CSI:New York

Season 2 - Episode 6 - YoungBlood

Written by Tim Lea
Directed by Steven DePaul

A man in his 40’s waits for the elevator in a posh apartment building. A young woman, pretty, looks early 20’s, stands nearby. No apparent connection. The elevator doors open and they both enter. The man and woman tear at each other’s clothing the second the elevator doors close. As the elevator stops, they part, grinning lasciviously at each other. It’s going to be a fun night. Or perhaps not. The doors open, there is a thunderous crash and the man is thrown back, his chest exploding in an eruption of blood. Mac arrives on the scene and determines the seemingly obvious: that the COD was shotgun blast to the chest at close range. But what’s not so obvious is the weapon that made the wound. Ballistic inconsistencies point to a previously unknown weapon, possibly home made. Mac teams up with Flack to determine what common item could have been altered enough to kill a man, while evidence imprinted on the skull points Danny toward to the victim’s ongoing feud with another real estate developer. Lindsay concentrates on finding the young witness to the crime and discovers the disquieting social world of “Manhattan Lolitas”. Young, rich and pampered, these girls feel too sophisticated for high school boys and instead turn to older men, inflaming jealousies and panicking parents. All of this leads us to wonder: was it the victim’s taste for high school girls that ultimately got him killed?

Over in Central Park, Hawkes dons scuba gear to retrieve a body from the bottom of a small lake. COD is revealed to be anaphylactic shock: the victim ate something that didn’t agree with him. But if the death was accidental, who tied the body to a barricade and threw it in the lake? A larger question is raised by an examination of the victim’s clothing. Holes in the socks and cheap shoes point to a homeless person while a tailored shirt and Rolex suggest he comes from money. There’s no ID on the body so the question remains... who is this guy? Our CSIs discover the reason for the inconsistencies was that the victim was not who he claimed to be. How many degrees of separation are there between our DOA and his assumed identity, and why was he killed? The trail leads Stella and Hawkes through the world of Manhattan’s elite who close ranks when threatened and evidently don’t take kindly to social imposters.