CSI:New York

Season 2 - Episode 16 - Cool Hunter

Written By Danielle Nathanson
Directed By Norberto Barba

When two occupants of a haunted apartment building, find blood pouring out of their faucets one morning the CSIs are called in to investigate. Mac and Lindsay crawl up to the water tower only to find the building’s doorwoman submerged in the tank, dead. Upon examining the body, Mac pulls a shard of amber glass from the victim’s arm and Lindsay takes casts of footprints found at the scene. The lab confirms that the cause of death was drowning: leading Mac and Lindsay to deduce that the victim was alive when she got into the water tank. Upon closer examination of the apartment building, in which every apartment has a visible paned glass window, Mac finds a patched window. When he and Lindsay enter the apartment they find shards of glass that match the shards found in the victim’s arm, as well as large quantities of morphine that could have been used to drug the victim. They also find dirt that matches up to what was on the roof. With a surplus of evidence pointing to the neighbor, all the CSIs have to prove is why a man who had nothing to do with the victim wanted to kill her.

On the playground, Stella and Hawkes find an attractive young man dead on the seat of a swing; his license and phone are in his pocket. When they hook up his phone to a computer monitor they find pictures of a sexy young woman wearing a trendy pair of fringed jeans. They also find blood in the sand. When Stella hunts down the girl in the photograph she says she has never met the victim. Stella looks at the victim’s business card and realizes he is a trend forecaster, constantly taking pictures of stylish strangers. Stella questions two men from a competing business: owner Rico Cerda and apprentice Elliot Stanton. Elliot Stanton looks as though he’s been in a fight, and the marks on his body match up with the marks on the victim; confirming that the two men had fought each other. Stella also confirms that the patterns on Elliot’s glove match the patterns on the victim’s shirt. However, when the lab comes back with its results from the blood test the evidence doesn’t point to Elliot. Was the victim killed in a battle of the trends, or was someone stalking the stalker?