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C.S.I. New York Episode Guide
They arrive at the family bathroom and find another blood smear on the door handle. Danny
checks the garbage and finds the free sample kit, along with a blood-soaked cotton ball. In the
lab, Lindsay goes to work on the Christmas ornament that has blood on it, the cotton ball Denny
recovered, and the jacket the pickpocket was wearing. They confront the pickpocket, and he says
that they got nothing in the way of evidence. Mac tells him he’s wrong, since he in fact saw Howie
picking pockets. Don points out that he may get past the theft thing, but he won’t get past the
murder thing. The blood on the jacket matches the blood from the crime scene. Don asks him if
he’s ever heard of felony murder. Mac explains it. If there’s a homicide during the commission of
another crime, everyone involved in that crime can be charged with murder. He tells them that
he was in the store, just warming up, and she came bolting out of the bathroom. Ran right into
him. He’s a pickpocket, not a murderer.
Jo and Danny check the security tape and see the young woman run into the pickpocket.
Jo recognizes her as the young woman that was making snow angels right before she met Mac
that night. She left blood in the snow on that spot. She’s still there, not 10’ away, sitting on the
merry-go-round and barely conscious. She’s non-responsive when Jo tries to question her. The
paramedics told Jo that she had a lot of bruises and scratches on her body.
Her name is Alena Maybrook, and she’s an assistant manager at Stonefields. Jo cleans under
Alena’s nails for evidence. She still won’t talk so Jo tells Alena what she knows. Alena’s expression
changes to mild alarm, but she remains mute. Don calls Jo out so he can fill her in on
Alena’s background. She’s a regular girl scout. Pays her bills on time, model employee, doesn’t
even jaywalk. Jo senses a ’but’ en route, and she’s right. Two weeks ago, Alena cleaned out her
bank account and her 401K, and purchased a one-way ticket to Aruba. Departure date is tomorrow.
That’s not a vacation, that’s an escape plan. And if she killed Grossman, it was probably
premeditated.
Adam is hard at work when Sheldon arrives. He asks about the USB Port the was founded the
crime scene. Adams says he has not yet gotten to it. The prints on it were a match for the victim.
They didn’t find the electronics device it belongs to, however. It wasn’t on Alena when Jo brought
her in. Adam says that the cast iron branch with blood on it was different than the others as it
was not soldered to the tree in the display. Apparently it was used as a club. Sheldon notices
that the markings on the branch appear to match the impression on Richard Grossman’s skull.
Danny is running tests on the blue glass bit he found at the crime scene. He finds DNA that
matches a gentleman named Pascal Denton.
Don and Danny arrive to speak with Mac. The glass had human flesh burned into it, and
that’s where he got the DNA. Denton is Stonefields window display designer. But before that, he
was doing time at Rikers. Six months for assaulting a police officer. They found his prints on the
branch which was used as a murder weapon. In addition, Grossman fired him a week ago, and
she and Pascal got engaged six months ago. So now they know that Alena was not alone with
Richard Grossman when he was attacked.
Danny and Don go to Pascal Denton’s place of business. Nobody answers Don’s call, but
Denton starts to make a break for it. They take him down. As they start questioning him, he
claims to know nothing of Grossman’s death. Last time he saw Grossman, they got into a shoving
match, and Grossman shoved him back into the lamp that he broke with his elbow. They ask
him about his fiance, and he says he and Alena’s engagement was ended, by her, six months
ago. He hasn’t seen her since. One day they were planning a summer wedding, the next she was
giving him his ring back and telling him never to speak to her again.
Jo tells Mac that Denton was telling the truth. The catering deposit was sent back six months
ago. Sid comes in and tells them that the victim was also an attacker. Somebody gave him some
pretty serious scratches, and actually bit his hand. He also took a pretty heavy hit to the groin
area. It would appear that the defensive injuries on Alena occurred in the same fight as the
wounds he received. Mac and Jo reach the conclusion that Alena may be guilty of nothing more
than self defense.
Alena is still refusing to speak, but Jo is giving her all the new information they have. Turns
out Stonefields HR Dept had a stack of complaints registered with them against Richard Grossman.
Alena finally takes Jo’s hand, but it’s brief - and she remains speechless.
Mac tells Don that the new DA is unwilling to press charges. They are going to have to process
her and get her out of there. Don is concerned that they will crack this puzzle after she uses the
ticket to Aruba. Mac says they will cross that bridge when it becomes necessary.
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