CSI: NY

Shots of NY and an open to a graveyard. Someone is a voiceover- we see a guy, Samuel Cooper at his grave. There is a man standing in front of his grave. He is crying. The tear drops into a pool of blood on the grave spot. And the guy falls down, a wound in his stomach. Stella is on the scene, Mac is already there. Single gunshot wound to the chest. His name is Kyle Vance- he is an ADA. His briefcase is unzipped. Mac notes that there is a popped balloon by a grave, and Stella notes it too.

Mac finds the shell case- a 9mm. Stella is listening to the headstone. Jennifer Cooper is over there talking to a cop. She is the one who found Vance.

Back in an apartment, Danny and Hawkes are with Det. Maka. There is a girl, Kathleen Dunley, dead on the bed. Super found her, to get her to sign papers, and found the front door open. There is no sign of a struggle, so its Danny asks, but he also didn't know anything about girlfriend or boyfriend. Hawkes finds semen, and informs them that indeed she has a boyfriend. Danny finds a note that says, "looking forward to seeing you Michelle." Danny notes something purple on her lips. She checks inside her mouth and the discoloration is inside. He calls over Hawkes who says it's not blood. But there is a sharp force trauma in her ear. So they photograph her and fume her since moving her would ruin prints. They find several prints on her body. They powder her. The prints go from feet up her legs.

Stella is with Sid, and tells them what they knew—he died from a gunshot wound to the chest. He isn't certain. There is no bullet fragment. And no exit wound. They think maybe the shooter retrieved it. He also sees burned paper substance in the wound.

Stella is in the lab checking out the paper substance. Using a computer she figures out its Barium Nitrate. Next we see Adam in the lab with her vic's prints. He prints the case. Stella meanwhile is working on the balloon and swabbing them. Back to Adam, we have him comparing prints. They find prints, a match for William Tucker- he goes to Mac and apparently tucker has done a lot. Adam leaves and Flack comes telling him Vance had a large case load- most of them convicted felons. Mac shows him the image of William Tucker. Mac finds Tucker at a newspaper delivery. Mac asks him about Vance and Tucker throws a newspaper bundle at Mac. He turns to flee, but Flack stops him with a gun aimed at him. They bring him in for questioning. Tucker claims he is out of the crime business but they inform him they know he broke into Vance's apartment (flash to Lindsay in his apartment). Tucker still feigns ignorance of who Vance was. And his blood is on Vance's windowsill. Then he says "oh that Kyle Vance. Apparently Vance had a bunch of booby traps in his home. Tucker claims he was only doing reconnaissance and knows nothing about his murder. They say he took him out at the cemetery. He grins and was like "are you telling me the ADA on my case is dead?" Again he says they are done there. But Mac is certain it's him, even though there is no proof there.

Stella is walking down with Mac saying the burned paper was like cardboard wadding from a shotgun. The killer was shooting blanks- leading them to believe it wasn't an intentional murder. Lindsay comes back with some interesting information. Kyle Vance was not just an ADA, but also a wedding planner, travel agent, and a casting director. He made his office so that it appeared different with bookcases that turned around. He rented one office and dressed it to look like three different office. When she walked in it was set up as a casting office, "he had movie posters, video cameras, everything." She also found another popped balloon and photos in an RIP folder. The one woman was Jennifer Cooper.

Sid is with Hawkes and Danny; their vic had a full stomach at time of death, meaning she died within 2 hrs of her last meal. And he found trace on the back of her head and hair. So he hands them the trace. Sid isn't sure what killed her. He also found 2 dozen eggs in her ear drums. They need to incubate the eggs to find out what killed her. In the lab we see Hawkes setting up an incubation station for the eggs. Danny is with Hawkes later, the trace was flour. Det. Maka comes up behind them; she found who sent their vic the flowers: Michel Hetu who owns a bakery. Apparently she was suing him. She made a fortune suing people. She threatened to sue him, he sent her flowers. They bring him in for an interview. Michele claims he was trying to sleep with her. When asked where he was the other night, he says he doesn't remember it's been a tough couple of weeks. He was trying to get her to stop the suing. Danny notes that he's been drinking. Danny can tell he's "full of crap." He claims he didn't kill her, so Danny asks for proof and gets a DNA swab.

