CSI: NY

This evening's commute is going to be congested, folks

accident on 51st Street happened about an hour ago,

- That's backing up traffic - Will somebody clean up this mess?

Investors are suddenly shell-shocked

Can you hear the frequencies? Oh, I can hear the frequencies

Yeah, the signal's coming through loud and clear

Ships and planes loses ways in Bermuda but the same thing happens in Manhattan

Calls interrupted, vehicles disabled Innocent people vanish before your eyes

Yet still the power is broadcast

The transmission completely overwhelms the Triangle

Communication completely breaks down Tune it in, then turn it down

Here's Dubinsky with a slapshot from the left circle and...

Oh, no No No Not now

Aw, Boom, I was hoping you'd answer

Aren't you supposed to be working the night shift?

Yeah, yeah, I'm running late

They turned the Q into an express, but forgot to tell the passengers

So, I had to jump out at 34th Now I got to double back

Okay, but if Mac asks where you are

Yeah, I know, I know You never heard of me

So, how you feeling? How's the baby?

Good She's good

She?

Or he Relax It's too early to tell

All right, there's something important I want to talk to you about, okay?

Okay What is it?

- Hello? - Danny?

Hello?

Are You kidding me?

Can you hear it?

Can you see it?

Can you feel the Bermuda Triangle?

Dispatch, this is 1107 requesting immediate assistance

Is this thing on?

Come on Why don't you work?

Hey, Carl, we got a problem

Son of a bitch

Carl, what the hell is happening?

Come on Come on

Hello? Hello?

Help Help us

I don't know what happened

The truck stalled and radio went down, and then...

Hey, he just died right in front of my eyes

You open the back door to try to help him out?

I... I couldn't

We're not allowed to leave the cab during emergencies till backup arrives

Irregular edges Rules out a stabbing

Gunshot wound to the chest?

Well, maybe

I'm only seeing an exit wound

No visible entry

No GSR

No bullet

Move that truck now

Looks like some kind of contact burns around his eyes

Burns around the wristwatch, as well

Looks like a pineapple sticker on his cuff

Is it just me, or is there something really strange about this crime scene?

Mac?

Okay, so your vic's name is Carl Custer

He's been working armored cars for High Eye Security since '88

He'd a younger partner in the driver's seat Guy by the name of Greg Hufheinz

He the one who opened the back?

No, The only way to open the vault is from the outside,

And protocol forced the driver to stay in the cab

Somebody did the honors Any witnesses?

Rush hour in Midtown? Come on

Nobody sees anything but a highball and a couch waiting for 'em at home

We did talk to a couple of folks at the bus stop

and one of them claims she saw someone turn a knob and open the door

Could have been our killer but I'm not seeing any knob

Yeah, well believe me, the descriptions we got don't help much, either

One said it was a guy, the other one said it was a girl

and neither of them remember a uniform

But in fairness,

They were distracted by watching this guy spontaneously combust

What about a gunshot?

Nope Sorry, Stella I wish I had more for you,

but I'm guessing that the people who saw the most all drove away

Yeah, well, from what I see, it looks like a robbery

Yeah I got a High Eye rep standing by to count the cash

as soon as you release the crime scene

I'm gonna need surveillance Footage from that intersection camera,too

Done

Looking for something else?

Yeah Mac,One minute he was here, the next minute, he was gone

His Avalanche is still parked

But you know what they say about this area

Oh, come, Flack You don't believe that Bermuda Triangle stuff

311 gets constant calls from the area right around the Empire State Building

Cell phones crap out TV and radio signals get interrupted

Vehicles lock their own doors Sometimes shut down altogether

And people disappear?

Okay, well, maybe it hasn't gone that far Yet

Come on,There's a rational, scientific explanation for all of it

Let's just hope we find one for this guy's death

Working up an appetite?

Oh, no You know there's a strict no-eating policy in the lab

Never stopped me from sneaking in the occasional bag of popcorn

So Mac said we had a possible gunshot victim

Well, that is how it looked, but I didn't find a bullet in the body

Just a whole lot of these

Metal and plastic fragments scattered throughout the vic's thoracic cavity

Looks like some kind of bomb went off

An astute observation, because I believe those were his pacemaker

And instead of being shot from the outside I'm afraid our victim

succumbed to massive cardiac trauma due to internal concussive force

I've seen cases of pacemaker failure, Sid

but they're not exactly known for exploding

Are you sure that's what happened?

Well, I wasn't until I got a good look at his liver

Just bear with me here

Now

what's wrong with this picture?

Well, for one, it's awfully small for the liver of an adult male

Correct,And notice the striated charring?

Now compare that to this freshly-cooked pig liver

See the similarities?

They both have been microwaved

It would take microwave-induced heat

for the pacemaker's lithium batteries to swiftly combust

Also causing the second-degree burns

where his eyeglasses and wristwatch

made direct contact with the skin

Though we're talking quite a bit more juice than your standard countertop oven

Probably somewhere in excess of 300 degrees

Oh, come on, Sid It's not like he was going down 34th Street in a giant microwave

No

But he was in the middle of the Electronic Bermuda Triangle

After 9/11, a lot of the broadcast and communication antennas

that used to be atop the World Trade Center

were moved to the Empire State Building

I'm sure there's a significant amount of microwave energy emanating from there

Enough to kill someone?

What happened to the picture?

Apparently some sort of high-voltage meltdown

Now, according to the Department of Transportation

the signal at the intersection camera went down at 4:56 p m

and it hasn't worked since Same with the stoplight

All right, well, I have to pop downstairs for a second

and then run a bunch of evidence through Trace,

But the the rear doors from The armored car they're on their...

- I'll take a look-see - Great Thanks

Triangle strikes again

Thought I saw you running for the exit

I'm starving

My OB says I should pay attention to my cravings

No matter how Inconvenient they are

Yeah

Let me ask you something

Do you have any hereditary disease in your family?

No

Do you?

No No, no

Mental illness?

No

No? How about, uh,

addictive tendencies?

Extra fingers? Extra toes? - No

No?

Natural delivery or, uh, drugs?

Uh either

Want a boy or a girl?

Healthy

Will you marry me?

No

Any progress on the pacemaker?

Well, the directionality of the fragments

paired with flash patterns and high traces of lithium cobalt oxide

definitely seem to confirm Sid's theory about it exploding,

but I still managed to get a serial number off it

And contacted The manufacturer directly

- Marwood Technologies - Right

And they've never had A single failure of this kind,

Even though they knew about it As it was happening

How?

Well, turns out our vic paid extra for remote monitoring of his ticker

The pacemaker sent a constant electrocardiogram signal

to his cell phone, which in turn

relayed the info via a wireless Internet connection to their database

And as you can tell This is when the signal ended

4:56 p m,the same time the intersection camera failed

So if all that energy Came off the Empire State Building

And caused all this damage How come our vic was the only casualty?

At this point, there's only one way to answer that question

Whoa

Wow

I thought the view from Liberty was nice

She's 1,100 feet below us

According to management, all radio and TV signals transmitted

from this tower are fully automated and carefully regulated

Right, assuming they can't be manipulated

Up here's the only way to get a read on just how powerful they really are

These electrosmog meters

Should be able to give us The accurate reading

Of just how much microwave energy's Coming off the tower

All right, well, let's do this before somebody wets themselves, please

- I'm going up - All right

Hawkes