# So hot on the prowl #
# All the things I could do if you just let me get my hands on you #
# Get it now So hot on the prowl... #
# I keep imagining that you do it real rough #
# Let me be your personal slut Feel attracted to my body lately #
# Need release for this pent-up energy #
# Don't make me beg for it honey #
# Get it now So hot on the prowl #
Ta-da!
"Wow" would be a really good thing to say right about now.
- You don't like it? - No, no.
It's, it's, it's beautiful, but, er...
It doesn't exactly fall under the category
of "Let's get together for a drink. "
It's not as impressive as it looks.
I manage the bistro downstairs, so I know all the right people.
Drew, I just need to be very clear.
Come on.
You might be able to resist me,
but can you really walk away from an '82 Opus One and a view like this?
One glass.
My biggest heartbreak?
Four years ago, Steve Bartman.
Steve?
He interfered with a foul ball during the playoffs.
It's the closest we've come to the World Series since.
Stella. I'm getting the feeling I'm not scoring any runs.
That Steve Bartman story, that, that's my fastball.
Look, Drew, you, you're a very charming man.
Wait, before you say anything else.
I got a mean curveball.
I... I can't accept that.
The rooftop drinks and all the gifts that you're sending to the office,
it's too aggressive and not my style and...
You're not looking for a relationship.
Er, that's work. I've gotta go.
Thanks for the drinks.
You're welcome.
- You got here quick. - I was in the neighbourhood.
This martini ad party goes off every Friday night around nine.
Yeah, I walked by. It was going full swing.
It's the hottest ticket in town. Tonight the billboard was attacked.
Jenna Donovan, 21 years old.
Dead in a Mirado martini.
Live-wire electrocution?
From the looks of it, I'd say someone ordered death straight up.
# Out here in the fields
# I fight for my meals
# I get my back into my living
# Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah #
I assume these aren't part of the ad campaign.
Party crashers?
Those explain why I found deep indentation marks on the billboard.
Some witnesses are sporting bruising.
Quite a bit of force to cause that much damage with a tennis ball.
There were no reports of broken windows
and no other billboards were damaged.
Think one of the partiers was the target?
- Tennis balls ain't a deadly weapon. - Maybe they were sending a message.
I don't know, but somebody out there took aim,
fired and ended up killing someone.
Let's find them.
The advertising business is competitive.
It's one of the most coveted locations in Times Square.
Are you suggesting your competitors are behind this?
If my billboard gets shut down, we'll have a bidding war for that space.
Was anybody there that wasn't supposed to be there?
They were all models. Damien hired them all personally.
I need a copy of the guest list.
Any previous threats?
Not tonight. Not in the months we've been doing this.
What if I have any other questions?
You can contact me anytime. I practically live here.
EMT 4205, we have a female victim.
Approximately 25 years old. Gunshot wound to the head.
Breathing is stabilised.
Hey, can you hear me?
Can you hear me?
Brandi, I'm Detective Messer from the Crime Lab.
Can you tell me what happened?
Hey, baby.
Hey, you're doing real good, OK?
OK, you stay with me. You're doing good.
You're gonna be OK, Brandi.
I need to ask you some questions.
Can you tell me any description of who did this to you?
You're gonna be fine. I'm not going anywhere. I'm right here.
She's losing consciousness. Go code 10!
Come on, let's move!
Stay with me.
Robbery and two gunshot victims.
Brandi Parsons is on the way to Trinity General.
Danny's gonna get a statement.
Restaurant robberies aren't lucrative.
What did they get - credit card numbers and tips?
Club Prowl has a cash-only policy.
NYPD brass threw a fit last year when it opened.
- How much was stolen? - About $35,000.
Most of the money came from a safe in the back, the rest from wallets.
Ted Barkley struggled with the shooter.
Tore off his mask.
We're trying to get a composite from patrons. Most didn't get a good look.
Wallets on the tables, bodies on the ground right now!
Hey, gunshot wound to the femoral artery. It didn't take long.
The leg's not a normal target.
Wound is close range.
Probably happened during the struggle, gun went off.
Unfortunately, the bullet looks deformed.
Not sure it'll be usable for stria.
Brandi Parsons fell there when she was shot.
Based on the footprint pattern, our shooter killed Ted first.
