CSI: NY

It begins with NY, then flashes of a ticker tape, and then stockbrokers at the New York Mercantile Exchange. We get a glimpse of how crazy they are. There is a briefcase left on the floor. A man notices. He calls security; everyone in the NYMEX empties the room.

Mac is with an officer. An x-ray found traces of nitrates on the briefcase. It stands alone in the area, and a robot is heading its way towards it, the officer tells Mac he has 60 seconds to get the prints and then they have to disarm the briefcase. The robot reaches the briefcases and a container attached to it covers it. The robot releases fumes inside the shielding. It removes the shielding. A camera on the box focuses on the print and scans it. The scan is taken, and then Mac aims the robot at the briefcase and shoots.

Mac is on the floor by the remnants of the briefcase. It is fine except for a slight hole in it that caused it to open. He is looking through its contents and finds a small piece of paper that reads, "in case something happens to me." It has blood on it.

The room is reopened. Mac is talking to Danny while Aiden looks on. He gives the DNA sample to Danny and also a pile of financial data. Danny leaves and Mac asks Aiden about the print, she tells him "Prints belong to Luke Sutton. Commodities trader. According to the entrance log, he walked through the front door at 7:00 A.M." however he was the one person that couldn't be accounted for. His apt is trashed.

Mac and Aiden enter Sutton's apt. they check out evidence. Mac finds metal shavings and Aiden finds a magnet that erases electronic data. The hard drive is missing from his computer.

Stella and flack are at the corpse of a woman outside of a church. Possible suicide, she is a counselor. The person who found her (the handyman) claims he went and called 911 immediately, but Stella finds cigarette butts all around the body. She heads to the roof and rules out suicide, saying suicide is not only a sin but a statement. And there isn't one with this woman's death since she was found on the side of the church and on the grass (whereas someone committing suicide would have chosen the front and the cement).

Danny goes over some findings with Mac: there was cocaine in the briefcase and also the missing trader was doing investigative work on a Nick Lawson, who was arranged in illegal trading. Apparently he notified a man named Charles (though there about 80 who work on the same floor as Sutton) and states "Lawson met with our missing trader two nights ago, and it did not go well." There is a flashback depicting the fight between Lawson and Sutton:
(Luke Sutton talks with Nick Lawson.)
NICK LAWSON: If you threaten me again, I'm going to put you in the hospital.
LUKE SUTTON: Look, I don't have a choice, okay? Charles is, uh, he's really
putting the screws to me, and, uh, I'm just reporting it to you.

Danny finds Lawson to ask him some questions, but Lawson continuously says no comment. He denies Danny for a DNA sample.
Stella is in the counselor's office, the father says there is no suicide note, he already checked. He was saying the victim, Trina wasn't married.

Stella finds Hawkes in the morgue who says Trina was pregnant. In her late first trimester. So Hawkes says they are going to get her DNA to find paternity. Hawkes mentions that according to the x-ray she had to have fallen horizontally. She wasn't drunk so in theory she was dead or unconscious when she fell from the church. Hawkes opens her up to examine her spine but they couldn't find anything conclusive so he takes out a saw and takes out a piece. He brings the ceiling fan closer and cause of death is a fracture of the left occipital condyle. It's "a kind of injury normally seen in a traffic accident. Base of the skull separates from the spinal column." That means she was murdered, and the fall was to cover it up.

We see Stella at a church, she crosses herself. She heads down the pews searching. At one she stops. There is white flake of something on the ground. Candle. She looks underneath the pew and sees a candle holder. With a hair attached. There is a flash of Trina sitting at the pew and behind hit in the back of the head. Stella takes the hair and puts it in an envelope. At that pew Stella sees a prayer book with a type written love note instead, the prayer book says father Tim Murphy.

Mac finds the DNA tech Jane. There was DNA from the note and the knife, the sample on the knife and the one match to the DNA found at the vic's apt.

Later under a bridge they find a burned car. Aiden and Mac are there and the car is registered to Sutton, the vic. Inside the car they find Sutton

They process the crime scene. They take the rest to go, covering the car in plastic and tying crime scene tape around it, then getting it transported.

Hawkes is with Mac and confirms id. They covered him from top to bottom. The person who burned him also put a bullet in his side. Bullet is taken out and put in an envelope. He was shot from below. If the bullet didn't kill him, it meant the fire was meant to, not to cover it up.

