Épisode 6 pieds sous l'eau S04E02 - CSI : NY Saison 4

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EXT. NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE - DAY

MUSIC IN

EXT. NEW YORK HARBOR - DAY

[SAILBOAT RACE TO STATEN ISLAND BETWEEN NEW YORK (“NY”) AND NEW JERSEY (“NJ”) BOATS BEGINS. “STATEN ISLAND DECISION RACE”]

[CANNON FIRES TO START]

[WALLA/CHEERS]

[A MAN AND WOMAN ON A JET SKI DRIVE PAST THE SAILBOATS. THE WOMAN HOLDS UP A SIGN, “I LOVE NY, NEW JERSEY”]

[THE JET SKI SWERVES TO AVOID COLLIDING WITH A FLOATING, DEAD SCUBA DIVER]

[SCREAMS]

[BOAT’S HORN]

EXT. NY HARBOR/DOCK - DAY

[POLICE RADIO WALLA]

MUSIC OUT

[DR. SHELDON HAWKES TAKES PHOTOS OF THE DEAD DIVER]

DANNY MESSER

Ew, yeah. Sanitation crew go on strike again or what?

MAC TAYLOR

Yeah there was a underwater tremor early this morning and released a bubble of methane and mercaptan gas.

[CSI NY SHOT] [GAS BUBBLE EXPLODES UNDERWATER]

[BACK TO SCENE]

DETECTIVE DON FLACK

Our vic’s this way. Floater, popped up in the middle of a sailboat race between New York and New Jersey.

DANNY MESSER

Oh, I read about that. The reenactment of a race that happened back in the 1600s?

MAC TAYLOR

Yeah. Legend has it the winner got possession of Staten Island.

DETECTIVE DON FLACK

Is it too late to give it back?

DANNY MESSER

Yeah, very funny, Flack. Wow. What do you got here, Hawkes?

DR. SHELDON HAWKES

Yeah. Well, based on water temperatures and the degree of decomp, I’d say he’s been in the water, specifically, below the surface for a few weeks.

MAC TAYLOR

Currents from the East River run north to south and dump right into this harbor.

DANNY MESSER

You gotta be nuts to dive in the East River. I mean, wacky currents, no light.

DR. SHELDON HAWKES

Maybe he got disoriented, panicked.

MAC TAYLOR

The marine predators didn’t get to his eyes. Usually that’s the first thing to go.

DR. SHELDON HAWKES

He was wearing a dive mask. [MUSIC IN] When I removed it, found evidence of petechial hemorrhaging.

[ZOOM INTO ECS THROUGH MAGNIFYING GLASS TO PETECHIAL HEMORRHAGING IN DIVER’S EYES]

MAC TAYLOR

Asphyxiated.

DANNY MESSER

His tank gauge is reading at 90 percent.

MAC TAYLOR

Well, how does a guy with a full tank of oxygen and a backup regulator drown?

[FLASHBACK] [ND DIVER GRABS FOR REGULATOR, BLOOD VESSELS IN EYES BURST]

THEME MUSIC IN

SHOW TITLE - OPENING SEQUENCES

OPENING CREDITSEND OF TEASER

EXT. NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE - DAY

MUSIC IN

INT. M.E.’S OFFICE - AUTOPSY ROOM - DAY

[MONTAGE DR. SID HAMMERBACK PROCESSES THE VICTIM’S BODY] LATER -

DR. SID HAMMERBACK

Few people realize that starfish are carnivorous. [MUSIC OUT] First they attacked, uh, any tissue that wasn’t covered by the wetsuit and then they traveled down the esophagus and started--

[CSI NY SHOT] [STARFISH SUCKERS CLAMPING ONTO ORGANS]

MUSIC IN

DR. SID HAMMERBACK (V.O.) (CONTINUED)

--feasting on internal organs.

MUSIC OUT

[BACK TO SCENE]

STELLA BONASERA

Hmm. An all-you-can-eat buffet. I’m gonna take these down to the lab and see if, uh, Lindsay can do anything with them.

DR. SID HAMMERBACK

Now, uh, the second and third fingers of the right hand [ZOOM INTO CLOSE SHOT OF FINGERS] are severely fractured. There’s no indication of healing. So, it probably happened around the time of death.

STELLA BONASERA

Which would be?

DR. SID HAMMERBACK

Uh, two, three weeks ago.

STELLA BONASERA

Sid, is that an ear?

DR. SID HAMMERBACK

Apparently our starfish found silicone to be unappetizing.

STELLA BONASERA

So it’s a prosthetic.

DR. SID HAMMERBACK

Our vic had a congenital ear deformity, called microtia, or cabbage ear.

STELLA BONASERA

Hmm. And the metal bar that attaches it to the skull has a serial number on it.

[ZOOM INTO ECS OF SERIAL NUMBER]

DR. SID HAMMERBACK

Yeah.

STELLA BONASERA

Could help us get an I.D. What about cause of death?

DR. SID HAMMERBACK

It wasn’t from drowning. What was left of his, uh, lung tissue, revealed traces of cyanide.

STELLA BONASERA

Cyanide? How was that administered?

DR. SID HAMMERBACK

Oh, the body’s too far gone to say.

STELLA BONASERA

Cyanide induces fatality within a matter of seconds. [MUSIC IN] Must have been poisoned under water.

DR. SID HAMMERBACK

Unless someone poisoned him on land then dumped him in the river afterward.

