( indistinct police radio transmission )
( camera shutter clicking )
Engineer see anything?
Oh, they're busy.
Find an I.D.?
No wallet, no watch, no keys.
BONASERA:Well, we've got a young man,
if his blood-alcohol levelis elevated,
he fits the profile
for a third-rail exit.
He may fit the profile, but...
it doesn't match the M.O.
Third-rail electrocutionstend to be foot-to-foot.
Someone steps on the rail, andthe current travels up one lg
and down the other,
going to only one place: ground.
Yeah, but this oneis hand-to-foot.
( electrical zapping )
No evidence of a struggleor anyone else being down here.
Why would a kidcross the tracks?
To get to the other side?
One way or another.
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♪ I don't need to fight ♪
♪ To prove I'm right ♪
♪ I don't need to be forgiven,yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah♪
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TAYLOR:What do we have?I.D.'d him yet?
Not officially.
So I've been calling him Slick.
Watch.
Skin's covered witha hydrophobic substance.
You get a sample?
Already sent to trace.
Lots of antemortem
scrapes and bruises.
Couple of healed fractures.
Cause of death?
Ventricular fibrillation.
His respiratory muscles
suffered titanic contractions.
Titanic contractionsare associated
with the locking-on phenomenon
in alternating- current
electrocutions.
( electrical popping )
That doesn't make sense.
New York City subwaysrun on direct current.
And DC has the opposite affect
on muscle tissue as AC.
It causes single-musclecontractions
that throw a victim awayfrom the power source.
( loud electrical buzz )
Not to mention the fact
that victimsof direct-current electrocutions
display visible burnsat the entry
and exit sites.
But Slick's burnslack hemorrhaging.
That means these...
are postmortem burns.
Slick was deadbefore he hit the subway tracks.
So we're lookingat an electrocution
to cover an electrocution.
You like what you see, Messer?
Kylie.
I'm full-duty again, Danny,so it's Detective Macca.
How's it feel?
Brand-new. Of course,I'm setting off metaldetectors now.
Well, you got shot.
It's a small price to pay.
It's good to have you back.
Thanks.
Where are we?
Vic's Leo Whitefield,art dealer.
No priors, nothingfunky going on withhis business.
We did a walk-through,uh, no signs of robbery.
I can see why.
See our guy over there?
Who, Mr. Sweater Vest?
His name's Ron Lathem--he owns the bookstore
across the street.
About an hour agohe saw a black car
double-parkedout front.
20 minutes later,it was gone.
Now the front doorto the gallery is wide open.
He comes inside,finds this.
Leo Whitefield,gallery owner.
MESSER:High-velocity blood spatter.
Powder burns.
Means he was shotat close range.
Dropped gun.
Obvious the killer wasn'tworried about us finding it.
That's becauseit was wiped down.
Most likely with something red.
So prNo sweat.out?
We got databasesfor bullets, too.
Ah.
GSW is a through and through.
( gunshot )
Check this out.
It looks like partof an insurance document.
"This is to certify that
"Inhumanity by Jacques De Souis, owned by
"Charles Dowrightof 234 Reason Street,
"New York,was destroyed by fire
"on the sixth of October,
1814."
Reason Street.
No.you knowwhere that is?
But I know where this is going.
( groans ):Oh...
You smell that, Flack?
The guy stinks.
I thought the coldwas supposed tocover up the smell.
It's not him, it's his clothes.
Get an I.D. yet?
Yeah, Bill Lemachia.
According to some of those guys,
he was filling infor a worker
who was let gofor drinking on the job.
I'll find out who that was.
Anybody see anything?
When does anybodyever see anything?
♪ ♪
GC/MS got a read on trace
from Slick's body:olive oil.
Don't ask me how it got there.
What are you running?
A piece of stone--found it in his pocket,
it looks likea finger from a statue--
a couple of bucks,and a...
a note.
"Gap...
noon."
There's about a thousandGap stores in that city.
Hm. No match on the prints.
