CSI: NY (2004–2013): Season 9, Episode 15 - Seth and Apep - full transcript

With the help of D.B. Russell from the Las Vegas crime lab, Mac is able to identify the people who kidnapped Christine. But will he get to her before it's too late?

Previously on
Crime Scene Investigation...

Christine?

Mac.

Christine?

Christine?

Where is she?

What the hell is going on?

RUSSELL: We found Christine's
phone at a jewelry store robbery.

The blood did match the blood
we found in the hotel room.

Christine's room.

RUSSELL: We still don't
have an exemplar



from New York, so we don't know
that it's her yet.

What else you have?

Okay, we found a print

on the jeweler's safe.

Hit came back

- to a James Boyd.
- Jimmy Boyd?

Boyd manages
Christine's restaurant.

You son of a bitch.

- Where is she?
- She's in New York.

She never came to Vegas.

- What the hell are you talking about?
- I owe money

to a loan shark
back in New York.

What's this have to do
with Christine?

I needed to use her
to pay him off.



Where is she?

She's with my brother;
my brother has her.

You're gonna call him,

and you're gonna tell him
it's over.

I can't.

Don't play with me, Jimmy.
Come on.

The guy I owe... he got nervous
and he grabbed them up.

If I don't bring the diamonds
tomorrow night,

they're dead.

They're dead.

I'm taking that bastard back
to New York

with the diamonds.

He's gonna pay off
the scumbag he owes.

I'm gonna get Christine back.

I'm not saying don't do this.

I'm just saying
you're gonna need my help.

I'm coming with you.

(phone rings)

BOYD:
Zane?

- That you, Boyd?
- Yeah.

I just got in from Vegas.

So where do you want to meet?

38th and Lex.

Bring the diamonds.

Shawn and Christine,

you're gonna bring 'em, right?

One hour, Boyd.

Come alone.

TAYLOR:
Christine was

so excited about going to Vegas.

They took her

before she made it
out of New York.

Mac, we're gonna get her back.

FLACK:
I got visual confirmation.

Two of them

approaching from
the northwest corner.

Yeah, we see them.

Any sign of Christine
or Shawn Boyd?

- Negative.
- What about you, Adam?

Nothing on the traffic cams.

Running as many plates as I can,

but traffic's picking up.

Big brother returns.

Where are they?

ZANE:
Close by.

Diamonds?

It's only fair.

You owed me first.

(beeping)

I've got an image
of our two suspects.

Adam, see if you can
get us more on Zane

- than just his first name.
- On it.

(beeping)

They're all there,
just like we talked about.

Six hours, Jimmy.

Six hours in Vegas
we kept trying to call,

but nobody
could get a hold of you.

Not even your brother.

BOYD: I told you this...
things went bad.

You think I'm stupid?

Hey, hey, hey.

Gun.

I don't like this, Mac.

We got a lot of people out here.

He-he's testing him.

TAYLOR:
Give it a second.

Hey,

please.

Please put the gun back.

What happened in those
six hours, Jimmy?

Did you get caught?

Trying to set me up?

BOYD:
I just want my brother back.

Please,
you got to believe me.

I just want my brother back.

He's gonna do it.

Hold your position.

Come.

Let's go.

Where?

To get your brother
and the girl.

You said you were gonna
bring 'em here.

ZANE:
We have to take a ride first.

Okay, that's not the plan.

Flack, they're headed your way.

I got 'em.

Where are we going?

You will see.

You brought the cops?

(screaming)

(grunts)

(grunts)

(engine starts)

(tires screeching)

TAYLOR:
NYPD. Stop!

Where is she?

Where's Christine?

RUSSELL:
Hey!

My friend asked you a question.

Your friend
won't like the answer.

What'd you do to her?

You will never see her again.

♪ Out here in the fields

♪ I fight for my meals

♪ I get my back into my living

♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Where is she being held?

She must be important to you.

You only ask about her.

Who are you working with?

Who's holding her?

Leave it to the Boyd brothers

to kidnap a cop's girlfriend.

You took Christine and Shawn

as collateral for the $100,000
he and his brother owed you.

Everyone needs insurance.

Any word on Jimmy Boyd?

He's still in surgery.