STELLA BONASERA

In full scuba gear?

INT. NEW YORK CRIME LAB - TRACE LAB - DAY

MUSIC OUT

STELLA BONASERA

Hey.

LINDSAY MONROE

Hey. There’s no sign of any evidence externally. But there’s some kind of inorganic matter in the stomachs. Did you know that they have two stomachs?

STELLA BONASERA

Don’t imagine you autopsied too many starfish in Montana.

LINDSAY MONROE

These will be my first.

STELLA BONASERA

Aha.

LAB TECH

Detective?

STELLA BONASERA

Oh, thanks.

LINDSAY MONROE

What is it?

STELLA BONASERA

Our vic taught at a diving school in Far Rockaway. He was an advanced certified diving instructor.

EXT. NEW YORK CITY HIGHWAY TO FAR ROCKAWAY - DAY

INT. SCUBASKOOL DIVE SCHOOL - FAR ROCKAWAY - DAY

DEVEN WALSH

That’s Doug Holden on the right. Clients loved him. Everybody did.

DETECTIVE DON FLACK

Who’s the guy on the left?

DEVEN WALSH

Matt Campbell. Doug’s partner. Our instructors team-teach. Buddy system, you know.

STELLA BONASERA

Can I have the photograph, please?

DEVEN WALSH

Yeah, sure.

STELLA BONASERA

Any idea what Mr. Holden was doing in the East River?

DEVEN WALSH

[GUFFAWS] We do all of our open water dives out in the Long Island Sound. I mean, the East River’s just too gnarly.

DETECTIVE DON FLACK

When was the last time you saw Doug?

DEVEN WALSH

Uh, maybe two, three weeks ago. He came into instruct a navigational clinic.

DETECTIVE DON FLACK

Maybe his partner could fill us in. You know where we can find him?

DEVEN WALSH

Uh, yeah. Here’s Matt card, but I haven’t seen him around either.

DETECTIVE DON FLACK

For how long?

DEVEN WALSH

Same as Doug. Maybe three weeks.

STELLA BONASERA

Is that unusual?

DEVEN WALSH

No, uh, you know, Matt, he’s a freelancer, so sometimes he takes off on private diving excursions with the clients.

DETECTIVE DON FLACK

We’re gonna need a list of, uh, Mr. Holden’s clients.

DEVEN WALSH

Sure.

STELLA BONASERA

Why don’t you start with the people who did see him within the last three weeks?

DEVEN WALSH

Okay. All right. It’s printing up now.

STELLA BONASERA

Thank you.

DETECTIVE DON FLACK

We should split the list.

STELLA BONASERA

Let me guess. You get all the single women? [LAUGHS]

EXT. OVER HARBOR TO MANHATTAN - DAY

INT. NEW YORK CRIME LAB - GARAGE - DAY

DANNY MESSER

We got air bubbles. The hose was punctured with something.

DR. SHELDON HAWKES

Tiny hole. [ZOOM INTO CLOSE SHOT OF HOLE] Clean, circular edges.

DANNY MESSER

Hypodermic needle?

[FLASHBACK/CSI NY SHOT][ND KILLER IN SCUBA GEAR INSERTS HYPODERMIC NEEDLE INTO HOLDEN’S AIR HOSE]

DANNY MESSER (V.O.) (CONTINUED)

Killer injects the cyanide in a gaseous form, Holden inhales it.

[BACK TO SCENE]

DR. SHELDON HAWKES

To get that close, it had to be somebody Holden was diving with, somebody he knew.

EXT. NEW YORK CITY STREETS - DAY

INT. JEWELRY BOUTIQUE - DAY

ERIKA BARNETT

Doug was so awesome. When I first started diving, I was terrified of the water. But now I’m, like, certified.

STELLA BONASERA

When was the last time you saw Mr. Holden?

COLIN BARNETT

My wife and I took him on a dive last month to St. Kitts. It was, uh, like a private instruction.

ERIKA BARNETT

It was crazy wild.

STELLA BONASERA

Huh.

EXT. NEW YORK CITY STREET – DAY

TRINA BUTLER (V.O.)

Doug was really laidback.

EXT. TRENDY FRENCH CAFÉ - DAY

TRINA BUTLER

Super-patient. Matt was a little more uptight.

DETECTIVE DON FLACK

And how’d they seem to get along?

TRINA BUTLER

Great. Sometimes Matt got a little competitive, showing off, you know. But Doug just went with the flow.

EXT. NEW YORK CITY STREET - DAY

INT. LOFT - DAY

BESIM LUMANI

Ah, we only had three or four lessons with them. Then we stopped.

STELLA BONASERA

Why is that?

ZAMIR DUKA

I had, uh, air compression problems. I come up too fast.

STELLA BONASERA

The bends.

BESIM LUMANI

He thought a jellyfish was following him.

ZAMIR DUKA

Besim, it was this big, huh?

BESIM LUMANI

Ah. [MOUTHS SILENTLY: This small]

EXT. NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE - DAY

STELLA BONASERA (V.O.)

Hey, Mac.

INT. NEW YORK CRIME LAB - CORRIDOR - DAY

STELLA BONASERA

None of Holden’s scuba clients jumped out. But his dive partner, Matt Campbell, hasn’t shown up for work in three weeks.

MAC TAYLOR

Well, the timing seems suspicious. You think he could be involved somehow?