Hey. Lookslike our vic
retrofitted his water patchwith a digital camera.
I'm gonna take it to A.V.,
see if we can find out
what he was filming.
Slick was electrocuted,
and it wasn'tjust an outlet shock.
He couldn't let go
of whatever he was holding.
Which means he absorbeda lot of juice.
Could've causedan outage somewhere.
If it was summer, there'd be
a lot more possibilities--but in winter?
How many transformers blowin January?
( quietly ):Yeah.
Hey, good news--I've got a case-to-case hit
in IBIS.
The gun was used before.
Homicide two years ago.
Suspect's name is Paul Gionetti.
He's mobbed up.
Captain of the Pastelli family.
That's the second timethat name's come up today.
I went through thevic's receipt books,
and business wasslow, real slow.
Until Paul Gionetti decidedto plunk fifty thou cash
to buy Inhumanity.
Wasn't that the painting
the insurance documentsaid was destroyed?
Yep. So if he did buy it, Idon't think it was the original.
Leo Whitefield sold a mobstera fake painting.
That's enoughto cost him his life.
( opera music playing )
You know how longI searched foran art dealer
who understood theaesthetic of my soul?
I'd finally found him.
Leo Whitefield.
Mm. He will be missed.
No, save the kind words.
He was shot with a gunthat traces back to you.
Allegedly.
And how thatgun ended up
in his galleryis totally beyond me.
Look...
I'm not a rookie, Mr. Gionetti.
( opera music continues )
All right.
Leo wanted a gun.
He didn't say why;I didn't ask.
I simply gave hima number to beginhis search.
Coincidence hasled you back to me.
No, a fake painting has.
And I think he scammed you
and you found out.
You were gonnasell me a fake?
( grunts ))
I don't spend $50,000on fake paintings.
There's only one Inhumanity, and Leo promised me he'd getit.
He had to.
It's place on my wallhas already been reserved.
Yeah, but it's not there.
So where is it?
I don't know.
That's why I had Leo.
I needed him.
I didn't kill him.
The body was foundin a subway threeblocks from here,
and this is the onlydisturbance reportedin Brooklyn last night.
20 houses servedby this transformer lost power.
No signs of any problems
with maintenanceor illegal tampering.
I think one of these houseshas a statue
that's missing a finger.
All fingers accounted for.
Who is it?
I'm Detective Taylor,
NYPD.
I can't open the doorfor strangers.
Is your mother home?
She's dead.
MAN:Can I help you?
Detective Taylor,
NYPD.
Detective Bonasera.
Go inside andtell your brother
to put these away.
There was a power outagereported
in your neighborhoodlast night.
Yeah, I was watchingthe Knick game,
and everything just went out.
How long was your power out?
Oh, a couple of hours.
Do you recognize him?
No.
Sorry.
Anything elseI can help you with?
If you thinkof anything else.
Theoretically,he could have been
electrocuted someplace else.
And just happenedto get dumped
in the one neighborhoodin Brooklyn
that lost itspower last night.
Mm-hmm. One ofthose everything's-connected moments.
Anything fNothing.l records?
All we know about our vicis that he was electrocuted.
And he knew howto beat the traffic.
From his digital camera we found in his backpack.
Taken the day he died.
Is he being chased?
Whatever he's doing,he's covering a lot of ground.
Yeah, well,I hope he goes home,
because this isour only connection to him.
Grand Army Plaza.
G-A-P.
The note in his pocket.
It's not a store,it's Prospect Park.
Where he hadsomething at noon.
All right,so we have a where and a when.
TAYLOR: And in order to get to a what...
...we need to start with a who.
That's our guy.
Cops. Let's go.
Feel like chasing them?
Absolutely.
"All the newsthat's fit to print."
Do you recognize him?
That's Randy Hontz.
What happened to him?
He was electrocuted.
How do you know him?
We parkour together.
"Parkour"?
Free running?
Traversing the urbanobstacle course
we all encounter on a dailybasis from a new perspective.
