(band plays mid-tempo introto "Baby, It's Cold Outside")
MAN: ♪ Baby, it'scold outside ♪
♪ But, baby, it'scold outside ♪
♪ Been hoping thatyou'd drop in ♪ This eveni♪g has been ♪
♪ So very nice ♪
♪ I'll hold your hands,they're just like ice ♪
♪ My motherwill start to worry ♪
♪ Beautiful,what's your hurry ♪
♪ My father will be pacingthe floor ♪
♪ Listen to thefireplace roar ♪
♪ So reallyI'd better scurry ♪
♪ Maybe justa half a drink more ♪ Beautiful, ple♪sedon't hurry ♪
TAYLOR:I can't believe youtalked me into shopping.
Are you coming?
What's the hurry?
It's just adepartment store.
Mac, please!It's not aboutwhat's on the racks,
it's about what'sin the windows.
♪ Yo♪ To break the spell ♪ght ♪
♪ I'll take your hat,your hair looks swell ♪
♪ I ought to sayno, no, no, sir ♪
♪ Mind if I movein closer ♪
♪ At least I'm gonna saythat I tried ♪
♪ What's the sensein hurting my pride? ♪
♪ Baby, don't hold out ♪
BOTH:♪ Baby, it's cold outside. ♪
♪ ♪
(song ends)
(people conversing indistinctly)
Jo.
Now?
Really?
Whoa,It's all right.sir.
Have a good night.
All right, shoppers, the momentyou've been waiting for
has finally arrived,and on behalf
of Stonefield'sDepartment Store,
let me be the first oneto welcome you all
to the 67th annual
unveiling of our Winter Windows.
(applause, cheering)
Now, if you'll join me, please,in counting down from te,
and we will kick offthe shopping season
in style, and afterwards,
I'll invite all of youto come on inside
and have savings store-wide.Are you ready?
CROWD:Yeah!
Well, then let's do it.
Ten... nine...
Where's the bag?
What bag?
DANVILLE:Let's go. five...
You're coming with us.
...four...
three...
two... one!
Shop till you drop!
(applause, cheering)
Wow,
isn't it amazing?
It's pretty impressive.
I wasn'ttalking to you.
(whimsical music plays)
(people gasping)
(people screaming)
Whoa.
You see why I hate shopping?
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♪ I fight for my meals ♪
♪ I get my back into my living ♪
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So, it turns out our victimwas the store's general manager,
guy named Richard Grossman.
But from what I'm hearing,his employees like
to call him other names.
Lot ofbelt-tightening
going on around here lately.
Apparently, he liked to cracka whip along with it.
Makes our bosslook pretty good.
(quietly):I wouldn't go that far.
Hey, I heard that.
(chuckling)
We're definitely lookingat blunt force trauma.
Pretty significant fracture
along the sphenoid bone, and...
there's someoddly textured
wound impression...
Could have fallenagainst something, maybe.
Or been struck, hard.
TAYLOR:You book our friend
the pickpI did.
And I sent his jacketwith that bloodstain
you noticed to the lab.
Also, I'm running downa list of employees
who were on the clock tonight.
What about all the shoppers?
There's four floorsworth of them.
This place opened upat 10:00 a.m. this morning
and they been comingand going ever since.
Based on liver temp,
I'd say Grossman died...
no more than an hour ago.
Hey, you want meto shut this place down?
Well, the crime scene's secure--if we need you to go wie
or close the doors,we'll let you All right.
Well, there's definitely signsof struggle in this area.
DANVILLE:Same here. Mac, do you see
any other wounds onour vic's upper torso?
Negative.
Maybe this bloodcame from our perp.
(strained grunting)
(man cries out)
Whoever it was
stepped into some moreon their way out.
Ready to go shopping?
For what?
Our killer.
Didn't take long forthat trail to run cold.
Nope. So let'sheat it up.
All right, I got bloodgoing this way.
