3-D look through the entire lab and lot outside where a huge incident was taking place. We see shards of glass and blood droplets in mid air, along with bullets frozen in their trajectories. Dr. Robbins was using his crutch to take out a gunman and Langston was in mid-kick sending a gunman backward through a window. It was incredible. I’ll try to get you a clip of it.
• 48 HOURS EARLIER: Stokes is studying a book about caring for arachnids while a large tarantula crawls through an aquarium. I guess he’s going to take over the bug thing where Grissom left off.
• Catherine told someone on the phone about Riley leaving them with 100 open cases. And Langston got promoted to CSI Level 2.
• The team is called to the scene of an auto accident where a popular actress is dead. The other driver still had a pulse and the evidence shoed that he had kept his foot on the gas pedal after the crash. She had been stopped when he hit her.
• Catherine assigned Greg Sanders to go to a fleabag motel to check out a dead body. He protests because he thinks he should be able to stay and wants someone with less seniority to go. He loses his argument.
• A young man was in Brass’ office where he is questioned about the starlet being on the road at 4 am. He tells Brass that she had been on her way to the set of a movie she was working on. He’s her significant other and his father owns a casino.
• At the motel, Sanders finds the man’s body. He was robbed and had been dead for at least two days. He finds some fibers between two teeth in a dental partial.
• Dr. Robbins tells Catherine that the starlet had been 8 weeks pregnant. We see that he has a ghoulish hobby of collecting photos of dead people’s faces.
• At the hospital, the doctor tells Langston that the drunk managed to survive the crash, but with a broken C2 vertebra. He had had blood alcohol level of 1.8 and GHB in his system. Stokes finds a small vial of something in the man’s duffel bag and they take it to analyze it.
• When they look further in his possessions, he has a scrapbook full of pictures of the starlet he killed, along with duct tape, rope a hunting knife and a teddy bear. He had been stalking her.
• The guy had hacked into the film production company’s computer and had all the info from the actress’s call sheet, so he knew where she would be.
• Langston thought the guy wanted to kidnap her, but not kill her yet. Stokes thought he wanted to kill her with the accident. Just then, Brass found out that the driver had regained consciousness and he went to talk to him.
• The guy knew he had killed her but wasn’t making much sense otherwise.
• Langston & Stokes studied some security tapes near the crash scene for clues. They figured out that someone overrode the traffic signal to make her have to stop.
• When the boyfriend went to the morgue to view the actress’ body, he almost showed no emotion at all. Was he in shock?
• They didn’t find an “emitter” in the man’s car, but knew one had to have been used to stop her at the light. The one that had been used was an illegal one, without an identifier, so it hadn’t been one of the police, fire or ambulance ones.
• Langston went to the hospital to check out the driver and found bruises from a seatbelt on the passenger side. He hadn’t been driving after all. They figure that the real killer hit her, pulled the unconscious man to the driver’s seat and broke his neck.
• Just when Catherine was getting read the riot act about information leaked to the press, Sara Sidle walks in. She married Grissom and while he’s lecturing at the Sorbonne, she came to help out temporarily.
• Catherine read riley’s exit interview where she basically trashed Catherine as a leader. Then, when looking over the bad press on the case, she finds an article about the boyfriend having other women sue him for paternity.
• Langston & Stokes go to the hotel where the guy in the hospital had stayed and paid cash. The surveillance video showed him being taken from the bar by the boyfriend’s security man.
• Brass took the security guy to talk to him while Catherine asked the boyfriend about the reason he hadn’t been with her that morning. He took an engagement ring from his pocket and told her he was going to give it to her, but hadn’t had the chance.
• The security guy told Brass that he had talked to the stalker to get him to go away, but Langston did some homework on the guy and found that he raced cars. He searched the guy’s room and found a crash helmet, with white powder on it. He suspected it was airbag dust from the crash. The guy asked for a lawyer.
• The dust was confirmed to be airbag talc. Catherine confided in Sara about the exit interview. Sara suggested that Catherine make someone the second in charge to help her.
• Just then, men with dark sunglasses, black suits and white shirts burst into the morgue. The bodies were all pulled out and things were in total disarray. They carried out a body in a body bag. Dr. Robbins tried to stop them and the bullets started to fly. Two of the men got into a large panel truck with the body and fired at Stokes and Sara as they drove away.
• Two people from the lab were injured, but stable. They seemed to be Russian mobsters and instead of taking the actress’ body as people expected, they took the body of the bum that Sanders had been investigating. The bum’s DNA came back and he was the actress’ father.
• Nick & Sara arrived at a scene where the father had been put through a wood chipper. They found out that the man had been a diagnosed schizophrenic and the actress had been taking care of him as well as she could.
• The boyfriend’s father had hired the security guy to breakup the actress and the boyfriend. When the security guy went to talk to the father, they struggle and he kills the father. So now the only thing he can do to fix things is to kill the actress too.
• They know they have to find a way to connect the security guy to both murders. The father had bitten the man’s sleeve and swallowed his cufflink. They sifted through the remains to find it. He was arrested for killing the father, but they couldn’t connect him to the actress.
• Catherine called Nick Stokes to her office and promoted him to Assistant Supervisor on the Graveyard Shift. Then she handed him a pile of folders to go through for her.
• The episode ended with Langston going to visit Robbins in the morgue. Robbins is doing an autopsy and when he opens the abdomen, they are both shocked and puzzled. We don’t get to see what it is. I guess we have to wait for next week.

Discussion Points:

1. Were you disappointed at how little Sara was involved this week?
2. Did I miss something? Why were the men in black that broke in to the morgue to steal the man’s body from the Russian mob? I didn’t see how they were ever connected that way, did you?
3. What are your thoughts about Riley leaving in such a negative way?
4. What are your thoughts about Grissom & Sara being married now?
5. Did you notice that Hodges was intent on protecting Wendy? I wonder how long he’s going to have a crush on her before letting her know…
6. Did you like this episode? What did you like/dislike most about it?

Leave a comment to let us know what you think!

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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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CSI: Miami – Episode 8.01 – Out of Time
Air Date: September 21, 2009

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• 2009: The season 8 premiere of CSI: Miami begins with the team, dogs and other officers in an all-out search of the Everglades for Eric Delko. Meanwhile, Delko stumbles, blood-covered, through the swamp on foot.
• After he collapses and they find him, he flat-lines in the ambulance. The flashback begins.
• 1997: Eric Delko is driving a wrecker-truck through the Everglades in search of salvage. He finds a submerged car and pulls it out of the swamp. Blood is dripping from the trunk. He finds a dead body in the trunk and calls for the homicide team.
• Horatio shows up and Delko reminds him to get a pair of sunglasses.
• 2009: Alexx Woods is in the hospital and says she’ll oversee his treatment.
• 1997: Horatio explains lividity to Delko, then goes to notify the husband of the woman’s death. The guy is nervous, doesn’t have an alibi, says he pawned the gun and there’s a smell of bleach in the house. Horatio’s partner seems quick to judge the husband, but Horatio wants to wait for the evidence before arresting him.
• Alexx is doing the wife’s autopsy and gives Horatio the 9 mm bullet she extracted from the head. The bullet matches the ammo found in the home. There’s also blunt-force trauma to the head.
• We see Calleigh in the precinct and Jesse Cardoza rescues her from some jerks that were hitting on her. He shows her to the lab and tells her that it’s his last day there. He leaves her there and goes to Horatio to find out how he can help on the case.
• Jesse gets to the home and finds that the place has been wiped down with bleach, but when he takes off a baseboard, he finds blood.
• Back at the precinct, Calleigh questions her new boss’ interpretation of the bullet evidence. Horatio tells her she did the right thing.
• We then see Det. Tripp with hair…not a full head of hair, but at least there’s still some. Horatio asks him about any domestic violence calls for the couple. Tripp says that they were just yelling at each other, no violence. But he told Horatio that he did arrest a peeping Tom in the area and gave him the info. The creep was a landscaper.
• When they bring in the landscaper, he seems guilty, but Horatio’s partner lets him go. He still thinks it’s the husband.
• Calleigh, who has been asked to help with the case, joins Horatio in the parking lot. Before they leave, Delko tries to get her phone number. She tells him she would never date anyone “remotely connected with work.”
• Calleigh & Horatio determine that the car was wrecked before it was pushed into the swamp. Jesse found blood spatter and a blood pool, consistent with blunt force trauma before being shot. Alexx found evidence of sexual assault on the wife’s body. But it was the kind of evidence that happens when the body was desecrated after it was dead.
• Horatio and Calleigh found no evidence that the husband was in the car when it crashed but that the landscaper definitely was there.
• Meanwhile Horatio’s partner has already been to the DA to get an arrest warrant for the husband.
• 2009: Horatio sits at Delko’s bedside and asks him to hold on. He tells him that he’s not ready for him to go yet.
• 1997: Delko & Horatio go back to the swamp where the car was found. They find trace from the car on the guardrail and footprints that suggest that something was thrown into the water. Delko fishes around in the water near a storm drainage pipe and finds a 9 mm gun.
• Jesse & Cardoza go to the house and determine that the air conditioner carried small drops of blood back at the killer and the window behind him. They examine the landscaper and find a small amount of blood in one nostril. They can prove he was in the house and fired the gun.
• Horatio found out that he needed to get a special new kind of DNA test that can determine DNA from only a few cells. The lab tech that does the test is Natalia Boa Vista. The blood from the nostril matches the victim. The landscaper is charged with first-degree murder, the husband is set free, charges dropped against him.
• As Jesse Cardoza leaves with his box of belongings, he congratulates Horatio for being named the head of the new CSI division. Jesse suggests that Horatio call Speedle for his new team.
• Just then, Delko shows up and gives Horatio a new pair of sunglasses. Horatio tells him that he has a great eye for detail and that he should go to the police academy and then look up Horatio.
• 2009: The entire team waits by Delko’s bedside as he gradually wakes up from the coma and smiles at Horatio.

