CSI: New York--'On The Job'

[CSI Files]

Synopsis:

Mac and Danny are at the apartment of one very dead Jay Knight. Danny notices high velocity blood spatter on the wall, and Mac sends him to check out the rest of the apartment. Danny does so and hears something coming from behind one of the closet doors. As Danny starts to open the door, a man bursts out of the closet, throwing Danny backwards. Danny recovers and chases the man into the subway, where the man starts to fire at the CSI as people panic. Danny tells them all to get down and moves behind a pillar. After several more shots are fired, Danny returns fire and hits the man firing at him. But when Mac and several other officers arrive at the scene, they roll over the lifeless body of the man who has an NYPD badge. When Mac asks Danny if the dead man was the one he was chasing, Danny thinks so but isn't sure.

Flack tells Mac the dead cop is Rodney Minhas, who was working undercover. The officers at the scene are angry about the shooting, and Danny, who is being treated for a bloody cut on his forehead, yells at them when they make comments about Minhas's death. Mac pulls Danny aside and Danny tells him his version of the story: Minhas fired at him first, and Danny fired the final two rounds. Mac tells Danny to go home and not talk to IAB yet. Aiden approaches Mac: she's found a personal recorder one of the civilians who was wounded was carrying. It's still recording; Mac takes it as evidence. When he goes above ground, he's irritated to see Danny about to talk to Chief Dwight Hilborne from IAB. Mac orders Danny to go to the hospital.

The body of Sandra Lopez, nineteen-year-old nanny, has been discovered in the bathrooms at a nanny park with a bloody head wound. Stella speaks to her two friends, Glenda Wallace and Matrice Singh, who called 911. The women are also nannies--the three would meet in the park. They tell Stella that Sandra worked for the Myersons, big name antique importers. The Myerson's child, Daniela, has been taken by Child Welfare, and Stella goes to examine the child, who appears unharmed.

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[BarryWeen]

I'd like to offer some disagreements with the review that was made on this episode by Miss Huntley.

1) Near the beginning of the review she says we never know what happened to Danny's two shots, and that we have to assume that one of the two shots went into the officer's shoulder. That's not entirely accurate. They did make the determination that Danny's first shot caused the wound in the shoulder. They couldn't account for Danny's second shot. When they were doing the recreation of the shootout, they could account for all the bullets except for Danny's second shot and the suspect's last shot. When they went back to the crime scene, they were able to find the suspect's last shot as it ricocheted off the ground and ended up in one of the steps of the stairway. They never did find out where Danny's second shot went.

2) At the end of her review, she points out some glaring holes. She is incorrect in that some of those holes actually were filled in.

a) She wonders how the bullet found in the telephone pole could have come from Jay Knight. It didn't is the answer. The bullet found in the telephone pole was the bullet fired from Officer Minhas' gun killing Jay Knight, and going through the window into the telephone pole. The bullet that Jay Knight fired at Officer Minhas was still in Officer Minhas causing the abdominal wound he had plus the bleeding they found outside of Jay Knight's apartment on the street and on the car that was parked there, later traced to Michael Anderson who fled from the scene.

b) She asks whether of not Minhas was a dirty cop and says it's not clear. It actually is clear. When they finally track down Anderson, he tells them that he and Minhas were pals and had done several deals and had planned to shake down Knight which led to the initial shootout cause Minhas' being shot and Knight being killed. At least in my opinion, it's clear that Minhas was dirty. And what Mac implied actually was that Minhas might have been using the subway shootout as a means to shut Michael Anderson up, so he wouldn't expose Minhas as a dirty cop and maybe also for the fact that Anderson wasn't there in the car to help Minhas get away.

c) Lastly about Danny's bullets, as I said in part 1, we know where one of them went. The second one is unaccounted for. My theory is that Danny's first shot, which went into Minhas' shoulder, caused Minhas to go down and that Danny's second shot went past Minhas and down the subway corridor till it impacted somewhere. By the time Danny was firing, everybody in his line of sight was down except for Minhas, whom Danny thought was the suspect. So after Minhas goes down, Danny's second shot has a clear path to go farther, farther than the crime scene they demarcated in the episode. That's just my theory though.

