On this week’s episode of CSI: NY the team is drawn into a type of house of horrors, except this is a penthouse in the heart of the city.  The story opens with a 911 call from a penthouse that has been sealed off since the 1920s, but because of recent laws prohibiting dead people from owning property, it recently was opened up and put up for sale.

The CSI:NY team is called in and discovers that the penthouse once belonged to a wealthy inventor that paid to have it sealed and shut off from the world after his death. Well, once this place was put on the blocks for sale, a crafty would be investor decides to break in and checkout the goods in order to get a jump on the competition.

The only problem is that he never makes it out alive.

When the CSI: NY team comes to investigate and discover the mummified body of an eighty year old murder victim, but no clue as to where the burglar who made the 911 call is. They deduct that the burglar never left the penthouse and begin a detail search throughout the elaborate penthouse.

Throughout this death trap they find clues and puzzles to solve that allow them to access more hidden areas.  It takes them a long time to figure out where the burglar was trapped and after they find his torched body and think their job is done they discover a new set of finger prints and realize that there is another person trapped inside. Only this time they believe the person may still be alive and they are on a race for time to find this woman before she is drowned to death by some hidden body of water that they can’t locate.

This was perhaps the wildest CSI: NY I’ve ever seen… Not saying it was bad, it was actually a great episode but it was certainly different. The creative ways in which this inventor used his own home to kill people was way out there and they walked around on pin cushions not knowing when or where the next “booby” trap was going to spring out on them… Good stuff!