Was almost at the exit, then doubled back to shoot our female victim.
Ted attacked the shooter,
Brandi was shot in the back of the head which indicates she retreated.
Why would two opposite reactions
incite the exact same response from our killer?
Brandi's been tending bar at Club Prowl for the past six months.
She's figuring out what she wants to be when she grows up.
We've been dating for about two years.
I was coming there to walk her home. Surprise her, you know?
Then when I get there, they're rolling her out on a gurney.
You're gonna be OK, bud.
Thanks for saying that.
- Detective. - How is she?
The bullet grazed the parietal lobes of her cerebrum.
- Didn't hit any bones? - That appears to be the case.
That's something you can retrieve, right?
- I need the bullet asap. - Removing the bullet might be risky.
But our neurosurgeon, Dr Gavin Moore, will know more about that.
It's scheduled for tomorrow. Brandi's stabilised.
- Is she allergic to any medications? - I should know that.
Her mom would know.
She's flying out of Houston. I could call her.
That will be helpful.
- Is Brandi able to talk? - She's sedated.
I need to talk to her.
Her statement might be the only chance we have of getting the guy.
I'm sorry, but we can't wake her now.
If she's up to talking, I'll let you know.
Alright.
The marks don't provide the same accuracy as bullet holes,
but the trajectory lasers have spoken and it's unanimous.
That's gotta be our launch pad, give or take a few floors.
OK.
How many floors do you wanna check?
Your GQ will still be waiting for you when we're done.
Shh!
Did you hear that?
First sign of life since we got here.
Sounds like it's coming from here.
NYPD, open up.
Hey, champ. Wanna do the honours?
Is it gone?
I wasn't trying to hurt anybody.
Why did you shoot balls at the billboard?
I tried to ignore it.
But it just kept dogging me...
Night after night, on and off...
- On and off... - You know something?
You're starting to piss me off.
Do me a favour.
Take a nice big gulp of that coffee
and start from the beginning.
Don't you get it?
I couldn't fight it any more.
I've been sober for two and a half years.
Things were good.
Got the late shift job inputting data at the Sports Research Lab...
And then it started.
I couldn't fight it any more. I started drinking again.
Nick...
I've had guys in here blame their criminal behaviour
on wives, bosses, even the devil.
I gotta tell you, this is a new one.
You're telling me you were driven to this by a shiny red light.
I'm a recovering alcoholic.
Every day is a battle and that tennis ball shooter
is the only weapon I had.
I just wanted to make it stop.
Yeah!
Well, mission accomplished.
Now you can dry up in Sing Sing.
Wait a minute. I'm really gonna go to prison?
- A finger? - Yep.
Judging from the size and bone cells,
it's a digit from a bird, rodent or reptile.
It was covered in denatured alcohol, a bone preservative.
Once I narrow down the species, I can figure out where it came from.
That'll hopefully lead us to our killer.
Thanks.
I love this job, so many surprises.
Don't keep it to yourself, Hawkes.
What have you got?
DNA I collected from the ski mask didn't give us a database hit,
but it matched traces of dried semen I collected from Brandi's clothing.
She had sex with our shooter.
So she knew him.
- Crime of passion? - Yes, that's one possibility.
Or, she was the inside guy.
They planned this robbery together but before she got her cut...
...her partner double-crossed her.
Your tennis ball shooter isn't responsible for Jenna's death.
She didn't die from electrocution.
She's got burn marks all over her body. How's that possible?
- They're post-mortem. - She was already dead.
Just moments before. I'm waiting for blood and tox.
There was a lot fluid in her lungs.
- She drowned in the glass? - It was endogenous to her body.
COD was pulmonary oedema.
Exactly, which is not consistent with electrocution or drowning.
- A heart condition? - No, PE was noncardiogenic.
Some bruising on the shoulder.
Yeah, that's very recent.
When I ran a CT scan, I noticed more evidence of a struggle.
In pre-mortem, subdermal bruising.
So impact to the chest caused pulmonary oedema and her death.
Seems to be the cause. I'm waiting to confirm.
What really strikes me is not how she died, but where she died.
Slow-onset pulmonary oedema causes acute pain.
Most people would have jumped into an ambulance, not a martini glass.
