"CSI: NY" 4.4: "Time's Up" Trivia Quiz

Answer: the future

A bloody man rushes down the street, tripping over many of the pedestrians with gear on his body and head. He reports to the police that he will kill a man named Kevin Murray at 9 am the next day. While he is talking to the police, he dies. When Flack asks Mac what the victim said, Mac informs him that the man said he was from the future.

Answer: No

Flack finds Kevin Murray, a physics student at Chelsea University, alive and well in his apartment. When Flack questions him, he denies knowing anything about bloody man who reported the crime. Mac tells Kevin he is free to go. Kevin gets super nervous and starts asking questions about how he will die the next day. Mac ignores his questions and tells him it is an ongoing investigation and he doesn't know the details.

Answer: a needle

Dr. Sid and Sheldon dissect the man's brain after noticing an unusual object on tests. Sheldon assists Dr. Sid in cutting the brain out and pulling out a sewing needle. Dr. Sid estimates the needle has been there since the man was an infant. It would have caused the man seizures, that gradually increased as he got older.

Answer: a photo of the doctor receiving an award

Dr. Sid gives Sheldon a microchip that had been implanted in the doctor's hand. The microchip was likely self installed, based on the scarring and cuts. Sheldon traces the chip to a GPS location. He finds the laboratory and also an elaborate time machine.

While Flack and Mac question the victim's sanity, Sheldon recognizes the man through pictures in the laboratory. He explains to them that if anyone could travel through time, this man was a famous physicist who had won many notable awards for his work.

Later Sheldon questions the dean at the university where Browning worked, he was told Dr. Browning had been losing his sanity. The university had distanced themselves from Dr. Browning and his research, claiming that he lacked mental stability due to his seizures.

Answer: a clock connected to Browning's laboratory

When Mac realizes where the victim fell from, he notices it is a giant clock window in the same building where they located Browning's laboratory. Mac notices Kevin Murray fell out of the clock at exactly 9 a.m., like Browning had predicted the day he died.

The cause of death is ruled as complications from Kevin using the time machine. The machine had exploded and tossed Kevin out the window.

Answer: a game theory table

Lindsay tells Mac she was the 3rd grade hopscotch champion and she has never seen a hopscotch game like the one near the crime scene. She researches and discovers that the chalk writings are a game theory table. Mac explains that game theory tables are used for game bookings, lottery tickets, or this case was a prediction effort to see who would be next to die.

Browning's blood was on the chalk and he used it to write a formula to predict the odds of Kevin's survival if the student used the time machine after he died. Lindsay asks Mac why Kevin would use the time machine, knowing his teacher was the last person to use it and died. Mac tells her Kevin may have been pressured to make the choice, turning his accidental death into a murder investigation.

Answer: wet blood from Dr. Browning

Sheldon tells Mac that fingerprints on the scientist journal were not Kevin's. He also tells Mac that the wet blood found on the journal is a match to Dr. Browning. This puts the doctor in the room the same day that Kevin Murray died. Mac reminds Sheldon, Browning was dead and in the coroner's drawer the day Kevin got killed. Lindsay offers an explanation that Browning did say he was from the future. Mac tells them both to separate the science from the science fiction.

Mac does tests with blood samples and discovers that Browning's blood had been re-hydrated, likely from the time machine explosion that killed Kevin Murray. The hydraulic explosion of the machine would have hydrated the dried blood from Browning's accident the day before.

Answer: True

After several failed attempts, Lindsay is unable to find a match of the prints in the crime lab's database. Mac tries a different angle, explaining to Lindsay that all the prints were thumb print partials from grabbing the items by the edge. He uses the software to combine the partial thumb prints from a penny, the journal, and a piece of glass to make one thumbprint.

When he runs the search through the computer database, it is a match to a suspect.

Answer: a piece of glass

Dr. Browning had been stabbed with a piece of glass in the throat. While he was running away, he pulled the glass out, causing him to lost more blood and eventually bleed out from his injuries. Mac follows the blood trail from the sidewalk and the area near the chalk writings had a pool of blood that had greater blood patterns after it, leading to the police station where Browning eventually died.

Answer: greed and gambling debts

Leo is a bookie and has several gambling debts. He answered Dr. Browning's ad and worked with him and his college assistant. He had doubted the professor's machine because it didn't look like Dr. Browning traveled anywhere. The professor had told him that he was traveling faster than the speed of light and Leo decided to test him by asking which teams and games would win the next day. All of Browning's predictions came true and Leo got greedy.

When Browning refused to help him anymore, Leo attacked the professor. He broke the glass in the machine and used a piece to stab the doctor in the throat. Dr. Browning ran to the police station and died. Leo forced Dr. Browning's assistant, Murray, to fix the machine and travel through the time the next day to predict the winnings. The machine exploded killing the college student. Mac charges Leo with the murder of both victims.