Snow Day (CSI: NY episode)
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| Episode no. | Season 3 Episode 24 |
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| Written by | Peter M. Lenkov Pam Veasey |
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| Directed by | Duane Clark | ||||||
| Guest stars | A. J. Buckley (Adam Ross) Claire Forlani (Peyton Driscoll) |
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| Original airdate | May 16, 2007 | ||||||
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Snow Day is the final episode of the third season of American crime drama CSI: NY which is set in New York City. It originally aired as Episode 71 of season 3 on May 16, 2007.
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[edit] Summary
Flack accompanies a SWAT team to a warehouse, where they take down a group of Irish mobsters and seize their stash of cocaine. The bust is one of the largest in NYPD history, and the cocaine is sent to the lab. Adam is sent to the crime scene to process it.
Peyton has a surprise for Mac; two tickets to London. Peyton plans to attend a conference in London and, since Mac has not taken a vacation day in years, would like for Mac to accompany her. Mac is uneasy, but does not refuse Peyton's offer outright.
A gas leak is reported in the building, and the gas company orders an evacuation. Mac is about to comply when he sees a nearby Bunsen burner that is burning normally. Shortly after, Stella joins him and both, suspecting that the gas leak is fake, decide to stay behind while everyone else is direct from the building. The two CSIs test the gas and find it to be mercaptoethanol, an otherwise harmless mercaptan compound that shares the smell of those added to natural gas to make leaks apparent. They conclude that the men who appear to be gas company employees are actually Irish mobsters from the same clan as the ones taken down in the bust. They faked a gas leak, and are planning to reclaim the cocaine from the crime lab vault.
Meanwhile, at Danny's apartment, Danny awakens atop his pool table, with Lindsay in his arms. Lindsay awakens shortly after. Danny tells her to go back to sleep, and that he will wake her in time for her work shift. When Lindsay wakes up, however, she finds that Danny had taken it upon himself to trade shifts with Lindsay and had let her sleep through the morning (originally, Lindsay was to assist Adam at the crime scene, and Danny was to report to the lab later in the day). Lindsay recalls the events of the previous night, when she and Danny started the evening playing pool and ended it having sex on the pool table.
Danny goes to the crime scene, and is taken hostage. He finds that Adam had been captured earlier and was tortured to give up his ID badge and passwords to the secure areas of the lab. Danny tries to inform the lab, but is caught. The mobsters smash Danny's right hand, breaking it. Back at the crime lab, Hawkes, unaware of the fake gas leak, is told by one of the mobsters (in gas company disguise) to leave the building. A suspicious Hawkes identifies the tattoo on the man's arm and matches it to one found on a body in the morgue; a mobster shot dead in the warehouse bust. He also discovers that Mac and Stella are still in the building. Gunn, the mobster leading the raid on the lab, accidentally shoots and kills one of his own men while hunting for Mac. Gunn heads downstairs to supervise the vault break-in, and Stella and Mac manage to capture the mobster Gunn leaves behind to hunt for them. Mac imprisons him behind a web of laser sensors that are rigged to detonate explosives if the laser beams are broken.
Mac drags the body into a nearby elevator and sends it down to the morgue level. Hawkes receives the body and drags it into the morgue. However, the body has left a blood trail, which attracts the attention of one of the mobsters. He enters the morgue, only to be surprised by Hawkes, who had been posing as a dead body. Armed with a bonesaw, Hawkes relieves the gunman of his weapon and Adam's ID badge and shuts him inside a cadaver drawer.
Back at the warehouse, Danny devises a plan to take down their captors. He taunts the mobsters as he runs from the trailer, which allows Adam to run to his kit and retrieve a bottle containing a caustic solution. Adam runs back to the trailer with the bottle hidden under his clothes before the mobsters drag a battered Danny back to the trailer. Danny uses the chemical to disable one of the mobsters while the remaining mobsters force the police officers who were taken hostage with Adam to disrobe, dressing the police officers to look like the hostage takers so that they would be taken down by the SWAT team waiting outside, while the mobsters would get away scot-free. When the SWAT team swarm the warehouse, Adam bravely exposes the mobsters' ruse, saving the policemen's lives and ensuring the mobsters' capture. Lindsay, who had since joined Flack and the SWAT team outside the warehouse, rushes in to help take Danny to safety.
Hawkes, who has single-handedly trapped most of the mobsters, finds Mac and Stella, informing them that Adam and Danny being taken hostage was only a diversion to deflect attention from the heist at the lab. When Mac locates Gunn and shadows him, Peyton places a call to Mac, and the ringtone from Mac's cell phone betrays his location. Mac and Gunn begin to brawl, and when Gunn reaches into the laser web to retrieve his gun, he sets off the explosives. Mac's survival is in doubt until he, Hawkes, and Stella emerge from the smoking building, very much alive. Peyton, relieved, runs to greet Mac, who then informs his team that he is going to London.
[edit] Critical analysis
The name of the episode comes from a direct reference to a snow day, as well as a pun on the word "snow." "Snow" is a slang term for cocaine, and Danny leaves a message for Lindsay which reads:
Montana, don't freak out, although I'm sure you already have. We're trading shifts. I got you covered. Enjoy your snow day. :D.
[edit] Continuity
Candace Broadbent (Josie DiVincenzo) was the FBI agent murdered in the episode "Sweet Sixteen" from earlier in the season, and the bullet in her murder matches the one found in the body of the man that Gunn killed in the lab. Broadbent had been investigating former IRA members in New York, which suggests to Mac that the mobsters might have killed her to stop her from investigating the activities of Gunn's father, who was named as one of the former IRA members.
The interoffice relationships take significant steps forward. Mac agrees to go to London with Peyton, and Danny and Lindsay are shown in flashback spending the night together.
[edit] Reception
According to TV.com, this episode is rated 9.7, which is the highest rated episode in CSI: NY.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Snow Day at the Internet Movie Database
- "Snow Day" at TV.com
- "Snow Day" at CSI Files
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