DANVILLE:Yeah, but that looks likesecondary transfer.
That print doesn't matchthe one in the staging area.
(spritzing continues)
DANVILLE:But this print looks promising.
And here we are.
Hi.
Hi. I'll beright with you.
Actually, we need to talkto you right now, thank you.
Excuse me just aSure.
If you're here to ask me aboutwhat happened to Mr. Grossman,
I have no idea.
Did you seeanyone or anything suspicious
at your counter this evening?
Maybe somebodyin a hurry,
maybe hurt.
(laughs)Are you kidding?
Everyone's in a hurrythis time of year.
And as for hurt,Mr. Grossman
probably could have diedright in front of me
and I wouldn't have noticed.
Why is that?
We were giving awayfree body beauty kits.
Body whatties?
These.
Each one contains ultra gel,UV moisturizer
and a pore-cleansing astringent.
For free?
It was all part of ourbig Winter Windows promotion,
and we got totally mobbed.
(indistinct chatter)
Hi. Hi.One per person.
There you go. Thank you.
Have a great holiday, guys.
Are, uh, allyour customers women?
No, there were men, too.
Everyone loves to get somethingfor nothing.
Tracy... would you mind if Itook a quick look at your shoes?
These?
Yeah.
Oh, thoseare so cute!
I got themat a discount outlet
in the Village.
Well, we'll let youget back to work.
But if you thinkof anything,
would you let us know, please?
Yeah, no problem.
And... you can haveone of these, too,
Ah.you want.
That's cool.Thank you.
I mean, it's free.
I can take it hometo the girls.
Danny.
Okay, there's no way thosecute, pointy heels are
a match to our footprints,and she doesn't look
like she's hurt in any way,but there is blood
on this cotton ball dispenser,
and in this kit,the astringent
is probably 80% alcohol,so I'm thinking
that our killer wentdirectly to this makeupcounter for a reason.
TRACY:Hi. Welcome to Stonefield's.Welcome to Stonefield's.
Thank you so much.Welcome to Stonefield's.
There you go.Hi. Welcome to Stonefield's.
If he was injured on that snowflake,
he would have needed some quick first aid.
Let's findthe bathrooms.
Ah.
Family bathrooms usuallyhave a lock for privacy.
Boom.
♪ ♪
(trilling)
Took at lookat your résumé, Howie.
You did three bids for theft.
Is that right?
Getting caughtthat much
makes me think you'rein the wrong line of work.
Yeah, maybe pickpocketingisn't your forte.
What, are you somekind of You got no lawyer?o hold me.
Hmm, I know enough.
I mean, you got no stolen items,no evidence I committed a crime.
Well, that's where you're wrong.
I witnessed you stealingthat woman's wallet.
That's evidence enoughfor grand larceny.
Well, I guess it's your wordagainst mine, then, huh?
Well, thoseare odds
I'm willing to take.
Most definitely,
and if you beatthe larceny rap...
that still don't help youwith the murder thing.
What, you mean that gore festin the store window?
(laughs)
No, no wayyou're putting that on me.
(grunts)
Well, then explain howblood from the crime scene
ended up on the sleeveof your jacket.
I got no idea.
Come on,you know so much
about the law, you never heardabout felony murder?
It means if thereis a homicide
during the commissionof another crime,
everyone involved in that crimecan be charged
with murder.
Look.
Look, I-I just bumpedinto her, okay?
Bumped into who?
Some lady at the store.
I was just in there warming up
and she comes boltingout of the bathroom
and she bumped right into me.
And...?
And went about her business,all right, just like I did.
For God's sakes,I'm a pickpocket,
not a murderer.
Jo, check this out.
This security cameravideo was time-stamped
right after the murder.
Our pickpocket clearlybumped into someone,
but I can't tellif she's bleeding.
Wait a second,play that again.
Okay, stop.
Go from there.
Danny, freeze.
Zoom inon her face.
I've seen her.
