This week’s episode of CSI: NY opens with a bunch of executives on a large boat having a party. The festivities are interrupted when an ex-employee they recently fired pulls out a gun and shoots one of the executives point blank in the head. He is about to shoot another man when a dead body falls, seemingly out of the sky, across his arm knocking the gun from his hands.

It appears to be a suicide that jumped from an overhead bridge but the autopsy proves it is a murder instead and that the man had been shot in the heart before being tossed down onto the boat. When the CSI: NY team goes fishing for the murder weapon at the bottom of the river they come across a compass instead. As they are on the recovery boat inspecting the compass glued to constantly point East, Stella looks up and discovers someone standing in the exact spot where the victim was thrown from the bridge, looking down at them.

Despite getting what looks to be dozens of law enforcement officers to immediately swarm the bridge, the mysterious person is able to elude them. A small oddity in the the script occurs when all of these trained officers walk right past a hand-written note taped to the railing of the bridge, and only Mac is able to see it flapping in the wind.

Regardless, it’s a note that further proves the killing was the work of the Compass Killer. We later discover what I suspected all along: the beautiful woman we’ve seen with him in previous episodes was actually a figment of the insane man’s mind.

This episode provided some background on the Compass Killer and some of the reasons why he is killing certain people. After having been shot in the face by the same man who killed his wife, it pushed this ordinary man over the edge mentally and eventually he became delusional and started seeing and speaking with his dead wife. Sometime during the same time span he came to the conclusion that if he killed the people connected to his wife’s murder, it would make things better.

This episode builds up for what should be an even better conclusion of the Compass Killer series.