Danny and Aiden process the burnt car that is now in their lab. Inside they find a hard drive like the one missing from Sutton's computer. Danny finds the gun burnt on the car. It set off because of the fire. The gun had only one bullet in it.

Mac and Stella go over their cases with each other casually.

We next see Stella with the candlestick/holder printing it. She gets two prints off of it and runs them, negative. She prints the prayer book of the priest, and runs those prints. the prints on the book are affirmative to Trina's.

Stella confronts father Tim and asks him for his prints stating that there was a match to the ones on the candlestick and a set on the book. But she doesn't have a sample to test his against. He wonders why she would think he did it, and she brings out the love letter. He had no idea about the love letter. And he says that the candlestick prints might be his since he noticed it was broken last week, and fixed it. And she tells him Trina was pregnant.

Aiden is using acid to find the serial on the gun. She finds it and returns to Mac. It's an Emily Dent.
Mac confronts Emily Dent, and she says that she was his girlfriend until a while ago. She says he must've taken it, and that he made her get it. He mentioned to her that Charles had people watching him. She says she thinks it might have been Charles' dealer and that he never mentioned him before the cocaine. Still no last name on him

Stella is talking to DNA tech Jane. She informs Stella that one of the cigarette butts had the DNA of Trina's on it. The autopsy however shows she never was a smoker. However there was the same male donor on all three cigarettes and it matches the father of the baby.

Flack and Stella interrogate a Paul Stryzewski (the handyman). It was his DNA and the reason the vic's DNA was also on the cigarette was that he kissed her. They found his DNA because it was in the system. He claims he knows what the truth is. Stella shows him the letter. He looks shocked Stella had it. He throws the table at them and tries to leave but the door is locked. Flack cuffs him

Mac asks where they are with the case. Danny goes over what we know already and adds that turns out New York Merc is already filing a suit against Lawson, so Sutton was the least of his worries.
Mac takes the hard drive. And finds out what's on it (as the car's temp would have needed to have gotten to 700 degrees Celsius to melt it) he puts it in a new casing but the results are nothing but gibberish numbers.

Aiden is confused over the gas findings, while Danny explains. He finds a parking ticket.

Mac is examining the hard drive again. He attempts to do a restoration. He does get some information: Charles' last name and the phrase three generations are enough flashing on the side of the screen.
Danny and Aiden share their findings with him.

They head over to the place, and they get to the place, find money and a bullet reloader. It's a mess. They find three stacks of 5 grand. They find a can with possible DNA.

Stella is working on the hair from her case. And the clothing of the Paul. She finds some trace on it. It's Trina's hair. She shares her findings with Flack. She tells him that he's schizophrenic, and was supposed to be on meds. She gets a buzz.

Mac heads to Jane (DNA tech) again; she informs him and Stella the cases are connected. DNA on the can matches to Paul.

Stella and Mac interrogate Paul, he starts saying "you killed him," he continues saying this. He has a fit at the table.

The team is together looking at the information. Danny's going to do trace, Aiden on finding Charles Langdon, Stella on prints, and Mac on the hard drive. We see Aiden and Mac working across from each other. We then see Stella working on prints. And Danny working on trace.

Mac prints out a large screen of "three generations are enough" and then walks out. Aiden notices and follows. Stella joins then Danny trails behind. Mac shows them supreme court ruling he found in Sutton's apartment and reads, "mandatory sterilization of people once referred to as "socially inadequate individuals." "It is better for all the world if, instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. Three generations of imbeciles ... (He picks up the printed sheet of paper from Luke Sutton's hard drive and shows it to them.) ... are enough." Luke Sutton was also schizophrenic. He and Paul were brothers.

And there is no Charles Langdon. He existed only in Luke's mind. Luke killed Trina because he didn't want the baby to continue the schizophrenia. Then Luke heads to the Ridgeway shipping company and prepares his death. Mac and Stella meet with Paul, now on his meds, at the church. he tells him that Trina getting pregnant was an accident. And that the letter was not for him or from him. Paul, Mac and Stella discuss what happened with Luke. It ends on a positive note with Mac telling Paul he is strong, and quotes what Paul said, "Maybe if you tell yourself enough, one day, you'll make it real."