Can't believe you're still here.
Oh, my God.
Are you okay?
DANVILLE: Look, I'm sure you're happy to be out of the cold,
but you haven't said one word since we brought you in.
While the paramedicswere bandaging the wound
on your back, they noticedthat you had a lot
of bruises and scratches on your body.
So what I'd like to dois take some samples
from underneathyour fingernails.
It doesn't hurtat all.
Is that okay, Alena?
It is Alena, right?Alena Maybrook?
Accordingto the store record,
you're an assistant managerat Stonefield's.
Did you killRichard Grossman, Alena?
All right.
Since you're not willingto tell me what you know,
I'll tell you what I know.
Mr. Grossmanwas your boss.
Your blood was found
in the staging area of that window where he was killed.
And you fled the scene,
made a couple of quick stopsat the makeup counter
and the bathroomto clean yourself up.
Why?
Tell me what happened, Alena.
According to her background,she's a regular Girl Scout--
model employee, pays her billson time, never jaywalks.
I'm sensing a "but" here.
Well, she may not have seemedto be in too much of a hurry
to skip town when youfound her in that park,
but two weeks ago
she emptied her bank account,cashed out her 401(k),
and boughta one-way ticket to Aruba--
departure date: tomorrow.
In my book that's no vacation.
It's an escape plan.
So if she did kill Grossman,it was probably premeditated.
Hey, Adam, you get anywherewith that USB port
Jo found at the crime scene?
ROSS: Uh, not yet, but whatever it's a part of
probably belonged to the victim.
I found prints that were a match to Richard Grossman.
We didn't find an electronicdevice along with it.
Maybe Alena took itwhen she fled?
Yeah, it's possible,
but she had nothing on herwhen Jo brought her in.
Well, check this out.
This wrought iron branch wascollected from the display.
Uh-huh. Well, it looks likethe ones in the window.
Yeah, except they wereall soldered into place.
But this branch was foundunder the turntable
and the blood patternis impact spatter.
Suggesting it was usedas a club.
Plus the markings at the end
match the wound impression
I foundon Richard Grossman's skull.
So maybe the killer picked it up
from the spare supplies in the staging area,
used it to take him out...
(grunts)
...and then threw it down.
You know what they say.
Sticks and stonesmay break your bones...
Looks like this one wasused as our murder weapon.
♪ ♪
♪ Let's sit down by the track ♪
♪ And wait in the darkfor the train to pass ♪
♪ Don't question what you know ♪
♪ Gotta let it comeand let it go ♪
♪ Want to be the best in town ♪
♪ Gotta keep on movingtill they all fall down. ♪
♪ ♪
(trilling)
Yo, Mac.
Let me guess.
She gave you a full confessionand our job is done.
Wouldn't that be nice?
No, she stillwon't say a word.
But something I foundat the crime scene
is speaking volumes--piece of glass
from one of those window lamps
actually had human fleshburned into its surface.
Got a hit in CODISto a Pascal Denton.
Now, he's Stonefield'swindow display designer.
It turns out beforehe was a designer,
he was a regular at Rikers.
Did six months forassaulting a police officer.
Any connection to the victim?
Well, we found his prints
on the wrought iron branch used as the murder weapon.
On top of that,Grossman fired him a week ago.
Gives him motive.
Still doesn't explainhow Alena fits in.
No, but this will.
She and Pascal got engagedsix months ago.
So all this time we thought shewas there alone with Grossma.
Maybe her fiancé
was there, too.
Where is he now?
FLACK:Pascal Denton.
NYPD.
(clattering)
FLACK:Danny, coming your way!
Stay down! Don't move!
I got him.
I didn't do anyt$2.5.
Pow.
My partner and I--
we give each other ahundred imaginary bucks
every timea crook says
he didn't doanything.
Thanks to you,$2.5 million.
Oh, yeah?ike cops.
That why you brokean officer's collarbone
ten years ago?
