CSI:New York

Season 3 - Episode 5 - Oedipus Hex

Written by Anthony E. Zuiker and Ken Solarz
Directed by Scott Lautanen
Guest Stars: The Suicide Girls

When suicide girl Omen a.k.a. Carensa Sanders is found dead at the Queen’s punk club she was performing at, Lindsay arrives at the scene to determine the cause of death is puncture wounds to the cranium. Back at the lab, Sid detects a tattoo on Omen’s chest that reads: Til death do us part. Omen N Blank. Danny meets up with Omen’s suicide sisters. Amina Suicide has a trash picker from her community service job that tests positive for blood trace. However, Hawkes notes that the blood is from a rat as opposed to a human. On a positive note, Sid finds a green substance from a shoe on Omen’s skull. Danny and Lindsay interrogate the suicide girls that performed at the club on the night of Omen’s death. They also make them bring the matching green stilettos that they were wearing. Al Suicide says that she threw her shoes in the garbage after the show as they got dirty. After doing a bit of skin reconstruction, Hawkes realizes that the missing word in the tattoo is Al. Danny finds Omen’s tattoo artist and gets him to confess that he slept with her. The tattoo artist notes that because Omen was in a relationship with fellow suicide girl Al this could be a controversial act. However, when the team realizes that the tattoo artist’s name is Albert they wonder which jealous Al is to blame for murdering Omen.

Across town at Rucker Park, Flack finds the body of homeless basketball hero Chopper Tevis. He saw him only yesterday when he was playing Dante Hope of the Knicks; a game Chopper won. He was awarded a check for $50k. Stella notes a gash on his forehead, and bags the metallic sliver from it. She also notes abrasions from glass and gravel that line his arm, and blood drops leading back to the court. Back at the lab, Sid notes a gun shot wound to the torso and a knife wound. A small piece of blood-soaked paper is in the victim’s sock. He also notices injection marks on his arms noting that the victim was once an IV drug user. Meanwhile, Stella finds Dante’s print on a piece of glass embedded in Chopper’s arm. Mac postulates that Dante killed Chopper not because he won the money, but because he lost his street cred. Stella notices that a logo in the shape of the devil is burnt into the victim’s sweat pants. Stella ties the devil logo to an Imperial and heads down to the car lot where she finds a guy named Moody who is wearing a Rolex that matches the metallic trace in the victim’s arm. After a bit of research, Stella finds out that Moody orchestrated the game between Chopper and Dante. She notes that he definitely had his eye on getting some of the money. The team wonders if Moody had motive to kill chopper to get his hands on his cash or if the murderer is the game’s loser Dante.

Flack manages to locate the notorious Shane Casey.