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C.S.I. New York Episode Guide
he is wheeled out on a stretcher. Hawkes uses litmus paper to determine the acidity of the liquid
found in the crime scene and tells Mac that the pH (power of Hydrogen) is 14, consistent with
lye. Hawkes puts the litmus paper in an evidence envelope and asks Mac where to start. Mac
tells him to go with the victim and try to find out something, and Hawkes dashes off.
As the ambulance speeds off to the hospital, Hawkes starts to inject an IV tube into the
victim’s arm when a med personnel asks him if he’s qualified to do that. Hawkes answers ”Five
years in the ER. You want my resume, or do you want my help?” The personnel calls ahead to
the hospital about the victim while Hawkes tells the victim to nod his head if he could hear him.
The man manages to force out a ”yes”, and Hawkes thinks it’s a good sign that he can still talk.
He asks if the victim saw the people who threw the lye on him, the victim answers that he did.
Hawkes then asks if he could describe them, but the man doesn’t get to answer as he starts to
gag and goes into cardiac arrest. A medical personnel starts to put a breathing tube down the
man’s throat as Hawkes desperately gives him CPR.
Back at the station, Mac sees traces of lye on the steps and tells Flack that this is where the
attack started. Flack tells him that there was nothing in the interviews that’s worth mentioning.
Mac looks at the crowd and comments about having ”two thousand eyes, not one witness.”
Later, a frustrated Hawkes comes back and throws his gloves into the trash can. He informs
Mac and Flack that the victim is ”on a detour to the morgue” and that he wasn’t able to get anything
from him. Flack identifies the victim as Dr. Spencer Howard, a prominent plastic surgeon
who just got off the 8:30 train, then thinks that they have a ”wackadoo” throwing around acid at
people’s faces. Mac corrects him (”It’s lye, not acid.”). Flack goes off to question the ”nuts” in the
city and work his way up, and Hawkes starts to process the area. As Hawkes takes a new pair of
gloves, Mac assures him that he did everything he could to save the victim, and Hawkes tells him
that he could never get used to it. He notices Mac holding a bottle of phenothaline and asks if
he’s found a blood trail. Mac tells him that he found a lye trail, informing him that phenothaline
also reacts with hydroxide. Hawkes tells him it’s a ”good thing that wasn’t on the exam”. Mac
asks if he’s ready to search for the ”Holy Grail”, and when Hawkes looks confused, he explains
that the person has to have some sort of container to be able to throw lye on someone’s face.
Hawkes starts to expound on the Holy Grail when Mac stops him, saying that he’s read The Da
Vinci code too, and then tells him to grab a bottle to search for more lye.
The two start to spray the area, and Mac picks up the lye trail. From the pattern of the spill,
he thinks the container must’ve been kicked around during the commotion. Hawkes finds a
stuffed bear behind the telephone booth and finds the imprint of shoe. Mac finds more lye but
with a different pattern of spatter (the one made when a cup is being emptied completely of its
contents), calls Hawkes over and tells him that the trail ends here. Hawkes says he couldn’t find
a container, so they think someone must’ve taken their murder weapon. Hawkes then sees Emily,
the little girl in the pink dress, near the yellow tape, with her mother and a medic bandaging her
arm. He comes over and asks for her name then shows her the bear. The girl exclaims happily,
and then Hawkes asks if he could borrow Franklin for a little while. The girl asks him why (”Did
you lose yours?”, then Hawkes tells her that Franklin might be able to tell them who hurt her
arm and promises to take good care of the bear, getting Emily to agree.
In another part of New York, a couple is seen lounging on the rooftop. The woman moans
in pleasure as the man massages her feet. She then tells him that her sun’s gone away, so he
stands up to move one of the plants blocking the rays when he notices someone’s feet not far
off. He slowly approaches and sees a dead girl with cuts around her neck. The woman, who
was probably wondering what the man was looking at also walks over. She sees the body and
screams.
Moments later, Danny and Stella are on the rooftop, the former taking pictures and the latter
saying they couldn’t find a purse or anything to identify the body. Danny notes the victim was
strangled with clean cuts around the neck and had hemorrhaging in the eyes. Detective John
Scagnetti, who was interviewing the couple, approaches them and says ”Mr. and Mrs. Butterball”
doesn’t know anything, and the landlord knew everything about his tenants and had never seen
the victim before. Stella takes a magnifying glass and spots gray smudge on the victim’s cheek,
thinks it’s gunshot residue (GSR), but Danny says there’s not a drop of blood around, and nobody
reported a gunshot.
At the ME’s office, Dr. Zao confirms that the cause of death (COD) was asphyxiation due
to strangulation. Danny says that doesn’t explain the GSR on her face and Zao tells him he’s
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