In the lab, Danny is checking out the bow tie from their crime scene. Hawkes enters- the eggs are still incubating. He has results of her stomach contents which has a list of some bizarre items: duck fetus, bugs, whale bacon; Danny gets the idea for exotic cuisine. There was an ad he saw not too long ago advertising exotic cuisine such as what was found in the vic's stomach. It features foods one would normally not eat served up as exquisite meals. It was, to say the least, expensive.

A montage of a busy restaurant, mixing normal ingredients, peppers, sliced tomatoes, with non normal ingredients, tarantulas, other bugs. (mmm tasty). We see the cooks preparing tarantulas and live snails, the tarantulas are alive at first too…there is also a salad with live centipedes and spaghetti with scorpions. Also other bugs on pasta Danny and Hawkes enter as they question the head chef. He says she was here last night, and he remembers since he was in the ballroom all evening. He does remember her being with some guy and he remembers because they got into a fight. Danny is checking out the disturbing food. The fight happened right before dessert, a jellyfish torte. Apparently his guests pay 10k a plate to eat at these events. Last night's event was exotic seafood while tonight's is creepy crawlers. The chef hands the two a bowl of centipedes and offers them. Hawkes declines, but Danny, shrugging, grabs one that is still wriggling and puts it in his mouth. Danny is chewing and the chef says, "tastes just like chicken, right?" Danny, with his mouth full, responds, "not really." The chef starts to walk away. They ask what the guy looks like, he says he was a big guy but he doesn't remember the name so he says he will get them a guest list. Hawkes is shocked Danny ate the centipede, while Danny points out a tank with an octopus or squid inside. It is climbing up the side and Danny and Hawkes walk over, the tentacles match the marks found on their vic's mouth. The stomach contents however did not mention octopus. So they ask Mr. Collins, the man they interviewed earlier, if he served octopus. Live octopus was the featured appetizer. They think it must be difficult to eat. But the chef says not if done properly. He proceeds to show them how to do it by taking one out of the tank. He says you need to make sure everything is wrapped tightly around the stick, then adds, "wrap it wrong and it will kill you." They take the tank of octopuses. Flack is outside, checking out a picture of Mrs. Cooper, she smiles and runs. They chase after her, and a gun shot her arm. Flack notes the gun in her pocket was a water gun and screams at her, "are you kidding me?"

Mac is on the scene, where an EMT is there. they are questioning her and she says how she thought he, flack, was trying to kill her. Apparently the whole thing is some water gun assassination game. Mac tells her she could have been killed being seen with that water gun. She says she knows and then how Bloomberg was trying to shut them down. She claims there are about 100 people involved in it. He asks if all the players know each other, and she wants to know why he's so curious about this water gun war. Mac says the guy who died at the grave was there to assassinate her. The winner gets 100k. she is shocked they think she killed him and says she didn't even know he was in the game till he told her. So she tells him the rules. Everyone gets their first target from the supreme commander- it's the guy who started the game, and he's apparently some eccentric millionaire. It only costs 50 dollars to start up. She says that she got a flyer in the mail with a number- she doesn't still have it but she adds that the supreme commander contacts you anonymously. And leaves the information for you in an abandoned warehouse. She says if you hit your target then you inherit the other person's target. She claims creativity is encouraged when playing- so you have to come up with ruses to get your kill.

Back at the lab we have Danny and Hawkes working n the octopuses in the la. They are testing their inc and tentacle markings, to see if they can compare them. Hawkes found one with the same size and shape; he also found one with melanin. The vic died trying to eat a live octopus. But Danny marks how she was killed because her hands were tied. The killer fed it to her, and watched her die.

Lindsay is walking with Mac and Stella discussing how the water gun wars explain the balloons and the booby traps. He wanted to keep other players out. Lindsay thinks the game sounds like fun, but Stella reminds her someone in this game is killing people for real and might kill again. Mac says they need to become part of the game and attack the people who are free on their list. Lindsay tracks the first guy Mac picks and she asks to see his dossier. He hands it to her and she finds a face. Flack goes and finds him and asks for his dossier. He gets a picture of a girl and Stella finds her. She checks out her dossier, and she gets a young guy. Flack finds the young guy in front of a game store. He asks him if he likes games with guns, and the kid plays along. When flack asks to check in the bag the kid says he knows his rights. Flack says that he knows who is after him. If he lets Flack check out his targets he lets the kid know who is after him. He takes out his dossier and shows Flack. On it, flack sees the dead ADA, without an X on it. He wants to know who is after him, but Flack says the deal is off.

