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 …read more

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 …read more

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, …read more

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 …read more

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 …read more

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 …read more

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 …read more

Episode 5.01: Veritas
Original Air Date: September 24, 2008
Stella is in one of the choppers, as the force searches for Mac and “Joe”, his kidnapper. She receives a call with a tip that the car may be near or on the George Washington Bridge (GWB), headed for Fort Lee, NJ. Mac, however, pops up, on screen, in the river. He makes his way to the bank, and into the brush in the Jersey City side. He flags down a car, and borrows the scared driver’s phone to call Stella.
Divers pull a body from the Hudson. It’s Derek James, the suspect …read more