The fifth season of the crime drama spin-off
focusing on an elite group of New York cops

continues. This week, detectives Logan and
Barek handle the case of a woman’s body that fell
out of an aeroplane wheel well into the sea. The
investigation uncovers a string of similar deaths
involving prostitutes, and leads to a disturbed
airport worker with a dark secret.
Logan and Barek are called to the seafront where
a body has been pulled from the ocean.
Witnesses report that the unidentified woman
dropped from the sky, and the victim’s thick coat
and African tunic suggest to Logan that she may
have been a stowaway who dropped out of a
plane’s wheel well.
An autopsy reveals that the victim was in fact
beaten to death and that her body was stuffed
into the wheel well by the killer. Further clues
indicate that, instead of being an illegal immigrant,
she was most likely a local woman. After
consulting with air traffic control, Logan and Barek
suspect the victim was put aboard a cargo plane
bound for Iceland which left JFK airport only to
return shortly after to make an emergency
landing. An inspection of the plane quickly
confirms that the body was stowed aboard.
The complexity of the murderer’s method
indicates that he is not a first-time killer, so the
detectives begin searching the records for similar
cases. They soon uncover reports of other bodies
that fell out of plane wheel wells shortly before
they landed at airports around the world. “Serial
killers always have a favourite dumpsite,” Barek
says. “This one is the whole world.” Evidence
indicates that at least one of these bodies fell out
of a plane originating at JFK.
Logan gathers together the fingerprints and
autopsy reports of the various victims from around
the world and identifies them as New York
prostitutes who have gone missing. The Jane Doe
from the Iceland flight is identified as Marcy, a
prostitute who was last seen getting into the car of
a mysterious man. Logan and Barek interview
airport staff who had access to the planes involved,
and eventually come across Duane Wilson (the late
Brad Renfro, ‘The Client’, ‘Sleepers’).
The nervous Duane fits Barek’s profile of the
killer as a depressed loner who is uncomfortable
around women. However, after interviewing him in
his home, she is doubtful that he has sufficient
anger to batter a woman to death. “He likes the
idea of women being abused, but I don’t think he
can achieve that intensity of violence,” she says.
Logan provides the answer after discovering a
bare room with a peephole in Duane’s apartment.
“Duane likes to watch someone else give the
beating – a partner,” he says.
The detectives learn that Duane’s only friend is
his cousin, Art Gedder, a merchant seaman who
stays with his parents in New Jersey every time
he returns on shore leave. Art has a history of
assaulting prostitutes in foreign ports, and his
return visits seem to coincide with the
disappearances of the women in the case. Art
has just returned to the States but goes on the
run after being tipped off by Duane. Logan and
Barek eventually catch him in the act of trying to
create false passports for himself and Duane. “Art
could have run but he came back for his cousin,”
Barek says. “That would be touching if they
weren’t serial killers,” Deakins replies.
Duane, meanwhile, is arrested in possession of
a handgun and both cousins are held in custody.
It falls to the detectives to pressure each one to
incriminate the other, but the pair refuse to
confess. Can Logan and Barek find a way to turn
them against each other? And can they establish
which of the two took the lead in carrying out their
brutal crimes?