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C.S.I. New York Episode Guide
ordered. Jo points him at the door.
Mac tells Hector that Leo likely panicked and ran because he has a long list of possession
charges. Mac can’t figure out why Miguel was so opposed to having drugs at the club when
he had them in his system. Sheldon breaks in to share the crystal results. Indium and Gallium.
They’re used in the creation of solar panels. Since Miguel’s apartment didn’t have any, the crystal
could have come from the killer. Mac takes a call and informs Hector that his sister has arrived.
She is arguing with Sid. The body was released, but when it reached the funeral home, new
evidence was turned up. Sid needs to do some more investigating. She just wants to put an end
to all this. Hector advises her that the new evidence can help capture the person who did this.
That’s what she wants, right? Yes. So please, Mac asks; release him back to CSI. It’s in Miguel’s
best interest. She refuses to do so. Hector advises her in Spanish. They can get a court order.
Miguel will be exhumed and shipped back to the States. She leaves without answering, but Sid
is examining the body.
Miguel has ligature marks on his neck. Somebody tried to kill him before. Jo and Lindsay
confront Natalia. Why didn’t she know about the attempted strangulation, a week or so before?
Because she was out of town all week, for her sister’s wedding. She got back three days before
Miguel was killed. Hector shows Jo a photo which proves that Natalia’s story checks out. Sheldon
joins them. The murder weapon was found in a dumpster about a mile from the scene. Sheldon
gets a .jpeg picture of it, and Jo notes that it has a serrated blade, consistent with Miguel’s
wounds.
Sheldon begins testing the weapon. There is a print on the handle. The blood from the knife all
belongs to the victim. Sheldon’s beginning to feel like he can’t get a break in this case. Lindsey
arrives, speaking Spanish - a proverb which means ”small strokes fell mighty oaks”. Patience
is the key. Adam arrives. There was a microscopic blood sample on that crystal evidence of
Sheldon’s, and for once it didn’t belong to the victim. It belongs to a vagrant named Vern Jackson.
He has had three recent arrests for solar panel theft.
When Danny and Don question Vern, his first words are ”That guy’s dead?” but when asked,
claims he didn’t know him. He was never in Miguel’s apartment. Danny tells him they have his
DNA, from inside Miguel’s apartment, so let’s try again. Vern says Miguel invited him in. He
doesn’t think they’ll believe him, but the truth is, Miguel came up to him and said he wanted
to die. Paid Vern to kill him. He tried to strangle him, but when Vern left, Miguel was still alive.
Vern just couldn’t go through with it.
Miguel’s father died under uncertain circumstances. Found dead on the bottom of the pool.
Speculation had it that either Eva killed her husband, or he killed himself. This placed a fair
amount of pressure on the coroner, and eventually he changed his ruling to accidental death
by drowning. All speculation stopped. Mac asks if history might not be repeating itself. Miguel
took his own life, just like his father. Hector says this could explain the conflicting evidence. Mac
thinks it’s time to go back to the crime scene.
They have one contradiction though. It would seem that the knife fell, during a struggle. If
there was a struggle, then Miguel was not alone. Looking at the photo of the murder weapon, Mac
finds half of a gravitational bloodstain on the blade. The other half must be on the floor. Hector
finds it, and Mac tests the vicinity, finding a fingerprint. The prints are a match to Miguel. He
must have picked the knife up because he wasn’t bleeding out fast enough, and stabbed himself
one last time. That leaves one question. How did the knife end up 12 blocks away?
Hector tries to fill in Eva, but she doesn’t want to hear it. Miguel never would have taken his
own life. She knows her son. Natalia comes back in and tells Mac the rest of what she knows.
He’d go days sometimes, and never even get out of bed. Eventually, it got so bad he had to end it.
He wanted Natalia to help him make it look like something it wasn’t. She refused, but he finally
convinced her. He told her when he was going to do it so she could make it look like it wasn’t
suicide. She changed her mind, and that’s when Miguel’s neighbor heard her running up the
stairs - but she was too late, so she did as he asked. Closed his eyes, took his cash, and the
knife, and left.
He didn’t want his mother to know what he had done. He tried to tell her about his depression,
but she refused to listen. She was in denial. Eva is listening outside, with Jo. Natalia continues,
telling Mac that Eva doesn’t know this, but Miguel found his father’s body before she did. He
knows that his father actually hung himself in the closet, with a belt. Eva moved the body so it
would look like an accident. She fought to get him to go to therapy, but he refused. If depression
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