That's not howit happened.
All right, I was heavyinto the street art scene.
Commonly known as vandalism.
He was chasing me
when he fell off that ledge.
Is that what happenedwith Richard Grossman?
Did he club himself
with a piecefrom your window display?
What are youtalking about?
What, Grossman got hurt?
There you go,acting all innocent again.
That little jackass
was very much alivethe last time I saw him.
Then how'd your burnt skinend up on a broken light
at the crime scene?
Easy-- I was tryingto snap his weaselly neck.
You want to explainthis to me?
It's a holiday displaywith no holiday in it.
Where are the snowmen?
This is myinterpretation.
Well, let's see how youinterpret this-- you're fired.
Can't doNo?!t to me?
(cries out)
That's where you're wrong.
That's the last timeI saw Richard Grossman.
So, how do you explainyour fiancée ending up there?
What, Alena?
Mm-hmm.
I haven't spoken to herin six months.
Not since she broke offour engagement.
One day we're planninga summer wedding.
The next,she gives me my ring back,
and says neverto talk to her again.
DANVILLE:Pascal Denton'stelling the truth.
We heard backfrom the banquet room
where they weregetting married.
And the deposit check had beensent back six months ago.
Honeymoon was alsocanceled.
And judging by the stateof the scabbing on Pascal's arm,
there's no wayhe got that burn last night.
Did he give you any sensewhy Alena
broke offthe engagement?
SID:Well, I can certainly
tell you this much.
That victim you're standingover was also an attacker.
How so?
Take a look atthese wounds.
First we have the scratcheson the face and neck.
Then there's the bite marks
on his left hand.
Not to mention contusions
and inflammation in the groin area.
And put all that togetherwith the defensive wounds
you found onAlena, and
I don't have to tell you how
this looks.
He had 60 pounds andfour inches on her.
So maybeshe didn't have a choice.
Meaning Alena Maybrook is guiltyof nothing but self-defense.
DANVILLE:You know, Alena,
I was always taughtto respect the dead,
but I got to tell you.
Guys like Richard Grossmanmake it tough.
It took a subpoena,
but the store's HR departmentfinally turned over a stack
of harassment complaintsagainst him by other employees.
We now knowthat he attacked you, too.
(sighs)
You've been through so much,Alena.
You called off your weddingsix months ago.
Now you're havingto deal with this.
Tell me what is going on.
Talk to me.
I really can feel your pain.
I just wishI could read your mind.
It may not have beenpremeditated,
but she stillkilled the guy.
Well, tell thatto the new district attorney.
Who, Krasnoff?
You got to be kidding me.
Given the sciencesupporting self-defense
and the lack of evidencefor any premeditation,
he's unwillingto press charges.
Did you explain to himthat he's a dumb-ass?
(laughs)
You know the game, Don.
She's been in custodyfor 24 hours.
Yeah, I know.
I'll process herand get her out of here.
But, Mac,let me ask you this.
What if we crackthis puzzle,
and she's already usedthat ticket to Aruba?
We'll cross that bridgeif we have to.
DANVILLE:She certainly worked a lot.
According to Stonefield'spayroll department, starting
six months ago,Alena Maybrook went
from workingunder 40 hours a week
That doesn'tmake sense.
Why suddenly startworking so much
when you know yourboss is a scumbag?
Did Alena file one of theharassment reports against him?
No.
But she was a documented witnessto some of his sexual misconduct
with a sales clerknamed Tracy Parker.
DANNY:That's our girl frombehind the makeup counter.
DANVILLE:Looks likeshe fought to have him
fired and brought up on charges.
But the complaintwas ultimately dismissed,
and Grossman gotto keep his job.
Store manager-- one,assistant manager-- zero.
Makes your blood boil.
Well, it probably pissed offAlena, too.
My thoughts exactly.
We found some of her blood
at the same counterwhere Tracy works.
