Titre VO : "Child's Play"
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EXT. NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE - NIGHT
MUSIC IN
EXT. HABANA CABANA CLUB - NIGHT
[WALLA]
[A CROWD LINES UP TO ENTER THE CLUB.
ESSEX PALMER EASILY GAINS ENTRANCE PAST
THE BOUNCERS. A SECOND MAN, BENJAMIN
SUTOR, IS DENIED ENTRANCE.]
INT. HABANA CABANA CLUB - NIGHT
ESSEX PALMER
Louis Tre.
BARTENDER
Two-twenty a pop, Essex? Must be
feeling festive.
ESSEX PALMER
Think I just closed the biggest deal of
my life.
BARTENDER
Well, in that case, let’s start a tab.
ESSEX PALMER
What’s she drinking?
BARTENDER
Margarita rocks.
ESSEX PALMER
Next one’s on me.
CSI: NEW YORK - “Child’s Play” - Eps. #411 - Page 2
[BARTENDER MIXES THE DRINK. AS SHE
TURNS AWAY, ESSEX DROPS AN ITEM INTO
THE GLASS.]
MARIO GALANTI
Hey, need a light?
ESSEX PALMER
Thanks.
[HOTTIE LOOKS INTO HER DRINK AND
SCREAMS]
[SCREAMS]
[ESSEX’S CIGAR EXPLODES]
[EXPLOSION]
LATER -
MUSIC OUT
[ESSEX’S MOUTH AND LOWER PART OF HIS
FACE IS BLOWN OFF]
[WALLA]
STELLA BONASERA
Who are we looking at, Flack?
DETECTIVE DON FLACK
Essex Palmer, or what’s left of him.
Twenty-nine-year-old Internet
entrepreneur. According to witnesses,
one minute he lit up, next minute he
blew up.
STELLA BONASERA
Exploding cigar?
DETECTIVE DON FLACK
Apparently, the guy was a regular with
a twisted sense of humor and a history
of pulling practical jokes.
CSI: NEW YORK - “Child’s Play” - Eps. #411 - Page 3
LINDSAY MONROE
On himself?
STELLA BONASERA
He’s a young guy, suffering a painful
death in a public place? I don’t think
he was in on this joke.
DETECTIVE DON FLACK
No. [MUSIC IN] Talk about going out
with a bang.
[FLASHBACK]
[TO OPENING SEQUENCES]
THEME MUSIC IN
SHOW TITLE - OPENING SEQUENCES
OPENING CREDITSEND OF TEASER
CSI: NEW YORK - “Child’s Play” - Eps. #411 - Page 4ACT ONE
EXT. NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE - DAY
MUSIC IN
INT. HABANA CABANA CLUB - DAY
MUSIC OUT
DETECTIVE DON FLACK
Our vic made a fortune buying and
selling high-end comic books online.
Then he stepped up to buying and
selling comic stores. Word is, the kid
was loaded and his wallet seems to
agree. Guy in the line outside picked
it up after somebody else dropped it.
[FLASHBACK]
[WALLA/SCREAMS]
[BACK TO SCENE]
LINDSAY MONROE
Pickpocket?
STELLA BONASERA
Well, the blast couldn’t have blown it
all the way out the front door.
DETECTIVE DON FLACK
Well, the cash and the cards are still
there.
STELLA BONASERA
Maybe he dropped it.
DETECTIVE DON FLACK
Well, if you guys can lift some prints,
hopefully I can run down the rest of
the story.
CSI: NEW YORK - “Child’s Play” - Eps. #411 - Page 5
STELLA BONASERA
Did you get anything else from the
patrons?
DETECTIVE DON FLACK
Everybody reports the same loud
explosion and then after that, it was
panic at the disco.
STELLA BONASERA
And he did come alone.
DETECTIVE DON FLACK
Yes. Bartender says he was here
celebrating some new business venture.
Evidently he chose to celebrate by
slipping [MUSIC IN] something into a
lady’s drink.
STELLA BONASERA
A roofie?
[ZOOM INTO ECS OF FAKE ICE CUBE WITH A
BUG INSIDE]
LINDSAY MONROE
Well, it sure ain’t a Spanish Fly.
EXT. NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE - DAY
EXT. NEW YORK CITY STREETS - DAY
[WALLA]
EXT. APARTMENT BUILDING - DAY
INT. APARTMENT BUILDING - HALLWAY - DAY
MUSIC OUT
RUBEN SANDOVAL
[KNOCKING] You in there? We’re gonna
be late. You awake in there?
DANNY MESSER
Ruben. It’s 7:30 in the morning.
CSI: NEW YORK - “Child’s Play” - Eps. #411 - Page 6
RUBEN SANDOVAL
Today is the day for the Blessing of
the Bikes. We have to be there. You
promised.
DANNY MESSER
The Blessing of the Bikes. Okay, okay.
Right, right.
RUBEN SANDOVAL
You forgot.
DANNY MESSER
No. No, I did not forget about it.
RUBEN SANDOVAL
The line’s gonna be long, so we have to
hurry. [TO RIKKI SANDOVAL] Mom, we’re
leaving now.
RIKKI SANDOVAL
He’s been up since 5:30.
DANNY MESSER
Yeah. I went to bed at 5:30.
RIKKI SANDOVAL
[LAUGHS] Do you want a cup of coffee?
RUBEN SANDOVAL
No. We gotta go.
RIKKI SANDOVAL
Okay. Sorry. You guys have fun.
DANNY MESSER
All right.
RUBEN SANDOVAL
Grab a shirt, we’re leaving.
DANNY MESSER
All right.
CSI: NEW YORK - “Child’s Play” - Eps. #411 - Page 7
EXT. CATHEDRAL - DAY
REV. JOHN MCKLOWSKI (V.O.)
And when the living creatures went, the
wheels went--
INT. CATHEDRAL - DAY
REV. JOHN MCKLOWSKI (CONTINUED)
--by them. And when the living
creatures were lifted up from the
earth, the wheels were lifted up.
Wherever the spirit went, they went.
And the wheels were lifted up over
against them. For the spirit of the
living creatures was in the wheels.
May the almighty and merciful Lord be
our companion on our many journeys and
bring us back to our homes in peace,
health and happiness. This bicycle is
blessed by the sprinkling of this Holy
Water in the name of the Father and of
the Son and of the Holy Spirit. This
bicycle is blessed by the sprinkling of
this Holy Water in the name of the
Father and of the Son and of the Holy
Spirit. This bicycle is blessed by the
sprinkling of this Holy Water in the
name of the Father and of the Son and
of the Holy Spirit.
[CLOSE ON HOLY WATER DRIPPING OFF OF
THE BIKE’S LICENSE PLATE LABELED,
“RUBEN”]
EXT. NEW YORK CITY STREET - DAY
RUBEN SANDOVAL
Think my mom will let me ride my bike
by myself?
