( Italian festival music playing )
( people shouting )
( sizzling )
( distorted music continues )
( gagging )
Ah!
MAN:Man, what are you doing?
MAN 2:I got somechange here.
MAN 3: Idiot!
Hey, hey, what are youdoing to the money there?!
Hey, get off!
( blows landing )
( siren wailing )
( Italian accordion music plays )
( camera shutter clicking )
( siren bleeps )
You know what's great aboutthe San Gennaro Festival?
Mmm. The constant throngof rubberneckers,
or the factthat your crime scene
is already contaminatedbefore you get the call?
The cannolis.
All right, I'll tell you what.
We figure outwho killed this guy
and the cannolis are on me.
Deal.
We have witnesses?
We've got suspects.
The guys over there
swear that he wastrying to rob
the statueof San Gennaro.
( phone ringing )
Fresh body in Central Park.
Fresher than this one?
I'll take a rain checkon the cannolis.
Nice, so I'm solving and buying?
Exactly.
( camera shutter clicking )
( flies buzzing )
( camera shutter clicking )
He have anythinginteresting to say?
His name is Jared Stanton.
He lives at 73rd Streetand Park Avenue.
You can just say 73rd and Park.New Yorkers know what you mean.
No sign of disturbance.
Flies seem to havebeen here a while.
( camera shutter clicks )
I'm thinking the time of death
is sometimein the pre-dawn hours.
So Jared Stanton walks
into Central Parkwhen it's still dark,
takes a seat on this bench,
and offers no resistancewhen he's killed.
( camera shutter clicks )
I know,it doesn't make any sense.
Don't quote me on this, Lindsay,but sometimes...
not everything's connected.
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♪ Out here in the fields ♪
♪ I fought for my meals ♪
♪ I get my back into my living ♪
♪ I don't need to fight ♪
♪ To prove I'm right ♪
♪ I don't need to be forgiven,yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah♪
♪ Yeah. ♪
ZAO:The killer must haveput the head back on.
Dried blood around the wound
might explain how he kepthis head on straight.
What can you tell meabout the murder weapon?
Basically transected everything.
There's a slight angleto the cut, moving from right
on the lower side,to higher on the left.
This is clean.
Clean doesn't beginto describe it.
I mean, there's no hack marks,no stutter marks,
no evidenceof an electric blade.
There's no tracein the wound track.
Very few weapons could makea cut like this.
Yeah, did you find anyguillotines at the crime scene?
( indistinct radio chatter )
Ten years old.
Trying to get to the window.
We canvassedthe building.
Nobody saw anyonesuspicious.
You find his parents?
His dad's dead.
Mom was at work.She's on her way.
That's rough.
You're sitting at workand you get a call
that your son is deadfrom smoke inhalation...
That official cause of death?
Soot and debrisin his mouth and throat.
Most likely has elevatedlevels of carboxyhemoglobin.
Burned worse than anyother part of his body.
Means he tried the door first.
( coughing )
That kid can't weighmore than 70 pounds.
He would have goneunder pretty quick.
Closed door, open window?
He should have hadplenty of time to get out.
Something's not right here.
He wasn't beaten to death?
That's just saltin the wound.
Punches all cameafter the fact.
They're postmortem.
But this,
pierced the sinoatrial node,
disrupting his heart'selectrical impulses.
It's your murder weapon.
It's inconsistent with theevidence we found at the scene.
Maybe San Gennaro wasn'tthe main event for this guy.
What did you geton his prints?
Didn't getme anywhere.
I'm gonna have to runhis knuckles,
but wait till you see this.
Manos de piedras. "Hands of stone."
That's what they used to sayabout the boxer Roberto Dura.
Same goes for this guy.
Except his hands aresurgically enhanced.
You take the bone tissue from the pelvis
and fuse it with the bones in the hand.
Why would somebodyhave that done?
I don't know,
but the guy would have packedone hell of a punch.
Unfortunately, he wastoo dead to use it.
Hey, Stella, you know
what's the greatestabout the San Gennaro?
The cannolis.
Yeah.
So you got a guystabbed in the heart,
and our suspects who gave hima beating after the fact.
Any chance one of the suspectsdid the stabbing?
Well, we didn't find anything
like the murder weaponat the scene.
And nothing like iton our suspects.
You know what the weaponwas made of?
Here we go.Cocobolo.
That was the standard issue wood
for NYPD nightsticksin the '80s.
Comes from down in, uh...
The Pacific seaboard of Mexicoand Central America.
Valued for beinga hard wood.
It's current uses includetool handles, canes, pool cues.
It's also one of the mostimportant woods used in cutlery.
