8x11- Who's There?

The King's Ale House / Introducing Aubrey

It was a particularly brutally cold January night. Mac Taylor and his girlfriend Aubrey Hunter were standing outside one of Mac and his friend's favorite bars, The King's Ale House. Mac had met the young women at a deli that he had been going to in New York for ten years.

Aubrey had been in the Air Force Reserves as a doctor. She had just gotten back form a tour in Afghanistan the year before she and Mac met. After she gotten out of the Reserves Aubrey had taken up a job at an local hospital as an ER doctor.

Mac had told Aubrey about Ella and what...

Background:
It can be inferred that Danny grew up on Staten Island, in a family under surveillance (as hinted at in the episode "Tanglewood"). As a result, he formed his own set of hybrid ethics, caught between the world of lawbreakers and law enforcers. Though very little is known about the Messer family, Danny openly admits that he has had a very rocky relationship with his older brother, Louie, since a fateful night in 1991. After promising to take Danny to Atlantic City with some of his friends, they stopped off at Giants stadium where Louie and two others began to severely beat a drug dealer,...

Dr. Sheldon Hawkes is a fictional character in the hit CBS crime drama CSI: NY, played by Hill Harper.

During season 1, Hawkes is a Medical Examiner with the NYC Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME). He was a child prodigy who graduated from college at eighteen, and by 24 he was a fully board-licensed surgeon. After a tumultuous surgical career in which he was often at odds with his boss and after losing two patients on the operating table (shown in flashback in episode 309, "And Here's To You, Mrs. Azrael"), he abandoned surgery in favor of the medical examiner's office. He evidently...