TV Review: CSI:NY - "And Here's to You, Mrs. Azrael"

After a young woman is involved in a drunk driving accident, she is rushed to the hospital. Although she survives, she is murdered days later. Det. Mac Taylor (Gary Sinise), Det. Stella Bonasera (Melina Kanakaredes), and Det. Don Flack (Eddie Cahill) start processing the scene. Det. Danny Messer (Carmine Giovinazzo) and Det. Lindsay Monroe (Anna Belknap) help, along with Dr. Sheldon Hawkes (Hill Harper). Hawkes has the additional burden of figuring out if one of his former colleagues is guilty of murder.

Meanwhile, Mac talks to the victim's mother, sobbing in the arms of a hospital volunteer (Mel Harris, "thirtysomething"). The distraught father shows up later, complicating matters when he tries to get past crime scene tape. Mac and Flack step in, and Stella confirms the death.

Back at the station, Danny comes across Hawkes in the locker room. He asks Hawkes why he left an emergency room career to be the medical examiner. Hawkes replies he hated standing over a patient when death occurred. Danny suggests he is still a doctor, even though the hospital is no longer part of his life. Before he can go further, Adam Ross (A.J. Buckley) enters and says all hospital staff are accounted for.

Stella gets a fingerprint from a bar of betadine soap in the victim's room. After the ID comes back, Mac and Flack talk to a possible suspect. He tells them he and the victim once made an assisted suicide pact should either end up in a wheelchair. However, he found he could not go through with the deal. Mac later wonders if the victim could have made the same pact with another.

He talks to the young woman's parents. Although they both could have killed the victim, evidence does not support that theory. A DNA test shows a female was in the room when the victim died. It was someone besides the mother, though. Mac and Stella interrogate the hospital volunteer, who admits she killed the victim because she thought she had been driving when the accident occurred. Not only did she have to suffer her daughter's dying before her, but the driver remained alive.

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