When you questioned him in Vegas,

he give you anything on Zane?

No, he said he only
met him once.

Knew his first name, that's all.

Said the guy was a loan shark
that he and his brother, Shawn,

were borrowing money from.

What a mess.

Guy's in my custody.

I had to pull strings just
to bring him back to New York.

(knocking)

Do we know anything
more about this guy?

I just got off the phone
with Adam.

Facial recognition
was inconclusive.

He ran his prints through AFIS,
got nothing back.

He's running them
through Interpol now.

How's it going in there?

Not good.

Did you do something to her?

Is she alive?

I'm done talking.

(groans)

You can end this.

Just tell me
what you did with her.

Go to hell.

Tell me where she is.

MAN:
They arrested Zane.

I don't know.

What do you want me to do?

Yeah.

I'll take care of it.

You and your brother,

you were working for the cops?
No.

- Huh? - What happened?
Where's Jimmy?

He's dead.

Jimmy's dead.

You set us up!

- Huh?
- I swear,

I don't know what
you're talking about.

I think you do,
I think you do.

Don't shoot him.
Police have your friend.

They're gonna figure
out where we are.

If you kill us,

then you'll lose the only
leverage that you've got.

What kind of leverage
could you possibly be?

My-my-my boyfriend's a cop.

(sobbing)

(shutter clicking)

(grunts)

Anything in your autopsy
point to who

our John Doe is or where he may
have been in the last 24 hours?

I found non-fatal acute
pulmonary inflammation.

Something he inhaled

within the last 24 hours

caused irritation to the
lining of his lungs.

I sent a sample to Tox.

I also discovered

his fillings are made
of glass ionomer.

These weren't don't
by any dentist in the U.S.

From scarring

on the surrounding gums,

I'd say they're about
three months old.

That tattoo on his bicep

suggests he's from Egypt.

It's from the story
of Seth and Apep.

Seth and Apep.

Um, Seth,

the god of chaos,
protects Ra

by beheading Apep,
the god of evil.

It's an ancient Egyptian myth.

So chaos destroying evil.

Sounds like gang ideology.

It could tie back
to a gang in Egypt.

Or one here with Egyptian ties.

(both grunt)

♪ We spared souls

♪ From plotting

♪ Every move of your demise

♪ Lead me to misbehave

♪ So save my wicked soul

♪ Stop me from the killing
that you know I love ♪

♪ Hey

♪ This lonely town

♪ When I see you

♪ Oh, hey

♪ This lonely town

♪ But I feel you

♪ Under my skin.

Hey.

Hey, it looks like
our John Doe was

keeping some kind
of a ledger.

Well, we think
he's Egyptian.

Would explain the Arabic.

Yeah, I don't know what these

numbers correspond to yet.

Did you find anything in tox?

Yeah, lung sample came back
positive for alpha-terpineol.

All right, that's found
in fragrances, right?

Well, unfortunately it's found
in everything from perfume

to aftershave, making it
virtually impossible

to narrow down where he inhaled it.
(sighs)

I feel so helpless, knowing that
Christine is out there alone.

I know.

- We just got to stay
positive for Mac. - Yeah.

(beeping)
Ah.

What's this?

I found this

in his pocket but
I couldn't make it out.

Nailah's Cleaners.

You said that tox detected
alpha-terpineol?

That's found in industrial
fabric softeners.

(garbled radio transmission)

(breathing heavily)

(Christine laughing)

CHRISTINE: - Bye.
MAN: - Thanks for this.

Okay, don't trip.

That's the Christine you always

talked about
at the academy?

Mm, this is nice.

I love you, Christine.

Mac? Mac.

Just got a hit on Interpol.

"Zane Kalim."

Wanted for murder in Egypt.

Killed a member
of their parliament.

About a year ago.

Well, if he's been here
less than a year,

chances are he's
working for someone.

We need to find out who that is.

FLACK:
Mac.

This was left for you
at the front desk.

- What is it?
- I don't know.

It just came in.

(quiet gasp)

(gasps)

(car horn honking)

(siren wailing)

(screams)

(sobbing)

(phone ringing)

Mac Taylor.

(typing)

15 minutes to the call.