STELLA BONASERA

Well, Flack did a little digging. Turns out that Campbell’s sister filed a missing persons report when he didn’t show up for his mother’s birthday.

MAC TAYLOR

So we could be looking at the killer or another victim.

LINDSAY MONROE

Hey. I think our starfish may have led us to our primary crime scene.

[FLASHBACK]

LINDSAY MONROE (V.O.) (CONTINUED)

I found some interesting trace in its stomachs.

[BACK TO SCENE]

LINDSAY MONROE (CONTINUED)

In the 1960s, the New York subway contained asbestos insulation.

MAC TAYLOR

In the walls and floor tiles. You giving us a history lesson?

STELLA BONASERA

Be patient, Mac. It’s always worth it.

LINDSAY MONROE

The fibers of that insulation were encased in an alkylated epoxy resin.

STELLA BONASERA

Which does not degrade.

LINDSAY MONROE

Exactly. A subject which caused quite a stir among environmentalists when those subways were dumped in the East River.

MAC TAYLOR

The artificial reef program. [MUSIC IN] Our vic was killed on a subway, a subway underwater.

EXT. NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE - DAY

MUSIC OUT

EXT. DIVE BOAT - EAST RIVER - DAY

DANNY MESSER

A graveyard for subways? What happened, they run out of landfill or what?

MAC TAYLOR

[CHUCKLES] Cheaper to sink ‘em then scrap ‘em.

DR. SHELDON HAWKES

And the subway reefs provide a marine life sanctuary.

DANNY MESSER

Yeah, well screw the fish. Hope it provides us with a crime scene.

MAC TAYLOR

Holden surfaced right here in the harbor. We’re here. Subway reef is right under us. And we’re gonna focus on the old Redbird transit cars. They’re the ones that contain asbestos. It’s dark down there. We got tidal currents, rocks and reefs to deal with.

DANNY MESSER

Let’s look on the bright side. We’re not gonna worry about sharks.

MAC TAYLOR

Just stay within your assigned grids.

[DANNY AND HAWKES JUMP INTO THE WATER]

MUSIC IN

EXT. EAST RIVER - UNDERWATER - DAY

DR. SHELDON HAWKES (OVER MICROPHONE)

Hey, Danny, look. There’s a Redbird subway car up ahead. There should be another one over to the right. I’ll take that one.

DANNY MESSER (OVER MICROPHONE)

Okay. I got this one.

[DANNY AND HAWKES SEARCH THE REDBIRD SUBWAY CARS]

DR. SHELDON HAWKES (OVER MICROPHONE)

Finding anything?

DANNY MESSER (OVER MICROPHONE)

No, nothin’ but a bunch of starfish.

DR. SHELDON HAWKES (OVER MICROPHONE)

Yeah, me too. Wait. Wait, Danny. I just found another dead scuba diver.

MUSIC OUTEND OF ACT ONE

EXT. NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE - DAY

MUSIC IN

INT. NEW YORK CRIME LAB - CORRIDOR - DAY

DR. SID HAMMERBACK

Lung tissue results on the second vic--

[FLASHBACK]

DR. SID HAMMERBACK (V.O.) (CONTINUED)

--reveal cyanide poisoning, just like--

[BACK TO SCENE]

DR. SID HAMMERBACK (CONTINUED)

--the first victim.

DR. SHELDON HAWKES

Any I.D.?

DR. SID HAMMERBACK

Dental records confirm, it’s Matt Campbell.

DR. SHELDON HAWKES

Doug Holden’s diving partner.

DR. SID HAMMERBACK

They died at the same time, two or three weeks ago. I sent Campbell’s scuba tank to Layout.

DR. SHELDON HAWKES

Methane gas bubble could have dislodged Holden, causing him to rise to the surface.

DR. SID HAMMERBACK

Right. [MUSIC OUT] While Campbell remained pinned.

DR. SHELDON HAWKES

Which still doesn’t tell us what they were doing down there in the first

place.

DR. SID HAMMERBACK

Beats me. I don’t even swim.

MUSIC IN

INT. NEW YORK CRIME LAB - LAYOUT - DAY

[MONTAGE OF STELLA AND LINDSAY PROCESSING VICTIM’S DIVING GEAR. LINDSAY FINDS A SMALL SEA CREATURE, STELLA FINDS GOLD COINS.]

MUSIC OUT

STELLA BONASERA

Check this out.

LINDSAY MONROE

Huh.

STELLA BONASERA

And they’re heavy. Real solid.

LINDSAY MONROE

These feel like real gold. 1783? What were these doing in a subway car?

STELLA BONASERA

Well, we don’t know that Campbell found them there. He could have been someplace else.

LINDSAY MONROE

Well, he took a real risk diving in the East River. He had to be looking for something important.

STELLA BONASERA

Like buried treasure.

MUSIC IN

INT. AUCTION HOUSE - ANTIQUITIES DIVISION - DAY

STELLA BONASERA

It’s a fake?

FRAUD CONSULTANT

Yeah, see that joint line? That indicates it was made with a two-part mold.

STELLA BONASERA

So it was poured, not stamped.

FRAUD CONSULTANT

That’s right. I’m pretty sure this is a replica of an 18 escudo. I’ve got something in my files. Give me a second.

STELLA BONASERA

Sure.

DREW BEDFORD

Your coin is a gold doubloon. That’s pirate treasure. Real thing sells for over $10,000.

