"CSI: NY" - "Grand Master" Trivia Quiz

Answer: DJ Banner

Mac, Aiden, and Flack arrive at a crime scene outside a club holding a large DJ championship to find that the winner, DJ Banner, had been murdered in an alley before he was supposed to receive his prize. He had just defeated DJ Francaise by humiliating him with Francaise's' French girlfriend. Mac finds a hole in the victim's neck and a shred of something on the ground to take to the lab. Bloody footprints are also found proving that the killer went back into the club.

Answer: Cell phone

Stella and Danny are called to the apartment of famous designer, Deborah Gayle, who was found dead in her swimming pool. An old employee had been by to pick up a paycheck, but she found Deborah in the pool and tried to give her CPR. The employee felt no remorse for Deborah since she felt she was a horrible boss.

Answer: True

Mac followed the trail of footprints using LCV on the floor and found that the footprints stopped right under DJ Francaise's' DJ turntables. Francaise says he went outside to smoke a cigarette because he was angry with DJ Banner. Mac looks at the bottom of Francaise's shoes and finds blood.

At the lab, Hawkes finds the puncture-like stab wounds in the body as well as bruises around the ankles indicating that the victim was held up or down by the ankles. When Mac looks at the victim's shirt, he notices an isolated blood drop.

Answer: Tetrododoxin

Mac and Aiden check the fire escape at the crime scene and find blood (explaining the blood drop on the shirt) and a cell phone.
Meanwhile, Stella spends some time with Hawkes and the body and finds a trace of something in its mouth. When Deborah is tested, Stella and Danny find traces of Tetrodotoxin in her body. In other words, Gayle was killed by blowfish poisoning. This paralyzed Deborah while she was in her pool and she drowned.

Answer: Vinyl scratching

Aiden and Mac work on the cell phone and find the victim's voicemail on it. Using a spectrographic sonogram, they remove the sounds of cell phone static from the message and hear the sound of vinyl scratching. Meanwhile, Danny uses a toaster oven and dries out Deborah Gayle's phone and Stella comes back with the result of the test on the substance in the victim's mouth.

It was nail polish, but there was also blowfish poison on it.

Answer: Fuqua Sushi

Danny dries out the cell phone and reads Gayle's appointments to find that she had eaten at Fuqua Sushi (which explains the blowfish). They talk to the owner and find that Deborah had paid $500 for one piece of blowfish. The owner had also tried a piece to prove that there was no poison in it before letting her enjoy it. Danny and Stella take it to the lab. Meanwhile, Aiden brings a friend to the lab to analyze the voicemail message using Turntablist Transcription Methodology (TTM) and he distinguishes the different sounds as if they gave a message. Mac feels that the message was a threat more than a message.

They trace the call to a studio when Banner had a contract.

Answer: Ribs

When Stella and Danny examine their blowfish, they find no traces of tetrododoxin at all, but they also find stitchmarks around the mouths of the fish. They find that the fish was not a wild blowfish, but one in captivity that had no poisons. They decide to go to Gayle's apartment where they check her kitchen. They also find her computer and find that someone used it two hours after she had died.
Mac and Hawkes look at Banner's eleventh rib and find an indentation on it. Mac manages to match this to a construction file.

Answer: Her assistant

Mac and Aiden check the toolboxes at the club and find a construction file with traces of blood. They take the owner to the lab where Flack interrogates him. Aiden takes a picture of the man's hands and find bruises on his hands, but they don't match the construction file. Mac and Aiden match up some paper slips from the crime scene with pieces of the contract from the studio as well.
Danny finds an e-mail sent from Gayle's computer to her assistant's computer two hours after she died and her assistant admits to having sent them to herself since she hated her boss.

Answer: None of these

Danny and Stella find no trace of poison in anything in Deborah Gayle's apartment, so they think about her dinner. They think about it and decide that there was another woman at the dinner with Deborah. They go to the restaurant and talk to the girl that the sushi was served on and they check her toes.

She takes off her socks and find a discolouration on her feet from blowfish poison mixed with nail polish. The girl was also one of Gayle's assistants but she was fired for not sleeping with her.

When she got the job at Fuqua Sushi, she kept coming to her, and on the night she died, the girl wore the blowfish nail polish and it chipped off into Gayle's mouth. This later caused her death.

Answer: Jayden Prince

Mac finds a piece of paper in an alley window and is let inside to find that it is Jayden Prince's (the emcee's) office. In the toilet, Mac and Aiden find a shirt that says 'human beat box', which Jayden Prince wore at the contest. Prince admitted to killing DJ Banner after he signed with another studio (but only after he was hung over a balcony by his ankles).