This is a lot
for anyone to handle.

Even Mac.

He puts the burden of
the case on his shoulders

even when it's a stranger.

Now that it's Christine,

it makes me worry

for the people he's after

because he's not gonna
stop till he finds them.

I know how he feels.

Few months ago, my...

my granddaughter was kidnapped.

I would have done
anything to get her back.

Tell me you found her.

Yes, yeah, thanks
to the people around me.

You know, Mac's lucky
to have you.

All of you.

All right,

I'm linking to every phone
company in the tristate area.

When the call comes in, I'll
determine the service provider,

whether it be cell or landline,

and then we can get
our trace on.

Excuse me.

LINDSAY:
Nailah Fayed?

I'm Detective Messer,
this is Dr. Hawkes.

Do you mind if we ask you
a few questions?

NAILAH:
No, not at all.

Do you recognize this man?

No, I don't.

This was his ticket.

Seems he was
a customer of yours?

Are you sure you
don't recognize him?

He's no customer.

He collects money
from me every week.

In this neighborhood,

you don't do
business for free.

And how long has
that been going on?

A few months.

He says it's for protection,

but it's Faraj we need
protection from.

Faraj?

I don't know his last name.

Do you know where he lives?

Does he have
any relatives in town?

Have you ever seen him
with this man?

He's coming in with Faraj
once or twice.

I don't know his name.

This is a very tight community,
like a family.

I can ask around, but

people are scared.

I don't think anyone's
going to say anything.

I'm sorry, Detectives.

I wish I could help more.

Thank you.

DNA came back on the tongue.

Belongs to a male.

Oh, thank God.

If it's not Christine's,
whose is it?

It could be Shawn Boyd's.

I got 'em running it
through CODIS now.

(phone ringing)

Where the hell is Mac?

What do you want to do?

I'm taking it.

Detective Jo Danville.

Who am I speaking with?

MAN (distorted):
There's a fountain

in Fong's alley, Chinatown.

Next to it is a bench.

There will be instructions
waiting in an envelope.

Where are Christine
and Shawn?

If you want to see
them alive again,

be at the bench

- in 15 minutes.
- Keep him talking.

We need to know
they're alive first.

15 minutes.

Hello?

(beeping)

Got it.

Chelsea, 21st and Eighth.

DANVILLE:
I'll call Flack.

Danny, you head to Chinatown.

(sirens wailing)

It's transmitting
from right here.

There's no one
over here.

Signal hasn't moved
since Adam locked in on it.

(phone beeps)

(line ringing)

Jo.

Looks like a burner.

DANNY:
Yeah, it's Messer.

Danny, we struck out here...
what about you?

No, there's no envelope here.

What the hell's going on, Jo?

Why make contact with us

just to take us for a ride?

We need to find Mac.



Mac, what are you doing?

Damn it, D.B., you shouldn't
have followed me.

I saw you leave the lab...
I figured something was going on.

Thought you might
need some backup.

You have to leave now.

They contacted you, didn't they?

They had Christine call
my cell phone.

(phone ringing)

This is Mac Taylor.

Mac, it's me.

Christine?
Thank God.

Are you all right?

Mac, listen.

She gave me an address
of a warehouse.

Said to come alone.

Told me if I didn't,
they'd kill her.

Well, Mac, they just separated
you from your team.

Look, I know
what I'm doing, D.B.

You of all people
should understand that.

I do understand.

That's why I'm here.

I'm not trying to stop you,

but I'm not gonna leave
you alone either.

Look.

I'll be close by...
they won't even know I'm there.





(phone ringing)

Taylor.

Mac?

Christine.

"You proved you're
willing to work

"alone.

"Now we make a trade.

Christine for Zane."

Okay.

Uh, I understand.

I'll figure it out.

Don't worry.

"Bring him to Teterboro Airport,

"hangar 20.

One hour."

Or they'll kill me, Mac.

(sobbing):
No...

Christine?

Christine.

So he's got blood
on his chin,

but no pooling on the ground.

The lingual artery supplies
blood to the tongue,

and if it was severed here,

let's just say we'd be looking
at a much bigger mess.

He was killed somewhere else,
then dumped here.

And Mac called it in.

They must've wanted him to find it.