STELLA BONASERA

And you just know this?

DREW BEDFORD

Oh, it’s Page 56, “Old Coins of Spain.” I had to find some excuse to talk to you. I’m Drew Bedford. You have a very nice energy. I noticed it the second I saw you.

FRAUD CONSULTANT

I’ll be right with you, sir.

DREW BEDFORD

Yeah, take your time.

STELLA BONASERA

Thank you for the information, Mr. Bedford. th century Spanish

DREW BEDFORD

Sure.

FRAUD CONSULTANT

Okay, so. A few years ago, coins identical to that were floating around the Mediterranean auction houses. The claim was that they were salvaged from a shipwreck. That was before they were identified as fakes.

STELLA BONASERA

We found this one on a murder victim in Manhattan.

FRAUD CONSULTANT

You know, if I had a picture of that, I could send it around to my dealers, maybe someone’s trying to unload those in the States.

STELLA BONASERA

Okay. I will have my lab send over a photograph right away. That’s my card. Keep me posted.

FRAUD CONSULTANT

Sure thing.

STELLA BONASERA

Thanks.

FRAUD CONSULTANT

How can I help you?

EXT. NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE - DAY

MUSIC IN

INT. NEW YORK CRIME LAB - CORRIDOR - DAY

MUSIC OUT

STELLA BONASERA

Hey. Just the man I wanted to see. According to a fraud consultant I just spoke with, all three of these coins are high-quality fakes. Lead electroplated with gold veneer.

MAC TAYLOR

Cyanide’s used in the electroplating process. We could be looking at a jeweler, metal worker.

STELLA BONASERA

Wait a minute. Earlier today I spoke with--

[FLASHBACK]

STELLA BONASERA (V.O.) (CONTINUED)

Colin Barnett.

[BACK TO SCENE]

STELLA BONASERA (CONTINUED)

A high-end custom jeweler.

MAC TAYLOR

His wife took diving lessons from Doug Holden.

[FLASHBACK]

STELLA BONASERA (V.O.)

He also had a nice little bruise on his forehead--

[BACK TO SCENE]

STELLA BONASERA (CONTINUED)

--that looked recent.

MAC TAYLOR

I’ll have Flack pick him up.

INT. NYPD - INTERROGATION ROOM - DAY

COLIN BARNETT

I make jewelry, not coins. I’ve never seen this before.

DETECTIVE DON FLACK

They’re electroplated. As a jeweler, you familiar with that process?

COLIN BARNETT

Of course I am, as is every other jeweler in this town.

DETECTIVE DON FLACK

The problem is, you’re not like every other jeweler in this town, you wanna know why?

COLIN BARNETT

Sure.

DETECTIVE DON FLACK

Because you have motive.

COLIN BARNETT

I have no idea what you’re talking about.

DETECTIVE DON FLACK

Well I have. You find your beautiful young wife engaged in a little betweenthe- sheets exploration with her dive instructor? St. Kitts. Romantic. Must have been tough to be the third wheel.

COLIN BARNETT

Oh, you know, it wasn’t so bad. At least I had the fish to keep me company.

DETECTIVE DON FLACK

That knot on your head? Did you get that from one of your finned companions?

COLIN BARNETT

No. No, I, uh, I banged into a door.

DETECTIVE DON FLACK

Huh.

COLIN BARNETT

Look. This really isn’t what it seems. Erika and I, we have an understanding. Now, she wanted to spend a little bit more time with Doug after the diving lessons and I was fine with that.

[FLASHBACK] [ERIKA AND DOUG, CLINK GLASSES OF WHITE WINE, KISS]

MUSIC IN

COLIN BARNETT (V.O.) (CONTINUED)

What Erika does in her spare time is her business and--

MUSIC OUT

[BACK TO SCENE]

COLIN BARNETT (CONTINUED)

--what I do in mine is my business.

DETECTIVE DON FLACK

So what were you doing in your free time the past couple weeks?

COLIN BARNETT

Paris. Um, Erika and I had a custom jewelry show to go to.

DETECTIVE DON FLACK

I’m gonna need your itinerary, places you stayed, people you saw.

EXT. NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE - DAY

INT. NEW YORK CRIME LAB - MAC’S OFFICE - DAY

STELLA BONASERA

Hey. Barnett’s alibi checked out. He’s not our guy.

MAC TAYLOR

So, you got anything else?

STELLA BONASERA

I’m thinking that our divers might have been involved in some kind of treasure hunting scam.

MAC TAYLOR

There are hundreds of shipwrecks at the bottom of the East River, some dating back to the 1700s, same time period as our fake coins.

STELLA BONASERA

Our killer could’ve lured them into it with the promise of buried treasure.

MAC TAYLOR

Double-crossed ‘em once they were down there.

STELLA BONASERA

I, I tried to call you about five minutes ago and there was no answer.

MAC TAYLOR

Changed my extension. Those anonymous calls I got in London?

[FLASHBACK]

[PHONE RINGS]

MAC TAYLOR

Who is this?

[BACK TO SCENE]

STELLA BONASERA

You’re getting them here now? At the office?

[MAC NODS]

LINDSAY MONROE

Hey, guys. The worm I found in --

[FLASHBACK]

LINDSAY MONROE (V.O.) (CONTINUED)

--the vic’s diving mask? It turned out to be sea--

[BACK TO SCENE]

LINDSAY MONROE (CONTINUED)

--cucumber larva. Now, I looked it up. They inhabit the Benthic Region, which is at least a hundred feet deeper than the subway reef.