It must come in handywhen you're breaking
into houses.
That was a one-time mistake.
Breaking in or getting caught?
I took a pleafor criminal trespassing,
did community service.Case closed.
Well, this caseis still open,
and you're on a video with Randythe night that he died.
We do that all the time.
We take a camera out,get some shots.
If you're claiminga new route,
you better be able to prove it.
As far as we know you're the
last one to see Randy alive.
Which is how I left him.
I mean, he saidhe was going home.
We're going to needthat address.
All I can say is,
they give youthose hard hats for a reason.
Cause of death?
Massive cranial fracture.
Whatever he usedto kill this guy
shattered his skullwith one blow.
Ouch. Any defense wounds?
None. Died instantly.
Okay, so the guy diedat a construction site,
tools everywhere.
Any distinct markingsin the scalp
that might help me narrowdown what did the damage?
Nothing that I saw.
However, I diddetect a foul smell
emanating from the wound.
Yeah, Flack and I got awhiff of that at the scene.
I thought it wasa pair of stanky jeans.
( chuckles )
( sniffs )
It smells like chemicalsof some kind,
with a mixture of excrement.
Down here we call thata James Brown. It's funky.
Yeah.
I'll take it over to trace.
GC Mass spec's gota great sense of smell.
I got info.
Me, too. I lifted twosets of prints
off the plastic sheet
that document was in.
One matches the vic,Leo Whitefield...
And the other?
Not Paul Gionetti.
There were another set of handson that document.
I got a pretty good idea who.
I found Inhumanity.
That's it.
MAN:A masterpiece.
Jacques De Souis, 1704.
Looks like youhave one hell
of a stoop salein here.
Moving?
Liquidating.
Is that why you're
getting ridof your masterpiece?
What do you guys want?
We want to knowhow your fingerprints
got on a document we foundin Leo Whitefield's gallery.
It says your painting, Inhumanity, is a fake.
Makes it worth a lot lessliquid now, doesn't it?
Leo Whitefield triedto lean on me
because some mobsterleaned on him.
He calls it business.
I call it extortion.
What is this?
The one you gotis a reproduction.
What are you talking about?
The paintingis authentic.
I said no deal.
$50,000 is an insult.
Inhumanity is worth ten timesthat much at auction.
Mm-hmm.
But if that document goespublic, it's worth zero.
We call that motive.
I didn't kill anyone.
Inhumanity is authentic,100%.
Well, it's 100%mine now. Sorry.
All I see is an X ray.
But with excellent contrast.
You see how bright the whitepaint shows up?
It means it's lead white paint.
So it was supposedlymade in 1704.
Did they use leadwhite paint then?
Yeah, today the whitepigments are titanium based.
Then the painting's real?
I don't know.
I mean, titanium'sthe modern choice
but sometimesthey use lead white paint.
Then this X ray really hasn'tproven anything, has it?
Not yet.
But that'sonly step one.
Step two, infraredspectral analysis.
This is going totell us if any newpaint has been added.
( beep )
Nothing seems to be jumping offthe canvas.
Yeah. The paintinghasn't been retouched.
On to step three.
UV longwave.
Ultraviolet light.
I get it, but what does it do?
It's going to tell us
if the painting's been cleanedand revarnished recently.
Recently being?
Within the last 50 years.
( beep )
Overall glow,
no disturbances.
It hasn't been revarnished.
Step four?
Hairline cracksin the paint extend
right through the signature.
No interruptions.
Doesn't that mean that
the paint that was usedin the signature
has been there as longas the paint
that was used in the image?
Mm-hmm, it wasn't added later.
Evidence shows that no one
but Jacques De Souishas signed this.
So how do you explainthe document
that says thatit was destroyed in 1814?
Easy-- the document's a fake.
Inhumanity is real.
So Mass Spec went crazy
with this odor that we foundfrom our head wound vic.
I've got words here longerthan DiMaggio's hit streak.
