March 16, 2004
12.5 Possession
In this somewhat unusual episode (12.5), an old lady is found stabbed to death outside her apartment, and it looks like her landlady or superintendent is involved. Briscoe and Green investigate, McCoy and Southerlyn prosecute.The episode begins with some elevator inspectors discovering the woman's body. When Briscoe and Green enter her apartment, they learn that she was a packrat. Meanwhile, her superintendent gives off a strange, creepy vibe. They canvas the building but no one saw anything. They talk to a dressmaker downstairs, who also happens to own the building, and she says she didn't see anything. During the interview, however, her employees seem to know something, but won't say it in front of her. She refers them to the building's janitor, who says he didn't know the victim. They learn, however, that the victim had given him $5,000 to help with his family's expenses. They pick him up (he's in hiding, for some reason), but he doesn't turn out to be the perpetrator (knife is the wrong size). They then learn through various real estate records that the woman was only paying $350 for her rent-controlled apartment, even though it could rent for thousands on the open market. They also learn about a 20-year history of litigation between the tenant and her landlord. More and more, the landlord looks like a suspect. This becomes especially true when one of the woman's employees gives the detectives some pinking shears covered in the victim's blood.
Under pressure, the woman points the finger at the superintendent who -- get this -- turns out to be her estranged brother AND the victim's former lover! He looks like a suspect, too, although his motive isn't clear.
After alot of hoo-ha, the script takes a rather arbitrary twist and it turns out that a real estate who wanted to make a commission on the property, or buy it himself, killed the victim because he had given her $50,000 to move out, which she accepted and then refused to leave. Blah.
Posted by adm at March 16, 2004 11:20 PM
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