Mac Chases After Stolen Liver In 'Live Or Let Die'

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In the upcoming CSI: New York episode, entitled "Live Or Let Die," a stolen liver has the team racing against the clock in order to solve a murder and possibly save a life.

According to CSI Files sources, "Live Or Let Die" takes us into a busy hospital, where an orderly is hurriedly wheeling a patient through the halls. There is something particular about the orderly and the patient, however, evident when they find themselves alone in the elevator and strip their hospital attires to reveal civilian clothes, decorated fancifully with guns and revolvers. The two men get to the roof of the hospital, where a medi-vac helicopter is landing to deliver a newly donated organ. A young organ courier steps out only to come face to face with the two assailants, who shoot him dead and steal the igloo cooler he'd been carrying, along with the fresh liver that was inside.

Mac, Danny, Hawkes, and Detective Flack are on the case. Because of this unusual crime, the CSIs have reason to believe the liver was stolen to be sold in the Chinese market, possibly an inside job. An ID on the courier's scrubs identifies him as Ryan Elliott. Though Elliott exclusively worked at a donor's hospital, Mac and the team focus their investigation on the hospital from which the liver was stolen.

Mac talks to Dr. Beaumont, the transplant surgeon who was in charge of the operation that was to take place before the liver was stolen. Mac wants to know why Beaumont didn't pick up the liver himself, but Beaumont explains he wanted to stay with the patient, who'd already gone through an operation and was in relatively unstable condition. Beaumont also claims he got a phone call a little before the surgery telling him there'd been a mistake, and the patient wasn't compatible with the liver after all. Mac is suspicious, shouldn't the patient/organ compatibility test be performed before the surgery is scheduled? Beaumont just assumed the organ transplant committee had passed the liver along to the next person on the transplant list, he never imagined the liver had been stolen. Mac thinks Beaumont's cluelessness regarding the crime might be a strong clue...

... but the case takes the investigators in a new direction when they discover Ryan Elliott isn't really Ryan Elliott, but one Sean Hovac. The detectives hunt down the real Ryan, who claims he and Sean merely swapped places just the night before to deliver the liver. Flack wonders why Ryan would do such a thing, and Ryan explains a friend of his had Knicks tickets and he couldn't let that opportunity go. Flack thinks Ryan and Sean's little swap is a little suspicious and accuses Ryan of being in on the liver heist, but Ryan has a better explanation: Sean was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Is there something more to Ryan's story? While the CSIs try to figure that out they race against the clock to find the stolen liver before it becomes unviable.

Elsewhere, Stella and Lindsay are called to investigate the death of Lillian Stanwick, a 22-year-old whose body shows signs of sexual assault. In her purse, the CSIs find a business card belonging to one Chas Cooper. Stella and Lindsay talk to Chas, but Chas claims he never heard of or met Lillian. Thinking the man has something to hide, Stella and Lindsay decide to play good cop/bad cop with Chas. Lindsay shows him his business card and explains they found his fingerprint on it, but Chas maintains Lillian could've gotten his card from someone else. Stella, aka the bad cop, has done her homework and brings up the fact that Lillian called Chas multiple times the previous week. Chas wavers under the intensity of Stella's demeanor and demands a lawyer. Chas leaves, but the CSIs aren't through with him yet.

Things get complicated on the case when the girls discover Lillian's little secret. Apparently, Lillian was a fan of placing anonymous phone calls to random men to claim their cats were in her garden. When the men said they didn't own a cat, Lillian would shift the conversation and end up talking to them about a myriad of topics. It never took long for the phone calls to become sexual, and as the girls continue the investigation they find an impressive number of men who'd fallen for Lillian's charms through these phone conversations. So, when the morgue discovers multiple donors on Lillian's body during her autopsy, it's time for Stella and Lindsay to round up all of Lillian's phone pals for a little chat.

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 and the airing order of the episodes are liable to change before the episodes are shown.

"Live Or Let Die" will air on March 29th on CBS.

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