MAC TAYLOR

If we are looking at a shipwreck, could be where the murders took place.

EXT. NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE - DAY

EXT. DIVE BOAT - EAST RIVER - DAY

DANNY MESSER

Me and my brother, used to take my grandfather’s old rowboat out into the harbor and dive for bottles.

DR. SHELDON HAWKES

Sounds like big fun.

DANNY MESSER

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Except this one time, we drifted out into the shipping lane. [LAUGHS]

DANNY MESSER (CONTINUED)

Coast Guard had to come scoop us out. My mother was so pissed off she didn’t talk to me for a week. It was kind of a peaceful week.

[LOOKING AT SONAR SCREEN]

DR. SHELDON HAWKES

We just got a hit. I’m reading 150 feet down.

DANNY MESSER

[TO BOAT CAPTAIN] Bring her to a stop.

DR. SHELDON HAWKES

There’s somethin’ definitely down there.

DANNY MESSER

Wanna get a better visual?

DR. SHELDON HAWKES

Yeah. Okay. One, two, three.

[THEY TOSS A NOVA RAY UNDERWATER CAMERA INTO THE RIVER]

MUSIC IN

INTERCUT WITH

EXT. EAST RIVER - UNDERWATER - DAY

DANNY MESSER

There’s the ribs of the hull. Looks like some sort a figurehead.

DR. SHELDON HAWKES

Look at that.

DANNY MESSER

This looks like an old sailing vessel.

DR. SHELDON HAWKES

Lock those coordinates. We just found our crime scene.

[DANNY AND HAWKES SWIM UNDER WATER TO THE SHIP IN THE EAST RIVER]

INTERCUT WITH

INT. NEW YORK CRIME LAB - A/V – DAY

[WATCHING UNDERWATER FOOTAGE WITH DIVERS’ AUDIO]

DR. SHELDON HAWKES (OVER MICROPHONE)

Currents are pulling every which way down here.

STELLA BONASERA

A merchant ship?

MAC TAYLOR

It could be. Looks too small to be a Navy vessel.

LINDSAY MONROE

Well, whatever it is, the wood bores made a meal of it.

MAC TAYLOR

Figureheads were very specific to their ships.

DANNY MESSER (OVER MICROPHONE)

[TO UNDERWATER PHOTOGRAPHER] Hey, Steve, get a shot of this.

STEVE (OVER MICROPHONE)

Okay.

[DANNY POSES NEXT TO SHIP’S FIGUREHEAD]

STELLA BONASERA

Right. Kind of a good luck charm, put there to placate the gods.

LINDSAY MONROE

This one didn’t work too well.

MAC TAYLOR

Lindsay, grab an image of it. Let’s run it through the Maritime database. If you get a name of the ship, have Flack see if anyone’s filed a salvage permit on it.

STELLA BONASERA

Great.

MAC TAYLOR

[TO DANNY AND HAWKES] Guys, let’s hurry it up. I don’t want you down there any longer than you have to be.

DANNY MESSER (OVER MICROPHONE)

Copy that, Mac. [TO STEVE] Hey, follow me over here with the camera.

STEVE (OVER MICROPHONE)

Yeah, lead the way. I’m right behind ya.

DANNY MESSER (OVER MICROPHONE)

Hey, I got a syringe. Could be our murder weapon. Get a shot of this needle, Steve.

MAC TAYLOR

Don’t get too excited, Danny. There’s a hospital just up river.

DR. SHELDON HAWKES (OVER MICROPHONE)

Hey, Danny. I found an old chest over here.

LINDSAY MONROE

It’s empty.

DANNY MESSER (OVER MICROPHONE)

Hey, Steve. Come over here. I think I got something. Get a shot of this.

DR. SHELDON HAWKES (OVER MICROPHONE)

Gold coins. Hey, Mac, look familiar? Hey, Danny, pull this up. I’m gonna go look around a little more.

[AN ENORMOUS BUBBLE SHOOTS OUT OF AN UNDERGROUND CREVICE]

LINDSAY MONROE

Oh, my God. What’s happening?

MAC TAYLOR

Methane gas. It’s displacing the water volume around them.

LINDSAY MONROE

Hawkes is in trouble.

MAC TAYLOR

Hawkes!

DR. SHELDON HAWKES (OVER MICROPHONE)

Need some help over here. I can’t move. I’m stuck. Hey, Danny, help.

DANNY MESSER (OVER MICROPHONE)

All right, I’m on my way, buddy. Mac, call up the surface. Hawkes’ tank is pinned under this thing.

DR. SHELDON HAWKES (OVER MICROPHONE)

Danny. I’m not getting enough air.

DANNY MESSER (OVER MICROPHONE)

Doc, but you’ve got an uncontrolled free-flow. Steve, get over here! I need your help!

LINDSAY MONROE

Where are they? I can’t see anything.

MAC TAYLOR

Danny? Danny?

MUSIC IN

MUSIC OUTEND OF ACT TWO

EXT. EAST RIVER - UNDERWATER - DAY

MUSIC IN

INTERCUT WITH -

INT. NEW YORK CRIME LAB - A/V - DAY

MAC TAYLOR

[INTO PHONE] We have an emergency. I need a diver with a portable hydraulic pump. Repeat, we have an emergency. We have a diver down.

