YMMV / CSI: NY - S07 E13

• Complete Monster: Neal Cooper is a seemingly unimposing young man who blames others for his feelings of isolation. To this end, Neal sets up a party for at least 20 people on a truck where he plans on killing the attendees—including four people he specifically invited from his past—having hot-wired the truck, padlocked the rear entry, and welded the emergency exit shut. While the party is going on, Neal commandeers the truck into the Hudson River so it can sink. Rescued by an intended victim when he is himself trapped, Neal kills his rescuer when he realizes the latter can finger him as the perpetrator. Subsequently, Neal hides among the survivors to throw suspicion off of himself. Even when confronted by NYPD Detectives Mac Taylor and Jo Danville with the evidence against him, Neal refuses to take responsibility for his actions.
• Harsher in Hindsight: In the wake of the 2014 Isla Vista shooting, the 2018 Yonge Street Vehicular Massacre, and the "Incel" movement, the prospect of a murderer who kills people because he was rejected by certain other people hits much closer to home, which might've make the episode more difficult to watch as of the 2020s.

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