CSI: NY

We start off at a poker game- four guys who seem to know each other well. One guy is doing very well. We see the dealer dealing from the second card, dealing seconds. The guys throw blows and they throw the cheater out of the room. One guy shouts if he sees their face again he dies. The door bell rings, and the guy who made the die comment checks it out. he looks through the peep hole to see a rifle barrel at eye level- and BOOM he gets shot. Mac and Flack are on the scene. Mac notices the amount of money and comments on it. Stella arrives on scene and she looks through the giant hole in the door.

Mac notes it looks like their vic, Joel, broke his hand on the "shooter's" face. Stella finds a cigar and bags it, Flack mentions the shooter smoked that cigar. Stella sees the game and notes how it wasn't just a small game. She asks if they continued playing, which they didn't. she notes that the blinds were 500 and 250 and the cards were just dealt. Mac wonders where the gun was, and thinks in the hallway maybe? He doesn't see who comes to a game with a shot gun. Outside the doorway Mac and Flack see blood spot on the floor. It's blood mixed with saliva. They look up and see a blood smear on the wall. They head to it, and notice directionality and follow where it leads, following in the beaten up kid's footsteps. We hear people with their peep holes. Mac sees blood on a door which leads to a trash chute. The chute's handle has blood on it.

Mac is outside and asks Lindsay, who is sifting through the garbage, if she has anything. She is looking. Flack is questioning some tenants of the building. The guy says he heard the shot, then when Flack asks if he called 911 he says "no, why?" Lindsay finds a jacket that has been dumped with blood on it. She hands it to Mac and goes back to search. Back to Flack knocking on a woman's door, who ignores the fact he's a cop and berates him for waking her up at 3 am. Lindsay is back with the dumpster and found a shotgun.

We see Danny and Hawkes in Central Park with a dead weather girl, Tara Stanfield in the park. It seems like she came from work or an assignment. A jogger found her about an hour ago. No signs of robbery or sexual assault, or strangulation. Danny finds yellow trace on her hands, and he notes no damage to the nails. Danny notices her coat is damp. Lividity ion the face put time of death around 8 hrs ago. Danny looks at his watch, and says "actually 10 hrs and 13 minutes." He goes on to say how it rained last night and explain their reasoning. The problem is, however that the rain has messed up their evidence.

Hawkes is in the autopsy room with Sid. The weather girl suffered some blunt force trauma but that wasn't the cause of death. What killed her was being drowned. Sid is going to do some cross sections of her lung and he prompts Hawkes by saying he's jealous who admits he is a little. Hawkes is checking out her fingers while they talk. Hawkes says he is going to work the first place to start/

Lindsay is in the lab checking out the coat. She notices what looks like GSR on it. Stella is checking out the cigar and cuts the piece with the mouth and checks it. Linds tests for GSR and it comes up positive, meanwhile Stella found the company of the cigar. She walks up to Lindsay, and Lind says the gun was definitely and the jacket is definitely the shooter's. she says that it will take a while to get a DNA profile, but she is pretty sure the cigarettes will find him. Stella and Flack head over to Dulce Cigars, and show a picture of the vic to the clerk who claims he's never seen him. When they mention he smokes their cigars, he says he has good taste. Flack mentions he likes Cubans (which are illegal). Flack threatens him with bringing ATF (Bureau of alcohol, tobacco, and firearms) and says that any Cubans he has will be confiscated. Stella asks again if he recognizes the vic and he gives them information, saying he rents a humidor here. They lead him to it. Flack breaks some cigars since he won't answer any questions. He tells him how there is a poker game in back, and Kelly will be there. Stella prints his humidor and says she'll run it through APHIS but they'll have better luck here.

Danny and Hawkes are at Tara's office, talking to the camera man who sounds a little… obsessed. The manager yells at the camera guy, Leonard. Danny and Hawkes check out her desk, and find a video tape inside it. They also see a bunch of unwound tape. They bring it to Adam in the lab who is working with tools to straighten the tape out and rewind it back in. he is using a lot of smoke and a hair dryer. Adam puts the tape inside, and what immediately comes up is a documentary on walruses. But then it adjusts, and we see Tara with her producer having sex. Lindsay walks in on the three guys are looking at it carefully. They all have their heads tilted as they are looking at what's on tape.

The guys head back to the newsroom and talk to Mr. Fallon, the producer. Danny pops in the tape of him and Tara. They notice some scratch marks on his arm. But Mr. Fallon claims she's aggressive in bed.

Back at the cigar place, at the poker game, Flack and Hawkes are checking it out. Their missing guy is the dealer again; Stella checks out his handiwork and notices him dealing seconds. They interrupt his game, and bring him the back. They show him the jacket. He claims it's worthless. When they mention the shotgun he has a surprised look on his face. He looks shocked Joel is dead, and is rather upset about it. He sees Joel's dead picture, and he says "he was caught at cheating, and torn up, but that then he left." He claims he has no idea of the GSR. He says it wasn't part of the plan… to kill Joel. He said they were supposed to clean up. But then he looks up and says he's not going to say anymore.