Discussion Points:

1. Was it a satisfying explanation for how the team started?
2. Do you like the new character, Jesse Cardoza?
3. Is it just me, or is it significant that Delko looked at Horatio, but not at Calleigh as he woke up?
4. Also, did it look like the scenes from 2009 seemed like they were shot before David Caruso got a facelift and the flashback scenes afterward?
5. What did you think of the bubbly, vivacious Calleigh vs. the all-business, tough as nails Calleigh of today?

Leave a comment and let us know what you think!

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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?”

Danny finds a red stain on the floor of the car with traces of vegetation, but neither Tony’s nor the victim’s shoes have anyting similar on the soles. The car title has the name Isabelle Vaughn. Mac, though, has already run the plates and received preliminary info on the victim. She’s a talented, successful, young handbag designer. Danny wonders if the the red stain was blood came from an accomplice.

As Sid makes his Y incision on Isabelle, liquid oozes from her abdomen. He calls Hawkes down. The liquid is her stomach, liver, and other internal organs. Sid tells Hawkes that this…saponification…is the cause of death, and the breakdown continued long after her death. He shows Hawkes the contents of both bodies’ stomachs: citrus peels, dandelion, raw onions, vinegar, tobasco, and duck blood soup. Isabelle, though, also had sodium hydroxide, drain cleaner, in her stomach. She would have had to drink at least 18 ounces to do this damage. It appears that she drank it voluntarily. Hawkes wonders why, if this was a suicide, would Tony dump the body.

In a pawn shop, Detective Angell leads Stella to the body of Declan Rooney, 29. He is lying with a snapped neck and broken fingers, the torture methods used by the killer of the Rat Fisherman, the same man who threatened Stella. [See Episode 5.05 Cost of Living.] Stella says the killer, Sebastian Diakos, is “on the wind.” Angell counters that he may have just blown back. Stella notices that the only apparent missing item is whatever was on a mat lying on the counter.

Adam tells Danny that Isabelle had elephant dung under her fingernails. Danny offers Adam a beer if he figures out where that came from, but Adam tells him that he and Lindsay are going to have some big expenses coming up with the new baby.

Lindsay walks up, and wonders why Danny isn’t at Isabelle’s apartment. He says it was clean, but he’s about to go over to Tony’s apartment. She tells Danny that she felt the baby kick earlier. They go to a quiet hallway, where he tries to feel it, but the baby has settled down. He wants to be alerted right away, the next time, though.

Lindsay returns to the lab to find Mac looking over a variety of strange foods laid out on the counter. She offers Mac a berry to put in his mouth for a few seconds. She says it matches the trace that Danny found. It’s a “miracle fruit,” Synsepalum dulcificum a very trendy West African fruit that makes sour foods taste sweet for about an hour or so after coating your tongue. Mac tries an onion, but it tastes sweet. They realize that this would explain how she drank a caustic substance without realizing.

Danny, Hawkes, and Don find the remnants of a “strange foods” party in Tony’s apartment. Danny finds the miracle fruit, and the foods on the counter and tables match the contents of Isabel Vaughn’s stomach.

Don gets a call. Quincy Feeney is the one who sent the text message to Tony. Quincy tells Mac and Don that she idolized Isabelle Vaughn, but she didn’t know her. Tony was friends with her. She says Tony didn’t kill her, but found her dead at his party. He sent everyone away from the party, then led Quincy to the bathroom, where Isabelle was lying. They thought she’d had an allergic reaction. She claims that they were going to dump the body, because the scandal would have ruined Tony’s image and career.

Mac asks if the clothes she’s wearing are the same clothes from the party. They are, so he asks to see her boots. There are red stains on her soles that seem to match the stains on the carpet in Isabelle’s car. She helped Tony put the body in the car. Quincy got in the driver’s seat, but Tony insisted on doing it himself. She says the plan was for Tony to dump the body, then meet her in Long Island City to dump Isabelle’s car. Tony never showed up, though.

Back at Tony’s apartment, the Danny finds a blood trail leading to the bathroom. The sink and its surrounding area are splattered with bloody vomit. There’s no sign of struggle, but a dirty glass on the vanity. Beneath the vanity, Danny finds a half-empty bottle of drain cleaner. They suppose that Tony took the opportunity to spike Isabelle’s drink.

Ella McBride meets Mac in his office. She’s seen news of Isabelle’s murder all over the internet, and thinks she can help. She shows Mac a card sent in a few months before. It has the logo and signature pieces from Isabelle’s handbags glued to one side, and the words “I want her dead” on the back.

Mac and Don visit Isabelle’s business partner, Marina Melton. They tell her that they know that Isabelle was suing her to regain full control of her label. She denies having any reason to fear Isabelle’s “frivolous” suit, claiming that she had become one of the biggest women’s accessories manufacturers in the country on her own. She owns the rights to the label, the contract means Isabelle works for her. She had found her making bags in her dorm room. Mac shows her the death threat card. She recognizes the design elements as Isabelle’s but claims not to know who would have made it.

Danny finds Hawkes in the lab. Hawkes has been testing all the drinks from the party that might have delivered the poison in Isabelle’s glass. Most of them, though, are too acidic to have be sodium hydroxide. The exception is the liquid in the blender. It has a pH of 14. There are no useful prints, but Hawkes hopes to isolate all the ingredients to find a lead to the killer.

Danny receives a report that the sodium hydroxide in Isabelle’s system was pure, so it couldn’t have been the drain cleaner. Otherwise, it would have included bleach. The hope that looking at the guests at the party, they can figure out who would have access to laboratory quality sodium hydroxide.

Sid talks to Stella and Mac about Declan Rooney’s murder. He says that this type of neck-snapping requires a rare skill. He shows them that the direction of the head turning matches that of Woolford Bessie, the Rat Fisherman…left to right. Mac lists the types of special forces that could have trained the killer.

Stella insists that it is Diakos, but Mac says that they only have cause of death connecting the murders. Stella tells him, though, that Diakos was introduced to her as an expert in ancient Greek artifacts. Woolford Bessie was killed over a priceless antique coin. Rooney owned a pawn shop, and Stella believes that he may have come upon something that Diakos wanted. Sid says the kill was pretty clean, but that there was a metal splinter in Rooney’s arm.

Stella rushes out of the lab with the splinter. Mac follows her. He’s concerned over her obsession with finding the killer.

Stella tests the display mat from the pawn shop counter. She shows Danny that she was able to do a surface mapping of trace metals. An image of King Phillip II appeared, just like the image on the coin that the Rat Fisherman had. The splinter from Rooney’s arm matches the metal used to encase the first such coin they had found.