The two of themdefinitely shared
some past negative experiencewith our vic.
Then go back to Tracy Parker.
If Alena did decide to killGrossman out of vengeance,
she might know morethan what she told you before.
TRACY: He said if I didn't go out with him,
he would cut back my hours.
I was barely putting foodon the table as it was.
So you agreed to date him?
I'm a single momwith two young children.
What choice did I have?
Well, I certainly wasn'tjudging you, Tracy.
I think what that mandid was inexcusable.
No, I was judging myself.
I should have been stronger.
I should have stood upfor myself,
but I was too scared,too embarrassed.
Until Alenacame to you?
She'd overheard someof Grossman's advances.
Said she would stand by me
and make surehe got what he deserved.
Were those her exact words?
No, you don't understand.
She didn't want him dead.
She wanted to stop him
from taking advantageof other women.
And when Stonefield's refusedto punish him,
maybe she found another wayto do that.
No. That's not the typeof person that she is.
What type of person is she?
Alena let me leave earlyevery night
so I could put my kids to bed.
She would evenclose out my register
and do inventory for me.
I'm 100% certain,
if Alena reallydid kill Richard,
she absolutely had to.
Hey, the broken USB port
that Jo found near the body at Stonefield's--
I finaVideo camera.ource.
Oh, no, not justany video camera, okay?
This is a Rivio 1080p PocketCam,and it is
the latest and the greatestin high def recording.
So I'm thinking the USBconnector might have broke off
during the struggle.
(groaning)
TAYLOR: We already know Grossman's prints were on the connector,
so if the camera belonged to him,
maybe there was something elseon it Alena didn't want anyone
to see.
Hmm. Trouble is, though,
it wasn't in any of herpersonal belongings, you know?
Maybe she ditched itsomewhere inside the store.
Let me see that camera.
TAYLOR: I know where it is.
TAYLOR:I saw him duck out of the crowdover here.
FLACK:Son of a bitch.
You got it.
(people conversing indistinctly)
Our pickpocket
palmed the camerafrom Alena's coat
when he bumped her in the store.
He dumped the bag herejust before we caught him.
Yeah, but what the hell goodis that to us now?
Hey, Adam.
Huh. You're just in time.
So, did you get thevideo camera working?
God himself couldn't getthis video camera to work.
Sewage water and electronicsjust don't mix.
So we're not able to seewhat was recorded on it?
I didn't say that.
See, cameras like thisstore their data
onto solid state memory cards.
Now, they usually havea higher tolerance to damage
than other sensitive circuitry.
Usually?
I used a silica desiccant
to absorb as much moistureas possible.
And...
here comes the momentof truth.
TRACY: Alena let me leave early
every nightso I could put my kids to bed.
She would even close outmy register
and do inventory for me.
This wasn't about revenge.
This was about money.
I cross-referenced Stonefield'scash register repors
with Alena Maybrook's workshifts over the past six months.
Any substantial shortfalls?
Only minor ones.
Eight bucks hereand five bucks there.
Well, why didn't Stonefield'sinvestigate the discrepancies?
Well, because, likea lot of big stores,
they have what they callacceptable deviation,
which means,
any cash that's missingfrom the till
under the amount of ten dollarsthey basically write off.
And as an assistant manager,
Alena would have overseen a lotof those registers.
Yes. 112, to be exact.
So if she pocketed an averageof seven dollars per register,
twice a day for six months...
She would have stolen overa quarter of a million dollars
right out fromunder their noses.
Grossman discoveredshe was stealing from the store,
and she killed himto keep her secret safe.
Have Flack issuea robbery warrant
for Alena Maybrook.
I want all available units
out looking for her.Search the airports,
the store,her apartment, the works.
She's not goingto get very far.
What do you mean?
Well, I had a hard timeamplifying the DNA
in her blood you collected.
So I looked at itunder a microscope,
and I detected high levels
of leucocytes.
Did you get her medical records?
Yeah. I did.