Check it. Dodecylbenzyne,sulphonic acid,
Tetrasodium EDTA,Benzosothyazolonal.
Whoa, Benzosothyazolonal?
Do you know what that is?
No.
It's all the chemicals
found in deodorizersand disinfectants.
Deodorizers?
That guy smelled like ass.
What are you thinking?
Construction site,deodorizers,
feces smell...
portable bathroom.
BONASERA:Randy Hontz leda pretty simple life.
No pictures, no address book.
Maybe "parkour" is Frenchfor leave no trace behind.
A lot of music,
all of it burned.
And DVDs.
Should be equally as hot.
Oh, yeah.
( speaking Italian )
This is pricey stuff.
It comes fromParoni.
You know wherethat is?
Yeah, it's a small villageoutside of Sparti.
Sparta. Spartans.
Wow, I didn't know
you could getthis stuff in the U.S.
No food.
He's got a case of oliveoil in the kitchen.
Well...
he's not puttingit on food.
BONASERA:50 grand for that?
MESSER:And then some.It's an original.
This is the fake.
You testing the ink?
Yeah.
Maka found the documentin Leo's gallery.
Since the paintingis real,
it must be the fake,
and I want to find outwho forged it.
( beeping )
That's odd.
The ink's practically all iron.
That'd be consistentwith what would be used in 1814.
Well, back then,ink was made ofiron or carbon.
Yeah, but ink alonedoesn't prove it's real.
It only proves that someone backin 1814 had an interest
in the painting.
For whatever reason,
wanted it to look likeit was destroyed.
You may have
a 190-year-old forgery caseon your hands.
Maybe.
Maybe not though.On the flip side,
the recipe for ancient ink,simple.
Any hobby shop hasthe ingredients:
it's iron shavings,
tannins, gallets,mix and stir--
boom, ink the old-fashioned way.
For all you knowthat document was made
somewhere between 1814and yesterday.
Yeah, and if I want to provethat the document's been forged,
the answer is not in the ink,it's in the paper.
Thank you.
Olive oil fromRandy's apartment
matches the sampleDr. Hawkes swabbedfrom his body.
And that olive oil isexclusively sold in one place
in the metropolitan region,
Galanis and SonImporters.
You recognize him?
No, sorry.
There's our connection.
I sell to a lot of people.
Someone maybe gave it to himas a gift.
Pretty specific giftfor his purposes.
This is for your sales records.
Maybe we can help yourefresh your memory
about when yousold the oil to him.
I'll pull up my customer list.
What did you say his name was?
Randy Hontz. H-O-N-T-Z.
He's not here.
Ever think this is alljust a coincidence?
There's nocoincidence in crime.
We could cross reference,see if there's another way
of connecting himwith Galanis.
Or we could geta warrant
and searchthe Galanis house.
TAYLOR:The missing finger.
After you.
May be evidence.
Oh, God, this is bad!
What do you guys do in here?
I don't go in public.
Oh!
I wouldn't havewanted to be him.
Hey!
Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!
Hey! Hey! Hey!
I got the nameof the worker who was let go.
And I thinkI've just found his prints.
Brian Brocko?
That's me.
You're a member ofthe construction union,
Local 71,is that correct?
Damn right.
I understandyou were let go
for drinkingon the job.
I had a little
pick-me-up in my Thermos.
We all do it.
Except you got caught.
Who snitched?
I don't know.
But I'd like to find out,though.
Was it Bill Lamackia?
That guy's a bum.
He stole my job.
Whoa. Sounds like motive to me.
We found your printson the Port-O-Wasteat the construction site.
You pushed it over
with Bill Lamackia in it,didn't you?
Hey! Hey!
Someone...! Hey! Hey!
( laughing )
I was pissed.
So you taught hima lesson
then cracked him over the head.
What?
Bill Lamackia diedfrom blunt force trauma.
Someone hit him over the headwith something,
shattered his skull.
What are you saying?I killed him?
He died somehow.
So I had the papercarbon-14 tested.