Wow. What's all this about?
A uni brought over Jenna's purse from her dressing room at the agency.
- She had a sweet tooth. - Yeah.
Along with fat-burning capsules, appetite suppressants, water pills.
Typical meal plan for anyone about to wear next to nothing.
Although candy doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
Let's see.
A big wad of cash, latex balloons and some cotton balls.
You know, Lindsay, I don't think these lollipops are lollipops.
Heroin.
- Well, that changes everything. - It certainly does.
At $40 a pop, we're looking at over $3,000 in this purse.
This handle is an exact match to the bruise on her left shoulder.
So somebody went after the bag or what was in the bag.
Why didn't the attacker take them?
She fought off the attacker, at least in the first round.
A motive for murder.
You've been here all night. Why don't you go home? I'll stay.
Dr Moore, did she see Brandi? Are you gonna be able to help her?
Intracranial pressure caused her brain to swell, so...
I performed a ventriculostomy to drain spinal fluid.
We're ready to proceed with surgery.
- How risky is that surgery? - Well, all surgeries carry risks.
Excuse me, just a moment.
We've got one dead guy, a woman clinging to life.
All that misery for 35 grand.
It's pathetic, isn't it?
If you're not going home, why don't you go eat something?
Here's our killer. It's all the info we were able to get from witnesses.
We need to find everybody with eyes, a nose and a mouth.
Hey, beautiful, just relax.
I'm gonna be waiting for you when you come back, OK?
Defib on monitor!
We have to shock her now.
- Doctor. - Clear!
- She's still in defib. - Go up to 360.
Clear!
Let's go for one more. Clear!
Prep her for the OR. I'll be there in a few minutes.
I need your help.
My brother's been kidnapped by somebody connected to your witness.
I was told if I don't let Brandi die, he will be killed.
That's why you hesitated just now.
That phone call wasn't some kind of idle threat, he sounded scared.
- How did they find him? - I don't know. We share a practice.
Probably going after you, but you weren't there.
Here's the address.
I just got this message sent from my brother's cellphone.
These guys really want Brandi Parsons dead.
Someone in the hospital is watching us.
I'll save the girl, but please save Charles.
- We have a kidnapping. - What?
Dr Moore's brother. Get someone over to Moore's medical office asap.
Brandi can ID the shooter. Maybe someone in her circle can too.
Let's interview her landlord, her family, her friends.
- See what they know. - Her mother's on her way.
Her mother?
Brandi Parsons doesn't have a mother. She died 10 years ago.
Closest family member I found is an aunt.
I don't think Paul Larkin is her boyfriend.
- Have you seen Brandi's boyfriend? - Left minutes ago.
Has he been in on this the whole time?
He just jumped in. Said he was her boyfriend.
Is this kid connected to our shooter?
- You didn't know. We'll find him. - I'm gonna find him.
I'm right here.
Her hand.
Paul was kissing Brandi's hand.
Swab it and collect samples from anyone else
so we can eliminate their DNA.
- We have one advantage. - What?
Paul doesn't know we know. We have the edge. Let's use it.
These are from the camera across the street.
Paul was there early scouting the place.
I ran his name through the system - nothing.
We need the minutes before and after the robbery
and get a clear image of our killer to find who he is.
He's our best chance of finding our hostage, Charles Moore.
This is right around 11:15.
The shooter must have gone out the back door and called Paul.
Doesn't look like murder was part of the plan.
Kidnapping probably wasn't either.
Here's where Paul jumped into the ambulance
and said he was Brandi's boyfriend.
These guys aren't pros.
Based on the footprint pattern the killer left,
shooting Brandi wasn't premeditated.
He came back into the room to shoot her.
We thought he was killing his partner.
So it's not a double-cross.
His semen was on her clothes. They knew each other.
She recognised him without his mask.
It's you!
She was shot because she was able to ID the killer by name.
91 X?
The address of a jewellery store in St Mark's Place.
How does this connect with Jenna?
It adds up to one very unique ring.
The pieces of broken glass in her handbag
were part of a convex lens.
- A magnifying glass? - Centrepiece of the ring.
I found DNA that matched DNA from a hair in the prongs.
Not Jenna's.
How does 91 X fit in?