DANNY MESSER
Oh, is that what this was all about?
CSI: NEW YORK - “Child’s Play” - Eps. #411 - Page 8
RUBEN SANDOVAL
I’m ten years old. [DANNY’S CELL PHONE
RINGS] Hey, time me to the corner.
Ready, set, go!
DANNY MESSER
All right. Don’t hit anybody, okay?
[INTO CELL PHONE] Yeah, it’s Messer.
[TO RUBEN] Hey, don’t go, don’t go
past the corner, buddy. Hey! [INTO
CELL PHONE] All right. Let me call
you back.
[SCREAMS]
[GUNSHOT]
MUSIC IN
EXT. BODEGA – CITY STREET - MORNING
[DANNY ROUNDS THE CORNER, SEES A MAN
RUNNING INTO TRAFFIC]
DANNY MESSER (CONTINUED)
Ruben! Ruben, go straight home! Right
now, Ruben!
[RUBEN RIDES HIS BIKE INTO AN ALLEY]
LUCY SCOTT
Help! Somebody help! [SOBS]
DANNY MESSER
[INTO CELL PHONE] I need an ambulance
at 459 West 75
Caucasian male, fleeing the scene of a
shooting. He’s armed. Now, he went
down the 76th Street subway entrance.
Brown jacket, approximately six feet.
[TO LUCY] All right. All right, all
right. Are you shot?
LUCY SHOT
No.
th. I got a suspect,
CSI: NEW YORK - “Child’s Play” - Eps. #411 - Page 9
EXT. BODEGA - MORNING
DR. SHELDON HAWKES
Notify the ER I’ll be at the hospital
within the hour. [MUSIC OUT] I need
to swab and photograph the wound before
it’s stitched. [TO JUSTIN] You’re
gonna be fine, Justin.
JUSTIN SCOTT
Check on my sister, huh?
DR. SHELDON HAWKES
Definitely.
DANNY MESSER
So, our victim, Justin Scott. All
right, he said the shooter came in
alone, told him to empty the register--
[FLASHBACK]
MUSIC IN
DANNY MESSER (V.O.) (CONTINUED)
--at gunpoint.
ND THIEF
Open the register!
MUSIC OUT
[BACK TO SCENE]
DANNY MESSER (CONTINUED)
Took two additional hits to the face.
He said the perp had something heavy--
[FLASHBACK]
MUSIC IN
DANNY MESSER (V.O.) (CONTINUED)
--or maybe hard up his sleeve.
MUSIC OUT
CSI: NEW YORK - “Child’s Play” - Eps. #411 - Page 10
[BACK TO SCENE]
MAC TAYLOR
And the female witness?
DANNY MESSER
Justin’s sister, Lucy. And she came
out from the back, saw the shooter
fleeing, said he turned back and shot
at her, then ran across the street to
the subway entrance.
MAC TAYLOR
Did you see enough to I.D. him in a
line-up?
DANNY MESSER
I saw him from the back. Uh, both
Justin and Lucy remember that the
whites of the perp’s eyes were blue.
MUSIC IN
[MONTAGE SEQUENCE OF DANNY AND HAWKES
PROCESSING INSIDE BODEGA. MAC TAKES
PHOTOS AND DOES A SEARCH OUTSIDE. HE
FINDS AN ORANGE.]
MUSIC OUT
DR. SHELDON HAWKES
Haven’t found a bullet or an impact
mark.
MAC TAYLOR
Well, it appears that the bullet passed
through this orange. Or entered here,
exited here.
[NY CSI SHOT]
[BACK TO SCENE]
MUSIC IN
EXT. NEW YORK CITY STREET - DAY
CSI: NEW YORK - “Child’s Play” - Eps. #411 - Page 11
INT. M.E.’S OFFICE - WASH ROOM/AUTOPSY ROOM - DAY
[MONTAGE SEQUENCE OF DR. SID HAMMERBACK
REMOVING THEN BAGGING PALMER’S CLOTHES.
HE FINDS A PART OF THE CIGAR DOWN
PALMER’S THROAT.]
INT. NEW YORK CRIME LAB - LAYOUT ROOM - DAY
[LINDSAY PROCESSES PALMER’S CLOTHES AND
WALLET]
[FLASHBACK]
[RETURN TO SCENE]
MUSIC OUT
INT. SEEDY MOTEL ROOM - DAY
[MARIO GALANTI STARES AT THE TV AS
FLACK AND ND UNIFORMS BURST THROUGH HIS
DOOR]
[TV WALLA]
DETECTIVE DON FLACK
Mario Galanti! [KNOCKING] Mario
Galanti, NYPD. Hey. You hearing me?
Hey!
MARIO GALANTI
[GASPS] Hey! Hey! I was, I’m sorry!
I, I can’t hear anything!
DETECTIVE DON FLACK
I need you to come with--.
[FLACK HOLDS UP HANDCUFFS, MOTIONS
MARIO TO TURN AROUND]
EXT. NEW YORK CITY STREET - DAY
CSI: NEW YORK - “Child’s Play” - Eps. #411 - Page 12
INT. M.E.’S OFFICE - CORRIDOR /AUTOPSY ROOM - DAY
LINDSAY MONROE
Turns out Mario Galanti was dumb enough
to nab our vic’s wallet and he’s also
been completely deaf since the blast.
STELLA BONASERA
Acoustic trauma. It’s caused by a loud
noise or explosion near the ears.
[FLASHBACK]
MARIO GALANTI
You need a light?
ESSEX PALMER
Thanks.
[EXPLOSION]
STELLA BONASERA (V.O.)
That’s why he dropped the wallet
outside the club.
[BACK TO SCENE]
LINDSAY MONROE
Right. But Flack said he has no
trouble talking. And he says he swears
that all he did was rip Essex off.
STELLA BONASERA
Well, if he didn’t cause the explosion,
who did?
DR. SID HAMMERBACK
Well, I can’t tell you who, but I can
tell you what.
LINDSAY MONROE
The cigar, right?
CSI: NEW YORK - “Child’s Play” - Eps. #411 - Page 13
DR. SID HAMMERBACK
More specifically, the mouth end of a
Gran Cahill cigar. I found it blown
halfway down the vic’s trachea. And
C.O.D. was massive internal
hemorrhaging caused by the concussive
force of an explosion at close
proximity.
[FLASHBACK/NEW YORK CSI SHOT]
[BACK TO SCENE]
[DR. HAMMERBACK SCRATCHES HIS NECK]
DR. SID HAMMERBACK (CONTINUED)
I sent a sample of the tobacco out for
detailed isotopic analysis. But from
my collegiate experience smoking
stogies, I’d say it was, uh, fresh,
likely hand-rolled with a few unnatural
additives, of course.
