CSI: NY

CSI NY S09E06 Lady in the Lake

Man: Yo, watch out!

Flack: Hey! Hey!

Girl: Wait. Are you kidding me?

I thought you said this story was about a princess,

not some cops chasing some dude.

It is. I'm just setting it up.

Okay? See?

It's called backstory.

Well, how about getting to the front story?

Well, I...

Detective Flack is chasing the bad guy.

Where is it, Rennick? Where's what?

The gun you used to kill Roger Murray with.

- Who? - Hey.

I pulled a hamstring scaling that truck over there.

You don't want to mess with me right now.

- Hey, man, come on! - Listen to me.

We got your blood, we got your prints.

You're going away.

The only question is for how long?

It's in the pond.

Turtle pond.

Near the dock.

Let's go.

Officer: Let's go.

Rennick: I swear, I threw it in there.

Between the mud and the zero visibility,

I got nothing.

Might need more divers; It's a big pond.

Rennick's not getting away with murder.

Drain it.

Drain it?

Girl: Ugh. Drain the pond?

How long is this gonna take?

Uh, well, not nearly as long as a lineup takes.

Your mom's gonna be... At least another hour,

and I don't see anybody rushing over here

to take my report, so I think we're stuck.

Girl 2: If you're a cop,

why can't you report your stolen car to yourself?

Um, well, 'cause I'm not a cop.

No, I mean, I work with cops.

Yeah, I do cop stuff,

but I'm a... I'm a crime scene investigator.

Okay, fine.

Girls, I'll tell you about the princess.

So we're all in the turtle pond...

You know, in Central Park...

Looking for the bad guy's gun.

Taylor: Everybody spread out.

No way.

I found it.

I found it!

Danville: Mac?

Another gun?

Another murder.

? out here in the fields

? I fight for my meals

? I get my back into my living

? yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Taylor: Yeah.

Okay. I got it. Keep me posted.

She's been underwater for at least a couple of days,

so any evidence of foul play would definitely be compromised.

No purse, no ID, no cell phone.

So far she doesn't match a description

on any recent missing persons reports.

Blunt force trauma.

Enough to kill her.

Drain plug's missing.

She's tied down.

Well-thought-out suicide?

Mugging gone wrong?

Well, they didn't take her earrings.

Quite an elaborate way for a grab-and-go guy

to dispose of a body.

Eliminates mugging.

Quite a ball gown, so...

I'm not buying suicide.

That leaves good, old-fashioned murder.

So we've got a castle,

and a princess.

And an unhappy ending.

Girl: Is that what she was killed with?

No, um...

That actually was a piece of a spaceship.

Let's go.

?

?I'm a sinner

? I'm a liar

? want forgiveness

?but I'm tired

? I'm addicted

? to the fire

? I'm a victim

? I'm a coward

? try to wake up

? don't have the power

? I'm a daughter

? in the choir

? I'm a shadow

? I'm a creeper

?want forgiveness

? getting weaker

? I'm addicted

? to the fever

? no, no, no eyes, baby

? no, no, no mind, baby

? no, no, no smile, baby

? no, no, no lies

? lay me down tonight

? no lies...

? Blood, I want it

? giving up the fight

? blood, I want it

? lay me down tonight yeah

? blood, I want it

? take me to the sky

? blood, I want it

? everything's all right now.

Prints got a match to Ashley Braden, 26.

Had a juvie record for a meth bust about eight years ago.

Been clean ever since.

Part-time student Chelsea U, no next of kin.

No signs of pulmonary edema.

Means she was dead before she went in the water.

COD is subdural hematoma,

caused by massive blunt force trauma.

Analysis of the trace you recovered from the wound

suggests that the weapon was

a banded metamorphic deposit,

containing quartz, mica, feldspar and biotite.

She was killed with a rock.

Specifically, Manhattan schist.

Which doesn't help us, 'cause the city's full of it.

Time of death?

Well, given the water temperature,

and extensive skin slippage,

I'd say she'd been underwater approximately 60 hours

when you found her.

And how long before that was she killed?

Lividity is exclusively along her right side.

Taylor: Consistent with her position in the boat.

So she was probably pushed out into the water

within minutes of her death.

Taylor: Which would suggest

she was killed in the park,

quite close to the pond.

Hawkes: 60 hours...

Puts it at Saturday night, around midnight.

Stomach contents revealed traces of arothron hispidus,

also known as puffer fish.

Very expensive sushi.

And delicious.

Her last meal was to die for.

Hawkes: Fancy meal, fancy dress,

fancy party...

That begs the question, where was Ashley

before she was at the park?

Sid: And who was she with?

I may have discovered evidence of a struggle.

I took subdermal photos.

Taylor: Very light discoloration.

Yeah, but then I found...

Burst capillaries.

And in a circular pattern,

around her wrist.

Somebody grabbed her.

And she resisted.

Ashley didn't go down without a fight.

?

Christine: I just want you to look me in the eye

and tell me nothing's wrong.

Phillips: You're suffering from what's called anomic aphasia.

I can appreciate your optimism,

but you cannot do this alone.

Christine, uh, when you get this,

can you call me?

I don't want to leave things...

Just call me, please.

Taylor: You got a match on the gun

- from the pond? - 100%.

Sent the ballistics report to the D.A.,

and Rennick's probably pled out by now.

What's that?

That is an excellent question, Mac.

I found this in the pond.

Strange etchings,

carbon trace from intense heat,