CSI:New York

Season 3 - Episode 11 - Raising Shane

Written by Zachary Reiter & Pam Veasey
Directed by Christine Moore
Guest Starring; Edward Furlong

Mac and Stella arrive at the scene of a crime to find a bartender dead and a security guard as the only witness. The guard says that the murderer took cash from the register before he left. He is identified as a black male in a green sweatshirt. Hours later, Hawkes wearing a green sweatshirt and carrying the same amount of money stolen from the bar is arrested. Gun-shot residue is found on Hawkes’ hand and the victim’s prints are all over the money. Stella and Mac’s team is pulled from the case.

Across town, Stella and Danny find a deceased black male inside of a peep show booth in Times Square. Stella notes that the victim has fresh track marks on his body and a green stain on his back. Back at the lab, Sid notes that the victim’s cause of death is an overdose from heroin mixed with fentanyl. Gun-shot residue is found in the victim’s nasal cavity. Fresh injection marks are found on his arm, but neither Stella nor Danny found a tie off near the body. Later Stella realizes how the gun-shot residue got onto Hawkes’ person. The night before the murder Hawkes had been test firing guns. In prison, Hawkes is greeted by nemesis Shane Casey who alludes to framing him. Hawkes confesses to Mac that just before he was arrested a male with dark glasses and a hat bumped into him at the newsstand and poured coffee on him. Hawkes makes the connection of Shane putting the money in his sweatshirt. Meanwhile, Shane sends a note that alerts Mac to meet him in a hotel lobby. Back at the peep show shop, the owner hands Danny a necklace that was left next to the booth that the victim was killed in which is later tied to Shane’s deceased brother. Shane tells Mac that he holds the key to Hawkes’ freedom however for Mac to attain that he will need to prove his brother’s innocence. When Shane requests that Danny meet with him because of his past experiences with his brother, the team wonders whether they are sending their colleague into a dangerous situation or if Danny can reason with Shane to set his co-worker free.

Meanwhile, Mac upsets Peyton when he chooses to keep their relationship an office secret.