CSI:New York

Season 2 - Episode 14 - Stuck on You

Written by Eli Talbert and Timothy J. Lea
Directed by Jonathan Glassner

Stella is finally enjoying a night out with her date, Frankie, attending an art show of digital mosaics held in the loft home of one of New York’s hottest and richest playboys. But her evening is cut short when her host and his latest lover are skewered like a human shish-ka-bob by a most unusual weapon: a carbon shafted arrow, killing the lover and wounding the host. Stella’s date now over, Mac and Hawkes join the party to discover what type of hunter uses a bow and arrow to take down their target. Since the victim is a legendary philanderer, and there’s no lack of females scorned in his life. Our CSIs have to track back through all of his broken hearts, broken promises and a not so “little black book” swollen with suspects. The digital mosaics from the art show provide a hidden clue when Stella decodes the pixels to reveal that the abstract subjects are in fact the playboy’s last three conquests -- including the woman who was found skewered to. And the science of vapor detection, directs our CSIs to a startling conclusion: this bachelor was wounded with his own bow and arrow. Most likely by someone at his own private art opening. Which begs the question: how could someone steal a bow and arrow and shoot the host at his own party without anybody knowing? To find the answer, our CSIs break down the aerodynamics of arrow flight, understanding the physics that proves this shot was not one in a million, but borne of a very specific hatred all too murderous when it was finally allowed to let fly.

When Danny and Lindsay come across a young man encased in a sarcophagus of paste and cast–off posters, his Adam’s Apple crushed by a mystery weapon, they quickly realize the DOA’s profession: he was a music promoter in the middle of promoting a band by plastering the town with posters. Several suspects quickly emerge: a rival, an angry storeowner whose windows are constantly being swathed in flyers, and a high-end club owner whose own ads have been covered over. As Danny and Lindsay enter the cutthroat world of these rogue advertisers and the multi-million dollar companies that hire them, they must meticulously peel back layers of posters from the walls of Greenwich Village to reveal prints and hidden evidence at the scene. As they uncover the evidence, they also uncover the murderous motive: when undiscovered rock bands feel their “big chance” slipping away, they will do anything to “make it,” even if it results in murder.