CSI:New York

Season 4 - Episode 6 - Boo

Written by Peter M Lenkov and Daniele Nathanson
Directed by Joe Dante
Guest Stars: A.J.Buckley as "Adam Ross", Robert Joy as "Dr. Sid Hammerback" Robert Picardo as "Sherif Benson", Julie Adams as "Betty Willens", Seth Petersen as "Henry Willens", Nana Hill as "Josephine Delacriox"

As two gravediggers work at night, a hand punches through the ground and attacks one of them. Meanwhile, Lindsay and Danny come upon a multiple homicide that occurred in a house that people believed to be haunted. Thirty-one years ago a man named Bill Willens had shot himself in that, and his daughter had gone missing two days later. His wife, Betty Willens, said that Bill had heard voices and was telling people that evil spirits possessed the house. The current homicide case involves a family – Gil Duncan, his wife Amy, and two sons, Tommy and Charley. Their young daughter, Rose, is missing. Lindsay notices blood dripping from a wall in the house. Then she hears pained moans coming from it. She and Danny tear away to wall and find Rose Duncan inside, shot, but still alive. They rush her to the hospital.

Mac, Stella and Det. Flack are called to a scene involving a faux zombie mob on Halloween. One of the “zombies” was found dead, but no one initially noticed, thinking he was acting along with the rest of the zombie mob. The man is covered in blood and dirt, and his clothes are ripped. Sid determines that his cause of death is subdural hematoma, and that the victim could have stumbled around for about 15 minutes after the injury. Sid also finds the letter “M” or “W” on the victim’s skull, wood fibers under his fingernails, and an abnormal body temperature that indicates that he was dead before his projected time of death. This, medically, makes him a zombie. Later, Mac finds a company that makes cricket bats called Willowbat. He determines that one of these bats was used to kill the victim. Adam also finds that the victim was wearing an adult diaper, but was too young to have needed it. The wood is later found to be from a coffin, and the gravediggers confirm that someone came out of a grave. His name was Dexter Nevins. Mac pulls his death certificate and sees that a Dr. Roger Burgess. The lab finds a drug in Dexter’s system that will make him appear to be dead, leading the CSI team to believe that Dexter was trying to cash in on his life insurance policy, and Burgess was in on it. However, Dexter was double-crossed – his wife and Burgess were going to run off with the money, leaving him for dead. Dexter escaped his grave and went looking for them. The CSI team finds Dexter’s wife and Burgess in Burgess’ apartment, syringe’s sticking out from their bodies, and a bloodied cricket bat in the room.

While Lindsay is alone in the house, a creepy older woman ambushes her and says that she told the family that the house would kill them and tells Lindsay to leave, then disappears through the hole in the wall that they found Rose in. Later, they find footprints in the house that don’t match any of the victims, and sap from a tree on the trigger of the gun. After Rose gets out of surgery, Lindsay and Danny go to talk to her. She says that a monster was in his house and drew a picture of him – a devil with a shotgun. The sap on the gun is later identified as sap from a tree outside of the home, a tree that lends access to the roof of the house. Lindsay and Danny find a shirt covered in sweat in the attic of the house. From this, they identify Henry Willens, Betty’s son, as the man who was in the house. Later, Betty and Henry come back to the house to reclaim the body of Betty’s supposedly missing daughter whom Henry had accidentally shot 30 years prior. Henry had killed the Duncan family because he didn’t know what else to do when they found him inside their house and he didn’t want to go to jail, so he made it look like a murder/suicide.