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CSI: NY – Episode 5.06: Enough
Air Date: November 05, 2008
In montage, we see three people; a man with a bong and a huge stash in his apartment, a man snorting drugs directly on a woman he has in the back of his sports car, and a well-dressed man snorting in a club restroom before returning to the dance floor to pass a drug capsule to a woman, while kissing her. As if timed together, they all are gunned down. The man in his apartment answers his door. The others are shot suddenly, where they are.
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Danny and Angell work the club scene. She IDs the victim as Michael Jones, who ran drugs in a nearby neighborhood. Lindsey and Stella work the car shooting. Mac, Hawkes, and Don are in the apartment.
Don points out the handgun lying next to the victim in the apartment, that was still warm when he arrived. He also notes the gameboard money that the victim had been counting.
When Sheldon points out a joint rolled in the play bills, Mac notes that the bills are very thin, and intentionally created as rolling paper. The apartment belongs to Michael Jones, but the victim is known to the neighbors as “Scooby”…(as in “Scooby-dooby-doo”).
Danny is pouring a handful of pills into an envelope, when Angell comes over. Some girls across the room told her that the victim was the go-to guy for Ecstasy. They said that a man in a blue hoodie came from another table and shot the victim, then dropped the gun onto the floor.
They find semen on the boxers of the man from the car. He appears to have been dumped onto the street after being shot from outside the window glass.
Adam tells Mac that he’s been given one month’s notice. Mac looks at the paper and assures him that it’s just a random layoff to cut expenses. He vows to keep Adam on staff.
Sid tells Mac that each of the victims showed signs of quite a load of drugs in each of the victims. He tells Mac that time of death is diffuclt to assess. Sid points out recent stun gun burns on the victims’ necks. Michael Jones, Luther Stanton, Duckens LaBranch. Mac recognizes each of them.
Mac shows up in a courtroom and tells the judge that their three defendants are all dead. The DA tells Mac that the defendants all tried to plea bargain with info on a dealer who’d murdered two people. The city didn’t make the deal with them, so she doesn’t have the name of the dealer who might have found out about their plan to give him up. Since lawyer-client privilege doesn’t apply to the deceased, Mac wants to ask their lawyers. She recommends Jake Donovan, Michael Jones’ lawyer.
Danny delivers boxes of broken glass and handguns that need to be dusted for prints.
Donovan resists, but eventually tells Mac that it’s Petrix Derosier.
Danny finds that the guns in the apartment and the club were used to kill Manny Sky, a year before. Hawkes tells Danny that he found drugs laced into the play money. Oxycodone, crystal meth, and albuterol mixed with marijuana.
Danny and Don find Derosier on a playground. They tell him that the three victims were selling some of his product for themselves. He expresses some anger at that idea. They ask how he got their guns. He walks off.
Angell questions Vivian, the prostitute who was with Duckens Labranch. She’s driving his car, but claims he gave it to her. Stalla finds the handgun in the car. Vivian insists that she didn’t kill Labranch, some guy in a hoodie did. She didn’t see the guy’s face. She said all Labranch had in his pocket was play money, which she says she threw away.
On the phone, Mac argues about Adam with Chief Sinclair. Stella walks in on his ranting to the chief. Mac tells her about Adam, and six other lab techs. Sinclair had told him no one would have to go if he could find $200,000 to shave from elsewhere in the budget. He asks Stella if they could wait on some lab equipment. She’s not happy about that idea. Mac says he would take Adam over all the equipment.
Lindsay tells Mac that the gun from the car was also used in the Manny Sky murder. There were no prints on the gun, but a lot of limonene on the grip and barrel. Limonene, from citrus fruits, is used in various products.
Stella finds that the mark on Labranch’s neck matches that of a gun that fires a wireless charge with four barbs. The one they have is too large to carry around, but Stella found, online, that there is a smaller stun gun versions. In the list of customers, she found Maggie Hall, a witness who was to testify in the trial of all three victims. Mac tells Stella that he promised her she wouldn’t have to testify.
Mac visits Maggie Hall. Her face is covered with deep cuts. She says that it happened right after she was subpoenaed to testify. She was attacked, but she had a new stun gun. With it, she was able to get away before they cut her anymore. Kevin, Maggie’s brother, is angry that Mac promised she wouldn’t have to testify. She says her brothers weren’t as forgiving as she is.
Mac confronts the DA about subpoenaing Maggie Hall. She said that evidence was suppressed. Budget cuts may have led to issues with the evidence.
Mac and Stella talk to the FBI about Petrix. According to their surveillance, Petrix and his crew were all too busy to have executed the murders. Lindsay comes in, though, and tells them that Maggie’s brother, Kevin, works at a produce warehouse. This would explain the limonene on the various handguns.
Danny, Don, and Mac speculate on the brothers’ involvement. Sheldon found that they were not working that night.
Adam finds a match on one of the glasses from the club. They bring in the victims’ lawyers. The limonene came from a pesticide that was sprayed recently. After what their clients had done to Maggie, the lawyers conspired to use their clients’ guns to kill them.
After Adam leaves for the night, Danny walks into Mac’s office, and asks to be on the schedule, since his Costa Rica trip didn’t go through. Then, Lindsay, Hawkes, and Stella walk in, all to give up paid vacation to keep Adam. Stella made arrangements, through a union contact, to make it possible to transfer that paid vacation back in to make it possible to keep Adam around.