DISPATCH (OVER TELEPHONE)

Copy. We’re on it.

MAC TAYLOR

Must have knocked out his radio contact.

LINDSAY MONROE

They’re almost a 150 feet down. It’s gonna take too long for a rescue diver to get to them.

MAC TAYLOR

If he can free Hawkes’ tank, Danny’s got enough oxygen that’ll get ‘em to the surface. They’re on their own now.

DANNY MESSER (OVER MICROPHONE)

All right, look, Doc. I’m gonna cut off your BC. You gotta lose that tank.

[DANNY FREES HAWKES, SHARES HIS OXYGEN TANK WITH HIM]

DANNY MESSER (OVER MICROPHONE)

All right, I got him.

[THEY SWIM TO THE SURFACE.]

EXT. EAST RIVER - DOCK - DAY

DANNY MESSER

So is it true what they say?

MUSIC OUT

DR. SHELDON HAWKES

What’s that?

DANNY MESSER

That your life passes right before your eyes?

DR. SHELDON HAWKES

I could only think of one thing the whole time I was down there.

DANNY MESSER

What? Was it your first kiss?

DR. SHELDON HAWKES

Don’t make me laugh.

DANNY MESSER

What?

DR. SHELDON HAWKES

Sid Hammerback. I was in his lab lying on the autopsy table. Sid was standing over me firing up the bone spreader.

DANNY MESSER

That’s morbid.

DR. SHELDON HAWKES

I-I got full range of motion almost. You know, it is probably just a hairline fracture, right?

DETECTIVE DON FLACK

What happened down there? I got a call from dispatch telling me there was some kind of problem. I got here as soon as I could.

DANNY MESSER

A methane gas bubble caused an explosion. Hawkes got trapped underneath the ship’s mast.

DETECTIVE DON FLACK

Wow. Some guys will do anything for an early pension.

DR. SHELDON HAWKES

Oh. Yeah, I’m fine, all right? I’ll be fine.

DETECTIVE DON FLACK

Good.

DR. SHELDON HAWKES

Yeah.

DETECTIVE DON FLACK

So after all that, did you guys get anything down there?

DR. SHELDON HAWKES

Yeah. A syringe, a couple gold coins.

MUSIC IN

DETECTIVE DON FLACK

What is a syringe doing on a shipwreck?

DANNY MESSER

With any luck, that’s our murder weapon.

EXT. NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE - DAY

INT. NEW YORK CRIME LAB - TRACE LAB - DAY

MUSIC OUT

LINDSAY MONROE

The worst part was sitting there watching and not being able to do anything.

DANNY MESSER

Wasn’t much better being there in person. Trust me.

LINDSAY MONROE

How’s Hawkes doing? Is he okay?

DANNY MESSER

Banged up his arm pretty bad, cracked a rib. He’s tough though. He said he’ll be back to work tomorrow.

LINDSAY MONROE

You know, he’s lucky he had you down there with him, Danny.

DANNY MESSER

Stop goofing off. We got work to do.

LINDSAY MONROE

[GIGGLES] Yep. The coins Hawkes found on the ship are an exact match to the coins we found on Matt Campbell, all fakes.

DANNY MESSER

Oh. Check this out. I found it in the syringe.

LINDSAY MONROE

Cyanide. So it’s the murder weapon.

DANNY MESSER

All right, so we know the killer--

[FLASHBACK/CSI SHOT] [SODIUM CYANIDE][MURIATIC ACID]

DANNY MESSER (V.O.) (CONTINUED)

--converted the poison to a gaseous state in order to load it into the syringe.

LINDSAY MONROE (V.O.)

Probably started with sodium cyanide.

[BACK TO SCENE]

DANNY MESSER

If this was premeditated, someone lured them down there to kill them. The question is why?

LINDSAY MONROE

What is this peak? It’s a low concentration of something.

MUSIC IN

DANNY MESSER

Cortisone. It’s anti-inflammatory medication.

LINDSAY MONROE

Right. For arthritis, stuff like that. What’s it doing in the murder weapon?

DANNY MESSER

Someone reused this syringe.

INT. NEW YORK CRIME LAB - A/V LAB - DAY

[STELLA USES THE COMPUTER TO RESEARCH FIGUREHEADS IN THE MARITIME ARCHIVAL DATABASE]

INT. NEW YORK CRIME LAB - CORRIDOR - DAY

MUSIC OUT

EXT. NEW YORK CRIME LAB - DAY

STELLA BONASERA

Low-fat latte, please.

DREW BEDFORD

Hey. Do you, uh, remember me?

STELLA BONASERA

Mr. Bedford. What are you doing here?

DREW BEDFORD

Actually I was, um, just about to call you and invite you down for some coffee. I figured if I was really close, you’d be tempted or at least curious. But now you’re here. It’s incredible. [LAUGHS]

STELLA BONASERA

Uh, where’d you get my card?

DREW BEDFORD

Uh, oh, I, um, I, I got it off the counter at the antique shop. I, I know it’s forward but, you really struck me and I just, you know, I just want to get to know you.

STELLA BONASERA

Oh. Thank you, Mr. Bedford. But I’m, I’m really busy right now.

DREW BEDFORD

You don’t take risks, do you? You’repractical. Rational. Probably an only child. You had a lot of responsibility as a kid.

