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Child’s Play
Season 4
Episode Number: 82
Season Episode: 11
Originally aired: Wednesday December 12, 2007 on CBS
Writer:
Trey Callaway, Pam Veasey
Director:
Jeffrey G. Hunt
Show Stars: Anna Belknap (Lindsay Monroe), Carmine Giovinazzo (Danny Messer),
Gary Sinise (Detective Mack ”Mac” Taylor), Melina Kanakaredes (Detective
Stella Bonasera), Eddie Cahill (Detective Donald ”Don” Flack,
Jr.), Hill Harper (Dr. Sheldon Hawkes)
Recurring Role: Robert Joy (Sid), A.J. Buckley (Adam Ross)
Guest Stars: Richard V. Licata (Laughing Larry), Jacqueline Piñol (Rikki Sandoval),
Mark Simich (Essex Palmer), Brad Rowe (Benjamin), Nicole Pulliam
(Bartender), Nathanael Theisen (Mario Galanti), Anthony Tavera
(Ruben Sandoval), Al Santos (Ollie Barnes), Suzie Pollard (Lucy Burke),
Matt Wood (Justin Burke), Alice Rietveld (Sadie Kevitch), Matthew
Yang King (Kim Wey), Bryan Okes Fuller (Reverand John McKlowski)
Production Code: 411
Summary: Danny is devastated when a young boy he knows is killed in the midst
of a bodega robbery. Meanwhile, Lindsay, Stella and Flack investigate
the death of a man killed by an exploding cigar that is connected to a
joke shop proprietor and another tragedy that occurred years before.
Essex Palmer slips into a trendy New York nightclub to relax after a great day only to have his
cigar blow up in his face, killing him instantly. Flack tells Stella and Lindsay that Essex was an
internet entrepreneur, who made a fortune buying and selling comic bookstores and was fond
of practical jokes. Essex’s wallet is found near the entrance to the club, with prints on it from
Mario Galanti. Flack arrests the man, but he swears he had nothing to do with Essex’s death:
he just took Essex’s wallet–and dropped it after the explosion. Dr. Hammerback recovers part
of the cigar from Essex’s throat, and Lindsay has found DNA in a saliva stain on the man’s tie
from one Larry Gelatcher: Laughing Larry, a gag store owner who advertises his wares such as
fake vomit and itching powder, in the back of comic books. After squirting Flack’s tie with a
fake camera, Larry tells the CSIs that Essex offered to buy his business, and he agreed. He gave
Essex a cigar, but claims it wasn’t one of his own–a stranger on the street who was celebrating
the birth of a baby girl gave it to him. His ”exploding cigars” don’t match the one that killed
Essex, so the CSIs suspect Larry was the intended target. They investigate one of his creditors,
Kim Wey, but after literally chasing down Wey, it proves a dead end when the man claims he had
no reason to kill Larry: he wanted his money, not Larry’s death. Lindsay identifies the shop the
cigar came from, and surveillance footage from the camera in the shop gives the CSIs enough to
pull in several suspects for a line up. Larry recognizes the man who gave him the cigar: Benjamin
Sudor. Benjamin tells the CSIs and Larry that one of Larry’s gag items was responsible for his
childhood best friend’s death decades ago. After his marriage imploded, Sudor went after Larry,
hoping the cigar would kill him.
Danny is awakened by his ten-year-old neighbor, Ruben Sandoval, who wants Danny to take
him to church for the blessing of the bikes. Danny does, but on their way back, he hears a
commotion from a robbery in progress and sends Ruben home. Danny hears a shot fired as he
approaches the bodega, and sees a man run off, leaving the bodega owner, Justin Scott, badly
beaten. His sister Lucy claims the robber fired at them, and both recall the robber had a blueish
tint to the whites of his eyes. When Mac and Hawkes join Danny at the scene, Mac finds an
orange with a bullet hole in it. Hawkes determines Justin was struck in the face with a revolver.
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