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C.S.I. New York Episode Guide
Danny comments on the insensitivity of the other site workers, who did not stop working
when one of them is dead. Flack explains Morris was not a construction worker, but a broker;
nobody there knew him. He wasn’t robbed; his wallet is still there.
”Why does people do that?”, wonders Danny, looking around and seeing somebody messed
up with the freshly poured concrete.
Back at the morgue, Lindsay watches Ceci Astor’s body being devoured by beetles. Danny asks
her if she ”ran out of bug spray”, and she explains that since Hammerback couldn’t determine
cause of death, they are letting the bugs clean the flesh from the bones; they are cleaner and
better at ”tissue removal”, and would not destroy evidence.
”Don’t eat them”, Danny tells her. ”You’re a little late on that one”, she remarks.
Jim Morris’ cause of death was asphyxiation; his mouth is full of insulating foam. Danny
recalls finding a can of that at the scene. There are signs that before the foam hardened, someone
tried to remove it. A killer with a conscience?
At the hospital, Ceci’s sister and her boyfriend find Mac and try to pressure him for results.
He shows them the boy from the museum, who may be a witness, and both deny having ever
seen him. They insist in questioning the investigation, and Mac tells them to leave.
Lindsay examines the bugs, still with no results. Stella works with the sword, and finds a
fingerprint – it belongs to Jose Martinez, a museum employee, a legal immigrant.
The boy from the museum still refuses to talk, despite Mac’s efforts. He has a nasty bruise
on his arm, consistent with Ceci’s ring. Jane Parsons collects samples of the boy’s DNA and
the smudge on his face. She talks to Mac about the boy, whose identity is still unknown. He’s
surely traumatized, Mac tells her, they just have to find if it is because of something he saw – or
something he did. Mac gives the boy new clothes and takes him to the precinct, where the kid
points to a candy bar in a vending machine. ”I’ll get you some real stuff”, promises Mac.
The boy opens his comic book and points at the villain, speaking for the first time: ”Kinsen!
He’ll come find me.” The page he’s pointing to is a match to the piece of drawing that was found
at the scene. While Mac examines the page and the paper in the evidence bag, Stella comes into
the room bringing Jose Martinez, who claims he didn’t do anything. To everybody’s surprise, he
looks at the boy and can’t believe what he’s seeing. ”Sam?”, Martinez calls out. ”Daddy?”, says
the boy.
In the morgue, the beetles have eaten their full; Hawkes and Hammerback starts to chemically
de-flesh the body. Now working with just the skeleton, they find the cause of death was probably
sharp force trauma to the brain stem, which controls breathing.
Jose Martinez admits to having being in a fight, thus the scratches and bruises on him, but
he vehemently denies having fought with Ceci. According to him, his prints are on the murder
weapon because he sometimes handles exhibit pieces after the museum is closed. Stella thinks
Ceci wanted to fire him because of that, things escalated and he killed her. Martinez insists he
only held the objects, and Stella questions him about not realizing his son was missing. When
he says Sam’s mother is dead, Stella tells him it’s a pity, cause she’d be a great alibi.
A fingerprint on the foam can leads Danny and Flack to George Clark, construction worker,
recently out of jail. He recalls the victim broke his truck window, they got into a fight, but Morris
took out money to pay for the damage and that was it. His prints are on the can because he uses
it in his job. Looking at the broken truck window, Danny sees a piece of something and takes it
to the lab, where he also examines the vic’s clothes.
Jane and Mac discuss Sam’s case. There’s no record of him being born in the state of New
York, and no clue as to who or what ”Kinsen” might be. Jane points out DNA also showed Sam is
NOT Jose Martinez biological son – they’re not related at all. Intrigued, Mac sends Hawkes and
Lindsay to Ceci’s apartment to investigate any connection between her and the boy. Meanwhile,
he sits with Sam and makes a deal: they’ll trade stories. Sam tells him to go first and Mac
starts reading the comic book. It’s Japanese manga style, with little dialogue and very descriptive
drawings, showing a kid running from a bad man and hiding; the bad man tries to make the kid
go to him, through threats and bribes. The kid grabs the money offered but refuses to surrender;
while the furious villain is tearing apart his hiding place, a hero comes. Help has arrived. Mac
realizes the story is very close to Sam’s own experience.
In Ceci’s apartment, Hawkes and Lindsay find a woman with a roll of $100 bills. She claims
to work there. Lindsay sees a picture of her with Jose Martinez and Sam; that’s Elena Martinez.
Knowing her son is in custody, Elena loses control. While she’s taken away, Lindsay and Hawkes
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