Is the truth worth killing for?

According to CSI Files sources, the fourth episode of CSI: New York's fifth season will be called "Sex, Lies and Silicone". The episode starts at night on a deserted street downtown. Suddenly, a group of people comes around the corner. They are a riot of color and light, an impromptu carnival walking down the street. One woman twirls hula hoops with lights inside. A man rides a unicycle while another man walks on stilts above the crowd.

Elaine Steele staggers toward the group, begging for help. She can barely remain upright. Desperate, she lunges for the stilt walker and knocks him to the ground. When he sees her, he is horrified--her face is nothing but a bloody pulp.

Elaine dies, and when Danny and Flack go to her apartment, they find a surprise waiting for them. Anthony Marino is inside, and they catch him before he can make a run for it. When they take him to the precinct for questioning, they find out he's a former NYPD cop. Now he's working as a private investigator, but he won't say who hired him or why he was in Elaine's apartment--whoever is paying him is giving him enough to keep quiet.

The team suspects Marino was after Elaine's flash drive. They found the cover at the crime scene, but the drive itself is missing. Elaine was mixed up with a lot of influential people--and she had dirt that could cause them a lot of trouble.

Danny views some footage of the street party from around the time Elaine was killed. He sees a blonde woman standing in a window. Wondering if they have a potential witness, Danny and Flack go to the apartment she was standing in and question the resident, Trevor Jones. Trevor doesn't remember the woman's name and says he picked her up at a bar the night before.

A hair found on Elaine's body has a DNA match in CODIS. It belongs to Jan Fowler, a 17-year-old girl who has been missing for two years. A strange substance caught in the links of Elaine's bracelet turns out to be Japanese silicone--the kind used to make life-sized dolls. Flack, Stella and Lindsay go to a company that makes the dolls, trying to find out who might own the doll and how he or she fits into their investigation.

Meanwhile, Sheldon meets up with an old college buddy, Greg Cushman. They chit-chat for a bit, and Greg suggests that they meet at a bar to hang out. While they're knocking back a few drinks, Greg brings up Elaine Steele. He didn't run into Sheldon by mistake. Elaine helped Greg's father out, and now Greg is hoping Sheldon will do him a favor. If the information about Greg's dad that is on Elaine's flash drive gets out, he'll be ruined. Greg reveals that his father paid Sheldon's tuition for his final year of medical school--Sheldon thought it was a scholarship. Now, Greg says, it's time for Sheldon to return the favor. All he'd have to do is delete some files...

Please note that the above plot details have not been confirmed by CBS, Alliance Atlantis or Bruckheimer Films, and until such time you should treat this information as you would any other rumour. The above information comes from early script drafts and the details of the episodes are liable to change before the episodes are shown.

"Sex, Lies and Silicone" is expected to air October 15 on CBS.

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