 

[midnight_tiptoes]

Posted by BarryWeen:
The bullet that Jay Knight fired at Officer Minhas was still in Officer Minhas causing the abdominal wound he had [...]

Actually, the bullet they recovered from Minhas body was from the shoulder wound. The abdominal wound was a through and through, it was the fatal wound and that is the bullet they couldn't find. Had it been in Minhas the whole time they could've been able to determine if Danny killed him right away.

 

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Posted by BarryWeen:
I'd like to offer some disagreements with the review that was made on this episode by Miss Huntley.

1) Near the beginning of the review she says we never know what happened to Danny's two shots, and that we have to assume that one of the two shots went into the officer's shoulder. That's not entirely accurate. They did make the determination that Danny's first shot caused the wound in the shoulder. They couldn't account for Danny's second shot. When they were doing the recreation of the shootout, they could account for all the bullets except for Danny's second shot and the suspect's last shot. When they went back to the crime scene, they were able to find the suspect's last shot as it ricocheted off the ground and ended up in one of the steps of the stairway. They never did find out where Danny's second shot went.

Yeah, it's probably true that the shoulder shot was Danny's, but it's never said, at least not that I recall. It's mentioned that the bullet was a hollow point, but did anyone say it came from Danny's gun?

a) She wonders how the bullet found in the telephone pole could have come from Jay Knight. It didn't is the answer. The bullet found in the telephone pole was the bullet fired from Officer Minhas' gun killing Jay Knight, and going through the window into the telephone pole. The bullet that Jay Knight fired at Officer Minhas was still in Officer Minhas causing the abdominal wound he had plus the bleeding they found outside of Jay Knight's apartment on the street and on the car that was parked there, later traced to Michael Anderson who fled from the scene.

What midnight said...the bullet from the pole was from Jay Knight's gun, meaning that it was the one that Minhas was shot with. It wasn't the bullet that killed Jay. Also, the high velocity blood spatter behind Jay was from Minhas. He must have splattered pretty far, or been closer to Jay than he looked. But either way, he was facing the window, so how did the bullet end up in the pole?

b) She asks whether of not Minhas was a dirty cop and says it's not clear. It actually is clear. When they finally track down Anderson, he tells them that he and Minhas were pals and had done several deals and had planned to shake down Knight which led to the initial shootout cause Minhas' being shot and Knight being killed. At least in my opinion, it's clear that Minhas was dirty. And what Mac implied actually was that Minhas might have been using the subway shootout as a means to shut Michael Anderson up, so he wouldn't expose Minhas as a dirty cop and maybe also for the fact that Anderson wasn't there in the car to help Minhas get away.

Yeah, but Minhas was working undercover. Part of that could have been his cover--befriending and working with Anderson to get to the bigger guys. Mac certainly scoffs at the notion that Minhas was Anderson's friend. But then...why was Minhas shooting at Anderson? It's very murky.

c) Lastly about Danny's bullets, as I said in part 1, we know where one of them went. The second one is unaccounted for. My theory is that Danny's first shot, which went into Minhas' shoulder, caused Minhas to go down and that Danny's second shot went past Minhas and down the subway corridor till it impacted somewhere. By the time Danny was firing, everybody in his line of sight was down except for Minhas, whom Danny thought was the suspect. So after Minhas goes down, Danny's second shot has a clear path to go farther, farther than the crime scene they demarcated in the episode. That's just my theory though.

Definitely possible...but where's the suspect at this time? When did he flee? I got the idea he fled after Minhas went down, meaning he could have been the one who fired that first shot. Unlikely--you're right, it probably is Danny's bullet in Minhas's shoulder, but then, clarity is always a good thing in procedural dramas.