Stella and Detective Angell meet with Stan Trovato, a former counterfeiter. Stella offers to have his brother moved to a closer prison, if he’ll craft them some fake King Phillip coins. At first, he thinks he’s being set up, but gives in, if they’ll put it in writing, and move his brother first.

Mac finds Hawkes disassembling the DNA analyzer. Mac is concerned that he’s taking a $200,000 machine apart, but Hawkes tells him that it requires recalibration. Running elimination samples from the party guests, in particular Marina Melton, he got no results. Mac says he took Melton’s reference sample himself. Hawkes tells him that either the machine needs fixing, or he’s discovered the first human with no DNA.

Adam tells Danny that a smelly bag from Tony’s apartment contained elephant dung, just like that found under Isabelle’s nails. The vegetation in the dung matches that from the Manhattan Zoo. Colby Fisher buys dung from the zoo, and uses it to make paper. Fisher was at the party.

Danny and Don visit Fisher. He says he meant it as a joke. He says he didn’t pick Isabelle. She was just the first person he met at the party. He says he just wanted to see if the berries worked. He claims he didn’t offer her anything else, and that he wouldn’t hurt her. He says he was very close to her, having had a casual sex relationship. He also made hang tags for her bags until a couple months ago. As he’s telling them this, Danny notices jars of sodium hydroxide sitting nearby. Fisher says they use it to bleach their products.

Lindsay tells Mac that she found no identifying marks or traces on the SecretsU card. When she removed the logo and handbag parts, she found a detailed sketch drawn on the card, but nothing else significant. Ella’s prints were the only ones on it, and the glue used to make the card match the glue Ella uses to hang the cards on her office wall. On the computer, Mac brings up the “handbag” card and the statement that Ella wrote out when she was a suspect in her father’s murder. He matches pencil strokes in the new card’s handbag sketch to elements of Ella’s handwriting.

Mac visits Ella, and asks why she made the card. She tells him that she wanted someone to talk to. She asks if the way he treated her in her father’s murder investigation meant nothing. He’s angry that she made him waste valuable time on a fake lead. She apologizes for such a stupid stunt, but he leaves, still angry.

Danny tests the sodium hydroxide from Fisher’s factory. It matches that from Isabelle’s stomach.

Don and Danny question Fisher. Don tells him that the phone company records show that they talked all the time for two months. After that, she ceased calling, but he kept trying to call her. Eventually, she had Fisher’s number blocked. He says that he didn’t tell them about the extent of their relationship, his cheating on her, and his desire to get her to come back, because he knew they’d arrest him. He figured it wouldn’t have mattered once they found the real killer.

He explains that the affair with Isabelle’s partner Marina went on for two months, before Marina called it off. She stopped the affair, then told Isabelle about it. He says Marina is diabolical. Don says he thinks he killed Isabelle. When they tell him that the sodium hydroxide from his paper plant matched the substance that killed Isabelle, Fisher seems shocked that it would be possible.

Mac calls Stella into his office. He says that the chief’s office wants to know why a CSI is moving Marty Trovato to a downstate prison. She says Stan Trovato is helping her. Mac insists that she stop what she’s doing.

Danny tells Mac that Fisher has contacted a lawyer. Hawkes comes in with news on Marina Melton’s DNA swab. He found flakes of betel quid in the blender. The leafy plant produces a mild stimulant that also isolates DNA from saliva making it appear that there is no DNA in a sample. It’s also used primarily by southeast Asians. Melton is from Thailand, and, when she was hooking up with Colby Fisher, she had access to his sodium hydroxide.

Mac brings in Marina Melton. He tells her that officers found her snuff box, full of betel quid, as well as…sodium hydroxide. He tells her that she couldn’t take it when the woman whom she’d used to make a lot of money, Isabelle Vaughn, stood up to her, and wanted to take her designs away, she couldn’t stand it, and she killed her.

Detective Angell finds George Kolovos in a diner. Not identifying herself, she hands him one of the fake coins. He tries to act uninterested. She starts to leave, and he asks what she wants. She tells him she’ll be in touch, and leaves. She gets into Stella’s car and tells her that he took the bait.

Mac receives a call from Ella McBride. She’s crying, and keeps repeating that she’s sorry. He rushes to her apartment and finds her sitting on the kitchen floor. She has cut her wrists with a kitchen knife, but not deep enough to hit the arteries. She says she’s so tired of being alone.

As Mac carries Ella out, the camera closes in on a card on the wall. It says, “I WILL MAKE HIM LOVE ME.” The “O” has the the peculiar curl at the top that Mac found in her drawing and her handwriting.

Talk about your themed sets of subplots: Obsession…much?

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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.

Don tells Stella about the driver’s protocol to stay in the cab, but he has found a witness from a nearby bus stop who says she saw someone turn a knob on the back door and open it. The few who noticed the person disagreed on whether it was a man or woman, and none of them noticed a uniform. Stella says there were no prints on the handle. Stella wonders where Mac disappeared to. Don responds with the common urban legend about that block being the “Bermuda Triangle”. Of course, Stella is not buying it, but Don goes on about all the calls that come in about that block. [Interestingly, the High Eye logo on the armored car has a triangle with an eye in the center.

Sid finds metal shards deep inside the wound. Hawkes enters the lab, as Sid is microwaving a pig's liver. Sid explains that it wasn't a gunshot that killed Carl. The plastic and metal fragments he found inside the chest cavity lead him to believe that Carl had a pacemaker that exploded, causing massive trauma to the heart. Hawkes says he's heard of them failing, but never exploding.

Sid pulls Carl's liver from the cooler, and points out the dark lines. He then removes the pig's liver from the microwave, showing him similar lines. So, he concludes that Carls was exposed to massive microwave radiation, which also explains the burn marks where his eyeglass frames and wristwatch were in close contact with his skin. Sid continues that, after 9/11, all the radio antennae from atop the World Trade Center were replaced on the Empire State Building.

Adam shows Lindsay that the intersection camera had stopped working at 4:56 PM. Both the camera and the traffic light haven't functioned since then.

Danny catches up to Lindsay, who is satisfying a craving at a sidewalk vendor's cart. He hurriedly asks about her family's medical and mental health history. Seemingly satisfied with her answer, he proposes marriage. She pauses, then replies, "No." He seems deflated, but... Didn't he see Walk the Line?

Hawkes uses the imager to reconstruct enough of the pacemaker to read the identifying marks. He tells Mac that patterns, directionality of the fragments, and lithium cobalt oxide traces seem to confirm Sid's theory that the pacemaker exploded as a result of microwave radiation hitting the batteries. The manufacturer, Marwood Technologies, had remote monitoring on Carl's device. His cellphone would relay signals from the pacemaker. The signal, however, ended at 4:56 PM, the same time that the security cameras and traffic signals failed. Hawkes wonders, though, how all that energy coming from atop the Empire State Building could have only affected Carl Custer, and no one else.

Mac, Danny, and Hawkes look out from atop the Empire State Building. They all circle the roofline just below the base of the tower. Using electrosmog detectors, they find no signs of unhealthy amounts of radiation coming from the roof. Mac proposes running a DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) search to see if they know of anything that could cause the damage.

Stella finds Mac in his office, and asks where he was last night. He tells her he was with the FBI. Special agents picked him up and took him away to ask about the Ann Steele case (Episode 5.04 Sex, Lies & Silicone), the one with the mysterious flash drive containing Steele's client list and all the sordid details that she helped go away for these powerful people, some of whom are supposedly top government officials. They accused Mac of stealing the flash drive, and warned him to be careful. If he plans to use that "weapon" to take "pot shots" at public officials, he'd better make sure there wasn't one pointed at himself. He tells her that he took it to the property room right after Sheldon gave it to him. After speaking with the FBI, though, he returned to property and found it missing from the case evidence. He told her that he checked the chain of custody. He hadn't yet talked to the clerk he handed it to, officer Kevin Cross.

Adam shows Lindsay that he found a dust void circling the electronic lock on the armored car door. Knowing that electromagnetic radiation had disabled the electronics, he knew that the intruder would still need to bypass the actual lock mechanism. Then, he remembered a device that he was able to borrow from a friend at the Treasury Department...Satan's Ring.

