CSI: NY

CSI: NY

CSI: NY (Crime Scene Investigation: New York, stylized as CSI: NY/Crime Scene Investigation) is an American police procedural television series that ran on CBS from September 22, 2004, to February 22, 2013, for a total of nine seasons and 197 original episodes. The show follows the investigations of a team of NYPD forensic scientists and police officers identified as "Crime Scene Investigators" (instead of the actual title of "Crime Scene Unit Forensic Technicians" (CSU)) as they unveil the circumstances behind mysterious and unusual deaths, as well as other crimes. The series is an indirect spin-off from the veteran series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and a direct spin-off from CSI: Miami, during an episode in which several of the CSI: NY characters made their first appearances. It is the third series in the CSI franchise. Originally in 2004, CSI: NY was produced in partnership with the Canadian media company Alliance Atlantis. The company dissolved after season three in 2007, and all production after that was done under the purview of CBS Paramount Television. The show was filmed at the CBS Studio Center, with many of the outside scenes shot in and around Los Angeles. Occasionally, scenes were filmed on location in New York City. The series ended its ninth and final season on February 22, 2013. It was canceled by CBS on May 10, 2013.

Year:
2004
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Officer Lauren Cooper:
Here's the evidence voucher and the joint I confiscated. I need your signature, and we're good to go.

Danny Messer:
Two hours later, huh?

Officer Lauren Cooper:
Do something wrong, Sarge?

Danny Messer:
I don't know, you tell me.

Officer Lauren Cooper:
No, 'cause I'm pretty sure that issuing a summons to some guy smoking dope in the park is exactly what a cop is supposed to do.

Danny Messer:
You want to tell that to the units that are forced to cover our sector while we're single-handedly taking down drug cartels, half a roach at a time?

Officer Lauren Cooper:
So, what, next time I just pretend like I didn't see it?

Danny Messer:
No, next time you stop and you think. And you use your training and discretion to determine what's the best use of your time and that of your supervising officer. This uniform you're wearing makes you accountable for your actions. And mine makes me responsible for fifteen officers, and when they mess the bed, that's my problem. Because of your decision, we're sitting here paper-jockeying vouchers instead of being out there on our shift where the real criminals are. That means overtime, and that I might not see my kid and my wife tonight.

Officer Lauren Cooper:
I didn't consider all that.

Danny Messer:
Next time you will.

[Danny signs the paperwork]

Danny Messer:
Run this over to the property clerk. I'll see you outside.

Officer Lauren Cooper:
Right.

[Cooper leaves; Danny notices Mac nearby and laughs to himself]

Danny Messer:
Go ahead, Mac, say it. Tell me I handled that wrong and I got a lot to learn before I become a good boss.

Detective Mac Taylor:
I think you handled that like a seasoned pro, Danny. I think you're already a good boss.

Adam Ross:
Hey guys.

Detective Stella Bonasera:
Adam.

Adam Ross:
Hey Danny, you remember that rust stuff you found in the alley?

Detective Danny Messer:
Rust stuff? Rust stuff? You respect the time it took me to collect that, at least call it "trace."

Adam Ross:
Okay. Contained traces of molasses and non-human blood. Bear blood to be exact.

Detective Stella Bonasera:
What?

Adam Ross:
North American Grizzly Bear. But, but there's more. The blood on this rock is a match to Cyrus Menlo, but it's also a match to the blood found on these leaves.

Detective Stella Bonasera:
Both human blood, right?

Adam Ross:
Right. [Holds the two leaves up] But you put them together like this and shazam.

Detective Danny Messer:
You got one leaf - with a hole in the middle of it.

Adam Ross:
A hole probably made from a spike or something with a jagged edge. Right, huh, you see where I'm going here?

Detective Stella Bonasera:
Bear blood, molasses, leaves with human blood on them, a spike and a jagged edge, you're talking bear traps.

Adam Ross:
Yes, you win the washer and dryer.