LINDSAY MONROE
Like smokeless gunpowder? I found
heavy traces of that on the vic’s
clothing when I ran ‘em through XRF.
STELLA BONASERA
Which is usually used in high
explosives.
LINDSAY MONROE
Right. I did find something else. On
the--
[FLASHBACK]
LINDSAY MONROE (V.O.) (CONTINUED)
--victim’s tie I found a stain. It
turned out--
[BACK TO SCENE]
CSI: NEW YORK - “Child’s Play” - Eps. #411 - Page 14
LINDSAY MONROE (CONTINUED)
--to be mineral water with a twist.
Contained DNA from the saliva of this
guy.
STELLA BONASERA
Lawrence Gelachter?
LINDSAY MONROE
Yeah, he was in CODIS for priors for
tax evasion.
STELLA BONASERA
Right. I wonder what his relationship
is to Essex Palmer?
LINDSAY MONROE
Well, judging from the size and impact
of the stain, couldn’t have been too
friendly. He spit on the guy.
STELLA BONASERA
Do we have a current address on Mr.
Gelachter?
LINDSAY MONROE
Yeah, Flack’s meeting us there right
after this.
STELLA BONASERA
Okay.
DR. SID HAMMERBACK
All right then, ladies. Unless there’s
something else.
STELLA BONASERA
There is one more thing, Sid. Mucuna
Pruriens. In India they’re also known
as, uh, velvet bean, cow itch. But
here in the United States we usually
call it itching powder.
DR. SID HAMMERBACK
Oh. No. Oh. No.
CSI: NEW YORK - “Child’s Play” - Eps. #411 - Page 15
STELLA BONASERA
Looks like he stuck it in his pocket
and then after the blast--
[FLASHBACK]
STELLA BONASERA (V.O.) (CONTINUED)
--it wound up dispersed on his clothes.
[BACK TO SCENE]
DR. SID HAMMERBACK
W-W-Why aren’t you, uh--?
STELLA BONASERA
The long-sleeved lab coat. Both
stylish and functional.
DR. SID HAMMERBACK
[SIGHS] Uh, well, exploding cigars,
you know, insect ice cubes, itching
powder. What kind of a clown are we
after?
LINDSAY MONROE
No way. [MUSIC IN] Lawrence
Gelachter… it’s Laughing Larry!
MUSIC IN
EXT. NEW YORK CITY STREET - DAY
INT. HOSPITAL - DAY
[MONTAGE OF DR. HAWKES REMOVING FIBERS
FROM JUSTIN SCOTT’S FACIAL CUTS, TAKING
PHOTOS]
INT. M.E.’S OFFICE - AUTOPSY ROOM - DAY
[DRS. HAWKES AND HAMMERBACK REVIEW
PHOTOS OF JUSTIN’S INJURIES]
MUSIC OUT
CSI: NEW YORK - “Child’s Play” - Eps. #411 - Page 16
DR. SID HAMMERBACK
We were able to raise the sub-dermal
bruising on Justin Scott’s face. You
can see he got slammed pretty hard.
Your bodega thief’s weapon of choice is
a revolver.
[FLASHBACK]
THIEF
Open the register!
[BACK TO SCENE]
DR. SHELDON HAWKES
GSR I collected from Justin Scott’s
head wound didn’t give us any
compatible hits in the database. I did
find traces of fiberglass in the
laceration of the cheek bone, which you
can see here, was crushed.
DANNY MESSER
I found traces of fiberglass on the
register.
DR. SID HAMMERBACK
Well, I-I might have a theory for why
the whites of the suspects eyes were
blue. Sclera, uh, the whites of the
eyes, can have a purple or blue tint if
someone is suffering from Osteogenesis
Imperfecta.
DR. SHELDON HAWKES
And individuals with O.I., their bones
do fracture easily.
DR. SID HAMMERBACK
Exactly. Which is why I hypothesized
your thief could be wearing a
fiberglass cast.
CSI: NEW YORK - “Child’s Play” - Eps. #411 - Page 17
DANNY MESSER
That would explain the crushing of
Justin Scott’s cheek bone. And why he
thought the perp had something up his
sleeve. This osteo--, uh, thing? Uh,
can, uh, we track it?
DR. SHELDON HAWKES
Well, if our robber knows he has it, if
he’s seen a doctor about it, then we
might even be able to get photos of
possible suspects from physicians.
DANNY MESSER
Boom. So we show these photos to
Justin and Lucy. They I.D. our guy--
[DANNY LOOKS DOWN TO SEE RUBEN’S BODY
BEING WHEELED IN ON A GURNEY]
DANNY MESSER (CONTINUED)
--and we are…
DR. SHELDON HAWKES
[DISTORTED] D-Danny, what?
DANNY MESSER
No. No. Sid, where, where, where’d
you find him?
DR. SHELDON HAWKES
Hey, Danny, what’s going on?
DANNY MESSER
Oh, God, I don’t know.
DR. SID HAMMERBACK
[OVERLAPPING] An alley off 75
It says here there was a bicycle found
that said Ruben on it.
DANNY MESSER
[SOBS] Oh-oh, Ruben. No! No!
DR. SHELDON HAWKES
Danny, now, you know this kid?
th Street.
CSI: NEW YORK - “Child’s Play” - Eps. #411 - Page 18
DR. SID HAMMERBACK
Hey, hey. Come on, get him outta here!
No, don’t touch the body, man.
[OVERLAPPING DIALOGUE]
DR. SHELDON HAWKES
Okay, okay.
DR. SID HAMMERBACK
Sheldon, get him outta here.
DANNY MESSER
No, no, no, no. Wait, wait. Wait,
wait. No, he--. No, no, I watched him
take the shortcut home.
DR. SHELDON HAWKES
[OVERLAPPING] Danny, come on, man.
Come on, let’s go. Come on, man.
Let’s go. Come, no, no, no. Let’s go.
Let-- Come on.
DANNY MESSER
Wait, wait, wait.
DR. SHELDON HAWKES
Come on, man. Let’s go.
MUSIC OUTEND OF ACT ONE
CSI: NEW YORK - “Child’s Play” - Eps. #411 - Page 19ACT TWO
EXT. NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE - NIGHT
MUSIC IN
INT. M.E.’S OFFICE - WASH ROOM - NIGHT
DANNY MESSER
I saw him. I saw him. He was fine. I
saw him. He rode the bike right away
from me. I shouldn’t have stopped. I
shouldn’t have stopped. Why did I
stop!? I should’ve made sure the kid
got home safe.
MAC TAYLOR
Ruben was a block and a half from your
apartment building. There was a man
down bleeding. Justin Scott needed
your help. You acted on instinct,
Danny.
DANNY MESSER
Oh, man, I wish I hadn’t. I wish I
hadn’t. Oh, I wish I hadn’t! He just
got his bicycle blessed this morning.
