CSI:New York

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Tri-Borough

Written by Andrew Lipsitz and Eli Talbert
Directed by Greg Yaitanes

The electrocuted body of a young man is found on the tracks of a subway in Queens. The autopsy reveals the victim was already dead before he hit the tracks. Mac and Stella must follow the evidence to not only find the crime scene but to uncover the identity of the victim. Eventually, they discover his name was Randy Hontz, nickname ‘Slick,’ and last night, he was Parkouring. (Parkour is a new extreme sport, where athletes who practice the sport see the city as an urban obstacle course, climbing on rooftops, jumping from building to building, and performing somersaults and flips to make their “parkour run” even more spectacular.

But for Mac and Stella, it’s not the thrill that counts – it’s the sport’s potential for criminal abuse. When one is scaling skyscrapers and sliding down fire escapes, what do you do when you see an open jewelry box behind a window on the eleventh floor? In fact, Slick’s best friend, and the last person to see him alive, has a burglary conviction on his record. Could Slick’s death have been the result of another less than legal diversion from his parkour run?

While Mac and Stella delve into the world of extreme sports, the rest of the CSI team tackle two other murder cases. Danny Messer takes along a Detective Maka to investigate the death of an art dealer who appears to have been involved with a major scam involving fake paintings. In addition, Aiden, along with Detective Flack sets out to solve the case of a worker found dead at a construction site.

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