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C.S.I. New York Episode Guide
shut it down. The CSIs start picking up crushed water cups, and among them Stella finds a
nozzle from a high pressure valve. In the morgue, Sid tells Mac the dead runner - Owen Reid
- was in perfect physical condition. ”So you’re saying he’s actually still alive?”, jokes Mac. Sid
reveals Reid was not killed by cyanide poisoning. The victim has an unexplained frost bite mark
near his mouth, though. Recalling the symptoms, Mac realizes they might have been caused by
carbon monoxide. Stella examines Reid’s clothes and finds what looks like a bloody handprint
on the back of his jersey. There’s also some odd trace on it. She and Hawkes use the Elisa test
to discover what it is. It’s fish eggs, and what is it doing on a marathon runner’s shirt? Stella
and Hawkes go after Mac, who tells them the autopsy reports. ”That’s just. . . not possible”, says
Stella. Back at the morgue, Sid tells Danny and Lindsay Tonya Nettles was ”stone-cold sober”
at the time of death, though her stomach was full of vodka. This leads to the conclusion that
the weapon was the vodka-filled scepter she was supposed to carry as she appeared on stage.
There’s also a spot of grease on her cheek, probably left by the killer. Stella tells Mac the nozzle
they found was modified to allow maximum gas burst, which, he concludes, would increase and
accelerate the effect. If they add that the gas was probably ice cold, that explains the frostbite –
and leaves the nozzle as a piece of the murder weapon. The attack was premeditated, so they now
have to find a motive. Danny works with the feathers they’ve collected from the basement, most
of them seem to have come from the waitresses’ costumes. Lindsay comes to tell him the grease
on Tonya’s cheek is a match to the hydraulic lift at the club, but they didn’t get a match for the
print on the ice scepter nor for the blood on the safety pin; the DNA on the piece of chewing
gum was too corrupted, all they can tell is it came from a woman but not from Tonya. Danny
and Flack go after Colin Flynn, the club manager, on the street. Danny asks about a scratch on
his cheek, and he says it was his cat. The detectives insists, and Colin admits he was peeping
on Tonya’s dressing room and she caught him; his face was scratched by the safety pin on the
curtain. Danny asks for his fingerprints, he refuses and Danny gets on his face, making him
back up against a car. Seeing this, Danny lets him go, and happily collects his prints from the
car window, while Flack ironically tells him he’s impressed. Hawkes and Stella tell Mac how they
projected which runners would have finished the marathon at about the same time as Reid, thus
discovering which runners would be near him when he died. One of them, Michael Gibson, was
involved in a lawsuit against Reid about a $40 million bad investment. They seem to have found
motive. When questioned, Michael Gibson admits to having slapped Reid’s back during the race,
but is adamant that he didn’t kill him; the lawsuit will go on even after Reid’s death. Mac and
Stella ask for his prints and DNA, he doesn’t refuse.
Danny and Lindsay walk on the street; he learns by phone that Colin’s prints came back
no match. Blood still puts him at the scene, but that’s it. Danny asks Lindsay to go for lunch,
but she’s reluctant about taking a break. He insists, but she demands to know what else Adam
told him on the phone. Danny admits the gum was not a match to Tonya’s dental impressions.
Lindsay decides to come back to the lab and look at the gun again, leaving him complaining he’s
starving to death. Back at the lab, Mac, Stella and Hawkes examine the evidence found on the
floor near Reid. On a sign that says ”Marathoners are crazy people”, they find wheelchair treads.
Only one wheelchair finished around the time Reid would have finished: a guy named Richard
Keith. Stella meets him at the gym, he’s an athletic man who’s only been in his chair for five
years. He tells Stella how he got paraplegic: he was hit by a car while running, and the driver ran
away. He claims he saw Reid falling down and assumed he had slipped on a paper cup. Richard’s
hands are hurt, he says he fell just before Reid, when someone stumbled into him. ”One of the
disadvantages of being in a wheelchair”, he tells Stella, when she doesn’t believe he didn’t see
anything else, ”is you don’t see things the way you used to.” Hawkes tells Mac the fish eggs
found on Reid’s shirt are a usual sushi garnish. Stella calls them and tells them since talking
to Richard Keith was not much help, she took another look at the nozzle. This time she found
animal bite marks – and the saliva belongs to a Sicilian wild cat. It’s a protected animal, therefore
it’s illegal to own one – but some people insist on it, and the fined owners are on file. Following the
list, Stella arrives at a young woman whose cat Psycho has just died - from cyanide poisoning.
Unfortunately for Psycho and his owner, the cat will have to be dug up and examined. Working
with the chewing gum, Lindsay finds traces of nicotine and mint, which remind Danny of the
smoking waitress he questioned earlier, who also used a breath freshener. But she denied ever
going to the basement. Lindsay confronts the waitress, Jennifer, who eventually admits Tonya
caught her sitting at her throne. They insulted each other and there was a fight, but Jennifer
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