It means they count
the number of radioactiveparticles given off.
C-14 emits about 15 betaradiations per minute per gram.
Okay, stop.
How old?
190 years.
So the paper's real?
It means it's as authenticas the painting.
TAYLOR: The Delanis house is an unlikely target
for a burglary.
Hm, pretty far offthe parkour circuit.
So there's onlyone reason
for Randy Hontzto be here.
BONASERA:The lock's broken.
"Julie G."
Julie Galanis.
Looks like Randy isn't the onlyone with a taste for olive oil.
We still haven'texplained theelectrocution.
Or how Randy walksin and out of this house
without dad saying something.
He doesn't.
He put his parkour'sskills set to good use.
Avoided dad completely.
Julie, open this door now!
Almost, but not quite.
Hey, Mac,
I've got what lookslike burnt skin here.
I think this is wherehe was electrocuted.
And that was how?
Mac?
Take a look at this.
Safe way toelectrify the pole.
It seems kind of extreme,doesn't it?
Put yourselfin Bob Galanis' shoes.
Your daughter is seeing a guywho can leap over rooftops
and swing from trees.
You're never goingto be able to catch him.
What's the onlyoption available?
Shock and awe.
I'm heading over to DNA.
Prints come backto the father?
Some of them.
And the others?
No match.
Still working on it,but it's a mess.
Danny?
Hey.
234 Reason Street?
Greenwich Village.
Or at least it used to be.
Named after Thomas Payne's The Age of Reason.
Until the church deemed itas an attack
on the Bible.
Payne's popularity fell.
Reason Streetbecomes Raisin Street.
That's even worse.
Raisin was a colloquialterm for slave.
And then they renamed it againin 1809,
Raisin becomes Barrow Street.
After Thomas Barrow?
Yep. His depiction ofthe Trinity Church
in ruins afterthe great New York Fire
was hailed a masterpiece.
What's all this gotto do with your case?
Everything.
The painting and the inkand paper from the document
all check outforensically.
And that's whyI didn't see
what was right in front of me.
See, there was a Reason Street,and there was a great fire,
but neither of them happenedin 1814.
The great fire happenedin 1776,
and Reason Streetbecame BarrowStreet in 1809.
The forger gothis dates wrong.
But he gotthe street right.
Barrow Street is whereLeo Whitefield's gallery is.
I believe he's our forger.
Why? What's that get him?
A good customer.
Paul Gionetti.
His house is full of paintings
and if Leo can get him Inhumanity
at a low price,no question,
he's coming back for repeatbusiness. It's easy money.
The onlyproblem is...
The painting is real.
Yeah. And both Pauland John James knew it.
The document means absolutelynothing to them.
So neither had motivefor murder.
Someone else killedyour art dealer.
And I needto find the evidence.
FLACK:I've been running downRyan Brocko's alibi.
It checks out.
So unless you gotsomething new,
he's walking.
Well, I got good newsand bad news.
We tested the Puraflushchemicals in the Port-A-Waste.
It matches the chemicalson the victim's jeans.
And the bad news?
It doesn't match the chemicals
in the victim's head wounds.
The differenceis Dimethyl Benzyl Ammonium
Which is?
Breaks down waste.
Got it.
Two crappers, no connection.
Welcome to my world.
I've got a dead guywith traces of disinfectants,
deodorizers and fecal matter
in a head wound,but no murder weapon
and no suspects.
So where do you go from here?
A piece of the puzzlethat doesn't fit,
that Dimethyl Benzyl Ammoniumis the odd chemical out. Why?
Holy crap.
Blue ice?
At 30,000 feet,the temp's 50 below.
Third in atmospheric airpressure,
meaning any liquidseeping from the plane
is goingto freeze instantly.
So once the plane descends,the temp goes up.
And bomb's away?
There's been 27 documentedincidents nationally
in the past 24 years.
And the construction sitein Queens is a stone's throw
from LaGuardia,
and with 1,200 flights a daycircling that area?
So a crapsicle killed this guy?