If you've gota knife,
why cut off a three-inch pieceof the handle to stab someone?
Yeah, maybe the GCMShas the answers.
I took three samplesof the clothes earlier today.
What ya got?
I'd say we're looking
at oranchina...
torrone...
That would be caponatina.
Rice balls, almond candyand... relish.
All specialty foods servedat San Gennaro.
Okay, we know where our vicended up
and it looks like the clothesare going to help us
figure out where he started.
Fire Chief wants your reportsoon as you have it.
There's the V pattern.
Yeah, that'sthe point of origin.
The fire started there.
No outward sign of accelerants.
Screws are loose.
I've got trace.
You already thinking arson?
There's a reasonJames Walker's dead.
And this...
is going to help tell me why.
MAN:Karen, we shouldn't be here.
KAREN:He's my son.
I left him home.
It's not your fault.
Ma'am, you needto go back outside.
I want to know what happened.
No, I'm not leavingtill I know.
Do me a favor,take Miss Walker downstairs.
Thank you.
Miss Walker, I'm Sheldon Hawkesfrom the Crime Lab.
We're still examining the scene
so you can'tbe in here.
But you can callme at the lab.
You have a place to stay, ma'am?
With my boyfriend.
Thanks.
Come on.
Let's go tomy apartment.
Did you learn that in oneof your forensic textbooks?
Come on, her son just died.
I'm usually the onewho hands out cards.
Is this a turf thing?
You're the detective,I'm the scientist?
The last thing you need
is your phone ringingoff the hook at the lab.
You start handing your card outat every scene...
Yeah.
( people conversing )
Okay, this is wherewe found our vic.
So with that wood in his heart,
he should have leftsome kind of blood trail.
Which would be impossible tofind with all this foot traffic.
Right, so we stickwith our clothing trail.
Where do we start?
Oranchina.
How you doing?All right?
That doesn't look edible, huh?
No, it's consistentwith blood.
So it's safe to say that our vic
fell into this standjust before he died.
Keep tracking backwards.
Where did he come frombefore he got here?
Torrone.
Caponatina.
That's the endof our food trail.
We're clearof the pedestrian traffic.
I got blood.
Nice.
Huh.
Another use forour cocobolo wood.
Ah, pool cues.
What are you looking at?
I bet you know the answerto that question.
We're closed.
Yeah, well, yourhours just changed.
Come on, Maddy.
Do you mind?
Yes. You look like
you done enough damagefor one day.
I am the victim!
I just put in a newfloor and fresh paint.
You said you werein the Look at thbathroom?
I heard a racket.
So I come out.
That's what happened.
Thank you.
You believe a word of that?
All I know is,
we've got to process thisplace from top to bottom.
Starting at the top.
( siren blaring, indistinct chatter )
MESSER:I cannot believe
the evidence is gonna backthe pool lady's story,
but it was a perfect treadimpression on that ceiling.
And the killer splinter
came from this cue.
So, we're lookingfor a combination
of Spider-Manand Minnesota Fats.
Check for prints?
I'm about to.
Could be a lot of peopleon this.
The game actually worksin our favor,
'cause the shooter holds it here
and then cradles it down there,you know?
Got it, but if
you're gonna be using itin a fight...
ZAO:Ooh.
So the rumors are true.
No more Bowery Billiardsfor a while.
Why, yoSometimes. there?
I mean, I still likeCorner Billiards on Eleventh,
but...
Pulled serial numbers
from the screwsin your vic's knuckles.
Tracked them backto Trinity Hospital.
Got an ID.
( beeping )
Nothing on the clothes.
Well, how'd youknow that's whatI was gonna ask?
Process of elimination.
We haven't worked togetherlong enough
for you to askabout anything else,
so you must be hereabout the case,
and you're asking me how I knew
that's whatyou were gonna ask,
to hear if a thought processproceeds an answer.
Which it does. Go on.
The clothes have nothing,but this is interesting.
I pulled this from a flash drivein his pocket.
TAYLOR:American Pacific Worldwide.
A financialservices company.
In the same way theYankees are a baseball team.
What's it say?
Basically,
Paul Martin, the CEO,was cooking the books
to keep the stockprice high.
The vic knew it and was gonnasend this memo to the boar.
I'd say that speaksto motive.
It is a cut-throatbusiness.
( sirens, horns honking )
This is a confidential,internal memo.
Found on the dead bodyof Jared Stanton,
one of your employees.
Jared wasn'tjust an employee.
He was my ChiefFinancial Officer.
He also knew you wereartificially manipulating
your company's stock price,
and he was gonna informyour board.
I don't believeyou're in a position
to know that.