In the lab, Hawkes is in front of the incubation station. Danny comes up behind him and says the prints and the DNA don't match Hetu. He's not the killer. Also flack got back to Hawkes and apparently the flour on their vic isn't for baking but rather tempura. Hawkes gets a call: their mystery date is not a mystery. They are questioning him. He says yes he was the escort. He says he dropped her off, and that he was hoping to apologize, but she asked him to leave. He left. He asked how the octopus was and he says it was delightful, not realizing that killed her. The bow tie was left there. He says why he wouldn't kill her was money- she made him rich. Their fight was because she was flirting with the chef- the mark. The lawyer gets up and leaves.

Flack is questioning the kid from earlier and he is surprised his target is dead. He says he never found the guy. Flack says he is looking for him. But the kid says he wants a lawyer. He wants his DNA, and he shows him a warrant.

In the lab, the eggs have hatched. Maka comes in, with some information. She hands him a folder, and says how if this is their guy, she wants in on the collar. The dossier is of a Larry Whitfield who, 5 years ago, changed his name to Tony Collins (the head chef…). apparently one of the businesses their vic put out of business 5 years ago was run by him. The attorney sued the restaurant for what she claimed to be a "near fatal" meal. We have motive.

Mac and Stella are talking. The DNA didn't match the kid, Jordan. So they go over what they know. They talk about the office, and the last position was set up as a casting director. Blanks, an audition and a head shot. They look for their vic's last kill.

Back at the exotic cuisine, we see Tony walking around. Danny and Flack are there smirking at him. Maka is also there. They question him: it was payback right? He says how he wasn't going to let it happen again, and how their last lawsuit was out of court so they never met. He seduced her and brought her the octopus. He tied her up and fed her. He killed her and watched her die, accidentally leaving a centipede behind. He claims how she was a criminal. His wife left him because of her. And he was upset how after 5 years that took him to rebuild his reputation. Maka cuffs him.

We see an audition for "Of Mice and Men." The last kill of Vance is rehearsing with his daughter. Mac notes a fake gun. Mac checks out the gun. It's a blank. The actor says how he got it from a film he was in a year ago. He asks what part Mac is here for, and Mac tells him he's for the role of cop. The guy is confused and says there is no cop in Mice of Men. Mac tells him "I'm here for a different version. One where an ADA is found dead at a cemetery." He asks not to make a scene in front of the girl. They have him in for questioning, saying how hard it is to be an actor. And how Vance made him go through the entire thing. He didn't just kill him at the very beginning. He made him go through all the pictures and the acting and the scene work. He said how that morning he kissed his wife, and girl and she said its okay if you don't get it, and how he couldn't bear to tell her it wasn't real. He says how he just went there to scare him. He water ballooned Vance, and showed the gun. Vance shot the blank, not thinking it would hurt him. And he repeats, "I just meant to scare him."

In the lunch room, all the CSIs are around. Danny brings out some of the exotic food: mealworm spaghetti, stinkbug pate, cricket croquets, braised ant bruchetta, Thai dragonflies. He asks who is going first. Stella has a look of disgust on her face while the guys are laughing. Lindsay is sitting at the table. Stella says he has to be kidding, flack and Hawkes say pass, Mac just looks around. Lindsay takes a bite of a spider saying its just protein. They look at her, and Mac says to Danny, "told you she'd do it," and makes a gesture with his hand for money. They had made a bet. Then Mac says, "ok pizza in my office." So everyone but Danny and Lindsay walk off. He sits down as she asks about the bet, and he goes "yeah what was I thinking, country girl." She continues eating saying it's not bad, and he hands her some grasshopper chutney. She dips it in and continues eating, while Danny looks at her and laughs. Then he hands her a wasp tamale. Danny takes a bite of spaghetti mealworm, saying it's the best.