Stella is at the lab and positions the cards like they were in the crime scene and the name. Mac walks in, and she tells him of what Kelly said. So she is going to look at how the cards were. Flack is in the room with Kelly who is not saying anything but watching Flack as he flips a chip. Stella lays out the cards, and she says everybody looks good so far, so that they can all have their money in the pot. She places out the flop. Eddie is ahead with a full house. Joel and Kelly have a two pair. Again, Eddie is in the lead after they put down the turn. The only way the other two can win is if the last card is an Ace. So she puts down the river card after burning one. It's not an Ace. Flack is getting up and telling Kelly now is his time, otherwise, he's screwed. Flack goes to leave and Kelly stops him. He says again he didn't kill him. Flack leaves. Back with Stella and Mac, they find out the vic would have been the winner. Kelly and Joel were cheating together. So Kelly didn't kill him.
Back again with Stella and Mac, the DNA came back. The blood on the floor was Kelly's but the one on the wall was not Kelly. The possible shooter.

Back to Danny and Hawkes. There was gravel in Tara's lung tissue. So they need to do a comparison. They also found the DNA under her fingernails. It's an exact match to Tara. They were identical twins. Her twin is a school teacher. Danny is with her, she has a scratch on her face. He asks where she was when she died. He asks about the video tape. She claims she didn't touch her.

Lindsay is in the lab with 911 calls from the building. And then there was one 2 minutes before the other calls, and it was a 911 call but a hang-up. The call is of a guy who harassed them in the elevator. She hung up because she was subletting. And it's illegal to sublet. She asks Stella if Stella is going to say anything who says no, she can trust them.

Hawkes is in central park taking evidence from where Tara died. He notices a low puddle near where she was. He checks how deep it was, and thanks for a bit. He has his computer and scanner there and scans it.

Back in the lab Mac and Stella are talking about what the 911 caller said. Lindsay rushes up with some information of the DNA. Apparently his DNA gave more than gender, but also what kind of person they were looking for. She also found a lot of marijuana in his system. Stella thinks about what Heather mentioned about the marijuana smell. They think about the guy and how he lives on the 9th floor, how he got on the 8th floor. There is blood on the carpet. Stella knocks, and she talks to them. Heather has no idea but the boyfriend does. He didn't want to scare her. The guy apparently came back and the boyfriend had belted him one. He gives them a description. He saw him leave and claims that was the end of it. Mac checks out the elevator and sees the button pressed. He pressed the up button. They look at the couple and say he came back down to kill them. But he got confused. He went to the wrong floor.

Hawkes walks in with Danny. Hawkes found broken glass and hands it to Danny. Adam walks in and shows them a video that has the video with Tara on it. Danny meanwhile is working on fixing the broken glass from the crime scene. Hawkes is working with the scan he took. Danny walks up to Hawkes with the glass that has been reconstructed. Hawkes informs what killed their weather girl, was the weather. Apparently her head been laying in a depression in the ground. So when it rained, it drowned her. So she died in about 2 inches of water. But now they have to figure out who hit her over the head. Danny says the glass shards on the victims head are like those from the crime scene. Apparently the crime scene, there is a dent from what seems to be a tripod. The boys head and find the camera man, Leonard Curson. They check out his fan, and find a glass shard on a tripod with blood on it while Danny finds a DVD case. They confront him with it; he didn't know he broke it. There was an image on the plastic, the image from the sex tape.

Leonard had made the copies and had given her the camera. Leonard claims he didn't mean to kill her. He was upset that she broke the deal. She decided not to do it for her sister. He had made a copy and she tried running off with it. He still made a copy to profit from her death. He claims he didn't mean to kill her, but Danny says how he didn't even call 911. he left her there. He should have done something about it.

Stella and Mac are in the apartment building looking for traces of blood or GSR on the upper floors. They find a door with GSR on it, and Mac knocks. The door opens. A little girl is behind it. Stella walks in and asks for her father, who is lying on the couch, drunk and passed out. the little girl tries to wake him but he won't. she looks apologetically to them and shrugs. They finally must've woken him up because Stella and Mac have him in for questioning. They show him a picture of Joel. He has no idea who he is, of course. And Mac says he blew his head off with a shotgun. He says he has never met him before. Well of course he hasn't. then they show the other guy who he used to be. He used to have a great job and a great wife. But then he was mugged. He was in the hospital for ages; the pictures of him are gruesome. He claims he doesn't remember. He had nightmares, and that's why he started drinking. After he got punched he grabbed his shotgun and was too drunk to realize he went to the wrong floor. He killed the wrong person. After the realization he has this look of horror on his face, and he tears up.