[while walking down the 187th Street steps] I knew I shouldn't have done the StairMaster this morning.
It's a long way down.
It's even longer coming up, trust me. 130 steps. Finally counted after the third trip.
“The Ripple Effect” · Season 8, Episode 13
In this episode: Mac Taylor (4), Don Flack (4), Danny Messer (2), Lindsay Monroe (2), Jo Danville (2), Sheldon Hawkes (1), Christine Whitney (1)
(answering the phone) Hello, Mac Taylor.
Christine, did I get you at a bad time?
No, perfect, actually. How do I murder a produce guy and get away with it?
Well, you could always hit him over the head with a coconut, but you'd be better off using that for a piña colada.
Yeah. Point very well taken. Besides, overpriced coconuts probably warrant something closer to a misdemeanour rather than a full-blown felony, right?
(To Scott Perdito after falling down a fire escape when accused of pushing Greg Barbera down some stairs) Karma's a bitch.
SPScott Perfito
I should be in a hospital resting.
They already gave you a clean bill of health and released you into our custody, Mr. Perfito.
SPScott Perfito
Well, my arm still hurts and my head hurts, too.
How about your pride?
Climbed a lot of trees back in Montana, didn't you?
Damn straight, city boy.
Was that before or after you started cow tipping?
(Fakes a laughter) Wow!
What?
(Pretending) Is that a snake?
(Jumping out of his skin) Where? What?
Ok, I hope y'all are taking notes. First of all I could not stop thinking about these two pieces of violet flavored gum, because I couldn't wrap my head about how the wound up in Jimmy Fillbrook's mouth, and on Greg Barbera's satchel. So I went back to the schedule from the courier service that Greg worked for, and it turns out that his first pick up of the day was across from a little dinner in Chelsea, right around the corner from the Cragston Hotel.
Who did he pick up from?
Jimmy Fillbrook. And guess what the dinner has in a little dish next to the cash register.
Violet gum.
Bingo. But there was something else that kept bugging me. Because Greg Barbera was a bike messenger, right? So why did he run from Scott Perfitto? Where on earth was his bike? So I went back and looked at the NYPD footage one more time. Look what I spotted at about 100 yards ahead of both of them.
Guy on a bike.
Yes, but not just any bike. It matches the exact description supplied to us by the courier service that Greg worked for. And look whats hanging from the handle bars.
A chain saw. Could've been used to cut down the fallen tree outside of Scott Perfitto's apartment, right?
Greg probably locked up his bike.
Greg's bike was stolen so he had to run from Perfitto on foot.
Which caused him to fall down the steps.
and due to Greg's untimely death he wasn't able to deliver this.
Doug Kramer. That's the name of the building and safety official who was supposed to accept the bribe from Jimmy Fillbrook.
For fifteen grand.
But since he didn't get it, he ruled to condemn the Cragston Hotel at the B&S meeting.
Yes, which we all know drove our supper, Toby Delafont, to our murderous rage.
He attacked Fillbrook in the park, leaving him for dead.
Right. And then Fillbrook wondered further into the woods, right into the path of Nicholas Bristow's arrow.
That's the craziest thing I've ever heard but it actually makes sense.
One crime leads to another.
And another.
And another.
And another.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is known as the Ripple Effect.
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