"CSI: NY" A Man a Mile (2004)

Director:

David Grossman

Writers:

Anthony E. Zuiker (creator) &
Ann Donahue (creator) ...

TV Series:

"CSI: NY" (2004)

Original Air Date:

3 November 2004 (Season 1, Episode 5)

Genre:

Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Plot:

A body turns up 700 feet under Manhattan in a water tunnel. Meanwhile, another case involving the death of a sixteen-year-old girl is being investigated. |

Plot Keywords:

New York | New York City | Crime Scene | Investigation | Detective

US TV Schedule:

Sat. Jan. 9

11:35 PM

CBS

A Man a Mile

#1.5

Cast

Gary Sinise	...	Detective Mac Taylor
Melina Kanakaredes	...	Detective Stella Bonasera
Carmine Giovinazzo	...	Detective Danny Messer
Vanessa Ferlito	...	Detective Aiden Burn
Hill Harper	...	Dr. Sheldon Hawkes
Eddie Cahill	...	Detective Don Flack
Mike Pniewski	...	Tom Zito
Joseph Sikora	...	Joe Riggs
Shashawnee Hall	...	The Foreman
Joshua Leonard	...	Matt Paulson
Terry Kinney	...	Tom Mitford
Sarah Foret	...	Tina Paulson
Mel Rodriguez	...	Al McGrath
Eric Ritter	...	Pete Riggs
Vince Donvito	...	Jeff Wesley

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Company:

CBS Paramount Network Television

Trivia:

"Man a Mile", is a reference to an old saying regarding the railroad. When the Transcontinental Railroad was being built it was the Chinese who were actually laying the tracks and supervising the dynamite in the tunnels, and the saying is that "There is one dead Chinese man for every mile of that railroad." In this episode, there was a dead man for every mile of tunnel that the construction workers were building under the city.

Quotes:

Detective Mac Taylor: [Danny and Mac are following the coroners to the elevator and see the DA waiting for them on it]
[clears his throat]
Detective Mac Taylor: Personal visit from the DA's office?
Detective Danny Messer: What happened? You got lost on your way to a press conference? Or are you just checking up on us?

One Dead 'Hog,' One Killer 'Hogg'

This is a story of "sandhogs," and it doesn't make them look good, at least this small bunch one loses one of them in an accident.....or was it murder? Sandhogs are the guys working underground digging water tunnels and maintaining them in NYC. There is a group for each section of pipe laid. In this part of town, a dead body is found after a planned explosion on Tunnel $3. He's part of the crew. How did this guy die, and was it before the explosion or because of it? Mac and the boys are under pressure to get answers quickly because each day they are shutting this tunnel down it's costing tons of money to the city.

The man died of asthma and he apparently was moved from where he keeled over before the blast. Things are looking suspicious. We find out that this is a tight-knit group of workers and each of the handful of guys is a legitimate suspect, thanks to a bunch of injuries and evidence of the dead man on all of these guys.

There is a second case on this show. In it, the girls - "Stella" and "Aiden"- investigate a body that washed ashore. It was that of a teenage girl, a poor girl who was attending a rich school. Stella thinks that if they discover where this girl entered the water, it might go a long way in solving their case. Frankly, there is not much time is spent on this case. In this episode. Most of it is on the "sandhogs."