Detective Danny Messer:
Whoa, whoa, whoa, help me out here. You're telling me Cyrus Menlo was caught in a bear trap?

Adam Ross:
Yeah.

Detective Danny Messer:
You're crazy.

Adam Ross:
It's the only conclusion we can arrive at with this evidence.

Detective Danny Messer:
So Tanaka sets the bear trap, leads Cyrus Menlo down the alley, Tanaka goes into the warehouse...

Adam Ross:
- Bang bang, Tanaka gets shot. Cyrus walks out, steps in the trap while Tanaka bleeds to death inside the warehouse. Moral of the story, alright: stick with bowling. What up? [He and Danny fist bump]

Mac Taylor:
Libby had three of these necklaces in her jewelry box. She was wearing a fourth, probably placed there by her killer, and now five.

Jo Danville:
Mac, what are we missing? Is this some kind of dead pool game?

Danny Messer:
It's actually worse than that. We got subpoenas for Libby's blog and Facebook, so I went through the tiers of her friends to see if I could track the original source of the invitation to last night's party. I found one of her private groups. She sent this out to them.

[Danny shows Mac and Jo a website called "Cherry Bomb"]

Jo Danville:
What the hell is this?

Danny Messer:
This is a game. You single out a virgin in the school and seduce her into believing that she's popular. The girls give her a kind of makeover, they take her to a party, they give her a few drinks, and, uh... a guy, a guy takes her virginity.

Jo Danville:
Okay, this is the most disgusting thing I've heard in a long time.

Danny Messer:
Yeah. According to the postings, the guys who take the girl's virginity are in Libby's private group, and one of the more active ones is Jake Bennett.

Mac Taylor:
Libby's boyfriend?

Jo Danville:
Erin Watson. That's the same girl in the photo from the party. I can't believe what I'm looking at, this is so cruel.

Mac Taylor:
These symbols, what do they represent?

Danny Messer:
A score. After the guys, you know, uh... the girls get graded. Look here. She had "some interesting moves for a novice." That earned her four cherries for performance.

Mac Taylor:
One of the most private, intimate moments of a girl's life. Jake not only steals it from her, he debases the experience.

Danny Messer:
Not Jake. It's Libby. Jake and the guys give her the information, then she does her thing- gives a girl marks for her, uh, body, the way she smells, the things that she said during the act, and then, uh, she... sends it out to her group of friends.

Jo Danville:
Okay, so the necklaces in her jewelry box - those were tokens given to the girls, kind of like a scarlet letter?

Mac Taylor:
And whoever has one of those necklaces has a good motive for revenge.

Detective Danny Messer:
[Enters Mac's office] Yo, Boss.

Detective Mac Taylor:
Danny, what's up?

Detective Danny Messer:
I put in for that vacation next month.

Detective Mac Taylor:
That's right, the, uh, trip to Costa Rica.

Detective Danny Messer:
Yeah, Costa Rica. Well it fell through, so you can put me back on the schedule, alright?

Detective Mac Taylor:
Alright, I'll do that. Just let me know when you wanna take the time.

Detective Danny Messer:
Alright, thanks. [Leaves the office]

Detective Lindsay Monroe:
[Enters Mac's office] Mac. Hey. Remember that wedding in Italy I told you about in March?

Detective Mac Taylor:
Girlfriend from college?

Detective Lindsay Monroe:
Very good. Well, they decided to postpone. So.

Detective Mac Taylor:
You want back on the schedule?

Detective Lindsay Monroe:
Yeah.

Detective Mac Taylor:
[Suspicious look] No problem.

Detective Lindsay Monroe:
Thanks. [Leaves the office]

Dr. Sheldon Hawkes:
[Enters Mac's office] Hey Mac.

Detective Mac Taylor:
Hold on. Don't tell me. Trip to San Francisco in January?

Dr. Sheldon Hawkes:
Yeah. Turns out San Francisco is closed in January. Strangest thing.

Detective Mac Taylor:
[Smiling] Get out of here. Go home. [Hawkes leaves and Stella enters] I should've known you'd orchestrate something like this.

