CSI:New York

Season 2 - Episode 23 - Heroes

Written by Eli Talbert
Directed by Anthony Hemingway

Its fleet week in NYC, and events turn sour when a marine is found stabbed to death in Central Park. Flack and Messer arrive at the scene and identify the victim as Corporal Trevor Price. He was carrying a watch with an inscription on the back, which reads “I’m your girl….Ellie.” They also find a dried lima bean among his belongings. Danny heads to Central Park and questions Rondo, who heads up a gambling game in which lima beans are the pawns. Rondo states that Price played the game, and lost a good deal of money. He then left with no hard feelings. However, Rondo has a shiner on his face that he states the other marines gave him. Meanwhile, Danny determines that there is an alcohol stain on the victim’s pants, which turns out to be banana-flavored liquor. Danny heads to The Yard Bar. Damon, the bar manager, tells Danny that Price was at the bar on the night of his death looking for a woman named Ellie. Mac and Danny recreate a fight scene, and Mac uses his military secrets to prove that there were two attackers, and one of them has a busted right elbow and a shattered nose. Flack heads to the hospital and finds a patient with the aforementioned injuries. His wife Stacey watches over him. Stacey admits that her husband fought with Price, but it was in self-defense. The team tries to reinvent the night of Price’s death to get to the bottom of the crime.

Across town, Stella, Hawkes and Lindsay discover a burned out car belonging to a Charles Wright. They also find an unrecognizable body in the driver’s seat. Sid confirms that the victim is a female. Her fingerprints were burned off, and dental comparisons are their only hope for confirming her identity. Upon examination of the car, Lindsay finds a strange indentation mark in the passenger side armrest that is from someone’s left ear. Meanwhile, Stella says that Wright reported that his car was stolen one hour ago. Lindsay says that she found his car three hours ago, burned to a crisp, downtown. In the interim, Wright confesses that he meets a male prostitute every week at a motel. He states that his car was stolen from the motel, and he lied because he didn’t want his wife to be suspicious about his whereabouts. The CSIs struggle to identify the victim, and nab the criminal before he strikes again.