LINDSAY MONROE
Danny. [DANNY WALKS AWAY] [TO MAC]
Oh, I just heard.
MAC TAYLOR
This is a tough one.
LINDSAY MONROE
Oh, I’m not very good at this kind of
thing. What should I say to him?
MAC TAYLOR
Just tell him you’re not very good at
this kind of thing.
[LINDSAY GOES AFTER DANNY. MAC WATCHES
AS RUBEN’S BODY IS WASHED.]
CSI: NEW YORK - “Child’s Play” - Eps. #411 - Page 20
EXT. NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE - NIGHT
INT. NEW YORK CRIME LAB - A/V LAB- NIGHT
[MAC PROCESSES THE BULLET REMOVED FROM
RUBEN’S BODY
EXT. NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE - NIGHT
INT. APARTMENT BUILDING - HALLWAY - NIGHT
MUSIC OUT
RIKKI SANDOVAL
[KNOCKING] It’s about time you guys
got back. I was starting to get a
little worried, Messer. How long was
the line? Where’s Ruben?
DANNY MESSER
Rikki.
RIKKI SANDOVAL
Where’s Ruben, Danny?
DANNY MESSER
Rikki, we, um, I’m sorry. We, uh, we,
we were on our back, we were on our way
back and then, uh, he, uh, there was a
robbery at a bodega.
RIKKI SANDOVAL
No, no. Just tell me where he is. You
tell me where I can find him. Just,
just say that he’s okay. [MUSIC IN]
Oh, just tell me that he’s okay.
[CRYING] Tell me he’s okay.
DANNY MESSER
I can’t tell you that he’s okay. I
can’t tell you that he’s okay.
RIKKI SANDOVAL
[SOBS] No, no. Oh, no. [SOBS]
CSI: NEW YORK - “Child’s Play” - Eps. #411 - Page 21
EXT. NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE - NIGHT TO DAY
MUSIC OUT
INT. NEW YORK CRIME LAB - CORRIDOR - DAY
MAC TAYLOR
Process what was collected at the
bodega. Whatever Danny started,
finish. I want answers, not guesses.
ADAM ROSS
Got it.
DR. SHELDON HAWKES
Mac, I got your message.
MAC TAYLOR
The bodega robbery is connected to the
shooting of Ruben Sandoval. I found
citric acid on the bullet Sid extracted
from Ruben.
DR. SHELDON HAWKES
More than likely it’s the bullet that
traveled through the orange.
MAC TAYLOR
Yeah, and the reason why you didn’t
find it at the scene, it entered Ruben
just under his arm here.
DR. SHELDON HAWKES
Axillary region. It’s common that
someone could be shot there and not
immediately know it.
MAC TAYLOR
I imagine Ruben was traveling on his
bike, he heard the gunshot, was scared.
Adrenalin pumping. Doesn’t feel the
initial pain. Does what Danny tells
him to, heads for home. Doesn’t make
it.
CSI: NEW YORK - “Child’s Play” - Eps. #411 - Page 22
DR. SHELDON HAWKES
Did the bullet get a match in IBIS?
MAC TAYLOR
Nope. Even stranger, the caliber of
the bullet is inconsistent with a
revolver.
DR. SHELDON HAWKES
Does that mean we have two shooters?
MAC TAYLOR
Danny only heard one shot.
EXT. NEW YORK CITY STREETS - DAY
EXT. LAUGHING LARRY’S LAFFATORIUM - SIDEWALK -
DAY
DETECTIVE DON FLACK
Laughing Larry? You gotta be kidding
me. Do you have any idea how much of
my childhood was cruelly destroyed by
this moron?
LINDSAY MONROE
Trust me. I feel your pain.
STELLA BONASERA
You two wanna enlighten me here?
DETECTIVE DON FLACK
I was into comic books as a kid, right?
STELLA BONASERA
Yep.
DETECTIVE DON FLACK
And this guy had a full-page ad in the
back of each and every one of ‘em
selling things like Dribble Glasses,
Onion Gum, Hypno-Coins, Whoopee
cushions.
LINDSAY MONROE
Plastic vomit, rubber dog doo.
CSI: NEW YORK - “Child’s Play” - Eps. #411 - Page 23
STELLA BONASERA
Hmm. Sounds great.
DETECTIVE DON FLACK
Oh, yeah. And it all looked great.
And I’d do whatever it took. I would
scrimp, I would save, I would mow every
last lawn in the neighborhood to get my
hands on Sneezing Salts or a hundredpiece
Battle Fleet. And then, I go to
the mailbox, and right there before my
innocent young eyes would be
disappointment in a cardboard box.
LINDSAY MONROE
I once spent my entire summer allowance
on this Hovercraft that Laughing Larry
said would take me and my friends
riding on a carpet of thin air. Hover
crap.
DETECTIVE DON FLACK
How ‘bout the X-ray Specs I bought in
middle school to see through girls’
clothes? Yeah. The only thing I ever
saw through those was a nun coming at
me with a yardstick.
LINDSAY MONROE
Unbelievable.
DETECTIVE DON FLACK
Right?
STELLA BONASERA
I bought Sea Monkeys.
LINDSAY MONROE/DETECTIVE DON FLACK (IN
UNISON)
Ohhhh.
STELLA BONASERA
But that was then and this is now. So,
come on. We have a man to see about a
cigar.
CSI: NEW YORK - “Child’s Play” - Eps. #411 - Page 24
INT. LAUGHING LARRY’S LAFFATORIUM - DAY
[LARRY BLOWS ACME SIREN WHISTLE WHICH
IS HANGING ON A CHAIN AROUND HIS NECK]
LAUGHING LARRY
Welcome to Laughing Larry’s
Laffatorium. Where you get more yucks
for less bucks. Well, now, hey, don’t
you look spiffy? Do you mind if I take
your picture? [HE SHOOTS A
CAMERA/WATER GUN AT FLACK] [LAUGHS]
[FLASHBACK]
LINDSAY MONROE (V.O.)
On the victim’s tie I found a stain.
It turned out to be mineral water with
a twist. It contained DNA from
Laughing Larry’s saliva.
[BACK TO SCENE]
DETECTIVE DON FLACK
Laugh it up, Lare. You pull another
gag like that and I’m gonna add
assaulting an officer to your murder
charge.
LAUGHING LARRY
Wait a minute. You guys are cops? Who
died?
STELLA BONASERA
Essex Palmer. That’s what we’d like to
talk to you about, Larry.
LAUGHING LARRY
Whoa, whoa, you mean somebody killed
him?
LINDSAY MONROE
So you two did know each other?
CSI: NEW YORK - “Child’s Play” - Eps. #411 - Page 25
DETECTIVE DON FLACK
Yeah, what happened? You decide to
fool your friend with an exploding
cigar?