Lindsay turns the borrowed ring around the lock, and the unique polarity of the magnetic charges on the ring...two south poles opposite each other, and two north poles opposite each other...charge the coils in the lock causing them to disengage. The shape and size of the ring match the dust void on the door. Adam tells her that Don is looking for anyone with a record of using a Satan's Ring to perpetrate a crime.

Don finds one instance of Satan's Ring use. It's a case he worked, and the thief was Bernie Benton. He tracks Benton down in his pub, and shakes him down. Benton insists that he was never sloppy and hurt anyone, and that he's no longer playing that game. A woman enters the pub and Benton sends her home with cash, telling her that he's closing before her shift. Don tells him not to go anywhere.

Lindsay examines the pineapple sticker that Stella found on Carl's sleeve. Currently pregnant, she becomes wary of the toxins she handles in her job. Conspicuously...for the camera, anyway...she applies the chemical under a hood to minimize her exposure to its vapors. She tells Stella that she found epithelials on the sticker. She has sent a DNA sample to Adam.

On GCMS, they notice compounds commonly found in sunblock. Lindsay tells Stella...the lab's official safety officer...that she has a pregnant friend who works in a forensics lab in New Jersey. She tells her that her friend is nervous about all the toxic chemicals she uses. Stella assures her that her friend is safe, considering all the safety protocols they follow: fume hoods, goggles, gloves, face shields. When Stella asks about her friend's partner, Lindsay is coy about the circumstances, saying they're complicated. Stella...with a bit of a nod and a wink...tells Lindsay that, if her friend's co-workers are anything like Lindsay's own co-workers, that they will surely help her, and that they'd absolutely be happy for her. Stella's caution and intentional avoidance of acknowledging Lindsay as the "friend" was very touching. [Tear.] “Tell your friend, ‘Congratulations.’”

As Sheldon tells Mac that the military is uneasy about releasing information about advanced weapons to civilians, including police investigators, Danny rushes in with news about the armored car.

Danny takes Mac to Anderson Savings and Loan, the next stop on the armored car’s route. Danny tells him that, last evening, “Carl Custer” from High Eye signed in at 5:01 PM, and walked out with a deposit transfer of $250,000. The problem is that he died five minutes before that, four blocks away. On the security video, they see the guard…young, blond, bearded. The man doesn’t look like Bernie Benton. They deduce that it’s probably an inside job.

As Stella and Mac discuss the lack of leads, Danny enters with news that all the High Eye employees checked out “squeaky clean”, and all were accounted for at the time of the incident. Mac realizes that a camera on the roof of the Empire State Building might offer a better vantage of the scene. Stella notes that it points toward the Anderson Savings and Loan. They tap into the recorded video, and find the assailant leaving the building with the cash. He gets into an old red van. The driver takes off, and almost hits a pedestrian. They seem to know how to track him down.

Stella and Danny find Yert Yallawac…the disturbed, “Triangle”/”Airwaves” man from the opening. He’s in the area doing his “research” with his equipment…a dead and half-smashed cellphone. They ask Yert about what he saw at the time of the incident. He says that, at the time of the “Wave of Darkness”, when he was monitoring congested energy channels, he heard the “warning signal” and narrowly defeated death…i.e. he wasn’t killed by the van. He managed to snatch an epaulet with a High Eye button on it from the fake guard’s uniform. He lets Danny keep it. Yert goes back to his monitoring the energy.

Adam tells Lindsay that he found no hair or epithelials on the epaulet. He decided to search based on fragrance, but any scent on the material was too faint for their equipment to make a match. She recommends using canines.

Don and a canine officer go to High Eye. The dog leads them to Greg Hufheinz’ locker. Mac and Don question Hufheinz, who insist that Carl was like family. Don tells him that the man who stole the money from the savings and loan was wearing his High Eye uniform. Hufheinz, though, tells them that he had taken his spare uniform to the dry cleaner, but when he went to retrieve it, they told him he’d already picked it up. He insists that someone else picked it up. He denies recognizing Bernie Benton’s face. Mac and Don both believe him. Don wonders if Bernie scoped out Hufheinz, stole his uniform, and took the money. They have to wonder, though, who helped him stop the real armored car.

In DARPA, Sheldon finally finds an advanced prototype microwave gun developed by Sanon Research, a midtown company. As he tells Stella this, Lindsay enters with news that the sticker was a tan-too sticker, a novelty used to leave an image on tanned skin. The person who used it, must have been at a tanning salon, but failed to remove the sticker before coming into contact with Carl. DNA from the sticker doesn’t make any direct hits in CODIS, but there is a familial match. Bernie Benton must have a daughter.

The team discuss the newest developments. Nothing in Bernie Benton’s case file mentions a daughter. Don has put a tail on Benton, though. Sheldon has checked out the microwave gun prototype. Whoever used it, also knew how to wipe it down. The user could have easily driven up behind the armored car, and set off the gun at the light, causing all the damage. The list of Sanon Research employees, though, doesn’t include any Bentons, so the daughter must have a different name.

Don and Stella visit Benton. When they describe what they’ve figured out, that his daughter was just supposed to stall the truck, but must have gotten greedy and used his Satan’s Ring to rob it; he acts as if he’s the one who did it. Don tells him that he can tell he didn’t know the details of his daughter’s actions until Don mentioned her. He won’t tell his daughter’s name or her whereabouts. Bernie assaults Don, but misses. Don cuffs him, as Stella checks Benton’s cellphone call. She finds a series of texts to a Jamie Sunderland, and reports this back to Sheldon. He finds her name. She’s a marketing representative at Sanon Research. Benton tells them that there’s no use going to Sanon. She’s lying low.

Meanwhile, Jamie Sunderland is getting into a helicopter.

Across town, an officer tells Mac about a woman finding a body in an alley. The victim, property clerk Kevin Cross, has a bullet wound in his forehead.

Lindsay tells Danny that it’s not that she won’t marry him. It’s just not the right time. She assures him that neither of them is going away, so they can afford to take “baby steps”.

In Mac’s office, he smiles and hugs Lindsay and Danny. [Yea!]

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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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The next day, a crane operator is maneuvering a car in the crusher. When he hoists it back out, it seems to be leaking a lot of liquid. Mac swabs and tests the liquid, declaring that it’s blood mixed with “decomp juice”. The yard owner has told Don that the car was never checked in. In the morning, they had found the gate chain broken, and this car sitting in the yard. Inserting a scope, they find a body trapped inside the crushed car.

Back in the therapist’s office, Danny is explaining how they get all the details for every job they do. He thought this would be a common job, but he was wrong. He flashes back to talking to Lindsay at the junk yard. Lindsay had found tool marks at the gate, consistent with bolt cutters. He tells her that he tried to call her the night before, but she said she went to bed early. Danny tells the therapist that Lindsay, from Montana, and having received outdoor sports gear as gifts as a kid, wasn’t like any girl he’d ever known. This is a good thing.

At the junkyard, Lindsay and Danny hear a knocking noise. It’s the “gladiator”…Mike Hess…who’d been locked in the trunk. At the station, Don IDs him as a veterinary nurse, who practices Live-Action Role Playing…LARPing.

[To find out more about LARPing, you can check out my interview with LARPer David Olsen]

He told Don that his buddies ran off, thinking that the cops were there. When they came back, it looked like a crime scene. Don had found out that the owner never went to the junk yard, and that no police had been patrolling the area that night.

Sid and Sheldon examine and photograph the crushed vehicle. They remove the remains, mostly skeletal, laying them out on the floor. Sid shows Mac that the pelvis shows that the victim is a female. Sheldon shows him that the only partially fused clavicle and triangular eye orbitals indicate that she is most likely a white woman between 17 and 25. Decomposition leads Sid to believe the time of death was about three weeks earlier. They hadn’t found much else to go on, though. A VIN plate is the only seemingly identifying piece, but the numbers are scratched off.

As Stella is accosted by a kid selling fake Rolex watches across from the crime lab, Danny shows up to tell her that the VIN plate yielded a name, Elizabeth Barker. She’s a 25 year old white woman from the city. They visit Mrs. Barker’s home, and find her alive. She’s shocked that they thought she was the murder victim. She says that her husband noticed the car missing when he went out for the paper that morning, and reported it right away. She tells Stella that her husband is at the park with their son. When Danny asks if he’s as good a husband as he is a father, she’s a little surprised. He asks if she suspects him of having an affair. When she seems shocked, Stella explains that having found a body in their car means they’re going to have a lot of questions. Asked about the night before, Elizabeth replies that they went to bed around 9PM, and that the new baby has left them too fatigued ever to stay up much later. Just then, Steve Barker enters with their baby son.

