Oedipus Hex
Season	3
Number	5
Writer	Ken Solarz & Anthony E. Zuiker
Director	Scott Lautanen
Original Airdate	October 18, 2006
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Oedipus Hex is the fourth episode of the Season Three of CSI: NY.

SummaryEdit

The CSI's handle two puzzling cases; Carensa is a young Suicide Girl who at 17, wanted a change of scenery and to become a Suicide girl; at 18 she gets her wish only to lose her life. Chopper, a rising street basketball star, a homeless man trying to change his life for the better is killed and leaves a painful trail of blood which leaves Mac to figure out where and how he died.

Main CastEdit

• Gary Sinise as Det. Mac Taylor
• Melina Kanakaredes as Det. Stella Bonasera
• Hill Harper as Dr. Sheldon Hawkes
• Eddie Cahill as Det. Don Flack
• Carmine Giovinazzo as Sgt. Danny Messer
• Anna Belknap as Det. Lindsay Monroe

Recurring RolesEdit

• A.J. Buckley as Adam Ross
• Robert Joy as Dr. Sid Hammerback

Guest StarsEdit

• Sancho Demmings as Alonzo Chopper Tevis
• Allison Miller as Omen/Carensa Sanders
• Zoli Suicide as Herself
• Razzi Suicide as Herself
• Fractal Suicide as Herself
• Sawa Suicide as Herself
• Amina Munster as Herself
• Al Suicide as Herself
• Missy Suicide as Herself
• Mary-Margaret Humes as Helen Sanders
• Marvin Jordan as Dante Hope
• Natashia Williams as Kendra Tevis
• Darrel Allen Labert as Marcus
• Jack Hannibal as Clay Becker
• Stephanie Denise Griffin as Lily Becker

NotesEdit

• The Suicide Girls is a real web site and traveling burlesque show. The Suicide Girls featured in the episode, including Missy Suicide are on the websit.
• Mary-Margaret Humes, who plays Helen Sanders in this episode, has appeared in the CSI episode Let the Seller Beware.
• The title Oedipus Hex is a play on the name of a tragic play written by Sophocles, Oedipus Rex.

MusicEdit

• "Walk" by Pantera.
• "New York" by Rakim.
• "Hour of Zero (Don't Mess with Illinoize Remix)" by My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult & TRS-80.
• "Don't Go" by Scratch Track.
• "Get Myself Into It" by The Rapture.
• "Distant City" by The Cassandra Project.
• "I'm Not Worried at All" by Moby.
• "You Love It" by Peaches.

See AlsoEdit

• List of CSI: NY episodes
• SuicideGirls