The darkness surrounded the city streets. It was just after 11 p.m. on a friday night and Detective Danny Messer and his friend Detective Don Flack were walking down the street after a long day. As they walked by a side street they noted a car sitting there.

" No parking zone," Flack said.

" Let's check it out."

As they got closer the both of them noticed someone was sitting in the car, apparently sleeping or so it seemed. Danny knocked on the window trying to wake the man up.

" Hey," Danny said," You're parked in a no parking zone. You need to move your car. NYPD."

There was no movement inside the car. Danny took out a flashlight that he had in his coat pocket.

" Flack, I think we have a problem."

Flack looked inside the car to see what Danny saw. The young man sitting there had blood on his neck.

" You see what I see?" Danny asked.

Flack just nodded his head.

" I'm calling Mac," Danny said," We just found ourselves a crime scene."

A few minutes later, the scene was blocked off with yellow tape. Detective Mac Taylor arrived at the scene a few minutes after that, with his crime kit.

" What have we got Don?"

" Victims name is Ethan Crowley, age 24, he lives in midtown Manhattan, according to the car registration that was found. I've got officers canvassing the area to see if anyone saw or heard anything. Danny is checking out the car and Hawkes just arrived, he's checking the victim."

Mac nodded his head and went over to the car, crime kit in his hands.

" Hawkes, Danny. What have you found so far?"

" Blood," Danny said," Looks like our victim took quite a beating. I've also found fibers and fingerprints off the dashboard. I'll check the backseat next."

Mac noticed that Sheldon was checking out Ethan Crowley's body.

" Sheldon."

Dr. Sheldon Hawes stopped long enough to give information on what he found so far.

" He hasn't been dead long, I'd say a few hours. He has a mark on his neck. Preliminary guess, cause of death is strangulation, or this slash to the throat, but we won't know that until we get him to Sid and from what I can see defensive wounds on his hands."

" Which means he possibly fought his attacker," Mac said," Keep up the good work. I'll check the back."

Mac opened up the door to the backseat and something immediately caught his eye, it was a rag covered in blood.

" Could be just our vic's," Danny said.

" We'll know more when we run traces on it. Finish up and get back to the lab as soon as you can."

" Duty calls again."

" I know you just got off Danny and that you just worked a double shift."

Danny got out of the car and began to check the backseat with Mac.

" Not a problem. Flack and I just happened to stumble on this car and now we have a crime scene."

The both of them checked the car and found some more fingerprints, even though they were partials. There was nothing outside or around the car to say that the car was stalled out or anything. Mac ended up finding some hair stands and carefully collected them, marking them as evidence.

" We need to get this car towed back to the crime lab," Mac said," We may need to look through it again later."

" I'm on it," Danny said.

" Get back to the lab Danny. Process this evidence. We need to find out what happened to this guy and how he ended up dead."

Flack ended up coming back up.

" Nobody so far saw anything. This is a quiet street, one of the less traveled sections of New York."

" Then we need to find out what the evidence we collected tells us," Mac said," Maybe it'll tell us who else was in this car and if they had anything against this man."