CSI:New York

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Manhattan Manhunt

(part two of the CSI: MIAMI/CSI: NY crossover episode)

Written by Anthony E. Zuiker, Ann Donahue, Elizabeth Devine
Directed by Rob Bailey

Mayhem is the air as we dive down in to a Manhattan mansion to find CSI Miami Lieutenant Horatio Caine and NY CSI Detective Mac Taylor standing over yet another blood bath that sociopath Henry Darius has wrought: this time it’s high end high schoolers in the midst of a pill popping “pharm” party at the Endecott mansion. The scene is a blood bath: six kids shot in the back of the head, execution style, blood and bits of skull dot the floor. Upstairs they discover the body of Alexa Endecott, the coed Darius had kidnapped in Florida at the entrance to her family’s now empty safe. The walls smeared with her blood in a cruel Picasso flair. Both Mac and Horatio instantly know it’s the work of Darius and the ruthlessness of the scene suggests that the killer is driven by demons far stronger than a love of money and that he has no intention of leaving the island before he strikes again.

The entire New York Crime Lab comes together to help: Stella teams up with Horatio to find the connection between Darius and a previously unsolved murder in Miami as Danny, Hawkes and Lindsay work overtime at the lab. The trail of the killer leads Mac and Horatio to a psychiatrist who couldn’t keep a confidence, and a young heiress who couldn’t just wait for her inheritance. As pieces of evidence come into context and the CSIs begin to close in, they discover that the twisted motivation for Darius’ crimes is closer than anybody would have thought. The action comes to a shocking climax in a high-octane chase from New York’s packed subways to its panoramic rooftops, ultimately bringing our CSIs face to face with a killer more disturbed than Mac and Horatio have ever confronted.

Horatio works to find the connection between Darius and the murder of a young mother in Miami, determined to give the victim’s 8-year old son closure. But as he gets closer to putting a killer behind bars, Horatio finds his own past flooding back to haunt him, and unable to escape, he remembers that New York holds many memories for him… not all of them good.