Plain and simple.
I dug deeper into Leo's past.
The guy was a straight arrow.
I didn't find anything
that would give someonemotive to take him out.
All right, that doesn't meanit's not there.
Just may be hidingin plain sight.
You know what?Leo Whitefield
pissed someone off,
and to find out who,we have to go back in time.
Hiding in plain sight.
Exactly.
Tools of a forger.
It's genius in its simplicity;
dissolve iron shavings in nitric acid,
neutralize with water,
add tannins and gallots for color--
done deal.
The History of Ink.
His how-to manual.
Yeah. Writing utensils.
Aging process.
But how did he beatthe dating tests?
Only possible way is old paper.
The first pageis usually blank.
"Homicide, by Mary Charlton.
1824."
The C-14 test hasan error margin
of plus or minus ten years.
If he used a pagefrom this book,
the earliest he could datehis document would be 1814.
That's whyhe screwed up the dates.
The book left himno choice.
Yeah, but there's only one book.
You're losing me here.
Leo's forgerywas nearly perfect.
And there's only one blank pagein this book.
He's not hittinga home run
on the first swing out;he needs to practice.
So there should be evidenceof trial and error,
other pieces of paper.
How many times do you thinkit would have taken him?
Who knows, but each one cameat the cost of a very old book.
And old means rare.
And rare means expensive.
Come on, Mr. Lathem.
It's Ron.
Okay, Ron, one more time.
Did these books comefrom your store?
Uh, no, I don't think so.
Whoa. Hold ona second, Ron.
You mind if I take a lookat your handkerchief?
Why?
Because he asked you to.
Ron, that looks
an awful lotlike gunshot residue.
I don't know howthat got there.
I must have touched something.
Yeah, a gun.
Mind if I take a lookbehind the counter?
Uh, no.
The first page
is missing from your books.
Yes, I'm aware of that.
Yeah, and are you aware
that they're alsostained with blood?
It's Leo's fault.
I loaned hima few books,
companion piecesto art on hisgallery floor,
but he wasn't even showing them.
So if you can just explain to mewhere they are
and where they were supposedto be.
Ron, calm down.Let me explain.
You ruined my books!
Look at this!
My books!
What are you doing?
( gasps )
Crime of passion?
The written word is priceless.
It's a work of art.
You can't reproduce history.
No, but you can die trying.
Let's go.
You never met him,did you?
At least not while he was alive.
Julie, open this door!
I would have been mad, too.
Julie, open this door now!
Freddy Hontz went outthe same way he came in.
Only he had no ideawhat was waiting for him.
All he had to do was complete the circuit.
( zapping, gasps )
And there was no wayhe could let go.
We found jumper cables
behind your housewith your prints on them.
We also found your printson the cover
to the electric boxon the side
of your house.
It was an accident.
Oh, your jumper cables
accidentally connectedthemselves
from your power boxto your flag pole?
Him dying. That was an accident.
What were you thinking?
Julie is my daughter.
I was trying to protect her.
Same way you're tryingto protect your son, Will?
What?
We found this in Randy's pocket.
That's your fingerprint.
We found it on the stone.
Your fingerprintswere also on these.
We found them over your father'sfingerprints, which meas
you were the last oneto touch them.
FATHER:WhWho?did he go?
JULIE:Why are you in here?
FATHER:Don't lie to me!
( arguing continues )
( electric zapping )
You did this by yourself,didn't you?
How can you tell?
Your wagon told me.
We found traces of olive oil in it.
That's when your fatherfound you.
Will, get in here.
I didn't mean it.
It wasn't my father's idea.
We know that.
I mean, the subway.
I told him about that.
You thought you could hidewhat you'd done.
I should've known.
Subways run on direct current.
Your mistake was madea little earlier than that.
I didn't think the power boxhad enough current to kill him.
It wouldn't,except for the fact that...
he was perspiring.
You sweat when you have sex?
I just meant to zap hima little.
I thought it'd be cool.
And it was.
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