CSI: NY

A girl is studying while listening to her ipod. She hears some loud noises from the hall and she shouts for them to shut it down, then she is seen banging on the wall and saying she is going to call the building manager. Then she hears a thud, was it a gunshot? She exits her apt and walks down the hallway slowly. The door of another apartment is open. She enters, and says "hello?" but that's when she sees the dead body on the ground. Mac and Stella are on the scene. The place is trashed, as is the victim. There are shots of photos from Stella, showing the room. The victim was dragged to the door, to send a message. Flack comes in with information the vic is Will Novak from Hoboken. The witness said she ran to the shot from her room, they joke she mustn't be a New Yorker. She isn't, (she's from South Carolina). The vic had a roommate, a girl: Jordan Benson, who ditched her classes today.

Mac and Stella are looking at the apartment. Stella figures one guy was beating up the vic, while another was doing the search. Mac finds some tickets for King Lear. Everything in the apartment seems expensive. Stella finds Heroine on the table and knife marks. Flack comes in saying that they can't find the roommate.

Hawkes is with Mac and Stella. The kid went through quite a beating. The shooting was an act of mercy as he says. They broke three ribs, bruised the kidneys stomped each knee; there is no indication if he used heroine, thinking he was a user, but he was probably only dealing. They question the father, saying that there were traces of heroine; he says his kid didn't do drugs, and Mac says they know that. They ask if he's ever done drugs in the past. Apparently he was caught with a joint in a jean pocket once and sent to get help. He promised he'd never do it again. And that's it. He is asked about the roommate, but he has no idea, but her dad paid rent. Then he says the son worked maintenance at the school. Not enough to pay for the drugs. He was obviously dealing. He asserts his son wasn't mixed up in drugs. He is saying they are wrong, that his son was a good kid.

Danny is with Mac saying the heroine was 90% purity China White, cut only once. Stella is checking out the vic's finances, Flack comes in, he also has nothing. He makes weekly deposit for lots of money but finds no paychecks.

Mac comes in to the lab where Aiden is working on prints. Nothing on aphis, but there is something odd, there are two tickets missing. The show is going on now, so Mac heads out. Mac goes down the rows; he finds the seats and two people. Mac gets them to go out, and Danny and Mac interview them. They are surprised Will is dead. When asked about Benson, they ask who? The guy being asked question claims he is Will's digger, he waits in line for the tickets, and then he gets to keep a pair and gets 10 bucks for ever hour he's there waiting. He claims the theater loves scalpers so they can advertise as being sold out. he seems he is surprised about the heroine, and that he got the job because the last digger was a stoner, he says Will hated druggies. He says the last time he saw Will was yesterday when he gave him the tickets, and claims he's only been to the apt twice and that the girl was only seen by him like a month or two ago. Mac gets a call. Danny walks over saying the kid is about to wet his pants. They cut him loose, the cops found Jordan Benson's purse during their 6block canvas search.
Stella is at where the purse was found, Mac comes in and she informs him it still has cash and credit cards. They find a hunting knife near the purse, with synthetic fibers there. They find fresh blood on the ground and high velocity splatter, there was a gunshot. Another blood drop, it's heading to the end of the alley, the gunshot may not have been fatal. They follow more drops and it stops at the trash dumpster, they open the lid and look inside. A person jumps out, he is bloody. They stomp on his arm and Mac subdues him and cuffs him they get his cell phone. He says he knows his rights and they can't force him to get surgery. They won't be getting the bullet it seems.

Chad is checking out the cell phone data from the perp. Stella is with him. Apparently the cell phone is only a few days old. He's got priors for distribution. No record of will calling that number. All calls on will's cell come from around Broadway, except Monday where most theaters are dark. They don't think Will was dealing heroine while scalping. Flack calls Stella. They found Jordan at the parents. She is upstairs. Flack and Stella are at the parents, saying they found her purse in the alley. She says she didn't take it with her. The doorman claims she got there just before 2, she says she went to the village for breakfast with her laundry bag and didn't bring ID just some money and keys, she also says that she barely knew Will. She says she never saw him handling drugs. She starts crying when pushed for more info, and says "Poor Will." They leave, and Flack and Stella don't believe it. They say she should be cooperating. They leave a uniform out there just in case.