Detective Stella Bonasera:
It's only temporary. Everybody giving up a week of paid vacation for Adam buys him a little time.

Detective Mac Taylor:
Department doesn't just transfer vacation days. How'd you do it?

Detective Stella Bonasera:
I've a friend at the Union who has a friend in the City Council who has a friend who has a friend.

Detective Mac Taylor:
Well you're a good friend, Stella Bonasera.

Detective Mac Taylor:
And don't you forget that.

Detective Mac Taylor:
So what about Buenos Aires?

Detective Stella Bonasera:
Would of been a good trip.

[Mac has shown Aiden an unsealed evidence packet]

Det. Mac Taylor:
There are three things that I'll protect at any cost: the honor of this country, the safety of this city, and the integrity of this lab. As scientists, we have a great deal of power, the ability to assign guilt or innocence. But when we analyze a crime scene, we collect pieces of evidence, we make a promise to the people of this city. A promise to handle that evidence with respect, integrity, and good faith. When you broke the seal, you broke that promise.

Detective Aiden Burn:
I didn't do it. I didn't plant the evidence. I wanted to. Man, I wanted to, but I couldn't go through with it. I knew I couldn't live with that.

Det. Mac Taylor:
Is it that you couldn't live with it, or you couldn't compromise the integrity of this office?

Detective Aiden Burn:
You know how much this place means to me, Mac. But that son of a b*tch raped Regina twice, and he's gonna get away with it twice?

Det. Mac Taylor:
And if the credibility of our findings is suspect, how many more do you think will walk? Ten? Twenty? A hundred? Truth is, Aiden, I can't have someone like that working in this lab. You're fired.

Detective Aiden Burn:
[handing over her badge] Truth is I can't do this anymore, Mac. I mean, I got to be honest with you. If somethin' like this ever happened again, I don't think I'd trust myself. And I'm sorry I let you down. Just do me a favor, huh? Catch this guy for Regina.

Det. Mac Taylor:
I will. This folder... will be right here on my desk till we get him.

Dr. Harvey Fuller:
I make a phone call.

Detective Don Flack:
Every time to the same number?

Dr. Harvey Fuller:
Yes. Again, same number every time. I tell them what I need. I don't know how or who does it. A cooler is left for me at the clinic.

Dr. Sheldon Hawkes:
[showing Fuller a picture of Casey Steele] Is this the man that delivers the coolers?

Dr. Harvey Fuller:
I told you, I don't see faces. They're just voices on a phone.

Detective Don Flack:
You must pay them.

Dr. Harvey Fuller:
Cash. In an envelope. Different post office box every time.

Detective Don Flack:
Yeah, okay, so what's going rate for a liver, Dr. Fuller?

Dr. Harvey Fuller:
Depends.

Dr. Sheldon Hawkes:
Depends on whether your patients are desperate or not? The closer they are to death, the more they'll pay. Or is it the more you'll charge?

Dr. Harvey Fuller:
I don't set the price.

Dr. Sheldon Hawkes:
No, only for yourself, right? So tell me, doctor, how much do you get paid for turning a blind eye to the Hippocratic Oath?

[Fuller turns to look at Flack]

Dr. Sheldon Hawkes:
No, look at me. I said look at me! The liver you transplanted today belonged to a healthy young woman who died to fill your pockets. Her name: Debbie Menzel.

[slapping pictures onto the table]

Dr. Sheldon Hawkes:
And there are dozens more just like her. Their organs are being harvested in motel bathrooms and makeshift operating rooms. Young girls who are butchered and dumped on the side of the road. And you agreed to the oath, doctor, the covenant. "I will keep them from harm and injustice." Do you remember saying those words, huh? You stupid, greedy son of a b*tch.

FBI Agent Russ Josephson:
Quincy Willis was a master of disguise, proficient at identity theft, forgery, counterfeiting. One of the most notorious con artists on the Eastern seaboard. Old school.