LAUGHING LARRY
Wh-What are you talking about?
STELLA BONASERA
That’s how he died, Larry.
LAUGHING LARRY
Well, just a hot-damn minute now. You
guys think that, that I had something
to do with his death, you’re bigger
stooges than I thought.
LINDSAY MONROE
So how did you two meet?
LAUGHING LARRY
He walked in here, he said he was a big
fan. He said he loved my stuff and he
offered to buy the whole thing and ten
years of back stock. He said he wanted
to turn it into some kind of, I don’t
know, e-e-commerce venture, uh,
Laffatorium.com. Me? I don’t know the
Internet from intercourse. But I can
tell you, after 40 years of raising
rubber chickens, he was bailing me out
of a damn deep hole.
DETECTIVE DON FLACK
You got any paperwork to prove it?
LAUGHING LARRY
Ah, it was all on a handshake.
STELLA BONASERA
Yeah? He get the joy buzzer too?
DETECTIVE DON FLACK
Bet he didn’t know what kind of guy he
was getting into business with until
the whole thing blew up in his face.
CSI: NEW YORK - “Child’s Play” - Eps. #411 - Page 26
LAUGHING LARRY
I’ve been selling exploding cigars and
cigarettes for 35 years and the only
thing they ever hurt was people’s
pride.
LINDSAY MONROE
Tell that to Essex Palmer.
LAUGHING LARRY
I’m telling you, it wasn’t mine.
STELLA BONASERA
Did you give Essex Palmer a cigar?
LAUGHING LARRY
Yeah, but it, it wa--.
STELLA BONASERA
[OVERLAPPING] If it wasn’t yours, then
where did you get it?
LAUGHING LARRY
I don’t know. People give me cigars
all the time. Uh, it’s part of my
shtick. What?
DETECTIVE DON FLACK
Well, how about I shtick you in lockup.
LAUGHING LARRY
All right, I, I don’t know. N-N-N-I
don’t even remember who gave it to me.
Uh, wait a minute. That’s right.
There was this guy. He was a new
father. He gave it to me.
[FLASHBACK]
MAN
I just had a baby girl.
LAUGHING LARRY
(V.O.) He just came up to me and gave
it to me. (ON CAMERA) Hey, thanks.
Congratulations.
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[BACK TO SCENE]
LAUGHING LARRY (CONTINUED)
All right, okay? He was, uh, uh,
medium build, light hair, about your
age, only a lot better looking.
STELLA BONASERA
All right, all right. So you passed on
his cigar to Essex.
LAUGHING LARRY
Didn’t cost me anything.
LINDSAY MONROE
Well, it cost him plenty.
MUSIC IN
EXT. NEW YORK CITY STREET - DAY
INT. NEW YORK CRIME LAB - LAYOUT ROOM - DAY
[MONTAGE SEQUENCE OF LINDSAY TESTING
TRICK CIGARS]
MUSIC OUT
INT. NEW YORK CRIME LAB - CORRIDOR - DAY
LINDSAY MONROE
The only combustible agent in Laughing
Larry’s exploding cigars is lead azide.
No smokeless gun powder at all. So, as
much as I hate to admit it, he’s right.
They’re annoying but they’re not gonna
kill you.
STELLA BONASERA
What about the tobacco?
LINDSAY MONROE
I’m still waiting for isotopic analysis
on the--
CSI: NEW YORK - “Child’s Play” - Eps. #411 - Page 28
[FLASHBACK]
LINDSAY MONROE (V.O.) (CONTINUED)
--Essex Palmer’s handled cigar. But I
did scope a visual comparison between
the two. And our laughing friend’s
smokes--
[BACK TO SCENE]
LINDSAY MONROE (CONTINUED)
--are strictly low-grade. Small leaf,
paper fillers and enough preservatives
to fill a tox report.
STELLA BONASERA
Consistent with Larry’s story as well.
LINDSAY MONROE
Cheap and tasteless.
DETECTIVE DON FLACK
Well, I found a kink in Laughing
Larry’s tale. Kim Wey Imports.
According to the New York State Tax
Board, they’re a Chinatown novelty
distributor who have filed no less than
seven liens against Laughing Larry in
the past three years. Looks like he
owes ‘em quite a bit of coin at this
point.
STELLA BONASERA
Good reason to want Laughing Larry
dead.
DETECTIVE DON FLACK
Ready for this? Unpaid receipt of
Class C fireworks including party
poppers, snapping caps and exploding
cigars.
LINDSAY MONROE
So maybe when Larry couldn’t cough up
the cash, they decided to deliver their
message loud and clear.
CSI: NEW YORK - “Child’s Play” - Eps. #411 - Page 29
EXT. NEW YORK CITY STREETS/CHINATOWN - NIGHT
MUSIC IN
EXT. KIM WEY IMPORTS - BACK LOADING ENTRANCE -
NIGHT
INT. KIM WEY IMPORTS - NIGHT
STELLA BONASERA
Wow, we’re not just talking party
poppers. This place is more like a
powder keg.
LINDSAY MONROE
Aren’t fireworks illegal in the state
of New York?
DETECTIVE DON FLACK
Yep. So is murder.
[CHINESE WALLA]
[TWO MEN WALK AROUND A CORNER TOWARD
FLACK]
DETECTIVE DON FLACK (CONTINUED)
Hey, folks. NYPD. [MUSIC IN] Time to
close up shop!
[FROM ATOP A CATWALK, KIM WEY YELLS AT
THE TWO MEN]
KIM WEY
[SPEAKS IN CHINESE – TRANSLATION “Damn
it, the police are here! Run!”]
STELLA BONASERA
Whoa, whoa, whoa! Hey! Stop, freeze!
DETECTIVE DON FLACK
Hold it right there. Hold it right
there!
KIM WEY
I’d rather let it go.
CSI: NEW YORK - “Child’s Play” - Eps. #411 - Page 30
[KIM THROWS A LIT OBJECT ONTO THE BOXES
OF FIREWORKS BELOW]
[FIREWORK EXPLOSION]
DETECTIVE DON FLACK
Stella, Lindsay, get out!
STELLA BONASERA
Hey we’re outta here, Lindsay. Let’s
go!
[FIREWORKS EXPLODE AS STELLA AND
LINDSAY CUFF THE TWO MEN AND FLACK
CHASES AFTER KIM WEY]
[WALLA, WHILE RUNNING]
EXT. KIM WEY IMPORTS - ROOFTOP TO ALLEY - NIGHT
[FLACK JUMPS ON TOP OF KIM WEY]
DETECTIVE DON FLACK
Stop, drop and roll, you son of a
bitch.