STELLA BONASERA

You’re the youngest in a family of girls. They pampered you, praised you. I bet they hung on your every word.

DREW BEDFORD

Guilty.

STELLA BONASERA

I gotta go.

DREW BEDFORD

Well, if you feel like that cup of coffee, I’ll be at the Roundtree Diner at eight p.m.

EXT. NEW YORK CITY STREETS - DAY

INT. NEW YORK CRIME LAB - CORRIDOR - DAY

[WALLA]

DETECTIVE DON FLACK

Stell. I got your mermaid printout. The good news, someone did file a salvage permit for the ship. The bad news is that whoever pulled it, doesn’t exist. Phony name, phony address.

STELLA BONASERA

Why would somebody file a permit under a fake name? And if they salvaged something of value, they wouldn’t be able to claim it legally.

DETECTIVE DON FLACK

Yeah, I thought that was a little fishy myself.

STELLA BONASERA

So we have fake coins, fake salvage permits. Somebody was trying to make it look like there’s a treasure on that boat. [CELL PHONE RINGS] The question is, why? Gotta go.

INT. NEW YORK CRIME LAB - TRACE LAB - DAY

DANNY MESSER

So after I found cortisone inside the syringe, I got to wonder what else might be in there. I found this DNA.

MAC TAYLOR

Male.

DANNY MESSER

Yeah, but not just any male. Look at this peak right here. At the 12.2 and D7 locus, this is a point mutation, highly specific to Balkan ancestry.

STELLA BONASERA

Hmm.

MAC TAYLOR

You run this through CODIS?

DANNY MESSER

Yeah, but no hits.

STELLA BONASERA

All right. Balkan countries for 5,000. Greece, Bulgaria.

MAC TAYLOR

Turkey, Serbia.

STELLA BONASERA

Wait a second. We interviewed two foreign--

[FLASHBACK]

STELLA BONASERA (V.O.) (CONTINUED)

--students who took dive classes with our victims.

[BACK TO SCENE]

STELLA BONASERA (CONTINUED)

Here we go. Okay, they entered the country two months ago on student visas issued in Tirana, Albania.

MAC TAYLOR

A Balkan country.

STELLA BONASERA

And they quit when one of them got the bends.

DANNY MESSER

Left untreated, the bends causes painful inflammation around the joints.

MAC TAYLOR

Which could be treated by cortisone. All the evidence we needed was in that one syringe.

DANNY MESSER

Boom.

EXT. NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE TO APARTMENT BUILDING - DAY

INT. APARTMENT BUILDING - HALLWAY - DAY

MAC TAYLOR

Zamir Duka?

ZAMIR DUKA

Yes.

DETECTIVE DON FLACK

NYPD. I wanna talk to you.

MUSIC IN

ZAMIR DUKA

Uh, sure, uh, no problem.

[ZAMIR THROWS HIS BACKPACK INTO MAC. FLACK AND ZAMIR FALL DOWN THE STAIRS, ZAMIR TAKES OFF RUNNING.]

STELLA BONASERA

Hey!

MAC TAYLOR

[TO STELLA] Cover the hall!

STELLA BONASERA

We need backup in here, now! All right, we’re going in. You secure the bag!

OFFICER

Got it!

STELLA BONASERA

NYPD!

INT. LOFT - DAY

[STELLA AND UNIFORMS ENTER THE APARTMENT]

INT. APARTMENT BUILDING - STAIRWELL - DAY

[MAC CATCHES ZAMIR AT A LOCKED EXIT DOOR]

MAC TAYLOR

Got him?

DETECTIVE DON FLACK

Yeah.

MAC TAYLOR

All right. Come on, let’s go.

INT. LOFT - STUDY - DAY

[STELLA ENTERS THE STUDY, FINDS BOMBMAKING EQUIPMENT, MAPS AND DIVE LOGS]

EXT. LOFT STREET - DAY

[ZAMIR IS ESCORTED TO A CRUISER BY FLACK AND MAC. STELLA RUNS OUT OF THE BUILDING]

STELLA BONASERA

Wait! Hold it. Where’s the target? Where’s the damn target?

MAC TAYLOR

Hey, Stella.

STELLA BONASERA

No, the other suspect’s gone. There were timers and wires everywhere. They built a bomb, Mac. This wasn’t about finding treasures. It was about planting a bomb. MUSIC OUTEND OF ACT THREE

EXT. NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE - DAY

MUSIC IN

EXT. LOFT STREET - DAY

DETECTIVE DON FLACK

[INTO POLICE RADIO] I want citywide task force, bomb squad and scuba deployed at every major bridge on the East Side and the Midtown Tunnel. We have a possible 10-33 explosive device at these locations.

INT. LOFT - STUDY - DAY

STELLA BONASERA

Salvaging the shipwreck was a ruse.

MAC TAYLOR

They needed a reason to be in the water for an extended period of time without anyone asking questions.

STELLA BONASERA

Now, Doug Holden’s body was found here, in the harbor.

[FLASHBACK]

[BACK TO SCENE]

STELLA BONASERA (CONTINUED)

Matt Campbell was found here.

[FLASHBACK]

[BACK TO SCENE]

MAC TAYLOR

The shipwreck is located here.

[FLASHBACK]

[BACK TO SCENE]

MAC TAYLOR (CONTINUED)

The killers must have chosen this particular shipwreck because of its proximity to the targets. They used the scuba instructors to help them navigate the currents, find their way around.

