CSI:New York

Season 3 - Episode 23 - …Comes Around

Teleplay by Zachary Reiter & Bill Haynes
Story by Pam Veasey & Daniele Nathanson
Directed by Rob Bailey

Guest Stars:
Claire Forlani as “Dr. Peyton Driscoll”; Carmen Argenziano as “Deputy Inspector Gerrard” , AJ Buckley as “Adam Ross”, Mykelti Williamson as “Brigham Sinclair”, Joey Lawrence as “Clay Dobson” and Robert Joy as “Dr. Sid Hammerback”

Also Guest Starring: Tennis Legend John McEnroe in a dual role

Mac drops Clay Dobson off the rooftop- killing him with malice. At least that’s what the case NYPD advocate, Natalie Gray, claims in the hearing room. She lays out her version of events- that Mac killed Dobson because of guilt and revenge. Dobson was released from jail when Mac put Detective Truby behind bars, not realizing a lot of his past cases would be overturned. Mac is so enraged he walks out of his own hearing. Danny and Stella are called to testify and both grudgingly corroborate that Mac violated protocol by going after Dobson on his own. Sinclair gets more free press time claiming he is happy with how the hearing is progressing and that Mac’s fate rests in the judge’s decision. Mac meets with Detective Truby in prison. Truby takes all the blame for the past. Tells Mac it wasn’t his fault Dobson was released. Truby whispers to him a trump card to bring down Sinclair and Gerrard- something from Dobson’s original arrest. Mac goes to the evidence room and pulls an old box of Dobson’s personal belongings. He realizes the belt has strange marks down toward the buckle end and gets a match off some prints. Mac bursts into Sinclair’s office to confront him and Gerrard with the evidence. Dobson had tried to hang himself in his cell- but Gerrard discovered this and covered it up, his prints were on the belt. A serious rules violation. Mac has finally got the hang of this politics thing. The papers announce Detective Taylor is cleared of all charges.

Meanwhile, across town a drunken bachelorette party rages at a bar. A man is dead in the bathroom. Danny, Stella and Flack come to investigate the strange scene. The corpse is standing- impaled through the back of his head by a condom machine. A tiara lies on the floor and blood is droplets are found on the opposite wall. They interview the bar patrons and determine the victim was the fiancée of the bachelorette and the tiara belonged to her. She claims she had been talking to John McEnroe and asked him to get her a condom for her party game. The fiancée followed McEnroe into the bathroom, there was a fight and the fiancée was killed. All patrons in the bar verify this story. While Dr. Hawkes processes the body he finds tooth enamel in the vics forehead and 2 quarters in his mouth (from the machine slots). Stella and Danny interview McEnroe but he has an alibi and freely gives up his DNA swab. Back at the lab the fingerprints on the quarters don’t match McEnroe but it turns out his blood is on that wall. The blood tests positive for a preservative used to keep blood fresh over time. They go back to McEnroe with this information and he claims to have given blood a few months back. Finally a break. They figure out that the man who took McEnroe’s blood, Sam Friar, runs a website that sells the stolen blood of celebs. Sam, in turn, gives up the address of a man who purchased McEnroe’s, a Jimmy Nelson. When Danny and Stella go to arrest him they see the truth, Jimmy is a dead ringer for McEnroe, except for the broken front tooth. In the interrogation room Jimmy spills the story. He’s been taking advantage of his look-a-like status for over 20 years. He was at the bar, but it wasn’t his fault. The fiancée attacked him in the bathroom, jealous he was picking up on his girl. The death was an accident, he was merely defending himself. Jimmy fled from the scene to protect McEnroe’s good name. John McEnroe watches in disbelief from behind the glass.