MUSIC OUTEND OF ACT TWO
CSI: NEW YORK - “Child’s Play” - Eps. #411 - Page 31ACT THREE
EXT. NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE - NIGHT
MUSIC IN
INT. KIM WEY IMPORTS - NIGHT
[FIREFIGHTERS COMPLETE EXTINGUISHING
THE FIRE]
MUSIC OUT
KIM WEY
He’s the reason I had to sell black
market fireworks in the first place.
DETECTIVE DON FLACK
Let me guess. You’re gonna blame your
illegal immigration status on Laughing
Larry too.
KIM WEY
[LAUGHS] You think I care about being
deported? He owes me a hundred grand.
I gotta make a living.
STELLA BONASERA
Even if it meant killing him with an
explosive cigar?
KIM WEY
If I wanted to kill that idiot, I’d
strangle him with my bare hands. And
believe me, I thought about it. But I
held off when it looked like he was
finally about to sell. I even, uh,
paid him a little visit to make sure he
remembered his debts.
[FLASHBACK]
KIM WEY
Sign it.
[BACK TO SCENE]
CSI: NEW YORK - “Child’s Play” - Eps. #411 - Page 32
KIM WEY
See for yourself. The deal’s in my
pocket. He offered me a hundred grand
plus another fifty K in interest.
LINDSAY MONROE
Well, it doesn’t look he signed it to
me, Mr. Wey.
KIM WEY
It’s his disappearing ink. He thinks
he’s funny. But I know where to find
him.
DETECTIVE DON FLACK
Good. ‘Cause maybe you can send him a
postcard from Shanghai.
[STELLA USES A BLACK LIGHT TO
ILLUMINATE LAUGHING LARRY’S INVISIBLE
INK SIGNATURE]
STELLA BONASERA
There it is.
LINDSAY MONROE
I don’t get it. If Larry had no reason
to want Essex dead, this guy has no
reason to want Larry dead. All either
one of ‘em wanted was money.
STELLA BONASERA
Means that our real killer is still
invisible.
EXT. CENTRAL PARK/NEW YORK CITY STREET - NIGHT
INT. M.E.’S OFFICE - COLD STORAGE ROOM - NIGHT
ADAM ROSS
Hey, Sid.
DR. SID HAMMERBACK
Mr. Ross. What brings you down here?
CSI: NEW YORK - “Child’s Play” - Eps. #411 - Page 33
ADAM ROSS
Uh, one question. How often are you
wrong? Uh, I, I, I mean, it’s, your,
your theory that the bodega robber
suffered from osteogensis imperfecta is
just that. A, a theory, right?
DR. SID HAMMERBACK
I hope you haven’t come down here to
question my many years as a pathologist
without some evidentiary ammunition.
ADAM ROSS
Well the perp’s blue eyes. I, I, I ki-
-, I kinda have a theory of my own.
DR. SID HAMMERBACK
Bring it.
ADAM ROSS
Hawkes found three specialists in the
field of osteogenesis imperfecta and
subpoenaed their records. Justin and
Lucy couldn’t make a positive I.D. to
any of the photos. In the meantime,
the fiberglass that Danny--
[FLASHBACK]
ADAM ROSS (V.O.) (CONTINUED)
--found at the scene, I found--
[BACK TO SCENE]
ADAM ROSS (CONTINUED)
--trace levels of caffeine and
aspartame.
DR. SID HAMMERBACK
Description of a diet soda, which
contains carbon dioxide.
CSI: NEW YORK - “Child’s Play” - Eps. #411 - Page 34
ADAM ROSS
Which, if someone suffered from O.I.,
they’d be instructed to avoid because
carbon dioxide can dissolve calcium in
bone tissue.
DR. SID HAMMERBACK
Well, not many patients actually follow
their doctor’s instructions, Adam.
ADAM ROSS
Yeah, I, I thought of that. But it
still did leave a small window of doubt
in your diagnosis. Okay. So, I
started thinking. What if the
fiberglass cast was a coincidence?
That our perp simply had a broken arm.
Which led me to discover a possible
alternative to what caused the whites
of the perp’s eyes to be blue.
DR. SID HAMMERBACK
I see. So you really came down here to
run your theory by me so you could
report to Mac and say that I have your
back.
ADAM ROSS
I guess so.
DR. SID HAMMERBACK
Okay. Why are the whites of our perp’s
eyes blue?
ADAM ROSS
Eyeball tattooing.
INT. NEW YORK CRIME LAB - CORRIDOR - NIGHT
DR. SHELDON HAWKES
What?
MAC TAYLOR
Somewhere in this conversation you’re
gonna have to start making sense.
CSI: NEW YORK - “Child’s Play” - Eps. #411 - Page 35
ADAM ROSS
I checked with Sid. Our perp doesn’t
necessarily have osteogenesis
imperfecta. Danny found a hair--
[FLASHBACK]
MUSIC IN
ADAM ROSS (V.O.) (CONTINUED)
--a clipped dog’s hair at the scene.
MUSIC OUT
[BACK TO SCENE]
ADAM ROSS (CONTINUED)
It had traces of dye, but not just any
dye, all right? A dye used for
tattooing.
DR. SHELDON HAWKES
On a dog.
MAC TAYLOR
Well, some veterinarians tattoo the
lighter areas on the dog’s nose. The
ink works as protection against skin
cancer.
ADAM ROSS
They also tattoo pets’ ears for
identification and in most cases, they
clip the hair.
DR. SHELDON HAWKES
Okay. But I’m not seeing a connection
to blue eyes or our bodega suspect.
ADAM ROSS
Veterinarians send the pets to tattoo
artists, places that you and I go. I
mean, well, I would go--. I mean,
uh--. Uh, anyways, I located several
establishments. And one place in
particular offered me a special on
eyeball tattooing.
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EXT. NEW YORK CITY STREETS - NIGHT
MUSIC IN
INT. BODY INK, INC. - NIGHT
SADIE KEVITCH
We’re the only ones who do it. It’s
one of the oldest forms of tattooing.
We inject color pigment under the top
layer of the eye. Your brown eyes
would really pop with a little bit of
green. I can give you a discount.
DR. SHELDON HAWKES
Actually, Sadie, no. Um, I’m looking
for someone. Someone who might have
these eye tattoos.
SADIE KEVITCH
Counting her? Only four people I know
who have it.
DR. SHELDON HAWKES
I’m gonna need those names.
MUSIC OUT
EXT. NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE - NIGHT TO DAY
INT. NYPD - INTERROGATION ROOM - DAY
OLLIE BARNES
I’m telling you, I didn’t do anything,
all right? You don’t know what you’re
talking about.
MAC TAYLOR
The whites of your eyes are blue,
Ollie. It’s kinda hard to miss that.
You were in that bodega.