Aiden is at the holding cell with the perp, who is being troublesome with Aiden. She is getting fingernail scrapings and skin from him. He goes to attack her, and she tases him.

Stella informs Mac what happened with Jordan. Mac gets a call as Stella leaves. It was Danny; they found a Paul Collins, OD'd. fine white powder on the bag, and they are going to send it to trace. Mac tells him to check for connection to Will.

Stella is in the lab taking apart the cell phone/PDA. She is lasering it and getting a chip out of it. We also have cuts of Chad working on another project. Stella gets some info and Flack comes in. She got some info, two text messages from today, and a message that says 11:30 at SC, and then another message that says outside your dorm at noon.

Mac walks in with some bags for Chad, from the most recent vic, who says the heroine from the college kid is set up for a crystal test. It has high crystal growth. He apparently wasn't a habitual user, and that what killed him was the high concentration. Mac wants the drug sample compared to that from the earlier crime scene. A phone rings. It's in the bags he just brought over. The ring is NYPD. Mac answers, its Stella on the other line. Apparently Jordan made an appointment to meet with the vic this morning. Jordan was the dealer and she's selling it pure.

Mac Stella and Flack are with Jordan Benson who is with a lawyer. Flack is there as well. The father is also there. The lawyer says that Jordan has said all she could. The dad yells and says that his daughter was almost killed today. Stella strikes back with "Two teenagers were killed today." She turns to Jordan, and says the heroine that she sold to Collins was 90% pure and it killed him. The lawyer says their done, but Stella turns to him they are trying to prevent another fatal overdose rather than arresting Jordan. She begs that Jordan inform them of the other person she sold to. She shows a picture to Jordan of the OD case, and Jordan turns away saying, "tell her to stop!" the dad tells them to get out of his house now, and the lawyer says she is way out of line. Jordan is being bratty, and Flack is trying to say Stella should go, since they aren't going to get anywhere. Stella leaves picture as a souvenir, and looks to the dad saying, "quite a kid you got." She and Flack leave.

Mac comes in to Aiden who is in the lab. The substance on Deroy's hands was superglue. He informs her that Jordan seems to be the source of the heroine. He tells her to compare DNA and try and get any information she can from the purse. She claims they will get a novel out of it. Mac leaves. We see Aiden checking out the contents of the purse. Chad enters and just watches her. He is watching her rather intently as she got white residue and hands it to him. He walks off

Stella is checking out financials of Jordan. Flack enters. Her bank account went from 18 grand to 50 bucks in four months. All of it was shopping. The credit card was secured by her dad. He paid 10 k twice in 6 weeks, and then threw her account. Stella states this kind of thing can make a girl desperate.

Stella and Mac are with Aiden in the lab that beams, and tells them traces of china white were found in her purse. They got her. She says the DNA from her lipstick was a match with the DNA under Deroy's nail. And the receipt in her bag shows she had the bag with her after she left the apartment, Deroy snatched the bag at the school. Stella claims they can't get a warrant based on info that she was a victim. Stella tells Mac, and he says they got motive for drug dealing. They take her student ID to try and track down what she did the other day.

Mac is outside being told about Stella's behavior by a chief. He says how she pushed the autopsy photo in the face of the girl. Stella sees the conversation and says, great. Apparently this is the fourth complaint in 3 years. He says Mac has to keep Stella away from the Benson's. Mac confronts Stella. They are yelling, and Aiden walks up. She got something. Chad wanted a second sample from the bag for reference, but she found nothing but she did find out that the bag is a designer knockoff. She took the bag apart, the substance on her bag, was the same as that found on Deroy's hands. The insignia is affixed as the bag is bought to avoid confiscation. The super glue that was applied to this insignia was bought recently since it was gobbed on, and not dried yet, meaning she bought the bag recently. Mac says that apparently retail is a nice cover for drug dealing, and Stella adds that it's until you make a mistake and give someone the wrong bag. This implies that the heroine from her bag was not actually meant for her bag.