Detective Mac Taylor:
[showing Russ a picture of their victim] This face look familiar to you?

FBI Agent Russ Josephson:
Got to be Quincy's daughter, Sabrina Willis. He taught her everything he knew.

Lindsay Monroe Messer:
So why isn't she in any crime database?

FBI Agent Russ Josephson:
Took fifteen years for us to catch Quincy. He doesn't make the kind of mistakes that made it easy, you know.

Jo Danville:
And you're thinking like father, like daughter, she's picking up where Quincy left off.

Detective Mac Taylor:
Well, something got her murdered. This is Harvin Garrity. Married our vic six months ago.

FBI Agent Russ Josephson:
Nothing about him rings a bell. My guess is he's just another dupe.

Jo Danville:
Probably has money, and Sabrina's just stockpiling all she can for that retirement fund.

FBI Agent Russ Josephson:
Con artists aren't big savers. It's the pleasure of the game. It's an addiction. Look; this bundle of newspaper wrapped in rubber bands was Quincy's trademark.

Detective Mac Taylor:
Size and shape of money, roughly the same weight. Put real cash on the top and bottom, the rest is easy.

FBI Agent Russ Josephson:
If Sabrina Willis was working her magic in the city, I guarantee there's a collection of marks out there licking their wounds, sorry they ever met her.

Lindsay Monroe Messer:
Well, where are they? 'Cause we don't have a case file or a complaint or a description or anything that would suggest that this girl was out there conning anybody.

Detective Mac Taylor:
[thinking] That's because our search has been centered on a young blond woman, when all along we should have been looking for the crimes of an eighty year old man.

Detective Mac Taylor:
I know what you're going to say. It's not the way it looks. I'm fine.

Jo Danville:
It's exactly the way it looks. That's the same suit you had on yesterday, if not the day before. You haven't even been home in two days.

Detective Mac Taylor:
This isn't the first time one case has rolled over into another. I'll be fine.

Jo Danville:
When's the last time you had something to eat? I don't want to hear about that trail mix from the vending machine last night.

Detective Mac Taylor:
It was a granola bar.

Jo Danville:
You promised me you were going to go home and get some sleep.

Detective Mac Taylor:
I was working on some cases, I dozed off on the couch. Then this came in.

Jo Danville:
Boss of the crime lab or not, you are no good to anyone if you're running on fumes.

Detective Mac Taylor:
Look, I am not walking out of a homicide investigation.

Jo Danville:
[waving at Flack] No, Don is driving you out.

Detective Don Flack:
[approaching] Yo.

Jo Danville:
It's all been arranged. You're going to go home and get a couple hours' sleep. And if you're lucky, a toothbrush and a shower might make it feel like eight.

Detective Mac Taylor:
Don can't just leave.

Detective Don Flack:
Sure I can. I'm on my way back to the precinct, anyway. Your place is on the way.

Detective Mac Taylor:
Sid will be expecting me in Autopsy.

Jo Danville:
It's covered. Your work is done here, Mac Taylor. Don's gonna take you to that diner you love for breakfast, and then take you home and tuck you in.

Detective Mac Taylor:
Will he be giving me milk and cookies and singing a lullaby?

Detective Don Flack:
The lullaby thing's a little weird. But milk and cookies could happen.

Detective Aiden Burn:
Mr. Vicenzo, we're closing your little sports book pizzeria. In case you didn't know, betting sports is illegal in New York City, so tell all your pizza lovers to go to A.C. if they want some action.

Nick Vicenzo:
[sarcastic] I'll be sure to do that.

Detective Aiden Burn:
I pulled two sets of prints from the oven bar at your pizzeria. They came back to your pizza girl and you. What do you have to say about that, Nick?

Nick Vicenzo:
It's my joint. Must've been when I heated up those slices for lunch.

Detective Aiden Burn:
Right. Well, according to the preliminary autopsy report, Lenny Starks suffered moderate head trauma. You slammed Lenny Starks' head with the oven door. Lenny walked three blocks and later was stabbed to death. By you.