Sid and Sheldon find a locket inside the car. The photos appear to be those of the woman’s parents. Sid finds a slip of paper in the victim’s pocket, but it’s too stained by decomposition liquid to be read, even when he shines the UV light…ALS…over it. Sheldon notices, though, that the ALS had revealed strange wavy lines on the skull.

As Don and Mac discuss the as-of-yet lack of leads yielded by the locket and from asking neighbors if they’d heard the Barkers’ car being stolen, Adam catches up to them in the corridor. He shows them a sheet on Reggie Dunham, whose prints Lindsay had found on the broken gate lock. He has been imprisoned three times, including two for aggravated assaults on women.

Police and the team find Reggie teaching hands-on car theft techniques.

Danny tells the therapist that they arrested Reggie, but that nothing is ever as it seems.

Mac shows Reggie that they found a bolt cutter in his classroom. His prints are the only ones on the tool, and they match those found on the scene. Reggie claims he’d been out that night stealing parts from junked cars, but hadn’t killed anyone. Suddenly, his head slams into the table. After he shakes it off, he warns them that he’s going to claim that they got rough with him. Mac, though, explains to him that he must not have paid attention in science, since Don’s slamming his head into the table would have resulted in a hand print in the back of his head. So, his little trick wasn’t going to work to get him out of this.

Sid and Sheldon found prints on the steering wheel, but they don’t match Reggie Dunham. Sid shows Mac some blood on the driver’s door handle. Perhaps, he says, the killer transferred it to the handle after placing the body in the trunk. Mac wonders if it could be from the killer.

Sheldon reconstructs the skull, finding concentric fractures around the temporal lobe. As he and Sid are ready to call the COD blunt force trauma to the head, Sid points out slices in the L1 vertebra. He tells Sheldon the marks are v-shaped, and scalloped, indicating a knife blade, not metal from the car’s being crushed. There are also no blood stains in the marks, indicating that they were post-mortem. Sheldon wonders why someone would stab a dead woman twice.

Danny uses the computer to reconstruct the woman’s face. It doesn’t match any missing persons. He and Mac wonder why a woman dead for three weeks, and with photos of apparent family members in a locket wouldn’t be reported missing by those family members.

Adam shows Stella a silver spoon found in the victim’s back pocket. He has also cleaned off the paper that Sid found. It’s a business card for a Dr. Lori Winton of Life Systems. The address is illegible still, but Adam has already looked up Life Systems, a midtown medical center.

Stella and Danny talk to Dr. Winton, who doesn’t recognize the reconstructed facial image. She agrees to post it, in case anyone else recognizes her. Just then, Lindsay enters the office. Seeing Stella and Danny, though, she turns and rushes back out the door. Stella catches up to Danny, who had seen Lindsay. He tells her only that he thought he saw someone he knew.

The therapist asks Danny why he didn’t tell Stella that it was Lindsay. He was unsure what was going on, since Lindsay had lied about what she was doing. He says she’d never lied to him before.

From his desk, Danny anxiously watches the elevator. Mac comes up, and Danny shows him the DNA results from the blood on the door handle. It’s a male, and has a matching allele pattern indicating either the victim’s father or son. They wonder if they’ve just discovered a witness, a killer, or another victim.

Adam shows Stella that the victim had been taking tetracycline, a component of which binds to calcium, including bones. This explains the strange lines that Sheldon noticed on the skull. As for the spoon, the only usable prints that Adam found belonged to the victim.

Sheldon shows Stella and Mac that there was pitting in the pelvic bones. This indicates chemicals commonly in the body during pregnancy. Other tissue they found turned out to be placental. Sheldon adds that this combined with the post-mortem knife marks on the vertebra, as well as the blood on the door handle, lead them to believe she was pregnant at the time of death. The killer must have cut out the baby.

Danny sees Lindsay exit the elevator. She tries to avoid him, but he insists she talk to him. She rushes into the ladies’ room. Danny tells the therapist that things hadn’t been the same between him and Lindsay, since they got back together, just a couple months after he had been with another woman.

Lindsay exits the restroom, and tells Danny that she’s pregnant. She hands him an ultrasound photo, and says she’s known for a few weeks. She heads back to work, but Danny rushes after her. She tells him she knows him, and didn’t expect anything from him. Just then, she notices the facial image in the lab. She says she knows her….Nicole Harris. She met her at her first clinic appointment. Nicole had told Lindsay that she was eight months pregnant, and her parents lived in Albany. Lindsay insisted they trade numbers, since they were both alone. She gives Danny Nicole’s phone number.

Mac and Stella talk to Nicole’s parents. They hadn’t heard from her in seven months. Mac asks why they hadn’t filed a missing person report on their teenage daughter who they hadn’t heard from for so long. They explain that she was a good girl, a straight-A student. When she told them she thought she was pregnant, her father told her that if she was in such a hurry to be an adult, she should act like one. So, they kicked her out of the house, and she went to New York all alone. The mother insisted that, in the small town where they live, it would have been hard for her. Stella adds, “And for you.”

Danny tells the therapist that he lied to Sheldon, who asked about her identifying Nicole. He told him that she was there for a flu shot. Sheldon shows Danny the medical records that show Dr. Winton as the provider for the tetracycline prescription. So, she lied about not recognizing Nicole.

When Danny and Stella confront Dr. Winton about knowing Nicole, she denies having any memory of that patient. When Danny produces a copy of the prescription, she wants to talk to a lawyer.

Adam tells Mac that the minor DNA from the silver spoon matches the elimination sample from Steve Barker. Stella comes in with Dr. Winton’s phone records. One of the recurring phone numbers is Steve Barker’s, includine a call within the last twenty minutes. She must have called to warn him.

At the Barker home, Don cuffs Steve. He says he doesn’t know what they’re talking about. They tell him about the call, but he says that he just got home from work, so it must have been to his wife.

At the station, Steve Barker tells Mac that they tried to have a baby, but, eventually found out that she couldn’t have a baby. She felt her life was over. When they tried to adopt, there was concern over Elizabeth’s mental health. As she became more obsessed over having a baby, he convinced Elizabeth’s childhood friend, Dr. Winton, to talk to her. When Nicole went to the clinic to have an abortion, Dr. Winton thought she could fix everybody’s problem.

Meanwhile, Don, Danny, and Stella have caught up to Elizabeth, who has locked herself in a gas station restroom in Brooklyn. She’s inside with the baby, crying. As Don, then Stella try to convince her to come out, she grabs a pair of scissors, clenching them in her free hand.

Steve says that Nicole agreed to let them have her baby, when they offered to pay for the expenses plus $50,000. Nicole came to their house to break the deal. They tried to convince her, but, as she was leaving and Steve tried to grab her arm, she fell down the stairs hitting her head at the bottom. She was dead instantly. Steve sent Elizabeth to get a knife. He tells Mac that he didn’t know what else to do, because an ambulance wouldn’t have gotten there in time.

Stella enters the restroom, and convinces Elizabeth to drop the scissors. Stella takes the baby, and Don cuffs her. Officers also take Dr. Lori Winton into custody.

Danny meets Jim and Andrea Harris and tells them that Child Services will bring their grandson to them shortly. He looks a little drained or forlorn, and Jim asks if he’s okay. Danny sits down, and we see that the wall behind him matches the scenes where he has been telling about the case, and about Lindsay. Jim tells him that, whatever he does, don’t allow himself any regrets. When Lindsay appears in the hallway with Child Services and the baby, Danny introduces her to the Harrises. Jim wishes Danny luck, and Andrea adds, “to the both of you.”

As Danny and Lindsay watch Mr. and Mrs. Harris receive their grandson, their hands seem to brush closer, but we don’t see them join.

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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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Danny shows up at the moving house barge, in a speed boat. He tells Stella and Lindsay that McBride owned a house relocation company. His latest job was moving this house from Staten Island to the upper east side for stockbroker Franco Vladek. Vladek has been in Beijing for the past six months. The three discuss the scenario. A broken window with no glass on the floor indicates that maybe the killer broke in after the house was secured, killed McBride, and cleaned up the mess. Why, though, would McBride have been in the locked up house.