CSI: NEW YORK - “Child’s Play” - Eps. #411 - Page 37
[FLASHBACK]
MAC TAYLOR (V.O.) (CONTINUED)
You slammed your gun into Justin
Scott’s face. You crushed his cheek
bone with your cast. You stole the
money from the register and fled into
the subway. We have two eyewitnesses.
[BACK TO SCENE]
MAC TAYLOR (CONTINUED)
What you don’t know, is that a kid took
a bullet and died.
OLLIE BARNES
What? Look, I never fired my gun.
MAC TAYLOR
There was a crime scene investigator
around the corner from the bodega. He
heard a gunshot.
OLLIE BARNES
That’s because the bodega owner fired
at me.
MAC TAYLOR
You saw Justin Scott fire a gun?
OLLIE BARNES
Well, who else could it be? I didn’t
do it.
MAC TAYLOR
There was no gun in the bodega, Ollie.
OLLIE BARNES
You got a lot to figure out ‘cause I
never fired my gun. That’s what you
do, right? You can prove that, right?
Look, I dumped my gun, okay? It’s in
the third canister along the wall in
the subway station. I am not going
down for murder, man.
CSI: NEW YORK - “Child’s Play” - Eps. #411 - Page 38
INTERCUT WITH
INT. NYPD - VIEWING ROOM - DAY
DR. SHELDON HAWKES
Did you see him fire his gun?
DANNY MESSER
I never said he did it. I heard a
gunshot. By the time I rounded the
corner, Ollie Barnes was--
[FLASHBACK]
DANNY MESSER (V.O.) (CONTINUED)
--running away from me with a gun in
his hand.
[BACK TO SCENE]
DANNY MESSER (CONTINUED)
Lucy Scott said he fired his gun.
[HAWKES TESTS OLLIE’S HANDS FOR GUNSHOT
RESIDUE]
INT. SUBWAY STATION - DAY
[ND TECHS FIND THE GUN IN THE TRASH
CAN]
INT. NEW YORK CRIME LAB - A/V LAB - DAY
[MAC LOOKS AT A CRIME SCENE
RECONSTRUCTION ON THE LARGE TOUCH
SCREEN MONITOR]
MUSIC OUT
MAC TAYLOR
Thought I told you to take some time
off?
CSI: NEW YORK - “Child’s Play” - Eps. #411 - Page 39
DANNY MESSER
Oh, yeah, you did. I just don’t wanna
go home. ‘Cause when I go walking down
that hallway now I’m s-- not gonna
hear the kid laughing on the other side
of the walls, you know. Crying when he
doesn’t wanna go to bed. I’m just
afraid I’m gonna miss him.
DR. SHELDON HAWKES
Ollie’s telling the truth. There were
no traces of GSR on his hands and the
gun retrieved from the garbage was not
recently fired.
DANNY MESSER
And is it a revolver?
DR. SHELDON HAWKES
Yes.
MAC TAYLOR
Which doesn’t explain why the bullet
Sid removed from Ruben was a nine
millimeter. No match to a revolver.
DANNY MESSER
Justin Scott fired a weapon?
DR. SHELDON HAWKES
We didn’t find a weapon on him or in
the bodega.
MAC TAYLOR
But then again, we weren’t looking for
one. [MUSIC IN] This is our crime
scene based on Lucy Scott’s account of
what happened. She said the shooter
fired back from the street as she
approached her brother. I found an--
[FLASHBACK]
MAC TAYLOR (V.O.) (CONTINUED)
--orange pierced by a bullet here.
CSI: NEW YORK - “Child’s Play” - Eps. #411 - Page 40
[BACK TO SCENE]
DR. SHELDON HAWKES
Justin Scott’s there, Lucy’s right
behind him. So the line of fire has to
be in this area.
MAC TAYLOR
But Ollie Barnes is over six feet tall.
If he fired back at Lucy, how did a
bullet pierce an orange that was at
least a foot below his sight of her?
DANNY MESSER
Yeah. That doesn’t make sense. I
mean, either he’s a really bad shot or
somebody else fired at her.
MAC TAYLOR
Yeah, well let’s look at Ollie’s
theory. Someone shot at him. All
right. If we change the spatial
orientation of the orange, the path of
the bullet changes.
DR. SHELDON HAWKES
The orange didn’t come from the stand,
closest to the street, it came from the
boxes near the door. The bullet
pierced the orange and entered Ruben
Sandoval.
DANNY MESSER
But the kid was shot on the right side,
the side closest to Ollie Barnes.
MAC TAYLOR
No, Danny. Ruben heard what you heard.
[FLASHBACK]
MAC TAYLOR (V.O.) (CONTINUED)
He turned toward the sound of Lucy and
the gunshot.
LUCY SCOTT
Help! Somebody stop him!
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[GUNSHOT]
[BACK TO SCENE]
MAC TAYLOR
And there’s only one person who could
have been in the exact position to
shoot both the orange and Ruben
Sandoval.
[FLASHBACK]
MUSIC OUTEND OF ACT THREE
CSI: NEW YORK - “Child’s Play” - Eps. #411 - Page 42ACT FOUR
EXT. NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE - DAY
MUSIC IN
EXT. BODEGA - DAY
INT. BODEGA - DAY
[MONTAGE SEQUENCE OF HAWKES AND TECH
LOOKING FOR EVIDENCE. HAWKES FINDS A
DUSTY OUTLINE OF A GUN UNDERNEATH THE
COUNTER.]
EXT. NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE - DAY
INT. M.E.’S OFFICE - ANTEROOM - DAY
LUCY SCOTT
I don’t understand, Detective. Is the
guy that robbed us dead?
MAC TAYLOR
No. We arrested Ollie Barnes this
afternoon for robbery and assault with
a deadly weapon. That’s the young kid
you shot and killed. His name is Ruben
Sandoval.
LUCY SCOTT
I don’t think--.
MAC TAYLOR
Yes, you do. Your intention was to
stop Ollie Barnes as he fled the
bodega.
[FLASHBACK]
MAC TAYLOR (V.O.) (CONTINUED)
You were kneeling down next to Justin--
[BACK TO SCENE]
CSI: NEW YORK - “Child’s Play” - Eps. #411 - Page 43
MAC TAYLOR (CONTINUED)
--when you shot him. What’d you do
with the gun, Lucy?
[FLASHBACK]
LUCY SCOTT
Somebody stop him!
JUSTIN SCOTT
What are you doing?
LUCY SCOTT (V.O.)
It can’t be true.
[BACK TO SCENE]
LUCY SCOTT (CONTINUED)
It can’t be true. I didn’t shoot that
kid. Did I?
MAC TAYLOR
Ruben was riding his bike past the
bodega when you pulled the trigger. It
was a split second in time.
LUCY SCOTT
[SOBS]
[FLASHBACK]
LUCY SCOTT
Help! Somebody stop him!
DANNY MESSER
Ruben, go straight home, Ruben! Go
straight home!