Nick Vicenzo:
Whoa. Whoa, whoa. Wait a minute. Stabbed? Me? Yeah, I gave Lenny a little lesson in paying up, but I didn't stab him. I knocked some sense into the kid.

[flashback]

Nick Vicenzo:
You owe me ten g's.

Lenny Starks:
Nick, I'll get it.

Nick Vicenzo:
What am I gonna do with this, wipe my nose? Open the oven. Open it! You little degenerate. How do you like that?

[back to present]

Nick Vicenzo:
That's it. He left on his own two feet.

Detective Aiden Burn:
You know what one of the greatest rules is of an investigator? We can lie to suspects, legally. There never was a stabbing. According to the autopsy report, Lenny Starks died from an epidural hematoma in the posterior fossa region. That's behind the ear, in case you didn't know. And you're right, that kid did leave on his own two feet. Three blocks later, he died on 'em. That kid experienced delayed deterioration. Like a boxer who took too many blows. You killed him. And now it's your turn to go down the street. Investigation's closed.

Detective Mac Taylor:
[Noticing Reed walking into his office] Reed.

Reed Garrett:
[Walking into Mac's office] Mac, um, I told them I was family.

Detective Mac Taylor:
[Walking over to Reed] You okay? What's Wrong?

Reed Garrett:
[to Mac] I knew Brian Miller.

Reed Garrett:
[to Mac] The Kid you found in the maze.

Reed Garrett:
[to Mac] We worked on the college paper together.

Reed Garrett:
[to Mac] We were friends.

Detective Mac Taylor:
[to Reed] I'm sorry.

Detective Mac Taylor:
[to Reed] look, in can't say much about the case right now.

Reed Garrett:
[to Mac] I get it, I just, I wanna tell you what i know.

Detective Mac Taylor:
[to Reed] Okay.

Reed Garrett:
[to Mac] Um, well he's under more stress than the usual.

Reed Garrett:
[to Mac] You know? He was spending all his free time writing, writing this piece for the college paper, he's been writing it for the last year and a half.

Reed Garrett:
[to Mac] He said that it was his Watergate, You know? It was something that was gonna put him on the map.

Detective Mac Taylor:
[to Reed] Sit down.

Detective Mac Taylor:
[to Reed] So uh, do you know what this article was about?

Reed Garrett:
[to Mac] It was about kings and shadows.

Detective Mac Taylor:
[to Reed] What's that?

Reed Garrett:
[to Mac] A rumor, it's a society that exists on campus.

Reed Garrett:
[to Reed] Like a fraternity?

Reed Garrett:
[to Mac] Minus the kankers and the pranks yeah, it's really, it's dark stuff.

Detective Mac Taylor:
[to Reed] So it's like a cult?

Reed Garrett:
[to Mac] Yeah, written by blue bloods.

Reed Garrett:
[to Mac] you know? At least that's what people believed.

Reed Garrett:
[to Mac] Brian said he was, that he was gonna get inside.

Diane Lipstone:
My client has nothing to say.

Stella Bonasera:
It's okay. I'm in a chatty mood. You know, Jordan, when you opened that purse and saw what you walked away with, my guess is you figured out a way that you could regain the lifestyle your father had cut you off from.

Jordan Benson:
[flashback] Coke at a serious discount. Text me, it's safer.

Stella Bonasera:
And you had two buyers the next day. So you hid the drugs at your apartment, took the two portions to campus to sell, and after you sold to Paul and Andrea, Deroy was waiting for you, and grabbed your purse. But the drugs weren't in the purse. Now you had his drugs, and he had your address. You couldn't call the police. You went back to the apartment, got the rest of the drugs and took off, so you could sell them.

Jordan Benson:
[flashback to Jordan and Will] Taking off for a couple days.

Will Novick:
See ya.

