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C.S.I. New York Episode Guide
back down. Mac doesn’t want to attend the press conference if he’s not allowed to be honest.
Carver says it will look bad if he’s not. Carver talks to the press and flat-out lies. Even when
pressed, he lies. A reporter directly addresses Mac, and he starts out following Carver but winds
up admitting that based on the reporter’s description, the people were in fact killed by a sniper.
The press goes mad, and they both walk away. Carver asks what the hell he’s supposed to tell
the commissioner and the mayor now. Mac says he can say in all truth that Mac never uttered
the word sniper.
Adam is measuring blood spatter at the first crime scene. Based on trajectory, he is able to
determine where the shot was fired from. Lindsay and Jo are on the roof looking for evidence.
They find several boot track impressions. Jo finds what would appear to be a hair from the
shooters forearm. Lindsay asks about the possibility of DNA, but Jo says no. There’s no root. It
appears to have fallen out. Flack calls Jo to tell her there is no connection between Elizabeth
Grant and Vanessa Walters. If there’s no connection, then the sniper is just killing anybody.
Lindsay picks up a bug carcass from the boot print. There is human blood on the carcass. She’ll
run tests.
The sniper fires again. It’s apparent he is a younger man, probably in his mid-20’s.
Danny is running some ballistics tests, and he fills Sheldon in. He had placed nitroglycerin
in a bored-out bullet and fired it into a gel body. He notes that he did a little digging and found
that nothing like this has been on the market since Hinckley’s assassination attempt on Reagan.
That means this is homemade. Sheldon says the sniper must be modifying store-bought rounds
to explode. He asks about the rounds and Danny tells him it’s the kind of thing you can find
at just any hunting store. He’s more intrigued by the source of the nitroglycerin. Sheldon says
that could be homemade as well. What he wants to know is why the second round didn’t explode
until it got to autopsy. Danny already figured that out. He created a second round. In this one
he only used half as much nitroglycerin. The round did not explode on impact, but will explode if
agitated. Sheldon tells him to demonstrate, and takes a step back. Danny drops his goggles into
place, and prods the round with a pencil. It explodes. They realize Sid is lucky he didn’t lose a
finger or two. Danny asks how Sid is doing, and Sheldon says fine. They tried to send him home
for the rest of the week, but he’s already back in the office. Danny jokes that Sid is not happy
unless he’s looking at dead things.
Lindsay and Jo go to work on the evidence. Mac and Sheldon continue to try to find a connection
between the two victims of the sniper. Sheldon points out that if nothing else, they are
both female. Strawberry blond, with blue eyes. Lindsay points out that the first victim was killed
celebrating a multimillion dollar deal for her corporate law firm, so maybe there’s a motive in
there. And maybe he killed the second victim to hide the motive regarding the first victim. Flack
is out canvassing witnesses, but thus far has nothing specific. Lindsay has information on the
bug. It is indigenous to Mexico/South America. Mac thinks that’s the only lead they have, until
Jo comes in with mitochondrial DNA results for a young man who disappeared 15 years ago. His
name is Michael Reynolds. Mac spent three years searching for him.
The sniper, Michael, was kidnapped, as we see in his flashback memories. He kills one of
the bugs that is crawling on him. When he hits the floorboard, it seems loose. He is able to pry
it up, and that’s how he was able to escape. He was reunited with his parents as his younger
brother looks on. Mac’s memories take over. They caught the guy who did it. His name was
Arthur Francis, he was a twice-convicted sex offender. The whole time time they were searching,
they were questioning whether the boy was alive or dead. Mac remembers this case as being
the first time he questioned which option would be preferable. He went to visit Michael several
times after he was reunited with his family. Mac remembers Michael wanting to wear his badge
whenever he saw him; he even asked if the badge was pure gold. His brother Tom was curious,
too. Mac was positive one of the boys would become a cop. He lost touch with them when his
work life became so busy.
Sheldon joins them. He hasn’t been able to dig up anything on Michael. No bank, home, job
- nada. Kind of strange, actually. Mac suggests they approach locating him from his last known
address, the one he grew up at. It’s a very strange room that Mac and Don find themselves in.
Don and says he’s thinking ”guilty”. Mac suggests he go talk to the landlord, find out about the
parents. In Mac’s mind’s eye, he can see Michael painting the walls. A covered glass jar catches
Mac’s eye. He picks it up and sifts it back and forth before putting it down and picking up the
mortar and pestle nearby.
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