Maybe the kidnappers
contacted him.

That's exactly what happened.

15 minutes to the call.

DANNY: That's why they got
us running all over town,

so Mac would be here alone.

So what's our next move?

Mac feels he needs to go
with this alone,

we need to trust him.

Our job is to follow
the science,

just like any other case.

FLACK:
Where the hell

have you been?
Everybody's been looking for you.

Where is he, Flack?
Where's Zane?

He's in holding.
But not for long.

- What do you mean?
- Once Zane's

fingerprints got a hit
in Interpol,

the, uh, Department of Justice
was alerted.

- They're taking him into
federal custody. - Yeah.

Two U.S. Marshals are
on their way over now.

Well, has-has his provisional
warrant been signed yet?

Yeah, it's a done deal.

Once those guys walk
through the door,

he's no longer
our prisoner.

Well, until they get
here, he's still ours.



I tested the blood.

It's a match for Shawn Boyd.

DANVILLE: It's awfully intricate
to draw as you're dying.

Well, I don't think he did it.

There's no traces of
blood on his fingers.

Well, if Shawn didn't
draw it, then who did?

This eye is a fingerprint.

Hmm.

(whirring)

Christine.

New York State requires
fingerprints

for anyone who gets
a liquor license.

She knew the body
would end up here.

Christine's trying
to tell us something.

We got to find out

what this symbol means.

Looks like this guy
kept records

of all his collections,
and by the looks of it,

he was pulling in
several thousand a week.

Can you pull up a map of
all the addresses listed?

I'm one step ahead of you.

ROSS: All these places are
businesses in Little Egypt.

Do you recognize
one of the locations?

No.

But I should.

Nailah's cleaner
isn't on this map.

Do you recognize this man?

He collects money
from me every week.

She was lying.

A trade?

If I don't do it,

they're gonna kill her.

"Now we make a trade.

"Christine for Zane.

"Bring him to Teterboro Airport,

"hangar 20.

One hour"

Or they'll kill me, Mac.

(sobbing)

Then we talk to the marshals.

There's an innocent life
at stake; they'll play ball.

Not before
running it up

to the attorney
general's office.

We don't have
that kind of time.

Then we ask for more time.

These men
aren't patient.

They've already proven
they'll kill to make a point.

You said it yourself:

there's an innocent life at stake.

I can't take any
chances, Don.

Not on this one.

So what?

We just...

spring the dude and walk
him out the front door

as the federal marshals
are walking in?

Yes.

I'm here to take him out.

(door buzzes)

Fellas.

You must be Detective Flack.

I am.
Thank you for coming.

Can't wait to get
this guy off my hands.

All right, I'll just look
this over real quick.

Let's go.

Hey, sorry, I got hung up there.

Are these the guys

that are here
for Zane Kalim?

Yeah. This is
Detective Russell,

out of Vegas.

He helped us apprehend Kalim.

- Appreciate your help.
- Yeah. Yeah.

RUSSELL: Um...
boy, I just better come clean here.

If you go on back
to the cells,

you're not gonna find Kalim.

So where is he?

Go ahead, tell 'em.

He was taken over
to the 88 in Brooklyn.

I got a uni picking
him up right now.

It's all right.
Actually, you know, it's my fault.

Uh, when I was
booking Kalim,

I-I filled out the wrong...

the wrong form.
(chuckles)

Those damn things
look so different

in Vegas, and I'm a little
tired to tell you the truth.

Uh, tell you what.

In the meantime,

we will...

we'll grab a cup of coffee
while we wait?

Yeah.

Fellas, I'm so sorry.

You know what? I
wouldn't worry about it.

I'm, uh...

I'm pretty sure
that our guy's, uh...

walking him out of the
precinct as we speak.

LINDSAY:
Faraj kept a detailed ledger

of every collection he's made
over the past two months.

There's no mention of Nailah's

or her dry cleaners.

Why leave her off the list?

Because.

He's not collecting
from her,

it's the other way around.

Nailah immigrated to the U.
S. about ten years ago.

When she was applying
for her green card,

she legally changed
her name to Fayed.

What was it before?

- Kalim.
- Just like Zane.

Exactly like Zane.