Stella Bonasera:
But you never gave Will a heads up. It didn't matter that he was brutally, *brutally* murdered. At some point, when you came back here, maybe after Detective Flack and I told you what happened to Will, you realized that those drugs were bad news. And up until that moment, everything that happened was a series of... stupid mistakes made by a spoiled, sheltered little girl. But what a jury will find most unforgivable... is that there is no record of you *ever* trying to contact Andrea Allix, knowing that those same drugs killed Paul Collins. Perhaps on your lawyer's sound advice. Jordan Benson, you're under arrest for negligent homicide and heroin trafficking.

Detective Stella Bonasera:
If you're looking into the Alissa Danville case for mistakes, I expect to be consulted.

Detective Mac Taylor:
I wasn't looking...

Detective Stella Bonasera:
Mac, the murder weapon was in the alley with his DNA on it. What else did you expect to find?

Detective Mac Taylor:
Well, for one, we didn't take a substrate control sample on the murder weapon.

Detective Stella Bonasera:
That's because Sullivan claimed that the hammer wasn't his. In that kind of a case, not taking a control sample is standard procedure.

Detective Mac Taylor:
Well, maybe that should change, because finding someone's DNA on a murder weapon shouldn't automatically make them guilty.

Detective Stella Bonasera:
It doesn't. Let's just consider the facts in this case, all right? His coworker testified that every time Alissa Danville walked past the construction site, Sullivan stopped and watched her go by. Then there's the hammer. It was issued to every employee of Luxwell Construction Company. Every single hammer was accounted for except for Quinn Sullivan's. And yet he claims that the hammer we found at the crime scene with his DNA on it wasn't his.

Detective Mac Taylor:
He told me it was.

Detective Stella Bonasera:
You went to see him.

Detective Mac Taylor:
Mm-hmm. He now claims the hammer, but he still sticks to his story that he didn't kill Alissa Danville.

Detective Stella Bonasera:
You believe him?

Detective Mac Taylor:
I want to. Stella, if the hammer was his, his DNA could have already been on it. DNA from epithelials he shed from normal, everyday use. Source attribution, Stella. It's a viable possibility the victim's blood was spattered on top of Sullivan's epithelials. When we tested the blood for DNA, we got a match for both the victim and Sullivan.

Detective Stella Bonasera:
Well, if we had known that it was Sullivan's hammer, it wouldn't have changed our test results.

[Mac gives Stella a look, and realization dawns on her]

Detective Stella Bonasera:
But it might have changed our conclusion.

Detective Stella Bonasera:
[At Danny's apartment, holding a bag with soup in it] Jewish penicillin.

Detective Danny Messer:
[laughs] I'm not sick, Stella.

Detective Stella Bonasera:
You like chicken soup, don't'cha?

Detective Danny Messer:
[Hesitates] I could never say no to a little chicken noodle.

Detective Stella Bonasera:
Then invite me in. [He lets her in] You know, I came over here to yell at you.

Detective Danny Messer:
Stella, we deserve to get paid. Come on, cops work hard in this city, you know, I mean, the Brass, they're not working for free so why the hell should I? You know I'm right. Come on, pull up a spoon.

Detective Stella Bonasera:
I'm old school, Danny. You know, I took an oath and I take it literally. My responsibility is first and foremost to the people of this city and job that I do.

Detective Danny Messer:
That's exactly why I'm holding out for a little respect. I mean I come from a family of cops, Stell, I'm not taking this thing lightly.

Detective Stella Bonasera:
Yeah, I know, I know, I know. Look I guess, I guess, it just took me driving over here to understand it all. People were crazy. They were getting out of their cars, it was chaos, there were no traffic cops.

Detective Danny Messer:
So you were coming over here to lay into me, yeah?

Detective Stella Bonasera:
Yeah I was on my way to lay into you! I was so pissed off, Danny. Hawkes stood in for you at that hearing and they threw the case out. And there was so much work at the lab. Thank God for Lindasy, you know, she's a real trooper.

Detective Danny Messer:
Yeah, yeah, she is. She's been calling me every other hour. Except I got to cough every time I answer the phone in case it's not her.