After Sid’s autopsy, McBride’s wife, Annie, and daughter, Ella, come to identify the body. The daughter tells Mac that her father had a distinctive scar on his left index finger. The mark on his hand, she says, was from an accident while slicing a bagel.

Back in the house, Stella finds a recently-fired shell casing. Since Kevin McBride wasn’t shot, Danny asks if they should be looking for a second victim.

After Detective Angell talks to McBride’s secretary, Don comes over. She tells Don that she saw his sister at a party where they were responding to a call. She adds that they didn’t take her in, because she mentioned his name.

Danny tells Lindsay that Angell found nothing in a background check on the moving crew. She shows him a piece of cardstock that Sid had removed from McBride’s hand. The fragment shows an eye…that matches the victim’s eye…and the word “tell” scrawled on it.

Stella receives a call from a blocked number, “The fisherman’s death is an unsolved case.” “Be smart about this, Detective. Don’t try to be the hero.”

Lindsay finds part of a QR (Quick Reference) code on the back of the card. She shows Stella and Danny how QR codes…essentially a two-dimensional barcode…is encoded text that can be read by a camera phone, and converted to a website, or other information. [They're very popular in East Asia, but are still slowly catching on in the U.S.] She runs off to try to decipher the code.

Stella reminds Danny of the Rat Fisherman. She tells about the man from the embassy who spoke fluent Greek, and must be the man who attacked her, a few weeks before. He must also be the one who killed the Rat Risherman, and the phone call was a threat.

Hawkes tells Sid that a hair found in the victim’s nose matches that of the Virginia opossum. Sid shows him lacerations on the wrist that appear to have happened right before death. The opossum ate bits of McBride’s face, taking away potential soft tissue evidence of the murder weapon. Hawkes, though, finds a pattern in the bone fragments from McBride’s skull.

Stella walks in to find Adam smoking from a gourd. He tells her that the carrot from the scene was a “veggie pipe”, hollowed out and showing traces of THC. Stella notes that tests on McBride didn’t indicate any controlled substances, so it might be the killer’s. Adam adds that he has DNA from the carrot.

Don confronts his sister at a bar. She deflects his concern with a childhood story. She promises not to use his name to keep out of jail.

Stella visits the shop of Tanner Somerset, and flashes her badge. He sits up and tells her the paraphernalia in his shop are for legal use only…a sentence which she helps him finish. She tells him that his DNA was found on the carrot pipe found at a murder scene. He tells her that the house looked like a good place to light one up. So, he broke in, smoked, and fell asleep. He woke up the next morning, and the house was moving. So, he rushed out.

Danny matches the marks on McBride’s skull to a framing hammer. The marks also match those found on nails at the crime scene. Problem is that it’s a common tool, available anywhere. Hawkes tells him that the scale that Sid removed from the victim is from a gara rufa fish, a carp native only to Turkey, Syria, and Iran.

McBride’s daughter complains to Mac about their taking all of her father’s things. She pleads with him, because her mother is very upset. He tells her that they’ll find the person who killed her father.

Flack gives Danny a framing hammer found in a dumpster a couple blocks from the crime scene. He also found out that numerous people had reported seeing a man jump from a moving house, corroborating Somerset’s story. When he and Danny come upon Lindsay fretting over the QR code fragment, he says he recognizes the card and the border around it.

He and Lindsay head over to the bar where Flack’s sister works. She finds the cards, but the manager tells him that his sister had been fired two weeks earlier. She shows up and tells Don that she’s there because she works there. He replies that he knows she was fired. She dismissed it as no big deal. He wants to know why she is drinking and hanging out with a no-good crowd. She asks when he started caring.

Hawkes demonstrates to Stella how a tank full of gara rufa fish are used in manicures. For $50, you can stick your hands in the tank to have the fish eat dead skin for thirty minutes. Stella tells him that Rita, McBride’s secretary, told her that she had a manicure the morning of his death, around 10. The long, deep, scratch marks on McBride’s arm, where Sid found gara rufa tissue, could be nail scratches. Danny walks in with news that Tanner Somerset had lived in that house. His mother sold it out from under him six months before.

Rita tells Danny that she had fallen, and McBride caught her. That’s when she accidentally scratched his arm that morning. Stella confronts Somerset with a receipt for a framing hammer that he’d just bought. He says that he was mad that his mom kicked him out and sold the house. He was angry and went over to mess up the house. She notes that the only thing messed up was McBride. He denies seeing McBride, while he was in the house.

Lindsay shows Mac that the cards are for a website: Secrets You. People in bars fill out their secrets, get a PO Box address from the QR code, and the site owners post them on the website. The PO Box, however, is paid for in cash, so the owner is unknown.

Hawkes comes in with news that blood on the handle of the found framing hammer match McBride. The handle has epithelials, but they are female. They’re too degraded, though, to match definitively. Adam bursts in, and reports that the cardstock had compounds commonly used in organic floor stains. Feathering on the edge of the card where he found the substance indicate directionality, and that it was dragged along the floor, after it was torn. Mac asserts that the other card fragment must still be in the house.

Using a heat gun, Mac dries the bottom of the flooring in the house. A piece of cardstock peaks out from between the floorboards. The whole message on the card was, “I’ll tell her, if you don’t.”

Lindsay finds several instant message streams in deleted files from McBride’s computer. For the past two months, though, all of the messages are between McBride and a “Lola57″. He had emailed a photo to Lola57 the week before his death. It matches the photo on the postcard. She stopped all communication after that. He tried to contact her, but she didn’t respond.

Don goes to his sister’s apartment. She’s been drinking and doesn’t want to talk. He apologizes, then pulls out his phone, and plays the Peter Gabriel song Red Rain over the intercom. She’s moved.

Hawkes shows Mac a video walk-through of the house, that Annie McBride made the morning of Kevin’s death. Lindsay comes in with the identity of Lola57.

Mac shows up at the apparent home of the confessions website. Ella McBride. Mac tells her that he knows that she tricked her father. She confesses that she was Lola57, but it wasn’t a trap. A couple months earlier, she met someone wonderful online. Mac realizes that she didn’t know about her father’s activity, until she received his photo. She sent the postcard to get him to stop, but swears that she didn’t kill him.

Stella tells Mac that mitochondrial DNA from the hammer matches Ella. Since mitochondrial DNA is an almost perfect match between a mother and her children, it could be either of them. Annie told them that she was in Montauk, making the walk-through video. Ella claims she was gluing up Secrets You cards in her loft.

Stella watches Annie’s video. She calls in Annie McBride. A shadow of someone outside the house, indicate that it was 2 in the afternoon, not 10 in the morning. So, she changed the timecode to set up her alibi. Annie tells her that she found the postcard, and realized that he was cheating online.

Outside the interrogation room, Ella asks Mac if her mom knows about Lola57. He tells her none of it was her fault. She says that the man she met online was so understanding, and made her feel important. He was nothing like her father.

Don follows Samantha. She goes to an alcoholics’ support group, where he hears her confessing that her last drink was only 20 minutes ago. He meets Jessica outside, and tells her that he didn’t need a ride. He says his family is stubborn, but they’re going to be okay.

Back in the lab, Stella opens a package, and is startled by the contents. She shows Danny the dead rat inside. She says that, concerning his question the other day about wanting to break some rules, “I do now.”

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CSI: Miami – Episode 7.07 Cheating Death
Air Date: November 10, 2008

A couple in a hotel room are disturbed, and kept awake by the seemingly amorous headboard banging sounds from the next room. The man bangs on the wall and yells for them to knock it off. The banging stops, but seconds later, the radio starts blaring. He calls the front desk to complain. When hotel management get no answer at the door of the noisy room, they open the door. They find a woman, who wakes disoriented. Next to her is a dead man, handcuffed to the bedpost and very bloody.

Horatio questions the woman. She tells him that she met the man at the hotel bar and went to his room. The next thing she remembers is waking next to his dead body. She figures she must have been drugged.

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While Delko photographs the scene, Ryan comes in asking where the body is. Dr. Price has had it rushed back to the lab, and texts him the ID: Steven Howell. The woman, Christina Dodd, has tested positive for GHP, the date rape drug. The murder weapon is not at the scene. They figure that the murderer must have drugged Dodd, and had Howell handcuffed. It appears that the man tried to call for help by turning up the radio. Delko notices the hotel logo on the handcuffs.

