Summer in the City

Summer in the City
Season	2
Number	1
Writer	Pam Veasey
Director	David Van Aincken
Original Airdate	Spetember 28, 2005
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Summer In The City is the first episode in the second season of CSI: NY.

Summary

A very skilled and famous skyscraper climber fell off the Empire State Building while attempting to scale the building. Mac and Hawkes, on his first field assignment, investigate the case. In another part of the city, Stella and Danny must solve the mysterious death of a famous designer found dead, wearing his latest creation which is a bra made of diamonds. Aiden works solo on a rape case.

Plot

A women wakes up in an apartwment opposte the Empire State Building. After ordering the man in the bed to leave she opens the curtains and sees a mna climbing the Empire State Building. She phones someone wishing them to pick up. Son after the cilmber falls to his death, and his brain splatters all over the people watching him below.

Mac, Stella and Sheldon are at the scene of the crime when Flack gives them a jar with about 50% of the brain in it. Flack also says he has found about 10% more. Mac and Flack go up to the vic, who is Paul Gizner. He also had previous climbed the Chrystler Building. Mac discovers his phone, showing him dialling 911 nd he was overed in resin powder to soak up sweat.

Mac then uses an elevator platform to see the outside of the building and uses the resin powder to see where he was whilst Sheldon tries to discover more about the vic. Mac finds the end of the trail at floor 34 and Sheldon and Mac go and investigate the room. They discovered the vic banged on the window, blood spatter on the chair, a palm print on the table and a pregnancy test.

Stella, Danny and Aiden find a dead man wearing a diamond bra uside an apartement. The vic also had blood around his mouth, but no apparent trauma to the jaw. There wasn't any strangulation, stab or gunshot wounds on his body either. They find mud trace on the floor and Stella IDs the vic as Whitman Price, the designer of the diamond bra.

Stella and Danny go to ask the model who posed in the bra a few questions. She tells them the only anomily is the vic lft without security. The model also had a security officer who goes everywhere with her. The ME tells Stella that Price died due to being hit in the chest after swallowing something. This lead to internal bleeding. After cutting open his chest it was a diamond that he swallowed.

Sheldon discovers a mosquito on the table that was transported there. Mac finds GSR on the back of a chair consistent with a revolver. The climber my have saw a murder and tried to dial 911. They locate the gunshot victim who was dragged into a store cupboard. The vic was Lee Dillardwh had been bitten by the mosquito. Ma catches the mosquito so they can test it for the shooters blood. They question Lee's business partner Eli Bishop who is wearing a bandage making his handprint similar to the one on the table.

Sheldon performs an autopsy on the mosquito back at the lab whilst Danny inspects the bra for fingerprints and Aiden is processing the mud. Whilst inspecting the diamond that was swallowed, Aiden gets a call and leaves the lab. Stella and Danny learn that Fred Becker's fingerprints were on the bra and the swallowed diamond was a fake.

Mac questions Adam, Lee's assissant on the murder, He shows him a pen collected from the crime scene that belongs to the hotel where he is staying. He also scraches his hand throughout the interrogation. Adam admits the pen is his, but Lee stole it from him like he normally does.

Danny and Stella question Fred about the bra and he tells them he was distracted by the models, so he vic took off, because he had had enough of waiting.

Aiden is in a cafe talking to her friend Regina. Regina says he has been raped again by he same person, DJ Pratt, because he smelt of paint thinner.

Flack and Sheldon gets Lee's wife to identfy Lee and then question her. She says they are having a tough time and she went jogging at the time of the murder. Sheldon then takes the glass from her and processes it for fingerprints. They are a match to those on the pregnancy test. He also finds out the DNA from the mosquito shows that of the vic and an unknown male. Mac goes back to the mosquito that has GSR on it.

Aiden looks into Regina's rape case looking at her clothes. Mac tells Aiden she has been formally assigned to this case.

The soil from Whitman's body is from Central Park. They then suspect the model. Nicole, but Stella says ahe is too skinny to punch someone hard enough to cause internal bleeding. They then suspect her personal sercurity officer. They visit him at the next photoshoot, when the bodyguard runs off, but Danny catches him.

Aiden goes to see DJ Pratt to ask him about raping Regina. He is working with paint thinner at the time. He is also wearing a ring, which has a similar design on it that was found in a bruised form on Regina's face.

Danny discovers the bodyguard's fist matches the bruises on the vic, which proves he killed Price. Stella revisits Nicole and discover she swapped the real diamond fr fake one and hung the real one of the tree.

Mac and Sheldon realises that Adam shot Lee, but don't know why. Mac remembers the blinds were open and when he was on the elevation platform, lots of people from the hotel across the road were looking at him, so they deduce that they were open so someone could watch the murder. They go to the apartement hwere the episode began and told the woman she was there to watch Adam kill her ex-husband Lee. Adam is carrying a bag full of money, which is for killing Lee. The reason the woman, Connie, phoned someone at the start of the episode was she was afraid the climber may witness the murder.

Aiden asks the evidence clerk for Regina's old rape case evidence. She opens DJ Pratt's hair sample and leaves it hanging in tweezers over Regina's clothes.

See Also

• List of CSI: NY episodes