Inside the convex lens was a grain of rice
which was inscribed with the address - 91 X.
It also had a Japanese kanji. Its translation is "magic".
Magic?
Our heroin lollipops tested positive for fentanyl.
Lindsay, when fentanyl and heroin are mixed the street name is "magic".
Fentanyl - a painkiller for cancer patients.
Which explains why Jenna didn't feel any pain.
With the amount of product and cash she had, she was a user and a dealer.
Magic.
- Yeah. - Cool.
- How did you know? - We got something that matches.
Oh, where did you get that?
Jenna Donovan's handbag.
- You know her? - Should I?
Keep a record of special request jewellery orders?
Kanji rings aren't special requests. They're one of our biggest sellers.
Still didn't answer our question. Do you know Jenna?
We found jewellery from your store with a kanji that matches the tattoo.
We also found a red hair, caught in the prongs of a broken ring.
Your hair's red.
I don't know her.
I'd get rid of that cat if I were you.
I didn't kill her.
Patti, come on. These lollipops are the hot new thing.
I'm sorry she's dead. Those lollipops aren't worth killing for.
Listen, I already got you on possession of heroin.
Just a hop, skip and a jump to murder if I work this right and I'm good.
Especially since Jenna's body shows us
she was in a hell of a fight before that party.
OK, yeah.
I went to go see her right before her big splash on the billboard
and we got into it.
What are you doing? I'm about to star work.
- I need a few, alright? - Hey!
Stop it! I told you no money, no candy.
- You know I'm good for it. - Leave.
We knocked each other around,
but when I left, she was as alive as I am.
That led to an injury that caused her death, Patti.
What does that mean? What's gonna happen?
Ask your lawyer.
Our vic's body couldn't help but remind me of my great uncle Andy.
Hearing that is enough to make any model break into tears.
Oh, no, there's no physical resemblance,
although he was in superior shape for an octogenarian.
But what I mean is, Uncle Andy would never finish telling a story.
When you thought he was done, he'd find something to say.
So Jenna's body is telling a different story
which means Patti's off the hook - the bruise didn't kill Jenna.
Affirmative - when I reviewed the tox report,
her antibodies were off the charts like she was fighting a pathogen.
So a virus or a parasite could have caused the pulmonary oedema.
I haven't found anything specific.
I decided to re-examine the burns on Jenna's body.
The majority were thermal.
But one burn on her left arm is more consistent with a chemical burn.
I have to admit, so far I can't explain it.
There's one more thing I found curious.
Microscopic organisms. Diatoms.
But these are marine diatoms. They were in her stomach.
So she swallowed salt water.
What was in that martini glass?
Dr Moore's brother is still out there.
Keep trying to locate a signal from his cellphone.
Call me when you have something.
I made a positive ID. It's from Corynorhinus townsendii.
How did a bat's finger wind up in a ski mask?
I don't know, but I called stores that sell bone specimens.
- A long or short list? - Short list of one.
I know they're not formal IDs, but all my employees are in these photos.
We have very low turnover here.
That's him, he said his name was Paul Larkin,
but you're gonna tell me something different.
His last name's Campbell.
Let me guess, he didn't come in today.
- Is he OK? - We're trying to find out.
Here's what you were asking about.
How would it have broken off?
Customer aren't allowed to handle them. They were locked up.
An employee must have keyed into the display case.
Ready for tonight?
- What are you doing here? - I got everything.
Put that away.
His work station's there.
We need his address and we'd like to look around.
Maybe take a few fingerprints, DNA samples.
You're welcome to but we don't work without gloves.
Mac, Paul Campbell's work glove?
DNA you swabbed from Brandi's hand is a match
to the DNA I swabbed from inside Paul's glove.
I got a signal from Charles' cellphone.
It's coming from Paul's apartment.
NYPD!
Paul?
NYPD. Come out with your hands up.
They're gone.
Paul doesn't live alone.
Signs of a struggle and Charles Moore was duct-taped.
Looks like it took the kidnapper a few tries to get him that way.
We need to find out where they went and who's sharing this dump.
Everything's in Paul Campbell's name.
Phone, credit card, cable.
His roommate doesn't exist, at least not on paper.
But he does electronically.
I circumvented the security access to his email.
Name's James Petty,
and he requested blueprints for every building surrounding Club Prowl.