You don't have accessto the full breadth
of APW's financial records.
No,
but I do have accessto your office.
A warrant for anyand all weapons
possibly relating to the deathof Jared Stanton.
I thought I might haveto search a little harder.
Never seen a personal collectionlike this.
These aredecorativeartifacts.
They're deadly artifacts.
The kama.
When farmers were forbiddento own weapons,
they developed thisfrom a sickle used to cut rice.
Increased curvature of the blade means
more cutting power to remove limbs.
The fighting fan.
Carried in ancient times
by female courtesans.
Blades were inserted in the tips,
which could be used to sever the jugular vein.
Chinese spear.
The red horse hairbelow the blade
is used to distract an opponent.
You knowyour weapons.
Because they help meknow my killers.
( whirring )
How's your fire going?
I've got bad news, good news,and a question.
Well, take it in order.
The bad new is,
it wasn't an accident.
If the fire was electrical,these would have burned
from the inside out.
Since they burnedoutside in...
We're looking at arson.
Good news is, I pulled traceand ran it through the GCMS.
And your question is?
( printer whirring )
About to be answered.
Or not.
"Compounds consistent
with potatoesand vegetable oil."
Along with the salt
the XRF picked up,all found inside and outside
the socket,and without
any usable prints, I'm not surewhere that leaves me.
Most likely
reconstruction.
Thinking outside the box.
( chuckles )
That's what we're doing, right?
It's more like thinkinginside the car.
A potato chip bag.
It's a method usedto start automotive fires.
Uses minimal traceand allows someone
to file a fraudulentinsurance claim.
Light the bag on fireand watch it go.
All right, tells us two things.
First, how the fire started,
second...
The guy ate a few chipsbefore he torched the place.
Who uses snack foodto start a fire in an apartment?
I'll tell youwhen I read your report.
( sirens blaring )
Greg Thompson.
Wow.
Our San Gennero vic
looks likehe was on a Star Trek diet.
You know, the kindwhere people evolved
past the pointof actually needing
to eat real food?
I thinkthe Italians got it right.
Live to eat, not eat to live.
That's what I'm talking about.
Come on, where's the love
in all that stuff?
That's right.
Chair's knocked over.
Screen is on the ground.
All signs of a struggle.
BONASERA:I got spatter.
Nice.
He was going at it pretty goodwith someone.
Looks like he was going at itpretty good over here, too.
BONASERA:Okay, so, the fight
started here.
( groaning )
And he goes to the pool hall.
Then they end upat the San Gennero.
So, we tracked the murder
all the way backto the beginning.
Huh, maybe not all the way.
That's the same place the vicin Mac's case worked.
Huh.
One step forward,two steps back.
All the wayto American Pacific Worldwide.
( sirens, horn honking )
( indistinct chatter, elevator bell dinging )
Okay, so we have twodead employees
from the same company--
Greg Thompson,the Chief Operating Officer,
and Jared Stanton,the Chief Financial Officer.
Both of whom workdirectly under one man.
Paul Martin, the CEO.
Who has an officefull of possiblemurder weapons.
MAN:Excuse me, sir.
Well, that may workfor your decapitation vic,
but my vic took a wood splinterto the heart
after a martial artsextravaganza.
MAN:Thanks.
Paul Martin has a BlackBelt, Fourth Degree.
Makes him capableof both murders.
Why would a CEO killhis right-hand men?
Is that koan?
The Buddhist?
method of-of thought.
Where are you going?
Cutting to the chase.
Tameshigiri.
Test cutting.Rolled tatami man
in water. Simulates resistance.
So, is that themurder weapon?
When you train withweapons, they tellyou about yourself.
When you're a detective,they tell you
about the peopleyou're looking for.
Weapons as fingerprints?
This is a unique one.
The katana.
Takes a lifetime oftraining to master.
Curvature of the bladeconcentrates a force of impact
on a precise area.
To cut through,you use a
push-pull system.
You push down
with the top handand pull with the bottom.
One cut...
one kill.
( wind whipping )
Cut movedhigh to low,
opposite of Jared Stanton.
But the blade movedright through.
No tool marks.
Exactly like Jared Stanton.
So if you havea corresponding absence
of tool marks, whatdoes that get you?
A trip back to whereverthe sword came from.
Let me know how it goes.
♪ ♪
Computer Crimes tracked downJames Walker's Internet records.
He was online five minutes aftersomeone called in the fire.
Guess what he was doing?
Playing chess.
How'd you do that?
Plaque, chess pieces.
How do you leave aten year old alone?
Mom had to work.
Kids don't even needto look for trouble to find it.
HAWKES: James was probably lost in what he was doing.
