When someone has a medical emergency, seconds count.
As this episode opens, NYPD gets a radio call telling them a medical helicopter has been hijacked. Units scour the city. Det. Danny Messer (Carmine Giovinazzo) and Det. Don Flack (Eddie Cahill) find a man who is has been shot, yet clings to life. They figure out the man is the pilot, but the intern is nowhere to be found.
Det. Mac Taylor (Gary Sinise) and Dr. Sheldon Hawkes (Harper Hill) discover the intern dead on a scissor lift (the kind workers stand on when they are working on a billboard). Flack calls Taylor and asks if anything else was found. When Taylor says no, Flack tells him an Igloo Cooler with a liver harvested for transplant is now missing.
This kicks the team into high gear as they search for the missing organ. I was drawn into the fast paced storyline watching them scramble to locate the liver. It is a race against time, with a man's life hanging in the balance.
At the morgue, Dr. Sid Hammerback (Robert Joy), the medical examiner, says the intern died of a gunshot wound which was clean and straight through. Massive internal bleeding caused death. The evidence team needs to find the bullet.
Danny and Mac track down the bullet lying in a grate. Danny, the epitome of tact, tries to get a man with a homemade fishing machine to simply hand over the gadget. When the man refuses, Mac flashes his badge and says "Please". The tactic works. This was a nice moment, showing the difference between the two cops. While Danny is good, his abrasive methods are off-putting. Mac is far more sensitive, although he can be domineering if that's what it takes.
At the precinct, Det. Stella Bonasera (Melina Kanakaredes) and Det. Lindsay Monroe (Anna Belknap) question a suspect in a woman's death. They have his fingerprints on a business card, but little else. When shown a picture, the man clearly knows the woman, but leaves almost immediately.
Flack discovers the bullet came from a gun used in a robbery. Although the gun was not on the person arrested, she is in custody. Flack goes off to talk with her.
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Article comments
1 - Gordon Hauptfleisch
Nice review--made me want to catch this episode when it shows up again in reruns.
2 - NancyGail
That may be a while. If the info on the Web is accurate, the next show is the season finale.
3 - Gordon Hauptfleisch
Canceled, and low ratings, because it too dark and gloomy(compared to original CSI)? I watched it at the start and it seemed that way, but I mostly stopped watching because I usually only watch one show in a franchise (CSI Las Vegas, original Law and Order, etc.)
4 - Joanie
Congrats! Your article has been placed on Advance.net
5 - Gordon Hauptfleisch
Congrats, Nancy.
6 - NancyGail
Gordon-
Season, not series finale. From what I have read, it will have a third season. This is a show which may be in reruns for a bit until the time is right for the end of Season 2 to be shown.
7 - bjdubb
Does anyone know the name of the CSI NY episode where the guy kidnapped a high school rich girl and brought her to her house and the girl's sister was there with a room full of her friends taking a bunch of pills and then he takes the girl upstairs to the safe and nothing is in there and he shoots her and all the sisters friends in the back of the head. The one sisters gets away because she was in the kitchen getting some water