CSI: NY (TV Series)

The Ripple Effect (2012)

Sela Ward: Jo Danville

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Quotes 

• [Jo is trying to determine why Sid has been acting suspiciously] 

  Sid Hammerback : It's the Hammerback Sleeper.

  [flashback to Sid asking Mac to test the prototype] 

  Sid Hammerback : I give you... the Hammerback Sleeper.

  Mac Taylor : "You'll sleep like a corpse"?

  Sid Hammerback : It's an experimental pillow I've developed after years of working in the M.E.'s Office.

  [back to Autopsy] 

  Jo Danville : I've heard about it. What's the problem?

  Sid Hammerback : I just sold the patent this morning.

  Jo Danville : Well, congratulations. That's good, isn't it?

  Sid Hammerback : Oh, yeah. Um, it was purchased by a Japanese firm. Apparently, they're going to market it as an anti-snoring pillow.

  Jo Danville : Anti-snoring, huh? God, I could have used that with my ex-husband. I would've paid dearly for that.

  Sid Hammerback : [choking up]  Yep. That's pretty much what they did.

  Jo Danville : Sid, are you okay?

  Sid Hammerback : [still emotional]  Uh... actually, no. I'm, um... incredible. Jo, they bought my patent... for $27 million.

  Jo Danville : What?

  Sid Hammerback : I'm a very rich man, and-and I have no idea what to do about it.

• Jo Danville : Okay, I hope y'all are taking notes. First of all, I could not stop thinking about these two pieces of violet flavored gum, because I couldn't wrap my head around how they wound up in Jimmy Philbrook's mouth and on Greg Barbera's satchel. So I went back to the schedule from the courier service that Greg worked for, and it turns out that his first pickup of the day was across from a little diner in Chelsea, right around the corner from the Cragston Hotel.

  Mac Taylor : Who'd he pick up from?

  Jo Danville : Jimmy Philbrook. And guess what the diner has in a little dish next to the cash register?

  Lindsay Monroe Messer : Violet gum.

  Jo Danville : Bingo. But there was something else that kept bugging me, because Greg Barbera is a bike messenger, right? So why did he run from Scott Perfito? Where on earth was his bike? So I went back and I looked at the NYPD surveillance footage one more time. Look what I spotted about a hundred yards ahead of both of them.

  Danny Messer : Guy on a bike.

  Jo Danville : Yes, but not just any bike. It matches the exact description supplied to us from the courier service that Greg worked for. And look what's hanging from handlebars.

  Don Flack : A chainsaw. Could've been used to cut down the fallen tree outside of Scott Perfito's apartment.

  Mac Taylor : Where Greg probably locked up his bike.

  Lindsay Monroe Messer : Greg's bike was stolen, so he had to run away from Perfito on foot.

  Sheldon Hawkes : Which caused him to fall down the stairs.

  Jo Danville : And due to Greg's untimely death, he wasn't able to deliver this.

  Mac Taylor : Doug Kramer. That's the name of the Building and Safety official who was supposed to accept the bribe from Jimmy Philbrook.

  Jo Danville : For fifteen grand.

  Don Flack : But since he didn't get it, he ruled to condemn the Cragston Hotel at the B&S meeting.

  Jo Danville : Yes. Which we all know, drove our super, Toby Delafont, into a murderous rage.

  Danny Messer : He attacked Philbrook in the park, leaving him for dead.

  Lindsay Monroe Messer : Right, and then Philbrook wandered further into the woods, right into the path of Nicholas Bristow's arrow.

  Don Flack : That's the craziest thing I've ever heard, but it actually makes sense.

  Mac Taylor : One crime leads to another.

  Sheldon Hawkes : And another.

  Danny Messer : And another.

  Lindsay Monroe Messer : And another.

  Jo Danville : And that, ladies and gentlemen, is known as the ripple effect.

• Jo Danville : When it comes to crime, there are no coincidences.