Directed by Norberto Barba
Written by Anthony E. Zuiker, Ann Donahue, Carol Mendelsohn, Peter M. Lenkov & Timothy J Lea
"Zoo York" is the 3rd episode of Season 2, and the 26th episode overall. It originally aired October 12, 2005.
Synopsis:
Lindsay Monroe joins the team. The first case involves a man eaten by a tiger in the New York Zoo. The second is of a dead debutante on a carousel. Hawkes is curious about who has sent Stella flowers.Tropes for the episode:
- Adoption-Induced Pregnancy: The parents of two teenage girls had adopted one of them when they thought they couldn't conceive but got pregnant right afterwards. So soon in fact, that the girls are to be presented at the same debutante ball.
- Animal Assassin: Subverted in both cases. The tiger doesn't kill the man; he's already dead before he gets thrown into the pit. The girl is killed by synthetic spider venom, not the Brazilian Wandering Spiders belonging to one of the suspects.
- Cool Shades: Mac wears a pair while conversing with suspects in his case...he just isn't obnoxious about it, like somebody else we know...
- Crime Reconstruction: Mac teaches Lindsay how to determine what weapon was used on their victim by stabbing a dead pig with various knives and comparing the hilt marks.
- Don't Call Me "Sir": As a trick on the newbie, Danny tells Lindsay that Mac likes to be called "Sir," so she does so, nervously, a few times before he invokes this, word for word.
- Locked in a Freezer: A variation. The dead man had been stored in the freezer of his own business between being killed and being disposed of.
- Insult of Endearment: Danny begins calling Lindsay "Montana" to annoy her, but later on it becomes his pet name for her.
- Obfuscating Postmortem Wounds: A killer stabs a man to death with a meat hook, then tosses him into the tiger enclosure at the New York Zoo in hopes that he'll be consumed and that everyone will think he accidentally fell in.
- Plot Allergy: When Flack arrives at the zoo, we learn he is allergic to cats:Flack: [sneezes]Mac: Hey! Sneezing on my crime scene.Flack: Sorry, Mac. Allergies. Cats. Hate 'em.
- Pun-Based Title: For the City, of course.
- This Bear Was Framed: The man's body was fed to the tiger as a way of hiding his body in an effort to get away with murder.
- Welcome Episode: Lindsay has to extract human remains from tiger dung on her very first day on the job.
- Welcome to the Big City: Lindsay has so much trouble finding an apartment that suits her, she resorts to camping out on her uncle's couch.