She's been diagnosed withT cell lymphocytic leukemia.
She's dying.
(children chattering, laughing)
Alena, thank youfor meeting me here.
I'm glad we could finally talk.
Me, too.
We know aboutyour illness.
How long doyou have left?
Doctors gave methree months.
That was six months ago.
I'd been too busy
planning a weddingto pay attention
to all the stomachaches.
There must have beentreatment options.
Sure.
Surgery, radiation,
aggressive chemotherapy.
All with a combined one yearsurvival rate of under 15%.
You still had a fighting chance.
A chance at what?
Languishingin some hospital bed?
Torturing my bodyday in and day out
just to prolongthe inevitable?
No, thanks.
If it was me,I would want to live
as long as I possibly could.
That's what I thought at first.
But in the end,
I decided that, for me,
quality was much moreimportant than quantity.
The registers at Stonefield'stell a different tale, Alena.
DANVILLE: As long as you kept the amounts low,
no one noticed you were stealing.
No one, except Richard Grossman.
He used what he knew to extort you, didn't he?
What did he ask for
in order to keep your secret?
Oh, you don't needto stop on account of me.
Carry on.
I know all aboutyour little crime spree.
I even decided to makea movie out of it.
Please, Richard.
I-I can't lose my job.
I'm not doing this for myself.
No, no, no.
No need for that.
Consider this between us.
Nobody needs to know.
I realize times are tough.
You have to get what youcan on the side, right?
I completely understand.
Of course, if I'mgoing to help you...
...I may need a littlehelp, myself.
That's enough togive you motive.
Honestly, that's enoughto give anyone motive.
I thought it would bea one-time thing.
But not for him.
After that, I couldn'tlive with myself.
Day by day,I was losing my life,
and he was tryingto rob me of my humanity.
Enough was enough.
I don't care.Turn me in
if you have to, but I amnot doing this anymore.
That's no way to treat a guywho's saving your life.
You're not savingme from anything.
It's even hotterwhen you struggle.
What are you doing?
(screams)
Stop it!
That's right, baby.That's right.
(grunts)
(screams)
(grunts)
ALENA: I knew I was hurt.
I just had to tryto pull myself together and go.
Gotta love the irony.
I'm in the middle of dying,
and I wind up killing a guy.
Grossman's death solveda lot of your problems.
It wasn't my problemsI was worried about.
When you find out you're dying,
a lot of things run through your mind.
For the first time, my life had a definite end date.
The last thing I wanted was for people to see me waste away.
So, I decided to turn in my resignation.
Alena, I know why you're here,
and I want to assure you,your job is still safe.
I-I'm sorry?
It's been a particularlyrough quarter.
Many of your colleaguesare going to need
to find other employmentafter the holidays.
But people have families.
Of course they do.
Try to look at it this way.
You're luckyto still be a part of ours.
ALENA: Easy for him to say.
While he was sittingin his office,
there were people out therein the store,
working their asses off.
Those same people weregoing to lose their jobs
without advance notice.
No bonuses, no benefits
and no time to find a new jobbefore the new year.
All of this,
while the store was spendingthousands on windows.
I stopped feeling sorryfor myself after that.
I couldn't resign.
I decided to stayon the job,
and help someonein some way.
There's something so poeticabout snowfall.
Snowflakes don't havea long life span, but...
they leave suchan unforgettable mark.
You wouldn't talkbecause you were stalling.
When you realizeyou're going to die soon...
...a part of youwants to make sure
there was a reasonwhy you lived.
♪ ♪
I turned the case overto Robbery Division.
By the time theylook at it,
she may not bealive to prosecute.
This is why I solove window shopping.
She stole from the store,which was wrong,
but she was trying to helppeople, which was right.
And it just shows you,
you just don't haveto buy everything you see.
Sometimes you can stop
and take a minute and look,
and try to find somethingto admire.
And then move on.
I'll buy that.
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