Can Don Flack Avoid 'The Fall?'

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CSI: New York will continue to tell stories of a more personal nature with "The Fall," an episode in which Don Flack is forced to choose between the law and loyalty to an old friend.

CSI Files sources today revealed that "The Fall" opens with a wine store owner lying dead in a pool of his own blood and red wine from the shattered bottles around him. Security footage reveals he was murdered by three masked gang bangers who forced him at gunpoint to empty his cash register, used his merchandise as target practice while he was nervously gathering his money, and then decided to shoot him anyway. When Mac, Stella and Flack arrive, they know they have a difficult case ahead of them - the only clues the security tape provides are that the shooters are Hispanic, and one of them is called Hector.

But then they get some experienced reinforcements: neighbourhood cop Gerry Moran, who discovered the crime scene and wrote the initial report. He's also the man who first took Det. Flack under his wings when he originally joined the police force, so Flack is delighted to work with him again. Even though Flack now outranks his former mentor, he still admires Moran, and that admiration only grows when Moran quickly leads them to the hangout of the local Latino gang.

In the hangout, they find a small group of young men, two of whom have builds and coats that look suspiciously like two of the attackers in the security footage. Mac asks them if they know a Hector, but they deny knowing him, and claim to be completely innocent of whatever they're suspected of. And here is where things start to get sour: Moran begins to man-handle the two suspects to try and get a confession out of them, while Mac and Flack calmly try to process the bangers for gun shot residue. But they find no evidence, and decide to leave - over the protests of Moran, who's sure that if he'd just pressured them a bit further, they would have incriminated themselves. Mac calmly reminds him that the only people they'd be incriminating would be themselves - for police brutality.

Flack tries to give Moran the benefit of the doubt, but then some evidence turns up from the original crime scene that strangely enough, Moran never mentioned in his report: a soda can that contains DNA material of one of the gang bangers. When Flack confronts Moran, the old cop says he never saw a soda can there, and so is sure that he didn't write anything down about it, but also refuses to show Flack his memo pad. Flack is forced to pull rank on his friend and gives him a direct order to hand over the pad. After examining it, Flack's fears are confirmed: Moran went to great lengths to obscure several words he wrote down in the original version of his crime scene report. Now Flack is left to wonder: did his friend really try to cover up evidence, and if so, why?

While Flack still hopes this investigation won't cause his former mentor to tumble from his pedestal, Danny and Aiden investigate a case that involves a real fall - a multi-story fall, in fact, from the balcony of a luxurious SoHo apartment where a Hollywood party was taking place. Danny and Aiden learn from the partygoers that the victim was powerful producer Melvin Green, and that almost everyone present had a motive for killing him. There's the starlet who Green had just threatened to fire from his new movie, the writer-director whose film deal with a competing studio Green was trying to wreck, and dozens of others whose careers Green could make or break. Pretty much everyone hated Melvin Green - but only the evidence will be able to tell Danny and Aiden which of Green's enemies acted on their hatred.

Please keep in mind 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 and the airing order of the episodes are liable to change before the episodes are shown.

"The Fall" will likely air sometime next month on CBS.

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