Walkthrough: CSI: NY Episode 2: Just Desserts

notes:

You can skip two mini-games in each scene. There are two lights next to a Skip button on each mini-game that shows the status of skipped games. Skipping games will get you lower ratings at the end.

Click on underlined text in conversations to pursue topics. Completed topics will change colour from pink to white.

Drag items from the inventory to a person to ask questions about them.

Your Credibility depends on which questions and objects (and sometimes which part of a particular object) you choose to ask the suspect about. Your credibility decreases if you ask irrelevant questions.

You can only save in one slot you when exit the game.

This game is lucid and reasonable enough to finish without any hints if you’re an experienced adventure / puzzle / HOG gamer.


walkthrough:

You play as Detective Stella Bonasera. The game starts with a briefing by Detective Don Flack at the Tutto De Amici restaurant.


Scene 1: Tutto De Amici Kitchen

Relevant Items: Forks, Dinner Plate, Sausages, Dirty Dish, Knives, Frying Pan, Wallet, Door Handle

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Click here for the screenshot of the wallet in the dead man's pocket.

Mini-game: Dinner Plate Fingerprint

Solution: Move the brush across the plate till the fingerprint shows up. Then click the white tape at the bottom left of the screen and click the print to capture it. Be very quick!

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Mini-game: Frying Pan Fingerprint

Solution: The same way as the dinner plate.

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Mini-game: Door Handle Fingerprints

Solution: There are TWO separate prints to be lifted.

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Talk to Olivia Moretti:

1. 'see that body': She found the body last night.
2. 'Marcell': Amici, the owner. Olivia is the General Manager.
3. 'last night': She went for a film premiere and returned at 3 a.m.

Show the wallet to Olivia, click the license: The dead man is Andrew Lourdes, a food critic.

Exit the conversation.


Scene 2: Tutto De Amici Dining Room

Relevant Items: Jewelry Box, Broken Dinner Plate, Spilled Wine Glass, 8 Wine Bottles

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Mini-game: Open The Jewelry Box

Solution: The design squares have to be rotated to complete the image on the cover of the box. Click a square to rotate it. The squares only rotate clockwise. Once a row / column is aligned, it turns yellow. Hint: Start from the top left corner and work either to the right or downwards.

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Hmm, what's this inside? A gift for Olivia from Andrew? Or Amici?

Mini-game: Broken Dinner Plate Fingerprint

Solution: Move the brush across the plate till the fingerprint shows up. Then click the white tape at the bottom left of the screen and click the print to capture it. Be very quick!

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Mini-game: Wine Glass Fingerprint

Solution: The same way as the dinner plate.

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Talk to Marcel Amici:

1. 'right now': His restaurant is opening in 2 days.
2. 'last night': He was catering for the Mayor. He picked up the tuna at 9 and reached by 10:15.
3. 'intolerable': He says no one should have been in the restaurant.
4. 'mess': He says the food being cooked is not Italian.

Show the jewelry box to Marcel, click the note: He agrees it's Olivia and evades who the 'A' is.

Show the wallet to Marcel, click the license: He recognises Lourdes.

Show the wine glass to Marcel: He says the wine is not Italian.

Exit the conversation.

Talk to Olivia Moretti:

1. 'this': Olivia let herself in with the key, then found the body.
2. 'Andrew Lourdes': She didn't know he was at Tutto that night.

Show the jewelry box to Olivia, click the note: The 'A' is Andrew.

Olivia admits to a year-long affair with married Andrew.

Exit the conversation.


Scene 3: The Morgue

Lourdes died between 9 p.m. and 12 a.m.

Examine the body:

Click on the heart or the kidney on the monitor to start.

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Mini-game: The Heart Of The Matter

Solution: Click and spot 8 differences between the images of Lourdes' heart (right) and a normal heart (left).

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Lourdes had no signs of heart disease. But a lot of kidney damage.

Mini-game: Kidney Damage

Solution: Click and spot 8 differences between the images of Lourdes' kidney (right) and a normal kidney (left).

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Lourdes suffered from acute kidney failure - either due to natural causes or poisoing.


Scene 4: Crime Lab

Click the top right monitor: Wants & Warrants

Amici jumped two red lights the previous night and got ticketed.