[BACK TO SCENE]
EXT. NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE - DAY
MUSIC OUT
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INT. NEW YORK CRIME LAB - CORRIDOR TO LAYOUT ROOM
- DAY
STELLA BONASERA
Hey, Lindsay, what have we got?
LINDSAY MONROE
We finally got the isotopic results
back from the hand-rolled cigar
fragment--
[FLASHBACK]
LINDSAY MONROE (V.O.) (CONTINUED)
--that Sid found in Essex Palmer’s
throat.
[BACK TO SCENE]
STELLA BONASERA
Oh, Pre-Embargo Cuban tobacco and a
wrapper leaf from Cameroon.
LINDSAY MONROE
A hundred bucks a pop. I mean, you--
[FLASHBACK]
LINDSAY MONROE (V.O.) (CONTINUED)
--couple it with this special, “It’s a
Girl” label, there’s only one place in
the city that sells them.
[BACK TO SCENE]
LINDSAY MONROE (CONTINUED)
Haynes House of Fine Tobacco. Has a
web-based in-house surveillance system.
And only one person bought those cigars
in the past week. The trouble is that
the video is really grainy and I’ve
just about tweaked it into oblivion.
STELLA BONASERA
Hm.
CSI: NEW YORK - “Child’s Play” - Eps. #411 - Page 45
LINDSAY MONROE
I was thinking it’s time for Plan B.
STELLA BONASERA
Biometrics?
LINDSAY MONROE
Bingo. [MUSIC IN] Now if we can
define our guy’s unique facial
measurements, length of nose, width
between the eyes, width of mouth.
Maybe we can get a hit in PIMS.
STELLA BONASERA
And about half a dozen possible perps
with priors. Looks like it’s time to
bring Laughing Larry in for a line-up.
EXT. NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE - DAY
INT. NYPD - VIEWING ROOM - DAY
MUSIC OUT
LAUGHING LARRY
Can they see me?
STELLA BONASERA
No.
LAUGHING LARRY
Poor saps don’t know what they’re
missing.
LINDSAY MONROE
Mr. Gelachter, please. Just look
through the window and see if you can
see the man you picked out from the
photo.
LAUGHING LARRY
Wait. There, that’s him. Number
three.
DETECTIVE DON FLACK
You sure that’s the guy who gave you
the cigar?
CSI: NEW YORK - “Child’s Play” - Eps. #411 - Page 46
[FLASHBACK]
BENJAMIN SUTOR
I just had a baby girl.
LAUGHING LARRY
Hey, well congratulations. Thanks.
[BACK TO SCENE]
LAUGHING LARRY
Yeah, that’s the happy father.
[ND UNIFORM ESCORTS THE OTHERS IN THE
LINE-UP OUT OF THE ROOM. SUTOR STAYS
BEHIND.]
LINDSAY MONROE
Benjamin Sutor. He’s new to the
system. He works for an ammo company.
He just got booked three days ago for
violating a restraining order filed by
his ex-wife. Report says she was
awarded full custody of their son. But
he’s a toddler. There’s no mention of
a newborn.
[BENJAMIN SUTOR WALKS UP TO THE GLASS]
BENJAMIN SUTOR
Is that you? Hmm? You recognize me,
Laughing Larry?
LAUGHING LARRY
What? I, I thought you said he
couldn’t see me.
STELLA BONASERA
He can’t.
INTERCUT WITH
CSI: NEW YORK - “Child’s Play” - Eps. #411 - Page 47
INT. NYPD - LINE-UP ROOM - DAY
BENJAMIN SUTOR
Of course not. But I know who you are.
Yeah, you look the same as you did in
all the comic books I read when I was a
kid.
[FLASHBACK]
BENJAMIN SUTOR (V.O.) (CONTINUED)
You know, my best friend Sam and I, we
never missed one of your ads.
[BACK TO SCENE]
BENJAMIN SUTOR (CONTINUED)
You know what we wanted more than
anything in the entire world? The
Narwhal Nuclear Submarine.
[FLASHBACK]
BENJAMIN SUTOR (V.O.) (CONTINUED)
You said it was the most powerful
weapon to sail the seven seas. That it
would dive the deepest depths and that
we could search for sunken treasures
beyond our wildest dreams.
[BACK TO SCENE]
BENJAMIN SUTOR (CONTINUED)
Even though it was only 6.98, it was
more than either of us could afford on
our own. So, I came up with the
brilliant idea that if we saved up, we
could buy it together.
[FLASHBACK]
[WALLA]
CSI: NEW YORK - “Child’s Play” - Eps. #411 - Page 48
BENJAMIN SUTOR (V.O.) (CONTINUED)
And I have to admit I was a little bit
skeptical when it arrived in the mail
and it was made out of cardboard. I
was unsure that it would do all the
things that you said that it could.
But, uh, but Sam wasn’t. Sam was sure
that it would work. Sam knew that it
would work because Laughing Larry had
said it would, so why wouldn’t it?
[BACK TO SCENE]
BENJAMIN SUTOR (CONTINUED)
You know what you forgot to tell us is
that, um, is that Sam had to know how
to swim. I lost my best friend and I
swore that I would never read comic
books again or let my own son read
comic books or play with toys or play
with other kids. So I kept him in the
house around the clock. I was just too
afraid that my little boy was gonna get
hurt. So--.
[STELLA WALKS INTO THE LINE-UP ROOM
BEHIND SUTOR]
STELLA BONASERA
So your wife took your son and filed a
protective order against you.
BENJAMIN SUTOR
It broke my heart when they went away.
But I couldn’t blame them. So I blamed
him.
[FLASHBACK]
BENJAMIN SUTOR
I just had a baby girl.
LAUGHING LARRY
Hey. Congratulations.
BENJAMIN SUTOR (V.O.)
I’m sorry that an innocent person died.
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LAUGHING LARRY
Here you go, Essex. Glad we’re in
business together.
ESSEX PALMER
Thanks, Larry.
BENJAMIN SUTOR (V.O.)
That was not my intention. I tried to
stop it but it was too late.
[BACK TO SCENE]
BENJAMIN SUTOR (CONTINUED)
But I swear, for the rest of my life, I
will pray for one thing. And that is
that you, that you never laugh again.
STELLA BONASERA
Okay. Come on, let’s go.
[FLASHBACK]
[BACK TO SCENE]
EXT. NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE - DUSK TO NIGHT
INT. CATHEDRAL - NIGHT
[DANNY WALKS IN, SITS IN A PEW BEHIND
RIKKI SANDOVAL]
TO BLACK
MUSIC OUT
SHOW TITLE
FADE OUT
THEME MUSIC IN
CLOSING CREDITS
MUSIC OUT
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MAC TAYLOR (V.O.)
Stay tuned for scenes from our next
episode.
