CSI: NY

There is a group of people on the beach in winter. All of a sudden we hear lets get it started@ they take off their jackets and jump into the water. As they come out the water one man finds something sticking out of the sand. He brushes sand off of it, and it turns out to be a trunk. He opens it expecting to find treasure, but inside is a folded body. Mac and Stella are on the scene. Its dry inside. Upon lifting it up, Mac and Stella find out it's not a trunk but a box.

In the morgue, Hawkes is excited about taking the body out. he says, "no yanking." The body is in full rigor. But Hawkes says the cold slows down rigor so he could have been 48 hours ago. Stella offers Mac to help Hawkes straight him out while she takes the box. They work hard on straightening him out, his body is very stiff. As they unclench him totally Mac finds a pressed penny in his palm.

Stella and Aiden are in the lab working on the box. Twine from the box is unique- very strong. Stella finds a trace fiber, but it has a root, so it's a thick hair- not human.

Danny and Flack are at a different crime scene. There was so much blood it seeped through the downstairs neighbor's ceiling. There is so much, that it means there must be a dead body. The resident of the apt is a Paige Worthy, and hasn't been seen in a week by her super. She is a former ms Iowa. The shower curtain is missing though everything is fine.

Mac is still with Hawkes and they find some trace on the nails and bruises on the throat, arms and wrist, and also on the backside something with a hook on the end. There is also a hickey on his neck. So they scan his body. The skeleton is intact. Someone killed him and stuffed him in a 2 x 2 x 2 box, and didn't break a bone.

Back with flack and Danny, there is still a lot of food in the fridge- she wasn't leaving anywhere. Danny finds prints on the knob, and also trace on the ground. He also finds blood drops moving towards the door. He follows them and notices a garbage chute outside her door, and a bloody smudge on the handle. Looking down, he sees a clog.

Mac and Stella return to Hawkes. He died from asphyxiation, dead before hitting the Atlantic. Neither smothered nor choked. He was alive when he was put inside the box. Besides the trace on the fingernails no sign of fighting back.

Danny and flack head down to around where the clog is. He looks in the shoot, down no clog, looks up and the dead face is staring him in the face. Danny tries to compare it to the resident- it doesn't match. The dead body is someone else

Stella and Mac are discussing double-jointed. They figure out maybe he was some sort of artist where he tried to get in ion his own. Aiden comes back with hair, it was an elephant. At the circus: the ringleader opens the bag and a person climbs out. all performers are in the ring now. Stella seems very happy. They question Mr. Nieman, the father of the vic, who says Lucas, the DB performed then disappeared. He asks how, and they say how. The male contortionist comes by from the bag before and hugs Mr. Nieman. It's his brother. One of the other performers comes by and apologizes, and a fight ensues. Mac questions the father afterwards as Stella questions the other artist, Bernado Espargosa. He, Neiman, doesn't like that the man who tried apologizing was from Brooklyn and not a foreigner or born in the circus. He says people were jealous. The man he got into a fight with, the trapeze artist has a daughter who he claims was the star.

Mac then questions the trapeze artists daughter, Anasuya. Lucas and she were together in an act. The show had them do Romeo and Juliet. She hurt her arm. Stella and Mac then check out the circus tent. The twine in the elephant enclosure is similar to that of the box, and Mac finds some trace material on the lift same color as the box, also beach sand in the tires. Stella is excited about being close to the elephant but Mac is perturbed that everything is there, except for his costume. He checks out the trash, and there it is.

Danny is with Hawkes, there was no sexual assault, and she was stabbed. She also had a crooked nose and her two front teeth are capped, a battered spouse.

Mac examines Lucas' clothes as Stella comes in with news: the skin under Lucas' nails is his own. There is a substance adhered to the chest and arms, it's powdery. Aiden comes in with the news that the dolly with the trace from the crate and beach was printed and the Elephant handlers prints were the only ones there. Stella and Mac go up to him. He says that Lucas used to go in there all the time, they'd never talk. He offers DNA, coat and spit; they only take the first two. They go to the lab, but bad news. He is not a match to Lucas. Stella says there is more than just saltwater. Makeup- heavy makeup. He claims it's on the box because of the act. But he has a cane and the bruises on his body are consistent with the box. Mac asks the clown what happened in interrogation. He says he spilled the bubbles. The clown was angry. Needed the bubbles for his act, So they took him to clown court, and the reason for the umbrella handle was that that was the punishment the clowns gave. He gives his hands to Mac's use.

Danny and Mac find Paige, the missing tenant. They show her a picture and she explains it's Lita Cartey, and that she was staying there with her. And then she claims she went to the hotel because the husband was harassing her. They question him and he says that he couldn't keep her if he didn't hit her. He admits to being in the building.

Danny is in the lab, worried. Mac comes in and tells him to breathe. It seems as if it should be the husband, but DNA doesn't match.

Stella is looking at results, and Mac comes in. It's not Rosie the clown. The white powder was chalk from the trapeze. He claims that he attacked his daughter and the bruises happened days before, they think he smushed him the box.

Hawkes is with Mac and Stella, and he thinks Bernado wasn't there. He was a great contortionist because of his father. Because he was a fourth generation artist. His skin is velvety, he bruises easily, and so they couldn't have proved it. They think over who it could have been. They think maybe life was imitating art, which makes him wonder why she's still alive. So they try and figure out the connection

Flack and Danny are back at the apartment. Danny is trying to think that even though she didn't leave, she had a full cart. They found out she ordered Loomi, which is what had been spilled on the floor, They find a delivery man with blood on his face. In interrogation, they say how she had blood on his knife. The delivery boy thinks she asked for him special, and that she liked him.

They figure out she did it, that there was her wool sweater in his box. He committed suicide, and she found him. She explains they had been there before together. She says how the two both hated it here, and how she was supposed to be with him. She had tried to commit suicide too, but she changed her mind, which was why she didn't continue.