Smoke inhalation creeps up on you.
By the time you've realized it,asphyxiation.
( coughing )
( choking )
Who was he online with?
I don't know.Still working on it.
Let me know what you find.
Anyone could have taken
the katana from my office.
Well, not everybody would knowhow to use it.
True.
You don't seem very upsetabout the fact
that two of your employeesare dead.
Because now is notthe right time to mourn them.
The market is watching,and I plan to continue
the meaningful courseof business
that both Greg and Jaredwere committed to pursuing.
Greg Thompsonwas committed
to a little morethan meaningful business.
Greg was extremely diligent...
both in his trainingand in his work.
His training?
All APW executivestrain together.
It fosters camaraderieas well as competition.
And what about Jared Stanton?
Did you helphim train, too?
Jared practiced yoga.
He didn't need martial arts
in order to help facilitatethe virtuous cycle of business
that I've triedto install here.
In fact, I was setto name him as my successor.
Well, I guess you're goingto have to restart your search.
It's an insult to pointthe spout at your guest.
Someone set the fire on purpose?
I mean, who would do thatto James?
There's no oneyou can think of
who might have had accessto the apartment?
He had friends.
Maybe I let him outof my sight too often,
but he always told me,"I'm a city kid, Mom."
Ready?
That's what's left?
I want him back!
Let's go.
KAREN:I want James!
( sobbing )
Paul Martin is stickingto his open door story.
Did you findanything
in Greg Thompson'sapartment?
How about a CODIS hitoff the blood
matching backto an APW employee?
Paul Martin?
Lisa Kay.
She was next in linefor promotion
if somethingwere to happen
to Greg Thompsonor Jared Stanton.
She worked directlyunderneath them.
Especially Greg Thompson.
We pulled her hairoff of his bed.
How does someone like Lisa Kayend up in the DNA database?
She was convictedfor assault
four years ago.
Assault with a deadly weapon.
What'd she use?
I guess that's what they mean
when they saycorporate warriors.
Ya!
That's our girl.
Hyah!
Ha!
Lisa Kay?
We need to talk.
Do I think I couldhave done a better job
than Jaredand Greg combined?
You bet.
Well, Paul Martindidn't feel the same way.
I mean, after yourassault conviction,
he passed youover for both CFO
and COO.
He ever give you a reason
why he chose Jared and Gregover you?
If you're waiting for meto bust out
the gender bias card,don't bother.
Paul had no problemswith me being a woman.
Well, how'd he feelabout you being a felon?
I don't considerwhat happened a crime.
A guy hit on me all night.
Then he followed me out.
So I asked him which letter
he didn't understand, "N" or "O."
You would have beenthe first one
to shake my handif you were there.
Oh, well, don't pull outthat gender bias card now.
Ever since I startedto train here,
I feel stronger and safer.
There's no crime in that.
There was onein Greg Thompson's apartment.
Where we found your hairand your blood.
I'm sure I'm all over his place.
( glass breaking )
( grunting )
Greg was a great training partner.
A great training partnerwho got promoted over you.
Yeah, I'm Tom Nikkos.
HAWKES: Can you help me understand
how your chess set ended upin James Walker's room?
I checked with your school.
You skippedthree classes yesterday,
right around the time someoneset James' apartment on fire.
I just went thereto play him again.
After losingin the school tournament
for the first timein a couple years?
Looks like you hada pretty good run there.
A ten-year-old beatme in 15 moves.
I had to have a rematch.
We played for the set.
It's an expensive one.
Do you have any idea howlong I've been playing,
how hard I've studied?
And then I lose twice
to some kid who doesn'tknow the difference
between a King's Gambitand a Sicilian Defense?
That kid is dead.
And that's what happensto people who don't know
the difference between beingwell-trained and being gifted.
Ready?
That's what's left?
Try your knight here.
Dr. Hawkes.
Doctor, I'm... I'm sorry.
What kind of a doctorinvestigates fires?
I just moved over fromthe medical examiner's office.
So you're new.
Are you telling me
that NYPD is treating thislike a training session?
I've worked hundreds of cases.
James was like a son to me.
Mr. Robertson.
Look, it's not your fault.
You'll know as soonas we know something definitive.
♪ ♪
The fiber you found
from the katana sword, Mac;fiber I pulled
from Greg Thompson'sovercoat.
They match.
Where in the overcoat
did you find the fiber?
From a one-inch sliceinside the lining, waist-high.
The last two callson Greg Thompson's cell phone
went to Jared Stanton.
All right, we know why Jaredwas in the park.
Greg lured him there.
Icing on the cake:
found bark from the treeat the scene of the crime
on the seat of his overcoat.