The concierge tells Delko that he provides whatever the guests want, including, when asked, a “toy box” full of sex toys. Howell didn’t order the toy box, though, Christina Dodd did, and she seemed very appreciative. Delko calls Calleigh to keep Christina in custody.

Calleigh tells Christina that being lucid enough to order the sex toys makes her suspicious. Perhaps she’s using the drug as an alibi. Christina confesses to Calleigh that she was in the bar one night, and ended up going to a room with a man she met. After having sex, the man got dressed and left $500 on the bed for her “services”. Realizing that he thought she was a call girl, and was pleased with her services, she decided to quit her part-time job, and continue “working” this way a couple nights a week for the same money. So Howell was just another trick. She says she handcuffed him to the bed, and that’s the last thing she remembers. They go ahead and hold her on solicitation charges.

Tara is startled by a body’s rising from its table in the morgue. Delko is standing outside, though, holding a remote, and laughing. He tells her that he and Ryan moved Howell’s body and replaced it with a dummy. Tara is upset, though, because she had set the body up in the position it was found, in hopes of determining the murder weapon. Eric apologizes, and asks to help. She gives him a sample from under Howell’s fingernails to take up to DNA, and adds, “And trying doing your job instead of screwing with mine.” [Yikes!]

Natalia tells Horatio that she found the DNA of several women in the sample from Howell’s nails. The largest contributor turns up in Codis as Audrey Yates. They question Yates, who has a record as a “madam”. She claims to have quit after being arrested. She recognizes Howell as the tanning butler, who had put lotion on her. This also explains why he had several women’s DNA under his nails. Yates asks about the prostitute. She seems to know the profile, an amateur, who always picks up at the same bar. An obsessed client sees her with another man and gets angry, maybe angry enough to kill.

Calleigh asks Maxine about the DNA from Christina’s sexual assault kit. She explains that another client may be the killer, if he’d become obsessed with Christina, and saw her with Howell. Some of the DNA matches a Dan Becks an Army reservist with a record for assault with a deadly weapon. Frank and Horatio ask Becks if he has a habit of picking up prostitutes. He denies it, and recognizes the photo of Christina. She’s his wife! He wants to know what they’re getting at, and what kind of trouble she’s in. Becks says he was at his son’s little league practice in the morning.

Ryan figures that Christina must have been drugged in the room, since she ordered the cuffs some time before passing out. Two champagne glasses are negative for GHP, but some broken, blue glass from the floor tested positive. Tara walks in on Ryan and Delko and takes the prints showing Howell’s body on the bed. She says this may be their only hope of determining the murder weapon. Ryan guesses that their prank didn’t go over well. [Ya think?]

Calleigh helps Tara reposition the body back into the position in the photos. Tara explains that putting silicone into the wounds may yield shapes that will reveal enough of the shape of the weapon. That is, if the body hasn’t been moved too much from its original death position.

Delko fumes the glass fragments, attempting to get prints from the vessel that delivered the GHP. One print turns up the name Lisa Radley, a licensed real estate broker. Mrs. Radley tells Horatio and Delko that she was at a department store, that morning, for an appointment with a personal shopper.

When confronted with the vial and her prints, she tells them that she met Howell at the Tremaine bar, a couple nights before. She says that he charmed her, and they went to a room together. He pulled out the bottle, saying it was absinthe. She took a sip. She realized it was GHP, when she awoke to find Howell, her wedding ring, and the contents of her purse, missing. She didn’t report it because she didn’t want her husband to find out what happened. They release her.

Delko remarks to Horatio that Howell could have robbed dozens of married women like this. Horatio responds that any one of them could be his killer.

Calleigh and Natalia consider the new information. Howell was only robbing women who had something to lose by going to the police. So, he hits on older, married women. If they respond, he drugs and robs them. With Christina, he was surprised by the cuffs. He had already given her the GHP, resulting in his being helplessly cuffed while she was passed out.

They search Howell’s home for his stash of stolen goods, thinking it will lead back to the other women he robbed, and maybe the killer. They don’t find any goods, but he had a gallery of photos of his victims. Christina is in different clothes, so his victims weren’t random. They take the photos to try and find the photographer.

Jane finds the photographer in reflections contained in six photos. She grafts the best parts of each of the images together to improve the image of the photographer. It’s clearly Audrey Yates.

Yates tells Horatio that these horny soccer moms were cutting into her profits. So, she was out of retirement. Steve was in it for the cash. She just had to point him at the right targets. Lisa Radley was a mistake. Steve is dead, and Radley won’t press charges. Horatio asks for her ring, because he recognizes it as Radley’s.

Tara shows Horatio and Delko how she attempted to identify the shape of the murder weapon. The wounds show signs of a serated blade, except for one that has a nick in a vertebra on the other side of the wound. This is a problem for her weapon profile, but Horatio points out that it could be serated on part of the back edge of the blade. This leads her to a knife that’s smooth for the first three inches, then serated from there to the hilt. It would be a very uncommon blade, making it easier to find it.

Calleigh searches the North American Knife Registry, finding one possible hit…a combat knife. This leads them back to Dan Becks, the one person involved who was in the military. Becks tells Horatio that he does own that knife, but lost it that morning, at the Tremaine. He says he knows that his wife has been cheating on him. He just didn’t know she was getting paid. He tracked her down to the Tremaine, and found her passed out on the hotel bad, and Howell cuffed. He threatened Howell, and stuck the knife into the bed. He left it in the room, rushing out after hearing a noise in the hallway. Becks says that she even had her friend cover for her, texting him, once, that she was having sushi. His wife, though, is allergic to fish. Becks storms off, when Christina approaches him.

Christina tells Horatio that the concierge would cover for her, and had sent the text message. He charged her $100 each time she needed his help.

Calleigh and Natalia head to the hotel for evidence that the concierge killed Howell. Howell would have been running off his best customers, if he was running an alibi service on the side for these women. Calleigh doesn’t find blood or the knife, but a lot of fake receipts, some even with future dates. Delko notices one of the receipts matches the one that Lisa Radley produced to back up her alibi of being at a department store.

Horatio and Delko catch up with Lisa Radley, who had been stopped by a patrolman. Delko finds the knife in her car. They arrest her. She says she just hunted him down looking to get her ring back. When he insulted her, she lost it, and grabbed the knife.

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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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Danny and Angell work the club scene. She IDs the victim as Michael Jones, who ran drugs in a nearby neighborhood. Lindsey and Stella work the car shooting. Mac, Hawkes, and Don are in the apartment.

Don points out the handgun lying next to the victim in the apartment, that was still warm when he arrived. He also notes the gameboard money that the victim had been counting.

When Sheldon points out a joint rolled in the play bills, Mac notes that the bills are very thin, and intentionally created as rolling paper. The apartment belongs to Michael Jones, but the victim is known to the neighbors as “Scooby”…(as in “Scooby-dooby-doo”).

Danny is pouring a handful of pills into an envelope, when Angell comes over. Some girls across the room told her that the victim was the go-to guy for Ecstasy. They said that a man in a blue hoodie came from another table and shot the victim, then dropped the gun onto the floor.

They find semen on the boxers of the man from the car. He appears to have been dumped onto the street after being shot from outside the window glass.

Adam tells Mac that he’s been given one month’s notice. Mac looks at the paper and assures him that it’s just a random layoff to cut expenses. He vows to keep Adam on staff.

Sid tells Mac that each of the victims showed signs of quite a load of drugs in each of the victims. He tells Mac that time of death is diffuclt to assess. Sid points out recent stun gun burns on the victims’ necks. Michael Jones, Luther Stanton, Duckens LaBranch. Mac recognizes each of them.

Mac shows up in a courtroom and tells the judge that their three defendants are all dead. The DA tells Mac that the defendants all tried to plea bargain with info on a dealer who’d murdered two people. The city didn’t make the deal with them, so she doesn’t have the name of the dealer who might have found out about their plan to give him up. Since lawyer-client privilege doesn’t apply to the deceased, Mac wants to ask their lawyers. She recommends Jake Donovan, Michael Jones’ lawyer.

Danny delivers boxes of broken glass and handguns that need to be dusted for prints.