Detective Stella Bonasera:
You did the unpopular thing.

Detective Danny Messer:
[Chuckles] Me? That's my M.O., right?

Detective Stella Bonasera:
Ah, look, I got to get back to work, but I'm not leaving here without some of that soup, so how about you fix me up one to go please?

Detective Danny Messer:
Sure.

Adam Ross:
You get the thoughts, right? The bad ones that race in your head and you can't make them stop. You try and block them out and think about something else, but uh, doesn't work. So you, uh, you come up with these rituals. Just these little things that make yourself feel better. Counting, washing, unplugging things, pulling out your eyelashes.

Jake Kaplan:
I, I thought I was...

Adam Ross:
Thought you were a freak? [Jake nods] Yeah, it's not your fault, Jake, okay? It's your brain and it's just playing tricks on you. It's called OCD and a lot of people have it.

Jake Kaplan:
How do you know so much?

Adam Ross:
Some of it's science. Hm, let me guess, your, uh, your dad just didn't understand what you were doing, right? Why you always had to check things.

Jake Kaplan:
I had to 'cause if I didn't...

Adam Ross:
Then you thought something bad was going to happen, I know.

Jake Kaplan:
I had to keep him safe.

Adam Ross:
So this all started after your mom died, right? The thoughts, the checking. Now, you see, OCD is usually triggered when something bad happens.

Jake Kaplan:
I went up there 'cause, I just, I didn't want to go to the party and talk to all those people, but he found me. He made me so angry.

Adam Ross:
The blank tile. That was the last game you played with your mom, right?

Jake Kaplan:
She, she told me, she, she said the blank was me because it could be anything. I, I could be anything.

Adam Ross:
She believed in you.

Jake Kaplan:
Yeah. Then she went away. Sometimes, he was really mean, but I loved my dad.

Adam Ross:
I know you did.

Jake Kaplan:
I'm sorry. What's gonna happen to me?

Adam Ross:
[Crying] You're gonna go away for a while, Jake.

Jo Danville:
Okay, I hope y'all are taking notes. First of all, I could not stop thinking about these two pieces of violet flavored gum, because I couldn't wrap my head around how they wound up in Jimmy Philbrook's mouth and on Greg Barbera's satchel. So I went back to the schedule from the courier service that Greg worked for, and it turns out that his first pickup of the day was across from a little diner in Chelsea, right around the corner from the Cragston Hotel.

Mac Taylor:
Who'd he pick up from?

Jo Danville:
Jimmy Philbrook. And guess what the diner has in a little dish next to the cash register?

Lindsay Monroe Messer:
Violet gum.

Jo Danville:
Bingo. But there was something else that kept bugging me, because Greg Barbera is a bike messenger, right? So why did he run from Scott Perfito? Where on earth was his bike? So I went back and I looked at the NYPD surveillance footage one more time. Look what I spotted about a hundred yards ahead of both of them.

Danny Messer:
Guy on a bike.

Jo Danville:
Yes, but not just any bike. It matches the exact description supplied to us from the courier service that Greg worked for. And look what's hanging from handlebars.

Don Flack:
A chainsaw. Could've been used to cut down the fallen tree outside of Scott Perfito's apartment.

Mac Taylor:
Where Greg probably locked up his bike.

Lindsay Monroe Messer:
Greg's bike was stolen, so he had to run away from Perfito on foot.

Sheldon Hawkes:
Which caused him to fall down the stairs.

Jo Danville:
And due to Greg's untimely death, he wasn't able to deliver this.

Mac Taylor:
Doug Kramer. That's the name of the Building and Safety official who was supposed to accept the bribe from Jimmy Philbrook.

Jo Danville:
For fifteen grand.

Don Flack:
But since he didn't get it, he ruled to condemn the Cragston Hotel at the B&S meeting.

Jo Danville:
Yes. Which we all know, drove our super, Toby Delafont, into a murderous rage.

Danny Messer:
He attacked Philbrook in the park, leaving him for dead.