STELLA BONASERA

And they lured them to the wreck with stories of buried treasure.

MAC TAYLOR

Which they put there.

[FLASHBACK] [AT SHIPWRECK, FINDING COINS IN THE CHEST]

STELLA BONASERA (V.O.)

They must have killed Doug Holden and Matt Campbell so they wouldn’t--

[BACK TO SCENE]

STELLA BONASERA (CONTINUED)

--be identified later.

MAC TAYLOR

It means they were hoping to pull this off without blowing themselves up in the process.

[FLASHBACK] [KILLERS INJECTING POISON INTO AIR HOSES – DIVERS STRUGGLE]

[BACK TO SCENE]

STELLA BONASERA

There’s gotta be something here. Something we can move on.

BOMB SQUAD TECH

Take a look at this. I’m picking up Semtex.

MAC TAYLOR

High concentrations.

STELLA BONASERA

I searched the entire loft. Whatever was in that case is no longer here.

MAC TAYLOR

We gotta find it.

EXT. NEW YORK CITY STREETS - DAY

INT. NYPD - INTERROGATION ROOM - DAY

DANNY MESSER

[TO ZAMIR] Where’s the bomb? Mac, easy.

ZAMIR DUKA

[COUGHS/GAGS]

MAC TAYLOR

You feel that? It’s my arm closing off your trachea. Now you got about one minute to tell me where you planted that bomb.

DETECTIVE DON FLACK

We got somethin’.

MAC TAYLOR

Okay.

DETECTIVE DON FLACK

Speaker schedule for the U.N. Stella downloaded it from a laptop in the suspect’s loft.

MUSIC OUT

INT. NYPD - CORRIDOR - DAY

MAC TAYLOR

They’re hitting the U.N.

DETECTIVE DON FLACK

I already notified U.N. internal security. They’re on high alert.

MAC TAYLOR

Iraq’s Commissioner of Public Integrity is speaking in half an hour.

DETECTIVE DON FLACK

Why would he be a target?

MAC TAYLOR

He’s investigating millions of dollars in U.S aid stolen by Iraqi insurgents.

DETECTIVE DON FLACK

So what’s the Albanian connection?

MAC TAYLOR

Albanian Liberation Army’s supporting the insurgents.

MUSIC IN

INT. NYPD - BULLPEN - DAY

DETECTIVE DON FLACK

[INTO CELL PHONE] What time was it called in? And no one’s got a 10-7 on him? Okay. Keep me posted. [TO MAC] Change of plans. The commissioner was scheduled to arrive by motorcade from Kennedy. They just stopped the motorcade and he wasn’t in it.

MAC TAYLOR

Where the hell is he?

DETECTIVE DON FLACK

I don’t know. Information’s kind of sketchy right now. But apparently, there was a credible death threat called in on the motorcade.

MAC TAYLOR

According to U.N. protocol, motorcade security is breached, helicopter is used as backup.

DETECTIVE DON FLACK

They’re flying him in.

MAC TAYLOR

23 River.

EXT. NYPD - DAY

DETECTIVE DON FLACK

[INTO RADIO] Central, I need a level one mobilization at the 23 heliport. Evacuate all non-essentials from the area.

MAC TAYLOR

The Albanians must have called in the death threat on the motorcade.

DETECTIVE DON FLACK

They wanted the commissioner flying in by helicopter all along.

EXT. NEW YORK CITY STREETS/SKYLINE - DAY

INT. HELICOPTER - DAY

HELICOPTER PILOT (OVER MICROPHONE)

Sir, we’ll be landing in a matter of minutes.

COMMISSIONER

Thank you.

EXT. HARBOR - UNDERWATER - DAY

rd Street Helipad’s right on the Eastrd Street

[BESIM SWIMS UNDERWATER]

INTERCUT WITH

EXT. 23

MAC TAYLOR

Besim Lumani, you’re under arrest! Let me see your right hand! [BESIM LUMANI ATTEMPTS TO IGNITE THE BOMB] Let me see your hand!

DETECTIVE DON FLACK (OVER RADIO)

Mac, the bomb squad found the bomb and jammed the signal. Repeat, they found the bomb, frequency jammed, bomb disarmed. Repeat. Bomb disarmed.

MAC TAYLOR

[INTO RADIO] Copy. [TO BOMB SQUAD]

It’s over. Bring him up.

EXT. NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE - NIGHT

INT. NEW YORK CRIME LAB - BULLPEN/CORRIDOR - NIGHT

[WALLA]

DANNY MESSER

What are you doing here, man?

DR. SHELDON HAWKES

I wanted to make sure everybody was cool.

DANNY MESSER

Everything worked out.

DR. SHELDON HAWKES

Good. Good.

DANNY MESSER

And you should [MUSIC IN] be home in bed by the looks of ya.

RD STREET HELIPORT/HARBOR - DAY

DR. SHELDON HAWKES

I just wanted to, uh, you know.

DANNY MESSER

Hey, hey. Forget about it, all right? It’s all in a day’s work, right? You’d do the same for me, you know?

DR. SHELDON HAWKES

Well--. [LAUGHS]

DANNY MESSER

[LAUGHS]

TO BLACK MUSIC OUT SHOW TITLE

FADE OUT

THEME MUSIC IN

CLOSING CREDITS

MUSIC OUT

MAC TAYLOR (V.O.)

THE END -