Nice. Could be our shooter-kidnapper right there.
Find something, Messer?
Zoom in on the right corner.
You see that?
You tipping me for my zooming skills?
Treasury Department embeds blue and red fibres into currency
to prevent counterfeiting.
The fibres are consistent.
They probably realised all the cash couldn't fit in the box.
So, they dumped it out to find a bigger one.
One of the bills must have ripped and got caught on the edge.
Alright, so these guys are mailing the money somewhere.
Smart move. Not keeping cash on them or in the apartment.
Raise the ink from the pouch, we can get an address.
- Doing science? - It's odd that they left it.
They knew we'd find this place.
Charles' phone got us here. Where is it?
It sounds like it's coming from underneath the couch.
Boom.
It's Charles Moore's phone.
Question is, where is Charles Moore?
I found our murder weapon.
Under a microscope?
Come take a look.
It's an Irukandji jellyfish. It's fatal.
Sid said one burn on her left arm is more consistent with a chemical burn.
Its poisonous tentacles caused Jenna's oedema.
- They can only survive in sea water. - True.
I think our olive is guilty of concealing a deadly weapon.
I found high concentrations of sodium chloride on the beach ball.
That's how they did it.
Our killer injected jellyfish-infested sea water
into the beach ball and then finished blowing it up.
Before Jenna jumped in the water,
our killer cut a slit in the ball so the jellyfish could escape.
Who would go to all that trouble?
I tested the spout. I found DNA from two donors - a male and a female.
I also found high levels of ketones which is consistent with anorexia.
So maybe a rival model.
Or an ad executive who has diabetes or on a low-carb diet.
Lia and Damien had access to that billboard and the beach ball,
not to mention the jellyfish.
One of them killed Jenna.
- How do we prove which one? - We get them to tell us.
Big, fat dead end.
It was a long shot. The ink's too diluted.
Wow, James Petty never stayed around in one place too much.
I guess he couldn't take the heat.
- Thanks for the help. - I'm not even gonna ask.
Mac, I bet when you hired me you didn't know about my baking skills.
- Doesn't look too appetising. - It will in a second.
I couldn't lift the address off the pouch because it was diluted.
The organic solvents in the ink do that.
Lucky for us, they can't stand the heat.
I stuck the package in an incubator oven for seven minutes.
After the solvents evaporated, I read the residue under the UV lamp.
I got an address.
- Boom. - Great work.
Dr Moore said Brandi's is alright.
Hope we can return the favour, get his brother home safe.
- Where's the money? - I haven't seen it.
I called WorldSend. They said you signed for it!
Special delivery.
Hands behind your heads!
Don't even think about it!
Dr Moore, let's go call your brother.
He'll wanna know you're OK.
It's the boyfriend.
Detectives.
Your assistant said you'd be working late.
What's this?
- A warrant to get a sample of water. - What are you looking for?
- Murder weapon. - Irukandji jellyfish.
Think you have some in the tank. They can kill you with one sting.
- Do you know about this? - No.
What's going on here?
Jenna's death wasn't an accident. She was murdered.
Murdered?
Poisoned by one of those guys, put into the beach ball.
Mr Barnes, who maintains your tank?
Lia. She collects jellyfish.
- Lia, we need to talk. - This is ridiculous.
Where are you going, Lia?
Two people handled that ball before Jenna.
We have DNA that proves one of them was female.
If that's a match to you, do you have anything to say?
- Why would you wanna kill Jenna? - What are you talking about?
Hold on. Lia, you handed that beach ball to me.
I was your target.
Why?
You killed my career.
I created the martini mix campaign.
The slogan. The tone. Even the girl in the martini glass.
It was all my idea.
Before I pitched it,
he took our CEO to a strip club, acted like the idea was all his.
So to get back at him, you decided to kill him.
You put the jellyfish in and Damien blew up the beach ball.
It almost worked, too, except for the slits you made in the beach ball
didn't release the jellyfish until it got into Jenna's hands.
I didn't know it would harm anyone else.
Irukandji jellyfish can't survive in fresh water.
Right, but all it took was one landing on Jenna's arm.
Put your hands behind your back.
You're under arrest for the murder of Jenna Donovan. Let's go.