Danny heads to the school, Jordan swiped in at 11:15. Jordan went into special collections at 11:31, and a freshman named Andrea Alex only two minutes before. They get Andreas address. There is loud music playing. She doesn't answer, so he gets someone to open. Andrea is on the floor. He sends the guy who opened the door out for help, and tries to resuscitate her.

At the hospital, Danny is in the room with Andrea, while Stella and Mac are watching. She is lucky to be alive, thanks to Danny. Andrea wants to avoid drug possession charge, so she is going on record as saying that Jordan sold her the drugs, saying it was cocaine. This means they have enough for the warrant. Stella says she will step off the collar because of the complaint, but Mac insists she ran with it, so she should finish. Stella walks off.

Mac walks into Aiden who was working on handbag tracking. Each bag was from a different store on beech street which was where they figured she bought it from. All the other bags were glued with different glue. All except for one, which was glued with super glue, like the kind found on Deroy's hand. He gets the information and heads out with Danny and cops. Many bag sellers leave. Mac forced his way in, Danny shows the warrant. They question the guy they find there.

They find white powder on the table. The white dust is positive for heroine. The guy says he's not going to give his shirt or anything. Mac responds he's under arrest for selling fraudulent designer merchandise (this is done to buy them time to get a warrant on the murders).

Stella, Flack and a group of CSIs are at the Benson residence. The father is saying Stella can't be there that he already filed a complaint against her. She doesn't seem to care. Flack says they have a warrant, and show it to the lawyer. The lawyer asks on what basis. Stella tells them about Andrea. The lawyer says when they come up empty, she is going after Stella's badge, but Stella says that she has a job to do and brushes past her. Flack said they checked the study and her bedroom and that she would have been crazy not to dump the stuff by now. Stella agrees and gets a check for the heroine in the toilet. She gets a weak positive, which is good.

Stella is interviewing Jordan and informs her that "people think that you flush a couple of times and the drugs are gone, but that just dilutes them." And there is a flash of Jordan getting rid of the heroine. The lawyer says the client has nothing to say. Stella runs down the situation. She found the heroine, thought it was coke and sold it to people. Then she states that Deroy took her purse that she had his drugs, and he had the address. So she went to the apartment to get the drugs and left, but she didn't tell Will. And she says that after some point she realized the drugs were bad news, and that all of this was a bunch of stupid mistakes from a spoiled girl. She states that what's the worst is that she didn't call Andrea to warn her, perhaps on the lawyer's advice. She arrests Jordan for negligent homicide and heroine trafficking. The lawyer says that maybe Jordan can offer information on the killer. But Stella informs the lawyer she has bad timing, they arrested the killer two hours ago. Flack cuffs her, the dad looks distraught. After the father says she doesn't need those, Stella says she has to disagree though they will forego the handcuffs. She says that his daughter is the most dangerous kind out there.

Next we see Mac with the killer of Will Novak, who was more thorough than most, but left his t-shirt, which had a speck of blood and matched Will's DNA. He leaves "a note" shooting Will. He lost his patience with Deroy. They got him. They got a warrant for his apartment from the DNA on his shirt. They are going to break the back of his distribution, and Mac informs him the higher ups, who are much worse than him, will get to him, even in lockup.

Mac informs Will's father he was right, Will was a good kid, and apologizes for doubting him. Will's father thanks Mac for clearing Will's name. Mac leaves him to empty Will's apartment. Mac is distraught over everything, and then heads back in and offers to help him with the boxes, to save him a trip.