That explainswhy Jared Stanton never moved.
He didn't knowGreg was already there.
The head never came off.
One cut, one kill...
matching the angle of the cuton Jared Stanton's neck,
moving from low to high.
Bingo. We know Greg Thompsonkilled Jared Stanton.
Great. We've gotour murderer.
Now we just have to provewho murdered him.
Got something for you.
Want to know who was onlinewith James Walker
when he died?
Luke Robertson's
daughter, Nina.
That her laptop?
Already in evidence.
Like I said,kids find trouble
when they're not evenlooking for it.
BONASERA: We've exhausted
all the evidence atGreg Thompson's apartment.
What aboutthe pool hall?
I pulled printsoff the murder weapon,
but there was no matchin AFIS.
Collect any blood?
It was all cleaned upby the time we got there.
Greg Thompson was skilled enoughto decapitate Jared Stanton.
Right, and whoever killedGreg Thompson
had to be equally as skilled.
So we'venarrowed downour suspects
to a handful of APW executives.
Paul Martin, Lisa Kay...
people obsessed
with control,perfection.
People who operateat a level
above the restof the world.
What's that?
It's a tread impression
we pulled off the ceiling
at the pool hall--
according to anunreliable witness.
Someone who operatesat a level above.
( camera shutter clicking )
Control your breath,then you control your pain.
You've been using every ounceof concentration you have,
to control the painyou're in.
A black beltlike Greg Thompson
is capableof delivering
2,000 poundsof pressure
with a precise kick.
Pain resides in the mindof the beholder.
Then let's move onto something less subjective.
You murderedGreg Thompson
with a fragment
from this pool cue.
Those are your printson the cue...
...and that's your shoeon the ceiling.
I found tracefrom the paint in your office.
After youstabbed Greg,
he stumbled out
into the San Gennaro festival.
He wouldn't have known
there was a wood splinterin his heart.
He was just lookingfor anything to hold on to.
That wasn't whyI went to see Greg.
You took what I taught youand you killed Jared.
Over what?
A promotion?
Greg generateda fake memo.
Put it ona flash drive
in Jared's pocket,
pointing us to you.
He just didn't guess
that you were goingto get to him first.
Do you knowthe two cycles of business?
There's the kindI've spent my life fostering--
the virtuous cycle--
and there's the kindGreg Thompson fell into--
the vicious cycle.
It's a choice we all makeevery day we walk into work.
And what choice did you makewhen Greg attacked you?
The one choice left--
I defended myself.
I think a jurywill understand that.
They'll look at me,and my record...
and think...
"Those who live by the sword,
die by the sword."
Good game.
I got next.
Yeah,you got it.
So you're telling meyou know what happened?
I know it wasn'tKaren Walker's fault.
I left him home.
It's not your fault.
And I know it wasn'tmine, either.
Mr. Robertson.
Look, it's not your fault.
You've been saying it all along,haven't you?
You know the best thingabout being new?
You're thorough,
because you want to studyevery angle.
Like the wayyou're trying to sacrifice
your bishop for position.
If you'd studiedJames more,
you'd have knownhow quietly he played.
You didn't hear Jamesin his room
when you set the firein the apartment, did you?
You useda potato chip bag.
If you hadn't eaten a few chips,
I wouldn't be here right now.
But it makes you nervous
doing somethingfor the first time,doesn't it?
Me, I can't eatwhen I'm anxious.
Some people can't help themselves.
I found the samepotato chip trace
on your daughter'scomputer.
Nina was online with James
when you got backto your apartment.
What are you doing?
Playing chess with James.
He's home.
He's sick.
James is home?
I pulled male DNAfrom the epithelials
mixed with the oilon Nina's laptop.
I also foundblood tracefrom a female
on the sideof the computer.
It has shared allelesat every locus
with the male sample.
Daddy!
I'm sorry.Come on.
You tried to get backto the apartment...
but you were too late.
You know what zugzwang means?
A player is putat a disadvantage
because he has to move,
but any move he makescosts him the game.
You're there,Mr. Robertson.
The presence of that DNA
in the same oilI found at the scene...
got me this warrant.
Now maybe there's goingto come a day in my career,
when I won't bother to be here.
When I'll already be searchingthrough your personal belongings
for the tool you used
to screw the socketback in place.
But I know,if you step up
before I serve this,
it's going to make a difference.
Why are you telling me this?
There's notone piece of evidence
that says you wantedto hurt James in any way.
I kept asking Karen,
"Move in with me...we're a family."
She wasn't sure.
So, I thought if she can'tstay in her apartment...
It was supposed to bea little electrical fire.
It's your move.
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