Click the lower right monitor: Fingerprints

Mini-game: Door Handle Fingerprint

Solution: Drag the correct fingerprint fragments from the right to the sample on the left to reconstruct the print.

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It's Amici's print.

Click the lower right monitor: Fingerprints (again)

Mini-game: Frying Pan Fingerprint

Solution: As with the other prints.

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It's Olivia's print.

Click the lower right monitor: Fingerprints (again)

Mini-game: Wine Glass Fingerprint

Solution: As with the other prints.

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It's Lourdes' print.

Click the lower left monitor: Chemical Analysis

Mini-game: Kidney Stone Analysis

Solution: Click the tweezer to grab and drag the molecules swirling in the centre to their boxes on the sides till one molecule is left.

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It's calcium oxalate. Lourdes died of poisoning.


Scene 5: Eloise Lourdes' Apartment

Talk to Eloise Stanwick-Lourdes:

1. 'private study': She doesn't know what's in the study.
2. 'last night': Andrew and she went to The Kindling. Then she came home and he went elsewhere.
3. 'unfortunate': Andrew and Sebastian, chef of Kindling, got into a fight.

Show the jewelry box to Eloise, click the note: She is aware of Andrew's affair with Olivia and doesn't care.

Examine Andrew's study.

Relevant Items: Security Tape, 'Gold Fork' Award, Tuttu De Amici's Financial Records, Safe, Receipts

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Mini-game: A Safe Opening

Solution: The up and down arrows have to be clicked to reorder the alphabets to find the combination. The top and bottom alphabets of each column move simultaneously. Hint: What was Lourdes obsessed about?

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Click the receipts / papers on the lower shelf of the safe: proof that Lourdes was investing in Amici's restaurant, personally and through Conradin Corporation.

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Talk to Eloise Stanwick-Lourdes:

1. 'here': Eloise wants the detectives to leave if they are done.
2. 'security cameras': She gives her ID and password for the tape.
3. 'left things': Her last interaction with Andrew was at The Kindling.

Show the receipts to Eloise, click the note: She says it's possible that Amici was bribing Lourdes.

Exit the conversation.


Scene 6: The Kindling's Dining Area

Relevant Items: Bloody Napkin, Scuff Marks, 4 Glasses Of Chilean Wine, Damaged Art, Torn Reservation List, Broken Dish, Broken Chair

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Mini-game: Restore The Reservation List

Solution: Solve the jigsaw to restore the torn list. Click and drag the pieces around. The pieces snap into place when correctly aligned. Hint: Start with the corner pieces, then the edge pieces, then the central parts. Use the text as a guide.

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Talk to Sebastian Oswald:

1. 'Andrew': Sebastian thinks the 'Gold Fork' is over-rated.
2. 'trends in cuisine': He's introducing 'molecular gastronomy' to the city.
3. 'old fashioned': Lourdes and he had an argument about Lourdes' review of The Kindling.
4. 'where he was found dead': Marcell and Olivia are linked to the mob.

Show the bank records to Sebastian, click on Conradin Corporation: He is angry at the corruption.

Show the receipts to Sebastian: He thinks Marcell should be arrested.

Show the bloody napkin to Sebastian: He gives it and a DNA sample.

Show the reservation list to Sebastian: He gives it to the detectives.

Exit the conversation.


Scene 7: Interrogation of Marcell Amici

Talk to Marcell Amici:

1. 'restaurant': He claims he's the sole owner.
2. 'wasn't just at the mayor's party': He was taking a supply of illegal meats and cheeses from a ship.
3. 'no reason': He says Lourdes' review would have been in his favour.

Show the bank records to Amici, click on Conradin Corporation: He admits to being funded by Ezio Moretti, who wanted to launder drug money through the restaurant.

Show the receipts to Amici: He says Lourdes maintained the accounts.

Show the 'Gold Fork' to Amici: He admits to badly wanting the award.

Show the damaged art to Amici: He knows about the fight between Lourdes and Sebastian.

Exit the conversation.


Scene 8: Tutto De Amici Office

Relevant Items: Computer Screen, Ledgers, Eloise's Photo, Printer Paper

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Mini-game: Computer Code

Solution: Clicking the computer screen brings up the password protection screen of the computer. The word keys have to be clicked in the right order to unlock to computer. Note that the keys have parts of words noted on them.

