CSI: NY "Grand Murder at Central Station"
As the title suggests, the main focus is the death of a man at Grand Central Station. Mac and Hawkes arrive at the scene after the man collapses with his face burning. Mac, being the Marine that he is, starts barking orders for the area to be cleared and the crime scene secured. A ph meter determines lye had caused the burning.
Although a medical unit is called, the team cannot prevent the man, a plastic surgeon, from dying. Hawkes finds a teddy bear and realizes its young owner is still around. He walks over to her. Kneeling, he asks permission to to test the bear for trace evidence.
Stella and Danny investigate the death a of a woman who died atop a building roof. They see what might be GSR, or gun shot residue. The problem is there does not appear to be a bullet hole in the victim's body or spent casings lying around.
Evan, the new medical examiner, shows the detectives that the young woman could not have recognized her killer because she is blind. Evidence collection produces a Trekker, a GPS device for blind people.
This takes Messer and Bonasera to a "cuddle party" where people come in pajamas to be touched by others. The "cuddle caddy" says he remembers the young woman was seeing an amateur hockey player.
Aiden finds Taylor and tells him she is frustrated after not finding any solid leads to catch the serial rapist. He says to keep working on it.
It turns out that Danny and Stella's victim was a gifted sculptor. When searching her apartment, they find a bust not yet finished. Could this be a clue?
Mac throws red liquid at three mannequeins to try and figure out how the dead doctor got the burn mark on his hands. The pattern matches someone who was hit on the back of his left hand.
The cup which held the lye is labeled with the name of a pharmaceutical company. Taylor matches a shoe pattern to the doctor's surgical partner. The suspect confesses to trying to cash out an insurance policy. What both forgot was that Grand Central was extremely crowded at rush hour. A jostle by somebody trying to catch a train knocked the lye upwards so it hit the face rather than the hands.
Who killed the blind lady? The roommate of the hockey player boyfriend. In the heat of the moment, Paul Deacon found out he was "not good enough" for her.
Aiden is confronted by Mac in his office at the end of the day. He found out that an evidence envelope seal was broken. Since she was the only one handling that evidence, he has no choice but to fire her. Did she tamper with the evidence? No, but she broke the trust given to a crime lab technician.
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