Lindsay Monroe Messer:
Right, and then Philbrook wandered further into the woods, right into the path of Nicholas Bristow's arrow.

Don Flack:
That's the craziest thing I've ever heard, but it actually makes sense.

Mac Taylor:
One crime leads to another.

Sheldon Hawkes:
And another.

Danny Messer:
And another.

Lindsay Monroe Messer:
And another.

Jo Danville:
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is known as the ripple effect.

Jo Danville:
[at the abandoned building Tessa James was squatting in] Stratford Chocolate. Danny, the candy wrappers in the alley... all like this?

Detective Danny Messer:
Some were like that.

Jo Danville:
They belonged to Tessa. She brought them there.

Detective Danny Messer:
Yeah. Which is why they didn't make sense at the scene.

Jo Danville:
[turning the wrapper over] Oh. "Comiskey".

Detective Danny Messer:
Comiskey?

Jo Danville:
Yeah. You know him?

Detective Danny Messer:
It's a baseball stadium. Charles Comiskey.

[seeing the others' blank looks]

Detective Danny Messer:
Chicago Black Sox, 1919?

Lindsay Monroe Messer:
[laughing] You're so obsessed with baseball.

Detective Mac Taylor:
Okay, so why pick that name and put it on a wrapper?

Jo Danville:
You said Tessa mentioned other names.

Detective Mac Taylor:
Yeah. Code names she'd worked out.

Tessa James:
[flashback] There was George Weaver and Billy Gleason.

Detective Mac Taylor:
Is the white-haired man Weaver or Gleason?

Tessa James:
No. I don't know. I don't- I don't know him.

Detective Mac Taylor:
[present] But I ran them all, and... they didn't make sense.

Detective Danny Messer:
Well, look, she was a bit confused, right?

Jo Danville:
What were the other names?

Detective Mac Taylor:
There was George Weaver.

Detective Danny Messer:
George "Buck" Weaver? Third baseman for the Chicago Black Sox.

Detective Mac Taylor:
Okay, so why pick these names - Comiskey, Weaver - for guys she saw at the Vonner Club?

Detective Danny Messer:
I mean, the Black Sox threw the World Series in 1919. They were the bad guys.

Lindsay Monroe Messer:
I think Kate blames me for not catching Garland Clarke. I didn't work that case. I hardly knew anything about it.

Jo Danville:
She's been through a lot. Don't take it personally.

Lindsay Monroe Messer:
Still... she thinks I don't care. You know what? When she reached out to me after I spoke to her support group, all I did was hand her some pepper spray and a pamphlet on how to deal with trauma. And now I'm accusing her of murder. And I certainly don't blame her for resenting me, but I don't know what I'm supposed to do. I'm a cop.

Jo Danville:
You know, the last case I worked on at the Bureau was the rape of a young woman, very high profile.

Lindsay Monroe Messer:
Senator Matthews' daughter.

Jo Danville:
Yeah. We had that suspect dead to rights, but we mishandled the DNA. We knew he did it beyond the shadow of a doubt, but he was acquitted.

[Lindsay groans sympathetically]

Jo Danville:
The look on that girl's face when she was told that the man who raped her was gonna go free... I don't think I've ever been looked at quite like that. I'll never forget it. Utter betrayal.

Lindsay Monroe Messer:
So, how did you handle it? How do you follow the law and still be a human being?

Jo Danville:
That's the hard part. Because a piece of me, if that were my daughter, that would want him dead, I have to put in a box in order to go back and do my job. Even if it doesn't make sense, Lindsay, even if good people get hurt and bad people go free, that's what we do. And it's hard. It's hard.

Lindsay Monroe Messer:
How do I explain that to Kate?

Jo Danville:
I don't know that you can. Because we meet these people on the worst day of their lives. And all we can really do for them is listen. Let 'em rage at us, if that's what they need.

Lindsay Monroe Messer:
I don't see how that could ever be enough.

Jo Danville:
You'd be surprised.


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