Hint 1: There are three separate words in the password.

Hint 2: It's a restaurant so go by the order of your 'orders'.

Hint 3: Starting with an appetizer...

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Print the document: the printer is not working. Click the X at the top right of the screen to exit the computer.

Click the printer paper in the inventory.

Click the printer (sparkling) to the left of the left-side monitor.

The printer is loaded. Click the computer screen again. You have to enter the password again.

Print document by clicking 'Yes' on the screen.

Click the paper that comes out of the printer: email from Lourdes to Ezio Moretti.


Scene 9: Hot Dog Stand

Relevant Items: None.

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Talk to Ezio Moretti:

1. 'Conradin Corporation': Ezio admits it's his company.
2. 'invested in Andrew's restaurant': He has no reason to kill Lourdes.
3. 'Andrew's death': He was out with Olivia.

Show the email / victim's final review to Ezio: Lourdes wrote a good review for Tutto.

Show the bank records to Ezio, click on the Conradin transactions: He admits them.

Show the receipts to Ezio: He says his investments in Tutto are in the file 'Bella Scusa'.

Exit the conversation.


Scene 10: Crime Lab

Click the top right monitor: Eloise's Surveillance Tape

Eloise was home as she had indicated.

Click the top right monitor again: Call Records

A call was made to Lourdes' cellphone from a payphone near Kindling.

Click the ringing telephone at the bottom left of the screen.

Sebastian and Lourdes were arguing about 'molecules' and reviews.

Click the lower right monitor: Molecular Gastronomy Research Part 1

Mini-game: Textbook Stuff

Solution: There are 4 silhouetted images in the inventory. Their names have to be found in the screen text. Read the text and click on the relevant words.

Microscope, Pot, Whisk: Line 10 from the top
Oyster: Last line

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Click the lower right monitor: Molecular Gastronomy Research Part 2

Mini-game: Textbook Stuff 2

Solution: The names of the items silhouetted in the inventory have to be found in the text. But this time, there are 3 pages of text: click on the May, June and July links on the left of the text to rotate between the articles and locate the item names.

May: House (line 5), Lollipop (line 12) - from top

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June: Knife (line 11), Gold Fork (last line) - from top

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July: Heart (line 5), Triangle (line 5), Chicken (13), Pumpkin (last line) - from top

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Click the lower left monitor: Chemical Analysis

Mini-game: Stomach Content Analysis

Solution: Click the tweezer to grab and drag the molecules swirling in the centre to their boxes on the sides till two molecules are left.

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Methanol and propylene glycol confirmed.

Lourdes was killed by antifreeze poisoning.


Scene 11: The Kindling Kitchen

Relevant Items: Fuel, Fish Head, Kale, Blow Torch, Antifreeze, Apron

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Click the fuel in the inventory.

Click the sparkling blow torch at the back corner of the kitchen.

The blow torch is ready to be used.

Click the middle door of the rear kitchen counter. Something is missing.

Click the torch. Take the container of anti-freeze and the apron.


Scene 12: Crime Lab

Click the lower left monitor: Chemical Analysis

Mini-game: Antifreeze & Apron Analysis

Solution: Click the tweezer to grab and drag the molecules swirling in the centre to their boxes on the sides till two molecules are left.

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Methanol and propylene glycol confirmed.

Click the top right monitor: Apron Analysis

Mini-game: Apron Analysis

Solution: Rotate the 5 knobs at the base of the microscope till the right side image matches the left side image. Click the yellow 'arm' of the knobs to rotate. Each circle clicks into place when correct. Start with the innermost or the outermost and work towards the opposite end.

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The food stains on the apron matches the victim's stomach contents.


Scene 13: Interrogation of Sebastian Oswald

1. 'his opinions': Sebastian says Lourdes' reviews earned him enemies.
2. 'an argument': He admits the last fight was violent.
3. 'wasn't killed in my restaurant': Oops, proves nothing - credibility loss!

Show the apron to Sebastian, click the green stain on the left: He says he was helping a friend fix his car with the antifreeze.

Show the apron to Sebastian again, click the reddish stains on the right: His antifreeze is linked to Lourdes' food.

Show Lourdes' Tutto review to Sebastian, click the first para: There's the motive.

Another case closed!

Ciao for now!


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