Donovan resists, but eventually tells Mac that it’s Petrix Derosier.

Danny finds that the guns in the apartment and the club were used to kill Manny Sky, a year before. Hawkes tells Danny that he found drugs laced into the play money. Oxycodone, crystal meth, and albuterol mixed with marijuana.

Danny and Don find Derosier on a playground. They tell him that the three victims were selling some of his product for themselves. He expresses some anger at that idea. They ask how he got their guns. He walks off.

Angell questions Vivian, the prostitute who was with Duckens Labranch. She’s driving his car, but claims he gave it to her. Stalla finds the handgun in the car. Vivian insists that she didn’t kill Labranch, some guy in a hoodie did. She didn’t see the guy’s face. She said all Labranch had in his pocket was play money, which she says she threw away.

On the phone, Mac argues about Adam with Chief Sinclair. Stella walks in on his ranting to the chief. Mac tells her about Adam, and six other lab techs. Sinclair had told him no one would have to go if he could find $200,000 to shave from elsewhere in the budget. He asks Stella if they could wait on some lab equipment. She’s not happy about that idea. Mac says he would take Adam over all the equipment.

Lindsay tells Mac that the gun from the car was also used in the Manny Sky murder. There were no prints on the gun, but a lot of limonene on the grip and barrel. Limonene, from citrus fruits, is used in various products.

Stella finds that the mark on Labranch’s neck matches that of a gun that fires a wireless charge with four barbs. The one they have is too large to carry around, but Stella found, online, that there is a smaller stun gun versions. In the list of customers, she found Maggie Hall, a witness who was to testify in the trial of all three victims. Mac tells Stella that he promised her she wouldn’t have to testify.

Mac visits Maggie Hall. Her face is covered with deep cuts. She says that it happened right after she was subpoenaed to testify. She was attacked, but she had a new stun gun. With it, she was able to get away before they cut her anymore. Kevin, Maggie’s brother, is angry that Mac promised she wouldn’t have to testify. She says her brothers weren’t as forgiving as she is.

Mac confronts the DA about subpoenaing Maggie Hall. She said that evidence was suppressed. Budget cuts may have led to issues with the evidence.

Mac and Stella talk to the FBI about Petrix. According to their surveillance, Petrix and his crew were all too busy to have executed the murders. Lindsay comes in, though, and tells them that Maggie’s brother, Kevin, works at a produce warehouse. This would explain the limonene on the various handguns.

Danny, Don, and Mac speculate on the brothers’ involvement. Sheldon found that they were not working that night.

Adam finds a match on one of the glasses from the club. They bring in the victims’ lawyers. The limonene came from a pesticide that was sprayed recently. After what their clients had done to Maggie, the lawyers conspired to use their clients’ guns to kill them.

After Adam leaves for the night, Danny walks into Mac’s office, and asks to be on the schedule, since his Costa Rica trip didn’t go through. Then, Lindsay, Hawkes, and Stella walk in, all to give up paid vacation to keep Adam. Stella made arrangements, through a union contact, to make it possible to transfer that paid vacation back in to make it possible to keep Adam around.

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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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Sid and Hawkes pull out small, blue, plastic shards from around the entrance wound. The bullet is not very deep into the body.

At the scene, Danny finds an oven mitt with fishing hooks caught on it. In the lab, he discovers the traces of Sutton’s blood, as well as blood and hairs from multiple rats, on the oven mitt. Hearing this, Stella gets an idea, and takes Danny with her to talk to Wolford Bessie, the “Rat Fisherman”.

Bessie is luring a rat with a piece of pizza hooked onto a fishing line. When the rat gets close, Bessie scoops it up with his oven mitt. He denies seeing anything. Stella, though, notices Bessie’s pocket watch, as she remembers Mac remark on Sutton’s leather wrapping that seemed to be missing its contents.

He gives it to Stella, and tells them about hearing a shot in an alley, and taking the watch from Sutton’s body. When they ask about the necklace, he produces a shiny, silver-colored necklace. Bessie tells them that the wrapping was untied, when he found the watch on the ground. He said there were two men there, the first was over the body, the second came down the alley right after the first man ran off. The second man scared Bessie off.

Mac finds Adam sailing paper airplances down the hall. Adam shows Mac and Stella how he analyzed a blood-soaked map that Stella had found. Making a copy, he had found that he could produce a different map by folding the copy into a paper airplanes.

Stella is attacked by a Greek-speaking mugger. She tells Mac and Don that the man had asked what they got off Sutton’s body.

Hawkes deduces that the shallow bullet wound must be from a homemade weapon. He’s also found that the blue liquid on Sutton was mineral oil and blue dye.

Sid tells Mac that the bullet wound from the crime scene hadn’t killed him. A bullet wound from a couple years ago killed Sutton. Scarring makes it look like an amateur dug around the wound to remove the slug. Don hadn’t found any records of criminal activity, though. Sid points out that the cause of death was a ruptured abdominal aorta. The old, improperly treated, gunshot wound had caused weakening of arterial wall, and the trauma of the new gunshot wound had caused the rupture.

The team answers a call. The Rat Fisherman is dead, and shows signs of torture. It seems that Bessie must have been dead before the time Stella was mugged. Stella notes that they must have two separate killers, the one who murdered Sutton, and the second man who came down the alley way. The second man must have killed Bessie.

Adam shows Mac that a shard that Lindsay had found in the soil at the scene, matches a Roosevelt family plate. The soil analysis from the treasure wrap indicates residue carbon steel and lead-based, pullman green paint. Mac puts the pieces together, and asks to see the map again. He leads the Don and Danny to a rail tunnel…track 61…beneath the Waldorf. He tells them that FDR often stayed at the Waldorf, and took the Presidential train right into the hotel here. They find Sutton’s dig site. Suddenly, someone runs past the men. Don catches her…Laura Roman.

Mac and Don question Laura. She tells them that she loved him, and wouldn’t have killed him. Don tells her it’s suspicious that she originally told police that she and Sutton were merely friends and colleagues, when they were, in fact, lovers. She explains that they were competitive. She tells them that she was in the tunnel trying to finish Sutton’s work.

He was looking for the remains of a judge who disappeared a long time ago, Joseph Crader. Lindsay, watching the interrogation, notes that the pocket watch yielded a serial number that led her back to an owner…Judge Joseph Crader. Crader had been appointed to the NY Supreme Court by then-governor Franklin Roosevelt. He had disappeared in 1930, and his body was never found. Lindsay said the watch wasn’t particularly valuable, so the real prize must have been whatever else was wrapped up with it.

Stella and Danny inspect the necklace, and find a rare, ancient Greek coin with the head of Phillip II on the face.

Sid tells Mac that Sutton had surgery in 1999 to remove a ruptured spleen. The body, however, still has its spleen. So, this man wasn’t the real James Sutton.

Adam shows Mac a video he found of the real James Sutton. In the video, he tells a little personal history, then offers his life at auction. Don and Mac find Sutton working in a lighthouse museum. He identifies the dead man as Mitch Henson, who paid $500,000 for Sutton’s identity. Sutton says he was just looking for “a fresh start”. He says he hadn’t spoken with Henson, since they had a non-communication clause in their contract.

Mac notes that Henson was shot a year or two after he bought Sutton’s identity.

Laura begs Don to know more about Henson. She is upset that she’d spent three years with him, and didn’t know who he really was. Don is surprised to hear that she must have known him when he was shot, the first time. She admits that it was she who shot Sutton, but it was an accident. She tells Don that she was hired to excavate in Cyprus. She arrived to find Sutton was already there. Angry, she pulled a gun on Henson. He jumped her, causing the gun to fire, accidentally. Don doesn’t tell Laura that her bullet is the one that killed Henson.

Hawkes has examined the blue plastic from Sutton’s body, and has built a homemade gun out of a pen and a handful of household items. This must be the sort of weapon fired behind the club.

Mac and Don question Sutton. Sutton says he confronted Henson, who was getting famous…and more rich…using Sutton’s original life. Sutton wanted his life back. He’d killed Henson, believing he’d get away with it.

Stella visits the Greek Embassy to get identities of known smugglers. Stella meets Sebastian, an antiquities expert. Stella recognizes Sebastian as the man who attacked her. She excuses herself, and leaves the embassy. This is definitely the beginning of a multi-episode story arc….

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