They're brother and sister.

Being related
to someone

doesn't make you
guilty of their crime.

ROSS: True, but this
doesn't help her case.

HAWKES: That's the same
symbol Christine left

on Shawn Boyd's body.

It's on a restaurant
in Little Egypt

directly across the street
from Nailah's dry cleaners.

Christine could
have seen that

from wherever
she's being held.

That's what she's
trying to tell us.

She's at Nailah's.



Come alone?

Show me Christine.

Where's Zane?

(muffled grunting)

Satisfied?

Now let me see Christine.

First take him out.
Hand him over.

Then I'll tell you where
your girlfriend's being held.

Change of plan.

Now we're gonna go get
Christine together,

or I'm gonna shoot
you dead right now.

Aah!

Where is she?

(grunts)

(yells)

(groans)

I'm tired of playing games.

Let's play one of mine.

Hey.

We'll see how far
you're willing to go.

Hey!

Tell me when
you've had enough.

Wait!
(dry fires)

Hey, please!

Please!

Where's Christine?

(dry fires)
No, no!

I'll take you to her!

I'll take you to her!



How many men are holding her?

Just one.
Where?

In the back.

What's his name?

Ahmed.

This him?

Yeah.

(line ringing)

Tell him to bring her outside.

Don't try anything.

This one's full of bullets.

(line continues ringing)

Where the hell is he?

I don't know.

This is Ahmed. Leave a message.

All right.

Let's go.

(door opens)

Nailah Fayed, we have a warrant
to search the premises.

Or should we call you
Nailah Kalim?

LOVATO:
Don't make me chase you.

Then I'm gonna have
to shoot you.

Is there anybody else
in the building?

No.

Which way?

Over there.

- Where?
- Over here.

Clear.

- Where?
- Back there.

I got blood.

She was here.

So where is she now?

(machinery rattling)

Hey, Ahmed.

Get the girl.
Bring her up front.

Ahmed...
(shouts indistinctly)

Christine, Christine.

(sobbing)

Thank God, Mac.

(sobbing)

Shh. It's okay,
it's okay. Okay.

(sobbing)

It's okay, it's okay.
You're safe now. You're safe.

I knew you'd come for me.

Always.

I love you, Mac.

I love you, too.

(sobbing)

It's okay.

I love you.

I love you, too.

(siren wailing)

What'd the marshals say?

They were pissed.

But they'll get over it.

Not much you can do.

Clerical errors tend to happen
from time to time.

Clerical errors, huh?

Yup.

Hey, Jo.

Oh, Mac.

Thank God
we got Christine back.

How is she?

Thankful it's over.

Yeah.

We took her to
Trinity General.

So this is Zane's sister?

And the woman behind the
blossoming crime family.

The laundry was her front.

I'm on my way to interrogate
her and find out

what else she was hiding.

I'm sorry I kept you
in the dark.

If there was any other way...

I know.

Oh, one more thing.
The guy you arrested... Omar.

He told this wild story
about playing

a game of Russian roulette.

You wouldn't happen to know
anything about that, would you?

Hey...

Let's see how far
you're willing to go.

(gun dry fires)

Not much of a game
when the gun's empty.

(car horn honking)

(knocking)

Just when you think you got
a moment to yourself,

somebody knocks on your door.

(chuckles) Well, I guess that's
the job we signed up for.

There's got to be some perk
to being the boss, right?

Yeah, the seminar in Hawaii
comes to mind.

Yeah, that would do it,
that would do it.

(chuckles)

How's Christine doing?

She's coming along.

I was just about to head
back to the hospital.

I guess it's your turn
to take care of her, huh?

Yeah, it is.

So, when are you taking off?

Uh, first thing in the morning.

And Boyd?

He made it out of surgery, so,
as soon as he's safe to travel,

they'll transfer him back to Vegas

and have him stand trial
for the murder of Sadat.

D.B., I can't thank you enough
for coming back here with me.

Hey...
No, no.

You stuck your neck
way out on the line.

Much more than I could
have asked for.

I want you to know
how grateful I am.

Thank you.

Next time we come to
Vegas, dinner's on me.

Damn right.
(chuckles)

I'm gonna bring
my whole family, too.